SUMMARY
- Helldivers 2 is an amazing, new, live-service title available for PC and PlayStation 5.
- Helldivers 2 is a 4-player co-op game with crossplay enabled.
Developed in collaboration between Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony Interactive Entertainment Helldivers 2 is a third-person shooting game. Unlike the previous game, this one is a top-down shooter game, which came out on February 8.
The game makes four players compete against one other in a galactic fight for domination as the Super Earth gets threatened by the expansionist plans of the Automaton faction and the Terminid Brood.
Helldivers 2 was originally developed keeping in mind the PlayStation 5, and therefore, many thought it to be a PlayStation-exclusive game. But as a surprise to many, along with the game coming to the PS5 console, it was also made available on Steam. The game, however, is currently not available on the Xbox consoles.
Does Helldivers 2 come with cross-play?
Since Helldivers 2 is a four-player cooperative game, and furthermore the game coming to both PlayStation 5 and PC has raised the question of the cross-play feature.
This question has been answered finally by the developers. In a PlayStation blog post, Katherine Baskin, the community manager at Arrowhead Game Studios, confirmed the cross-play feature for the game. “Community and teamwork are the most important pillars of Helldivers 2, and so it is essential to ensure players can work together regardless of the system they choose to use,” Baskin said.
This therefore confirms that there is complete cross-play between the PS5 and PC versions of Helldivers 2. This means that regardless of the platform a player picks for themselves, they can enjoy the game with other friends who are playing on a different console.
The only thing they need to do before playing with their friends on a different console is to go to the Social tab from the menu and create a friend code. They can then pass this code to the friends they want to play with and the match will happen in no time.
“Together we can celebrate victories, mourn losses and liberate the galaxy without platform boundaries”, was the main idea for the developers to put the cross-play feature in the game.
Does Helldivers 2 come with cross-progression?
Cross-play is one of the most demanded features for a multiplayer game today, and thankfully Helldivers 2 comes with this feature. However, this can be said regarding another popular feature in today’s games i.e. cross-progression.
Booted up Helldivers 2 again on PC before heading to work, sadly there is no cross progression so I have to start where I left off before, but I played more the settings and got it to be a nice balance of graphics and performance.
— Eucheon (@eucheon) February 8, 2024
As of now, Arrowhead Studios, the developer of Helldivers 2, has not officially released any specific information about cross-saves or cross-progression in the game. Since these most demanded features were opted out in the launch version of the game, players would have to start over if they wanted to switch from a PlayStation 5 to a PC.
However, cross-progression may be added to the game in an update by the developer as this can increase the sales of the game significantly.