Summary
Arrowhead Game Studios has quietly released a PS5 Pro patch forHelldivers 2. The free upgrade brings with it higher resolutions, improved visuals, and steadier framerates to helpHelldivers 2players spread liberty more effectively on PS5 Pro.
AlthoughHelldivers 2is regarded by many as an incredibly fun co-op PvE game, its technical presentation has been slightly hit-or-miss for some PS5 players. Performance testing conducted around the game’s launch last year revealed thatHelldivers 2’s PS5 version renders at 1080p in the 60fps performance mode, and is still prone to framerate dips in taxing scenes. The quality mode, meanwhile, runs at a higher 1728p resolution but at the cost of a halved 30fps framerate. Arrowhead did promise aPS5 Pro upgrade forHelldivers 2last year, but wasn’t able to release it in time for the console’s launch in November 2024.
Alongside the debut ofHelldivers 2’s latest Servants of Freedom Premium Warbond, Arrowhead has enhanced the co-op shooter for PS5 Pro. Curiously, neither Sony nor Arrowhead made any mention ofHelldivers 2’s PS5 Pro patch, and the game’s PlayStation Store listing still hasn’t been updated with the “PS5 Pro Enhanced” label at the time of writing. Thankfully, Digital Foundry has conducted a thorough analysis ofHelldivers 2running on PS5 Pro, most notably discovering that its 60fps performance mode has been bumped up to1440pon the newer machine, which means it’s pushing 78% more pixels than the base PS5.
Helldivers 2 PS5 Pro Analysis Reveals Crisper Image Quality and Smoother Framerates than Standard PS5
Oddly, though, Arrowhead has apparently eschewed thePS5 Pro’s PSSR AI-driven upscalerinHelldivers 2, instead going with an old-fashioned TAA solution that doesn’t quite do as great a job.Helldivers 2’s PS5 Pro version does hold its 60fps framerate better than the base PS5, but drops are still possible in demanding situations. Coming to the quality mode, the PS5 ProrunsHelldivers 2at native 4K, resulting in far crisper image quality compared to the vanilla PS5’s 1728p resolution. Unfortunately, there is no 120Hz high framerate option forHelldivers 2on PS5 Pro.
Overall,Helldivers 2offers considerable improvements for PS5 Pro users, but falls short in some aspects. A very probable reason behind this might be the defunct engineHelldivers 2is built on, which may not be able to take full advantage of thePS5 Pro’s cutting-edge hardware. Regardless,Helldivers 2is the latest addition to the long list of PS5 Pro enhanced games, and owners of the beefier mid-generation system can further the cause of democracy at much cleaner resolutions.
