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September 2024

September 17th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.001.100 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 Major Overhaul of Anti-Tank, Armor Penetration, Health and Armor Values Weapon & Stratagem Balancing Enemy Reworks Helldiver Health and Damage Mechanics Tweaks Gas Gameplay Mechanic Rework New Galactic War feature Emote Wheel feature Crash & Bug Fixes ❗Major Updates❗ Helldivers, Thank you for your valuable feedback. Many players have expressed feeling constrained in how they approach challenges, often relying on a limited set of tools while other options seem less effective. This has impacted your ability to play the game in a way that suits your preferences. So, what’s changing? For all the bugdivers out there, many situations were previously either resolved with your primary weapon or anti-tank weapons, which haven’t always performed as expected. With the overwhelming presence of Bile Titans and Chargers, many weapon choices therefore became invalid. To address this, we've reworked armor penetration, anti-tank weapons, enemy armor and health values. Our goal is to improve the effectiveness of weapons such as the Autocannon, Heavy Machine Gun, Flamethrower, and Anti-Materiel Rifle against heavily armored enemies. Although they may not be as effective as specialized anti-tank weapons, they are now more viable choices making your loadouts more versatile, fostering better team collaboration and planning. On the Bot front, Hulks have also had their armor reduced, making them more vulnerable to a wider range of weapons. Additionally, to improve the gameplay experience, the Devastator and Gunship will now have a limited supply of rockets, and those rockets won’t hit as frequently as before. This comes alongside the previously updated smaller impact radius for rockets, reducing excessive ragdolling. We’ve also made improvements to many primary weapons, bringing them closer in effectiveness to the most popular choices. This should offer more variety and flavor during your play sessions. We are adjusting damage mechanics to make the damage Helldivers receive more consistent over time by reducing 100% extra headshot damage to 50%. To maintain the overall challenge of the game, we've slightly increased the damage taken to other parts of the body. Our intent is to preserve the intensity of the gameplay while minimizing frustrating situations where sudden headshots cause large damage spikes. With these changes, along with an upgraded Helldiver arsenal, enemy adjustments, and more consistent damage, the overall difficulty may slightly decrease. We'll be monitoring this closely and will listen to the community on how you think it feels. We want to assure you that your feedback remains essential to us. Please share your thoughts on these updates, as we are actively listening. We plan to conduct another balance pass by Day 60 of our commitment to ensure we’re aligning with what you need for the best possible experience and to address any concerns or adjustments required. Your insights will be invaluable in refining these changes and making sure the game remains engaging and enjoyable for everyone. ⚖️Balancing⚖️ Previously, partial damage dealt 50% of full damage, which we found to be overly punishing and reduced effectiveness too much, leading to an excessive reliance on high armor penetration weapons. We’ve now increased partial damage to 65% of full damage to address this issue. The Helldiver now takes less damage from headshots, which previously dealt 100% extra damage but now inflict only 50% extra damage. Damage from hits to other body parts has been slightly increased depending on the area hit. This adjustment aims to normalize overall damage while maintaining detailed damage zones, reducing spike damage. Primary Weapons< /span> Liberator & Liberator Carbine Damage is increased from 60 to 70 Durable damage increased from 14 to 17 Stagger force increased from 10 to 15 Max spare magazines increased from 7 to 8 Starting spare magazines increased from 5 to 6 Liberator Penetrator Damage increased from 45 to 60 Liberator Concussive Now comes with a drum magazine which holds 60 rounds Number of mags reduced from 10 to 6. The number of mags have been reduced due to larger magazine capacity Knight Damage is increased from 50 to 65 Durable damage increased from 5 to 7 Magazines now fully refill when picking up resupply Reduced recoil Tenderizer Number of rounds in its magazine increased from 30 to 35 Starting magazines increased from 4 to 5 Breaker Now comes with an extended magazine which holds 16 shells Stagger force increased from 10 to 15 Spray and Pray Now has a duckbill muzzle making its spread very horizontal but less vertical Total Damage increased from 192 to 240 Scythe Cooldown is faster Adjustments to the heat VFX Scope changed to a low powered scope Removed recoil Sets enemies on fire faster Crossbow Explosion radius increased by 50% Explosion damage increased from 150 to 350 Eruptor Shrapnel is back! We heard your feedback and re-introduced the shrapnel. We have replaced the original shrapnel with the Frag Grenade shrapnel to no longer instantly one-shot Helldivers with the exception of the occasional unlucky headshot. Shrapnel projectiles amount are set to 30 Shrapnel damage is set to 110 Explosion damage decreased from 340 to 225 We also increased the amount of shrapnel Explosion radius increased by 33% (17% for inner radius and 50% for outer radius) Defender Damage increased from 70 to 75 Durable damage increased from 7 to 8 Diligence Damage increased from 125 to 165 Durable damage increased from 32 to 42 Counter Sniper Damage increased from 140 to 200 Durable damage increased from 14 to 50 Stagger force increased from 15 to 20 Blitzer Now has a weak stun effect that builds up per shot on its targets Torcher Damage increased by 50% Flamer mechanics reverted to before the Escalation of Freedom update Increased AP from 3 to 4 Sidearms Peacemaker Increased max spare magazines from 5 to 6 Dagger Gains heat more slowly Removed recoil Damage increased from 200 to 250 Sets enemies on fire faster Adjustments to the heat VFX Crisper Damage increased by 50% Flamer mechanics reverted to before the Escalation of Freedom update Increased AP from 3 to 4 Support Weapons Dedicated anti-tank weapons like the Recoilless Rifle, Quasar, Commando, Expendable Anti-Tank, SPEAR, and Patriot Exosuit rockets have all received significant damage boosts to enhance their effectiveness. These weapons generally fall into three categories: Strong and Reliable: The Recoilless Rifle and SPEAR can afford to be less accurate when firing at armored targets since most hits will eliminate enemies the size of a Charger Strong: The Expendable Anti-Tank and Quasar are highly effective, often killing targets with a single hit to a weak spot; otherwise, two solid shots will handle a Charger, or one shot for a Hulk Less Strong: The Commando and Patriot Exosuit Rockets typically require 1-3 shots to take down a Charger or Hulk, depending on your aim Grenade Launcher Starting spare magazines increased from 1 to 2 Max spare magazines increased from 2 to 3 Explosion radius slightly increased Laser Cannon Cooldown is slightly faster Removed recoil Sets enemies on fire faster Can now damage heavier enemies like Chargers, Bile Titans, Impalers, Hulks Adjustments to the heat VFX Arc Thrower Range increased from 35 to 55 Now has a moderate stun effect that builds up on its targets Jumps additional times Durable damage increased from 50 to 100 Railgun Durable damage increased from 60 to 225 Fully overcharging damage increased from 150% to 250% Stalwart Damage is increased from 60 to 70 Durable damage increased from 14 to 17 Stagger force increased from 10 to 15 Machine Gun Stagger force increased from 15 to 20 Heavy Machine Gun Stagger force increased from 20 to 25 Can now damage heavier enemies like Chargers, Bile Titans, Impalers, Hulks Anti-Materiel Rifle Durable damage increased from 135 to 180 Can now damage heavier enemies like Chargers, Bile Titans, Impalers, Hulks Stagger force increased from 20 to 25 Commando Demolition strength against structures has been reduced; it can no longer destroy Automaton Fabricators in a single shot. However, since the fabricators now have health (see details below in Gameplay > Automaton Fabricators), it can still take them out with two shots Flamethrower Damage increased by 33% Flamer mechanics reverted to before the Escalation of Freedom update Increased armor penetration from 3 to 4 Can now damage heavier enemies like Chargers, Bile Titans, Impalers, Hulks Autocannon Can now damage heavier enemies like Chargers, Bile Titans, Impalers, Hulks Grenades Frag Grenade Shrapnel damage increased by roughly 50% Max amount increased from 4 to 5 Refill increased from 2 to 3 Explosion radius increased Thermite Grenade Explosion damage increased from 100 to 2000 Shorter time until it ignites the thermite Time until it explodes slightly reduced Max number decreased from 4 to 3 Stratagems Every Stratagem capable of damaging heavily armored enemies has had their damage increased to account for the increased health of heavier enemies. The goal with this change is to have the Stratagems on a similar or higher power level than before. In addition to that, we have made the following changes as well. Eagle 500kg Bomb Explosion radius increased to match visuals better Eagle Rockets Damage slightly increased Gatling Sentry Stagger force increased from 15 to 20 Machine Gun Sentry Stagger force increased from 15 to 20 Tesla Tower Increased stagger force to match other Arc weapons Now has a moderate stun effect that builds up per hit on its targets Heavy Machine Gun Emplacement Stagger force increased from 20 to 25 Can now damage heavier enemies like Chargers, Bile Titans, Impalers, Hulks Patriot Exosuit Gatling stagger force increased from 15 to 20 Emancipator Exosuit Autocannon durable damage increased from 60 to 150 Rate of fire on its weapons increased from 125 to 175 Ammo increased from 75 to 100 per arm Orbital Laser Damage slightly increased Orbital Railgun Damage slightly increased Orbital Gas Strike We are reworking the gas gameplay mechanics to become more crowd control focused in preparation for the Chemical Agents Warbond The gas effect has been reworked to cause blindness and confuse enemies and Helldivers alike at the expense of reduced damage over time 🎮Gameplay🎮 General New Galactic War Feature The Galactic War map can now display the location of strategically important assets. This will make it much easier for the Helldivers to take them into consideration when deciding on their next move. Emote Wheel Players can now equip up to four emotes in the armory and access them using the new Emote Wheel feature by holding the Emote button. Additional separate key binding options are available for the Emote Wheel in the settings. Added Dolby Atmos support on PS5 Enemies Automatons Automaton Fabricators Automaton Fabricators now have health and armor in addition to their existing destruction system. This means that while many high armor penetration weapons can still destroy them, it may take multiple hits to do so, depending on the weapon used Added effects to clearer showcase their health state Hulks (All variants) Armor reduced from 5 to 4 Back weak spot slightly more durable Back weak spot health decreased from 1000 to 800 Hulk Bruiser Replaced the rocket launcher for an energy based cannon Increased how frequently the Hulk Bruiser shoots Tank Front armor increased from 5 to 6 Berserker Head health reduced from 150 to 125 Main health reduced from 1000 to 750 Abdomen is now a weak spot Chainsaw damage increased Devastator (All Variants) Main health reduced from 800 to 750 Devastators now flinch when hit, causing their aim to worsen, similar to the Conscripts. The intent is to make them easier to manage if you keep applying damage Rocket Devastator Now has a limited number of rockets, and you can see them disappear when they are spent Added a reload mechanic from their backpack to replenish their rockets once Rocket physics collision is smaller, making them easier to avoid Gunship Gunships now have a limited amount of rockets Rocket physics