re: Helldivers 2 - Playstation Breaks Its PC Launch Record

I jumped into the beginning of a 3/4 trivial mission last night, the other three were a level 1, level 7 and level 12 (I'm currently level 16).

They ran ahead while I called down my support. They had almost completely cleaned out the refueling site by the time I got there. So far, so good.

They didn't seem to understand what to do with the controls (or even that they had to access them) so I did the majority of that while they ran through and around the site. Not good, but not really bad.

Objective complete, I head back to the extraction site. Once I start heading that way, they turned into lemmings and followed me. Not bad.

We get to the site and again they are running around like they are guarding the place instead of interacting with the console so I set the extraction timer then drop a sentry at an opening. Enemies spawn, a drop ship drops some enemies, we fight them off and then the extraction ship announces it is about to land. One of the party members dies, I don't see it until right as I board. The other 2 party members are nowhere on the landing pad so I figure maybe at least one is calling in reinforcements as they head towards the extraction.

Nope. I was the only one on the ship when it took off. No idea where the other two were and they still hadn't called in the reinforcement.

I've been involved in a couple of instances where players die right as we're about to lift off, but this is the first for me to see two simply not get on the extraction ship because they went off elsewhere to do other things.