Helldivers 2 yesterday acquired its newest replace that massively buffs participant weapons and rebalances the sport of their favour.
Nevertheless, gamers nonetheless aren’t fully happy and are requesting a brand new more durable issue stage to compensate. And, inventive director and Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt agrees.
A Helldivers 2 fan responded to Pilestedt’s name for suggestions on X (previously Twitter), stating: „All the things is nice however we’d like a brand new more durable issue now.“ Pilestedt responded merely: „I agree!“
As a part of re-balancing efforts, many main weapons have acquired a injury increase, a rise to their journal dimension, or a shorter cooldown, whereas assist weapons and Stratagems have acquired vital injury boosts.
Additional, partial injury dealt to enemies has been elevated and Helldivers now take much less injury from headshots.
„With these modifications, together with an upgraded Helldiver arsenal, enemy changes, and extra constant injury, the general issue could barely lower. We’ll be monitoring this intently and can take heed to the group on the way you assume it feels,“ wrote the builders within the replace’s in depth patch notes.
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The replace additionally brings a brand new Galactic Battle function the place strategically necessary belongings are displayed on the map, in addition to a brand new Emote Wheel function, and different modifications and bug fixes.
What’s extra, the replace has introduced again a surge in gamers.
In Might, we reported the sport’s peak concurrent gamers had taken a big hit and its common gamers had dropped by 62 p.c.
Yesterday, with the replace’s launch, Helldivers 2 reached a peak of 68,380 gamers (in accordance with SteamDB). That is a far cry from its launch days of 458,709 peak concurrent gamers, however nonetheless double the variety of gamers from the final couple of months.
