"Inverse decays are rare, this large a week two jump even more so, especially outside the Holiday window," says Circana analyst Mat Piscatella.
A Medic Backpack, Mini Missiles and Nuke are reportedly being added, while the Illuminate will allegedly have new units.
Sales for the co-op shooter are up by 20 percent in its third week. Meanwhile, Mario vs. Donkey Kong and Skull and Bones sales are down.
The studio's CEO Johan Pilestedt teased a massive new milestone after initially announcing almost one million units sold.
Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt says the development team is ready to "resume our original plan" for post-launch content.
Helldivers 2's server woes are slowly being addressed by its developer as it prepares for a big influx of players over the weekend.
Helldivers 2 was made using a game engine for which support had ended back in 2018—Autodesk Stingray.
The co-op third-person shooter has hit a new peak of over 457,000 concurrent players on Steam, which is the 20th highest peak a game has ever seen on the platform.
Adjustments for Civilian Extract mission difficulty are also live, but issues like login rate limiting and unregistered rewards remain.
Helldivers 2's director doesn't want players that bought the game to be unable to play because of server queues.
The studio is hoping to tackle Helldivers 2's problems with matchmaking, login, and server load.
Arrowhead's acclaimed third-person co-op shooter continues to build momentum, peaking at 409,367 concurrent players on PC.
Helldivers 2 is already an exceptional co-op shooter, but a few quality-of-life changes and additions would improve it further.
Arrowhead Game Studios says it will "continue to work with our partners to get the ceiling raised", though you may still run into progression and server issues.
Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony's co-op shooter now boasts a peak of over 333,000 concurrent players on Steam.
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Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony's co-op third-person shooter is showing absolutely no signs of slowing down, having hit a new peak concurrent user count of over 276,000 players.
"We didn't think enough people would be interested so we decided to cut it - but now it seems there's a significant part of the audience that is playing on both platforms," says Arrowhead Game Studios...
The last roadmap is "very out of date in comparison to what we now want to do," said Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt.
The co-op shooter is continuing to move from strength to strength with a consistently growing PC userbase.
