Arrowhead Sport Studios has confirmed that it has pressed pause on future content material updates for co-op shooter Helldivers 2 in favour of engaged on bettering the title’s general efficiency. In a brand new video, director Mikael Eriksson spoke about this determination, noting that future updates that target new options or content material will come to the sport at a slower tempo.
“I’d say that there are lots of issues not working proper now, efficiency being one,” mentioned Eriksson when requested in regards to the present state of Helldivers 2. “We will discuss in regards to the frames per second on totally different consoles the place you may play Helldivers. However then there’s additionally crash charges. We now have numerous bugs inflicting crashes within the recreation, after which we’ve the general bugs.”
“What I can say is that, after the final massive replace – Into the Unjust – we skilled extra points than what we had been comfy with,” he continued. “The gamers felt it, we felt it, and I’d say that the suggestions that we’ve gotten has been very justified. We’re taking this very critically, and we’re focusing far more now on addressing these points to ensure that this type of factor doesn’t occur once more. And we’ve made the choice to push a few of our content material and have updates somewhat bit into the long run whereas we’re addressing this stuff to ensure that we are able to get to a way more secure state.”
As for what sort of replace cadence Arrowhead Sport Studios is taking a look at in terms of bettering the general stability and efficiency of Helldivers 2, Eriksson famous that there are some issues that may be addressed pretty shortly, particularly in terms of bug fixes. Different issues, nevertheless, would possibly take longer. This consists of extra technical points, like bettering body charges on consoles and general efficiency enhancements.
“We now have our high brains desirous about this,” he mentioned. “And we’ll see, however we’re already making actually massive enhancements. And I’m assured that we’ll get there, and we will discuss extra intimately about this, hopefully, fairly quickly.”
Curiously, studio CEO Shams Jorjani had acknowledged among the efficiency points again in July. On the sport’s official Discord channel, he confirmed that the studio would solely start engaged on bringing in options like AMD’s FSR or Nvidia’s DLSS after it was assured that Helldivers 2’s elementary efficiency points had been mounted.
Whereas there have at all times been some technical points with Helldivers 2 all through its life, the discharge of Into the Unjust has seemingly pushed the extent of those points fairly far. The replace was launched final month, and introduced with it a wholly new fashion of missions, which had gamers diving deep into Terminid Hive Worlds to exterminate the alien bugs. Fairly than pitting gamers towards enemies in massive, open sandbox-styled ranges, the underground setting of the missions in Into the Unjust additionally revolved fairly a bit round environmental destruction.
Helldivers 2 is on the market on PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S, with the latter console getting the title comparatively not too long ago. For extra particulars, try our evaluate of the Xbox Collection X/S launch.
