Major Helldivers 2 Patch Adds a Tank, Boosts Melee Strength, and Prepares Players to Liberate Cyberstan

Helldivers 2's latest patch, Into the Unjust: 6.0.1., is rolling retired now, adding a playable vessel and interchangeable triumph poses and emotes arsenic portion of a propulsion towards the liberation of the Cyborg homeworld, Cyberstan.

"We person confirmed, with factual impervious and beyond immoderate doubt, that the Automaton Collective stole our schematics for the Star of Peace. We cannot fto them crook this antiaircraft instrumentality of bid into a destructive limb of war," developer Arrowhead teased. "It's present up to you, our astir elite and almighty force, to bring them to justness connected their ain turf.

"We person approved the deployment of caller instrumentality for squads to assistance successful the swift elimination of the Automaton threat. Push toward Cyberstan and extremity this insult to Managed Democracy. Helldivers, fto this beryllium the past clip the Automatons bargain from Super Earth."

Highlights of the spot see the Bastion Tank, a caller vessel conveyance that is "ready to rotation implicit entrenched enemies," and "offering unrivaled firepower and defence connected the battlefield." Be warned, though — "it volition necessitate your squad to enactment unneurotic to hunt down the enemy!"

You'll besides spot a 50% summation to basal melee attack, changes to force behavior, and a trickier situation successful the game's hardest difficulties, with Arrowhead explaining that the "biggest alteration should beryllium noticed connected the Automaton beforehand portion Terminids and the Illuminate are little affected."

As for those aftermentioned Automatons? There's thing circumstantial astir them successful the spot notes beyond a cursory enactment that it's present confirmed that it was the Automatons that stole the Star of Peace schematics, but a fan-run Twitter/X relationship dedicated to Helldivers recovered this to stock with us:

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Helldivers 2 update 6.0.1 spot notes:

*** INCOMING MESSAGE FROM HIGH COMMAND ***

We person confirmed, with factual impervious and beyond immoderate doubt, that the Automaton Collective stole our schematics for the Star of Peace. We cannot fto them crook this antiaircraft instrumentality of bid into a destructive limb of war. It's present up to you, our astir elite and almighty force, to bring them to justness connected their ain turf.

We person approved the deployment of caller instrumentality for squads to assistance successful the swift elimination of the Automaton threat.

Push toward Cyberstan and extremity this insult to Managed Democracy. Helldivers, fto this beryllium the past clip the Automatons bargain from Super Earth.

📍 Patch Highlights

• Bastion Tank: A caller vessel conveyance is acceptable to rotation implicit entrenched enemies! The Bastion Tank offers unrivaled firepower and defence connected the battlefield. It volition necessitate your squad to enactment unneurotic to hunt down the enemy! (2pm CET)
• Chinese VO has been added to Helldivers 2!
• Arm yourself with the latest premium Warbond Siegebreakers, loaded with a devastating hammer built for close-range persuasion and an upgrade to a Helldivers favorite, the LAS-16 Trident!
• March into conflict successful benignant with the caller War Horse set, disposable successful the Superstore connected February 10!
• With a fewer exceptions, each triumph poses and emotes are present interchangeable!

⚖️ Balancing

General changes overview

Melee weapons and Armor passive with accrued melee harm re-balance

• Intent is to marque the Armor passive that increases melee harm little mandatory but inactive beryllium utile to marque melee weapons much effective.
• We accrued each the melee weapons harm and decreased the modifiers connected the armor passives that summation melee damage.
• Total harm with the melee armor passive volition beryllium higher oregon the aforesaid arsenic before.
• Base melee onslaught besides got a 50% harm increase.

SMG and Pistol rounds little Sway

• The intent is that the accrued resistance of SMG and Pistol which marque it a adjacent combat limb and little effectual astatine scope is the main diagnostic of these weapons.
• We decreased the Sway modifier to beryllium the aforesaid arsenic astir different weapons

Unify Weapon relation directions inputs

• The intent is to marque the "weapon relation modes" that are akin to beryllium connected the aforesaid "weapon relation absorption input".
• This is to marque it easier to retrieve which absorption akin types of limb functions are and besides marque it truthful you request to usage little "quick limb functions" inputs.
• Weapon relation modes that impact Programmable ammo, Ammo types, Volley modes, Safe modes, Guided modes volition present beryllium successful the near direction.
• We person not moved the underbarrel limb switching enactment to the near yet, but we are looking into moving it to the near absorption truthful each ammo altering switching is successful the near absorption adjacent if it is an underbarrel enactment that usually is successful the down direction.

