Helldivers 2 players are sharing their ongoing frustrations as performance problems continue to worsen. The performance of Helldivers 2 has been a hot topic in the community for a while now, but the issues only seem to be mounting up for players.
With each major Helldivers 2 update, more content makes its way into the game. Often, featuring planets, enemies, and Stratagems intended to be bigger and better than the ones that have come before. However, this has seemingly come at a price, with players for a while now complaining that this is causing the performance to dip. So far, the response from Arrowhead Game Studios is that every update should contain its own optimizations, slowly improving the performance over time as opposed to one big “performance patch.” Right now, though, players aren’t impressed by the results of this approach.
Helldivers 2's Performance is Causing Player Patience to Wear Thin
Right now, the Helldivers subreddit is filled with threads where players are complaining about performance issues getting worse on all problems, with many noting that they’re at their worst when fighting Helldivers 2‘s Automatons. Many videos show not just FPS drops, but severe stutters that completely freeze the game for multiple seconds at a time in the midst of the action. In a game like Helldivers 2, these stutters can be the difference between life and death.
These escalating threads are an indication that player patience is perhaps wearing thin. In one, a player said that “these problems are pushing me into another long break until they stabilize,” while another said that “my wallet is now very closed to them [Arrowhead], unfortunately.” It’s not clear exactly why players are finding that the issues are getting worse, but many throughout these threads point out a notable decline following Helldivers 2‘s Into the Unjust update.
Frame rate and stuttering performance aren’t the only areas of the game earmarked for improvement by the community. Helldivers 2‘s bloated PC file size remains an issue for users on the platform, so it’s clear that Arrowhead Game Studios still has a lot of work ahead of it. Whether it can improve the performance to acceptable levels remains to be seen, but right now, many players aren’t impressed.