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Ok, @Diddums and @GazzaGarratt you have sold me. Seems like the right time to jump in. It’s pay day too, so I’m going to make the purchase and jump in this weekend!

Played all night, zero problems. No they don't, this isn't a Sony problem.

Helldivers 2 purchased and downloading 👍🏻 Hopefully I’ll be able to join one of your sessions tonight or Saturday, I typically play quite late (22.30ish UK time) and have to be relatively quiet as my girlfriend and daughter are sleeping, but looking forward to playing with some FG members for the first time!

I haven't been able to log on all week. I didn't get a chance to try last night, post-patch. I'm hoping to get some time in this weekend. I really love this game.

I imagine we will be on this weekend, no one has really put their name down for FG Friday this week so may even be on tonight

Another sound night, got straight in and no problems whatsoever! Also, looks like they have pushed another few patches out. Yesterday was the AFK fix and now they've upped server limits too: I think I would go as far to say right now, that if you've been holding off because of this - don't. Buy the game, and jump in with everyone. It is fantastic and a really enjoyable experience in missions.

I support Red Alert and Generals: C&C, these are cult games that evoke nostalgia, it would be very cool to see them modernly remastered, given the new weapons and factions.

Season 1 starting feb 27th. So still time to grind out for better cannons on my ship thank fuck 😂

Ok it's fun and the building is pretty good so far, 3 hours in and I've already built a two story base in an old bridge!!

I just bought it too, and spun up an FG server. Folks have said it's a more in-depth Valheim. I will keep you posted and let you know how I like it.

So this was a surprise announcement in the Nintendo Direct, the original 2 games with a bit of a remaster but more importantly will be up to 64 players on PS5 / Switch etc which will be great. I played online on the PC for a spell and it was great fun! Any interest on here for this one?

So its pretty clear, this game has surpassed most gamers expectations and for the price too, people have flocked to it...just abit too much than they anticipated! I'm pretty gutted we can't play it most nights of late with servers just saying max capacity without any update of getting on. The issue seems to be a cap on the servers for max players which was then made worse by people going AFK and leaving themselves logged in because the game didn't have an AFK kick function. They are working hard to rectify they have said and I think they've sorted the AFK part but max servers will most likely be a software issue written into the code - so its not as easy as people think. The producer has said honestly that he would tell people that haven't bought it to be patient and wait which in fairness something that not many others would say. I really hope its fixed in the next few weeks as this game is bloody fantastic and a great party up game. Lots of replayability too. How you all feeling about it? I'd love to know more about the technical reasons as its clear that you can't just pump money on new servers being turned on unfortunately.

AFK kick added, and CCU upgraded to 700,000. Zero queue times over the last two days since the changes.

Sony providing the online infrastructure in return for publication rights is the deal so it's on them and I'm not going to blame developers for this issue after they have created a game that has exceeded what Sony were likely expecting. Unlike Microsoft, they don't have the immediately idle-server infrastructure in place and with most of their exclusives being single player or local only, they don't have much of a track record supporting a big live service game like this. So it totally is their problem but at least it's a good starting point with a game like this and not one of their AAA exclusive range.

It's a fantastic game, the absolute carnage and chaos is unlike any other game I've ever played and accidentally dropping an orbital on your team mates is so satisfying hilarious embarrassing. Looking forward to another sesh tonight.

I still have my copy of battlefront 2 for the OG xbox. I'll pop that sucker in my 360 from time to time and rock a few rounds. I really liked the story mode in that too. I'll have to keep an eye on this one.

Okay....looking good as I've watched a bit of this to say i'm interested. How does the quest system work?

I've been going back through all the old FromSoft games I missed out on before Elden Ring. I started with DS3 and now I'm doing DS1. Love them both! But, coming back to Elden Ring, it feels so different! I need to brush up on my Elden Ring skills for sure before this comes out. I guess I've got time.

It’s definitely playing into the nostalgia of the games. I don’t see it being too popular to people that didn’t play them previously. I expect it to be a bit of a novelty game to be honest. But still very exciting.

I could buy a server that hosts up to 1,000 players for the same price that hosts one. 10m slots is absolutely nothing these days especially on games where a player may use up 4 slots from the central server on data, world generation and save states. Palworld sold over 12m copies in the first 3 weeks so they were probably running at least 40m slots in early access in month one. Helldivers 2's growth and popularity will be harmed with such an embarrassingly low cap where either they underestimated the market or they have failed the paying customers. I'm sure it'll be rectified but this is a really disappointing situation that will only harm the game and frustrate players.

The irony of all of that is the game has been functioning and the wait time wasn't much at all yesterday. I'll be seeing how the next few days go too and report back. I remember the days of Overwatch hitting these issues and we used to all wait well over 30 minutes to get in when we were playing at its peak. If anyone is having trouble, just make sure you party up as we can help each other through PS invites and the option up above via the PS5 menu system.

