Co-op shooter Helldivers 2 was having fun with tons of success within the months since its February launch. Then, a number of days in the past, Sony introduced that PC gamers needed to hyperlink (or create) a PlayStation Community account to proceed taking part in the sport. This enraged followers who’ve been taking part in for months, leading to a large review-bombing scheme that cratered Helldivers 2’s Steam rating. On Might 6, Sony reversed this mandate, and now Helldivers followers are corralling to carry Arrowhead Sport Studios’ live-service multiplayer shooter overview again up on Steam, giving hundreds of optimistic evaluations in two days in what the neighborhood has dubbed “Main Order: Operation Clear Up.”
Helldivers 2 launched to an “overwhelmingly optimistic” ranking on Steam on February 8. It was—and nonetheless is—one in all 2024’s hottest video games, garnering lots of of hundreds of gamers with its enjoyable, chaotic gameplay and intelligent storytelling. On Might 3, Sony advised gamers that a PlayStation Community account was required to play the PC model of Helldivers 2. This mandate clearly riled up the neighborhood, with many going to (digital) struggle over it, review-bombing the sport on Steam and sharing indignant posts on social media with such depth that Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt apologized for the difficulty. Three days after the announcement, Sony introduced it will take away the PlayStation Community account linking requirement.
Now Helldivers 2 followers have rallied to pay it ahead. Within the recreation’s subreddit, a moderator dropped a brand new Main Order, that are most important targets within the live-service shooter often handed down by Arrowhead, calling for followers to reverse their detrimental evaluations.
“Sony has reversed their resolution to maneuver ahead with the account linking replace,” the publish, created by OmegaXesis on Might 6, reads. “Helldivers; must you select to simply accept this main order. Please contemplate reversing your steam overview. Arrowhead has labored very exhausting to make this recreation particular, and also you the participant have proven each Sony and Arrowhead that your voice issues too. Allow us to restore Helldivers 2 on steam again to its former glory. And allow us to restore this neighborhood again to regular. Please reverse any detrimental evaluations you left for another video games that Arrowhead or Sony has labored on. Let’s do higher as a neighborhood and never do this once more. Thanks, Helldivers mod group.”
On the time of writing, over 75,000 optimistic evaluations have been submitted for the reason that Main Order was delivered, elevating Helldivers 2’s Steam ranking from “largely detrimental” to “blended.” With over 600,000 evaluations proper now, the sport has a “largely optimistic” ranking general, but when this Main Order continues as deliberate, I’ve little doubt that Helldivers 2 will, as OmegaXesis mentioned within the subreddit, return to its former glory of “overwhelmingly optimistic” evaluations on Steam. For his half, Pilestedt mentioned he’s impressed with the neighborhood’s “willpower” to collaborate collectively and impact change.
I assume good issues occur if you use your voice.
In different Helldivers 2 information, the sport obtained a patch on Might 7 that addressed some lingering points. This consists of issues equivalent to misaligned scopes, harm over time issues, crashes and different bugs, and rather more.