collision is smaller, making them easier to avoid   Terminids Charger (All Variants) Armor reduced from 5 to 4 The butt weak spot health is decreased from 1100 to 950 The butt weak spot is slightly less durable The belly armor reduced from 4 to 2 A damage multiplier has been added to the Charger's exposed flesh of the main body, now dealing 300% damage Now turn slightly slower, when charging and moving normally Now charge less often Charge damage increased by 50% Side attack damage increased by 50% Behemoth Charger The butt weak spot health is decreased from 1200 to 950 Hunter Health is reduced from 175 to 160 Scavengers Health is reduced from 80 to 60 Bile Titan Armor reduced from 5 to 4 We have reworked the Bile Titan’s belly gameplay Belly armor reduced from 4 to 2 Introduced a separate belly health pool once the outer belly layer has been destroyed Destroying the exposed belly health pool kills the Bile Titan Impaler Armor reduced from 5 to 4 Previously the Impaler could only retract its tentacles once during its entire lifetime when threatened, now it can do it several times Its tentacles pursue you over a shorter distance from the Impaler and prioritize players nearer to the Impaler If the Impaler can’t see an enemy it will retract its tentacles after a brief period Impaler Tentacles Tentacle damage is increased Reduced camera shake of the tentacle attack The tentacles require less damage inflicted on them to retract Planets and Modifiers The Intense Heat and Extreme Cold modifiers are no longer static throughout the entire mission, and may now change based on time of day or different weather conditions Some desert planets will now only have the Intense Heat modifier active during the day. This means that during night the planet will either have no modifier, or in some cases have the Extreme Cold modifier Arid planets (similar to the Hellmire planet) will now only have the Intense Heat modifier active during fire tornado storms 🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed per weapon aim mode not saving correctly - NOTE: This patch will clear all the saved aim modes but everything should work correctly afterwards Crash Fixes and Soft-locks: Fixed a crash that could occur if shutting down the game during boot Fixed a crash caused by players with unique skins timing out Fixed a crash when vehicle skins are not properly synced Fixed a crash caused by players leaving the game shortly after being reinforced while using unique hellpod skins Fixed a rare crash produced by Bile Spewers attacks Fixed a crash when interacting with the galactic war hologram Fixed a crash when joining another super destroyer Fixed a crash that could happen when you were participating in a secondary objective Fixes crash when booting the game on PS5 with an unsupported systems language (such as French-Canadian) Fixed a potential crash when new players hotjoin Fixed a potential crash when other players were leaving the game Fixed a rare crash when using the Hologram map and looking at the operations You should no longer crash when interacting with the Galactic War Map when an update is required Fixed a rare crash which could occur when joining a game session which has cycled through at least 32 unique players Fixed an issue where objective stratagems cannot be completed if host migration happens Fixed an issue where already joined players would be getting kicked when other players join the game Fixed a bug where closing Steam overlay in the middle of the super credits purchase would stay in a broken state for any purchase after that (it previously needed a game restart to work again) Fixed inaccessible shuttles after hosts leaving the game right before its landing Fixed soft-lock during mission summary if the host left the game Fixed an issue where emotes would not exit properly if you canceled them using sprint Social Menu Fixes: Fixes to PS5 friends list Objective and Enemy Fixes: Evacuate High-Value Assets Objective Fixed issue where enemies would spawn on top of the extraction Enemies can no longer shoot generators from spawn points or from far away Fixed enemy pathing where they would sometimes try to enter the base from the mountain on the side Added more protection for the generators to prevent enemies shooting them from far away Heavy and flying enemies now prioritize attacking the player before the generators and the gates Fixed an issue where enemies would stop spawning for a period of time when the host leaves the mission Conduct Geological Survey Objective Fixed issue in “Conduct Geological Survey” mission in which the Seismic Probe could become inoperable if a player called it in and left the game or disconnected Tweaked enemy spawns Impaler Fixed a bug where Impalers didn't receive explosive damage in their exposed weak areas Fixed Impaler's tentacles not being pingable Fixed a bug where standing near the Impaler's head during the tentacle retraction could cause Helldivers to be launched high into the air Fixed a bug where tentacles spawning beneath players could occasionally launch Helldivers into the air Fixed a bug where the Impaler’s tentacles could sometimes launch the Exosuits into the air when the player was inside Miscellaneous fixes: Fixed enemies not receiving damage properly when more than 10m away from the player Fixed issue where Bile Titans may sometimes not take damage to the head Fixed issue causing most weapons to shoot below the crosshair when using aim down sight Fixed cases where the Hive Breaker drill might become inaccessible after being called in Fixed issue where first-person view was misaligned with weapon sights when using the Ballistics Shield Stratagem HMG scope is no longer misaligned Fixed lens cutting issues in scopes Fixed bug where multiple confidential data pickups could spawn in the same stronghold when only one is intended Fixed two-person emotes getting players stuck in an animation lock Fixed intro cinematic missing audio in German Fixed an instance of Automatons shooting through walls Fixed a bug where sometimes prerequisite objectives would be shown above the primary objective in the HUD Fixed broken menus when opening the main menu right before entering the Hellpod (when the Loadout menu opens) Fixed weapon preview in loadout not being visible right after inspecting armors/helmets/capes Fixed Eagle payloads sometimes not blowing up in swamp biome Fixed stronghold outposts giving (only visually) 0 rewards on the mission summary objectives screen Fixed time-outed players still visible on the UI with the white player color Fixed long player title names text now scrolling instead of overlapping with other texts Fixed Reinforced Scout Strider showing the wrong name Removed the deprecated Orbital Flare Stratagem from Stratagem hero Fixed a bug where some of the stratagems did not have data being shown in the Loadout Fixed reinforcements called and stratagems used numbers on mission end Fixed issue of drill objective floating in air when hot joining an ongoing 'Nuke Nursery' mission Disabled invite/join functionality when players are playing in a different game version Fixed player names not showing on ship after a mission Fixed a desync issue in how many civilians have been extracted in "Emergency Evacuation" mission Fixed unexploded Hellbombs on the terrain not being pingable Fixed not seeing teammates equipment when hot-joining a mission Fixed 'Failed to Extract' text incorrectly shown when extracting with the shuttle scene Solved the issue where the player will not unlock the new difficulties after fulfilling the requirements for it Binding Stratagem inputs to other buttons should not block terminal inputs Fixed other players helldivers showing over the weapons/armors when they are joining and the player is selecting equipment selection in Loadout Fixed a bug when starting the mission even if exiting loadout. Going back to the briefing screen will now unready the player Fixed the issue where the players can click on entries through the tabs on the bindings menu Pinged enemies and objects now display correctly after changing language Fixed stratagem canceling purchase experience where moving mouse up and releasing the mouse button would not stop filling the button and the purchase process Fixed an issue in our ragdoll optimizations where the wrong collision filters were used for some physics actors, leading to queries hitting unintended shapes Fixed a bug in our ragdoll optimization code which caused some explosion types to deal incorrect damage An incorrect message about removing a friend will no longer be displayed in the player information popup Fixed multiline text sometimes being misaligned Fixed issue where it scrolled down/up 2 Warbonds in the Acquisitions menu when scrolling with the left controller stick Fixed motion controls while aiming when the "Motion Sensor Enable Mode" option is set to "Aiming" regardless of Aim input type Fixed a bug where the player can change tabs while changing the ship's name Fixed no final ready up sound played when rejoining a mission Map markers on objectives will follow the objective if it changes position, as in the case of SSSD drives Fixed issue where the player can throw an unlimited amount of grenades/throwing knives after diving into shallow water while holding and then throwing the last throwable Fixed another issue where players could be stuck holding the stratagem ball if they open the stratagem menu directly after the previous action Now the game client displays a proper error message with useful information when the PlayFab login fails Fixed ADS projectile misalignments Fixed aim block raycast issues in ADS Fixed aim position misalignments that happen from repeatedly entering and exiting ADS Fixed displayed incendiary mines icon and anti-tank mine label when the mine racks for these stratagems were marked/pinged Fixed issue when changing tab in Armory while scrolling clears the scroll view Fixed a bug that allowed players to bypass heat build-up for both the Scythe and Sickle when switching weapons during their reload animations Fixed an issue where the 500kg bomb impact explosion was not being triggered Fixed an issue where you could find several Confidential Data assets in Fortress locations Increased the red zone size during drop select for Fortress locations Improved error reporting on the splash screen to provide better support Enemies now spawn during "Spread Democracy" objectives Added another visual effect to the orbital cannon Fixed Automaton projectiles clipping through assets Fixed an issue where the Combat Walker bumping into a big building would destroy it Fixed some assets bouncing flamethrower flames back Fixed an issue where incorrect SFX audio for weapons with custom fire modes were being played Fixed extraction timer not showing in landing beacon when mission time is over Fixed health not synced correctly after the duration of stim heal (especially in friendly fire situations) Fixed audio SFX cutouts when switching between weapons 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are the highest priority issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. This is not a comprehensive list. Top Priority: Players may not receive Friend Requests sent from another platform Large units have no audio cues, allowing them to sneak up on players Enemies will try to shoot the generators through walls in the Rescue High-Value Assets mission Enemies are sometimes capable of shooting through walls Social menu is stuck on ‘Please Wait Democratically’ for some players Dead bodies of Chargers can launch the Helldiver into the air Stratagem balls bounce unpredictably off cliffs and some spots Players may sometimes be unable to join specific friends, or are returned to ship when joined Medium Priority: Reinforcement may not be available for players who join a game in progress Mines may become invisible or may disappear in Multiplayer lobbies Pelican-1 may sometimes be launched away if hit with an Impaler tentacle Supply packs may be incorrectly used if pressing down on a controller while calling in a stratagem Friends "Invite only" games can still be seen on the Galactic War Map but cannot be joined High damage weapons will not detonate hellbombs Some enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions

