For these of us planning to spend the weekend spreading (managed) democracy in Helldivers 2, there is a looming risk the sport’s buckling servers will not enable it. Earlier this week, Arrowhead Studios capped the CCU (concurrent customers) at 450,000 within the title of stability, which mainly signifies that if that cap is reached—and it virtually all the time is —you may want to attend in queue.
There is a silver lining: Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt has confirmed on X that as of now, the max CCU cap has been raised from 450,000 to 700,000. “Sadly, we anticipate the CCU to succeed in that stage,” Pilestedt added, although “we consider that the wait occasions will likely be way more bearable.”
In an earlier publish, Pilestedt elaborated. “We would nonetheless hit the restrict sooner or later however for now we’re above what now we have been in a position to assist. We’re actively Monitoring the state of affairs.”
To say Arrowhead is having every week is an enormous understatement; nobody anticipated Helldivers 2 to draw the participant numbers it has to date, not least Arrowhead Video games itself. Pilestedt stated earlier this week that “in case you have no money, get it later”, including that “when you spent your final $ and received caught in server queues I would be [heartbroken].” Issues will hopefully enhance quickly, nonetheless, as a result of Sony engineers have been recruited to assist out.
Helldivers 2 obtained a welcome patch earlier at present including an AFK kick timer (sticking round in wanted servers AFK is decidedly undemocratic) in addition to a bunch of different fixes. The small print on Patch 1.000.11 are right here.