Helldivers 2 suddenly unplayable for some PC players on older systems

ORIGINAL STORY 1pm UK: Helldivers 2 has suddenly become unplayable for some PC players on older systems due to a new hard requirement not supported by aging CPUs.

However, many players have been running the game on systems without AVX2 support and, as a result, are now locked out of the game.

In Discord, community manager Baskinator wrote: “Regarding the AVX2 issue, we are currently working on a fix for this.