Helldivers 2 Discord Server Temporarily Shut Down

The Helldivers 2 Discord server was temporarily shut down as the moderators and game's community manager cleared out an enormous amount of spam messages. The spam came shortly after the Steam version of Helldivers 2 experienced an outage, resulting in an influx of users and messages in the game's official Discord server.

Despite various bugs and technical issues being present at launch, Helldivers 2 proved to be a major success for Arrowhead Game Studios. The rapidly-growing Helldivers 2 community is highly supportive of the third-person shooter as well, as the developers release new updates and gauge player feedback and reports. Some of the requests from fans involve the addition of a potential Helldivers 2 PvP mode, but Arrowhead Game Studios is focused on creating PvE-style games, expanding the studio, and nurturing a community with less toxic elements.

On February 14 at 6:40 pm CT, the Helldivers 2 Discord server experienced a surge of activity after an outage affected the game on Steam, according to Comicbook.com. Some players speculated that a DDoS attack or server hiccup was the cause of downtime for the PC version of Helldivers 2, and many other members of the server began to send a message saying «F» since they weren't able to continue playing. Server moderator purplegion attempted to put a stop to the «F» messages in the Discord server by threatening timeouts and bans for repeat offenders. However, purplegion used Discord's «everyone» tag when issuing the warning, alerting nearly 126,000 members of the server all at once. Thousands of users ignored the warning and began to spam «F» messages across multiple channels, prompting community manager Spitz to step in and temporarily shut down server activity from all users outside the moderating team.

While the Helldivers 2 Discord server was disabled for most users, the moderators began to clean out the spam messages over the course of a few hours. Channels were gradually unlocked over time on Wednesday night, with