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Helldivers 2 players accept the win and the free cape after Arrowhead miraculously finds millions of extra Liberty Day kills under a rug: "We can only track" melee or bullets and "we went with bullet kills"

Arrowhead reveals everybody won this Liberty Day

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Helldivers 2 performance is still many months away from "more meaningful improvement," admits Arrowhead CEO, but there are "more patches coming"

Helldivers 2 patches will continue until performances improves

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It's Helldivers 2's Liberty Day, so break out your shovels and play Arrowhead's patriotic new Whack-a-Terminid browser game before it's gone

It's like whack-a-mole, but more democratic and only available today.

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Helldivers 2 patch fixes the notoriously annoying Rupture Warriors by debuffing attacks and armor, as Arrowhead aims to actually "make them fun" and "less unfair"

Arrowhead is giving Helldivers 2 a lot of TLC right now

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Helldivers 2 patch "marks a big step forward" for Arrowhead, which "made a bunch of changes behind the scenes" to fix over 200 bugs and finally tackle the game's performance woes

"While new features are coming, this patch marks a big step forward: both in the game itself and in how we work to improve it"

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Xbox sales chart: Borderlands 4 takes the crown, Helldivers 2 proves it’s no fluke

Helldivers 2 has charted in the Xbox top five for two months straight, proving it is a commercial success beyond PlayStation despite early confusion over sales data. Its strong momentum highlights growing demand for Sony-published games on Xbox, especially with no Game Pass boost, and raises questions about whether Sony…

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Arrowhead thanks Helldivers 2 fans begging for optimization for their "restraint from calling in orbital strikes," promises to fix everything from snow distribution to NPC eyeballs

Strap in, Helldivers

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Missing Helldivers 2 performance and balance patch was delayed by "last-minute" issue, Arrowhead says – now targeting "end of this week, with staff ready to work over the weekend if needed"

"We’re doing everything we can to deliver it this week"

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'Remember Beach': Arrowhead has awarded thousands of 'inexplicably dedicated' Helldivers 2 players with a commemorative 'Avengement Day' after they ignored High Command to save a planet reminiscent of Halo Reach

Master Chief, you mind telling me what you're doing on Seyshel Beach?

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Repeating it "a bajillion times," Helldivers 2 studio CEO insists Gameguard anticheat isn't behind the game's performance issues: "We see no evidence of it"

Arrowhead is up against it on Helldivers 2's problems

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Helldivers 2 players melt down, accuse Arrowhead of becoming a real-life Ministry of Truth over YouTube drama, and get a response from the CEO: "We work with a partner for the propaganda commanders"

Helldivers 2 content creator dips inflame complaints in the community

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Helldivers 2 is delaying any further new content for now — here’s why that’s a good thing

Arrowhead is putting new Helldivers 2 content on hold to fix ongoing performance issues after the Into the Unjust update, with Game Director Mikael Eriksson confirming the studio is prioritizing stability and optimization across all platforms — a move that could benefit devices like the Steam Deck, Xbox Ally, and…

Windows Central

Helldivers 2 updates take a pause as Arrowhead commits to sorting out widespread performance issues "to make sure that we can get to a much more stable state that we can believe in"

"We're focusing way more on addressing these issues to make sure this sort of things doesn't happen again"

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Arrowhead is delaying Helldivers 2 updates to fix its performance problems: 'We're focusing way more on addressing these issues to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again'

After the issues in the Into the Unjust update, the developer is shifting its schedule.

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"The beaches will dry before the Helldivers do": Helldivers 2 players made Seyshel Beach the new Malevelon Creek, complete with propaganda and a stunned response from Arrowhead

"Sir, I'm finishing this fight"

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Battlefield 6 lead tempts fate, says servers "should be" ready for launch after numerous betas across PC and consoles

The beta hit over 500,000 concurrent players on Steam alone

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Helldivers 2 dev explains why the PC version takes a million years to update and has 3X the filesize of the console versions: old, undemocratic hard drives

Promises things will improve, but no quick fix.

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Helldivers 2 dev says "there are no easy solutions" to fix the massive 150GB PC file size, but Arrowhead is "sure to find a better balance between loading times and installation size soon"

"We're taking your concerns very seriously"

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Helldivers 2 won't get bigger lobbies because 16 players would come with a side of "16 FPS," Arrowhead CEO says: "We're trying to fix performance. Not kill it"

Sorry about that

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'Helldivers 2' Devs Have A Plan For A Sequel, And It's Not What You Think

'Helldivers 2' developer Arrowhead Studios is focusing all of its efforts evolving this live service shooter for as long as it can.

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Helldivers 2 boss says "realism is not the goal" and "player fantasy matters more," but Arrowhead is still careful to remember that "it needs to be Helldivers"

Wrangling a team as big as Arrowhead is the tricky part

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Arrowhead CEO blames Helldivers 2 performance issues on tech debt accumulated thanks to goalposts being "moved a few times" during development: "The foundations of this big tower were made for a little bungalow"

"Tech debt is like a garage filled with stuff you just chucked in. We really need to put up shelves in the back to get organized"

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Helldivers 2 community's favorite conspiracy theory shut down by Arrowhead CEO, who says Major Orders are not scripted and the devs are as clueless as players: "Our predictions are often wrong"

Arrowhead's in the dark, too

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Arrowhead boss wants Helldivers 2 to be a "forever game" like RuneScape that can keep improving, with "no plans" for a sequel

Helldivers 3? Not while Helldivers 2 is still chugging

Windows Central

Helldivers 2 lands on Xbox Game Streaming — here's what it means for players

Helldivers 2 has been added to Xbox’s Stream Your Own Game, letting owners stream it across devices. While it doesn’t solve the lack of cross-save or Play Anywhere support, it offers more flexibility.

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