HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

• Fixes to the EXO-45 Patriot exosuit, game stats, UI, and general stability.
  
• Balance improvements for planetary hazards and patrol spawns.
  

• Balanced and adjusted spawn rates for the various planet hazards including tremors, meteor showers, volcanic activity, fire tornados, and ion storms. Hazards should now spawn less frequently during missions.
  
• Meteor Shower has received the following changes in addition to reduced spawn rate:

• Reduced explosion radius
  
• Reduced meteor damage slightly
  
• Reduced meteor velocity slightly
  
• Meteor color has been changed slightly to try and make it easier to spot.
  

• Volcanic Activity has received the following changes in addition to reduced spawn rate:
  
• Reduced explosion radius
  
• Reduced rock velocity slightly
  

• Lighting on Fenrir III has been adjusted to be a bit less bright to improve visibility during meteor showers
  

• Reduced incidents of patrols spawning on players.
  
• Exosuit no longer destroys itself when firing a missile while turning .
  
• Exosuit retains its melee functionality, even when damaged.
  

• When ALT+Tabbing in fullscreen mode
  
• After changing voice over language
  
• PS5 boot issue
  
• Using a stim inside of an Exosuit while wielding a grenade
  
• When joining an ongoing mission
  
• When idling on the title screen
  

• Shots from arc-based weapons, such as 'Blitzer' shotgun and 'AC-8 Arc Thrower' stratagem now count towards "Shots fired" and "Shots hit" stats.
  
• Fixed network desync issue with downed Automaton dropships.
  
• Fixed Elgato Stream Deck Foot Pedal support.
  

• Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab.
  
• Players cannot unfriend other players befriended via friend code.
  
• Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand.
  
• Players cannot befriend players with Steam names shorter than 3 characters.
  

• Hellpod steering close to large or important objects is currently not functioning as intended, resulting in steering being disabled in a large area around the object.
  
• Online features are not functioning when console language is set to Ukrainian.
  
• Players may be unable to select loadout when joining a multiplayer via an activity card.
  
• Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission.
  
• Drowning in deep water with a Vitality Booster equipped puts Helldiver in a broken state.
  
• Exosuits will sometimes be delivered in a damaged or broken state.
  
• Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location.
  
• Pink artifacts may appear in the sky when setting off large explosions.
  
• Text chat box display is obstructed by the cinematic letterboxing during extraction.
  
• Sometimes the player’s loadout customizations will reset after restarting the game.
  

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Good news, Helldivers 2’s galactic war is going pretty well right now! As of writing, folks are on the verge of finally securing Draupnir, though, as always, this success has been accompanied by a bit of anxiety regarding what big twist the conflict could have in store next. It’s looking like the answer could be a returning faction from the first Helldivers game.

This is a bit of a shift from the major sources of worry throughout most of last week, which were mostly bug-related, as the massive number of soldiers playing the game fought to quell a Terminid infestation on several planets. Now though, the bugs look to be pretty well under control, with a new potential foe now on Super Earth’s radar.

First of all, congrats to the folks who’ve managed to push the automaton-infested Draupnir all the way up to about 97% liberation percentage as of writing, even if it looks like progress in the last stage of that fight’s stalled out a bit. This is because a lot of folks look to be growing tired of bots and heading for the other planet currently in Super Earth’s crosshairs - the bug-filled world of Crimsica.

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I love Helldivers 2. While Balatro and Last Epoch might have stolen slightly more hours of my time so far this year, Arrowhead Game Studios' bombastic co-op game repeatedly delivers these incredible moments of tension, panic, wonder, and elation; the kind of moments that make my brain shout, "This is the best game ever made." Yet, for all its masterful execution and an ever-expanding arsenal including the recent arrival of mechs, my favorite thing from the original Helldivers is still absent.

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With all of the server issues the game has had, you likely won't be surprised to hear that Helldivers 2 has (probably) sold exceptionally well.

Helldivers 2 has obviously been the surprise hit of the year, with developer Arrowhead constantly having to limit how many people can actually play the game within its first few weeks of launch, and scores of players working together to unlock things like mechs and more. Now, as reported by Bloomberg, we should have a better idea of just how well the game is doing. According to TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz, Helldivers 2 is estimated to have sold as many as eight million copies, with numbers continuing to grow every week. "We believe the game has performed well ahead of expectations," Creutz wrote in a note last week.

That number is hardly surprising, given that the game has hit a concurrent player count peak of 458,709 on Steam alone, not even counting how many players have been attempting to liberate the galaxy on PlayStation. Sony and Arrowhead are yet to release any kind of figures, though when you have a hit like this it's surely only a matter of time before the PlayStation manufacturer comes out with gloating about how well the game is doing - that, or if the game hasn't actually hit eight million units sold it'll just let this report do the talking.

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