New Helldivers 2 Update Brings Big Changes & More Bugs.. Servers, Mechs, Roadmap & Upcoming Content

[@Astrosive]

I meantion it in the video, but just a couple hours ago (after the update) the servers were expanded and you shouldn't have any issues logging in. Alright I'll try to stop and read my modifiers next time guys 😅

[@Velaroz]

The reason for their servers having issues is to do the way the tracking is done for planets, ie the Liberation progress and such. The back end code itself needs rewriting/is being rewritten some, so it can better scale. As it was, it was choking as player count approached 450,000, and died if it went beyond that. They were only expecting a player count somewhere around 60,000 or so originally, and maybe hitting close to 200,000 in a few weeks. The sheer explosion of players far exceeded their estimates. I blame this on the fact this game is so meme heavy and amazing, and also it just plays so god damn well... Most of the time.

[@bruticus1496]

Had a funny glitch were I loaded in the loading bay area and then got spiked like a football followed by drop podding without a pod.😂 it was fun ty game, not sarcasm it was great

[@jackborba5196]

@@Velaroz The reason for players not being able to get into the game was not primarily due to the but the rate limiting. The devs had limited the servers first to 10,000 joins per minute and upped it to 20,000 when the issues started happening. A lot of the time there was space in the servers but because of the rate limiting it was unlikely to get in. Unless you attempted to connect right as that minute was over and the next 20,000 spots opened up, you wouldn't be able to connect because those 20,000 spots would already be filled 5 seconds later. Wantonly raising this limit is not really advisable in any game unless it's been specially prepared for it because it can lead to a large amount of instability in the servers. Having to take in more connections in one instance places a large amount of load on the servers which is why they limited it to 20,000.

[@HotPocketEnjoyer]

Dude why was there an ad every freaking minute

[@hardluckmk.52]

So with the stalkers it’s possible on the higher difficulties to get 4 stalker nests i hear, i know I’ve gotten 4 spore things as side objectives but yea i would assume that’s why

[@kylevanheerden8000]

The random stratagems are not a bug it's a mission perk that the automatons have that makes your chosen stratagems random

[@Astrosive]

Holy shit lmao

[@carlmain2043]

people refusing to read planetary conditions will always be wild to me

[@Viking0117]

@@carlmain2043okay big boy

[@rekrn12345]

I am pretty sure his stalker complaint is also a modifier.

[@AuRelion77]

@@carlmain2043 why is it wild to not want to play under conditions that are super annoying? sounds reasonable to me.

[@NitarnFilm]

The random stratagems thing is actually a modifier called "Electronic countermeasures" where the automatons messing with your equipment. Not a bug.

[@helio68]

Ya a squad I was in was sooo confused when we first encountered it we thought it was another bug hahaha

[@NitarnFilm]

@@helio68 Yeah, I remember the first time I accidentally wiped the whole squad at the landing with cluster bombs instead of calling grenade launcher, good time though, lol.

[@helio68]

@@NitarnFilm 😆😆😆

[@underplague6344]

Well yea they're automatons the bugs are on the other side of the galaxy

[@TheMahu99]

Those youtubers can't even document themself right

[@thebarcon]

1. stalkers will keep spawning over and over on HD difficulty unless you bumrush the source 2. "Electronic countermeasures" is a negative mission modifier. you need to look at what's in your hand before you throw it.

[@Dankusmemes]

He should really read the modifiers before doing the mission, like its just 1 button click and 5 seconds of reading

[@gorgeousgeorge7104]

Stalkers will spawn over and over on any difficulty until you find their lair, which is pretty easy to do if you are not a nab

[@Tehfreak]

I know what he is saying cuz i had that issue as well with my group .. usually when you drop 2 or 4 spawn and hunt you down .. what i had with my group as soon as i dropped was i think 18 20 stalkers at once and they wiped my group .. it was hell 😂😂😂 and for sure unnatural... Same thing on the automatons planets me and my group went in a big factory and when we got in .. there was literally 13 hulks just standing there stuck .. we killed them quick with rail guns but it was crazy 😂😂😂

[@ldrofone83]

The spawn over and over no matter what difficulty until you kill the lair. We always drop what we're doing and move in the direction the first stalker came from until we kill the lair. Always a top priority.

