Helldivers 2's Xbox launch has, unsurprisingly, led to a huge boost in player numbers. You may want to attribute this purely to the newbies, but the Steam numbers are shooting up, too, thanks to the new Halo 3: ODST-inspired Warbond.
The all-time peak for Helldivers 2 on Steam is 458,709 concurrent players, which occurred right at launch and caused the game servers to become incredibly unstable. Yesterday, the player count surged from around 50,000 to over 150,000 on PC, and console numbers boosted that number even further.
