It could seem that the studio behind Helldivers 2, Arrowhead, didn’t fairly anticipate the huge surge in recognition the sport obtained following its February 8 launch date. With an all-time Steam peak of over 155,000 concurrent gamers, Helldivers 2‘s servers merely couldn’t sustain with the eye.

On prime of the same old suite of errors Helldivers 2 throws out when there’s one thing amiss, one thing even worse cropped up final Sunday, February 11. Notably, Helldivers 2‘s servers straight-up died, and it didn’t take lengthy for Arrowhead Studios to reply. On the sport’s official Discord server, Arrowhead defined that there have been too many gamers making an attempt to affix the galactic fight efforts on the identical time.

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“To talk in technical phrases,” stated Arrowhead Studios CEO, Johan Pilestedt, “our companies in addition to our companion companies have a fee limiter that denies connections past a quantity per minute to forestall all the system from failing.” There was such a glut of gamers hoping to duke it out with interstellar bugs and cyborgs on PC and PS5 that Helldivers 2 started throwing out server errors left and proper. “We managed to extend the speed restrict from 10,000/min to twenty,000/min and the overall capability of concurrent gamers was elevated from 250,000 whole to 360,000 whole.” By itself, this feels like a promising (and substantial) server capability enhance, however Pilestedt defined that it wasn’t sufficient: “This was nonetheless nonetheless not sufficient because the participant depend jumped to 360K after 5 1/2 minutes.”

The sheer recognition of Helldivers 2 doesn’t appear to have been anticipated in any respect. In a separate Reddit put up, a member of Arrowhead Studios apologized for the onset of server points and promised that the staff is working onerous on smoothing issues out as a lot as doable. “We did the most effective we may to make launch a hit, planning for years, and it simply goes to point out that you could’t plan the whole lot,” they stated.

“For these of you who haven’t refunded, we need to prolong an enormous thanks for believing in us. We promise to ship this superior recreation in all its glory. For many who have refunded, we perceive, thanks for making an attempt it and we hope chances are you’ll be open to giving us one other shot within the close to future once we’ve democratized the bugs you’re seeing at present,” the remark concluded.

Actually, it’s not onerous to see why Helldivers 2 is that this standard. Regardless that it’s a true live-service providing with microtransactions, battle passes, and the like, Arrowhead Studios has dealt with most of those parts remarkably effectively to this point. These parts, tied with Helldivers 2‘s surprisingly reactive and enjoyable gameplay loop, in addition to the community-wide meta-progression parts, make for a third-person shooter fairly in contrast to most anything available on the market.