Helldivers 2 Patch 01.000.300 Makes Big Balance Changes to Weapons, Stratagems, and Enemies

On enemies, once more, it’s price testing the patch notes, however gamers will welcome a change to Gunship spawners, which now have a a lot decrease cap on what number of gunships they’ll have energetic on the similar time. In the meantime, patrol spawning has been elevated when there are fewer than 4 gamers. The less the gamers the larger the change, Arrowhead stated. For four-player missions there might be no change in contrast to earlier than. The most important noticeable change might be for solo gamers at increased difficulties, Arrowhead clarified.

Welcome gameplay modifications embody the flexibility to disable computerized climbing and vaulting whereas sprinting, which can assist with motion. There are some enjoyable “democracy spreading” modifications, too. For instance, when readying up, Helldivers now salute “to guarantee most democratic readiness.”

And be warned: pictures that ricochet from heavy armored enemies will now correctly hit the Helldiver who fired them. “Set off self-discipline is very really helpful,” Arrowhead stated.

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Helldivers 2 replace 01.000.300 patch notes in full:

Overview

For this patch, we’ve made enhancements and modifications to the next areas:

• Balance modifications to weapons, stratagems, and enemies
• Change to the Unfold Democracy mission

Balancing

Basic

• Armors with armor score above 100 now additionally cut back injury on headshots.
• Victory poses will now solely play for the extracted. (No stolen valor on my ship.)
• Burning injury diminished by 15%

Main, Secondary & Assist Weapons
CB-9 Exploding Crossbow

• Barely smaller explosion
• Elevated stagger
• Decreased variety of most mags from 12 to 8
• Elevated variety of magazines acquired from resupply from 6 to 8
• Slight discount in ergonomics
• Muzzle velocity elevated

LAS-99 Quasar Cannon

• Elevated recharge time by 5 seconds

BR-14 Adjudicator

• Full auto is now the default fireplace mode
• Diminished recoil
• Elevated most mags from 6 to 8
• Elevated variety of magazines acquired from resupply from 6 to 8
• Now positioned amongst assault rifles

LAS-98 Laser Cannon

• Barely elevated injury
• Barely diminished injury versus massive quantity our bodies

SG-8P Punisher Plasma

• Decreased most mags from 12 to 8
• Elevated quantity of magazines acquired from resupply from 6 to 8
• Elevated projectile velocity, however will nonetheless preserve the same vary
• Decreased injury falloff on the explosion
• Now positioned within the vitality weapons class

ARC-12 Blitzer

• Elevated pictures per minute from 30 to 45
• Now positioned within the vitality weapons class

R-36 Eruptor

• Decreased variety of most mags from 12 to 6
• Explosion injury drops off barely sooner

LAS-16 Sickle

• Decreased quantity of magazines from 6 down to 3

LAS-5 Scythe

• Elevated injury from 300 to 350
• Decreased max variety of mags from 6 down to 4

RS-422 Railgun

• Elevated armor penetration in each secure mode and unsafe mode
• Stagger drive barely diminished

MG-101 Heavy Machine Gun

• Third-person crosshair enabled

63CS Diligence Counter Sniper

• Injury elevated from 128 to 140
• Ergonomics improved

R-63 Diligence

• Injury elevated from 112 to 125

P-19 Redeemer

• Slight improve in recoil

P-2 Peacemaker

• Elevated injury from 60 to 75

P-8 Senator

• Elevated injury from 150 to 175
• Speedloader added when reloading on an empty cylinder–hurries up reload on empty significantly

LAS-7 Dagger

• Elevated injury from 150 to 200

AR-19 Liberator

• Injury elevated from 55 to 60

AR-23C Liberator Concussive

• Injury elevated from 55 to 65

JAR-5 Dominator

• Injury decreased from 300 to 275

AX/AR-23 Guard Canine

Stratagems
A/MG-43 Machinegun Sentry

• Elevated well being to match different Sentries

A/ARC-3 Tesla Tower

FAF-14 Spear

• Added reload stage reload after the spent missile had been discarded

RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher

• Airburst Rocket Launcher will not detonate when shot close to stratagems (HMG turret, Sentries, Resupplies) and different Helldivers.
• Diminished proximity radius

Enemies

• Bile Spewer and Nursing Spewers movespeed barely diminished
• Hulks: Pressure required for them to stagger barely elevated
• Hulk Scorcher direct flamethrower injury diminished by 20%
• Devastator fireplace fee barely elevated (solely the usual devastator)
• Gunships sideways motion barely elevated
• Scout strider Riders now much less weak to explosions
• Fog Mills well being and armor elevated
• Gunship spawners now have a a lot decrease cap on what number of gunships they’ll have energetic on the similar time

Enemy Patrols

• Patrol spawning has been elevated when there are fewer than 4 gamers. The less the gamers the larger the change. For 4 participant missions there might be no change in contrast to earlier than.The most important noticeable change might be for solo gamers at increased difficulties

Gameplay

• Made minor degree era enhancements to how we distribute areas all through the mission map. This could enhance variation in distance between targets, and targets will probably not spawn as distant from one another as usually as earlier than.
• Added setting within the choices menu gameplay part to disable computerized climbing and vaulting whereas sprinting.
• The Unfold Democracy mission in any other case referred to as “elevate the flag” can now be loved on increased difficulties for max freedom spreading.
• When readying up, Helldivers now salute to guarantee most democratic readiness.
• Added atmosphere to the Tremor planetary hazard to underline the severity so Helldivers can react accordingly
• Pictures that ricochet from heavy armored enemies will now correctly hit the Helldiver who fired them. Set off self-discipline is very really helpful.

