Helldivers 2 is officially out, but it doesn’t seem like the launch is going as smoothly as many had hoped for, as reports of matchmaking being down in Helldivers 2 have begun surfacing, with crashes appearing both on PC and the PS5.

Helldivers 2 Matchmaking Down Status and Updates for Feb. 8:

Update 2: Arrowhead has issued another update on its Discord:

“Hey @everyone! Mikael here again. I want to give you an update on the issues we’ve experienced today. I’m happy to say that we’ve now improved matchmaking (🤞 ) and the most frequent crashes.

Let me explain where we are:

We’ve made a patch, and are about to start playing alongside you to check it works as intended.
If it’s a success, we’ll trigger a hotfix and get it out to the Steam community first, then roll it out to PS5 players as quickly as we can.

Thank you – seriously – for your patience. We really want you all to have a blast playing this game. Bear with us, we’re almost there.

See you on the battlefield soon!”

Update: Johan Pilestedt, the Chief Executive Visionary of Creative & Business Strategy at Arrowhead made the following announcement on the game’s Discord server:

“Hey everyone, we did an optimization update to the backend that unfortunately gate rushed ourselves (can you say friendly fire?). In common English: “someone tripped on the network cable”.

Backend will be up and running soon. And service will continue. We are actively Monitoring and resolving the situation.

Head of backend says sorry”

We’ll update the article as more info surfaces.

As of writing, the matchmaking for Helldivers 2 is down outside of private matches, though even that appears to be a hit-and-miss. Arrowhead Game Studios has issued a statement on the game’s official Discord, saying that they’re working on resolving all the issues.

“Hey everybody!

It’s been a bit of crisis mode in the studio today therefore I have not been as active as I would have liked. We are seeing the matchmaking issues as well as some of the unfortunate stuck och login screen / crashes.

I just wanted to let you all know we’re working as hard as we can on resolving these, the volume of players exposed some shenanigans in the system that went past many, many, many hours or testing.

We have tried resolving it on the backend only but it seems like we will have to patch the game to resolve the issue. Sorry for this and thank you for your patience.

For now I recommend to team up with people from the community as joining friends work fine.

I hope you are enjoying the experience once you get into the game.”

We’ll continue to monitor the Helldivers 2 server situation for matchmaking and crashes, and once the studio issues a new update, we’ll let you know.