As Helldivers 2 continues to be struggling with its own success, suffering wildly overloaded servers that make it sometimes tricky to even log in, a new patch today… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
Nightingale is off to a strong start but it’s also got a ‘mixed’ user rating on Steam, and once again server problems are largely to blame
The alt-Victorian survival game Nightingale launched yesterday, and after a full day of release on Steam it’s now laboring under a less-than-stellar “mixed” user rating. Reasons for the… Continue reading
Sony engineers are being drafted into the Helldivers 2 server war effort, though Arrowhead’s CEO says to ‘get it later’ if you’re strapped for cash
Helldivers 2 is making milestones in the war against server load. While its latest patch was just to prepare for its unexpected playerbase, I can at least personally… Continue reading
Game devs commiserate with the Helldivers 2 team by sharing their own server launch horror stories: ‘You can only attempt to prepare for scale’
Helldivers 2 is one of my favourite games of the year so far. I also barely get to play it at the moment, thanks to a payload of… Continue reading
The server tech that saved WoW 10 years ago is causing problems for Classic’s Season of Discovery, dev reveals: ‘a layer is actually just sharding with a lot of sticky tape’
The second season of WoW classic’s Season of Discovery (SoD) is live—and the layers are acting up again, this time in Stranglethorn Vale (STV). For the uninitiated, this… Continue reading
Helldivers 2 help is coming: Updates focused on fixing ‘login, matchmaking, and server load’ problems will begin rolling out tomorrow
If you’ve been struggling to get into Helldivers 2, you can at least take some small measure of comfort in knowing you’re not alone. Servers are crushed, matchmaking… Continue reading
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead says it has had to “cap” concurrent players to around 450,000 to “further improve server stability”. In a message posted to the game’s Discord… Continue reading
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has apologised for ongoing server “capacity issues” and says it is working to “increase server capacity to accommodate all”. Following a pledge to give… Continue reading
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has already had bug fixes and a balancing patch, which is good news for players able to hop into the live service… Continue reading