Helldivers 2 has a new patch that changes balance and fixes bugs to Sony’s third-person cooperative shooter.
Patch 01.002.200 fine-tunes the balance between many weapons and layers. Developer Arrowhead has also increased the number of AI calculations the game can perform. This mainly affects scenarios with a large number of enemies and improves response time in such situations. But this comes with a slight trade-off in gaming performance, Arrowhead said.
And here is a useful improvement: The Stratagem Loadout menu received an updated classification of various Stratagem groups.
Meanwhile, publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced Helldivers 2’s Next Warbond, known as Borderline Justice. This time’s theme is “Space Cowboy.” To match that theme, new weapons include the R-6 Deadeye lever action hunting rifle, the Las-58 Talon “Revolver” Secondary, and the TED-63 Dynamite.
The GS-17 Frontier Marshall is a medium heldi bar set to suit the Space Cowboy theme, as well as the heavy armor of the GS-66 MP with a cowboy holster and bandreath. The Gunslinger Armor Passive gives secondary increased reload speed, increased draw/holster speed, and reduced recoil. Warbond will be released on March 20th.
The ongoing Galactic War in Helldivers 2 is currently focusing on the alien ion of lighting, which is slowly pushing the black hole towards the super earth. It’s anyone’s guess that this is going on, but speculation points out that it will potentially fight the Illuminated Homeworld or finally fight back against Super Earth itself.
Helldivers 2 Update 01.002.200 Patch Notes:
balance
Major weapons
SMG-32 responsibilities
- The spread has decreased from 50 to 40
SG-8S Sturdy hitter
- Spreads have been reduced from 20 to 6
- Damage increased from 250 to 280
AR-23C Liberator concussion
- Fire rate increased from 320 to 400
R-63 Working
- Magazine capacity increased from 20 to 25
MP-98 Night
- Damage increased from 65 to 70
STA-11 SMG
- Damage increased from 65 to 70
SMG-37 Defender
- Damage increased from 75 to 80
SMG-72 Pummeler
- Damage increased from 65 to 70
- Less shots are required to apply a stun to the targets, and the stun value has increased from 1.0 to 1.25 per bullet
AR-23 Liberator
- Damage increased from 70 to 80
STA-52 Assault Rifle
- Damage increased from 70 to 80
BR-14 adjudicator
- Damage increased from 90 to 95
AR-61 tender riser
- Damage increased from 95 to 105
R-36 Eruption
- Projectile armor penetration increased heavily from medium (3) (4)
- Projectile lifespan increased from 0.7 to 1 second
strategyEagle 110mm rocket pod
- Use increased from 2 to 3
EXO-45 Patriot has left
- Use increased from 2 to 3
EXO-49 Liberator has left
- Use increased from 2 to 3
TX-41 Sterilizer
- Ergonomics increased from 5 to 20
M-105 Sturdy
- Damage increased from 70 to 80
MG-206 heavy machine gun
- Improved penetration of armor over a wider range of angles before moving on to a single shot
enemy:
- A recent software autopsy reveals an update to the automata situational awareness protocol. They are no longer distracted by each other, so they are increasing their response rates in large groups.
- Increased the number of AI calculations that the game can perform. This primarily affects the scenario with many spawning enemies and improves response time in such situations. However, this involves a small trade-off in gaming performance.
- According to Intel recently, the enemy of freedom is trying to counter the Heldivirs’ anti-aircraft capabilities. The newly produced automata dropship shows clear signs of hull reinforcement, allowing the body to absorb quite a bit of damage.
- Lighting warp vessels have been observed to deploy shields in flight.
- Automata Dropship: Body health increased from 2500 to 3500
- Illuminated Dropship: Use the same shield as the one that landed
Barrager Tank Turret
- Resolved a recently introduced issue when armor values are incorrectly set to 0.
- Additionally, the turret has front and back weaknesses, each with 750 hp and armor values of 3.
Gameplay
setting:
- Instead of using the inverted look settings, I added a new separate configuration to invert gyro inputs
- Stratagem Loadout menu received updated classification of various Stratagem groups
Correction
Resolved the issue of top priority:
- Fixed an issue where extract beacons could sometimes not be reached when landing on top of enemies
- Improved general optimization of colony environments
Crash fixes, hangs, softlock:
- Fixed crash when playing against Terminids in poor network scenarios
- Fixed a rare crash that occurred while shutting down on PC
- Fixed a crash that could occur when a large number of particles on the screen were generated at once
- Fixed an issue where players could block completion of targets requiring called equipment because the required Stratagem is not available
Weapons and Strategy
- G-123 Thermite Grenade was sometimes not armed
- Fixed an unusual crash when using double edge sickle on LAS-17
- Fixed a bug where you could switch weapons while reloading an explosive crossbow in CB-9.
Social and Multiplayer Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused players in low-active regions to have less lobbying planetary holograms than expected
- Fixed an issue in low-activity areas where the lobby is not participating as frequently or quickly as before
- Fixed an issue with low active planets where QuickPlay always joins friend games even if you’re not playing with the same difficulty
- Fixed a disconnect issue that could occur when playing dark missions with insufficient connection to the host
- Fixed some interactions not working properly after cancelling Raise Weapon Emote
- Fixed an issue where you could add, delete, block or unblock a friend list.
- Fixed an issue that made it impossible to mute or kick players who were loaded out when joining a team
- Fixed an issue where the latest profile names of some new Steam players were not displayed correctly in the game
Other fixes
- Fixed some memory leaks to improve performance
- Fixed old text chat messages from reappearance
- Fixed an issue where the ongoing bars of the democratic space station were unintentionally curved
- Fixed a bug that prevented progression through menus when initial language selection was set to English (us)
- Modified emote for rising weapons to properly fire projectiles in the direction of the weapon
- After leaving the ragdoll state, I fixed a heldy bar that slipped onto the ground (even though it was Snake Year and I was trying to fix this before)
Known Issues
Top priority:
- Black Box Mission Terminal may not be usable if it is cut to the ground
- Stratagem Balls bounce unpredictably from cliffs and several spots
- Adjusting DSS balance and function
- Pathfinding issues for evacuating settlers light up missions
- Dolby Atmos doesn’t work on PS5
Medium Priorities:
- Players may get stuck on a Pelican-1 ramp during extraction
- The currently equipped capes are not displayed properly, and a blank gray cape appears in the Armory tab
- Players using “This is a Democracy” emotes on ships may unintentionally send fellow Heldy Bars to unauthorized, unplanned spacecraft
- ax/tx-13 “Guard Dog” Dog Breathing is not displayed when there is no ammunition
- Do not zoom the camera through the scope of the LAS-5 SCYTHE
- Weapons with charge-up mechanics can show unintentional behavior when firing faster than RPM (rounds per minute) limit
