HELLDIVERS™ 2 — Latest Updates & Patch Notes
HELLDIVERS™ 2 is currently the #24 most-played game on Steam, with a 24-hour peak of 40K concurrent players — ▼ cooling off (was #19 last week).
Last official update May 29, 2026 (5 days ago) · 12 updates in the last 90 days · 12 tracked here.
- Steam rank
- #24 ▼
- Peak (24h)
- 40K
- Genre
- Action
- Developer
- Arrowhead Game Studios
- Released
- Feb 8, 2024
- Price
- $39.99
- Steam reviews
- 827K
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
Latest updates & patch notes
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Patch
"Stay on target": Helldivers 2 gets a big performance patch with upscaler support, but it isn't working brilliantly for everybody
Helldivers 2 has a new update that aims to improve the extraction shooter's performance, a source of some woe lately among Super Earth's democracy-managers. It introduces support for upscalers – specifically, FSR 3.1.5 (with FSR 4.0.3 for certain GPUs), DLSS 4.5 and XeSS 3.0 -…
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News
Machinery of Oppression: 6.2.5
Attention Helldivers, As the fight for Managed Democracy rages on, Super Earth’s finest engineers have been hard at work making every drop into hostile territory smoother. Together with our friends at Nixxes Software, we’ve deployed an update with improvements for PC. From…
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Patch Delay Update
Greetings, Helldivers. We are still waiting on a fix from our platform partners so that we can submit the patch, do the final live checks, and push it out to you. We don’t currently have an ETA on when the issue will be fixed. We’re keeping in close contact with these teams and…
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News
HELLDIVERS 2 is getting multiple upscaling modes, VRR, VRS and other tech improvements
Arrowhead Game Studios are finally going to give players a performance boost, in the form of some upscaling and other tech improvements on May 27th. Read the full article here:
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Optimizing Liberty - Incoming Patch: 27th May
Greetings Helldivers, In our last blog, we talked about improving how we communicate with you, and that commitment continues here! We’re focused on being clearer, more consistent, and giving you better visibility into what’s coming and why. We’re excited to announce a new set of…
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Machinery of Oppression: 6.2.4
Release Captain Morris here bringing you a message from High Command this fine Tuesday. We are patching a Wwise audio fix which will squash several audio issues. KNOWN ISSUES
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Scheduled Maintenance on May 19
Attention Helldivers! High Command has authorized a scheduled refit of our Super Destroyer network. Expect temporary outages as we optimize the logic circuits for Freedom. We will perform backend maintenance on May 19 at 10am CEST until 12pm CEST, during which you will be…
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Transmission from Super Earth Command
To our Dedicated Citizens of Super Earth, We’ve been following your feedback over the past few days and seeing the conversations across the Helldivers 2 community. Helldivers 2 matters to all of us, and we want to be clearer about what we’re working on and what’s coming next…
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Patch
Machinery of Oppression: 6.2.3
Release Captain Morris here with a small update this fine Wednesday. We have reverted the Hive Guard and fixed an issue introduced in Patch 6.2.1 where armor values were incorrectly swapped between the Legs and Claws. Updated Hive Guard stats: Main BodyArmor increased from 1 →…
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Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 28 Apr — 5 May 2026
* Steam Controller ; * Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era ; * Far Far West ; * Forza Horizon 6 ; * Diablo® IV ; * Windrose ; * PRAGMATA ; * Dead by Daylight ; * Crimson Desert ; * HELLDIVERS™ 2 ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
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Patch
Proton Hotfix updated to fix HELLDIVERS 2 on Linux / SteamOS systems
HELLDIVERS 2 from Arrowhead Game Studios and PlayStation Publishing had a major update released, which broke it on Linux / SteamOS systems but Valve fixed it. Read the full article here:
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Patch
Helldivers 2 isn't a cosy game, but the tranquil forests and beefed up exosuits of its latest patch might convince you it is
Take a deep breath. Listen to some birds chirping. Watch some plants sway in the gentle breeze. Ahhhhhh. Life could be a dream. At least, it could be if the new forest biomes added by Helldivers 2 's latest patch were in a totally different game. Instead, they're in a frantic…
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About HELLDIVERS™ 2
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter. URGENT BROADCAST – SUPER EARTH ARMED FORCES Freedom. Peace. Democracy. Your Super Earth-born rights. The key pillars of our civilization. Of our very existence. But the war rages on. And everything is once again under threat. Join the greatest military force the galaxy has ever seen and make this a safe and free place to live. BECOME A LEGEND You will be assembled into squads of up to four Helldivers and assigned strategic missions. Watch each other’s back – friendly fire…
Game details
- System requirements (minimum)
- Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470 Storage: 135 GB available space
- Languages
- English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Japanese * , Korean, Portuguese - Brazil * , Spanish - Latin America * , Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese * , Traditional…
- DLC
- 1 available on Steam
- Official site
- www.playstation.com/games/helldivers-2/pc/
Frequently asked questions
- Is HELLDIVERS™ 2 free to play?
- HELLDIVERS™ 2 is a paid game ($39.99) on Steam.
- What is the latest HELLDIVERS™ 2 update?
- The most recent official update is ""Stay on target": Helldivers 2 gets a big performance patch with upscaler support, but it isn't working brilliantly for everybody" (May 29, 2026), categorized as Patch. Helldivers 2 has a new update that aims to improve the extraction shooter's performance, a source of some woe lately among Super Earth's democracy-managers. It introduces support for upscalers – specifically, FSR 3.1.5 (with FSR 4.0.3 for certain GPUs), DLSS 4.5 and XeSS 3.0
- How many people play HELLDIVERS™ 2?
- HELLDIVERS™ 2 peaked at 40K concurrent players in the last 24 hours, ranking #24 on Steam's most-played chart (it was #19 the previous week).
- When was HELLDIVERS™ 2 released?
- HELLDIVERS™ 2 was released on Feb 8, 2024 by Arrowhead Game Studios.
- What kind of game is HELLDIVERS™ 2?
- HELLDIVERS™ 2 is a Action game, featuring multi-player, co-op, online co-op.
Live player counts and update notes are pulled from Steam's public data and refreshed daily (last refresh: Jun 4, 2026). Excerpts are from official announcements; follow the source links for full notes. HELLDIVERS™ 2 and all related assets are trademarks of their respective owners.