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.

[@katherinestives940]

Actually if you look at the Galactic Map, the Automotons are to the West, the Termids to the East, but both North and South are blank. So they could easily fit not one but two new races into the map spaces.

[@matejprochazka7011]

no shit sherlock

[@joemorales4288]

He mentions the Illuminate in here, but if you talk to the NPC's aboard the ship, one of them will say that the Illuminated were eradicated over 100 years ago which kind of gives us a timeline to how long it's been from the first helldivers and also that they may not be coming back. Luckily the universe is so big that it could mean that a new race altogether can still show up and offer their hand in Democracy... which then we will promptly shoot them

[@lhabubu]

@@joemorales4288illuminated was eradicated but they still have a presence in the universe just can’t have any weapons systems just like how Japan was treated after WW2

[@kierinhernandez7524]

@@lhabubu There was a news broadcast that teased rumors of illuminates popping up near super Earth (they're in hiding) and I can't think they'd waste the chance to reimagine their faction from the 1st game.

[@hidden7660]

@@joemorales4288 The Illuminate being eradicated is just what the government tells the NPC/Citizens. They definitely aren't eradicated.

[@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

[@rekrn12345]

Stalkers will keep spawning more and more until you kill the lairs. I think its just random unless that planet had a specific modifier which you have proven unable to to read already.

[@SlothCa]

crazy this guy is complaining about stalker numbers on helldive difficulty smh

[@getoveryourself2212]

@@Cipher_Codex Exactly, it defeats the purpose of light armor stating "reduces enemy detection by 30%", if they ALWAYS know where you are, even far tf away not even that but after shooting a bug's head off, and being far away and strafing left / right, the bug will STILL chase you regardless.... like wtf is that lmao

[@amon3095]

@@getoveryourself2212 u put into though that maybe just maybe they are completly made for that there is a reason they are most lethal hunters for the bugs they are breed for that if u are not good enought dont play the game above 7 all good but stop complaining about 1 unit that is ez to defeat

[@amon3095]

@@Cipher_Codex oh no they can comunicate with eachother oh no they can talk ot each other and tell the artillery where the people that are shooting at them are oh no how unfair

[@RyanI492]

“Unable to be able to read already” The irony

[@edreed305]

Random stratagem sequence is a debuff. Sounds like skill issue

[@adambomb2916]

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

[@Vos_Ceez]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@Chief_Tanuki]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@orthrusthetoad]

I have not have any queue since the last update, been playing all day, including logging out and logging back in a few hours later.

[@Lukinator321-oc1jw]

This is good news I was gonna get the game tmrw

[@therealmarce440]

@@Lukinator321-oc1jwIf your internet is good, you will have no problems at all. I have over 90hours playtime by now and never had a big problem with the crashes or connection.

[@BoogieBubble]

Me too, i joined 8 in the afternoon immediately. Maybe we where lucky. I will see today what happens.

[@SirScrumply]

I was playing last night around peak time and didnt get hit with any server full jargon, so we might be good to go

[@markadams5009]

​​@@Lukinator321-oc1jw. It's so fun, especially in a squad. Enjoy!!

[@lone_wolf1239]

For your stalkers issues I would say its only because you have to adress their nest asap, otherwise you will get overun by them as they will spawn quickly and aggro u across the map

[@notrelatedtobacon1282]

I'm fine with the stalkers having long range aggro, but they need to drop that omnipotence shit

[@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.

[@bobrocker1019]

For the random stratagems it’s not a bug, on higher difficulties sometimes the atmosphere or enemies scramble your stratagems.

[@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

[@TiiwaiMusic]

There is an ad on the Ship's TV mentioning that sightings of illuminates have been reported somewhere, or something along those lines. So, I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that we are going to get them as the next faction.

[@real_piggyback]

I have experience a ton of glitches where I get stuck when calling in stratagems, picking up items, and just getting shoved into rocks or buildings randomly. Despite all the bugs and the server issues, still the best co-op game I have played since left 4 dead.

[@sgtroach2122]

That getting stuck in the door isnt the "defrosting glitch]" it was the one where you could get stuck on the main screen where it says defrosting helldiver.

[@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

[@beef633]

The random strategy being called in isn't a bug it's a mission modifier for some automaton planets

[@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

[@PingachuWarham]

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

[@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.

