The long-announced Mechs have finally arrived in Helldivers 2, offering players the opportunity to strut around the battlefield in heavily-armed style. Unfortunately, this good news comes with a bit of bad news as well. The arrival of heavily-armed war machines has caused a recurrence of server errors.

"We are aware of an issue where players are unable to enter the game," an Arrowhead developer said earlier today on the Helldivers Discord. This happened when Combat Walker became available." This happened when Combat Walker became available. We are working to fix it as soon as possible. We want you to enjoy your Mech as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt said the issue is "intermittent" and with any luck you may still be able to enter: PC Gamer helldiver Morgan Park is still in the game at this very moment. I, however, have been stuck with the "failed to connect to server" message for the past 20 minutes.

(To be honest, Morgan is playing "Hell Diver 2" because of his job.)

At this time, there is no indication as to when the servers will return to normal." "Service will be restored eventually," Pilestedt tweeted, "but for now we ask for patience."

The company is also asking for "patience" in the future, as it is "not clear when the servers will be back to normal.

So far, it seems that players are willing to endure it, just as they did when "Helldivers 2" launched and ran head-on into a brick wall of server problems. But I have a feeling that this guy who actually joined the game did something close to that:

This may be the saddest sound I've heard this year.

A bigger concern at this point is that mission rewards do not register upon completion of a mission. Apparently this is also part of the backend overload: the Helldivers 2 developer on Discord said that the issue is "a visual bug due to the backend part of the server (basically player loot/data) being overworked" and that eventually everyone will get their rewards and samples ."

He said that this would be the case.