HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

Helldivers 2 latest Major Order was looking pretty well sewn up in favour of Super Earth yesterday, with just a couple of planets left holding out, but with their libreration well within reach. Unfortunately for the current objective sticklers, Arrowhead's now provided folks with the option to explore a planet with a fresh biome instead - and a lot of them are taking it.

To be fair, given how busy they've been saving kids and reporting bugs recently, can you blame folks for wanting to take some time away from the front lines and enjoy some fresh scenery? Especially since - and this might be the trump card - you can fulfil that dream you had as a kid to climb up big trees.

Yup, you heard me, folks dropping onto Garcrux - the fresh planet with a jungle-inspired landscape that matches the vibe of the gear added in the last warbond - have discovered that you can get launched up onto the branches of the world's trademark trees. How? Well, not by climbing in the traditional sense, but by picking the right moment to hop atop a freshly dropped pod as it opens.

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Look, make sure you've got some tissues ready before you read this. Helldivers 2's poor spear. Up until the game's most recent updates, the aiming on it was broken, and a loyal legion who love stabbing stuff spent ages praying and badgering Arrowhead to fix it for them. The developer did. But now the poor spear's back in the doghouse.

If you're out of the loop, Arrowhead's been busy working on a bunch of issues that've popped up since the game's most recent patch, including enemy spawn rates and ship modules that aren't doing what they say on the tin. The spear, sadly, is the latest addition to that list.

What's up with it this time? Well, something a bit differennt to the aiming issues that afflicted it before - it's now been linked to some crashes folks have been getting.

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While Helldivers 2's last big patch has gone down pretty well, it also seems to have created a fresh set of issues for Arrowhead to investigate. To its credit, the studio is now looking into two of the biggest problems players are currently reporting, though the list does look to be getting longer day by day.

If you're out of the loop, one of the things some folks have been reporting as they've gone about saving and then killing kids is that the changes the patch made to how enemies spawn - by lessening the amount of heavy units that get flung at people in favour of more small foes - have actually made things more difficult. Arrowhead's now confirmed it is looking into that, but the situation apparently isn't as straighforward as it might seem.

In a post on the game's Discord server, community manager Twinbeard has shared an update on the studio's efforts to investigate those reports that the tweaks haven't made for less folks getting helplessly pinned down at higher difficulties. "For those of you who are asking about patrols/enemy presence, this is an intricate one," he wrote, "Instead of me trying to get into the nitty gritty details, probably failing miserably, I think we should try to supply a proper explanation on how it works, what we've changed and how we want it to play in regards to enemy presence overall."

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Arrowhead is aware of the Helldivers 2 spawn problems players have been reporting since the last big patch, but says the team needs more time to "monitor and evaluate" the situation. The team clarifies that it brought patrol spawns back to earlier levels with the last patch while making some "slight tweaks," which may be the underlying issue.

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Despite some gripes about spawn rates and some lingering bugs, Helldivers 2's community seems to be a lot happier with the game since last week's big patch dropped. A lot of the praise from players for the change in direction has been going solely to ex-Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt, but the studio wants to make it clear that the patch was a team effort.

If you're out of the loop, Pilestedt made the decision to give up his CEO duties at the studio late last month, staying on as chief creative officer - a role designed to allow him to spend more time focusing on helping to oversee development of the game, rather than business stuff. While it's worked out pretty well so far - with enough goodwill having been restored that players recently chose to obey Arrowhead's insistence that theysave some poor Super Earth kids, Pilestedt's work hasn't been the sole factor in the turnaround.

In response to some of the praise the patch has spawned, Pilestedt's issued a response via Twitter. "I've seen a lot of people give me lots of cred for this patch as if I am the sole person responsible," he wrote, "I want to make it clear that the team are the ones that made it happen. Without their effort, design sensibilities, diligence and passion none of this would have been possible."

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