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 implies that if that cap is reached—and it nearly at all times 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 count on the CCU to achieve that stage,” Pilestedt added, although “we imagine that the wait instances will probably be far more bearable.”
In an earlier submit, Pilestedt elaborated. “We’d nonetheless hit the restrict sooner or later however for now we’re above what we’ve been in a position to assist. We’re actively Monitoring the state of affairs.”
To say Arrowhead is having per week is a giant understatement; nobody anticipated Helldivers 2 to draw the participant numbers it has thus far, not least Arrowhead Video games itself. Pilestedt stated earlier this week that “when you have no money, get it later”, including that “in the event you spent your final $ and acquired caught in server queues I might be [heartbroken].” Issues will hopefully enhance quickly, nevertheless, 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.