New Helldivers 2 1.000.10 update is live, here’s the patch notes and what’s fixed
Some very important fixes come to Arrowhead’s explosively popular third-person shooter.
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What you need to know
Helldivers 2developer Arrowhead Game Studios confirmed yesterday that we’d be getting an update to its hit new third-person PvE co-op shooter today, and now, it’s officially gone live. Titled “Patch 1.000.10,” it’s a small, yet significant update that aims to improve the game’s overall stability with a variety of important fixes.
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As the studio said in its announcement of the patch, it primarily addresses “login, matchmaking, and server load” problems, many of which wereaffecting Helldivers 2 severely this past weekend. Its servers were completely at capacity for much of the last several days, which not only made it difficult for fans to play, but also led to some troublesomebugs and issueslike the black screen on startup glitch.
This issue, as well as several others such as crashes, quickplay matchmaking bugs, and Helldivers 2’s poor server backend performance, have either been fixed or improved with this update. The developers are also working to resolve several additional issues like server disconnects and the glitch that can make you temporarily get stuck after picking up items from points of interest, though fixes for these are likely to come “over the days and weeks to come.” For a full overview of everything that’s been resolved as well as what’s being worked on, check the patch notes section below.
Notably, Arrowhead has also “tuned extract civilian mission difficulty,” nerfingHelldivers 2’s new defense missions that were so impossibly hard they seemed bugged. These were basically impossible to complete unless you cheesed them by having two players use rocket launchers to blast the non-stop stream of dropships out of the sky or by covering the entire map in smoke and EMP fields, so I’m glad that the developer finally made some much-needed adjustments.
A stability-focused update like this one couldn’t have come at a better time, as even though it’s the middle of the week on a Tuesday afternoon, Helldivers 2 has 361,294 concurrent players on Steam alone, according toSteamDB data— and that number is climbing. Given that the game broke the 400,000 mark last weekend, I expect the player count will balloon even more during this upcoming one. Hopefully today’s patch and future ones that might come later this week successfully help Arrowhead prepare its servers to weather the storm of gamers ready to do their part for Super Earth.
Helldivers 2 1.000.10 update: Patch notes
Below, you’ll find the complete patch notes for the update, taken directly from Arrowhead’sofficial poston Steam.
Fixes
Known Issues
These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.
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