HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

• Crash Fixes
  
• Mission fix
  
• Miscellaneous fixes
  

• 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
  

• Fixed shooting and reloading issues with laser weapons
  

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

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

• Fixed white boxes showing in seldom cases in the Super Store
  

The latest Helldivers 2 PC patch has got PC players begging for performance optimizations on Reddit and the Steam Community forum. Even though performance isn't directly addressed in the latest patch, it seems that some players are reporting worsening conditions with little explanation.

These ongoing issues aren't targeting any specific piece of hardware, meaning even if you have one of the best graphics cards, you might experience a downturn in performance since the latest Helldivers 2 patch arrived late last week. In fact, despite upgrading my GPU since I last played, my performance has also taken a hit, which I detail below.

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Helldivers 2's Galactic War has made its way back to the infamous Malevelon Creek just in time for the one year anniversary of the fierce fighting that led the planet - dubbed Robot Vietnam by players - getting its own memorial day canonized into the game's lore.

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Uh oh. The pretty titchy Helldivers 2 patch that dropped yesterday has managed to earn the ire of players who love a certain gun. It's the Eruptor, and as you might have guessed if you're a HD2 veteran, the tweak that's caused the aggro is to the shrapnel the gun kicks out in order to do a lot of its damage.

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• Crash fixes
  
• Weapon fixes
  
• Miscellaneous Fixes
  

• Fixed a crash that could occur when a large number of particles were displayed
  
• Fixed a rare crash when aiming scoped weapons
  
• Fixed some crashes when playing bot convoy missions
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when receiving Microsoft Teams messages while playing the game
  

• Fixed an issue where the weapon flashlights were flickering while using ADS
  
• Fixed an issue for energy based weapons not charging or overheating properly
  
• Fixed an issue with wrong drag setting on the GL-21 Grenade Launcher projectiles that made them lose velocity faster than they should have
  
• Fixed an issue where shrapnel from surface-hits was forced in a roughly south-west direction. Shrapnel should now properly fly out in a 180-ish arc in the direction of the surface hit
  

• Fixed an visual issue when reloading in ADS
  
• Fixed an issue for not being able to reload without overheating
  
• HUD fixes to properly show correct Ammo state
  
• Now properly resets the temperature to 0 when reloading
  
• Fixed a visual effect issue when holding down the fire button
  
• Removed a minor charging delay to firing projectiles
  

• Starting magazine amount increased from 2 to 4
  
• Max spare amount of magazines increased from 5 to 6
  
• Ergonomic effect increased from 0 to -10
  

• Starting magazine amount decreased from 6 to 5
  
• Max spare amount of magazines decreased from 10 to 7
  

• Resolved an issue where the Account ID was not visible in the Options tab
  

• Fixed an issue for the gas weapons, throwables and stratagems inverting the movement input for the Helldiver
  
• The Jarndiver override for the hoverpacks has been turned off effective today. This is reserved for General Brasch and other Super 10 Star Generals(Fixed a bug with the draw and kick emotes that allowed players to stay floating in the air)