Helldivers 2 not launching on Steam? After hours of trying, here's how I FIXED it

A lot of people seems to be having issues with simply launching Helldivers 2 on Steam. After several hours of trying out every single solution proposed on Discord / Reddit, here's what worked for me.

#gaming #helldivers #helldivers2 #gamebugs

[raviolirabbit]

Latest update to the game was preventing startup, this video solved it entirely! Thanks so much!

[ANOTHERWOOK]

i watched a 20 minute long video and did each step and nothing worked until this one... You are a fucking legend, sir. I was about to give up too.

[supernovamike]

You're my best friend today. Wasted a couple hours trying to figure this out last night. Thanks for the save!

[holdenrolfs]

Before I found this video, I sunk a frustrating several hours into finding solutions to my problem because I couldn’t play HD2 (which my best friend gifted me to play with him). YOUR instructions were the key. Bless you ❤

[oskarjacobsen]

My man! this fixed it!
I already had it, but it gave the option to "repair" or something. Worked like a charm!

[DanielRodriguez-ijor]

It’s 4:32 am currently, I wasn’t able to get it started after hours of reading and messing with my settings. Until I came across your video. Thank you!! You just got yourself a subscriber. Keep it up.

[peacekeeper]

thx for this video man you saved my game, i also appreciated how you go directly to the point instead of wasting time with 10 minutes for a 1 minute steps fix, thanks!

[DeathscytheGhost]

Worked for me as well, I had to hit "repair" and that did it. Thanks!

[Mark-qwum]

Worked for me, thank you! Love when a fix is this easy :)

[Lightsaga]

I already had it installed, BUT by running "repair" on the files, it fixed the issues. thank you!

[Karl-il]

I had just spent 4 hours trying to get it to work you are a hero

[ennomek]

Just happened to me tonight, this fixed the issue! Thank you so much for the guidance and quick explanation.

[AguyNamed_Shade]

Thank you good solider the game just refused to open but with this it finally opened thank you and i hope to see you on the battlefield

[royboyshaw]

It worked! Thank you for sharing this. Once you install, just hit repair.

[axelroll]

Thank you so much, this also solved it for me. I had it installed already and just clicked on the 'repair' option. Just relaunched Steam and it worked. Didn't even need to restart the PC., Thanks!!

[BorjuYT]

if it still doesn't work reset windows (thats the only thing that worked for me)

[swimmerdawg]

Thank you. This actually worked as i was about to refund the game. Subscription earned.

[angeloperea]

OK BUT HOW IN THE FUCK DID YOU FIGURE THIS OUT LMAO! I WAS GOING CRAZY!

[madfinder]

Bro I don’t usually comment but this saved my experience thank you man almost refunded

[TheFalladin]

Ah fuck yes it worked. I already had it but it needed to be repaired. Thanks so much man lova ya