Bad news, soldier! It all looks like a walk in the park for Helldiver 2’s latest Major Order, but at night UK time a new threat emerges that requires a Super Earth to fend off. Just when you thought you’d seen it all, PlayStation Network goes down, leaving most players on the platform unable to power-up their PC brethren.
But don’t worry, Turing needs to be reined in, and those left on the front lines seem to have taken on the task of doing so, with the enthusiasm you’d expect from a force known for role-playing.
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According to PlayStation’s network services status page, the October 1 outage caused some players to experience problems when trying to log into their PSN accounts, launch games and apps, access PlayStation video content, and use the PlayStation Store. The PlayStation Direct service does not appear to be affected.
As of writing, the US version’s status page has now been updated to say the issue has been resolved after Ask PlayStation’s Japanese account acknowledged the outage at around 2am UK time today, although simply visiting status.playstation.com still doesn’t seem to resolve the issue. . Takes you to a page stating that the above issue still exists. Based on social media posts, it looks like things are returning to normal for at least some players.
One of the games that suffered the most during the outage (at least in terms of player sentiment) was Helldivers 2, with PC divers panicking as they realized that without players on PlayStation consoles, they wouldn’t be able to play it.
Cue a flurry of posts calling on those who stayed to “Hang in there!” and channel their inner Space Marines, with some suggesting that Arrow game guru JOEL was somehow behind giving the subversive take on the game. Unexpected trouble comes. Someone even decided to write the whole thing into the game’s canon, claiming that they and their PS brethren had been “captured by robots and taken to Cybertron’s super prison facility.”
Thankfully, it looks like Turing didn’t suffer some huge bug attack during the hiatus and is still in the hands of divers. In fact, as some players have pointed out, Helldivers 2’s planet liberation mechanic is designed to work as intended regardless of how many players are online, so having fewer people playing the game may not have too much of an impact on the diver’s ability to control Turing. Big impact, assuming a large portion of the people still playing the game don’t suddenly go off and attack another planet.
Are you affected by this PSN outage, or maybe you were one of the PC folks last night defending Helldivers’ progress in building that nifty new space station? Let us know below.
