Helldivers 2 has a new patch that makes key stability adjustments and bug fixes to Sony’s third-person co-op shooter.
Patch 01.002.200 tweaks the stability on a variety of weapons and stratagems. Developer Arrowhead additionally elevated the variety of AI calculations the sport can carry out, which primarily impacts situations with a excessive variety of spawned enemies, enhancing their response instances in these conditions. Nonetheless, this comes with a slight trade-off in sport efficiency, Arrowhead stated.
The upshot of those gameplay adjustments is that the Automatons particularly will current a more durable problem as they now have elevated response pace in massive teams. Anticipate Helldivers 2’s already imposing bots to behave smarter and make selections quicker.
And right here’s a helpful enchancment: the stratagem loadout menu has undergone an up to date categorization of the totally different stratagem groupings.
In the meantime, writer Sony Interactive Leisure introduced Helldivers 2’s subsequent Warbond, known as Borderline Justice. The theme this time is ‘house cowboy,’ and consistent with that theme there are new weapons together with the R-6 Deadeye lever-action looking rifle, the LAS-58 Talon “revolver” secondary, and the TED-63 Dynamite.
The GS-17 Frontier Marshal is house cowboy-themed medium Helldiver set, as is the GS-66 Lawmaker heavy armor, which comes full with cowboy holster and bandolier. The Gunslinger armor passive provides your secondary elevated reload pace, elevated draw/holster pace, and decreased recoil. The warbond launches March 20.
Helldivers 2’s ongoing Galactic Struggle is at the moment specializing in the Illuminate alien faction, which is slowly pushing a black gap in direction of Tremendous Earth. The place that is going is anybody’s guess, however hypothesis factors to doubtlessly taking the struggle to the Illuminate’s house world, or possibly lastly preventing again on Tremendous Earth itself.
Helldivers 2 replace 01.002.200 patch notes:
Balancing
Main weapons
SMG-32 Reprimand
- Unfold decreased from 50 to 40
SG-8S Slugger
- Unfold decreased from 20 to six
- Harm elevated from 250 to 280
AR-23C Liberator Concussive
- Fireplace charge elevated from 320 to 400
R-63 Diligence
- Journal capability elevated from 20 to 25
MP-98 Knight
- Harm elevated from 65 to 70
STA-11 SMG
- Harm elevated from 65 to 70
SMG-37 Defender
- Harm elevated from 75 to 80
SMG-72 Pummeler
- Harm elevated from 65 to 70
- Now requires much less pictures to use stun on relevant targets, stun worth elevated from 1.0 to 1.25 per bullet
AR-23 Liberator
- Harm elevated from 70 to 80
STA-52 Assault Rifle
- Harm elevated from 70 to 80
BR-14 Adjudicator
- Harm elevated from 90 to 95
AR-61 Tenderizer
- Harm elevated from 95 to 105
R-36 Eruptor
- Projectile armor penetration elevated from Medium (3) to Heavy (4)
- Projectile lifetime elevated from 0.7 to 1 sec
Stratagems
Eagle 110MM Rocket Pods
- Makes use of elevated from 2 to three
EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit
- Makes use of elevated from 2 to three
EXO-49 Emancipator Exosuit
- Makes use of elevated from 2 to three
TX-41 Sterilizer
- Ergonomics elevated from 5 to twenty
M-105 Stalwart
- Harm elevated from 70 to 80
MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun
- Improved armor penetration throughout a wider vary of angles earlier than transitioning to glancing pictures
Enemies:
- A current software program post-mortem has revealed an replace to the Automatons’ situational consciousness protocol. They’re now much less distracted by one another, growing their response pace in massive teams.
- We’ve elevated the variety of AI calculations the sport can carry out. This primarily impacts situations with a excessive variety of spawned enemies, enhancing their response instances in these conditions. Nonetheless, this comes with a slight trade-off in sport efficiency.
- Based on current intel, the enemies of Freedom are trying to counter the Helldivers’ anti-air capabilities. Newly-produced Automaton dropships present clear indicators of hull reinforcement, permitting the principle physique to soak up considerably extra harm.
