Helldivers 2 begins the long march back into the community's good books with a technical patch that represents the 'opening salvo' in a battle for better performance

A Bastion tank rolling through a city street surrounded by explosions in Helldivers 2.

Helldivers 2 is currently in the "it's so over" phase of its live-service cycle. A dodgy Warbond plus a general comedown from its Siege of Cyberstan event has left the community discontented and recent Steam reviews at 'Mostly Negative'. After addressing the community on the issue, Arrowhead has begun the process of clawing its way to "we're so back", announcing the first of what appear to be several planned patches focussing on improving performance.

This Wednesday, Arrowhead will deploy a "new set of technical improvements", heading to all platforms in collaboration with port-specialists Nixxes software. This initial patch focusses on three specific areas of optimisation: introducing better upscaling support, adding advanced visual optimisations, and reducing latency.