It’s a fair criticism, persistent crashes can definitely suck the fun out of a game. I’m experiencing more crashes now than I was a month ago, which is not the direction things should be going. While I’m pleased with the pace of content releases, I’d really like to see better stability in what they’re releasing. The most recent one I’ve seen is a really common crash during the extraction animation. This one was hitting my usual group at the end of roughly half our games last. It was happening so frequently that it really makes me wonder how such a bug makes it into a release.

I will mention two troubleshooting steps that have seemed to help me. If you’re on PC, try these to see if it improves your experience any:

• Verify game file integrity in Steam. It seems like there’s something off with their patching system, because often after patches I’ll find that a handful of files fail verification. Fixing up those files appears to have reduced CTDs for me.
• Close the game, delete your shader cache file and relaunch. On Windows the shader cache file is %appdata%\Arrowhead\Helldivers2\shader_cache\pipeline_library.cache. This change has appeared to have a very positive impact for me in a few instances. You will likely notice more stuttering after clearing the cache as shaders are compiled in the background, but it should stabilize after a few minutes.

After experiencing several crashes yesterday, I went through both troubleshooting steps last night and had no crashes across several missions tonight. Can’t guarantee it’ll help in your case, but it’s worth a shot.

And that’s not to say it really absolves Arrowhead of a responsibility to fix these particular problems. The fact that file verification and shader cache flush seem to resolve so many of my crashes indicates that they have serious problems they need to solve related to client patching and shader management.