In the event you’re taking part in Helldivers 2 and discovering the sport crashes greater than standard, you’re not alone. Developer Arrowhead has mentioned plenty of gamers are at the moment being affected by a crash difficulty, which is linked to the discharge of a current patch, and it’s on the case.
The crash downside started with this week’s launch of patch 1.000.103, which nerfed planet hazards and patrols spawning on gamers, amongst different issues. A crash causes the sport to freeze and forces a restart. Given Helldivers 2 missions can take round 40 minutes to extract with all obtained sources and goals full, getting a crash in direction of the tip is extraordinarily irritating.
In a publish on the Helldivers Discord, Arrowhead neighborhood supervisor Twinbeard addressed the crash downside, and mentioned the developer is on the case.
“We all know that lots of you might be experiencing a lot of crashes in the intervening time (seemingly linked to the patch deployed earlier in the present day, which not less than resolved the persistent good friend request difficulty for lots of gamers),” Twinbeard mentioned. “Our staff is deep down within the trenches digging into the difficulty as we converse. We’re on alert able to replace on any adjustments right here. We’re very sorry @everybody for not with the ability to provide you with the fantastic feeling of bug and bot stomping and hope to have the sport extra secure as quickly as attainable.”
Helldivers 2’s issues don’t finish there. A uncommon message from Recreation Grasp Joel, who pulls the meta narrative strings as gamers combat to liberate planets from the Terminids and Automatons, revealed the Galactic Warfare shouldn’t be monitoring participant contribution correctly.
“A message for @everybody from the Recreation Grasp,” started the publish on the Helldivers Discord. “Helldivers! We’re conscious of a problem with the Galactic Warfare not monitoring your efficient unfold of Liberty correctly. We’re investigating this urgently and can hold you posted as quickly as we perceive the difficulty and have a repair to speak to you. Thanks very a lot to your endurance whereas we squash some software program bugs.”
Yesterday, March 20, Arrowhead deployed further fixes to the sport’s backend to deal with Eagle kill stats not growing as anticipated and missions accomplished stats counting twice per mission. Three fixes have been made for the pesky good friend invitations downside that Arrowhead mentioned ought to resolve a number of the points there.
These issues come amid Helldivers 2’s newest Main Order, which duties gamers with liberating a lot of planets managed by the Terminids. Gamers are hoping Arrowhead will lengthen the Main Order deadline consequently.
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