Soldiers of Super Earth are rallying to Helldivers 2<\/em>, with the Escalation of Freedom update launching yesterday seeing the title crack 60,000 concurrent players for the first time in well over a month. The real question: How long will they fight the good fight?<\/p>
Concurrent player counts hit 62,819 for the release of Helldivers 2’s<\/em> Escalation of Freedom<\/a>, according to stats site SteamDB<\/a>. As far as historical numbers are concerned, it’s a drop in the bucket for the Arrowhead Game Studios title, but given Helldivers 2<\/em> hadn’t surpassed 37,000 concurrents through most of July, it’s given devs and long-time fans hope that new content for the game will keep others interested for longer.<\/p>
The last time Helldivers 2<\/a><\/em> cracked the 60,000 mark was back in mid-June, about a month after Sony decided<\/a> to enforce the need for a PlayStation Network account to play the title\u2014thus making the game unavailable in 177 countries. Even though Sony backtracked on its decision<\/a>, Helldivers 2’s<\/em> playerbase has been in free-fall ever since, save for the June 13 Warbond release and gameplay update<\/a>.<\/p>
Just 12,000 players had logged in during the title’s downtime this past week as they flocked to new games like The First Descendant<\/em> and Once Human<\/em>, with many blaming Helldivers 2’s<\/em> stale gameplay loop<\/a> and constant bugs and glitches\u2014some of which were fixed with the new update.<\/p>
