All articles tagged with #player counts
Originally Published 3 months ago — by Eurogamer
Battlefield 6 released a fix for jump momentum issues caused by weapon equipment and is monitoring player count issues in the Breakthrough mode, while also addressing an EA app outage that affected pre-order access, amidst record-breaking player numbers on Steam.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Eurogamer.net
Fallout games, including Fallout 4, Fallout 76, and Fallout New Vegas, have experienced a significant increase in concurrent players on Steam following the release of Amazon Prime's Fallout TV series. The show's popularity has led to a resurgence in player numbers, with some games seeing their concurrent peaks double, triple, or even quadruple. However, fans have raised concerns about potential contradictions between the TV show's plot and the established lore of the game series.
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Kotaku
Arrowhead Game Studios successfully addressed Helldivers 2's server issues by raising the player cap to 700,000, allowing the game to handle a record-breaking 458,709 concurrent players on Steam without any problems. With the servers now stable, the team can focus on improving the game and implementing upcoming features, although specific details about future updates have not been disclosed yet.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Video Games Chronicle
Lego Fortnite is currently attracting more players than Fortnite Battle Royale, with over 2.1 million players at peak times. The Rocket Racing and Fortnite Festival modes have around 800,000 and 600,000 players respectively. In the Lego mode, players collect Lego items to build houses and objects, and over 1200 in-game costumes have received free Lego variations. While not all skins will receive this treatment, licensed properties like Star Wars and Marvel have Lego versions of their in-game skins due to existing licensing agreements.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by The Verge
Fortnite's Discover tab now shows player counts for all experiences, including those made by non-Epic creators. The Battle Royale and Zero Build modes are overwhelmingly more popular than any other experiences, with just under 600,000 players combined. The new metrics will be important for creators trying to measure up in Epic's "Creator Economy 2.0" and could make the platform feel more competitive. The move also puts Epic on more even footing with Roblox, which also shows player counts while browsing experiences.