HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has addressed the lack of communication over the next, delayed patch. The update is now expected sometime in the second week of June, as the team aims for a "higher quality standard" that also leaves room for communication with the playerbase. A hotfix has been rolled out for the newest Major Order, however, so you shouldn't be overrun by bugs while trying to read the below communication.

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• Fixed an issue causing enemies to spawn on the drill during the Operation: Enduring Peace order mission.
  

• Players may not have the option to send, accept or decline friend requests.
  
• Players may not have the option to Block other players.
  
• Blocked players are not added to the Blocked Player list or prevented from joining games.
  
• Game may crash if the player changes the text language while on a mission.
  
• Players may experience delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts.
  
• Players may occasionally receive excessive XP.
  
• Enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions.
  
• Arc weapons sometimes behave inconsistently and sometimes misfire.
  
• Most weapons shoot below the crosshair when aiming down the sights.
  
• AR-61 Tenderizer deals too little damage and is not in the final state we are intending.
  
• Spear’s targeting is inconsistent, making it hard to lock-on to larger enemies.
  
• Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location.
  
• Helldiver may be unable to stand up from crouching when surrounded by enemies.
  
• "Hand Carts" Ship module does not reduce Shield Generator Pack's cooldown.
  
• Some players might become stuck in the Loadout when joining a game in progress.
  
• Reinforcement may not be available for some players who join a game in progress.
  
• Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission.
  

There's a new mission in Helldivers 2 that tasks players with injecting Dark Fluid into the Meridia planet to destroy the Terminid Supercolony. Sounds simple right? Unfortunately, the team over at Arrowhead Studios appears to have missed the mark with this one, as those attempting to complete the objective are finding it borderline impossible thanks to the absurdly "broken" difficulty.

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Helldivers 2's latest Major Order is a simple one in theory - destroy the Terminid Supercolony on Meridia, using that experimetal Dark Fluid that may or may not end up attracting the attention of the Illuminate. However, in practice, thing are proving a lot tougher than that, thanks to some bug spawning issues that Arrowhead thankfully looks to already be aware of.

While a fix for this stuff seems like it'll drop relatively soon, it's sad to see the game's community riled up again so soon, given the recent changes from the studio behind it that've seemed to recapture a bit of the player trust that'd been wavering thanks to some controversial patches and the whole PSN linking thing.

So, what's happening to folks who dropping onto Meridia to try and aid in the destruction of that bug nest? Well, they're encountering enough bugs to make their task incredibly difficult - with a number arguing things go past the point of it just being a skill issue or something done on purpose.

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In case you missed yesterday's PlayStation State of Play, one of the big announcements was God of War Ragnarok's PC port, which is set to arrive on September 19. So, here's a thing people had been anticipating for a while.

It'll come, as these kinds of PC ports often do, with all of the DLC for the game and some extra performance options. Though, it'll require PC players to create a PSN account to pair with their Steam one - and here's why that's annoyed a lot of folks.

First of all, the fact that Ragnarok on PC will require a PlayStation Network account has been confirmed via the blog post about the game's PC announcement, reinforcing what a statement flicked up during the State of Play broadcast itself seemed to suggest. The Steam page for it, meanwhile, features a prominently displayed text box that reads: "PlayStation Network Account required, subject to the PlayStation Terms of Services and User Agreement."

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