Helldivers 2 has reached sudden heights of success up to now week, with a trajectory of gamers that mimics earlier post-launch successes like Valheim. With over 330,000 concurrent gamers on Steam as of this afternoon, that concurrent gamers line is simply going up from launch weekend’s 150K peak, signaling a sport that is pulling in actual viral numbers.
As of press time the height concurrent participant depend was 333,827 at about 8:10 PM UTC, 3:10 PM ET. That quantity comes from tracker SteamDB—which may solely give us half the story, because the PlayStation-published Helldivers 2 is crossplay between PC and PS5. Final week, on February 11, there have been a minimum of one million complete gamers, per developer Arrowhead Video games’ CEO.
A typical meme among the many neighborhood, nevertheless, is that Helldivers 2 is affected by success. The sheer variety of gamers has precipitated extreme server points for builders who have been anticipating peak participant counts lower than 1 / 4 of the present numbers.
Gamers have often been pressured to attend in a queue to play, whereas the server databases are struggling to maintain up with the sheer variety of statistics being recorded—a standard concern is that mission rewards aren’t handed out instantly, solely popping into your account a number of hours later. That is to not point out the usual caveat with a profitable sport: Any main bugs are instantly sign boosted by a bigger participant base that may clip, share, and complain about them.
To make up for the rocky going Arrowhead is handing out a whole lot of bonus expertise proper now.
Helldivers 2 is a third-person cooperative shooter based mostly on chaotic battlefields in opposition to overwhelming odds once you’re outfitted with overwhelming firepower—with loads of hilarious pleasant fireplace alongside the best way. Within the PC Gamer evaluate of Helldivers 2 author Joshua Bailes referred to as it “bombastic, humorous and difficult, however nonetheless a bit buggy.” I will agree with that evaluation, and with Joshua’s conclusion that even when a (non-giant-alien) bug ruins the conclusion of a single match, the general expertise is great.
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made this drawing in mild of the server points from r/Helldivers
