Eurogamer.net notes an uproar on the Helldivers Discord from players who are no longer able to play Helldivers 2 on PC after a recent update. At issue is the third-person shooter's requirement of a CPU with support for AVX2, Advanced Vector Extensions, which first came to Intel CPUs in 2013. Though the requirement was in place before the game launched, players without AVX2 support were previously able to run it nonetheless. Now this has changed, leaving some players irate at being locked out of a game they purchased. These unhappy customers are being reminded that this prerequisite was in place when they purchased the game, which is not doing much to quell the discontent. Word is neither developer Arrowhead nor publisher Sony have commented yet, but the story does quote one of the Discord moderators:

Yet despite moderators attempting to reply to all players, the conversation has become decidedly heated from both sides.

"I don't like to have to tell people their 13 year old processor is out of date," wrote Birby. "I have fielded this question hundreds of times in the past week. I sit here and help people in 48hr stints before going to bed. People will piss and moan and argue, not to mention insult and attack us for being the bearers of bad news. I get you're venting, but as I keep saying - it is up to you as the consumer to confirm your system meets spec before purchase, and you should never be surprised if your out of spec machine can't run the game."