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August 2024

August 6th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.001.002 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 For this patch, some of the major areas of interest are: Difficulty Level 10 - Super Helldive New mission objectives Bigger enemy outposts New Bugs and Bots New environmental hazards New swamp world Crash fixes Social menu fixes. We have fixed several issues and still have things to improve but know that we are aware and working tirelessly on this, we thank you for your patience and understanding. Balance work Miscellaneous fixes ❗Major Updates❗ Difficulty Level 10 - Super Helldive - A new, extreme difficulty level designed for the most experienced and skilled Helldivers, featuring formidable new enemies and intense challenges. New mission objectives - Two new secondary objectives will soon be active on a planet near you! These faction-specific optional objectives will have you assaulting Automaton human processing plants to destroy their evil Bio-Processor, and venturing deep into Terminid territory to extract with a living larva sample that the bugs will do anything to get back! Bigger enemy outposts - Assault Terminid strongholds and Automaton fortresses in the new difficulty Super Helldive. The challenge will be great but the rewards even greater. Search the conquered outposts thoroughly for the confidential data and make sure to extract with it. May liberty guide your path. New Bugs and Bots - New and enhanced threats to freedom emerge. Guess who’s back to bug you again? The Impaler returns, burrowing its head and popping tentacles from the ground to catch you off guard. Watch out for its lethal limbs, but don’t miss its weak spot when it digs in - it seems like self-preservation still isn’t its strong suit! The Rocket Tank rolls in with heavy armor and devastating firepower. The Reinforced Scout Strider now has its previously vulnerable spot fortified and boasts two rockets on each side for greater firepower! The Spore Charger fearlessly invades through the thick acidic fog, accompanied by an Alpha Commander, watch out for its friends! New swamp planet biome - Prepare to dive down into an eerie and foggy version of the swamp planet. Keep your wits about you and do not let fear take hold. New environmental hazards - Acid Storms - Temporarily lowers armor for enemies and the player. Make use of this but stay on high alert Helldivers. ⚖️Balancing⚖️ Primary Weapons SG-8S Slugger [Balanced Changes] Increased stagger force Increased spread Increased drag SG-225IE Breaker Incendiary[Nerfed] Decreased number of magazines from 6 to 4 Increased recoil from 28 to 41 GP-31 Grenade Pistol[Balanced Changes] Decreased ammo capacity from 8 to 6 Increased the number of rounds replenished from an ammo box from 2 to 4 CB-9 Explosive Crossbow[Buffed] Is now one-handed Stratagems AX/AR-23 Guard Dog[Buffed] Increased number of magazines from 6 to 8 Orbital Walking Barrage[Buffed] Increased number of salvos 3 to 5 Decreased movement speed by 40% Orbital 120mm HE Barrage[Buffed] Decreased cooldown from 240s to 180s Reduced time between salvoes 🎮Gameplay🎮 The operation modifier Atmospheric Interference has been removed. Additionally for the automatons we added the modifier "Poor Intel" which makes objectives on the map to get a search radius just like most Eliminate objectives already has. Corrosive acid planets no longer have the Intense Heat environment modifier. Gunship Patrols are now less frequent and the amount of ships are reduced. Gunship Engines are less durable now. Improved armory weapon preview controls. Updated orders UI. Energy shields such as the Shield Generator Pack and Shield Generator Relay now block snowstorms as well as sandstorms. A new grief protection system has been added that allows kicked players to continue in their own mission. This allows players to complete the mission and get full rewards despite being kicked. 🔧Fixes🔧 Crash Fixes Decreased the chance of crashing when pressing alt+tab while using exclusive fullscreen window mode. (Windows) Fixed rare crash which could occur while browsing Warbonds. Fixed rare crash which could occur when switching tabs in the loadout. Fixed rare crash which could occur when inviting PSN friends to a session. (PS5) Fixed rare crash which could occur when selecting a booster in the loadout. Fixed crash which could occur when browsing the acquisition center menus and alt-tabbing. (Windows) Fixed rare crash which could occur in the loadout after joining a game. Fixed crash which could occur when ragdolling into barbed wire. Fixed crash which could occur when joining a mission with active vehicle skins from disconnected players. Fixed crash which could occur when peers with unique skins would get kicked or disconnected. Weapons and Stratagem fixes FS-55 Devastator armor Fixed incorrect description. ARC-12 Blitzer You can now hold the fire button to shoot continuously. ARC-12 Blitzer, Plasma Punisher Added missing armor penetration tags. GP-31 Grenade Pistol, LAS-7 Dagger, SG-22 Bushwacker Moved into a Special sidearm category. LAS-16 Sickle Fixed incorrect fire limit value in the weapon stats. SH-20 Ballistic Shield Backpack No longer blocks the enemies line of sight. No longer collides with the combat walker. Fixed a bug where picking up an SSSD drive would cause ballistic shields to be dropped. Fixed ballistic shield to not collide with player as long as wielded. AX/AR-23 Guard Dog Can now be refilled from ammo boxes found on the map Misc weapon fixes Fixed a bug where weapons would be held sideways after interrupting a stratagem with a stim heal. Fixed arc weapons not shooting out any bolts when line of sight to enemy is blocked by an obstacle. Bolts will now fire but they will hit the obstacle. The misfires did not give the player sufficient feedback. We hope this makes the weapon operation clearer. Fixed arc weapons misfiring when shooting enemies quickly that are aligned horizontally. Added in missing haptics when firing the AR-61 Tenderizer. Social Menu fixes General improvements to the social menu systems. Resolved some issues related to inconsistent social menu options. Fixed issues regarding squad menu block button. Fixed Various UI issues in the social menu. The “Block menu” now more accurately shows blocked players. Improvements to recent players tab. Improved reliability of social menu options. Resolved issues related to friend code generation. Reduced occurrences of ‘please wait democratically’. Players should find it easier to join one another's games. Players should find it easier to send/accept/decline friend requests. Improved UX for ‘dangerous’ actions (kick/block/unfriend). Miscellaneous fixes Fixed a game soft lock where the extraction shuttle would sink into the ground preventing players from extracting. Fixed being able to click hidden items (ie- items that have scrolled out of view) in the settings and bindings menus. Game no longer hangs on quit after changing the crossplay setting. Fixed hellpods not destroying trees in the swamp biome. Weapons supporting auto reload retries could reload twice if interrupted in the final stage and firing occurred before resuming. Auto reload retries can now be canceled by pressing reload. Resolved an issue where transitions into jog and sprint animations would be delayed if spammed. Reduced the intensity of the Experimental Infusion booster visual effect. Fixed missing description from Experimental Infusion booster. Fix Helldivers's prone rotation being reset after dodging while aiming. Fixed stamina bar not respecting the stamina visibility HUD setting. Fixed section number of owned stratagems not updating on purchase. Fixed Hologram map preview not showing extraction point. Improved performance of terrain destruction. Fix stuck helldivers in cryo chambers after cutscene interruptions triggered by the host. Improvements to the physics of the Ballistic Shield Stratagem as well as some bugs related to physics. Fixed effects tab top title not showing correctly in Portuguese. Fixed discarding when changing settings menu after changing resolution, render scale or screen device without applying. Fixed special characters not showing in player names when picking up items. Fixed the issue where players couldn't press ESC to discard resolution changes on the popup. Fixed naming of Shrieker nests as Bug holes when pinging. Hive Breaker Drill now does damage when dropped in Nuke Nursery Chamber missions. Fixed weapon aim modes (both global and per weapon) not being remembered between closing and re-opening the game. Fixed progress bar not showing for Raise the flag objective. Adjusted flame effects to work more realistically. It doesn't go through various bodies/objects where bounce off would be the expected behavior, like on armors and static objects. Fixed issue where minimap would allow interactions during ion storms. Changing text language in-game will no longer cause terminals to appear blank. Fixed a bug where equipping a skin from the Warbond's purchase confirmation menu would reset the player's armor selection. Hellpod skins are now visible on ships; initial hellpod drops from host ships will share the host's skin selection, while subsequent reinforcements will use individual skin selections. Samples are transferred to the shuttle when boarding, dying inside the shuttle won't drop samples. Reverting to default settings on a tab will no longer overwrite settings in other tabs. The minimap now closes, if open, when exiting an Exo-Suit. Loadout menu call-in times now include transportation time, aligning with in-game values. Hellbomb stratagem will now be visible on the HUD when you are near an objective where it can be called down. Applied fix to avoid that multiple stratagems - SOS beacon, sentries, resupply pod - would deploy inside of the Escape Pod. Added graphics settings preset for Steam Deck. Helldivers may now use stims while at full health for their other democratic effects. “Kill x amount of enemies by guard dogs" personal orders can now be completed. The latest warbond released will now appear at the top of the warbonds list. Fix "[0/0]" being displayed in assassinate missions. Fixed bug causing equipment previews to load indefinitely. Fixed teammates picking up an item not showing the name in their color. Fixed text chat cursor not working. Implemented a more informative Quickplay toggle button. Fixed effects tab sometimes showing scrambled. Fixed mines being invisible for hot-joining players. Additionally, fixed a bug causing recently deployed mines to become invisible. Mines will no longer detonate if they are shot through a Shield Generator Relay bubble from the exterior or situated behind a solid obstacle and shot at. Display hit markers for all weapons. Fixed mute icon not showing when player muted. Fixed bug when using a stim which canceled other players' sprint. Fixed stimming animation while holding an Expendable AT. Gone in 360 seconds trophy now awarded on difficulties greater than or equal to 6 rather than only on difficulty 6. If a hellbomb is destroyed while it's armed and the timer is active it will explode. Fixed issue where the player can throw an unlimited amount of grenades/throwing knives after diving off of a ledge while holding and then throwing the last throwable. Fixed another issue where the player would hold an invisible grenade/throwing knife if they still had any left after hitting the ground in the same way. Added TOGGLE MICROPHONE option to toggle the microphone activity for voice chat. Sentries now won't try and attack certain buildings, and bullet sentries don't waste ammo on dropships. Fixed HUD Info feed visibility setting not working correctly. Fixed HUD Stratagem Visibility setting showing stratagems UI when set to hidden and opening the map. Fixed UI sometimes showing the wrong amount of bug holes destroyed. Patriot Exosuit missiles no longer self inflict damage. Fix explosions not working from far distances against armored enemies. Fixed issue when not being able to text chat when in loadout and the rest of the team is on the mission. Fixed issues with Mission Control Radio voiceover not triggering. Fixed a bug where changing VO language could take a very long time (sometimes forever) to apply. Fixed issue that was leading the account linking menu to close automatically if it's being accessed through the in-game settings and the user's account was already linked. Defend event progress now properly shown in mission end sequence. Fixed effects tab sometimes showing scrambled text. 🧠Known Issues🧠 We are aware and currently investigating some performance issues with difficulty 10, we have begun working on a fix. Game may display an infinite loading screen if a player disconnects during the deployment cutscene. Players may sometimes not receive Friend Requests sent from another platform. "Invite only" games created by a Friend can still be seen on the Galactic War map but cannot be joined. “Conduct Geological Survey” mission may become incompletable if a player calls in “Seismic Probe” and immediately leaves the game or disconnects. Bile Titan sometimes does not take damage to the head. Enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions. Dead massive enemies may sometimes launch the helldiver into the air. Most weapons shoot below the crosshair when aiming down the sights. Flamethrowers fired from inside the Shield Generator Relay cannot damage enemies. Chain-link fences block flamethrowers’ fire. Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location. “Guard Dog Rover” does not overheat when firing continuously. Reinforcement may not be available for players who join a game in progress. Service Technician on the ship cannot be interacted with - they complained they were bothered too much and could not do their work efficiently. Enemies can sometimes shoot through obstacles.

