Player count down to 150,000. Still broken.

[Redeyeflight]

Server load theory out the window.

[V.A.L. Commorby]

(there are also console players, steam does not log that btw)

[Riffy]

Also they did say something was going on at the moment keeping people out who weren't already in. If you are in you will see the stores are all broken, well maybe not the cash shop I didn't try.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

My game crashed mid-mission with two friends nearly 7 hours ago, and I wasn't able to get back in. I tried for four hours to get in, and then tried again just now and still couldn't.

This game is amazing fun and has amazing potential, but they seriously need to fix this.

[Blkreven]

they dont care about players it seems :)

[Caskett]

Don't worry - if you get in there is a high chance you black screen and can't get back into the servers.

[Cizjut]

I'm just remembering, didn't this already happened in Helldivers 1 once?

[Alex]

Originally posted by Riffy:

Also they did say something was going on at the moment keeping people out who weren't already in. If you are in you will see the stores are all broken, well maybe not the cash shop I didn't try.

It's not broken but more like lagging. If you log off and log back in it'll have the stuff you unlocked from store, stratagem, battlepass etc

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Originally posted by Cizjut:

I'm just remembering, didn't this already happened in Helldivers 1 once?

It may have - I only played Helldivers 1 well past its heyday for the most part.

But I somehow doubt it would have been this bad, because the peak player count of that game was an order of magnitude lower than this game - more than that actually.

I fully understand WHY the servers are breaking and they are struggling. I have been playing their games since Magicka back over a decade ago, and this game is their first game of this scale even remotely - in terms of production quality or ambition.

Helldivers 1 had a peak concurrent player count on Steam of about 7,000 players.

Helldivers 2 has a peak concurrent player count of 276,000 and will almost certainly climb higher than that (assuming they fix the issues) - I estimate it could go as high as 350,000 or 400,000 at this rate (that's only on Steam mind you, there are also Playstation players).

That's a peak player count so far that is literally 40 times higher than they had in their last release. They might have planned for it to have 5 times the number of players (especially for a higher budget game), sure, but not 40 times.

If they don't have it sorted in the next 2-4 days though, I will be worried about the future of the game. Because no matter how good the game is - if people cannot play it, it will get slammed even more in reviews and sales will drop alongside player expectations. Of course the game is already a financial success I believe even if they did nothing more, but there's so much promise for the future of this game.

[V.V.R]

It's 150 on steam. Try count ps players too, which double the size of steam. And yes, we all playing on same servers.

[Lord_Chencho]

Originally posted by Blkreven:

they dont care about players it seems :)

The game is just too good to say that, dude :- \

[phlux]

New all-time 24h peak of 276k just today.
What are you talking about bro? xD
Do you want it to fail that hard that you need to make stuff up?

[Unhinged Aussie]

Originally posted by Redeyeflight:

Server load theory out the window.

So you still haven't upgraded your plan with your service provider?

Another thing you could do to help log in is stop cooking toast with your "computer" while trying to play games.

[Diselxic Larma]

Originally posted by Blkreven:

they dont care about players it seems :)

they are indie devs trying their hardest with much higher player numbers than they could have expected, stop acting like this was made by Ubisoft or something

[Mampf]

at 5 am it was 270k plyers on steam

[Scrawny_J]

im unable to see any players online at all, i have no issue getting into the game but i cant see any matches, it says there are 0 helldivers online, and the quickplay function just loads indefinitely