[@ldrofone83]

​@@Dankusmemesit's also right on screen in the match every time you open the map.

[@eclipse8149]

The feeling of booting helldivers and imedetly getting to play the game is amazing

[@CRS-SMF]

Happened to me each of the last three times I got on. Felt so good lol

[@MiBrCo4177]

I was doing a mission last night. Friend got kicked due to his Internet and then I managed to invite him back in. He gets in as we are extracting and I get booted lmao. I was so freaking pissed!!!

[@2Suspicious]

Because they got more servers noe

[@crispouk3070]

Been fine for me past 2 days. Not had trouble once. Especially yesterday it was straight in without even a loading screen

[@ZxroYoutube]

was able to get in without any queue for the first time yesterday, never thought the day would come

[@edreed305]

Random stratagem sequence is a debuff. Sounds like skill issue

[@adambomb2916]

Half this shit this dudes complaining about sounds like skill issues tbh 😂

[@Ce_Lazca]

100%@@adambomb2916

[@TheFootyHub101]

Bro, watching this guys video made me wonder at how much of a bot he is. He doesn't even realize that the stalkers spawn from a stalker camp and he has to destroy it LOL

[@Est_1.997]

😂 I just commented this I’ve seen a lot of people/ content creators calling it a bug & complaining

[@isemmagayenough595]

One thing to keep in mind about the engine is that while yes, it did stop receiving updates from the original devs, that basically just means that Arrowhead is using it at this point as if they made their own engine and is building on the original Helldivers released in 2015, that means they've got a decade or more of experience with that engine, and are about as familiar with it as if they had made their own engine by this point.

[@hunterswepic]

Meanwhile Bethesda has been using their own engine for decades and still churn out broken and outdated messes

[@curssorrydevotee2738]

Cods been using the same engine since 2000s

[@sankaplays3098]

Visually, and engine wise, Starfield wasn't that outdated. It was the core gameplay mechanics and approach to the "open world" that were.@@hunterswepic

[@Sorain1]

It is incredible to me what they've got the engine doing. Absolutely jaw dropping to know it runs on the same engine as the first game.

[@rekrn12345]

The automaton defense evacuation missions are still impossible to do lol.

[@bryansoriano6765]

Yeah nothings change they still spawning non stop

[@adriaanerasmus4670]

With a 3man team, they are do-able, albeit a bit hard. Solo? Yea not going to happen

[@JFAMcleanings]

Get a team with all sentry’s. Especially the EMS motor and set them up behind the building top of the cliff and pit the regular entry’s to defend you guys and mortars if any bots break through the EMS mortars and stand your ground near the mortars not near targets as they are being targeted by mortars and they will also kill you.

[@coolbritannia1979]

they're ok solo on Medium

[@Marcus-zj2vp]

Spam every turret with a 4 stack rocket turret is most important two together can shoot down the drop ships

[@joehoffer2112]

I didn’t have to wait at all today. Peak game time as well. So that’s a definite win.

[@therealmarce440]

I Never had to

[@Target135]

I got stuck in the pod too, so I just waited for the game to get started and after the 30 second timer of people going into the pods, it continued like normal and I was able to start the mission with my team

[@barry3834]

yea its not really that big of an issue its just a small inconvenience

[@LunarShuriken1]

The servers are capped at 700k now and apparently it's not an issue with thr number of servers but they've had to recode the backend of the game to do so. So it's a more technical issue than servers.

[@montgomeryblack8727]

Dude In the future it would be cool if we could fight on their home planet like automatons could be like a mec Godzilla

[@Astrosive]

I really hope so dude. That would be insane. At least some sort of new boss type enemies eventually would be sweet.

[@joeferrari1307]

Or make homeworlds, raid sized party and enemy?

[@ahoosifoou4211]

Theres a mec boss. Its nasty

[@Noisetank2212]

You could do that in the first game if you pushed the enemy back to their home planet and then liberated it. You would beat the faction and they wouldn’t be in the faction war anymore The bugs homeworld is a desert planet called Kelpar prime The cyborgs had a snow planet called cyberstan and it had a cool filter that made it black and white and very bright red so the snow was covered in blood

[@jackborba5196]

The whole premise of the galactic war is to liberate their capital planets. So, you can expect that we will be fighting on their home worlds, this includes the other races besides bugs and automatons. However, with this they can also come after super earth. It's happened quite a bit in the first game and I believe there were a pretty good amount of galactic wars where we would lose once super earth was overrun and it would restart. I recommend reading up on the lore because it's pretty interesting. We got our faster than light technology from the illuminates which are one of the other races. The terminids we were using as a farming source to fuel that ftl technology but the creator of the automatons caused an outbreak and now the terminids run rampant.

