Contemporary Helldivers 2 patch alert. This one’s patch 01.003.200, and it brings the most recent in pointy flag tip expertise, along with one other spherical of weapon balancing. You may want that flag stabbiness too, as the most recent Galactic Struggle twist has seen the Automatons attempt to wrestle management of Tremendous Earth’s house station.
Yep, cease attempting to rename a metropolis ‘Gun’ for 5 minutes, some stuff’s happening in HD2 that it’s worthwhile to be clued in on, even when its simply so you possibly can run across the room cheering at how way more efficient your Flame Sentry‘ll now be.
As has develop into the usual for Helldivers 2 updates that cross a sure beefiness threshold, patch 01.003.200 has each notes and a video explainer that sees design director Niklas Malmborg joined by senior designer Patrik ‘Fluffy’ Lasorta to speak by way of the modifications.
To begin with, the devs have barely decreased the time it takes your diver to stand up after ragdolling, in addition to boosting chest harm bleed harm as a result of the latter was beforehand at a degree so low that “it appeared to don’t have any impact”. There are additionally a bunch of tweaks to weapons, primarily geared toward boosting how efficient beautiful, bayonet-induced stagger, and the firestarting capabilities of stuff just like the aforementioned Flame Sentry are.
By far an important change, nonetheless, is the next one to the Masters of Ceremony warbond‘s One True Flag stratagem. “Because of some groundbreaking navy analysis into pointier flag suggestions, the flag can now be proudly planted straight into enemies — useless or alive — making certain the everlasting colours of Tremendous Earth are by no means tainted, solely quenched by the blood of its foes,” Arrowhead wrote, with Malmborg including within the video that “a shocking quantity of code” wanted messing with to tug this off.
Hellpods and enemies have additionally undergone some tweaks, however I am now gonna pivot to one thing much more pressing. A recent Main Order dropped alongside this patch, and it is seeing the Automatons transfer to safe websites key to the operating of the Democracy Area Station – which the divers have been utilizing to assist additional Tremendous Earth’s targets since late final yr.
Claorell, Tarsh, and Gaellivare are the planets people are being tasked with holding to stop the DSS being destroyed or falling into enemy palms. Arrowhead additionally notes that “enemy troop actions point out that is solely the primary of a number of deliberate waves of assault”, which means “further invasions are anticipated”.
So, it appears like defending the floating hunk of metallic is gonna be the following huge objective.