Difficulty connected trouble 9+

Made changes crossed each factions to summation the strength connected precocious difficulties, the biggest alteration should beryllium noticed connected the Automaton beforehand portion Terminids and the Illuminate are little affected.

Value changes

Primary weapons

R-2124 Constitution

• Increased Bayonet melee harm from 110 to 165
• Increased Bayonet melee durable harm from 55 to 83

R-2 Amendment

• Increased Bayonet melee harm from 110 to 165
• Increased Bayonet melee durable harm from 55 to 83

MP-98 Knight

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

SMG-37 Defender

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

SMG-72 Pummeler

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

M7S SMG

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

SG-20 Halt

• Move the “ammo type” limb relation from Right to Left limb relation direction

DBS-2 Double Freedom

• Move the “Volley/Semi mode” limb relation from Right to Left limb relation direction

Sidearms weapons

P-72 Crisper

• Increased mag capableness from 30 to 50
• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

P-2 Peacemaker

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

LAS-58 Talon

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

GP-31 Grenade Pistol

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

LAS-7 Dagger

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

P-113 Verdict

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

M6C/SOCOM Pistol

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

PLAS-15 Loyalist

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

P-11 Stim Pistol

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.2 to 1

SG-22 Bushwhacker

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.3 to 1
• Move the “Volley/Semi mode” limb relation from Right to Left limb relation direction

P-4 Senator

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.3 to 1

GP-20 Ultimatum

• Decreased sway modifier from 1.3 to 1

CQC-30 Stun Baton

• Increased harm from 50 to 75
• Increased durable harm from 25 to 38

CQC-19 Stun Lance

• Increased harm from 110 to 165
• Increased durable harm from 55 to 83

CQC-2 Saber

• Increased harm from 125 to 188
• Increased durable harm from 65 to 98

CQC-5 Combat Hatchet

• Increased harm from 160 to 240
• Increased durable harm from 80 to 120

CQC-42 Machete

• Increased harm from 200 to 300
• Increased durable harm from 100 to 150

Throwables

G-7 Pineapple

• Increased max magnitude uses 3 to 4
• Increased commencement magnitude uses 2 to 3

G-31 Arc

• Increased max magnitude uses 4 to 5
• Increased commencement magnitude uses 3 to 4

Stratagems

SH-20 Ballistic Shield Backpack

• Shorter cooldown from 300 to 240 sec

Orbital Smoke Strike

• Shorter cooldown from 100 to 75 sec

CQC-9 Defoliation Tool

• Increased harm from 300 to 450
• Increased durable harm from 150 to 225

CQC-1 One True Flag

• Increased harm from 110 to 200
• Increased durable harm from 55 to 100

RS-422 Railgun

• Move the “Safe/Unsafe mode” limb relation from Right to Left limb relation direction

StA-X3 W.A.S.P. Launcher

• Move the “Programmable ammo mode” limb relation from Right to Left limb relation direction

GL-21 Grenade Launcher

• Increased armor penetration level from Medium to Heavy

Armor passives

Peak Physique

• Decreased melee harm bonus from 100% to 40%

Rock Solid

• Decreased melee harm bonus from 100% to 40%

Reinforced Epaulettes

• Decreased melee harm bonus from 50% to 20%

Enemies

General

Some enemies person had their harm vs durable rebalanced to set for Helldiver vehicles with ample wellness pools. It volition not alteration their effectiveness against mean Helldivers, lone their vehicles.

Things similar attacks from Bile Titans, Chargers, Crescent Overseers, Overseers, Rocket firing Automatons, Hulk melee attacks, mortars, acerb etc person gotten values adjusted. Some of the adjustments lone impact definite targets (ie the Bastion). Other adjustments besides impact the FRV and Exosuits.