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JUNE 2024

June 13th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.400 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 For this patch, some of the major areas of interest are: Visible Supply Lines & Attack Origins in the Galactic War. Stratagem, weapon, planet, and enemy balancing updates. Various crash fixes, stability improvements, and other updates. Invite-only lobby creation. The right most option in the Lobby settings. Currently only localized in English. Additional languages coming in the next patch ⚖️Balancing⚖️ General Goal with stratagem balance changes this patch: With these balance changes we wanted to buff up some of the weaker stratagems to make them more viable and add more possibility for variety in the loadouts. We also changed a few to make them more consistent, but the goal was to keep a similar or higher power level. We are looking into the stratagems more to see if there are any other stratagems that might need some buffs or changes to make them more viable. We also want to be better at explaining what our goals are with the changes, please see the linked blog post for more information. Primary Weapons AR-23 Liberator [Buffed] Increased projectile damage against durable* body parts from 10% to 23% AR-23C Liberator Concussive[Buffed] Increased projectile damage against durable* body parts from 23% to 35% BR-14 Adjudicator[Buffed] Increased magazine capacity from 25 to 30 Increased projectile damage against durable* body parts from 10% to 20% AR-61 Tenderizer[Balanced Changes] Increased projectile damage from 60 to 95 Increased projectile damage against durable* body parts from 10% to 17% Decreased ammo capacity from 35 to 30 Decreased number of magazines from 10 to 8 Increased stagger strength PLAS-101 Purifier[Balanced Changes] Increased projectile armor penetration to be the same as the explosion Decreased explosion damage falloff CB-9 Explosive Crossbow[Buffed] Increased explosion armor penetration to be the same as the projectile Increased demolition strength (Can destroy Bug holes and Bot Fabricator buildings) Added medium penetration tag R-36 Eruptor[Buffed] Increased total damage from 420 to 570 damage per shot R-63 Diligence[Buffed] Increased projectile damage against durable* body parts from 10% to 25% * Some enemies have durable body parts that receive only a portion of base damage from projectiles Other Updated Recoil stance modifiers: We made changes to the recoil stance modifiers to make them more consistent and also reward being prone more. Almost all of them will improve the recoil and only a two have been made worse (and only by 10%). Stratagems A/MLS-4X Rocket Sentry[Buffed] Decreased spread Prioritize larger targets Increased target distance from 75 to 100m Decreased Rockets per salvo 2 to 1 (to get a better ammo economy) Increased explosion radius from 1m to 4m Decreased explosion armor penetration (Explosion can no longer damage heavy armored enemies. The projectile still has enough AP to damage heavily armored targets.) Increased projectile damage from 200 to 300 A/MG-43 Machine Gun Sentry[Buffed] Reduced cooldown from 180 sec to 120 sec. A/MG-43 Machine gun Sentry, A/G-16 Gatling Sentry, A/MLS-4X Rocket Sentry, A/AC-8 Autocannon Sentry, A/M-12 Mortar Sentry, A/M-23 EMS Mortar Sentry:[Buffed] Increased durability* from 0% to 80% E/MG-101 HMG Emplacement[Buffed] Increased rotation speed by 100% MD-6 Anti-Personnel Minefield[Buffed] Increased explosion damage from 250 to 350 MD-I4 Incendiary Mines[Buffed] Increased explosion damage from 150 to 210 Orbital Gatling Barrage[Major Buff] Increased fire rate by 25% Increased rounds per salvo from 30 to 60 Increased armor penetration (Can damage heavy armored enemies) Decreased cooldown from 80 sec to 70 sec Orbital Precision Strike[Buffed] Decreased cooldown from 100 sec to 90 sec Decreased Spawn/Call-in time from 4 sec to 2 sec Orbital Airburst Strike[Buffed] Decreased cooldown from 120 sec to 100 sec Eagle 110MM Rocket Pods[Balanced Changes] Improved targeting Increased projectile armor penetration (now does 100% damage to heavily armored enemies instead of 50%) Decreased projectile damage 600 to 250 (to compensate for the improved targeting and the extra damage from the increased armor penetration.) Decreased explosion armor penetration (explosion can no longer damage heavily armored enemies) Eagle Strafing Run[Buffed] Increased uses from 3 to 4 Increased armor penetration, can now damage heavily armored enemies. GL-21 Grenade Launcher[Buffed] Increased explosion damage by from 350 to 400 MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun[Buffed] Increased projectile damage from 100 to 150 Increased projectile damage against durable* body parts from 23% to 33% Decreased fire rate from 450/750/900 to 450/600/750 Decreased reload time from 7 to 5.5 sec Increased stagger strength MG-43 Machine Gun[Buffed] Decreased reload time from 4 to 3.5 seconds Increased max amount of Magazines from 3 to 4 MG-43 Machine Gun, A/MG-43 Machine gun Sentry, A/G-16 Gatling Sentry and EXO-45 Patriot Exosuits Gatling[Buffed] Increased projectile damage from 80 to 90 Increased projectile damage against durable* body parts from 7.5% to 25% M-105 Stalwart and AX/AR-23 “Guard dog”[Buffed] Increased projectile damage against durable* body parts from 10% to 23% 🎮Gameplay🎮 General Removed operation modifier AA-Defenses: Reducing the stratagem slots by 1 We want to look over the operation modifiers in the future. Right now there are too few of them which become repetitive and the ones we have do not create variety or promote different playstyles. For now, we removed this one because it only encourages the players to bring the best stratagems and does not promote variety Disabled the Retrieve Essential Personnel defend event mission for the time being This is to give the mission the proper attention and care that it deserves as it is now deemed not fun enough or performing as we want it to. Change to Super Samples Super samples now spawn on difficulty 6. The reason for this change is that we feel that their existence only on difficulty 7+ forced some players to play the game on a harder difficulty than they wanted to comfortably play on. We do however still want a gating of them but a less punishing one. Others The SEAF Artillery stratagem is no longer blocked by stratagem jammers or Ion Storms, and is available after the mission timer ends and the destroyer leaves close orbit. Enemies in melee range of the gates in the Evacuate High-Value Assets mission will now attack it more consistently. Added the ability to chat from in-game menus and mission loading screen. Updated some first person crosshairs to improve readability. Social Invite-Only lobbies are now supported Armors New armor passive Peak Physique (+50% melee damage, +30% weapon ergonomics) Planets & Hazards Spike Plant The spike plant that appears on certain planets has been reworked. No longer causes bleed or stamina drain if hit by the plant explosion or spikes. Now “pops” three times sending spikes everywhere, dealing increased damage. Fire Tornados Fire tornados have had their behavior changed, they should no longer feel like they actively respond to player movement, and should move more randomly. While a fire tornado storm takes place, enemy vision is reduced. Player vision is unaffected. [Fire tornados being more random should result in more variance in situations players find themselves in. Tornados are significantly less likely to pile up and overlap on extraction points or objectives, and will generally be a bit easier to deal with.] Tremors Tremors have had their spawning tweaked to be slightly more random. Tremors have had their epicenter size and effect range increased. [These changes should result in more situations where enemies away from the player get stunned, as well as reducing how consistently the player has a tremor occur next to them.] Ion Storms Added additional VFX for Ion Storms. Visibility A lot of planets have had their fog amounts tweaked to be a bit less harsh and dense, to provide less fatigue from constantly fighting on planets with bad visibility. We still intend there to be foggy planets with worse visibility, but the balance was a bit off. Desert planets such as Erata Prime, Chort Bay, Hellmire, and similar. Highlands planets such as Varylia 5, Matar Bay, Oshaune, and similar. Artificial light sources have had their intensity rebalanced and reduced across the board to fix situations of lights completely blinding the player. Unexploded Hellbombs The unexploded malfunctioning hellbombs that can sometimes be found on planets will now explode immediately if hit with strong explosions or heavy weaponry. They will still have the same delay if hit by small arms fire or weaker attacks. Vegetation Vegetation that’s large enough to slow the player now has an extra function. When inside the vegetation helldivers will be harder to detect, reducing their detection range by enemies. This effect stacks with other detection reducing effects such as nighttime, being crouched or prone, or things such as the scout armor passive. Enemies Acid Effect The acid effect applied by hunters, bug mines, etc. now allows you to sprint while under the effect and slows you by 30% instead of 50%. Duration has been increased from 3 to 4 seconds. These changes are intended to make it less punishing for players to be slowed while fighting the Terminids, This allows us to use it in more places without making the experience very punishing, for example the Bile Spewers. Armored Enemy Balance We have toned down the amount of heavily armored enemies like Bile Titans, Chargers on higher difficulties and instead spawn more hordes of smaller enemies, the difference should be quite noticeable and the amount should be at least 30% less than before during bug breaches. We have also toned down slightly how many Hulks that spawn for the Automatons. Our intent is to ease up on the demand of anti-tank weapons and by having more of the other enemies give a better incentive for the group to bring stratagems and weapons that take care of hordes. Patrols Patrol spawning is now back to how it worked before patch 01.000.300 with some slight tweaks so that the levels are less empty if you are far away from important locations with enemy presence. Stunning Medium and large sized enemies now don't get stunned as easily. This will not affect the stratagems that stun, and will mostly just affect how easily the Pummeler can stun larger enemies. Terminid-Specific Bile Spewer and Nursing Spewer Spewers will now get slowed if they lose their legs. Spewer puke now applies the acid effect. Spewer puke now can only damage helldivers up to 4 times per second and the helldiver cannot take damage multiple times from the same projectile. This should reduce instances where you are instantly killed by it. Bile Titan The Bile Titan’s head is slightly less durable against weaker anti-tank weapons. It's not a large change, and will mostly matter for weapons like the railgun. The Bile Titan’s puke can now only damage the helldiver 4 times per second and the helldiver cannot take damage multiple times from the same projectile. The damage is still very deadly so running through their puke is not recommended. Their puke now also has a bigger spread. Charger behemoth The Charger Behemoth is now joining the battle on higher difficulties, it can now also take more damage than before. This enables us to spawn fewer chargers but still retain the difficulty. Chargers Will now only show bleedout effects from the body if the bleedout state has started. It can still show bleedout effects from the mouth without having started the bleedout state. Automaton-Specific Hulk Scorcher The Hulk’s flamethrower now does less damage and cannot damage helldivers more than 4 times per second. In addition, the helldiver cannot be damaged multiple times by the same flame projectile. This should reduce instances where you are instantly killed by it. Automaton Tanks The Tank armor value on the front has been lowered to be the same as the non-vent sections on the rear of the tank. The intent was initially that it was supposed to be more armored in the front, but the visual language did not show that. The vents on the back of the Tanks turret still has the same armor value as before, but will check for explosion directions correctly now. Assault Troopers The damage of exploding automaton jump packs has been decreased by 50%, it will still set you on fire though. ⚔️Galactic War⚔️ Introducing Supply Lines & Origin of Attacks Supply lines were previously not shown on the Galactic War map to reduce clutter and improve readability. However based on the feedback from our community we have made an implementation showing them on the map. This solution tries to maintain the general readability while still exposing the system to players in game. You will now also be able to see which planet an attack is originating from, potentially allowing for the community to stop the attack at its source. We have also updated visuals in the sector and planet info pop-ups. 🔧Fixes🔧 Gameplay The FAF-14 Spear targeting has been reworked and should now function much better. However it has lost the ability to target Automaton Spawners, this is not intended and will be fixed in the future. Intense Heat and Extreme Cold environmental modifiers will now affect the Quasar Cannon’s reload speed and will show correctly in the HUD. Reload speed on Cold planets -2.5 sec Reload speed on Hot planets +2.5 sec The radar pulse that detects enemies on the mini-map is now visible. Most of Automatons weapons have now gotten tighter limits to how much the projectile they shoot can deviate from its weapons muzzle angle. What this means is that situations where devastators shoot sideways and similar should be fixed. The weapons of the Exosuits are now allowed small adjustments in the angle they fire their projectiles versus their muzzle angle. This should make their weapons more accurate. Ballistic shield now collides with grenades. The unblock button should no longer disappear from the social menu. Blocked players can no longer join the blockers lobby through recent players. Fixed a bug where enemies killed, missions played, and missions completed stats would not be properly displayed in armory. Fixed issue where the player can throw an unlimited amount of grenades by pressing the "Quick grenade" button right after closing the Stratagem menu. Helldiver now also switches to the last active weapon when out of grenades, fixing the issue where they would be holding a stratagem ball without the stratagem menu being open. Fixed some text overlap in various locations. The burning effect applied to the player when a combat walker dies is now a normal burn. The intent is that you should be able to escape it alive. But you will be on fire so hit the ground! The extraction shuttle can no longer take damage preventing extraction. New high grade materials directly from Super Earth R&D have been utilized. On PC you can now navigate the super credits menu with “WASD” keys. Fixed an issue where sample count in missions were incorrectly displayed Levels no longer generate with blocked areas preventing player progression. Your Ships bridge is no longer cast in perpetual shadow. Reduced situations where blue stratagems would bounce when placed next to the detector tower. The warbond menu now displays correct emote & victory poses in the thumbnail. War Medals cap is now displayed in the UI. Fixed a bug where the Helldivers armor could appear invisible for other players. Refined player reporting UI. Fixed issue where Helldivers could be launched into the air if close to a Bile Titan or Factory Strider corpse. Fix for Factory Strider sometimes spawned an extra model after being destroyed. Reduced situations where helldivers could spontaneously die while walking into seemingly walkable valleys on some planets. Fixed rare issue on arctic planets where players could spontaneously die close to large bodies of water. Fixed Pelican-1 sometimes leaving immediately after any player gets onboard. Fixed bug where helldiver could get stuck in grenade idle state after throwing grenades. Fix Superior Packing Methodology not working for other peers. Recent Players list will now include hot-joining players. Relaxed disconnection policy for PC users. Fixed an issue where previous sessions' player names might not be saved correctly when restarting. Defend event attack origin now visualized when hovering the planet with the defend event or the attack origin planet. Implemented outlines for previously poorly readable texts. Crash Fixes General crash fixes. Fix for a crash that could occur when applying wounds to multiple enemies. PlayStation Only: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause a crash when switching between Quality and Performance mode. Fix for a crash when a player leaves after all their railguns have exploded. Fix for crash that could occur when rejoining a previous session. Fix for crash that occurred when trying to throw a snowball in ADS mode. Fix for potential crash when loadout is aborted during hotjoin. Fix for rare crash linked to leaving a session while aiming a weapon. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Sending friend requests via friend code in game currently does not work. Players may be unable to be joined or invited to the game. Players added to the 'Recent Players' list will appear in the middle of the list. Players may experience delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts. Spear targeting is unable to target Automaton Spawners. 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. Plasma Punisher is unable to shoot out of the shield generators. 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. Bile Titan sometimes does not take damage to the head. Charger’s butt does not take damage from explosions. Players may become stuck in the Loadout when joining a game in progress. Reinforcement may not be available for players who join a game in progress. Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission. "Raise Flag of Super Earth" objective does not show a progress bar. Mission count in the Career tab is being reset to zero after every game restart. Some weapons’ descriptions are out-of-date and don’t reflect their current design. BR-14 Adjudicator has incorrect recoil values.

