Helldivers 2 is not solely PlayStation’s most profitable PC launch, it has doubled the file of earlier massive hit God of Conflict. Helldivers 2 has reached a peak concurrent participant rely of 155,926 this weekend, whereas God of Conflict beforehand held the file at 73,529 peak concurrent gamers.
PC Gamer reported on Friday that Helldivers 2 had topped PlayStation’s different launches, however with server troubles within the offing and unfavorable critiques rolling in continued progress wasn’t a positive factor. It is clear that cooperative third-person shooter is now very a lot successful.
The stats come courtesy of monitoring web site SteamDB.
Helldivers 2 is a third-person shooter, primarily cooperative, that tells the tongue-in-cheek story of the wildly propagandized and xenophobic Helldivers of future Tremendous-Earth, whose job is generally to go round killing as many aliens as potential in conflicts over sources that Tremendous-Earth began. It is obtained some severely cool options up its sleeve, not the least of which is dwell human recreation masters messing with gamers.
For all that it had a fairly tough launch, with plenty of server troubles and crashes going round. The primary few patches shored plenty of that up and it is already in significantly better form, although not solely devoid of troubles.
You’ll find Helldivers 2 on Steam, the place it launched on February 8, 2024. If anybody wants me, I will be hip-firing my shotgun right into a horde of bugs. In the event you’re considering of helldiving in, go forward and take a look at 11 issues I want I knew earlier than enjoying Helldivers 2.
As a perhaps-too-huge fan of the unique Helldivers, I am discovering Helldivers 2 to be simply the sport I needed. It is a chaotic, cooperative, and correctly skill-based third-person shooter that takes all the things greatest in regards to the earlier recreation into three dimensions—the Grand Theft Auto 3 to authentic Helldivers’ Grand Theft Auto.
Good spot, Eurogamer.
