Helldivers 2 welcomes its first patch which brings new features and a lot of balancing. You may need to rethink your strategy for spreading democracy!
Until now, Helldivers 2 had only received patches aimed at correcting bugs. There is therefore reason to be excited to see new content arriving in the game. If it is not yet the famous mechas, this patch risks in any case shaking up now well-established habits! Let’s see this in detail.
Big change for Helldivers 2
A little less than a month after its release, Helldivers 2 receives its very first patch adding content and balancing. The studio had unfortunately been too busy until then with server problems and other bugs. However, everything comes to those who wait. Titled “minor patch 01.000.100”, this update is actually nothing minor. She intends to greatly renew the experience for veteran Helldivers.
Among the most notable elements of the patch, we will notably note new planetary dangers. During your missions, you now risk facing fire tornadoes, falling meteors and other joys kept secret for the moment. As if the missions weren’t dangerous enough already!
Balancing at all levels
In addition to this major addition, the patch notes dwell at length on important balancing changes. For starters, Eradication missions will now require taking down more enemies and will take longer to complete. Next, many equipment and stratagems will undergo some overhaul. The Crusher shotgun, the electromagnetic rifle and the shield backpack will significantly lose effectiveness.
Conversely, the flamethrower, the laser cannon and the 380 and 120 mm orbital bombardments should regain some favor with the Helldivers. Finally, who says patch necessarily means its share of fixes. These are as much interested in damage unfairly taken as in bug fixes at the interface level. For the smallest details of this patch which is minor in name only, discover the full notes below.
Patch notes for version 01.000.100 of Helldivers 2 on PC and PS5
Patch notes translated into French by us
Major Additions
- Active planetary dangers
- Many planets now have additional environmental challenges that will appear randomly during your missions. On the program: fire tornadoes, meteor showers and many others!
Balancing
Eradication Missions
- Eradication missions will now require more kills and enemies will spawn more often. The time to complete the mission was previously shorter than expected and is now expected to take twice as long.
Primary, Secondary and Support Weapons
- Crusher: Decreased magazine capacity from 16 to 13, increased recoil from 30 to 55
- Electromagnetic Rifle: Decreased armor penetration, decreased damage against reinforced enemy parts
- Flamethrower: Increased damage per second by 50%
- Laser Cannon: Increased damage against reinforced parts of enemies, increased armor penetration, improved ergonomics
- Executioner: Increased total ammo capacity from 40 to 60, increased stun strength, increased damage from 40 per bullet to 45 per bullet
- Surging Crusher: Increased armor penetration, increased rate of fire from 300 to 330, increased number of projectiles from 12 to 16 per shot, decreased magazine size from 32 to 26
Stratagems
- Energy Shield Backpack: Increased time between recharges
- 380 and 120 mm orbital barrages: Increased bombardment duration, reduced dispersion
Fixes
- Fixed a bug with armor values not reducing damage as intended.
- Fixed a bug where some bug holes (including Stalker Nests) were more difficult to destroy than expected.
- Application of a patch now allowing the activation of anti-aliasing on PS5.
- Balanced lighting across planets to resolve situations where the game was too dark.
- Increased flashlight efficiency.
- Increased visibility during sandstorms on Erata Prime.
- Updated materials and lighting in the tutorial.
- Improved cases where certain materials could be “blurred” if the lighting graphics setting was set to “low”.
- Fixed timer issues that could appear during the primary objective “E-710 Extraction”.
- Changed button interaction behavior for bunkers. Helldivers will now be able to release the button after holding it for a few seconds.
- Fixed a few cases where large assets would float if the ground beneath them had been blown up.
- Helldivers standing near the intercontinental missile platforms during launch will be thoroughly fried, with a chance of not very spontaneous combustion.
- Fixed an issue causing snowballs to become impossible to throw after entering ragdoll state.
- Fixed an issue allowing grenades to be thrown while drowning.
- The camera will no longer be locked to the player’s body after blocking spectator mode.
- Helldivers now take damage from fire, gas, and other effects generated by other players.
- Armor will no longer stretch after being dismembered.
Known issues
There are issues that were either introduced by this patch or that we are working on, or came from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.
- The game may crash after the chain deployment of several powerful stratagems.
- Picking up items from caches can freeze characters in place for a long period of time.
- Picking up items from bunkers and caches quickly can make an item impossible to pick up.
- Players cannot unfriend other players added via a friend code.
- Players may not be able to select their equipment or return to their ship when joining a multiplayer game via the Activity Map on PS5.
- The mission objective HUD display shows different numbers for the client and host during certain missions.
- The default armor is always displayed when viewing the Battle Pass, regardless of what armor the player has equipped.
- The display of the text chat window is obstructed by the display of the cutscene during extraction.
- Some text in the ATH/UI is missing or not displayed correctly.
- Players may experience issues when trying to connect and/or play at the same time:
- The connection rate is limited
- Players can be connected during a game
- Various interface issues may appear when the game interacts with servers
- Some parties may not be contactable by others for a short period of time.