Gaming🎮 Helldiver 2's player count continues to soar as its devs place a cap on concurrent players

[Royal_Lizard]

Helldivers 2 is continuing to struggle under the weight of its own success, as developer Arrowhead has had to place a limit on how many players can play at once.

While it only released a little over a week ago, Helldivers 2 has quickly found a lot of success - so much so that the game has been seriously unable to handle just how many players are trying to play the game at once. The login issues were so severe that Arrowhead had to limit how many players could actually log in a minute, and now, as detailed in a message on the game's official Discord server, there's a new concurrent player count cap as a short term solution to improve server stability.

"Earlier tonight we had server related issues with a concurrent player spike," reads the message. "This lead to some mission payouts failing, some players being kicked to their ships, or being logged out. Our team is working around the clock to solve these issues. While we've been able to mitigate some of the causes, we are still struggling to keep up with the scaling that is needed to accommodate all our Helldivers.

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