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MAY 2024

May 7th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.302 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 For this patch, we have made improvements and changes to the following areas: Some weapon and enemy balancing Crash fixes Social Menu issues DoT damage fix Misaligned scopes fix General fixes and improvements ⚖️Balancing⚖️ General Weapon BALANCED CHANGES: 1 Primary, Secondary, & Support Weapons Primary Weapons R-36 Eruptor [Balanced Changes] Buffs: Increased explosion damage by 40 Nerfs: Removed shrapnel from the explosion This is to avoid cases in which players would randomly one-shot themselves or their teammates in a huge radius around the explosion. Enemies Buffs: Increases Shrieker sight and hearing range slightly. Increased Gunship hearing range slightly 🔧Fixes🔧 Gameplay We have fixed issues with the way Damage-over-time effects were being applied. This should fix issues where only the network session owner could apply them, and other cases where they would be applied inconsistently Firing the Punisher Plasma while wearing a shield backpack no longer damages the Helldiver Fixed issues with some weapon scopes not being aligned in First-Person-View. The sound when stimming no longer plays while being interrupted Major orders with the “Kill task” now track score correctly. Previously it counted the entire squad’s kills once for each player, meaning it would multiply the score by the number of people on the mission; this is now amended. Helldivers can no longer land on tall rocks in the “Horde Defend Missions” Helldivers can no longer land on top of bug pillars in Deactivate Terminid Control System missions Fix for the reinforce stratagem not being present if a Helldiver leaves the session before readying up and then hot joining the active session Crashes Fixed a crash that could occur when all players were dead on the “Deactivate Terminid Control System” mission Fixed a crash that could occur on game shutdown Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving the mission and rejoining Fixed a crash that could occur at the end of cutscenes Fixed a crash that could occur when diving into missions Fixed a tutorial crash that could occur on PC when ALT+Tabbing Fixed a rare crash that could occur when using beam weapons Fixed a rare crash that could occur for players on startup when using VPN Fixed a soft lock that could occur if the player would open the text chat while having the stratagem menu open Other general crash fixes Social Menu PC players adding friends through friend codes can no longer show up as “Unknown” Fixed overlapping footers inside menus Steam friends should now be visible in Social Menu, even though Friends List is not set to Public in Steam Privacy Settings Recent Players list will now include hot-joining players Players are now able to unblock players that were not in their friends list beforehand Fixed issue with empty friend-names in Social Menu Lobby privacy mode text updates immediately when changed Player names longer than 26 characters should now update properly in the Social Menu Fixed issue where non-host players could kick others indiscriminately including the host Other Total purchased counter on the right side of the Robotics Workshop section no longer displays 7 / 8 despite all stratagems being purchased Resolved some edge cases related to Steam AppId related errors on login

