Helldivers 2 is a considerably sudden success, at the moment sitting on the prime of the PSN charts and taking up the hearts and minds of gaming in every single place.

Sadly, it might be taking up too many hearts and minds, as developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios has came upon with a slew of crashes and server instability points. It’s an excellent drawback to have, however an issue nonetheless, which is why the devs have taken a drastic step to repair the issue.

Helldivers 2 caps participant depend at 450k

Introduced within the official Helldivers 2 Discord and reported on Twitter by Wario64, Helldivers 2 concurrent participant counts have been capped at 450,000.

It’s a drastic step for a sport that depends on multiplayer and will solely additional compound points which have been irritating gamers. Server failure errors and lengthy log-in queues have been the secret for Helldivers thus far. The sport is definitely simply winding down a bonus XP weekend introduced held to compensate gamers who had been impacted by earlier server instability.

Addressing these stability points has been the highest precedence for Arrowhead, who rolled out a patch as just lately as February 14 to aim to additional optimize matchmaking.

Whereas the cap will not be the very best information for gamers, they will discover some solace in that Arrowhead regards it as a short lived concern, and are working to boost the cap additional to permit for extra gamers and higher stability.

Helldivers 2 is out there now on PlayStation 5 and PC.