A new patch for Helldivers 2 has been released, bringing major balance changes to the planetary hazards in the game.
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has released yet another patch for the PC and PlayStation 5 cooperative artillery game, this time reducing the recently added planet hazards.
Patch 1,000,103 adjusts the spawn rates for various planetary hazards in the game, including tremors, meteor showers, volcanic activity, firestorms, and ion storms. The result is that hazards will now spawn less frequently during missions.
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Elsewhere, Arrowhead mentioned that the patch reduces instances of patrols appearing on players, which should make the game a little easier.
The new patch doesn't address Helldivers 2's annoying friend request issue, however. In a post on the Helldivers Discord, community manager Twinbeard said that this is "one of our top issues right now." However, there's no major update on a fix. "We truly understand that this is both unfortunate and extremely frustrating for those of you affected," Twinbeard added. "We ask for your patience. No bad jokes or military jargon this time, just this."
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Helldivers 2 has become a surprise hit of 2024 since its release in February, topping the Steam download charts and reportedly selling around three million copies. According to at least one analyst, it's still in development.
Notes for Helldivers 2 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 planet hazards and patrol spawning.
Balance
- The occurrence rates for various planetary hazards including tremors, meteor showers, volcanic activity, firestorms, and ion storms have been balanced and adjusted.
- Hazards should now appear less frequently during missions.
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Meteor Shower has received the following changes in addition to the reduced frequency of occurrence:
🔹 Reduced explosion radius
🔹 Slightly reduced meteor damage
🔹 Slight reduction in meteor speed
🔹 The color hue of meteors has been slightly changed to make them easier to distinguish.
- Volcanic Activity has received the following changes in addition to its reduced occurrence frequency:
🔹 Reduced explosion radius
🔹 Slight reduction in rock speed
- The lighting installation on Fenrir III has been adjusted to be slightly less bright in order to improve visibility during meteor showers.
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Repairs
- Reduced instances of patrols appearing on players.
- The Exosuit is no longer destroyed when a missile is fired while rotating.
- The Exosuit maintains its functionality in combat even when damaged.
- Crash fixes for the following cases:
🔹 When ALT+Tabbing in full screen
🔹 After changing voice variant language
🔹 PS5 boot issue
🔹 Using a stim inside an Exosuit while holding a grenade
🔹 When participating in an already started mission
🔹 When remaining idle on the title screen
- Shots from flawless-based weapons, such as the 'Blitzer' shotgun and the 'AC-8 Arc Thrower' stratagem, are now counted in the "Shots Fired" and "Shots Fired" stats.
- Fixed network asynchronization issue with degraded Automaton dropships.
- Fixed support for Elgato Stream Deck Foot Pedal.
Known issues
These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or come from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.
Various issues related to friend invitations and game interface:
🔹 Cross-platform friend invitations may not appear in the Friend Requests tab.
🔹 Players cannot remove other players who have been added via friend code from their friends list.
🔹 Players cannot unblock players who were not previously on their friends list.
🔹 Players cannot add players with Steam names with fewer than 3 characters as friends.
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Current problematic situations:
- Hellpod does not function properly when navigating close to large or significant objects, resulting in navigation being disabled in a large area around the object.
- Online features do not work when the console language is set to Ukrainian.
- Players may not be able to select their equipment set when participating in a multiplier via an activity card.
- The strike on the planet reaches 100% at the end of each Defense mission.
- Drowning in deep water with Vitality Booster equipment puts the Helldiver in a state of disaster.
- Exosuits are sometimes delivered in a damaged condition.
- Stratagem's beam may connect to an enemy but will be sent back to its original location.
- Pink artifacts may appear in the sky when performing large explosions.
- The text box in the chat is blocked from appearing due to cinematic letterboxing during disconnection.
- Sometimes, player loadout adjustments will be reset after restarting the game.
Source of information: www.ign.com
