Helldivers 2’s newest patch is out, and it brings a variety of small however significant modifications to the sport. Most notably, this update removes shrapnel from the R-36 Erupter explosion in an try to scale back the variety of participant and ally one-shot deaths that it causes–however, in return, it additionally elevated the harm of the explosion radius by 40.
The patch fixes a variety of points with the sport, together with one the place damage-over-time results weren’t being utilized appropriately, or the place the community host may solely use them. Equally, the replace fixes greater than a half-dozen recreation crashes, together with people who may occur on rejoining a mission, alt-tabbing, or exiting the sport. When it comes to recreation stability, developer Arrowhead additionally elevated Shrieker sight and listening to vary, in addition to the Gunship’s listening to vary.
Earlier this month, Helldivers 2 was the main focus of one of many greatest gaming controversies of the 12 months up to now when Sony introduced that PC gamers can be required to hyperlink a PSN account as a way to play the sport beginning later within the month. The platform-holder finally reversed that call after days of participant outrage, prompting Helldivers 2 PC gamers to begin an “operation” to reverse the wave of unfavourable evaluations that took over on platforms like Steam.
Helldivers 2 Could 7 Replace Patch Notes
Balancing
Main, Secondary, & Help Weapons
R-36 Eruptor
- Elevated explosion harm by 40 and eliminated shrapnel from the explosion
That is to keep away from circumstances by which gamers would randomly one-shot themselves or their teammates in an enormous radius across the explosion
Enemies
- Elevated Shrieker sight and listening to vary barely.
- Elevated Gunship listening to vary barely
Fixes
Gameplay
- We now have fastened points with the way in which Harm-over-time results had been being utilized. This could repair points the place solely the community session proprietor may apply them, and different circumstances the place they’d be utilized inconsistently.
- Firing the Punisher Plasma whereas carrying a protect backpack not damages the Helldiver
- Mounted points with some weapon scopes not being aligned in First-Individual-View.
- The sound when stimming not performs whereas being interrupted
- Main orders with the “Kill activity” now monitor rating appropriately. Beforehand it counted your entire squad’s kills as soon as for every participant, that means it might multiply the rating by the variety of individuals on the mission; that is now amended.
- Helldivers can not land on tall rocks within the “Horde Defend Missions”
- Helldivers can not land on prime of bug pillars in Deactivate Terminid Management System missions
- Repair for the reinforce stratagem not being current if a Helldiver leaves the session earlier than readying up after which sizzling becoming a member of the energetic session
Crashes
- Mounted a crash that might happen when all gamers had been useless on the “Deactivate Terminid Management System” mission
- Mounted a crash that might happen on recreation shutdown
- Mounted a crash that might happen when leaving the mission and rejoining
- Mounted a crash that might happen on the finish of cutscenes
- Mounted a crash that might happen when diving into missions
- Mounted a tutorial crash that might happen on PC when ALT+Tabbing
- Mounted a uncommon crash that might happen when utilizing beam weapons
- Mounted a uncommon crash that might happen for gamers on startup when utilizing VPN
- Mounted a gentle lock that might happen if the participant would open the textual content chat whereas having the stratagem menu open
- Different basic crash fixes
Social Menu Fixes
- PC gamers including associates by pal codes can not present up as “Unknown”
- Mounted overlapping footers inside menus
- Steam associates ought to now be seen in Social Menu, regardless that Pals Listing will not be set to Public in Steam Privateness Settings
- Current Gamers record will now embody hot-joining gamers
- Gamers are actually capable of unblock gamers that weren’t of their associates record beforehand
- Mounted subject with empty friend-names in Social Menu
- Foyer privateness mode textual content updates instantly when modified
- Participant names longer than 26 characters ought to now replace correctly within the Social Menu
- Mounted subject the place non-host gamers may kick others indiscriminately together with the host
Different
- Complete bought counter on the fitting facet of the Robotics Workshop part not shows 7 / 8 regardless of all stratagems being bought
- Resolved some edge circumstances associated to Steam AppId associated errors on login