Helldivers 2 crossplay announced alongside some pretty demanding PC specs

You’ll need a beefy rig for Ultra settings

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In welcome news for those excited forHelldivers 2,developer Arrowhead Game Studios has confirmed that the upcoming co-op shooter will have crossplay support.

This was confirmed in a recentPlayStation Blog postwritten by Arrowhead social media and community manager, Katherine Baskin.Helldivers 2’ssupport for crossplay will allow PlayStation 5 and PC players to join each others' games without limitation as is quickly becoming the standard among thebest co-op games.

The blog post sheds further light on the PC version ofHelldivers 2; namely its system requirements. PC players can expect the game to take up approximately 100GB of storage space, and you’ll need a pretty up-to-date rig if you plan on running the game smoothly at Ultra performance settings.

For play at4Kresolution averaging 60fps performance, Arrowhead recommend at least anNvidiaGeForce RTX 4070 Ti orAMDRadeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card, as well as anIntelCore i5-12600X or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU and 16GB of DDR4 RAM.

If you’re planning on picking upHelldivers 2for PC, then, the full spectrum of system requirements as outlined by Arrowhead Game Studios are as follows:

Helldivers 2launches on PS5 and PC on February 8. It opts for a third-person perspective, marking a change from thePS4original’s top-down isometric view. The game will task up to four players to fight with weapons and abilities against aStarship Troopers-esque bug-like alien race across large maps. Players will also have to take friendly fire into account as they defend themselves against the oncoming hordes.

Looking forward to the release of Helldivers 2? You may want to check out some of thebest multiplayer PC gamesor some of thebest FPS gameswhile you wait.

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