[@davidallred991]

A funny bug I had today is where a box of hellbombs became attached to my hand as both my primary weapon and secondary, I could use my support weapon but any time I switched to a normal weapon I would just have a big box attached to my hand.

[@starpreacher01]

Yeah i had that bug too and it gives infinite cooldowns on every stratagem I just kept throwing them

[@StarNab]

I had this too several times

[@brandy4522]

I too have noticed that the bug levels are harder past couple days. No just in number of enemies, but type, and have not been able to counter it. 2 of us on challenging has felt like extreme past couple days. I may or may not have rage quit last night😅

[@themarlboromandalorian]

My main issue is my friends seem unable to not engage enemy patrols, and they are terrible at disengaging enemy forces. It can work if you got a couple people drawing agro while the other two go run around the map doing everything, but finding people who care to perform this strategy and communicate is nigh impossible, and last time I went scouting for a team of non communicative people, they kicked me at extraction, so I missed out on the payoff. Kinda a dick move. I had like 10 rares and collected all the super creds and warbond medals on the map.

[@warrenloving1141]

my main bug is that I still can't progress past easy missions. I can play any difficulty with friends getting to lv 25 and unlocking their helldive difficulty, but no matter how many easy missions I do I can't get medium.

[@steam-_-6923]

wtf are you doing then and what lvl are you

[@barry3834]

bro thats an actual skill issue. Sorry man

[@Tony-kg5rm]

@@barry3834nope its a bug i can’t pass easy difficult and ihave complete 97 mission and i have 10k monster kill is only a bug

[@barry3834]

@@Tony-kg5rm you need to get 5 stars and do everything to get it also be the leader

[@bluester02]

@@barry3834You don’t need 5 stars all you need to do is complete an operation which at easy difficulty should only be a set of 2 missions

[@atomicatgaming693]

I think a fun 4th faction could be "The Dissidents". A group of rebellious humans that start attacking random planets, not starting on the outside of the map, but closer to Super Earth. They could make up for small numbers and firepower by using stealth and guerilla warfare. They could also hack the news broadcast in your ship to spread their propaganda

[@vert2552]

8:50 Arrowhead confirmed that seeing the success (and apparently a blank check with their name) the are mass hiring new people to provide as much support and content as possible. So i would assume thats why old road map was scrapped

[@tsc_blt]

Cross save is the most important fix i need. I can’t play because I’ve got the server que irl to wait to play on the ps5, but all of my save is on ps5 and when i play pc i have nothing. I bought both and can basically only play my account through one. ik they said it was gonna get fixed soon, but every day I’m getting closer to jumping out the window in rage for not being able to play.

[@donteros]

Stalkers has a detection AOE that expands around an area of the map surrounding their lair. Once you get close enough to their lair the stalkers will lock on and hunt you until they die. If you play solo or with friends trying to stealth the mission you'll notice how the combat music starts out of nowhere but no bugs has noticed you, this usually indicates that the stalker nest has caught your precense and they are hunting you. Best thing you can do is see the compass bearing the stalkers charge you from and either try to leave the detection radius and kill the stalkers hunting you or take them head on and track their lair killing every bugger that tries to get you and your friends.

[@LiLxF310N]

Would love to see multiple factions vying for a single planet, I.e. terminid v. Automaton action and new main/side objectives

[@wesleyward5901]

0:50 That bug's been there since release and it's a pretty easy fix. It only happens to people who join you so it doesn't affect the host and the host can force start missions by getting in a Hellpod which tp's every player.

[@greendog612]

getting stuck defrosting is the bug where you get stuck behind those doors, the stuck on defrosting bug was were you got stuck in the cutscene where your guy comes out the pod frozen, hence stuck defrosting lol

[@dimensionkid5921]

I actually saw a video about The Illuminate. There was an news slider that said that there were sightings of them meaning they will definitely get added later on.

