Helldivers 2 has been in a little bit of a quiet interval currently, comparatively talking. With Arrowhead largely busy specializing in bug fixes and placing out stuff at a little bit of a slower cadence, some gamers have been getting a bit bored with the identical outdated factor, with an unlucky milestone the sport’s hit PC playerbase-wise having prompted some debate as as to whether issues is likely to be getting a bit too static.
Whereas the swap in how Arrowhead’s approached fixing points and deploying new content material within the sport bought quite a lot of preliminary help, the outcomes have been a bit combined in apply, with some gear and upgrades particularly – the spear’s a giant instance – seeing a gentle stream of issues afflict them, even after beforehand recieving fixes. Arrowhead continues to work exhausting to whack issues as they crop up, however you possibly can type of perceive the frustration.
As this has been occurring, the sport’s 24-hour participant quantity peak on Steam, in response to SteamDB (thanks, Forbes), sits at 45,315, which is just about 10% of the preliminary peak of 458,709 it recorded again in February. Now, to place this in context, that decline hasn’t occurred in a single day and definitely is not that irregular – the sport’s participant numbers on the platform have been step by step coming down since that time, having final hit the 200,000 mark in late April.