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I'm guessing the game is having issues rn due to server issues but it says there's no players on every planet but it took me like 20 minutes to get in the game due to server capacity lol

It's pretty friggin weird. From what I gathered, you have to spawn into a mission then drop an SOS beacon and then players join you. I just started tho so Idk if there's an easier way

Touch posted...

It's pretty friggin weird. From what I gathered, you have to spawn into a mission then drop an SOS beacon and then players join you. I just started tho so Idk if there's an easier way

Ugh..seriously? This is how Monster Hunter World works and it's one of the few things hate about that game.

So I found out a work around on Reddit. The servers have been glitched so the quick play option doesn't work from the map when you log in, but if you go into a mission, throw an SOS beacon, then return to your ship the online stuff should work. Wonder how people find that shit out so quickly.

I've played a few matches so far. It really doesn't put in an effort to match you with people your level so I'm really bringing down the group. I'm lvl 4 with basically no good shit but I'm trying lol

So I'm trying to do the big mission thingy of doing 8 defend missions against automatons and I'm guessing it's in that one sector where pretty much all the missions are escort scientists. But I'm getting my ass kicked because the robots drop in fast and swarm me. Also matchmaking sucks ass lol. I tried doing that beacon drop and back to ship method but the mission I was at disappears after so...

Touch posted...

So I'm trying to do the big mission thingy of doing 8 defend missions against automatons and I'm guessing it's in that one sector where pretty much all the missions are escort scientists. But I'm getting my ass kicked because the robots drop in fast and swarm me. Also matchmaking sucks ass lol. I tried doing that beacon drop and back to ship method but the mission I was at disappears after so...

I gave up trying to follow that big mission shit cuz the matchmaking is so bad. I've just been hopping in random games and hoping I get one that matches the requirements. I have like 3/8 now lol

Match making is completely broken right now.

But when it works, it goes by difficulty level, so pick low level when you're just starting out and it should pair you with other newbs.

I'm literally watching Starship Troopers right now because I can't play cause of server issues. I'm a god damn addict.

Follow the helldivers reddit to learn more about the server difficulties the game has had. Amazing game but they dropped the ball on the servers.

Sometimes , I just start a mission and it fills up in seconds

Thermador446 posted...

Sometimes , I just start a mission and it fills up in seconds

I might have bad luck then cuz the few solo missions I've tried to do so far I've dropped an SOS beacon in the beginning and no one joins :(

Really hoping the game gets some QoL fixes real quick. Not just the matchmaking, but stuff like leaving the group after a match instead of wasting time going to the hosts ship then leaving to yours

I decided to try the game out yesterday. Been watching streams of it all week and it looked like a ton of fun. I have never in my life had such a massive discrepancy between what I watched others doing and what I experienced personally playing a game.

Launched the game and stared at "servers at capacity" for nearly 45 minutes. It finally lets me in and goes to that intro with military-green background and some text, and the game crashes my entire PC. Even the "gathering crash report" or whatever it is Windows does was frozen at 0% and refused to move. Had to hold the power button and hard reboot. Launch the game again and stare at "servers at capacity" for 20 minutes, and it finally lets me in. Go through the tutorial and everything's fine (though I changed like half the keybinds 'cause the defaults made zero sense to me). Named my ship the "Reign of Wrath" (which I'm going to remember for the future, badass ship name) and go to choose my first mission.

I had the same thought as Touch and figured I'd do the Bot faction missions first since there's a bonus for doing 8 of them. I was aware the matchmaking was fucked, so I just picked a random level 1 "Trivial" mission to evacuate civilians and launched solo. Drop in just outside the encampment far enough away that it didn't give me the danger warning on selection, and I'm immediately spotted anyway. Danger warning is apparently completely useless, good to know. -_- Start getting chased and don't have time to call in my machine gun, but I figured fuck it, it's level 1 so my assault rifle should be fine until I can get some space? lol The moment I got spotted, the drop ship warning popped up at the top and never went away because they never stopped arriving. I get swarmed and shredded in seconds. Playing solo means you don't really get to choose your respawn location, it's just automatically near where you died (which is fucking moronic) and I can't move the pod far enough to get out of range of the ever-growing mass of enemies. I die the second time before I've even gotten control of my character. And then again. On the fourth drop I finally get enough distance to not be immediately shot, and start making a WIDE circle around the outpost to try and sneak in from behind. It surprisingly works and I manage to get inside and find one of the pods with the civvies and release them. But opening a damn door apparently alerts every enemy on the map to your exact location and drop ships stop bringing enemies in vaguely on the other side of the outpost and the next 2 drop literally right on top of me. I'm dead in seconds again, and my last respawn is another insta-death before I even get control. Mission failed. Well, that was fucking stupid. >_>