[@tylertowell4108]

3:10 like everyone said its not actually a bug but a condition and the way to get around it is to cancel it once you pull it out since it displays what your activating when you type in the code before you throw it. one of the ways to cancel is to swap to your weapon again.

[@GoobieFloobert]

3:40 lots of weapons kill them pretty quickly and you can find their lairs really easily. Stalkers used to be a big problem for me too when i didn’t know what to do to get rid of them. If you see them from afar you can stalk them ig and go in the direction they came from cuz typically their nest is gonna be there.

[@KillingBee20]

Random strategem is a planet affect. Autoplay did work before, they turned it off when the server load got overwhelming to free up code space.

[@VitaminMaxer187]

3:12 It's not a bug, it's an effect on the planet. The effect is called countermeasures where it will randomize the strategems. Also, on higher difficulties, the stalkers will have more stalker bug holes for you to find. Once you find where they are coming from and destroy the stalker's bug hole, they will stop showing up on the map. I was playing difficulty 9 and we had to destroy 4 stalker holes. New patch came out, seems the server cap is now at 700k.

[@PingachuWarham]

I can tell you right now that they did NOT fix the civilian missions, that shit is still ridiculous

[@kierinhernandez7524]

Things I'd like to see in future updates: -Emote Wheel -Make an Earnable 2nd MiniGame for base game players -Buff The jump pack -4 Man weapons (4 players help operate could be Mechs like pacific rim or voltron style) -The Illuminate Faction -A 4th Faction (Maybe Rebel forces or Ex Hell Divers) -Small vehicles or mounts (Riding on a tamed Terminid could be cool) -Rare collectible memoribilia on all planets (just for fun) -Hack Stratagems for the small Automatons to hijack turning into allies. -A way to assist allies in death (when you are out of reinforces could be a simple drone with a pistol or something like the guard dogs)

[@giannitrevino9385]

I’ve found while loading in if it says servers are full if your on ps5 just go back to the Home Screen and scroll down into the hell divers in and just join any quick match and should glitch out freeze the countdown then load you in after a few seconds and if that didn’t work just close app and try again

[@Xariann]

If you speak to one of the NPCs in your ship they actually mention the third faction as something they already dealt with. I guess that NPC might get a reality check if they introduce them in Helldivers 2.

[@Zurpanik]

Because Arrowhead believed that the game would not be as absolutely huge as it is, they leveraged a certain amount of server space with certain specs from their third-party vendor (maybe AWS or some other mass VM center service provider). That amount has simply NOT been enough to manage the player traffic the past 2 weeks. They've done the best they can and are still finding solid ways to improve things with code fixes and improvements and adjusting certain configuration, but ultimately they have to renegotiate and purchase probably 2-3 times as much hardware allocation as they had in order to support the numbers they're seeing--and that takes time. A good chunk of issues are also related to stability, so as they put additional resources into place, crashes should become fewer and fewer as well. I'm not in the games industry myself, but am in the software industry and those kinds of issues due to unexpected user impact or traffic, especially over underspec'd network infrastructure can cause immense instability and nowadays leveraging remote server resources instead of paying for it yourself is a very affordable option even for larger projects and I can see them not being prepared for this really really awesome unexpected success!

[@carlospantoja4253]

Illuminates are mentioned in the game but its stated as like nonsensical rumors stating that there are sightings of Illuminates but the Super Earth Government is disregarding it as just rumors. The mechs are coming in because there’s a Alien insect that we haven’t seen yet but has been teased through its Skeletal remains is the Hivelord which looks like a huge Worm with thousands of teeth and has like 250k health.

[@MrKonato]

some missions that can be done with 5 or 6 players, to play with a bigger group of friends, a map that is a war between the factions so, you would fight every faction in one place, that would be cool to see in the game.

[@Glaceonics]

Two things. One. The server issues are not a 'Server side' thing, they're a technical issue with the game, it isn't coded to deal with this mass amount of players meaning they have to fix the game itself, not the server software/framework. They CAN buy more server space sure but the game functionally cannot utilize said server space. Seconds. The Illuminate aren't around currently because LORE wise, they're demilitarized after Helldivers 1, completely dismantled by super earth. But in reality I'm very certain it was mostly chalked up to dev time not wanting to end up feature creeping the game so they focused on two factions rather than three to start with. We'll likely see them and maybe more in the future. As for the Mechs and vehicles, same reasons. Lore wise the Helldivers were defunded and ceased but the reality reason is likely dev time and balancing of what we already got.

