Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 is continuing its triumphant cavalcade, with its concurrent player numbers continuing to increase, while a new patch has been released.
The peak concurrent user number for the game, according to the monitoring site SteamDB, has now increased to over 450,000 (454,954) at the moment of this writing.
The peak has continued to increase every day since the game's release, and it doesn't really seem to be slowing down.
As I'm writing, the game is currently the most played on Steam, just above Counter-Strike 2, and it's now ranked 20th among the games with the highest peak user numbers in the history of Valve's digital download platform.
In the meanwhile, Arrowhead Game Studios has released a new patch on both PC and PS5, numbered 1.000.10. It brings quite a few fixes and improvements, albeit the infamous server capacity issues are still cited among the known issues.
Below you can read the full patch notes as cited on Steam.
Fixes
- Fixed crash when replicating ragdoll momentum.
- Fixed crash when replicating destructions.
- Fixed crash when displaying the mission end rewards.
- Resolved a 100% block issue for quickplay matchmaking on PC.
- Tuned extract civilian mission difficulty.
- Improved the way that we handle platform authentication to avoid things like the black screen issue at startup.
- Improvements to our client > backend communication for better backend performance.
- Implemented an automatic retry mechanism to quickplay.
- Added proper login error message for error "10002038.”
Known Issues
- Login rate limiting when many are logging in at the same time.
- Players can become disconnected during play.
- Rewards and other progress may be delayed or not attributed.
- Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers.
- Pick-up of certain objects in-game may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time.
- Other unknown behaviors may occur.
- Japanese VO is missing from intro cutscene and Ship TV.
- Armor values for light/medium/heavy armor do not currently function as intended.
Helldivers 2 is currently available for PS5 and PC via Steam, and it's published by Sony. If you want to purchase a physical copy you can do so on Amazon, and you can also check out the latest trailer and another.
The game's successful simultaneous release on PS5 and PC could probably be considered as the poster boy of the viability of this tactic for PlayStation as the company's chairman vowed to be aggressive in using it to improve profit margins going forward.
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