Enemies Aim calculations were not ever updated erstwhile determination were galore enemies trying to aim, making Automatons connected higher difficulties a spot atrocious astatine aiming. They should present effort to update the purpose amended considering the information they person earlier they get different due purpose update. This means that Automatons volition purpose amended adjacent erstwhile determination are a batch of them without immoderate further outgo to performance.

Terminids

Dragon roach

• lowered the nonstop harm from the occurrence onslaught by 25%

Automatons

Rocket Raider

• Rockets present deals accrued harm vs Durable targets

Devastator

• Removed durable connected arms

Rocket Devastator

• Rockets present deals accrued harm vs Durable targets

Hulk Bruiser

• Rockets present deals accrued harm vs Durable targets

Gunship

• updated its targeting bundle and should present beryllium amended astatine hitting their targets
• Rockets present deals accrued harm vs Durable targets

Illuminate

Overseer

• Overseer`s limb present deals accrued harm vs Durable targets

Crescent Overseer

• Increased unit connected artillery onslaught to stagger the Helldiver
• Increased the harm of its nonstop changeable attack
• Crescent Overseer`s limb present deals accrued harm vs Durable targets

🎮 Gameplay

Emotes and Victory poses

Emotes and triumph poses are present interchangeable. Except for a fewer exceptions similar emotes that necessitate 2 people, the footwear and a fewer others, each the triumph poses tin present beryllium utilized arsenic emotes and each emotes tin present beryllium utilized arsenic triumph poses

🔧 Fixes

Hang Detection

As portion of our ongoing warfare against bugs and instability we person introduced a “hang detection” diagnostic successful the PC version. If the crippled hangs (freezes) for much than 20 seconds past this caller diagnostic volition clang the crippled alternatively of letting it enactment hung. This generates a record called a “crash dump” which contains important debugging accusation for our programmers to diagnose and hole the basal origin of the hang.

If you acquisition a hang, delight hold astatine slightest 40 seconds earlier restarting your PC to let the bent detector to bash its job.

If you acquisition a 20+ 2nd bent followed by a crash:

• If the clang reporting model shows up past delight taxable the study arsenic usual.
• If the clang reporting model doesn’t amusement up (it tin fail), we humbly petition that you stock the clang dump record with our subordinate enactment squad (https://arrowhead.zendesk.com/). They volition beryllium capable to assistance you successful locating and sharing the clang dump file.

With your help, we tin destruct these issues erstwhile and for all!

Crash Fixes

• Fixed a uncommon clang caused by limb customization desynchronization
• Fixed a uncommon clang that would hap erstwhile players would entree the Galactic Map
• Fixed a clang caused by Automatons successful Lava Missions

Weapons & Stratagem Fixes

• The RS-422 Railgun mag during reload animation is present visible
• When finishing an Eradication ngo aft the ngo clip has tally out, an over-zealous 2nd Pelican aviator volition nary longer heroically effort to extract our noble Helldivers if different is already en route
• AX/FLAM-75 "Guard Dog" Hot Dog has its dependable effects fixed
• AR/GL-21 One-Two underbarrel explosions dependable effects are present fixed
• MLS-4X Commando rockets volition present people properly, alternatively than targeting the past spot the Helldiver aims at
• Fixed an contented wherever the R-36 Eruptor displayed incorrect zoom levels options erstwhile utilizing non-zoomed scope attachments
• Fixed a bug wherever the B-1 Supply Pack would springiness infinite supplies erstwhile dropped
• Fixed the ocular glitches that look successful the preview conception of the Weapon Customization Menu
• Helldivers tin present reload whilst wrong an M-102 Fast Reconnaissance Vehicle
• B-1 Supply Pack tin nary longer beryllium utilized connected Helldivers erstwhile their ammo, grenades and stims are full
• Fixed bug wherever communicative run operations would not persist betwixt crippled sessions
• Projectiles from turret stratagems volition present besides deed their owners
• The Ministry of Defense has installed scrubbing chips connected the Ground All-Terrain Extraction Rig, preventing accidental lock-on by astute weaponry
• RS-422 Railgun present decently displays the clip during the Reload animation if the subordinate reloads the limb instantly aft firing
• When cancelling a reload aft a caller projectile was made visible, but earlier it was enactment into the weapon; the limb would show the caller ammunition successful the weapon, adjacent with the limb empty. The weapons volition present correctly show if it is acceptable to occurrence oregon not
• Heat based weapons are present displaying overheating properly, successful the Weapon Function Menu
• Kills with "One True Flag" volition present number towards Major Order kills
• Fixed the M-1000 Maxigun wind-up sounds which would sometimes not play properly
• Player tin nary longer propulsion aggregate stratagems aft entering and exiting emplacements
• Grenade launcher shots and explosions from AR/GL-21 One-Two firearm should present beryllium disposable erstwhile changeable by different players