[@Hawkward_Trent]

Quick tip for server at capacity, if you're on Steam and have a friend playing, you can join the game when at the capacity screen, and it seems to bypass pretty quickly.

[@kradwolf5719]

Devs didn't initially "cap" the servers at 450k. Their server backcode of the game wasn't configured to handle the 300k people that had been getting on and that is why we were getting an error code before there was a "server cap" message. The 450k was the best they can fix their net code in a weekend which since it was rushed through a weekend there were bugs that were made by the rushed code optimization. They mentioned they're still working to increase this since they are already up to the new cap but after all the bugs that were created they want to focus on the bugs and optimize the code they already created. So far the devs are amazing in their responses and attitude at their unexpected success and the community support. Most of this information is on their discord and are highly responsive even after getting only a short break after having to work through the weekend.

[@drastic656]

I have noticed more chargers than usual when playing on challenging. Normally we were getting 3 to 4 per game. Now we are getting 10 to 15 per game.

[@terrancestone2567]

Same to , Iv been running into 3 at a time

[@egavasegavas5632]

This... I was running a solo 5 (destroy eggs) for medals, 8 chargers at the first nest like a stampede lol. Would happen the moment I got too lax and didn't bring the 500kg😅

[@2Jackrabbit]

The reason for online game to have server issues at launch is because of a couple things: 1. Online and multiplayer games are at least 2-3 times more complex to make in pretty much all department except Art, coding the gameplay of multiplayer game is already wildly different. Then there's another complexity layer to dedicated servers, these 4 backend dudes are godlikes dev. 2. Depending on the game context online involves a wide ranges of interconnected services which all runs seperately : authentification, matchmaking, load balancer, game server, etc. One online game can require like 5-6 different services that need to scale accordingly and depend on each others. This adds a lot to the complexity as well. 3. No matter the testing and simulation done prior to launch, it's just impossible to have the real test until launching and remind yourself that 450k players at the same time is totally exceptionnal, you don't plan for this volume because it would just be wishful thinking, these type of number happens, but really it's like one in a million lucky strike, and when it happens then you realise one or other system dosen't scale as well as the other. they stated that the total player count for PS5 and PC actually surpassed their more optimistic estimate by a factor of 5. All in all online games are incredibly complex and realistically you cannot know what will happen until it happen. Overplanning for these 1 in a million scenario where your game become the new viral hit isn't something you can focus or aim for. It would be wasted dev time and 99% of games will never reach that amount of conccurent player anyway. But they handled it really really well, wouldn't want to be these 4 guys on redbull since probably 2 months, but the fact that they are able to fix and scale up this quickly is proof that they are freaking godlike backends. Remember as well that usually it could be around 50-60 people just on the servers and still it will implode on launch.

[@danielmarques1048]

ye i got stuck in the pod also but once teammates entered the diving pods the timmer started and once it finishes u join them on picking the gear etc, the game is awesome and the devs are on top of the problems and fixing it fast, we see mutch bigger companies doing nothing for months and years to fix something and these devs are on the clock working on the problems

[@steelphoenix8978]

they should make the bugged drop ships into a planetary effect: "the automatons have discovered a major ore deposit; abundant resources have increased enemy forces"

[@flare6030]

For the stalkers just look at the map and you can spot their lair. Also, railgun destroys them like everything in this game

[@jaydynbristol8920]

Fun fact for skipping the server at capacity, if you have a friend playing the game, and your playing on steam, join them off of your friends list, the game will launch into a black screen for about 30sec-2min and then it will back you straight to your ship.

[@brettott9335]

0:53 this is easily fixed, just enter the drop-pods and start the 20 second timer which will pull the trapped players in. HOWEVER, there is a more serious bug which not only traps players in that area, but ALSO doesn’t show them on the crew list (so cannot be pulled into drop-pods), and they are unable to access the escape menu, leaving force-quit as their only option.

