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After launching on February 8, the headlines surrounding Helldivers 2 have been about how awesome it is to play and how hard it is to get inside the game. The latter is the result of the former. The third-person shooter has become so popular that the game's servers can no longer keep up.
Heading into Helldivers 2's second weekend, Arrowhead Game Studios' CEO Johan Pilestedt expressed his confidence in the team's preparations for the incoming influx of players but that wasn't the case.
Midway through the weekend, Helldivers 2 players started reporting that they'd encountered the same round of issues: difficulty logging in, unsaved progressions, server issues, and problems with receiving their hard-earned rewards.