Arrowhead Game Studios’ PS5 and PC third-person shooter is struggling to keep up with its player count
Helldivers 2, the third-person shooter that launched on PS5 and PC on February 8, is enjoying a fair bit of popularity. It rocketed to the top of Steam charts shortly after launch, and it quickly soared past God of War’s top concurrent player count to become PlayStation’s biggest PC launch. It’s so popular, in fact, that its servers are struggling to keep up.
Because of this, the “issue with the login remains,” and players can still get a “failed to connect to server” error message. The increased capacity “should require less retries to get in,” though. And the swath of rapid fixes “mitigated” the issue with receiving rewards, but did not resolve it. “Without additional server maintenance, this will still not work as intended,” Pilestedt continued. “If you get the issue you can try rebooting the game to increase the chances of it being reset.