[@baconlover1982]

Those stalkers are beyond oppressive, we did a mission on Lvl 8 and it took almost all our resupplies and 25 minuets to close the lairs before we finally could go and finish the mission.

[@Myzzzy]

You commented on a lack of mention of the Illuminate, but one of the characters in the super destroyer actually mentions that they were eradicated after the first galactic war. The terminids got put in farms so they could be harvested for oil, and the cyborgs were sent to the mines. Supposedly the automatons are not the cyborgs. Good video though.

[@Warlance001]

3:13 that's not a bug mate, thats a mission modifier, thats why you always check the modifiers on a planet before deploying (C key on PC while on destroyer)

[@xenoscout9319]

the trick to quickly find the stalker nest, is to follow it back to it's nest, or see from what direction it cam from.

[@joonielipton]

tha "mixed stratagem" thing isnt a bug. it is an effect on some planets. there are effects that can screw with the placement of the drop and some that will "scramble" the drop. there are some other ones that mess with the ship that are related to the atmosphere of the planet.

[@Gawdniteowl]

That random strategem *IS NOT A BUG* it’s a game mechanic on higher difficulties , it’s like a de buff on random higher difficulty missions, if you use the strategem station once you move to the new planet you can see what the de buff potentially are

[@fearlessbros3620]

I have noticed stalkers attacking and on suicide mission and impossible there are more but not to an insane degree. Stalkers piss me off but it also adds another layer of depth because u always have to be checking behind u. I can’t tell u how many times I have turned around to see a stalker lurking in the bushes

[@Desertmaverick]

The content changs were that they have game masters that can change your missions on the fly. However having 4 times their expected numbers meant that they can't realistically do that so they have to change up their plans for content.

[@Prometheus668]

20 stalkers is insane, I went 1 vs 9 against stalkers on solo helldive difficulty and I won. Their legs is their weak points since they protect their head all the time with their claws.

[@ChaoticPsyche01]

I hope when they add other races, or even if the two current races share a sector, you can come across them fighting each other and the planet percentages can be made up of all three factions. and it's our job to push both races out of the sectors

[@MiBrCo4177]

Well I watched the entire video and it was actually about the game lol. I've seen about three to four different channels regarding helldivers 2 and anytime an update video like this comes out they talk about the issues and the problems surrounding everything instead of what is actually being fixed and what patches come out and what updates have rolled around and what glitches and bugs have been fixed. Just got a new sub for me, keep it up.

[@hellraiser2345]

It's not just the stalker bugs though, this last update it feels like they cranked up the amount of all bugs and patrols to an absurd level, even on lower difficulties. I played a normal mission and ended with 495 kills. As soon as you finish clearing one breach and another patrol spawns right on top of you and calls in another one, it sucks. Lower difficulties should be constant enemy spawns, I used to clear normal missions completely with like 10 minutes to spare and now there's no time to even move from one objective to another. not to mention ammo.

[@Jahoo89]

the stratagem issue was not a bug. it was a modifier, it would select a random stratagem you had equipped, but you could cancel it untill you got the one you wanted

[@TylerLooney-td2cl]

So they didn’t expect the game to get so big. That’s awesome hope their game continues to grow.

[@jazz4250]

Late work shifts are hard and trying to game around midnight is a pain. I feel that, if anyone needs another helldiver I'm free every night

[@macandcheeseofficial]

They should give us a little something to commemorate all those that fell during the extraction missions on the Creek. Like a title or cape.

[@johnnycracker8191]

if there is stalker spam or random stratagems, they are not bugs, they are mission modifiers. For the random stratagem part, keep spamming the stratagem and check on the left top corner which one you have equipped, for stalkers, you have to seek out your nest and take it out as quick as possible.

[@gorillaglueonmydick]

It'd be cool to eventually see massive offensives/defenses with multiple squads in a mission all working together to take down a massive base or defend an objective from hordes and hordes of enemies.

[@ryandobbs9270]

My brother has a bug where his guns were giant purple question marks(unusable), and he had unlimited stratagems. He just spammed mine field all around him. Was pretty crazy.