I figure it all went to shit because I alerted the enemies right out of the gate on accident, so I give it another go. This time dropping on the outskirts of the map and everything seems fine for a bit. Do a little exploring and find a couple minor POIs as I work my way towards the outpost. When I get there, there's only a couple of bots patrolling the edges so I just avoid them and sneak inside. I try to locate as many of the civilians as I can before I open any of them. Thinking maybe I can just open them and run before most of the infantry arrives. It works alright at first and I got half the civvies free before it started getting too hot and I had to get out of there. Did another wide circle around, but when I got back to the outpost on the other side there was like a hundred bots swarming around the outpost, so zero chance I could do anything. And the drop ships were still non-stop spawning more. It was that point when I realized the missions had to be glitched, and there was a reason every single mission on the planet was the exact same civilian rescue one that nobody else was playing. So I just abandoned it and went to try one of the Bug missions instead.

Picked a random level 1 Bug planet mission that wanted me to reactivate a radar tower. Dropped on the outskirts again from an abundance of caution. Was in no way necessary this time, because this one was actually "trivial" difficulty and I literally couldn't even find a single enemy for the first 5 minutes. Found several minor POIs along the way to the dish, which brought up yet another issue I hadn't seen anybody on streams have. I found a medal in one of the little caches and when I picked it up, my character completely froze in place. I could spin around and aim my weapon, but that's it. Couldn't shoot, couldn't swap weapons, couldn't reload, couldn't throw grenades, couldn't call stratagems, couldn't even crouch. Just stuck there looking around for almost 20 seconds before my character did this weird vibrating glitch spasm and suddenly I could move again and the game acted like nothing had happened. Continued on to the radar dish, activated it, and aligned it. I still haven't seen a single bug. Objectives complete, head to evac. I find 2 of the smallest bug type randomly patrolling the middle of nowhere on my way to the exit, but at this point I'm just saying screw it and ignoring them. Find another small cache of loot, and when I pick up an Uncommon Sample I get that same stupid frozen character shit again. Sure enough after like 20 seconds my guy spazzes out for a moment and then I can move again. I get to the beacon and activate it, and the game finally decides to send some enemies. Pull out my machine gun and mow down the first wave of half a dozen bugs and then wait like 30 seconds before another wave spawns. Kill them just as easily and then have a full minute wait for the evac ship to land without seeing another enemy. So I climb in and the little cutscene starts of the pelican flying up to my ship...and the game hard crashes my PC again.

Uninstalled. Refunded. I can't remember ever being so disappointed by a game with this much hype. Especially since I'd watched like a dozen hours of people playing it before I even bought it.

</rant> Sorry, I just needed somewhere to vent.

Yeah the games definitely not made to be played alone so the matchmaking issues is a huge bummer. I got a few good games in today tho

Alright I'm friggin confused with this major order of defend campaigns. I've done multiple missions on maps with the big DEFEND on them and my counter is still at 2/8. So Im guessing it only counts one once the whole campaign is done for a singular map/planet?

I'd check but I haven't been able to get into the game all day lol they really need to increase the server capacity this is pretty ridiculous

I haven't had any troubles with quick play today though it took me 30 minutes just to actually get into the game because it kept telling me I had to wait because the servers were full

Was thinking about getting this game. Yeah I'll get it once matchmaking gets better.

That's the fun part. You dont!

Touch posted...

Alright I'm friggin confused with this major order of defend campaigns. I've done multiple missions on maps with the big DEFEND on them and my counter is still at 2/8. So Im guessing it only counts one once the whole campaign is done for a singular map/planet?

It's planet defense. The blue bar, Super Earth, has to reach the end of the goal before the red bar, Automatons, does by timer. Once that is completed, everyone gets progress.

Multiplayer just completely doesn't work for me now. Quick play does nothing. How is it worse than at release? It at least worked sometimes then. I'm gonna shelve the game for now until they fix it.

https://youtu.be/aRy1s8DbHvE?si=CbNOQh7euQI4wPms

Choose the planet and difficulty you want, then scan around for matches - it was already somewhat hit or miss in the first game ('Teleport boot failed"), I gotta imagine the crossplay aspect has only aggravated the situation

Just ordered the game last night, and it's not arriving for a couple weeks... Hopefully this shit is ironed out by then

_Valigarmanda_ posted...

https://youtu.be/aRy1s8DbHvE?si=CbNOQh7euQI4wPms

Choose the planet and difficulty you want, then scan around for matches - it was already somewhat hit or miss in the first game ('Teleport boot failed"), I gotta imagine the crossplay aspect has only aggravated the situation

That currently doesn't work. Zero matches show up on planets currently.

spanky1 posted...

That currently doesn't work. Zero matches show up on planets currently.

Yup, servers are currently FUBAR.

I wonder if I'll be able to play this game today or if I should just continue playing Tekken 8

Smashingpmkns posted...

