Helldivers 2 is good—like, really good. But that comes with a cost. With hundreds of thousands of players piling into the unexpected co-op shooter darling, servers have been buckling under the sheer weight of a mass deployment.
While I've been able to play myself, I haven't been able to matchmake publically for around four days—I've played with friends instead, or used the game's discord server to group up with randos via the in-game friends list. In the evenings, signing-on has been completely touch-and-go.