P-92 Warrant

• Made the resistance and gravity the aforesaid connected the non-guided projectile arsenic the past spot alteration for the guided projectile.
• Move the “Guided mode/None Guided mode” limb relation from Right to Left limb relation direction

Enemies

• Enemies person learned however to people better
• Fixed spawn complaint connected Rapid Acquisition missions connected trouble CR7-10. Adjusted spawn points connected Rapid Acquisition map

Miscellaneous Fixes

• Automaton dropships volition present determination little erratically erstwhile dropping enemies
• Fix incorrect camera positioning erstwhile transitioning to archetypal idiosyncratic portion reloading
• Fixed an contented wherever players could onshore connected Command Bunkers successful metropolis missions
• Fixed definite items not being interactable wrong circumstantial PoIs connected Magma planets
• Solved terrain tallness changing erstwhile approaching oregon moving distant from a deformed portion of terrain, causing a weird ocular effect
• Exiting a conveyance present decently inherits the vehicle`s velocity
• High-Command has present authorized Commando Operations to beryllium carried retired connected each Automaton controlled planets. They volition often beryllium disposable to take alongside the regular Peace Keeping Operations going forward
• Fix harm inconsistencies betwixt lawsuit and big damage. Clients should nary longer bash little harm than the host
• Players nary longer get stuck nether the span during Rapid Acquisition missions
• The Helldiver decently follows manus presumption protocols erstwhile activating powerfulness stations
• Camera correctly points towards the Hellidver during the push-up emote
• The artillery airy volition present crook disconnected aft its transportation during “Seize Fusion Batteries” objective
• Draw! Emote nary longer locks melee weapons
• Adjusted Automaton scanner glow - they volition nary longer radiance achromatic whilst scanning for Helldivers
• The Super Earth Flag is present correctly playing the Super Earth Anthem erstwhile utilizing the stratagem during Hive World Missions
• The Helldiver present moves their hands distant from terminal screens to not artifact show to whoever is looking implicit their shoulder
• [Xbox Only] Smoke volition nary longer show greenish artifacts connected reddish planets
• The Guard Dog bid of stratagems person had their names shortened to amended readability. They’re inactive your loyal companions, but present with shorter, easier to work names.

Optimizations

• We improved fog density / visibility betwixt Volumetric Fog Quality settings, making the Lowest and Low settings lucifer
• Improved show of gathering worldly recovered successful colonies and cities
• Removed the light-source that was attached to the Helldiver, which was utilized for making acheronian environments brighter adjacent the player; tweaked and improved playability and visibility successful darker environments instead
• Fixed an contented that was causing immoderate players to get a "10002026" mistake during login attempt
• Implemented show improvements affecting explosions and wide destruction, chiefly surrounding bot factories

Helldivers 2's adjacent Warbond, Siege Breakers, is retired today, February 3, arsenic portion of this update. As elaborate successful a caller post, this Warbond is for players needing "something to smash done [...] towering foe with impenetrable fortifications,"... which I'm beauteous definite means it's needed by each of us.

Don't hide that February volition a "month of day surprises" arsenic Helldivers 2 hits its 2nd anniversary. To footwear america off, Arrowhead formally introduced america to the "face of Freedom, the dependable of Victory, the airy of Liberty," John Helldiver himself.

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