After Helldivers 2’s Game-Changing Update Made Everything Simpler, Some Hardcore Fans Want a New Harder Difficulty — and the Devs Agree
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After Helldivers 2’s Game-Changing Update Made Everything Simpler, Some Hardcore Fans Want a New Harder Difficulty — and the Devs Agree

After Helldivers 2’s Game-Changing Update Made Everything Simpler, Some Hardcore Fans Want a New Harder Difficulty — and the Devs Agree

Helldivers 2 acquired a shot in the arm this week with the launch of replace 01.001.100, a patch that fully reworked weapon steadiness, added a new Galactic Struggle function, and made hundreds extra adjustments aimed toward making the PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter simpler and extra enjoyable.

The replace got here after a troubling interval for the sport and for developer Arrowhead that noticed its disgruntled playerbase complain that nerfs had gone too far and as a outcome had stripped the enjoyable out of Helldivers 2.

Early indications are that this newest patch has introduced followers again on-side, and even sparked a modest enhance in concurrent gamers on Steam (Sony doesn’t make PlayStation participant numbers publicly accessible).

However now, after complaining that Helldivers 2 supplied too robust of a problem, or, extra particularly, didn’t present gamers with the proper instruments to fairly face contact challenges in the sport, a few of Helldivers 2’s most hardcore followers are saying the sport is simply too simple.

Artistic director Johan Pilestedt took to social media to ask followers what they considered the Helldivers 2 patch, and a recurring theme was that the sport maybe wants a good more durable issue degree, given how simple it had develop into in a single day.

“We’re going to take a look at the problem of the sport for these excessive tier gamers, it is in the pipe,” Pilestedt confirmed. Then, in response to 1 fan who mentioned, “Everything is nice however we’d like a new more durable issue now,” Pilestedt replied: “I agree!”

Arrowhead now faces the prospect of getting efficiently tweaked Helldivers 2 for the majority of its playerbase, but in addition having to offer that rock onerous problem for its hardcore followers. A rock onerous issue ought to assist.

It simply did not really feel pleasant or plausible to hit a Charger with an RR and it brushing it off.

One fan questioned why Helldivers 2 gamers did not merely play on simpler difficulties slightly than complaining about the sport or leaving it behind (a remark that disregards the incontrovertible fact that a few of Helldivers 2’s most coveted assets are locked behind the more durable difficulties). “Now any degree is a stroll in the park,” they mentioned. “Even massive bugs get thrashed sooo quick, it is kinda unhappy.”

Pilestedt’s reply to this acquired to the coronary heart of the drawback with Helldivers 2 pre-patch: “Proper, It is as a result of it simply did not really feel pleasant or plausible to hit a Charger with an RR and it brushing it off.”

What Arrowhead is unlikely to do is return to drastically nerfing Helldivers 2’s stratagems and weapons, on condition that’s what acquired the sport into hassle in the first place.

“I swear to god if yall begin nerfing these items…,” anxious one fan. “Agree,” Pilestedt replied. “Particularly in relation to injury; nerfing is an unimaginative method of tweaking a sport.”

Helldivers 2’s subsequent Premium Warbond, dubbed Chemical Brokers, launches tomorrow, September 19. Whereas Chemical Brokers doesn’t embrace any new weapons, it provides two stratagem variants — the TX-41 Sterilizer, which helps you to spray a fuel at the Terminids and Automatons, and the Guard Canine’s ‘Canine Breath,’ which is a corrosive fuel sprayer — and, in line with the alien exterminator theme, the G-4 Fuel grenade, which covers the complete space in a cloud of noxious fumes.

Arrowhead will likely be hoping replace 01.001.100 is the first step on Helldivers 2’s highway to restoration, a highway that may hold the sport going for years to come back.

Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You possibly can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

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