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Helldivers 2 Surpasses GTA 5's All-Time Player Peak On Steam

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Feb 19, 2024

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has been a huge success for developer Arrowhead Game Studios, skyrocketing to the top of the Steam and PlayStation charts. Yesterday, it even dethroned 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto 5, reaching an all-time playཧer peak of nearly half a million players.

That makes it the 24th most-played Steam game ever. It has beaten not only GTA 5, but Skyrim, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Halo Infinite, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:No Man's Sky, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield as well. Impressive as it is, its peak is still rapidly climbing. In just 24 hours, it jumped from 366,000 to 409,000. As for right now, it's the sixth most played game on Steam, and it was second last night.

For comparison, the first Helldiꦛvers has an all-time player peak of 6,691, just 1.6 percent of its sequel. However, it saw a huge spike last month in players thanks to the second game, reaching as high as 3,251.

Helldivers 2's success isn't going as well as the fight against arachnids, however. The unexpected influx of players is placing a huge strain on servers, causing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:progression bugs and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:capacity issues. Arrowhead is working to deploy a fix "a🎉s soon as possible", but the peak has only continuedꦉ to rise in the face of these issues.

Not only is Helldivers 2 shooting up the Steam charts, beating out heavy hitters left and right, but it's also number one on the PlayStation Store. That means it's currently ahead of Fortnite and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty.

Because of the server issues caused by its enormous success, Helldivers 2's review score on Steam is dropping. It now sits at a seven out of ten, despite being "Mostly Positive" overall.

Many of these "Not Recommended&ꦜquot; scores cite the long queues and inability to get into games. "This review is at capacity," one user wrote. "Please try again later."

"Great game," another said. "Wish I could play it. Can't give a good review so far. Seven hours of playtime and six of those have been waiting in the menu to connect."

That being said, Arrowhead is keenly aware of the issue and has been working to improve capacity, though, with the number of players still rising in the tens of thousands each day, it remains to beꩵ seen how effective such fixes will be.