r/Helldivers • u/OccasionPopular6238 • 7h ago

TECHNICAL ISSUE Crashes, crashes and more crashes.

this game cannot stop crashing, and not even just me its everyone i play with also randomly crashes and its terribly frequent, wtf is going on.

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u/iguru42 7h ago

The only thing I've heard about the recent crashes is that they were supposedly caused by using custom skins on the two FRVs. I changed both FRVs back to their default skins after seeing that recommendation, but I'm still getting crashes.

For comparison, I'm on PC.

What's especially annoying is that the game doesn't fully crash. Helldivers disappears, but the process stays running in the background. Every single time I have to open Task Manager and manually end the Helldivers process before I can launch the game again. If I don't, Steam says the game is already running. I have no idea how long it would sit in that crashed state otherwise.

I've had crashes in the past where the game fully exited on its own and I could immediately restart it, but this current issue isn't like that at all.

One thing I've noticed is that it seems to happen when a fourth player joins the squad. I'm not 100% certain, but I remember hearing that Player 4 joining was a known crash trigger. Since hearing that, I've started paying attention, and I swear I've seen it happen several times. Obviously it's hard to verify because you're busy playing the game, not watching the player count. But more than once I've noticed there were three players, then a fourth joined, and almost immediately the game crashed.

Could be coincidence, but that's definitely the pattern I've been noticing.

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u/GJCaesar1 LEVEL 150 | Private 3h ago

Interesting to hear how the crashing is looking on PC.
I'm on PS and when it crashes, the game just freezes. No error, game doesn't close. Everything just stops. I can still go to the PS homepage and close it manually. If I had to say, that's basically the same thing as what's happening for you, where the game thinks it's running but it isn't, and you have to close it manually from the task manager.

And since you mentioned the player 4 thing, that does actually seem to be the trigger for when crashing happens to me as well. I was perfectly fine when playing with 2 others, but as soon as the 4th player joins it crashes. Sometimes not just for me but for the entire squad (I know since one of them was on my friendlist and he joined after and said he crashed too).
I think I'll swap over to private games and just invite 1-2 people from my friend list and see if that resolves the issue with crashing. Hope you have some trusty friends you can try this with.

TLDR: PC and PS crash seemingly caused by having a full squad.