[@onixtheone]

Actually, funny you mention another race! One of the characters on the ship was talking about they still can’t find who’s manufacturing the automaton and he then says something like “..it would have to be some crazy advanced alien race to do something like that!”

[@GManderson]

Yea yesterday I came home around 4:50 pm EST and was able to sign on right away. Seems the issue is fixed but we'll see how it goes into the weekend.

[@dylan-nguyen]

The ‘random’ stratagem is a map debuff not a bug. It’s called something scrambler iirc

[@The_AOJ]

You can bypass the queue if you have a friend on. If they send you a squad invite it gets you in immediately.

[@Frost3yte]

My friend and I tried that during the worst of it and all it did was freeze for me

[@LiLxF310N]

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

[@ifrit420]

After the fixes I still had like 5 tanks on my ass in the automaton defense mission while we had to extract the scientist and it was only difficulty 6 !

[@minikilla3568]

Why didn’t you kill them ?

[@alizewalker2712]

Happened to me today I was able to win thanks to the recoiless rifle I shot down the ships limiting the number of tanks and hulks that got deployed and what ever made it the orbital laser cleaned up I wouldn’t say it was smooth but I’m positive without those two stratagems I’d be fighting 10 tanks 15 hulks at the edge of the map behind a rock with 49 secs til the next reinforcement

[@patrickmartin4327]

And the stratagem randomizing is due to a effect a liberation campaign has on a planet

[@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.

[@starpreacher01]

I went from breezing through helldiver in automatons. To not being able to deal with the insects idk if im doing something wrong but it takes a crap load of recoiless rounds into the underside of a titan. Also the slow debuff and getting knocked out of stims is far worse for the insects.

[@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.

[@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.

[@SimplyChanGaming]

If you’re pc turn crossplay off will help you not crash from console players joining your games.(if you notice someone joining you then the game runs like shit they are console I.e. games taking ages to load)

[@TCYangsta]

Key tip when you type in a stratagem when you have the stratagem debuff before you throw it you can see which random one it gave you and can just cancel it and retype it until you get the one you want

[@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)

[@blankenstein1649]

the problem with the defense missions is that everyone tries to sit there and fight off the bots while also rescuing the civilians. the best way to tackle those missions is to land OUTSIDE of the base, and have 3/4 of the team stay out there to distract the bots while one person sneaks back in to the base to rescue the civilians. the bots are going to focus on the 3/4 shooting and calling in stratagems, not the one guy sneaking around quietly opening doors. it's helpful to have the sneaky guy wear scout armor and bring some kind of smoke.

[@calebriddle6476]

You guys can’t be serious right now…. Blow up the lair and also stratagems is the electronic counter measure

[@acdcguy18]

I used to see Stalkers so often on challenging and hard but ever since the Feb 16 to 19 patch, (can't recall the exact date) I haven't seen a single one. Have been very grateful lol

[@YeetMeBaka]

Just a heads up for anyone that may or may not get stuck in cryochamber upon joining someone, they just have to start the mission your character will be pulled into the hellpod when the timer ends and you can continue playing

[@TylerLooney-td2cl]

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

[@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.

[@LJB...]

Random event has always worked for me on PC. From what I heard is that Helldivers wasn't scaling very well with the increased traffic which is what the actual issue was/is.

[@jhericbayani4805]

One of the glitch that happened yesterday while playing with friends is if you are hit by the Charger sometimes you'll go under the land and will be stucked. Also we haven't experienced being spammed of stalker in Difficulty 7, usually we encounter only 2 to 3 stalker. Maybe you are talking in a higher difficulty level to get 15-20 stalker.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@AlexanderVetrili]

About the Illuminate, theres actually a news broadcast ingame that mentiones them only on the moving banner at the bottom of the broadcast. Talks about possible sightings at the edges lf the system. Think thats supposed to be a cheeky hint that they will be joining the enemy roster sooner or later.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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"

[@gorgeousgeorge7104]

Stalkers nest should be your top-1 priority at any mission. They are easy to find: look for dark places on the map that look exactly like bug outpost, but doesn't show it's one. Then click in it and if you get rectangular tag - it's stalkers nest. Grab a teammate and move to it unless you want to suffer for the whole game. Also stealthing and avoiding patrols is the way. If you get into fights every five meters you shouldn't play above difficulty 5

[@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

[@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😅

[@dashawnbonnett5847]

Don’t wanna be that guy, but some y’all gotta learn to pay attention and read. There are literal warning of planetary modifiers in the corner of the screen.

