Helldivers 2 adds an important improvement to avoid repeating last weekend’s disaster, although those responsible expect the worst

Last weekend (16-18) brought good news for Helldivers 2 in terms of numbers, but it was disastrous for players and a nightmare for developers. The game’s servers have literally been drowning since launch due to its success on PS5 and PC.

Arrowhead Game Studios announced on Discord a week ago that they were limiting the servers to 450,000-500,000 simultaneous players until they found a solution to the problem. Today, after several days of work and updates, Johan Pilestedt (Helldivers 2 director) has announced

that the limit of concurrent players (CCU) has been increased to 700,000, although the worst is still expected.

“Unfortunately, we expect the CCU to reach that level. We believe the wait times will be much more bearable.” In other words, Helldivers 2

It has been prepared so that more players can play this weekend and that the queues are not as long as then. In addition, he adds that other improvements and bug fixes will arrive.

Helldivers 2 He is successful, but he was not prepared to be. While some members of Sony should ensure that these problems do not occur, Pilestedt himself recommended this week that it is not a bad idea. wait and buy the game later

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