They say that the success of a game is measured against the amount of inconvenience that its users are willing to tolerate in the desire of simply being able to play it. The best example, right now, seems to be why, if you’re like us, you spent hours and hours of your weekend sitting in front of the screen, waiting for your chance to spread democracy… to no avail.
, read the boot menu during the weekend, and it was of little help that, in order to cushion the problems, Arrowhead offered multiplied experience on Saturday and Sunday. Today, however, is Monday, and servers remain inaccessiblewhen the stormy arrival of the work and school week should have relieved some of the load and, more importantly, Arrowhead Game Studios should have found the solution, days ago: more servers.
As the previous, hundreds of posts crying out for more serversas if it were a magic wand, and, for the sake of a “victory” in the “console war”, for the arrival of the title to Xbox, where the infinite power of Microsoft Azure will alleviate the problem instantly… except that is not the problem and It’s not that easy resolving.
Server capacity is not the problem of Helldivers 2
How great was the surprise for whoever published that post, when Johan Pilestedt, Director of Arrowhead Game Studios answered and shed some light on how online games work!
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But what is “optimizing backend code”? The backend code is the core logic that dictates how the game works and how it runs on the server, as such.
The solution will come soon or, at least, part of it
As it is a multiplayer experience, it is necessary to tune the game to reduce latency and bandwidth usage, as well as implement predictive algorithms to compensate for lag, and compress data packets to reduce the volume of information sent in network. Presumably, if you increase servers, the values in some – or perhaps all – of those calculations will vary.
explained José Luis Martínez Loya,cybersecurity architecture manager. he added
In short, yes, adding servers is one part of the solution – and perhaps the easiest to find – but the other is reprogramming the game to take advantage of them, and we assume that’s where Arrowhead is hitting the road.
When are they going to fix Helldivers 2?
Fortunately, the solution (or at least part of it) is coming soon. Alex Bolle, production director of He said, in the game’s official Discord, that updates will arrive tomorrow, Tuesday, for both versions, the PC and the PS5. That said, Bolle warned that it will take multiple patches before the game is fully operational, so be patient for at least this week.
