Discord server of Helldivers 2 was temporarily shut down when the game’s moderators and community managers had to delete a large amount of spam messages. Spam appeared shortly after the Steam version of Helldivers 2 suffered an outage, leading to a large number of disgruntled players flooding into the game’s official Discord.
Despite the many bugs and technical issues that appeared at launch, Helldivers 2 proved to be a huge success for Arrowhead Game Studios. Helldivers Community 2 is growing rapidly and is very supportive of the game while waiting for the developers to release new updates. Gamers also made some suggestions for the game, such as adding a PvP mode to Helldivers 2, but Arrowhead Game Studios seems to be focusing on creating PvE-style games, expanding the studio and foster a less toxic community.
According to Comicbook.com, on February 14, Helldivers 2’s Discord server received a large number of spam messages after the Steam version of the game experienced an outage. Some players speculated that a DDoS attack or server malfunction was responsible for the PC version of Helldivers 2 being shut down, and many other members started sending messages saying “F” for not being active. can continue playing. Purplegion server moderators have tried to prevent “F” messages in the Discord server by issuing warnings and bans to repeat offenders. However, purplegion used Discord’s “everyone” tag when issuing a warning, which means warning nearly 126,000 members of the server at the same time. Thousands of users ignored the warning and began sending “F” spam across multiple channels, causing community manager Spitz to intervene and temporarily shut down the server for all users outside the moderation group. .
While Helldivers 2’s Discord server was disabled for most users, moderators had to delete spam messages for several hours. Channels were gradually unlocked again on Wednesday night, and fans even typed “WE’RE FREE” as the server returned to normal. Slow mode is also enabled on all channels to prevent another spam incident. Luckily, the game hasn’t experienced any further outages on Steam, and the Helldivers 2 community on PC appears to be growing stronger.
The rapid success of Helldivers 2 may have contributed to creating a wave of new users on the Discord server, leading to the above rare incident. This situation is unlikely to happen again, as Helldivers 2 fans and game developers both want to foster a safe and friendly community for all gamers, old and new, in the future.