- Illuminate Warp Ships have been noticed deploying their shields mid-flight.
- Automaton Dropships: Foremost physique well being elevated from 2500 to 3500
- Illuminate Dropships: Makes use of the identical protect as those which have landed
Barrager Tank Turret
- Resolved a problem launched lately the place the armor worth was incorrectly set to 0. Now has the right armor worth of 5
- Moreover, the turret now options weak spots on the entrance and again, every with 750 HP and an armor worth of three
Gameplay
Settings:
- Added new separate settings for inverting the gyro enter as an alternative of utilizing the Invert Look settings
- The Stratagem loadout menu has undergone an up to date categorization of the totally different stratagem groupings
Fixes
Resolved High Precedence points:
- Mounted a problem with the extraction beacon generally being unreachable when touchdown on high of enemies
- Common optimization enhancements within the colonies environments
Crash Fixes, Hangs and Tender-locks:
- Mounted a crash when taking part in towards Terminids in poor community situations
- Mounted a uncommon crash that occurred throughout sport shut down on PC
- Mounted a crash that might happen when there was a excessive quantity of particles on the display screen without delay
- Mounted a problem the place gamers may very well be blocked from finishing targets requiring called-down gear as a result of required stratagem being unavailable
Weapons and Stratagems
- Mounted the G-123 Thermite Grenade generally not arming
- Mounted a uncommon crash when utilizing the LAS-17 Double-Edge Sickle
- Mounted a bug the place switching weapons whereas reloading the CB-9 Exploding Crossbow would generally discard a whole journal with out truly reloading
Social & Multiplayer Fixes
- Mounted a problem inflicting gamers in low-activity areas to see fewer lobbies on the planet hologram than anticipated
- Mounted a problem in low-activity areas the place lobbies weren’t seeing gamers be a part of as ceaselessly or shortly as earlier than
- Mounted a problem on low-activity planets the place Quickplay would all the time be a part of your folks sport, even when they weren’t taking part in on the identical problem
- Mounted a disconnection challenge that might occur when taking part in Gloom missions with poor connection to the host
- Mounted some interactions not working correctly after canceling the Increase Weapon emote
- Mounted a problem the place including, eradicating, blocking, or unblocking mates induced participant playing cards within the buddy checklist to show with white textual content and lacking info till you shut and open the panel once more
- Mounted a problem that made it inconceivable to mute or kick gamers who had been within the loadout when becoming a member of a squad
- Mounted a problem that induced some new Steam gamers’ newest profile names to not show accurately in-game
Miscellaneous Fixes
- Mounted some reminiscence leaks to enhance efficiency
- Mounted outdated textual content chat messages from re-appearing
- Mounted a problem with the Democracy Space Station progress bars being unintentionally curved in look
- Mounted a bug that prevented development by way of the menus when the preliminary language choice was set to English (US)
- Mounted the increase weapon emote to correctly fireplace projectiles within the path of the weapon
- Mounted Helldivers sliding round on the bottom after exiting the ragdoll state (regardless of it being the yr of the snake and regardless of us attempting to repair this beforehand)
Identified Points
High Precedence:
- Black field mission terminal could also be unusable if it spawns clipped into the bottom
- Stratagem balls bounce unpredictably off cliffs and some spots
- Balancing and performance changes for DSS
- Pathfinding points in Evacuate Colonists Illuminate missions
- Dolby Atmos doesn’t work on PS5
Medium Precedence:
- Gamers can get caught on Pelican-1’s ramp throughout extraction
- Presently outfitted capes do not show correctly and present a clean gray cape in Armory tab
- Gamers who use the “That is Democracy” emote on their ship may unintentionally ship their fellow Helldivers on unauthorized unscheduled spacewalks
- AX/TX-13 “Guard Canine” Canine Breath doesn’t present when it’s out of ammo
- Larger zoom features don’t zoom the digicam in by way of the scope on the LAS-5 Scythe
- Weapons with a Cost-up mechanic can exhibit unintended conduct when firing quicker than the RPM (Rounds Per Minute) restrict
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