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.
On top of Sony lowering its fiscal year sales forecast for the PS5 by 4 million units, the company's gaming operating margins are also at their lowest in almost a decade.
Game director Hyung-Tae Kim says these can be enabled "at any time", allowing less skilled players to enjoy the experience.
The studio is hoping to tackle Helldivers 2's problems with matchmaking, login, and server load.
Balanced Mode provides a balance between 4K and 60 FPS, according to technical director Dong-Gi Lee, who also confirmed DualSense support.
Some examples of explicit violence in the action RPG include "close-up images of impalement, dismemberment, and decapitation."
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The last roadmap is "very out of date in comparison to what we now want to do," said Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt.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.
Helldivers 2 players will have to hit pause on their war against alien bugs for the time being and instead focus on Automatons.
"When I look at a game like Helldivers 2, I’m not exactly sure who it helps in the industry by not being on Xbox," says the Xbox boss.