[@Hydro6955]

3:13 that's not a bug, that's one of the random modifiers for a mission, it's called Scramble

[@sdccvczbfbzdz]

Could be that the engine isn’t cloud delivered if it’s that’s old which means they need to actually buy and deploy more hardware which will take time. I imagine they will need to do a lot of work before we see big changes

[@Mattmonstar]

Also I know some missions actually scramble your stratagems (depending on difficulty) so i don’t necessarily think it was a bug

[@thegoldenscorpion7316]

3:13 its not a bug but a orbital effect that the stratagems are scrambled

[@AshenOne94]

I had an awesome bug yesterday. There were purple question marks floating around my player plus I could infinitely throw stratagems without cooldowns. At one point I had about 10 orbital lasers on screen.. It was amazing

[@tallbeegaming]

Killing stalkers nest will quell the stalkers if there’s a bunch then you’re around a nest

[@HrapVideoGames]

2:20 if feals like atamatons still do that, it is the hardest missions, even on lvl 6 dif we couldnt beat it

[@jackvoss1527]

Yeah, even with the new bugs, my sons and I feel the game is more playable now. The biggest problems we had were a random teammate losing network connection when things got extreme and lag or desyncing. We don't have these problems in other multiplayer games, so I don't think it's the network. Personally, I'd like to see night vision.

[@LocalCryptidGhostdoll]

I'd love a mode with like 20 players, make you feel like that horde of Mobile Infantry in Starship troopers

[@dashawnbonnett5847]

Maybe more the lines of 3 groups of 4 completing their own set objectives and slowly meeting up for extraction. It’ll have to definitely be on extreme difficulty or Helldive.

[@sirfrancois8888]

Duuuude yeah!! We played challenging earlier today, and the amount of stalkers was absurd!!! We ran thru half our reserves just making it to the lair and blowing it up!! It was nutty!! Made for a really intense round but we were really expecting to breeze thru as we are used to impossible difficulty.. glad we weren't the only ones experiencing this at one point there were probably Like at least 15 stalkers out and they were taking 3 rail gun shots to the face!!!😮

[@sirfrancois8888]

When I found the lair by the way I was watching them pump out one after the other like 3 at a time, every 10 seconds it seemed.. I didn't let it happen after the 6th.. but.. man, it was scary!! Haha.. honestly, it was kinda awesome!😅

[@detrickz1295]

You're not the only one with the stalker issue. I was running Suicide and we were overrun by 20+ stalkers constantly. It was really stupid because we had tons of samples and they just came out in droves.

[@NitarnFilm]

You have to track down its lair by backtracking the direction they appear. Once you destroyed it it won’t spawn.

[@yeshellowhat6719]

Sounds like you had multiple nests nearby. Difficulty 7+ has more side objectives than early difficulties so you can possibly even get 4 stalker nests in the same map.

[@detrickz1295]

@@NitarnFilm the thing is, this happened mid match. They just started pouring out of nowhere once we got to the 2nd objective and it was just constant pressure that we couldn't do anything. When we killed a wave, another wave would come out on top of dealing with everything else and it became a standstill situation.

[@ChaoticPsyche01]

My first ever mission as a hell diver was a extract the civilians on difficulty one. I was not familiar with the game at all and I just got immediately overwhelmed and I could not do anything. I was terrified to do another automaton mission. whether it was intended or not I'm glad they fixed it

[@Perk_kK]

i’m so glad they added the inactivity timer some people thought they were slick 🌚

[@anacreon212]

the randomized strategems isn't a bug. it is a mission modifier. basically when you put in a strategem code. it gives you a random one from the ones that are off cooldown. The game tells you which one you are holding when you put in the code you just have to pay attention.

[@virtualgame6313]

Yeah it seems like the bugs do way more damage as of late

[@Warhound_]

I don't know which is worse stalker spam or charger spam. My friends and I had this mission where we got overwhelmed with nothing but chargers at one point. Every bug hole that popped, charger, every nest, multiple chargers, every patrol had their own charger. At one point we had eight or nine of them just throwing us around while we were fending off the regular bugs at the same time. Made it through the mission though.

[@Astrosive]

Stalker for me. Chargers you can get in close and just juke them out or use a railgun. Stalkers basically one hit you and are on your ass lol

[@Warhound_]

@Astrosive unfortunately I was the highest level at 18. No railguns, and I didn't bring the orbital laser this mission. We took them down with disposible anti-tank rockets that one friend brought, eagle strikes that a few of us had, regular orbital strikes, and my lone auto-cannon. All of our turrets got destroyed basically before they could do anything.

