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Tencent has acquired a 15.75 percent stake in Arrowhead Games – the development studio behind Helldivers 2 – for $80m.

Tencent has previously founded or acquired shares in a variety of video game companies, including a new gaming venture with Ubisoft Games, total ownership of Riot Games, a major ownership position for 10 Chamber, and its own publishing arm Level Infinite.

Speaking to DI, founder John Pilestedt stated that bringing Tencent in as partial owners “opens up opportunities for China as a market. Gaining access to the Chinese player base is the holy grail in the gaming industry.”

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The remaining 84.25 percent of shares are owned by Arrowhead founders Johan Pilestedt, Emil Englund, Malin Hedstrom, Peter Lindgren, and Anton Stenmark.

A recent financial report reviewed by DI stated Arrowhead had a turnover of 959m SEK, which is around £73,736,551 / $99,877,484.85 / €87,516,806.33, and an operating profit of 729m SEK which is £56,052,445.50 / $75,911,192.99 / €66,526,965.99. That’s a lot of cash!

Not too much of a surprise, considering Helldivers 2 was PlayStation’s fastest selling game ever. The game had recently found itself the stage for an invasion of Super Earth itself which revitalised the game’s player base to its highest point since that period of intense launch hype.

All the while Arrowhead bosses remain supportive of the pursuit of new and interesting ideas rather than trend chasing, with Pilestadt stating at GDC that the industry is doomed to “unnecessary layoffs” by “chasing after the battle royales”.

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Uh oh, with the battle for Super Earth in its critical final phase, Helldivers 2’s developed a pesky glitch that really looks to be hampering players’ efforts to hold off the Illuminate. Stratagems inputted rapidly aren’t deploying on cue, and Arrowhead says a fix is coming “ASAP”.

As I mentioned, the timing of this becoming an issue is really, really bad. The divers are right in the middle of trying to stop an apparently once in a century invasion of their home planet from wiping out every last mega city. Oof.

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As showcased by multiple exasperated players over on the game’s subreddit, following the deployment of yesterday’s patch, rapidly inputting the button combos that trigger stratagems is resulting in them not being deployed.

It seems you can still get them to roll out if you press the arrows a bit more slowly, but given a lot of the stuff you’re calling in – from air support to the deployment of ammo and stim restocking stations – is the kind of thing you’ll want to be activated as soon as you request it mid-firefight, folks are understandably irate.

“It’s the first time a bug on this game actually made me want to stop playing,” one frustrated player wrote, “Not only that, but it’s something that affects a CORE MECHANIC of the game, why do they keep green lighting patches without at least testing if the core mechanics are working fine?”

The good news is that Arrowhead knows about the issue and is on the case. “We are aware of the stratagem input glitch and we are currently testing a fix and intend to put one out ASAP,” community manager Katherine ‘Baskinator’ Baskin has just announced in HD2’s Discord server, “We will let you know when it’s ready!

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So, all you can do is try and hang in there until it arrives – and to be fair, other MOs affected by major tech issues didn’t consign the Helldivers to inevitable defeat as far as I remember, so all isn’t necessarily lost.

Has this stratagem glitch impacted your efforts to help hold Super Earth? Let us know below!

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Ubisoft, Roblox, Riot, and now Helldivers: Tencent just acquired a 15% stake in Arrowhead games

With Super Earth on the line, Helldivers 2’s developed a glitch that’s stopping speedy-inputting players’ stratagems from working, but Arrowhead says it’ll be fixed “ASAP”