I don’t buy that whatsoever and it sounds more like they are gatekeeping Sony in the most unintelligent way possible. I get they don’t want to throw their publishers under the bus that excuse seems incredibly weak. Palword had 2,000,000 players two weeks ago on Steam alone and that isn’t taking to account data servers, asset servers and seed servers. One player may use 4 slots so that’s 8m servers in operation to facilitate one session per player outside of co-op. Counter-Strike also houses 10+ players per server so it’s non comparable although Valve operate in excess of 1m servers alone which just hold streams and match replays. The FIFA games usually have several million games played each day too plus EA have several other games also live. Fortnite also had 45m players in one day last year. 450,000 is ridiculous. The game shouldn’t have been published until the cap was increased and if they didn’t foresee more of this issue then that’s a gross underestimation of the industry today. If you have a successful game with endless growth potential then you plan ahead and Palworld is a prime example of how this should be done. It’s managing demand 101 and keeping the game flowing.

I never played these games and know little to nothing about them, other than people loved them! I’ll probably wait and see what the reception is like when it releases and watch some gameplay videos/live streams to see if it’s my type of game!

I loved the Starwars Battlefront games, I used to play them all the time on split-screen with my brother! I would definitely be interested in playing with other people when it comes out.

Arrowhead games has said several times now it’s not about server size. If it was that it would be an easy fix. It’s something in the code. That’s coming from the developer.

I played it for a few hours when it first went to early access, haven’t picked it up since it went to full release! Like Sea of Thieves, I would be interested assuming there is cross play as il be playing through Xbox Game pass 👍🏻

Echoing this Lee, it's an absurd idea to expect servers to be capable of millions of players, even if you look at Counter Strike on PC which has a sizeable following it doesn't hit 1 million players. Considering the first helldivers was nowhere near as popular it's hard to predict this would have gone down as well as it has. Sony could easily spend a fortune now ramping up servers similar to Palworld but is that practical? The numbers will drop fairly quickly with quite a few online games coming out over the next month or so.

I had a brief go with this when it was first released on xbox. Now it's coming to other consoles I am giving this a nudge to see if anyone else would be interested? My first impressions were pretty positive so looking forward to playing this now that it's further down the developmental road.

This is apparently working nearly every time for people so may want to try this out 😄 We were on last night ( @Luseth @Macca89 and @Mitch) and where Mitch and Macca got straight on, Matt and myself got the server message. Having said that it only had to retry twice and Matt once so we were both in less than 2 minutes and it was great all night! That was just after 8pm too so a very high peak time so its not as bad as people probably think. I don't think its ridiculous because no game offers 10 million slots for concurrent gameplay, thats insane and probably costs an absolute fortune. AA games aren't expected to have the amount of immediate success they had and whilst i'm super disappointed I couldn't play over the weekend due to servers, sometimes I have sympathy for a company that delievered something way better than they even anticipated. I'd urge more people to give it a go and try and log on. I don't think the peak will last for months too. Whilst replayability now is amazing, we know that their regular updates won't be as quick as other live service games. You don't have to gorge the content (you can't anyway because of slowish XP progression), rather more the game is there to be enjoyed having a ton of doing a few missions with some laughs involved.

Sony simply have to invest in their online architecture to cope with the demand. They’ve ripped off gamers for a generation with their shambolic PS+ offering so it’s about time they gave something back with the huge revenues they make for this very purpose. Capping severs at 450,000 for a newly released AA multiplayer title is ridiculous especially considering how many are accessing through Steam alone. If you aren’t rolling with 10m slots for a live service then either you grossly underestimate the market or have no confidence in the game. Feel sorry for the devs.

It’s a shame as I was considering picking it up this weekend to try and jump in with some of you … sounds like I should wait another week or so! It’s difficult as I definitely understand the fans/players frustrations, paying £35 for a game that they often can’t even play! I do have sympathies for the developer though as they really didn’t expect the success they are seeing! Hopefully this will all be suited in the next week or so!

My dual Rivers of Blood have collected dust for too long! Was hoping for it to be earlier than June, but stoked!

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Loads of people have been dying for more Elden Ring content - I know the Americans @Jason and @BO7H B4RRELS have been waiting forever for it, so its nice to finally see the rumours 100% confirmed. My son is stoked for it, he doesn't get too loud about hype but has already said its worth pre-ordering it. Looked really good, as you would expect from FromSoftware. Anyone else keen?

I was going to say this. I have no history with Diablo whatsoever but was looking forward to it coming to Game Pass so I could give it a go, shame to hear it’s not doing so well now!