Helldivers 2 Constant Server Issues Are the True Enemy of Democracy

After a long period of peace, Helldivers 2 players have discovered the true enemy is the server issues the game is facing right now.

[P_Bomb]

Matchmaking has been hit or miss as well. From quick play and SOS beacons going unanswered, to not seeing lobbies on the war table. I mostly play with randoms, so I need that global map functioning.

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One workaround for matchmaking with random is to go into a mission, drop an sos beacon, go back to the ship and then launch the mission again(or any other). People should start joining your ship when you select it

No idea why this work, but it does haha.

[P_Bomb]

Cheers! If I can get on I’ll try that, lol.

Apparently Arrowhead has announced that a patch is coming Tuesday, February 20 to help fix "login, matchmaking, and server load" problems, with more improvements coming "over the days and weeks to come."

[Fishy Fingers]

Its annoying, bought it, couldnt join a matchmaking game all day, now today its apparently better but I'm getting server capacity issues.

[monkey602]

This is my 3rd night in a row unable to get on the servers. Starting to get to me now.

[Gaming4Life1981]

Yea same for me. I'm just going to wait until the game is fixed before I play again. I regret buying this game day one, maybe I should have bought it on PC instead of ps5.

[INMATEofARKHAM]

It's starting to get to a lot of people. It's Steam review score is back down to 68. I believe it climbed as high as 74.

I, myself, left a not recommended review today. I noted I would change it in a second when the servers are fixed.

[porkChop]

I get that the game is a lot more popular than they expected. But if Palworld could sustain 2-3 million users, Sony has no excuse for not being able to handle a 1/4 as many players. At this point there shouldn't be nearly as much trouble trying to play the game.

[MeatyUrologist]

Surprised how many people giving this game a pass for its issues. I guess because it isn't a big name publisher, but buying a game like this only to not be allowed to Play a solo game because servers are down or overloaded is unacceptable from any game. Always online always sucks regardless of the size of the developer. I could even possibly give the always online crap a pass if I could even play a solo game with the servers down but nope.

[Flawlessmic]

I would agree with you tbh.

Infact I'm probably guilty of giving it a pass myself tbh.

I think a few factors come into play in that's it's a smaller dev who could not have foreseen the issue but by now defs shouldve have gotten help from aony as the publsiher to really pump up those servers.

But I think what it really comes down to is the game is just so dam good and fun, and for a gaas game there is no mtx that's take the piss out of us as consumers like these types of games normally do.

I'd say the game is that good that's it's kinda hard to hate for server issues alone, wellbatleast for me that's the case and being from Australia I'm in a much different time zone than majority of the people playing this game so I don't think I've been impacted by it as badly as others.

The above isn't excuses, just my point of view and experience with the game.

[Flawlessmic]

agreed with the Op, I stated Sony should've been able to help them by now, I also stated I was guilty of giving them a pass due to ow much i enjoy the game.

That's very poor capping from my end lol.

Don't have a heart attack obscure, and I already told u don't comment on my posts, even when hiding behind your alt accounts.

Going off the name I can see he'll divers is living rent free in ur head.

[Kaii]

I'm not that upset tbh, A 5600% increase in popularity over the last game.
When the game works it's brilliant, when other games have issues or have patchday meltdowns what do you think works? The "microtransaction" store.

I do think they should stop advertising though lol 1hr Q Sunday night was Interesting

[Hedstrom]

Yea, amazing game. But the servers are like a 12 year old boy trying to be Atlas and carry the world on its shoulders!
Its suppose to come a patch today, hopefully it helps.