HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

Helldivers 2 boss explains why 500kg bombs keep killing you

When it comes to bang for your buck, the 500kg bomb is the best Helldivers 2 stratagem. Precise. Big explosion. Fast call in time. If you get it in just the right spot, the Eagle stratagem is absolutely devastating. It doesn't have the widest radius, but that just means you can bask in the glow of bug guts to your heart's content. So why is it sometimes tricky? Well, the boss behind Helldivers 2 has now explained it, but I still have questions.

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Helldivers 2 players are on the way to earning a new mech, with a cool jet or bomb-based stratagem possibly to follow

If you've been a bit frustrated with the state of Helldivers 2 and are looking for reasons to jump back into the Galactic War - well, Arrowhead's here to provide 'em. The latest Major Order will reward a new mech if completed, and the studio's been taking community pitches for a new stratagem.

In case you missed it, Arrowhead's Johan Pilestedt recently stepped aside as CEO, in order to focus more heavily on helping oversee Helldivers 2's development. While the wider effects of this will likely take a little while to come to fruition, that hasn't stopped the developer from getting off to a quick start - he's already asked the community for some stratagem ideas they'd like to see become a thing.

Before we get to that, though let's start with this latest Major Order. The task is to liberate one planet - Varylia 5 - something players have already gotten around 30% of the way through as of writing. The reward would be "the dual-autocannon EXO-49 Emancipator exosuit", a mech that'll be possible to produce if an automaton "Petafactory" on the planet can be secured for Super Earth.

What are the best Helldivers 2 mods? After months of silence, it looks like our dreams of Helldivers 2 mods might actually come true. It was originally thought by fans that Helldivers 2 couldn't be modded at all due to Sony's strict anti-cheat measures, but this may not be the case after all.

When it comes to mods, there's always the slight possibility that you could be banned for tampering with game files. This isn't exclusive to Helldivers 2, practically every multiplayer game follows similar rules to this, but some developers are more lax than others. Here's what you need to know about the state of Helldivers 2 mods, including what you can use now and why there aren't more mods available.

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Helldivers 2 boss wastes no time outlining plans to improve game, starting with need to get more devs playing

In case you missed it, Arrowhead's Johan Pilestedt stepped aside as CEO of the studio yesterday, in order to focus more heavily on helping to develop Helldivers 2 from a creative perspective. He looks to be wasting no time in starting to tackle the game's percieved issues either, having already outlined some thoughts and plans to folks on Twitter.

Now serving solely as a chief creative officer and chairman at Arrowhead, having forked over a lot of the his business resposiblities to new CEO Shams Jorjani, it's not too surprising to see Pilestedt immediately engaging with the game's community in a pretty open manner. Even if odds are it'll probably take a little while for the changes some players are hoping for to actually start arriving in game.

In responses to a bunch of players commenting on his tweet about the role switch, Pilestedt's said a whole bunch about the current state of Helldivers 2 and what steps he and the studio'll be taking to try and remedy them.

После взрывного старта Helldivers 2 многие эксперты ожидали, что Sony поспешит купить Arrowhead Game Studios, однако разработчики нашумевшего шутера явно не заинтересованы в таком развитии событий.