“The feedback we got was very reasonable” – Helldivers 2 developers push back content and feature updates to address performance issues first
Blog Andrew Joseph 15 Oct , 2025 0
Hellraiser 2 Developer Arrowhead has revealed that they will temporarily pause content updates while they work on improving performance.
in a interview On Helldivers' official YouTube channel, director Mikael Eriksson admitted that the game's most recent major update, Into the Unjust, had “more issues than[the team]is comfortable with,” which is why the studio has now decided to “delay some of our content and feature updates to the future.”
Reviews for Hellraiser 2 on Steam have been “mixed” recently, with most complaints surrounding performance issues. this “Most helpful reviews” written in the last 30 days Negative reviews from players who have played for more than 500 hours. They called Helldivers 2's performance “inexcusable,” citing stuttering, stuttering, and crashes during gameplay.
“Arrow, Sony, please stop focusing so much on new content and live service updates,” they cheered. “Please stop nerfing gear that is already underpowered or underutilized under the guise of 'realism' or 'balance'. This is a PvE game; no one cares if people are laughing at the Hulk with flags. The game has to be fun and playable before you can make money with the new War Bonds.
“Fix the game <3”
Now, Arrowhead has addressed those complaints. “After the last major update to Into the Unjust, we ran into more issues than we were comfortable with,” Erickson said. european players. “Players feel it, we feel it, and I would say the feedback we're getting is very reasonable.
“We take this issue very seriously and we are now even more focused on resolving these issues to ensure this does not happen again,” he added. “We have decided to postpone some content and feature updates to the future while we work through these issues to ensure we can reach a more stable state that we can trust.
“We have made great improvements and I am confident we will achieve this and hope to discuss this in more detail soon.”
Last week, developer Arrowhead Studios said it still had no solution for the shooter's installation size issues on PC. But does confirm it's working on it. In an update posted on Steam, Arrowhead's deputy technical director Brendan Armstrong penned the first in a series of posts in which the engineering team discusses the “technical health” of the game and “the technical challenges we're addressing.” While the developer admits that install size “seems to be a hot topic right now” – at 150GB, Hellraiser 2 takes up three times as much space on PC as it does on console – the developer reveals that one of the reasons the PC size is so large is because of data duplication and mechanical hard drives.
Check out IGN's Helldiver 2 review on Xbox Series X and S Check out what we thought of the game today. Arrowhead also revealed that there are currently no plans for Helldiver 3. Instead, it hopes Helldivers 2 will last for many years like veteran MMO RuneScape.
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