Helldivers 2 has been an unbelievable success, even beating Grand Theft Auto 5’s all-time player peak on Steam. But Arrowhead didn’t plan for half a million players, so servers are buckling under the pressure. Many have been staying logged in while they go to work, school, or sleep to skip the queue and get right back into the fray when they’re able, only making matters worse.
Thankfully, Arrowhead has implemented an AFK timer to mitigate this problem, kicking inactive players so that those who want to spread democracy and kill some bugs stand a chance of getting in.
As reported by Eurogamer, you’ll now be sent back to the title screen if you’re idle for 15 minutes. This should free up more space, but since hundreds of thousands of players are still trying to get in all at once, it’ll be a while before things are completely smooth.
Aside from an AFK timer, the new patch also fixes a few crashes, so, you should get sent back to the queue less frequently now.
The full list of bug fixes can be read below,
- Fixed multiple crashes triggered when joining other players’ ships.
- Fixed crash triggered when exiting ADS.
- Fixed crash triggered when players leave a session while bombardments are active.
- Fixed issue where online missions in Galactic War Map were unselectable.
- Fixed issue with GameGuard and Steam’s “verify integrity” step.
- Fixed issue with GameGuard and the Windows firewall.
- Fixed issue preventing access to Ship Management panel.
- Fixed issue causing players to get stuck in the defrosting or in the ship intro cinematic
- Fixed crash triggered when the process of buying Super Credits fails.
- Fixed crash triggered after consecutive quickplay attempts.
- Implemented a functionality that will kick players who remain idle for 15 minutes back to the title screen.
Arrowhead also detailed the known issues that still have yet to be fixed, but are currently “being worked on”:
- No text is present for the Requisitions and Social Menu on the Player HUD
- Crash may occur when trying to Match Make on Galactic War Map
- PS5 players may encounter error code 10003001 on the login screen.
- Login rate limiting when many are logging in at the same time.
- Players can become disconnected during play.
- Rewards and other progress may be delayed or not attributed.
- Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers.
- Pick-up of certain objects in-game may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time.
- Other unknown behaviours may occur.
- Japanese VO is missing from intro cutscene and Ship TV.
- Armour values for light/medium/heavy armour do not currently function as intended.
The team promises that more updates will be released over the days and weeks to come to iron out the major problems and improve server capacity, allowing even more troops to join the battle. We’ll just have to be patient, but with AFK people being booted out finally, there should be more room for active players.
Helldivers 2
Helldivers 2 is the sequel to the third-person shooter from Arrowhead Game Studios. This time out, the Helldivers are deep in the Galactic War, and it’s up to you to bring Managed Democracy to the masses.
