Helldivers 2 - Playstation Breaks Its PC Launch Record

I've been watching people play it on Twitch since it released a couple days ago. It looks very fun and will buy it when I get home in a couple days. For $40, I think it's a steal.

I've been very impressed with how polished it is, stability, performance etc.

Also, I believe it supports PC/console cross play which is great.

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I've been very impressed with how polished it is, stability, performance etc.

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Ummm what the frick?

Sorry you like the peen, what does that have to do with the game being broken? I don’t judge your lifestyle.

Picked up a steam key. Seems like fun.

Matchmaking definitely isn’t in a good place currently, but once that’s addressed I could see getting some good use out of this.

It looks really fun. I might have to give it a chance once it's had a week or two to settle in.

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The only problem rn that I’ve experienced is matchmaking. I have to attempt to join a lobby 10 times just to squad up with randoms. All in all though the game is fantastic and tons of fun.

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Does doing a premade bypass the lobby? Is there PVP or is this strictly PVE? How many different scenarios are there?

game is a ton of fun. havent had a blast playing a dumb online game like this in awhile.

there are certainly some game matchmaking issues going on. also some stability issues for reward systems. sounds like the unexpected success is blowing their data limits.

give it a week or two if that bugs you but its been pretty easy to work around.

up to 4 player co-op missions. different mission types with varying levels of difficulty you can choose from. currently two enemy types. the bugs you mentioned and robots (think terminator).

more arcade like action than destiny if that makes sense. takes itself hell of a lot less seriously. focus of progressions is less on your character and more about unlocking more techniques like calling in orbital strikes and weaponry.

no real story to it other than the background story.

Yep I played for 4 hours last night and had a ton of fun. Yeah matchmaking needs to be worked on but I was able to join random groups and complete missions.

I did get the connection error for a few minutes. On reddit, someone suggested watching the opening video and don't skip it. I did that twice and got in without issue. Also in 4 hours, I had no crashes. With my 3080 Ti, I'm getting 100+ fps at 1440p w/ max settings.

It's been such a success out of nowhere (1+ million sold). I saw that for Helldivers 1 the peak concurrent player count was only ~30k. For Hell Divers 2, the peak count between PC and PS5 is over 350k. It would be higher, but they are at server capacity.

The good news is the developer looks to be very responsive and have already released patches, increasing capacity etc.