Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios is going through recent backlash from the group after nerfing fireplace injury weapons days earlier than releasing its pyromaniac-themed premium warbond, Freedom’s Flame.
The stability modifications launched by this week’s Escalation of Freedom replace embody quite a few tweaks to the sport’s fireplace injury system designed to make flame-spewing weapons behave “extra realistically.”
Some annoyed group members have taken to social media to complain the replace has dramatically nerfed fire-based weapons such because the flamethrower, as soon as thought of a potent antidote to armored terminids chargers.
Helldivers 2’s Steam web page has seen greater than 2,000 detrimental opinions push its latest evaluate rating from ‘principally constructive’ to ‘blended’ in a number of days. Others took to social media to vent concerning the developer’s perceived nerf-happy method to weapon balancing.
Arrowhead has acknowledged the backlash, with group supervisor Baskinator assuring gamers on Discord that builders had “heard your suggestions” associated to fireplace injury, and the studio was now “having numerous inside discussions about one of the best plan of action.”
Studio CEO Shams Jorjani subsequently stated on X/Twitter {that a} hotflix will likely be deployed “sooner or later” that can “concentrate on bugs, and may embody some stability modifications,” however “different issues want time to prepare dinner a bit extra.”
This isn’t the primary time Arrowhead has confronted the inferno of group revolt. Helldivers 2 director Johan Pilestedt stated in Could that the studio had been overzealous with the frequency of its nerf-laden updates, noting “it appears like each time somebody finds one thing enjoyable, the enjoyable is eliminated.”
The participant base additionally rose up en-mass earlier this yr to protest an unpopular coverage that might have required PC gamers to have a PSN account to play the web co-operative shooter, ultimately forcing the leisure large to abandon the plan altogether.
The Escalation of Freedom replace introduced extra than simply controversy to Arrowhead’s co-op PvE shooter. Take a look at the patch notes to discover out concerning the wave of recent options, together with a brand new ‘Tremendous Helldive’ stage 10 issue, novel mission targets, menacing enemies, and extra.
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