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Theco-oppastiche of Starship Troopers and its brutal sci-fi satire released last Thursday, and has since blown up in popularity to the point where developers Arrowhead havescrambled to fix servers buckling under the number of people playing, leading todisconnects, iffy matchmaking and login problems.
While Arrowhead desperately patch things up,SteamDBhas quantified just how much momentum Helldivers 2 has behind its bug-blasting success, revealing that the game hit a peak of over 155,000 simultaneous players last weekend. (Cheers,Eurogamer.) At the time of writing, it still sits very close to that number at over 140,000 people currently playing.
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That’s a lot of people - so many, in fact, that Helldivers 2 is now PlayStation’s biggest PC launch to dateon Steam, racking up over twice the top 73,000 player count of previous record-holder God of War. It’s also a long way past runners-up likeMarvel’s Spider-Man Remastered,Horizon Zero DawnandThe Last of Us.
Of course, it’s worth noting that Helldivers 2 is the first PlayStation-published game to launch on PC alongside PlayStation 5, which may be helping a lot in giving it this initial burst of popularity versus older games that people may have played elsewhere in the time they took to make the leap to PC.
