Helldivers 2’s Terminid spelunking update, dubbed Into the Unjust, has dropped from orbit today, September 2nd. Sadly, that hellpod’s impact with the game’s surface looks to have triggered an uptick in crash reports, and Arrowhead are now busy “working to isolate fixes”.
If you missed the update’s announcement the other day, Edwin was strapped into the news driver’s seat at the time, and has a nice rundown of what’s in it here. He even consulted some very real geographers, the absolute pro. The short version? Terminid cave missions on Hive Worlds to aid Super Earth’s efforts to fight an evil cloud, and some new enemies flying around.
Sadly, as Arrowhead have been admirably transparent about in the past, new additions to Helldivers 2 tend to bring with them a helping of new issues that need shooting into submission. Into the Unjust’s been no different, with a wave of fresh crash reports leading community manager Katherine Baskin to let players know via Discord that the devs are on the case.
“We are aware of the issues with crashing, which are NOT in accordance with Super Earth Standards and we are working to isolate fixes now. We apologize for this delay and will report back with updates soon,” she wrote. Phew, now the many folks writing their own individual Reddit posts about encountering crashes can chill out a bit.
Speaking of the Helldivers 2 subreddit, in my trip there to check just how widespread the crash chatter was, I ran into a number of folks also registering their unhappiness at quite how beefy the game’s file size is getting on PC. As someone who’s had the update installing onto my games box since late this morning, and as of yet hasn’t had it finish patching all of its files, that really hit me where I live.
It’d be unwise to assume that the file size is the only factor contributing to Helldivers 2 taking a while to update – I’m usually the first to go the other way and assume the problem must be on my end – but given a thread on the subject’s amassed 9.1k upvotes and just under 800 comments in about six hours, landing near the top of the subreddit, it’s maybe worth Arrowhead looking into. That said, in my case there’s also the fact I’ve been using my PC to do my job while Into the Unjust’s been downloading, and that may well have had an impact.
Regardless, I’ve got some bug spelunking planned for tonight, so you may well hear about my travails if anything noteworthy or wacky happens.