This article discusses about the Helldivers 2 Patch and how it tweaks the gameplay and fixes some of the ongoing issues.
The highly anticipated update for Arrowhead Game Studios’ smash new third-person PvE cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 is now online after being officially announced yesterday. The update, dubbed “Patch 1.000.10,” is a minor but noteworthy Helldivers 2 Patch that seeks to enhance the overall stability of the game by implementing several crucial changes.
With the release of Helldivers 2 Patch 1.000.10 on Steam and PS5, developer Arrowhead wants to fix some of the many problems that players have been having for the past week.
Since its release, Helldivers 2 has been a big success, so much so that it has even reignited interest in Starship Troopers, the movie from which it takes a lot of influence. Over the weekend, it overtook Grand Theft Auto 5’s record for the most concurrent Steam users, even with a server cap in place to address stability concerns.
The most common ones are the PC black screen issue, matchmaking problems, and server problems. Johan Pilestedt, the CEO of Arrowhead, posted on X/Twitter. Resolved matching and preparation for a higher server load are highlights.
The patch mainly fixes “login, matchmaking, and server load” issues, many of which were seriously impairing Helldivers 2 during the weekend, as the studio stated when announcing the Helldivers 2 Patch. For the majority of the previous few days, its servers were fully booked, which not only made it challenging for players to play but also resulted in several annoying glitches and problems like the launch malfunction that causes the black screen.
Along with fixing ragdoll momentum, the Helldivers 2 patch also adds an automated retry option for quickplay and adjusts the difficulty of the extract civilian missions that had been destroying players.
This update has either addressed or improved a number of issues, including crashes, quickplay matchmaking bugs, and Helldivers 2’s subpar server backend performance. Fixes for these problems are expected to arrive “over the days and weeks to come.” The developers are also trying to address a number of other problems, such as server disconnects and the bug that can cause you to momentarily become trapped after picking up things from areas of interest.
To read more about the login issues in Helldivers 2, click here.
Glad that the developer finally made some much-needed changes because these were nearly difficult to finish unless you cheesed them by having two players use rocket launchers to blast the endless stream of dropships out of the sky or by covering the entire map in smoke and EMP fields.
This stability-focused update couldn’t have come at a better time: according to SteamDB data, Helldivers 2 has 361,294 concurrent players on Steam alone, and that number is rising even on a Tuesday afternoon in the midst of the week. Since the game surpassed 400,000 players last weekend, I predict that number to rise much higher during this one.
With any luck, today’s Helldivers 2 Patch and any more that may be released later this week will enable Arrowhead to adequately prepare its servers for the influx of players eager to contribute to Super Earth in Helldivers 2.
The complete patch notes are here.
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