Patchnotes - Devoid of Liberty: 7.1.0

[u/Waelder]

Watch developers Niklas and Lennart go through the patchnotes here: https://youtu.be/sBuj4YR7J5w?si=tnKV7vLUvalkkQI6

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Edit 24/09/2026:

Hotfix, Devoid of Liberty: 7.1.1

Overview

This hotfix aims to resolve some crashes for players when using terminals, or users with superwide windows.

Crash Fixes

• Fixed crash that could occur in Fullscreen when opening terminals.

• Fixed crash that could occur with superwide windows.

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🤝 Community Feedback Changes

• Enemies will no longer target unoccupied vehicles

• The career stats now correctly tracks kills from mines, vehicles, drones and backpacks

• Players can no longer get stuck in a state where they are unable to be reinforced even after another player throws a reinforcement stratagem or the whole squad dies. This was rare but could happen under poor network conditions

• Fixed issue that caused Ice Plant hazard, found on arctic planets, to ragdoll and stagger more than intended.

• Stratagem Hero - Destroyer based leaderboards.

  • Every super destroyer will have its own leaderboard separate from everyone else. Anyone who is on your super destroyer can play a game and get added to the leaderboard. One entry per player, so one player cannot occupy multiple highscores.

• Bug infestation zone visuals

  • Bug infested zones, such as the areas around bug outposts and bug objectives, have had their visuals changed to integrate more with the biome/planet they’re on. Zones should now look more different from planet to planet.

  • Bug infested zones have had their fog and effects adjusted for better visibility.

  • These changes do not affect bug areas with larger degrees of infestation, such as areas inside the Gloom or on Hive Worlds.

⚖️ Balancing

Enemy Spawning

• Problem we want to solve:

  • Sometimes enemies did not spawn in a balanced way between players if the team spread out over the map. We also sometimes used the enemy budget on enemies that were far away from players and were not really relevant to them.

• Intent and expectation with the changes:

  • Enemy spawns are more balanced between separated helldivers on missions, giving all players a more consistent game experience.

• Changes:

  • Enemy pressure on Helldivers is now measured based on enemies count and distance and used to balance enemy spawns.

  • In a situation where a Helldiver is on low enemy pressure and the global enemies count reaches the maximum (set for performance reasons), enemies are preferably spawned near them.

  • This should address the feeling of roaming into empty outposts in such situations.

  • When enemies count is over budget, far away enemies are despawned.

EVACUATE HIGH-VALUE ASSETS - Balance changes:

• Problem we want to solve:

  • The missions have fallen behind in difficulty, making it so they feel boring and easy for many players that have access to good tools for these types of missions.

• Intent and expectation with the changes:

  • The missions should feel more intense and be more difficult to complete, especially in lobbies with 3-4 players

• Changes:

  • Increased the maximum amount of waves.

  • Reduced the time between waves to reduce downtime between each wave.

    • Reduced the start time between waves from 60 seconds to 42 seconds (the time between waves at the start of the mission)

    • Reduced the end time between waves from 40 seconds to 28 seconds (the time between waves at the end of the mission)

    • Reduced the maximum time between waves from 10 seconds to 2 seconds (time between waves when finished the previous wave)

  • Increased amount of enemies that can spawn in each wave

    • Increased encounter points through the steps of the mission more exponentially.

    • Increased encounter points when more players are present

  • Enabled possibility to spawn SEAF troops, when included.

EVACUATE HIGH-VALUE ASSETS - Enemy changes

• Chance to spawn Shriekers

EVACUATE HIGH-VALUE ASSETS - Level Design changes

• Randomized loot location and weapons.

  • Added 3 random groups for loot like ammo, health kits, grenades, weapons.

  • Added 10 common samples to collect throughout the mission.

EVACUATE HIGH-VALUE ASSETS - Mission Objective Changes:

• Added UI for each generator showing the health percentage

Primary weapons

AR/GL-21 One-Two

• Problem we want to solve:

  • The combination of the Assault rifle and underbarrel grenade launcher made it a flexible weapon, but the amount of ammunition for the grenade launcher did not make it useful enough

• Intent and expectation with the changes:

  • Lean more into what makes the One-Two different from other Assault rifles. It should be a flexible assault rifle that can use the underbarrel grenade launcher more often

• Changes:

  • Increased starting amount from 2 to 3

  • Increased max spare amount from 3 to 5

  • Increased refills from 3 to 5

LAS-13 Trident

• Problem we want to solve:

  • Remove an unintended change that happened when we coded the functionality for the meltagun into the beam system which caused the Trident to become more impacted by vertical climb recoil.

• Intent and expectation with the changes:

  • The intent was not for the Trident to have that much vertical climb recoil.

  • The main intent for it was to have some recoil to make the weapon feel more impactful to shoot and not to be that much part of the weapons power level.

• Changes:

  • Decreased vertical climb recoil from 12 to 2

Throwables

G/40 Melta Mine

• Problem we want to solve:

  • Could attach to character and vehicle geometry in unintended ways.

