Helldivers 2 is continuous to battle below the burden of its personal success, as developer Arrowhead has needed to place a restrict on what number of gamers can play without delay.
Whereas it solely launched a bit of over every week in the past, Helldivers 2 has shortly discovered a whole lot of success – a lot in order that the sport has been seriously unable to handle just how many players are trying to play the game at once. The login points have been so extreme that Arrowhead needed to restrict what number of gamers might really log in a minute, and now, as detailed in a message on the sport’s official Discord server, there is a new concurrent participant rely cap as a brief time period answer to enhance server stability.
“Earlier tonight we had server associated points with a concurrent participant spike,” reads the message. “This result in some mission payouts failing, some gamers being kicked to their ships, or being logged out. Our crew is working across the clock to resolve these points. Whereas we have been in a position to mitigate a few of the causes, we’re nonetheless struggling to maintain up with the scaling that’s wanted to accommodate all our Helldivers.
“Subsequently we have needed to cap our concurrent gamers to round 450,000 to additional enhance server stability. We’ll proceed to work with our companions to get the ceiling raised. When you’ve got development associated points, please restart the sport to ensure that issues to sync again up. Thanks to your continued persistence.”
Helldivers 2 really hit its all-time concurrent participant rely peak on Steam yesterday, amassing 333,827 gamers without delay (by way of SteamDB). Keep in mind, that is simply Steam alone, and there are doubtless many extra gamers on PS5, so you’ll be able to’t actually blame Arrowhead for placing such a restrict in place.
If you happen to’re at the moment one of many primary gamers conquering the galaxy in Helldivers 2, and have been hoping that the sport may get PvP, do not rely on it, as Arrowhead has one simple, and valid, reason as to why it’s going to by no means occur.