Helldivers 2 continues to explode in popularity, and with an ever expanding player base comes the discovery of numerous bugs. This particular issue arises when picking up items in the game, causing the player to freeze in place. Read this Helldivers 2 guide to figure out how to mitigate the issue, or recover from it if it’s already happened.

UPDATED April 16

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Helldivers 2 Pickup Freeze Bug Reason

If you’ve been running around farming resources left and right, then you have undoubtedly spammed the gather button when you see two or more items in close proximity. And that is exactly when things go wrong, since attempting to pick up a second item immediately after the first is what causes the freeze.

Speculation is that, since Helldivers 2 is an online-only, Games-as-a-service (GaaS) title, every action involving currency collection is closely monitored server-side in order to prevent exploits and cheating. With each pickup action being communicated back to the server, and server connectivity issues already being as they are, a freeze occurs when that data can’t be transmitted properly. This is also the reason why some players report not receiving or even losing some resources post-mission completion.

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This is especially true for Warbond Medals and Super Credits, both of which are accrued directly into your account on recovery. Even if you were to crash out of the game at some point, or simply abandon the mission, all your collected Medals and Super Credits thus far would still be available.

The same is not true for all the Samples, and XP, which are accrued client-side and must be successfully extracted to count towards your reserves.

Helldivers 2 Freeze Bug Fixes

If you’ve already been frozen in place by the bug, and came looking for this guide, here are some things to attempt to unfreeze yourself:

• First, try waiting for up to three minutes for the server to catch up to you. This has been the maximum length of time that players have experienced being frozen in place, before the game acknowledged the pickup properly.
• Your mileage may vary with this one, but saluting has worked for some players to snap your Helldiver back to reality.
• Failing that, cook off a grenade while holding it in hand. Yes, it is in fact possible to do that. This will effectively kill you, and force a new drop nearby, thus unfreezing you.
• You can avoid having to respawn if you’re in a squad by simply asking one of your squadmates to melee you out of the frozen bug.

Helldivers 2 Prevent Freezing Bug

Here are some tips to avoid the freezing bug entirely.

Slow down a little while gathering. The issue most often happens immediately after spam-looting a downed pod or a container with multiple pickups that you couldn’t see until after it was cracked open. Wait a beat, for the loot to appear and then pick it up one by one.

If in doubt about exactly how long to wait, make note of the animations: your Helldiver will put their hands back down after completing the loot action. It is after that point, that you will want to loot again.

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