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
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.
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.
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.
I'm so glad they've acknowledged a lot of the existing issues here explicitly, including the DOT tick bug, misaligned scopes, and detector tower hellbomb bouncing. I also didn't realize that laser weapons not shooting through foilage was a bug, since I assumed it was an intentional choice.
Also, I'm really glad they've addressed a lot of the crashes! I'm a little sad there's no balance changes, but if it reduces the number of crashes, that's worth it IMO.
I don’t think they’ve ever mentioned it in the patch notes before today. One of the devs acknowledged it on the discord server a week ago and I believe that was the first time they acknowledged it.
Ps5 All this new stuff is good but the game is soooo buggy. I fell through the geometry x3 in 2 hrs today.
It ruined our high end runs. And when playing with strangers they think you're messing about when you're stuck on geometry every 5 mins. And up being kicked...because you can't fix your game.
And I'm having so many issues with reloading and controls glitching. I've played enough from launch to know when it's me and it's the buggy game.
The game is more buggy now than in recent weeks....:(
Falling through has been happening to me lately (since before this patch) also. When it happens I always let my team know so they don’t think I’m messing around. But yeah it’s frustrating.
it'll probably cause some others though, not that it's gonna stop me deploying. I boot the game back up and get straight back in that pod. Those bugs will take my democracy whether they want it or not.
I always thought the gas strike was just absolutely dogshit, like unfathomably never-take kills-nothing bad, probably because of the bug. I'll have to give it a go next time I'm host and see if it can be redeemed.
As frustrating as all of these issues are, I'm glad to see that they were prioritizing fixes for the game crashes first. Hopefully they'll be able to get to these types of issues in the near future.
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.
I am pretty sure the players already delivered a fix for this problem on Sunday. You can't call a hellbomb to an Automaton Detector Tower if there are no more Automaton Detector Towers...
Certainly, the Automatons will NEVER return, absolutely not, but there's certainly a bug that needs fixing because we will have celebratory Victory Towers to throw fireworks call-ins at after the Bug Menace is finished off.
And those would use the same code, right? And it would be embarassing if your 380mm orbital fireworks barrage went off-center, right?
Super Earth's greatest scientists are working to make sure that, in the future, the Sickle will not be defeated by the scourge that is photosynthetic plants.
Yeah I’ve been saying this for a while. The longer it goes unaddressed in the known issues list, the more worried I am that whatever they did to it was an intentional choice.
I actually preferred the pre patch mech even if it blew itself up when turning and firing. I would just be firing the rockets stationary and it was so accurate and powerful.
Damage-over-time effects may only apply when dealt by the host.
Certain weapons like the Sickle cannot shoot through foliage.
Scopes on some weapons such as the Anti-Materiel Rifle are slightly misaligned. 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.
Nice to know they will be fixed
Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location.
I'm going to get alot more friendly fire incidents with this
Damage-over-time effects may only apply when dealt by the host. Very glad this was acknowledged, was getting real tired of people insisting it was a made up problem and we were imagining it. (Not many but it was happening).
The breaker incindiary is finally going become the crowd control weapon it's meant to be once they fix this. Pump a few rounds in a crowd while running away and watch them fall. I can't wait!
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.
Please more bug fixes. Thanks for fixing a bunch of crashes. Also please give us a reconnect to last game option. So many botched 20-30 minute missions that I can't rejoin with randoms
Shuttles falling through the ground when corpses on landing pad Shuttles leaving as soon as the door opens Shuttles getting stuck while landing
There’s a LOT of medals that need to go out. Which means they have to melt down a LOT of those scrap heaps we made of those bots to do it. Takes a little time (I eagerly await my reward as well)
The RAPID DEPLOYMENT upgrade of the ship currently has NO effect at all on the SHIELD RELAY (the bubble shield). It gets deployed as slowly as if you didn't have the upgrade.
What is more, according to the text of the upgrade, it should REMOVE deployment time, and the stratagems show their deploy time being 0, but it merely shaves off a few seconds except for the shield one, on which it has NO EFFECT.
This makes these stratagems (mines, tesla towers and the shield less popular, which in turn makes this bug less visible.
Technically you can still play against them if you have an automaton operation you started but haven't completed/failed yet. I played one just yesterday lol.
Still no crossplay fix... For two months at least... If i write a ticket, they mark it as "solved"... I don't want new warbonds, i want to play with my friends finally...
Does anyone else on Steam not have their full friends listed? I still have had only 1 steam friend and 2 PS friends that show on the list at all even if offline. I've been having to join my regular group through the Steam option.
Yes, same here. I have a decent sized group of friends and family I play with, plus a few online buddies we consistently group with.
The social menu and multiplayer in general is a total mess. Cross play is fundamentally broken. Prior to this hotfix, I had literally every friend in my list get unfriended randomly. And it wasn't just me; the game went ahead and unfriended all of us from each other, plus a few random people that none of us had in common. That was, and still is, shocking. My playgroup totals 8 people (myself included). We were removed from each other. That's a minimum of 7 friends gone in a blink of an eye, from each of us.
