Helldivers 2’s momentum is refusing to decelerate, with the co-op shooter just lately having surpassed 250,000 concurrent gamers on Steam, and now that the weekend is on, as many could have anticipated, that quantity is continuous to develop.
Helldivers 2’s new concurrent participant rely peak on Steam is a powerful 276,364 gamers, as per SteamDB, with 135,310 gamers taking part in the sport on the time of writing. By the way, meaning Arrowhead Recreation Studios and Sony’s shooter has overtaken the all-time concurrent participant peak of Halo Infinite (which sits at 272,586).
Contemplating the truth that Halo Infinite’s multiplayer is free-to-play (in contrast to Helldivers 2), that’s doubly spectacular. Then once more, Halo Infinite’s PC playerbase was fractured throughout a number of platforms, being accessible by way of the Home windows Retailer and Recreation Move along with Steam, whereas Helldivers 2 is a Steam unique, in order that’s in all probability one other issue value contemplating.
Given the surprising success that Helldivers 2 has loved since its launch earlier this month, developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios has confirmed that it intends to speed up its post-launch plans for the sport. A brand new roadmap is being labored on proper now, so info on upcoming content material is hopefully not too distant. Simply don’t anticipate PvP to be added in anytime quickly (or ever)– although cross-progression is “in all probability” going to occur in some unspecified time in the future.
Helldivers 2 is on the market on PS5 and PC. Learn our evaluation of the sport via right here.