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APRIL 2024

April 29th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.300 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 This update includes Balance changes to weapons, stratagems, and enemies Change to the Spread Democracy mission ⚖️Balancing⚖️ General Armors with armor rating above 100 now also reduce damage on headshots Victory poses will now only play for the extracted (No stolen valor on my ship) Burning damage reduced by 15% Weapon BUFFS: 14 Weapon NERFS: 5 Weapon BALANCED CHANGES: 3 Stratagem BUFFS: 2 Stratagem NERFS: 1 Primary, Secondary, & Support Weapons Primary Weapons CB-9 Exploding Crossbow [Balanced Changes] Buffs: Increased stagger Increased number of magazines received from resupply from 6 to 8 Muzzle velocity increased Nerfs: Slightly smaller explosion Decreased number of maximum mags from 12 to 8 Slight reduction in ergonomics BR-14 Adjudicator [Buffed] Now placed in Assault Rifles category Buffs: Full auto is now the default fire mode Reduced recoil Increased maximum mags from 6 to 8 Increased number of magazines received from resupply from 6 to 8 SG-8P Punisher Plasma [Buffed] Now placed in the Energy Weapons category Buffs: Increased amount of magazines received from resupply from 6 to 8 Decreased damage falloff on the explosion Increased projectile speed, but will still keep a similar range Nerfs: Decreased maximum mags from 12 to 8 ARC-12 Blitzer [Buffed] Now placed in the Energy Weapons Category Buffs: Increased shots per minute from 30 to 45 R-36 Eruptor [Nerfed] Nerfs: Decreased number of maximum mags from 12 to 6 Explosion damage drops off slightly faster LAS-16 Sickle [Nerfed] Nerfs: Decreased amount of magazines from 6 down to 3 LAS-5 Scythe [Balanced Changes] Buffs: Increased damage from 300 to 350 Nerfs: Decreased max number of mags from 6 down to 4 63CS Diligence Counter Sniper [Buffed] Buffs: Damage increased from 128 to 140 Ergonomics improved R-63 Diligence [Buffed] Buffs: Damage increased from 112 to 125 AR-19 Liberator [Buffed] Buffs: Damage increased from 55 to 60 AR-23C Liberator Concussive [Buffed] Buffs: Damage increased from 55 to 65 JAR-5 Dominator [Nerfed] Nerfs: Damage decreased from 300 to 275 Secondary Weapons P-19 Redeemer [Nerfed] Nerfs: Slightly increased recoil P-2 Peacemaker [Buffed] Buffs: Increased damage from 60 to 75 P-8 Senator [Buffed] Buffs: Increased damage from 150 to 175 Speedloader added when reloading on an empty cylinder; speeds up reload on empty considerably Changed iron sights from glowing horizontal lines to a red dot sight. LAS-7 Dagger [Buffed] Buffs: Increased damage from 150 to 200 Support Weapons LAS-99 Quasar Cannon [Nerfed] Nerfs: Increased recharge time by 5 seconds (10 > 15 seconds) FAF-14 Spear [Buffed] Buffs: Added extra stage to reload after the spent missile had been discarded, allowing the user to resume reloading from that state if interrupted RS-422 Railgun [Balanced Changes] Buffs: Increased armor penetration in both safe mode and unsafe mode Nerfs: Stagger force slightly reduced MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun [Buffed] Buffs: Third person crosshair enabled FAF-14 Spear [Buffed] Buffs: Added extra stage to reload after the spent missile had been discarded, allowing the user to resume reloading from that state if interrupted RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher [Buffed] Buffs: Airburst Rocket Launcher will no longer detonate when shot near stratagems (HMG turret, Sentries, Resupplies) and other Helldivers Reduced proximity radius Stratagems AX/AR-23 Guard Dog [Nerfed] Nerfs: Decreased damage by 30% A/MG-43 Machinegun Sentry [Buffed] Buffs: Increased health to match other Sentries A/ARC-3 Tesla Tower [Buffed] Buffs: Increased health by 33% Enemies Buffs: Hulks: Force required for them to stagger slightly increased Devastator fire rate slightly increased (only the standard devastator) Gunships sideways movement slightly increased Fog Generators health and armor increased Scout strider Riders now less vulnerable to explosions Nerfs: Bile Spewer and Nursing Spewers move speed slightly reduced Hulk Scorcher direct flamethrower damage reduced by 20% Gunship spawners now have a much lower cap on how many gunships they can have active at the same time Enemy Patrols Patrol spawning has been increased when there are fewer than 4 players. The fewer the players the bigger the change. No changes on 4 player missions The biggest noticeable change will be for solo players at higher difficulties 🎮Gameplay🎮 Made minor level generation improvements to how we distribute locations throughout the mission map. This should improve variation in distance between objectives, and objectives will likely not spawn as far away from each other as often as before. Added setting in the options menu gameplay section to disable automatic climbing and vaulting while sprinting. The Spread Democracy mission otherwise known as “raise the flag” can now be enjoyed on higher difficulties for maximum freedom spreading. When readying up, Helldivers now salute to ensure maximum democratic readiness. Added ambience to the Tremor planetary hazard to underline the severity so Helldivers can react accordingly. Shots that ricochet from heavy armored enemies will now properly hit the Helldiver who fired them. Trigger discipline is highly recommended. 🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed crash that could occur when host abandoned mission with squad. Fixed crash that could occur if a player tried to enter an occupied EXO-45 Patriot Suit. Fixed crash that could occur for all players after or during mission results screen. Fixed crash that could occur after shooting from the EXO-45 Patriot Suit’s rocket launcher. Fixed crash that could occur for all players apart from the one that rejoined the ongoing mission with different armor and got reinforced. Fixed Superior Packing Methodology ship module not working properly. Fixed Blast Absorption ship module so that it correctly increases sentries’ resistance to explosions. Fixed issue where players could not navigate to the search results in the Social Menu. Fixed some issues where items equipped in a Warbond were not actually equipped. Fixed an exploit that allowed overly eager Helldivers to use grenades excessively. Fixed issue where kills from orbital barrage did not progress Indirect Fire Exercise order. Fixed issue that allowed traitors to try to sabotage the extraction shuttle by deploying sentry stratagems below it. Fixed issue where ion storms incorrectly prevented extraction beacon from deploying. Fixed some stratagem beams using incorrect color-coding. Fixed issue where the left stick on a controller could not be used to navigate the Social menu. Fixed some issues where various UI elements were cut off, off-centered or too close to the edge of the screen on ultrawide displays. Fixed Anti-Materiel Rifle facing away from the Helldiver after deploying it. Fixed bug where player could duplicate rounds by canceling the reload of Anti-Materiel Rifle at a specific time. Fixed bug where Anti-Materiel Rifle would consume an extra magazine after a canceled reload. Fixed bug where Recoilless Rifle would consume an extra shell from the backpack if the reload was canceled just after a shell was inserted, but before the reload was completed. Fixed issue where the Sickle and Quasar Cannon could not shoot through foliage. Fixed several issues where weapon thumbnails would disappear when scrolling through Armory. Fixed issues where Automaton Gunships sometimes could not see the player. Fixed incorrect collision being left over after destroying Automaton bunkers or detector towers with Hellbombs. Fixed issue where Hellbombs would not deploy on certain missions. Fixed certain issues that resulted in Helldivers drowning in deep water upon landing. Fixed issue where Hellpod Space Optimization made ammo go above capacity. Fixed issue where Stalkers became very visible in fog. Mines are now pingable for better coordination with your team. Receiving friend requests now gives the player a pop up. Improved readability of prompts and hints displayed in the tutorial and onboarding. Total experience is now visible in the career tab. Added better support for ultrawide monitors by fixing the aspect ratio of menus to 16:9 and adding a setting to control the width of the HUD. Keybinds bound to numpad will no longer reset upon restart. Fixed inconsistent audio when headphones are plugged into the Dual Sense controller while playing on PC. Playing Rock, Paper, Scissors in front of the ship no longer causes player to fall out into space. APW-1 Anti-Material Rifle and MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun now trigger hitmarkers while scoped in. Secondary weapon no longer remains in the Ballistic Shield ADS position after using a stim with the Ballistic Shield Backpack equipped. "Open Text Chat" is now rebindable. Explosive weapons such as R-36 Eruptor, CB-9 Exploding Crossbow. GP-31 Grenade Pistol no longer pulls players inward from the blast. Disabled the squad invites during the tutorial which caused an overlap in the UI. Fixed Primary and Secondary weapons overlapping on the character model in the armory. Fixed UI elements during first boot are cut off on a 21:9 aspect ratio monitor. Report and block player is now visible in the squad menu. Dead Scavengers now stop screaming for help if killed while calling in reinforcements. Fixed Anti Air cannons showing up as "Stratagem Scramblers" in danger warnings. 🧠Known Issues (Unchanged from patch 1.000.200)🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. This list is not exhaustive, and we are continuing to identify issues and create fixes. These are organized by feedback, reports, severity, etc. Friend Request cannot be accepted when the requesting player changed their username before the request was accepted. Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab. Players cannot unfriend players befriended via friend code. Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand. Damage-over-time effects may only apply when dealt by the host. We expect to have this fixed in the next patch. Reinforcement may not be available for some players who join a game in progress. Helldiver may be unable to stand up from crouching when surrounded by enemies. Game may crash if the host leaves while dead and rejoins the same play session. Game may crash if the player changes the text language while on a mission. Players may experience delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts. Enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions. Scopes on some weapons such as the Anti-Materiel Rifle are slightly misaligned. Arc weapons sometimes behave inconsistently and sometimes misfire. 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. Explosions do not break your limbs (except for when you fly into a rock). Area around Automaton Detector Tower makes blue stratagems such as the Hellbomb bounce and be repelled when trying to call them down close to the tower. Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission.

April 16th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.203 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 This update includes Fixes to armor passives. Various improvements to stability. 🎮Gameplay🎮 CE-27 Ground Breaker armor now has the Engineer Kit passive as previously advertised. 🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed an issue that resulted in different damage being dealt enemies between PC and console players. Red boxes in defense missions are no longer visible. Major orders should now properly display text. Fixed multiple crashes that could occur in the loadout screen when other players left or joined the game. Fixed multiple crashes that could occur after extraction when the mission results and rewards were shown. Fixed crash which could occur when throwing back a grenade while wielding a heat-based weapon. Fixed crash that could occur when hosting a play session migrates to another player. Fixed crash that could occur if too many civilians spawn. Fixed various other crashes that could occur when deploying to mission. Fixed various other crashes that could occur during gameplay. 🧠Known Issues (Unchanged from patch 1.000.200)🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. This list is not exhaustive, and we are continuing to identify issues and create fixes. These are organized by feedback, reports, severity, etc. Superior Packing Methodology ship module does not work properly. Players may be unable to navigate to the search results in the Social Menu. Damage-over-time effects may only apply when dealt by the host. Players may experience delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts. Enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions. Certain weapons like Sickle cannot shoot through foliage. Scopes on some weapons such as the Anti-Materiel Rifle are slightly misaligned. Arc weapons sometimes behave inconsistently and sometimes misfire. 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. Explosions do not break your limbs (except for when you fly into a rock). Area around Automaton Detector Tower makes blue stratagems such as the Hellbomb bounce and be repelled when trying to call them down close to the tower. Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission. Various issues involving friend invites and cross-play: Player name may show up blank on the other player's friend list. Friend Request cannot be accepted when the requesting player changed their username before the request was accepted. Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab. Players cannot unfriend players befriended via friend code. Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand.

April 9th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.202 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 This update includes Stability fixes 🎮Gameplay🎮 We have updated the stats UI for weapons to take into account any explosive damage done by them. This is to give weapons that do damage with explosive projectiles a more fair representation in the UI. Most notably affected is the PLAS-1 Scorcher. 🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed some crashes that occurred when deploying to mission. Fixed some crashes that occurred during extraction and right after it. Fixed crashes that could occur if the squad deployed a large amount of support weapons. Fixed various crashes that could occur during gameplay. Fixed a crash that could occur when using heat based weapons. Fixed crashes which could occur if a player died while using the jetpack. Fixed crash which could occur when large volumes of enemies were present. Fixed crash which could occur when the player picked up a snowball. Fixed crash which could occur when completing an objective. Fixed hang that could occur while navigating the social menu. Picking up Medals and Super Credits will no longer lock the player in place. 🧠Known Issues (Unchanged from patch 1.000.200)🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. This list is not exhaustive, and we are continuing to identify issues and create fixes. These are organized by feedback, reports, severity, etc. Player cannot navigate to the search results from the Search Bar in the Social Menu. Damage-over-time effects may only apply when dealt by the host. Players may experience delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts. Enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions. Certain weapons like the Sickle cannot shoot through foliage. Scopes on some weapons such as the Anti-Materiel Rifle are slightly misaligned. Arc weapons sometimes behave inconsistently and sometimes misfire. 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. Explosions do not break your limbs (except for when you fly into a rock). Area around Automaton Detector Tower makes blue stratagems such as the hellbomb bounce and be repelled when trying to call them down close to the tower. Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission. Various issues involving friend invites and cross-play: Player name may show up blank on the other player's friend list. Friend Request cannot be accepted when the requesting player changed their username before the request was accepted. Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab. Players cannot unfriend players befriended via friend code. Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand.

April 3rd 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.201 ⚙️

🔧Fixes🔧 Fix for a common crash which occurred when accessing the Acquisitions menu. 🧠Known Issues (Unchanged from patch 1.000.200)🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Explosive weapon stats include only direct hit damage but not explosive damage. Explosions do not break your limbs (except for when you fly into a rock). Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission. Drowning in deep water with a Vitality Booster equipped puts Helldiver in a broken state. Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location. Some player customizations (like title or body type) may reset after restarting the game. Game might crash when picking up a snowball or throwing back a grenade. Various issues involving friend invites and cross-play: Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab. Players cannot unfriend other players befriended via friend code. Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand. Players cannot befriend players with Steam names shorter than 3 characters.

