'The Feedback That We've Got Has Been Very Justified' — Helldivers 2 Dev Pushes Content and Feature Updates Back to Sort Out Performance Problems First

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has revealed it's putting a impermanent intermission connected contented updates portion it works connected improving performance.

In an interrogation connected the authoritative Helldivers YouTube channel, manager Mikael Eriksson admitted the game's astir caller large update, Into the Unjust, had "more issues than [the team] were comfy with," which is wherefore the workplace has present decided "to propulsion immoderate of our contented and diagnostic updates a small spot into the future."

Recent reviews for Helldivers 2 connected Steam are 'mixed,' with astir of the complaints revolving astir show trouble. The 'most adjuvant review' penned implicit the past 30 days is simply a antagonistic 1 from a subordinate with implicit 500 hours in-game. They called Helldivers 2's show "inexcusable," pointing to stuttering and freezing during gameplay and crashes.

"Arrowhead, Sony, PLEASE enactment little absorption connected caller contented and unrecorded work updates," they pleased. "PLEASE halt nerfing loadouts that are already underpowered oregon underused with the guise of 'realism' oregon 'balance.' It's a PvE game; nary 1 cares if radical are cheesing hulks with a flag. The crippled needs to beryllium amusive and PLAYABLE earlier you tin rake successful the currency with a caller warbond.

"FIX THE GAME <3"

Now, Arrowhead has addressed those complaints. "After the past large update, Into the Unjust, we experienced much issues than what we were comfy with," Eriksson said, arsenic spotted by Eurogamer. "Players felt it, we felt it, and I would accidental the feedback that we've got has been precise justified.

"We're taking this precise earnestly and we are focusing mode much present connected addressing these issues to marque definite this benignant of happening doesn't hap again," helium added. "We person made the determination to propulsion immoderate of our contented and diagnostic updates a small spot into the aboriginal portion we're addressing these things to marque definite that we tin get to a overmuch much unchangeable authorities that we tin judge in.

"We are already making truly large improvements and I'm assured that we volition get determination and we volition beryllium capable to speech successful much item astir this hopefully rather soon."

Last week, developer Arrowhead Studios said it inactive didn't person a solution for the shooter's groaning installation size connected PC, but did corroborate it was moving connected it. In an update posted to Steam, Arrowhead's lawman method director, Brendan Armstrong, penned the archetypal successful a bid of posts successful which the engineering squad talks astir the "technical health" of the game, arsenic good arsenic the "technical challenges we're moving through." Admitting that the installation size "seems to beryllium a blistery taxable close now" — astatine 150GB, Helldivers 2 takes up 3 times the abstraction connected PC than it does connected console — the developer revealed that 1 of the reasons the PC size is truthful overmuch bigger is due to the fact that of information duplication and mechanical hard drives.

Check retired IGN's reappraisal of Helldivers 2 connected Xbox Series X and S to spot what we deliberation of the crippled arsenic it is today. Arrowhead has besides revealed it has nary plans for Helldivers 3 close now. Instead, it wants Helldivers 2 to support going for years and years, similar seasoned MMO RuneScape.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.