ViciousAgenda
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I've been very lucky tonight, got in twice in a row within 5 mins.
Game is so much fun its worth waiting for fixes.
Game is so much fun its worth waiting for fixes.
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Helldivers II broke 250k+ CCU on Steam: first PlayStation PC release to do so
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ByWatterson
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What's the latest update from the team on capacity?
Sleepwalker
Member
Launch the game on PC and get a black screen immediately, same is happening to my friends.
Sleepwalker
Member
Even on steam deck, black screen.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Can PlayStation not send an emergency team out to help these guys with the server issues lol
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ZehDon
Gold Member
I imagine they've sent up the flare, but based on the Dev's comments on social, the fundamental server systems simply weren't designed to scale up to this level. There's only so much external support can offer, and after a point, throwing more bodies at the problem actually slows things down. If they know their servers can't scale higher, getting a queue system in place - complete with reconnect priority - would be my number one goal this week. It'll a learning moment for PlayStation, no doubt.
yet_another_alt
Member
Just split the playerbase into different server regions for now. Then merge them once the numbers of players drops. Just do something, I want to play 
Killjoy-NL
Member
Doesn't the game already do this?Just split the playerbase into different server regions for now. Then merge them once the numbers of players drops. Just do something, I want to play
Could've sworn I had to pick a server region when I started the game.
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Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
The devs confirmed that their backend code wasn't built for this type of capacity. So they are redoing some of it.
They accounted for something like 250K CCU. Now they need to accommodate for more than 1 million. It'll take some time.
They accounted for something like 250K CCU. Now they need to accommodate for more than 1 million. It'll take some time.
clarky
Gold Member
They said a fix is coming today (tomorrow) for most of the login issues and match making, so fingers crossed for them.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Hopefully. I don't have a lot of hopes though.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Please let it be NodeJS, let it be NodeJS
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funking giblet
Member
It's not Node.. It's most likely serverless Aurora or something similar, which can scale massively if you designed for it. The issue is you need to partition your data effectively to reach scale, and to rebalance everything is very difficult, especially live! If they also use traditional databases to replicate state, it's not easy to scale these just by adding servers (adding database servers usually slows things down as writes are confirmed by a majority of nodes when using a consensus algo for example). So I imagine there is a healthy amount of redesign to their persistence layer to make better use of the underlying database as well as other ancillary systems. The pressure on them is massive, which can't help. It is a solvable problem, but some adjustments might need to be made to how global state + stats are handled.
TrebleShot
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panda-zebra
Member
That's not their policy/plan for GaaS games - those are day & date.
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jm89
Member
Day one on PC for GAAS games was on the cards for a while now.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
They would be morons to release a game that depends on player base to survive only on one platform, especially considering how strong multiplayer games tend to be on PC.
Their stance on GAAS is also different.
ToadMan
Member
To be honest, it almost like they haven't released it on PC.
The game still works on PS5 even now - albeit with server capacity issues and matchmaking hicups. But right now I'm in a game with 4 randoms.
PC meanwhile is borked.
Senua
Member
Killjoy-NL
Member
You can always buy a PS5.
Even the first Helldivers 1 had a PC release less than a year later. That was back in 2015, 9 years ago. No way was this coming to PC years later to begin with. They didn't deviate much with Helldivers 2 but GaaS is a bigger thing now.
ToadMan
Member
Me?
Killjoy-NL
Member
Die Namek Ability
Member
You need to delete the user configuration in your app bin roaming folder then make sure you don't close the screen while it's in full-screen mode. Windowed full screen is fine
Portugeezer
Member
Played with some randoms today, hard difficulty, craziness going on, had no idea what was going on but... I did my part.
FIREKNIGHT2029
Member
#1 Game on Steam. Sony truly has a monster on their hands
ChorizoPicozo
Member
i saw a pic of HD2 CCU bigger than the Starfield´s old time peak. Is it true?
James Sawyer Ford
Member
#1 Game on Steam. Sony truly has a monster on their hands
Surely it’s sold over 2 million now, right?
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
I bet it's over 3 million now. It sold 1 million in 1-2 days as the dev said on Feb 11th that it was at 1M. It also seems like the initial hype contributed to the game actually becoming more popular so I think it might be a case of the game selling more in its second week than in its first.
The peak during the first week was around 300K. Now it's 440K.
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mayham2199
Member
Yep it’s true.
Mr Moose
Member
By 123k.
Edit:Now 124k, it went up a minute after my comment.
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
higher. way higher.
GOW had a peak of 65k and it ended up selling 950k copies in the first 3 months.
Cyberpunk sold around 10 million on PC alone at launch. Its peak concurrent users were over 1.2 million.
450k peak we are looking at 3-4 million on PC alone. This game is on tiktok dude. tiktok. its gone viral. dont be surprised if it just keeps selling.
EDIT: Palworld is a more recent release, it had a peak of 2.1 million users and sold 12 million on steam alone. So 450k probably means closer to 3 million than 4 million.
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James Sawyer Ford
Member
If this sells 5M + that’s a cool 180M
This is the kind of GaaS title (like KZ2 before it) gamers have really wanted
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
I am playing No Return right now and its combat is sublime. Factions wouldnt have gone viral but wouldve been a massive hit with the hardcore.
It sucks how everything has become an extraction shooter now. We need a return to coop games like this. I had a blast playing the 3 uncharted 2 coop levels with my friends as well as the resistance coop mode. I always lamented sony moving away from those modes and now that they finally went back to it, they made them too big and too expensive, and ended up canceling them anyway. this probably went viral because its only $39.99.
Then again, its impossible to say what gamers like because Anthem, Metal Gear Survive, and even Avengers and Suicide Squad are very similar style games with probably better combat systems, but were shunned by gamers who wanted those devs to make traditional single player games. Yet the same gamers embraced this game. Makes no sense.
Varteras
Gold Member
Yeah, nvm. Didn't read your post properly.
Joke failed.
Honestly dude... don't sweat it. After all, it's the least of your failures...
Killjoy-NL
Member
Thanks.Honestly dude... don't sweat it. After all, it's the least of your failures...
Maybe I should replace Phil Spencer then.
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