Arrowhead Game Studios has pushed out the Helldivers 2 update for Feb. 9 on PC (PS5 owners will have to wait a bit), and this brings various fixes related to crashing and more. Note that this doesn’t solve the matchmaking issues, and not every issue has been addressed, but it’s a start.
Helldivers 2 Update for Feb. 9 Patch Notes:
For this patch, our major areas of focus were:
- Resolving crashes.
- Improving matchmaking functionality.
Fixes
The following issues have been fixed for this version.
- Resolved crashes when pressing ESC to open the menu, or O to open the social tab.
- Game no longer crashes after matchmaking.
- General improvements to matchmaking.
- Resolved crashes after interacting with the Armory before their first dive.
- Solved crash-to-desktop when equipping the MP-98 Knight.
Known Issues
- These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.
- Players may still experience some instability while matchmaking.
According to Arrowhead, while they’ve managed to improve the matchmaking success rate, they acknowledge it’s not “all the way there yet” and the full solution will take additional days of work before it’s functional. The devs state they noticed it works best if a player joins an active game by searching planets rather than triggering Quickplay.
For other known issues regarding the game, head on over here.
Those on console, the PS5 patch was originally set to be released today, but it’s taking longer than expected. Once it’s live, we’ll let our readers know.
Source: Arrowhead Discord