April 2nd 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.200 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 This update includes: Balance changes to missions, stratagems, weapons, enemies and Helldivers. General fixes and stability improvements. 🎮Gameplay🎮 Planetary Hazard additions: Blizzards Sandstorms Maximum level cap raised to 150 ⚖️Balancing⚖️ Missions: Retrieve Essential Personnel Moved the enemy spawn points further away from the objective to give players a fairer chance of defending the location. There are fewer civilians required to complete the mission on higher difficulties. Destroy Command Bunkers Now has more objective locations, the mission was too easy before compared to other missions. It can now appear in operations from difficulty 5. Halved the negative effect of operation modifiers that increase stratagem cooldowns or call in times. Primary, Secondary, & Support Weapons: Arc Thrower: fixed charging inconsistencies; it will now always take 1s to charge a shot. Arc Thrower: reduced distance from 50m to 35m. Arc Thrower: increased stagger force. Guard Dog: now restores full ammo from supply boxes. Anti-Materiel Rifle: damage increased by 30%. Breaker Incendiary: damage per bullet increased from 15 per bullet to 20 per bullet. Fire damage per tick increased by 50% (from all sources). Liberator Penetrator: now has a full auto mode. Dominator: increased damage from 200 to 300. Dominator: increased stagger. Diligence Counter Sniper: increased armor penetration from light to medium. Slugger: reduced stagger. Slugger: reduced damage from 280 to 250. Slugger: reduced demolition force. Slugger: fixed armor penetration tag in the menu. Slugger, Liberator Concussive, Senator: fixed incorrect armor penetration tags in the menu. Recoilless Rifle: increased the number of rockets you restore from supply boxes from 2 to 3. Spear: increased the number of missiles you restore from supply boxes from 1 to 2. Heavy Machine Gun: the highest fire rate mode reduced from 1200 rpm to a more moderate 950. Stratagems Patriot Exosuit: rockets will now penetrate armor only on direct hit. Enemies: Balancing adjustments have been made too Chargers normal melee attack now does less damage against Exosuits. Bile Spewer and Nursing Spewer do less damage with their puke. The Bile Titan can no longer be stunned. Shriekers no longer create bug breaches. Shriekers hitting you while they are dead now does significantly less damage. Helldiver Balancing adjustments have been made too Heavy and medium armor protects better and you now take about 10% less damage than before while wearing heavy and about 5% less when wearing medium armor. Fortified commando and light armor is unchanged. 🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed issue where save settings for PS5 would be reset when the game is rebooted, causing things such as loadout and hint settings to reset. Enemies now properly target Exosuits. Previously, many enemies effectively ignored Exosuits if a helldiver on foot was available for them to target. Fixed Exosuits being able to fire their weapons while opening the minimap. The Helldiver and the Exosuit both had a bug that made them sometimes take explosion damage multiple times making things like automaton rockets be too deadly, this is now fixed. Automaton enemy constellations that preferred to spawn more of certain Devastators types did not work and are now functioning as they should. This means that sometimes when playing against the Automatons you will face more Devastators instead of other enemy types. We have improved the system that prevents Hellpod steering close to large or important objects. We have solved issues where the effective area around objects was a lot larger than intended. We have reduced the number of objects that prevent Hellpod steering. ⚠️Note: This system is intended to prevent soft-locks where players can drop on important interaction points, or drop into unintended places. We will continue to monitor the state of the system after the update to see if additional tweaks are necessary.⚠️ Fixed cases where the ground under some assets could be bombed causing them to float. Ballistic shield changes: Collision mesh has been slightly increased in size for more forgiveness. Changed shield poses so that less of the helldiver is exposed. Addressed bug where parts of the helldiver would become vulnerable while using the shield in first person. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Game might crash when picking up a snowball or throwing back a grenade. Explosive weapon stats include only direct hit damage but not explosive damage. Explosions do not break your limbs (except for when you fly into a rock). Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission. Drowning in deep water with a Vitality Booster equipped puts Helldiver in a broken state. Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location. Some player customizations (like title or body type) may reset after restarting the game. Various issues involving friend invites and cross-play: Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab. Players cannot unfriend other players befriended via friend code. Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand. Players cannot befriend players with Steam names shorter than 3 characters.

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MARCH 2024

March 26th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 1.000.104 ⚙️

🔧Fixes🔧 Game no longer freezes when firing arcs from the following. Arc Thrower Arc Shotgun Tesla Tower 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Hellpod steering close to large or important objects is currently not functioning as intended, resulting in steering being disabled in a large area around the object. Online features are not functioning when console language is set to Ukrainian. Players may be unable to select loadout when joining a multiplayer via an activity card. Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission. Drowning in deep water with a Vitality Booster equipped puts Helldiver in a broken state. Exosuits will sometimes be delivered in a damaged or broken state. Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location. Pink artifacts may appear in the sky when setting off large explosions. Text chat box display is obstructed by the cinematic letterboxing during extraction. Sometimes the player’s loadout customizations will reset after restarting the game. Various issues involving friend invites and cross-play: Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab. Players cannot unfriend other players befriended via friend code. Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand. Players cannot befriend players with Steam names shorter than 3 characters.

March 20th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 1.000.103 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 For this patch, we have implemented: Fixes to the EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit, game stats, UI, and general stability. Balance improvements for planetary hazards and patrol spawns. ⚖️Balancing⚖️ Balanced and adjusted spawn rates for the various planet hazards including tremors, meteor showers, volcanic activity, fire tornados, and ion storms. Hazards should now spawn less frequently during missions. Meteor Shower has received the following changes in addition to reduced spawn rate: Reduced explosion radius Reduced meteor damage slightly Reduced meteor velocity slightly Meteor color has been changed slightly to try and make it easier to spot. Volcanic Activity has received the following changes in addition to reduced spawn rate: Reduced explosion radius Reduced rock velocity slightly Lighting on Fenrir III has been adjusted to be a bit less bright to improve visibility during meteor showers. 🔧Fixes🔧 Reduced incidents of patrols spawning on players. Exosuit no longer destroys itself when firing a missile while turning. Exosuit retains its melee functionality, even when damaged. Shots from arc-based weapons, such as 'Blitzer' shotgun and 'AC-3 Arc Thrower' stratagem now count towards "Shots fired" and "Shots hit" stats. Fixed network desync issue with downed Automaton dropships. Fixed Elgato Stream Deck Foot Pedal support. Crash fixes for the following scenarios: When ALT+Tabbing in Fullscreen Mode. After changing voice over language. PS5 boot issue. Using a stim inside of an Exosuit while wielding a grenade. When joining an ongoing mission. When idling on the title screen. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Hellpod steering close to large or important objects is currently not functioning as intended, resulting in steering being disabled in a large area around the object. Online features are not functioning when console language is set to Ukrainian. Players may be unable to select loadout when joining a multiplayer via an activity card. Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission. Drowning in deep water with a Vitality Booster equipped puts Helldiver in a broken state. Exosuits will sometimes be delivered in a damaged or broken state. Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location. Pink artifacts may appear in the sky when setting off large explosions. Text chat box display is obstructed by the cinematic letterboxing during extraction. Sometimes the player’s loadout customizations will reset after restarting the game. Various issues involving friend invites and cross-play: Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab. Players cannot unfriend other players befriended via friend code. Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand. Players cannot befriend players with Steam names shorter than 3 characters.

March 12th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 1.000.102 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 Today's patch is dealing with the spawn rate of heavily armored Terminid enemies as well as the possible play against them. It also contains some fixes to UI elements and crash fixes. ⚖️Balancing⚖️ Enemies: The amount of heavily armored targets that spawn on higher difficulties, especially for Terminids, have been a big discussion point online and internally. The intent is for groups to have to bring some form of anti-tank capability but not to the degree previously needed. To that end we have reduced the spawn rate of Chargers and Bile Titans on difficulties 7 and up. In addition we have reduced the risk of spawn spikes of Chargers and Bile Titans. Please note that we have changed the distribution of enemy types, not reduced difficulty. Expect other enemy types to appear in greater numbers instead. We are humbled by the community's ability to find things like Chargers “leg meta” in our game, however spending your heavy anti tank weapons on legs instead of the obvious weak point seems counter to expectation. We are not changing anything regarding the Charger’s legs, we are however lowering the health of the Charger’s head. It should now be at a point where a well placed shot from a Recoilless Rifle or EAT-17 instantly kills a charger. Together with the unfortunately undocumented change of last patch that increased the armor penetration ability of less well placed shots for EAT-17s and Recoilless Rifle shots, Chargers should now be easier to handle by well equipped groups. 🎮Gameplay🎮 "Electronic Countermeasures" operation modifier, which had a chance of giving you a random stratagem instead of the one you input, has been removed in order to be reworked, and will be reintroduced in a future iteration. We found that this modifier wasn’t communicated clearly enough and overall caused more frustration than excitement with the way it was currently implemented. This change was made in 1.000.100 but was unintentionally omitted from the patch notes. 🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed missing text on several HUD / UI elements. Fixed several subtitle / VO mismatches in the news videos. Fixed various crashes that occurred mid-gameplay and when deploying to missions. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Game crashes when attempting to use a stim while inside an Exosuit. Pink artifacts may appear in the sky when setting off large explosions. Automaton Dropship seemingly disappears and slides in after being shot down. Shots from arc-based weapons may not count towards kills in post-mission stats. Players cannot unfriend other players befriended via friend code. Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the friend requests tab, and cross-platform players may not be able to accept friend requests. Players may be unable to select loadout or return to ship when joining a multiplayer game session via PS5 Activity Card. The Exosuit can destroy itself with rockets if it fires while turning. Text chat box display is obstructed by the cinematic letterboxing during extraction. 📝Other📝 Players can now see their unique account ID. When submitting tickets to support (https://arrowhead.zendesk.com/), please include your account ID!

