Arrowhead Game Studios has confirmed the latest Helldivers 2 PS5 patch notes for update 1.008, which comes with bunch of crash fixes and improvements to matchmaking. Read the full details below.
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Overview
For this patch, our major areas of focus were
- Resolving crashes.
- Improving matchmaking functionality.
- Optimizing our server
- Defend event updates
Fixes
The following issues have been fixed for this version.
Matchmaking
- Playfab optimization
- Playfab environment optimized – All lobbies now have proper data to run more effective matchmaking
- Filtering optimization
- We are optimizing the filter system when players are searching for lobbies, so that it excludes already full lobbies.
- Stability and crashes
- We have fixed three of our top crashes in the game, including particle renderer crashes and ragdoll crashes.
- Fixed an issue where the application prioritized integrated graphics over some GPU in laptops.
- Defend Events and Major Orders.
- For readability purposes, we added a visual progression indicator to major order defend events
Known Issues
These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.
Players may still experience some instability while matchmaking.
Background music, Sound effects and JP audio does not play during the opening cutscene. Japanese VO is also missing from the Ship TV.
[Source – Helldivers 2 Update 1.008 Patch Notes]