Our latest coverage of Helldivers 2.
Mechs might still be missing from Helldivers 2, but it did get meteor showers as part of its first balance update. Not the small sparkly streaks in the sky, but the big flaming ones that slam hard into the ground. As if meteors weren’t enough, the dedicated soldiers of Super Earth will also have to deal with fire tornadoes during [...]
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It turns out that the most feared adversary in Helldivers 2 isn’t the giant bug-like aliens running amok across the galaxy, but a guy named Joel, a name that’s bound to strike fear into Helldiver hearts from here on end. No, he’s not the bug emperor, (although we might have to start calling him that), but the guy pulling the [...]
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Given the meteoric success of several newly released live service games, some developers will probably be tempted to take a stab at a live service title of their own. Cliff Bleszinski, however, offers a word of caution, saying that it’s an extremely daunting task with no assurance of success and that the likes of Palworld and Helldivers 2 are exceptions. [...]
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Helldivers 2 finally sees the end of its launch woes after a week or so of hard work and sleepless nights for the team at Arrowhead Games. After raising the server cap to 700,000 and implementing a strict 15-minute AFK timer, both the developers and the co-op shooter’s players were able to get through the weekend rush without any major [...]
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Popularity is a double-edged sword in the MMO world, especially when an unexpected horde of players suddenly comes knocking on your door. In the case of Helldivers 2, its congestion issues were further compounded when it kicked off a reward boosting event last weekend as compensation for an earlier reward bug. The FOMO-inducing event saw even more players dive into [...]
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Honestly, I wouldn’t have given Helldivers 2 a second glance if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s now PlayStation’s biggest PC launch of all time. The Starship Troopers-inspired co-op shooter recorded an all-time peak concurrency of 155,926 players on Saturday night, decimating God of War’s standing record of 73,529 players. Helldivers 2 slipped past God of War on Friday [...]
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