HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

• [p]Battle For Super Earth commemorative cape!
  Please note: Capes may take several hours to complete deployment to all Helldivers.
  The cape is available for all active players during the Battle for Super Earth event, from May 13 to June 2.[/p]
• [p]Balance adjustments to Shrieker Mega Nests and the Leviathan[/p]
• [p]Fixes galore! Including a fix for the crash in the weapon customisation screen[/p]

• [p]Increased the health of Mega Shrieker nests. This change was made to make the objective more challenging and provide more varied solutions to destroying them. [/p]
• [p]Leviathans now have a shorter sight range and will mark their target with light a few seconds before they fire. This change gives players a fair warning before being fired upon.[/p]

• [p]Fixed crash that occurred when changing between menus in weapon customisation too quickly.[/p]
• [p]Fixed crash that would occur for players fighting bots with a poor connection.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a freeze when generating bug city missions.[/p]
• [p]Fixed crash that could occur when taking down Illuminate Overships. [/p]

• [p]Fixed Weapons with selectable ammo (Recoilless Rifle, Autocannon, etc) having their icons overwritten by the Warrant’s “Guided/Unguided” Mode.[/p]
• [p]P-92 Warrant: will no longer lock some targets when in unguided mode.[/p]
• [p]P-92 Warrant: Fixed an issue where lock-on would be difficult in some environments.[/p]
• [p]P-92 Warrant: Fixed some Z-fighting with lights on the weapon.[/p]
• [p]P-92 Warrant: Corrected animations for the pistol's sight, it should now fold away nicely when in unguided mode.[/p]
• [p]AX/LAS-5 “Guard Dog” Rover: will no longer return to backpack to “reload.”[/p]
• [p]AR-32 Pacifier: Fixed spent casing not ejecting from the ejection port. [/p]
• [p]Added Videos for the K-9 Guard Dog and Gl-52 De-Escalator.[/p]
• [p]One True Flag: Fixed an issue where planting the flag would cause objective items to clip through the ground. [/p]

• [p]Fixed some issues where enemies could clip into certain terrain elements.
  Note: We aren’t done resolving all of these issues and continue to investigate. Please keep the reports coming![/p]

• [p]Fixed an issue where horde missions would spawn at Difficulties lower than 5, which would break some functionality.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where certain bug missions would not spawn during operations.[/p]

• [p]Resolved issue with vehicle skins not having a scroll bar and increased total number of skins that can be displayed.[/p]
• [p]All cities will now display in the city availability UI.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug that would show 0 player count on some cities.[/p]
• [p]Added more logging to track desyncs and crashes.[/p]
• [p]Fixed Borderline Justice armours to be more accurate to their stats, e.g. slight improvement to draw speed, etc.[/p]

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2. Dune: Awakening
3. Steam Deck
4. ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
5. REMATCH
6. HELLDIVERS™ 2
7. Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic
8. Forza Horizon 5
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10. DELTARUNE

PlayStation have finally come to their senses and rolled back a lot of the unpopular PC region locking that's been stopping folks in various parts of the world enjoying a bunch of games. It looks like one of those titles, Helldivers 2, could finally be getting a cape players have craved for a year or so as a result.

Yep, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani has teased deploying the review bomb-themed cape that first emerged as a meme following the backlash to PlayStation attempting to change the game's PSN account linking rules last year. We've known the cape was a real item the studio had made for a while now, but with the region locking still ongoing, Arrowhead have opted to keep it locked away for months on end.

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Sony have been making a lot of mistakes over the past couple of years, including things like mistakenly thinking they could release 12 live service games by 2026, but the more immediately annoying one is its whole PSN thing. I probably don't need to remind you of that whole Helldivers 2 fiasco, where they tried to make logging into a PSN a requirement for those on PC and later scrapped this because it went down horrendously. However, there has been one other snag that came with all this PSN nonsense: region locking.

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Sony is finally removing its Steam region locks for several Playstation PC ports. These restrictions on dozens of countries and territories proved seriously controversial when they were applied to Helldivers 2 after it launched last year, and they affected several other PC ports for the likes of The Last of Us Part 2 and God of War Ragnarok. But now, those region restrictions are quietly disappearing from Steam, perhaps as a consequence of Stellar Blade's recent success on the platform.

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