March 6th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.100 ⚙️

📍Major Updates📍 Planetary Hazards active Many planets now have additional environmental challenges that will appear at random while you are deployed, from fire tornadoes to meteor showers and many more. ⚖️Balancing⚖️ Eradicate Missions Eradicate missions now require more kills and enemies spawn more often. The time to complete the mission was previously shorter than intended and should now take twice as long to complete. Primary, Secondary, & Support Weapons: SG-225 Breaker - Decreased magazine capacity from 16 to 13, increased recoil from 30 to 55. SG-8 Punisher - Increased total ammo capacity from 40 to 60, increased stagger force, increased damage from 40 to 45 per bullet. SG-225SP Breaker Spray & Pray - Increased armor penetration, increased fire rate from 300 to 330, increased pellets from 12 to 16 per shot, decreased mag size from to 32 to 26. RS-422 Railgun - Decreased armor penetration in Safe Mode, decreased damage against durable enemy parts. FLAM-40 Flamethrower - Increased damage per second by 50%. LAS-98 Laser Cannon - Increased damage against durable enemy parts, increased armor penetration, improved ergonomics. Stratagems: Shield Generator Pack - Increased delay before recharging. Orbital 120MM HE Barrage - Increased duration of the bombardment, decreased spread. Orbital 380MM HE Barrage - Increased duration of the bombardment, decreased spread. 🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed armor rating values not reducing damage as intended. Fixed certain Bug Holes (including Stalker Nests) that were unnecessarily hard to destroy. Fixed anti-aliasing toggle not working on PS5. Balanced lighting across all planets to solve cases where the game was too dark. Improved flashlight efficacy. Increased visibility during “sand rain” weather on Erata Prime. Updated tutorial materials and lighting. Improved cases where some materials could look blurry if "Lighting" graphic setting was set to "Low". Fixed timing issues that could occur in the “Extract E-710” primary objective. Changed button interaction behavior for buttons in bunker POIs. Helldivers will now let go of the button after holding it for a few seconds. Fixed some cases of large assets floating if the ground beneath them was blown up. Helldivers standing next to ICBMs during launch will get properly toasty with a chance of not-so-spontaneous combustion. Fixed unthrowable snowballs after ragdolling. Fixed being able to use grenades after drowning. Camera no longer locked on the player's own corpse and blocking spectator mode. Helldivers now take damage from fire, gas etc. generated by other players. Armor no longer stretches when dismembered. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Picking up items from caches may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time. Picking up items from bunkers and caches in quick succession may render one of the items unpickable. Players cannot unfriend other players befriended via friend code. Players may be unable to select loadout or return to ship when joining a multiplayer game session via PS5 Activity Card. Occasionally mission reward multiplier may not be applied. Mission objective HUD displays different numbers for client and host during some missions. Default armor is always shown while viewing the warbond, regardless of the armor that player has equipped. Text chat box display is obstructed by the cinematic letterboxing during extraction. Some text in the HUD/UI is missing or not displaying correctly. Players may experience issues when many players attempt to login and/or play at the same time: Login rate limiting. Players may become disconnected during play. Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers. Some games may not be joinable by others for a short period of time.

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FEBRUARY 2024

February 28th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 1.000.13 ⚙️

🔧Fixes🔧 Improved: login speed and error messages on PS5. Improved: support for AZERTY keyboards by allowing the Ship HUD shortcuts to be rebound. Super Credits not showing up after purchase or collection. Premium Warbond not being accessible after purchase. Crash which could occur when a player changed their rank or title. Missing text in HUD for Acquisitions and Social menus. Crash which could occur while browsing the mission Hologram. Unlimited stratagem use glitch which occurred after an AFK kick. Missing equipment issues after an AFK kick. Purple question marks appearing after an AFK kick. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. New Personal Orders are not showing. Login rate limiting when many are logging in at the same time. Players can become disconnected during play. Rewards and other progress may be delayed or not attributed. Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers. Pick-up of certain objects in-game may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time. Some games would not be joinable by others for a short period of time during heavy load. Other unknown behaviors may occur. Japanese VO is missing from intro cutscene and Ship TV. Armor values for light/medium/heavy armor do not currently function as intended.

February 23rd 2024

🛠️ PATCH 1.000.12 ⚙️

🔧Fixes🔧 We have raised the server cap! Fixed issue where some players would get stuck in cinematics for an extended period of time. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. No text is present for the Requisitions and Social Menu on the Player HUD. PS5 players may encounter error code "10003001" on the login screen. Login rate limiting when many are logging in at the same time. Players can become disconnected during play. Rewards and other progress may be delayed or not attributed. Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers. Pick-up of certain objects in-game may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time. Some games would not be joinable by others for a short period of time during heavy load. Other unknown behaviors may occur. Japanese VO is missing from intro cutscene and Ship TV. Armor values for light/medium/heavy armor do not currently function as intended.

February 22nd 2024

🛠️ PATCH 1.000.11 ⚙️

🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed multiple crashes triggered when joining other players’ ships. Fixed crash triggered when exiting ADS. Fixed crash triggered when players leave a session while bombardments are active. Fixed issue where online missions in Galactic War Map were unselectable. Fixed issue with GameGuard and Steam’s “verify integrity” step. Fixed issue with GameGuard and the Windows firewall. Fixed issue preventing access to Ship Management panel. Fixed issue causing players to get stuck in the defrosting or in the ship intro cinematic. Fixed crash triggered when the process of buying Super Credits fails. Fixed crash triggered after consecutive quickplay attempts. Implemented a functionality that will kick players who remain idle for 15 minutes back to the title screen. Continuous improvement on client > backend communications. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. No text is present for the Requisitions and Social Menu on the Player HUD Crash may occur when trying to Match Make on Galactic War Map PS5 players may encounter error code 10003001 on the login screen. Login rate limiting when many are logging in at the same time. Players can become disconnected during play. Rewards and other progress may be delayed or not attributed. Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers. Pick-up of certain objects in-game may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time. Other unknown behaviors may occur. Japanese VO is missing from intro cutscene and Ship TV. Armor values for light/medium/heavy armor do not currently function as intended.

February 21st 2024

🛠️ PATCH 1.000.10 ⚙️

🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed crash when replicating ragdoll momentum. Fixed crash when replicating destructions. Fixed crash when displaying the mission end rewards. Resolved a 100% block issue for quickplay matchmaking on PC. Tuned extract civilian mission difficulty. Improved the way that we handle platform authentication to avoid things like the black screen issue at startup. Improvements to our client > backend communication for better backend performance. Implemented an automatic retry mechanism to quickplay. Added proper login error message for error "10002038.” 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Login rate limiting when many are logging in at the same time. Players can become disconnected during play. Rewards and other progress may be delayed or not attributed. Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers. Pick-up of certain objects in-game may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time. Other unknown behaviors may occur. Japanese VO is missing from intro cutscene and Ship TV. Armor values for light/medium/heavy armor do not currently function as intended. PS5 players may still be unable to use quickplay.

February 17th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.009 ⚙️

Helldivers, we have prepared a patch for today. This one continues the focus on stability and matchmaking. We are separately working on the server issues that we’re facing at the moment. We know this is the highest urgency for most players and we treat them very seriously. 🔧Fixes🔧 The following issues have been fixed for this version. STABILITY/CRASHES: Fixed a crash during extraction cutscene relating to text to speech. Fixed a crash happening during extraction in search and destroy missions after consecutive multiplayer missions. Fixed a crash when getting disconnected during the joining cutscene. Fixed a crash while shooting from the 'SMG-37 Defender' in ADS mode. Fixed a crash that rarely occurs relating to surface data for footstep effects. Fixed a rare crash relating to identical particle effects playing. Fixed a crash that could occur in relation to accepting an invite. MATCHMAKING: Fixed an issue that caused us to send invalid data to multiplayer services. Improved lobby sorting to increase chance of connectivity. BALANCE & OTHER FIXES: Defend event difficulty has been reduced. Fix for Suicide, Impossible and Helldive missions being too easy. Horde Mode difficulty Increased. Horde mode timer has been increased to 15 minutes. Updated Mission End screen to display Experience and Requisition multiplier. Issue where multiple of the same stratagems could be brought to a mission has been resolved. 🧠Known Issues🧠 Listed below are significant issues that are being worked on and were either introduced by this patch or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Backend issues during high load are improved but still persist, issues include: Login rate limiting when many are logging in at the same time. Players can become disconnected during play. Rewards and other progress may be delayed or not attributed. Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers. Pick-up of certain objects in-game may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time. Other unknown behaviors may occur. Japanese VO is missing from intro cutscene and Ship TV. Armor values for light/medium/heavy armor do currently not function as intended.

February 16th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.008 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 For this patch, our major areas of focus were... Resolving crashes. Improving matchmaking functionality. Optimizing our server Defend event updates 🔧Fixes🔧 The following issues have been fixed for this version. Matchmaking: Playfab optimization - Playfab environment optimized - All lobbies now have proper data to run more effective matchmaking. Filtering optimization - We are optimizing the filter system when players are searching for lobbies. Stability and crashes: We have fixed three of our top crashes in the game, including particle renderer crashes and ragdoll crashes. Fixed an issue where the application prioritized integrated graphics over some GPU in laptops. Defend Events and Major Orders: For readability purposes, we added a visual progression indicator to major order defend events. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Players may still experience some instability while matchmaking. Background music, Sound effects and JP audio does not play during the opening cutscene. Japanese VO is also missing from the Ship TV.

February 15th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.007 ⚙️
🌍Overview🌍 For this patch, our area of focus is... Defend Events - updated content for major orders 🔧Fixes🔧 Defend Events have been fixed and received an update.

February 14th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.006 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 For this patch, we have focused on the following areas: Improved general game stability. Prepared build for upcoming server matchmaking improvements. Resolving connectivity and disconnect issues. 🔧Fixes🔧 Fixed crash when application was closed shortly after start. Game no longer crashes during extraction cutscene. User profile with too many friends no longer causes crash. Fixed crash when using text-to-speech during extraction cutscene. Game no longer crashes when users disconnect during the joining cutscene. Operation Status in Mission Summary no longer causes crash. Fixed crashes caused by leftover visual effects from disconnected players. Game no longer crashes when using ADS. Repaired instability in game data packing that caused increased patch sizes. Improved backend connectivity, reduces likelihood of disconnecting in missions. Improved matchmaking experience and likelihood of success.

February 13th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.005 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 For this patch, our primary goals were to address... Server capacity and login access. Progression and mission rewards. 🔧Fixes🔧 For this patch we have made the following changes... Server capacity and login access. We have eased the authentication request overall. We have improved error message visibility and added a countdown timer to clearly show when a new attempt will be made. Progression and Mission Rewards: Fixed the daily and difficulty progression error. Fixed future mission rewards.

February 10th 2024

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.004 ⚙️

🌍Overview🌍 For this patch, our major areas of focus were... Resolving crashes. Improving matchmaking functionality. 🔧Fixes🔧 The following issues have been fixed for this version. Resolved crashes when pressing ESC to open the menu, or O to open the social tab. Game no longer crashes after matchmaking. General improvements to matchmaking. Resolved crashes after interacting with the Armory before their first dive. Solved crash-to-desktop when equipping the MP-98 Knight. 🧠Known Issues🧠 These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed. Players may still experience some instability while matchmaking. It may work better if you attempt to join an active lobby on a planet.