Fixes
Crash fixes

• Fastened crash that would happen when host deserted mission with squad.
• Fastened crash that would happen if a participant tried to enter an occupied EXO-45 Patriot Go well with.
• Fastened crash that would happen for all gamers after or throughout mission outcomes display.
• Fastened crash that would happen after taking pictures from the EXO-45 Patriot Go well with’s rocket launcher.
• Fastened crash that would happen for all gamers other than the one which rejoined the continuing mission with completely different armor and acquired bolstered.
• Fastened Superior Packing Methodology ship module not working correctly.
• Fastened Blast Absorption ship module in order that it appropriately will increase sentries’ resistance to explosions.
• Fastened difficulty the place gamers couldn’t navigate to the search leads to the Social Menu.
• Fastened some points the place objects geared up in a Warbond weren’t truly geared up.
• Fastened an exploit that allowed overly keen Helldivers to use grenades excessively.
• Fastened difficulty the place kills from orbital barrage didn’t progress Oblique Fireplace Train order.
• Fastened difficulty that allowed traitors to strive to sabotage the extraction shuttle by deploying sentry stratagems beneath it.
• Fastened difficulty the place ion storms incorrectly prevented extraction beacon from deploying.
• Fastened some stratagem beams utilizing incorrect color-coding.
• Fastened difficulty the place the left stick on a controller couldn’t be used to navigate the Social menu.
• Fastened some points the place varied UI parts had been reduce off, off-centered or too shut to the sting of the display on ultrawide shows.
• Fastened Anti-Materiel Rifle going through away from the Helldiver after deploying it.
• Fastened bug the place participant may duplicate rounds by canceling the reload of Anti-Materiel Rifle at a selected time.
• Fastened bug the place Anti-Materiel Rifle would eat an additional journal after a canceled reload.
• Fastened bug the place Recoilless Rifle would eat an additional shell from the backpack if the reload was canceled simply after a shell was inserted, however earlier than the reload was accomplished.
• Fastened difficulty the place the Sickle and Quasar Cannon couldn’t shoot via foliage.
• Fastened a number of points the place weapon thumbnails would disappear when scrolling via Armory.
• Fastened points the place Automaton Gunships typically couldn’t see the participant.
• Fastened incorrect collision being left over after destroying Automaton bunkers or detector towers with hellbombs.
• Fastened difficulty the place Hellbombs wouldn’t deploy on sure missions
• Fastened sure points that resulted in Helldivers drowning in deep water upon touchdown.
• Fastened difficulty the place Hellpod Area Optimization made ammo go above capability.
• Fastened difficulty the place Stalkers grew to become very seen in fog
• Mines at the moment are pingable for higher coordination along with your workforce.
• Receiving pal requests now provides the participant a pop up.
• Improved readability of prompts and hints displayed within the tutorial and onboarding.
• Whole expertise is now seen within the profession tab.
• Added higher assist for ultrawide screens by fixing the facet ratio of menus to 16:9 and including a setting to management the width of the HUD.
• Keybinds certain to numpad will not reset upon restart.
• Fastened inconsistent audio when headphones are plugged into the Twin Sense controller whereas taking part in on PC.
• Taking part in Rock, Paper, Scissors in entrance of the ship not causes participant to fall out into house.
• APW-1 Anti-Materials Rifle and MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun now set off hitmarkers whereas scoped in.
• Secondary weapon not stays within the Ballistic Defend ADS place after utilizing a stim with the Ballistic Defend Backpack geared up.
• “Open Textual content Chat” is now rebindable.
• Explosive weapons resembling R-36 Eruptor, CB-9 Exploding Crossbow. GP-31 Grenade Pistol not pulls gamers inward from the blast.
• Disabled the squad invitations throughout the tutorial which prompted an overlap within the UI.
• Fastened Main and Secondary weapons overlapping on the character mannequin within the armory.
• Fastened UI parts throughout first boot are reduce off on a 21:9 facet ratio monitor.
• Report and block participant is now seen within the squad menu.
• Lifeless Scavengers now cease screaming for assist if killed whereas calling in reinforcements.
• Fastened Anti Air cannons displaying up as “Stratagem Scramblers” in peril warnings.

Recognized Points

Numerous points involving pal invitations and cross-play

• Pal Request can’t be accepted when the requesting participant modified their username earlier than the request was accepted.
• Cross-platform pal invitations won’t present up within the Pal Requests tab.
• Gamers can not unfriend gamers befriended through pal code.
• Gamers can not unblock gamers that weren’t of their Buddies checklist beforehand.

• Injury-over-time results could solely apply when dealt by the host. We count on to have this fastened within the subsequent patch.
• Reinforcement might not be obtainable for some gamers who be part of a recreation in progress.
• Helldiver could also be unable to get up from crouching when surrounded by enemies.
• Sport could crash if the host leaves whereas useless and rejoins the identical play session.
• Sport could crash if the participant modifications the textual content language whereas on a mission.
• Gamers could expertise delays in Medals and Tremendous Credit payouts.
• Enemies that bleed out don’t progress Private Orders and Eradicate missions.
• Scopes on some weapons such because the Anti-Materiel Rifle are barely misaligned.
• Arc weapons typically behave inconsistently and typically misfire.
• Spear’s focusing on is inconsistent, making it exhausting to lock-on to bigger enemies.
• Stratagem beam would possibly connect itself to an enemy however it can deploy to its authentic location.
• Explosions don’t break your limbs (apart from whenever you fly right into a rock).
• Space round Automaton Detector Tower makes blue stratagems such because the Hellbomb bounce and be repelled when making an attempt to name them down shut to the tower.
• Planet liberation reaches 100% on the finish of each Defend mission.

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