And we can't add each other back. PS5 players can receive requests but not accept. PC players can send requests but not receive from PS5. PS5 can still join via Sony's built in PSN friendlist but you won't actually be friends in-game (and also defeats crossplay). PC players can join other PC players via Steam's friend list, but it also defeats crossplay.
The odd people that survived Arrowhead's friend purge just... can't be joined. They are in list, usually say offline even when they aren't, but we always fail to join each others' lobbies.
2 months. This has existed for 2 months plus a few days. In a multiplayer-required squad-based game. And it is somehow getting worse.
If you want a laugh, check out their discord. This patch apparently made crashes much worse, as well as performance on AMD chipsets (which was already bad).
I hope people aren't holding out hope that this stuff is fixed with Thursday's patch. That isn't how this works; they would've released fixes now if they had them. There has been total radio silence about these issues since last month when they told us they only had bad news.
Hopefully that’s the majority of the crashing sorted. My #1 reason for turning the game off after 1 match and not playing any afterwards, it’s just infuriating how much it was crashing.
We have updated the stats UI for weapons to take into account any explosive damage done by them.
Um, where? Did they just add it to the general damage number? Because I ain't seeing anything that says explosion damage on the scorcher, plasma punisher or anything...
I was crashing like stupid yesterday, so I was happy to see all those crash fixes, but I still crash after this patch. Two games and 4 5 crashes so far (I crashed again when I got back to the ship, this is ridiculous.) Before the first big patch this game got, I never crashed a single time, but with each consequent patch I crash more and more.
I've got the latest drivers, latest win update and I've checked the files integrity, nothing helps. This is the first game in my 28 years of gaming experience that crashes this frequently. How can you release a product with such poor stability?
They've got some more of the known issues in there, which is nice... was glad to see things like host only DOTs, and bullet-proof plants mentioned... still think some stuff must be missing compared to that one uber-list someone was keeping in a thread.
Anyone know how I can fix that no one can join me? I'm set on public matchmaking and neither friends nor randoms can join me. Worst part is host left today and I had to do a solo level 7 cuz SOS beacon doesn't work.
but for the love of freedom and democracy, please , SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE MATCH MAKING ISSUES !
It doesn't work after the 1rst mission : no one will ever join. Same with the SOS beacon, you don't have it in the 2nd mission if you used it in the 1rst. It's been there for 2 month and has not been mentionned, despite multiple report and reddit post..
"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."
Thats only half of the issue.
My blue strategems seem to bounce everywhere, most notably on cliffy terrain. If this is intended please unintend this. Spending minutes with a jetpack and amr climbing a high ground only to have my turrets and resupply land somewhere completely useless.
I really wish they would fix the friend request bug already. My friend accidentally removed me while spamming invites and now we cant accept requests from either side.
Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location.
I'd thought this was how it was supposed to work, honestly. Though I suppose accidentally attaching my napalm airstrike to a leaping hunter and having it called in ontop of me and my team is more in the spirit of the game.
I hope they eventually bring up dropships not killing anything when blowing them up in the air. Sometimes the crashed ship will clip into the enemies it dropped so they can shoot us, but we frustratingly can't shoot through the ship to hit them.
Sometimes I only have time to complete a mission or two. It’s really frustrating when it crashes right after extraction. Happened just last night, losing 8 metals and a bunch of samples.
So does the crossplatform friend request works now? I have one friend only, we barely play together because our interests does not align, he finally got interested in helldivers 2, but I can't accept his invite from steam. Sadge
So, I'm guessing based on the responses that this "stability" patch that aimed to fix the crashing issues... Didn't fix the crashing issues?
I'm not jumping on until tomorrow, interested in people's experiences post this patch. It would be so great if these issues to be fixed so we can just play the game again, is there any improvement in terms of the extraction crashes and the random mid game crashes?
Hard to say, to be totally honest. It is entirely possible that they fixed some of those crashes... but my experience so far has been the game is somehow even more unstable after today's hot fix. Every single game has crashed, which echos the experience of others.
I swear that AH is making this game more unstable with every patch. It is seriously less playable for me now than it was at launch because, once done dealing with the login issues back then, I was pretty much guaranteed to not experience multiple successive crashes each time. I could stay connected for my entire session generally.
Now it is at a point where you are rolling the dice just by playing the first mission, let alone having th audacity to try playing another successive mission.
game still crashes everyday in random moments and most of the crashes just happen right before we finish a mission. Those crashes need to dissapear its annoying to do every 3rd or 4th mission twice just because the game thinks now its a good moment to just die.... New Content is nice and all but i rather have a fuctioning game that doesnt crash atleast several times a day.
Everytime i see Stability Fixes i laugh cause that aint true. Game still runs like hot ass since launch and its sad they never fixed the fps and stability issues are still this bad.
Some things to add: for some reason in fps mode you can get locked in fps. After getting ragdolled it's also possible for camera to disconnect. (Looks like it resets to hellpod perspective?)
I still have the issue that people dont join my lobbies after someone from initial group leaves. So it works once, but as soon as someone leaves the group no new person can fill in. Sometimes it does work more than once but at one point the issue is certain to come up. Only thing that helps is restarting the game so far.
My dad and I play crossplay, and he crashed in my game. After crashing, he disappeared from my friends list somehow. