HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

Patch 01.002.203

Good Friday morning Helldivers.
Auto Cannon update coming your way.

Overview

Bringing you the fix for the reload issues currently present in the game. We deemed this important enough to get in as fast as possible before the weekend

Fix for the auto-cannon reload bug, it now reloads as intended

When Helldivers 2 was at its lowest, Arrowhead looked to Hello Games and No Man's Sky to keep their chin up

I'm not sure I've seen people swing back and forth on a game so rapidly like they have with Helldivers 2. It's had a few hiccoughs here and there, which has made for some tough times for developer Arrowhead, at least in terms of battling the accursed "mixed" rating on Steam (and lower). In a recent interview with The Game Business, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani quite accurately noted that it's been "one heck of a roller coaster year" for Helldivers 2, and also went on to speak about what it was like clawing its way back from low ratings - all the while having to explain to Sony about summer holidays in Sweden.

Despite feeling like it's been around forever, Helldivers 2 is still just over a year old. One of 2024's biggest and most surprising breakout hits, it continues to draw in huge crowds, deliver regular Warbonds, and throw some curveballs into its constantly evolving galactic battle. But despite its relative youth, the game has already gone through some turbulent patches that, at times, looked like they might sink the ship. Speaking in a new interview, the CEO of developer Arrowhead Games says that during its hellish summer, where community sentiment soured and its Steam rating dropped as low as 19%, it looked to No Man's Sky's famous redemption arc as motivation for its own comeback.

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Helldivers 2's latest patch is little, but a fix for mission drop-in crashes "on legacy hardware" looks like it could be good news for PC folks struggling to play on older gear

It might be April Fools' Day today, but Helldivers 2 has recieved an actual patch. It's just a little one, is patch 01.002.202, but there is one fix in it that's caught my eye, given what's been going on with the game on PC lately.

PATCH 01.002.202

Release Captain Carlberg here with a small update for you this fine April Tuesday

Overview

Crash Fixes
Mission fix
Miscellaneous fixes

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
Crash Fixes, Hangs and Soft-locks:

Fixed game crashing on legacy hardware when player drops into a mission
Fixed crash after exiting the armory when switching from certain weapons
Fix an out-of-memory crash when large amount of particles are present

Weapons and Stratagems

Fixed shooting and reloading issues with laser weapons

Social & Multiplayer Fixes

Fixed an edge-case allowing some mismatching version to still connect to each other

Missions

Fixed issue on Illuminate Defend Evacuation Site missions where illuminate dropships stopped coming if too many were destroyed before they dropped off the enemies.

Miscellaneous Fixes

Fixed white boxes showing in seldom cases in the Super Store