{"id":126191,"date":"2024-02-23T09:54:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T07:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=126191"},"modified":"2024-02-23T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T08:03:08","slug":"helldivers-2-increases-its-server-cap-to-700000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/126191-helldivers-2-increases-its-server-cap-to-700000","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2 increases its server cap to 700,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arrowhead has raised the concurrent user cap for its Helldivers 2 servers from 450,000 to 700,000 to help players avoid having to wait in lengthy queues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The raising of the cap was confirmed on<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pilestedt\/status\/1760864817961709982\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pilestedt\/status\/1760864817961709982\"> X (formerly Twitter)<\/a><\/strong> by Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pilestedt said that they expect that the CCU will reach this new cap but that the increase should make wait times more bearable for players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that final improvements will be made today for the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Helldivers 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helldivers 2 has become an overnight internet sensation with its Starship Troopers-like setting, brutal combat, and extensive \u2018managed democracy\u2019 that inspired hordes of memes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is reflected in its concurrent users on Steam, which, as of writing, was at 200,000 players with an all-time peak of 450,000 \u2013 which was limited by server capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helldivers 2 was released on 8 February, so this considerable growth in players is extremely impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new title is also currently sitting as Steam&#8217;s top seller and its sixth most-played game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Pilestedt and his team&#8217;s expectations are correct and the new 700,000 CCU cap is reached over the weekend, then its position on the charts could rise to second or third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/553850\/HELLDIVERS_2\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/553850\/HELLDIVERS_2\/\">You can learn more about Helldivers 2 here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrowhead has increased the Helldivers 2 concurrent player cap to reduce player wait times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":126192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26462,26461,26463],"class_list":["post-126191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-ccu","tag-helldivers-2","tag-servers-helldivers-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126193,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126191\/revisions\/126193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}