[@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.

[@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.

[@bo0mbo0mbll12]

Freindly fire needs removed , players qill kill you to get your support weapon to comolete challenges and shit starts a war . And try to greif you soon as extract

[@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.

[@shadoiandraconicfox5378]

I definitely have had that stalker bug happen to me. First minute landing was swarmed by them and no matter how many were killed there were still 20 around me with more coming over the horizon.

[@TheBasedNinja]

That stalker bug is absolutely wild. Most i've ever seen was like 4, maybe 5 at a time on the higher difficulties.

[@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

[@JevonThomas-fj7pc]

Thank you for showing me what the timeout looks like

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@iApollo722]

Thanks for communicating the developers situation, I think people aren’t understanding that

[@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.

[@unrelentingduress]

The slugger magazineless shotgun is super effective against medium and stalkers. It has sort of a knockback stagger effect so you can dump rounds into its head and it won't run away and it won't get to you either

[@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.

[@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

[@MakaTav_]

i had a weird bug where my guns where replace with a huge “?” and when i went into missions it stayed and i was able to call infinite amount of stratagems with no cool downs made me A GOD

[@hancansolo3569]

Between the cost of the game, ammout of nice content and how fast they patch whatever pops up im happy with my purchase solid 8/10

[@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.

[@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.

[@Notfakeultra]

Allot of your complaints were just mission modifiers fyi

[@turbo558]

To explain the server issue, think of it like this: Think of the game like a stock car engine block, it can only handle so much power. The engine block is their “backend” aka the foundation. You can upgrade EVERYTHING else in the engine and end up with a blown engine aka bad servers and issues like they mentioned where people are lag, get disconnects, and lose progress/not saving things gathered. Yes, it takes time and money and man power to put all the new parts into a nee engine block, but once its done, its been done right and things will be better once the engine is tuned.

[@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

[@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.

[@roywickware4767]

I played last night for the first time had one match with spammed Stalkers but the biggest issue we had was the heavy charges. They were almost worst. But the bugs that throw up ruined one mission we had they kept insta killing us on difficulty 5.

[@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.

[@Kozvick]

Me and all of my friends got in with no queue at 420k players on steamdb, previously would had to wait in a queue even at 230k players.

[@Kingkiwi2023]

They increased server size to 700k smth

[@MNNski]

Playing this game it feels like a decade game. A game that get updated and remains relevant for a decade.

[@zhadowsun]

Yesterday, I dropped with my Duo near a Stalker nest, and we got ABSOLUTELY swarmed by stalkers for so long, and had to brutally fight towards the nest, and throw whatever explosives we could. Finally ended when we destroyed the last nest :D

[@joshualuttrell7269]

scrambled stratagems isn't a bug...It's an effect on certain operations. You can get scrambled stratagems (random one from your loadout whenever you use one), increased cooldown, increased call-in time, one less stratagem, and there might be more I missed. Also if you just follow where stalkers are coming from, you can destroy the nest before they've overrun you so they're only a problem if you ignore them for long.

[@flare6030]

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

[@eliro5]

They actually mention the Illuminate in a news scroll in the game, so it’s pretty likely that they will come in the near future

[@Gabriel-Kazu]

If stuck in the freezer, just have your friend start the mission timer and it'll auto pull you into the hellpod

[@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

[@TheUnknownD]

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

[@Sabre912]

honestly last night after this patch.. zero wait time for play!! loving this game and the devs!

[@KGAGamer]

I haven't been fighting Automotons because they feel SUBSTANTIALLY more difficult than the Terminids. Get overwhelmed so incredibly quick on just about any mission lol

[@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.

[@duzx4541]

The issue is not the amount of servers they have, but the way the backend (server side) code handles so many player request. In other words, the backend code was written efficient enough for such a high volume of players. Fixing and improving code logic takes weeks or even month until it’s done. That’s what they are working on and that’s what is taking so long. Keep in mind it’s only a small studio!