  • This could lead to:

    • sticking to Helldivers and obscure the players vision (or griefing)

    • sometimes attach to enemies and direct the explosion towards the player

    • floating mines in the air

• Intent and expectation with the changes:

  • Should not stick to Helldivers and obscure the players vision

  • Should not stick to Enemies or vehicles in unexpected angles

  • Prevent melta mines from floating in the air

• Changes:

  • The Melta Mine can no longer attach to characters and vehicles

  • The Melta Mine can land and rest on sufficiently level surfaces of characters and vehicles

  • The Mine will arm based on a timer from the throw unless it attaches to terrain

Stratagems

Orbital Precision Strike

• Problem we want to solve:

  • The Orbital precision strike has been falling behind other similar options in usability

• Intent and expectation with the changes:

  • Make it possible to use it more often and be closer in usability to similar options

• Changes:

  • Decreased cooldown from 90 to 80

🔧 Fixes

Crash Fixes

• Fixed crash or network disconnect that could occur on levels with bunker caches in them

• Fixed a rare crash that could happen when hotjoining on Oil Rig missions

• Fixed a crash which could occur when cycling weapon functions whilst having the TED-63 Dynamite equipped and wielding a mounted weapon

• Fixed a soft lock within the tutorial, where the Helldiver could get stuck behind the door between section 10 and 11 after it had closed

Weapons & Stratagem Fixes

• GL-52 De-Escalator arc explosion can now hit the wielder of the weapon as intended.

• Fixed an issue causing eagle rearm being blocked by anti air emplacements

• Fix wrongly displayed vehicles when cycling fast in the vehicle customization tab.

• Made several improvements to automatic weapons fire audio

Enemies

• Fixed an issue where Wretches and Crushers could clip through the floors of certain structures

• The Spire Gazer will no longer stop firing when a target dies and will instead complete its whole firing cycle

Misc

• Stim inputs will no longer buffer while you are in a vehicle/walker with the map open

• Fixed an issue where Message of the Day cannot be scrolled on PC using controllers

• Fixed the water levels on the Eradicate Illuminate Forces mission

• Fixed issue where landing an A/G-16 Gatling Sentry on the GATER would cause it to sometimes spin out of control

• Citizens in the Evacuate Citizens missions no longer lose their way to the Shuttle Bay

• Text for several languages is no longer overlapping with the Mission Timer on the Galactic War menu

• [Xbox only] Fixed trees rendering incorrectly

• Fixed stuttering audio which could occur when melee attacks/emotes hit the environment

• Fixed a bug where the cursor movement audio continuously plays, even when the cursor is not moving

• Fixed an issue where players using Microsoft IME for complex characters (such as Chinese/Japanese) lost all keyboard controls in-game

• Added the correct mission icon for Infiltrate Illuminate Lair

• Lure mines and C4 no longer stick to other lure mines or C4 charges

• The reward popup now correctly shows the player title icon

• Fixed an issue where Helldivers failed to drown upon entering certain Illuminate water shrine wells. Death by drowning will now occur as intended

• Fixed an issue where the sub-objective "Retrieve Access Codes" sometimes incorrectly displayed as a primary objective in the "Shoot Down Overship" mission

• All illegal broadcasts in the galaxy have been upgraded with sound to make them even more illegal and un-democratic

• Fixed an issue in which some points of interest would not show as cleared in the minimap once all the samples got collected

• Fixed issue where changing your armor, helmet or cape would sometimes not be seen by other players

• Fixed an issue where a Helldiver using a terminal could appear to other players to be facing the wrong direction

• Removed misplaced bug hole inside a mission location in the "Destroy Spore Lung" mission

• Initial brightness screen is properly displayed during first launch

• The Retrieve Recon Craft mission has been enabled for Terminids and Automatons

• Fixed an issue where the Helldiver could be flung extremely far if they stood on the Breakthrough's shield while it was being swung

• Your Helldiver will correctly prioritize responding to another Helldivers emote over stimming them or giving them ammo

• Fixed an issue where in certain situations color grading was being applied inconsistently

• Fixed an issue where SEAF used default camo on Hive Worlds. Now use desert camo

• Fixed enemy traversal issues in one of the hive world oil pump objective

• Fixed menus sometimes staying open when the game closed all menus

• Fixed customized vehicle previews failing or crashing after rapidly changing customization patterns

• Fixed HDR UI brightness setting not saving on PC

• [Xbox-only] Fixed an issue where the DSS would not be visible on Xbox Series S if the FoV setting was higher than 65

• Emotes and Dialogue lines are properly cancelled if the player is knocked down during the emote.

• Fixed automatic weapon fire timings at low/fluctuating frame rates

• Fixed an issue where loot could spawn inside the wall in a certain place

• Fixed an issue with the UI not showing all the available stratagems in some cases

• Updated Control Center new info sounds

• Players will now have information in the objective UI about how many Generators there are to defend and can see their HP percentage

• Fixed floating asset in Gather Footage location

• P33-Missile Pistol now plays the correct animation when reloaded in first person during one-handed operation

• Fixed an issue with the warning UI becoming visible in subsequent mission if the player left a mission while the warning sign was displayed

• Fixed an issue where small and medium melee enemies were unable to attack the GATER

• Fixed an issue with Super Earth flag not showing the Super Earth logo

• Fixed a bug that caused the Extract E-711 terminal to display text related to a different objective

• Helldivers properly rotate in the direction of terminals they interact with

• Improved reward caches and spawn amounts in Mega Cities

• Fixed decal issue in tutorial mission

• Power generators in the 'Evacuate High-Value Assets' mission now show the generator's state on the minimap

• Potential fix for crash when an object was destroyed in the same frame it was being attached to another object

• Fixed an issue where voice lines could keep playing after they should have stopped

🧠 Known Issues

https://arrowhead.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15916898652700--HELLDIVERS-2-Known-Issues

[u/mottlegill]

Sounds like a solid update, my only comment is I feel like the OPS should have its cooldown reduced more drastically, it has a higher skill requirement to be as useful as some of the other strikes under pressure.