How to avoid Helldivers' progress-wiping bug

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Arrowhead's latest top-down action arcade game Helldivers has launched with a series of bugs - and not the fun to kill splattery kind. One of these is particularly egregious as it wipes players' progress when their controllers die.
Well, technically it overwrites their progress when they reconnect, so you'd best not save when that happens. Arrowhead has acknowledged the problem on the PlayStation forums and Reddit with the following advice:
"We found an issue related to the controller dropping its connection to the game and then when you reconnect, the game spawns your avatar before it manages to load your old save. This results in what looks like lost progress, and often results in progress being lost if you let the game finish its save.
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