Helldivers 2’s first patch because the PSN login debacle is out now, making some much-needed fixes to the sport.
Highlights right here embody a repair for Helldivers 2’s troublesome injury over time (DOT) drawback, a repair for misaligned scopes, and a repair for the R-9 Eruptor to fight a shrapnel drawback that was killing gamers.
Patch 1.000.302, out now throughout PC and PlayStation 5, is the primary to launch following Sony’s dramatic U-turn on the Helldivers 2 PSN login requirement that had sparked a backlash inside the recreation’s PC neighborhood. Developer Arrowhead shall be eager to place the occasions of final week behind it now Sony has buckled to PC gamer demand, though CEO Johan Pilestedt has admitted the studio has work to do rebuilding participant belief.
To that finish, the Helldivers 2 patches are nonetheless coming thick and quick, with this newest following the massive stability replace final week. Helldivers 2’s subsequent Premium Warbond, Polar Patriots, launches Might 9.
Helldivers 2 replace 1.000.302 patch notes:
Balancing
Major, Secondary, & Assist Weapons
R-9 Eruptor
- Elevated explosion injury by 40 and eliminated shrapnel from the explosion
That is to keep away from circumstances during 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 mounted points with the way in which Injury-over-time results have 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 now not damages the Helldiver
- Mounted points with some weapon scopes not being aligned in First-Individual-View.
- The sound when stimming now not performs whereas being interrupted
- Main orders with the “Kill job” now observe rating appropriately. Beforehand it counted your entire squad’s kills as soon as for every participant, that means it will multiply the rating by the variety of individuals on the mission; that is now amended.
- Helldivers can now not land on tall rocks within the “Horde Defend Missions”
- Helldivers can now not land on high 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 and then sizzling becoming a member of the energetic session
Crashes
- Mounted a crash that might happen when all gamers have been lifeless 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 tender lock that might happen if the participant would open the textual content chat whereas having the stratagem menu open
- Different common crash fixes
Social Menu Fixes
- PC gamers including buddies by pal codes can now not present up as “Unknown”
- Mounted overlapping footers inside menus
- Steam buddies ought to now be seen in Social Menu, despite the fact that Buddies Record will not be set to Public in Steam Privateness Settings
- Current Gamers record will now embody hot-joining gamers
- Gamers at the moment are capable of unblock gamers that weren’t of their buddies 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 correct aspect of the Robotics Workshop part now not shows 7 / 8 regardless of all stratagems being bought
- Resolved some edge circumstances associated to Steam AppId associated errors on login
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