Helldivers 2 continues to slowly grease the wheels on its warfare in opposition to bloated servers—previously couple of weeks, I’ve gone from having a damaged matchmaking system and an inaccessible sport (even on weekday evenings) to one thing I can fairly play most nights. Granted, I am in a UK time zone, so I’ve received a hefty deployment benefit.
One a part of the issue is that Helldivers 2 did not launch with an AFK kick operate, which has been inflicting its fair proportion of upset unfortunates confronted with lengthy queue occasions. A sure contingent of the participant base has been logging on early, or just not turning their PCs off in a single day—an comprehensible response to unattainable queue occasions, but in addition sort of a jerk transfer for jerks. Not.
Patch 1.000.11 reads: “Applied a performance that can kick gamers who stay idle for quarter-hour again to the title display.” That is a harsh time restrict, although excessive occasions trigger for excessive measures—and it might be one thing that is lifted when capability is improved, which is unquestionably occurring. Arrowhead Video games’ CEO wrote on Twitter earlier this week that the workforce’s engineers have been doing the equal of “tuning a Vespa to compete in F1”.
Whereas the AFK timer is that this mini-patches’ marquee function, there have additionally been a number of crash fixes as properly, which you’ll learn beneath:
- Mounted a number of crashes triggered when becoming a member of different gamers’ ships.
- Mounted crash triggered when exiting ADS.
- Mounted crash triggered when gamers go away a session whereas bombardments are lively.
- Mounted difficulty the place on-line missions in Galactic Struggle Map have been unselectable.
- Mounted difficulty with GameGuard and Steam’s “confirm integrity” step.
- Mounted difficulty with GameGuard and the Home windows firewall.
- Mounted difficulty stopping entry to Ship Administration panel.
- Mounted difficulty inflicting gamers to get caught within the defrosting or within the ship intro cinematic
- Mounted crash triggered when the method of shopping for Tremendous Credit fails.
- Mounted crash triggered after consecutive quickplay makes an attempt.
The patch notes additionally spotlight just a few recognized points with fixes within the works, together with the sport’s currently-busted armour values, mid-play disconnects, and the delayed deployment of our loyal Helldivers’ well-earned rewards.
It will be fascinating to see if these rapid-fire hotfixes do something to stem the tide of unfavorable opinions on Steam. Regardless of some fairly common acclaim and an enormous playerbase, Helldivers 2 remains to be sitting on Blended on the time of writing, although that is to be anticipated when giant swathes of the bottom cannot entry a sport they paid for—even when the sport’s unanticipated success got here out of left-field for Arrowhead Video games.