Helldivers 2 won't get bigger lobbies because 16 players would come with a side of "16 FPS," Arrowhead CEO says: "We're trying to fix performance. Not kill it"

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I hope you don't have a truck full of 15 friends waiting expectantly to play Helldivers 2 with you, because that would be really inconvenient. Developer Arrowhead's CEO Shams Jorjani suggests the third-person shooter isn't getting expanded lobbies any time soon.

Jorjani doesn't try to spare anyone's feelings while responding recently to a Helldivers 2 player on Discord asking, "how impossible from scale 1 to 10 would you say more people in a lobby is." He delivers the bitter truth: "my man, we're trying to fix performance. not kill it." Some players are already unhappy with Helldivers 2's performance as it is, reporting that it regularly drops to at least 40fps.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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