[@JuiceBoxHero92]

the random strategem you described was a planet condition. like it scatters your strategem and would select a random one sometimes. not a bug. a modifier

[@kelvinth117]

the Stalkers where indeed aproblem during missions so you are not alone with that problem.

[@jrad015]

I tried to play last night 8 est. Logged in easy 4x and every planet I picked I launched but got stuck in the atmosphere burning up loading screen. My pod never landed. 2x the music just stopped 2x it took a while then crashed.

[@jolexyam8251]

If you talk to the crew on the destroyer eventually you’ll get a voice line referencing the illuminate. I got one where they said they were “all but exterminated” so at the very least they do exist still in the setting of the game.

[@connorparfrey9191]

Cyborgs are alive still in some capacity as well

[@keagan2192]

Besides the server capacity issues, I haven’t experienced any of the bugs or crashing you mentioned, could be because I play on pc or maybe I’m just lucky but I had no idea there were that my bugs and crashes people were experiencing 😂

[@rdowg]

Their servers were just not built for this many players, and they had to go tweak the code because it literally could NOT be scaled any higher at the time. The devs have been very open about all this, it's amazing to get a logical explanation of what's happening for once

[@hunterh7903]

If you cant join through the queue, try joining off a friend through steam if youre on pc

[@n1njafish894]

i really want some type of modding/attachments to the guns or like DRG mods which give unique effects although i dont see this happenin since they went with weapon variants instead. I really hope they will improve and make the modding feature u get from holding R way more robust

[@nathansmith3797]

I would like to mention the "bug/issue" with your stratagems not being the right one seems to be a planetary effect instead of a bug, but I could be wrong about that. I saw a planetary effect that said something about stratagems being scrambled and another that increased the wait time by like 50% or something like that.

[@ripsaw88]

yeah i had no issues at all at 8pm GMT, which had been a pain. Also, this is such a great game and Dev team. They are a victim of their own success right now, going from 7,000 peak players on the first game to this. I'm looking forwards to some great content from the first game and looking at the campaign map compared with the first game, I think its a safe bet there will be 4 factions to fight eventually

[@Chaosshade99]

probably running into stalker nest, they spawn 3+ stalker per wave every few minute unless neutralise

[@phatec]

If your friends are online and through the queue, if you join their games from steam friends list you get through the queue instantly.

[@LikelyMikeyy]

1:00 I had a game where I dropped and my guns were floating purple question marks😂

[@davidJsound]

Playing a PC I never had a crash, didn't know it even was such an issue for people.

[@TheUnknownD]

I'm so happy they finally added the afk kick timer after 16 days.

[@Gamer_Fr762]

I’m on Ps5 if you go to quick play from the ps menu and hit start activity you don’t need to wait for a queue

[@hayslettfam]

The stalker one I don’t think is a bug but the stalker Laura that have two nest can spawn a whole bunch usually only happens on the more challenging difficulty’s but honestly I enjoy the challenge sometimes

[@lvlzeromarvel5438]

Bug i've been experiencing since the most recent update happened to me in 2 different missions. It wouldn't allow me to swap to my primary or my secondary weapon. I was just running around with only my rocket launcher as I couldn't switch to anything else. If i died and respawned I would have my primary out but after a little bit or if i switched off I would not have it in my hands or be unable to swap back to it. Only way to fix was a restart.

[@circaen]

The main issue with a lot of launches is you don't want to spend all this money on new servers when it could be the only time you ever need them. So you have to make sure the servers you are getting will be used for more than a week or you have flushed a bunch of money.

[@liubei7]

UM the random stratagem throwing is actually a game feature if u look at specific planets it scrambles ur stratagems and so when you type a stratagem its randomized or the right one you have to stare at whats in your hand before you throw it to do it proper or start over. BUT its a FEATURE im serious check the effects on those planets that have it ull see it eventually if u continue playing.

[@RyanL-cl8yi]

Anyone else have the bug when you hold a stratagem for a couple of seconds and throw it, it'll make your weapon disappear? Amazing when it happens twice and you're left with only a grenade launcher lol