I wonder if I'll be able to play this game today or if I should just continue playing Tekken 8

Your wanting to play your newly purchased game on the weekend? What's wrong with you? How dare you expect to be able to play a game you purchased. /s just incase. I'm incredibly frustrated with this and reminded why I never buy new always online games.

Half the discourse online is people complaining they can't get in and the other half is people telling them to stop complaining. Really weird launch lol

Imma give the devs a little bit of a break here. Apparently there first game peaked at like...8000 concurrent players online. Who knew the sequel would be beating out the likes of Fortnite and CoD?

God damn I tried again randomly at 11 pm to get in and it just loaded in super quick. I ended up playing for 5 hours. This game is crack lmao

Thank god I'm off today

Yeah, this game hits all the right spots for me.

Smashingpmkns posted...

God damn I tried again randomly at 11 pm to get in and it just loaded in super quick. I ended up playing for 5 hours. This game is crack lmao

Thank god I'm off today

Me right here, too. The game is just pure concentrated fun

Touch posted...

Imma give the devs a little bit of a break here. Apparently there first game peaked at like...8000 concurrent players online. Who knew the sequel would be beating out the likes of Fortnite and CoD?

Yeah, that's the issue.

Helldivers 1, all time peak on Steam: 6,744 (during a free weekend!)
Helldivers 2, right now on Steam: 201,492, 24h peak: 409,367

Of course this ignores the console players.

Seems like they went "how many players will we get? 100k?" "lol, dream on, but yeah, set it up like that to be sure"

And then it exploded.

Smashingpmkns posted...

God damn I tried again randomly at 11 pm to get in and it just loaded in super quick. I ended up playing for 5 hours. This game is crack lmao

Thank god I'm off today

Yeah things seem to be fixed. Tried restarting the game twice and was able to get in instantly both times.

Touch posted...

Yeah things seem to be fixed. Tried restarting the game twice and was able to get in instantly both times.

Not fixed just yet, servers are capped at 450k then throttle logins until they get a permanent fix, so once prime time hits it'll start. I'm just glad I got some time off to play lol, first time in a long time I've enjoyed a game this much

Smashingpmkns posted...

God damn I tried again randomly at 11 pm to get in and it just loaded in super quick. I ended up playing for 5 hours. This game is crack lmao

Thank god I'm off today

Yeah when the game actually works it's some of the most fun I've ever had in a game ever. Just too bad it's been broken so much for me. Couldn't play at all all weekend.

Been in queue for 2 hours so far today.

I left the game on in rest mode on my PS5 and it just got me into the server immediately. Kinda worrisome that that's how it works. Wonder if I was considered one of the 450k allowed on the server while I was sleeping lol

Smashingpmkns posted...

I left the game on in rest mode on my PS5 and it just got me into the server immediately. Kinda worrisome that that's how it works. Wonder if I was considered one of the 450k allowed on the server while I was sleeping lol

It's looking to be this way with no way for the game to kick AFK/rest mode players. People are bragging about it and refusing to log off just so they have their spot secured lmao

this past weekend i couldnt login due to server issues.

its monday and the issue still persists... the fuck dude. lol

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

this past weekend i couldnt login due to server issues.

its monday and the issue still persists... the fuck dude. lol

I'm assuming 500 people are actually playing right now and 500000 others are afk

1 oclock in the afternoon on a monday and the servers are at capacity.

Yeah, people are just staying in the server while they go to work and shit.

such bullshit

The game crashed on me during a load screen so now I'm queued up smh

I guess it's not really a queue it's just a shitty 30 second timer lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c8d84e38.jpg

Nothing feels worse than the game freezing up at the end of a full 40 min match, causing you to lose like 30+ samples and battle pass currency.

i finally got in about an hour ago. going to definitely scum it up in rest mode for the next week or so.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Half the discourse online is people complaining they can't get in and the other half is people telling them to stop complaining. Really weird launch lol

If one of the biggest core attraction is coop and it doesn't work efficient then I'd say that's a reasonable complaint. I remember playing part one and matching coop just fine.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Nothing feels worse than the game freezing up at the end of a full 40 min match, causing you to lose like 30+ samples and battle pass currency.

Only samples need to be extracted. Medals, requisition & super credits are credited into your account on pick up.

St0rmFury posted...

Only samples need to be extracted. Medals, requisition & super credits are credited into your account on pick up.

Do the mission rewards count if it freezes up before going back to base? I haven't logged back in to check cuz 3 boots were enough for me today lol

Smashingpmkns posted...

Do the mission rewards count if it freezes up before going back to base? I haven't logged back in to check cuz 3 boots were enough for me today lol

They do. I unlocked Helldive difficulty after getting a freeze and boot yesterday. Also had my medals.

I'm going slow but I finally unlocked the Grenade Launcher. Thinking about getting an Eagle strat next. Thinking cluster bomb or napalm. Which would y'all recommend? I'm not even lvl 10 yet lol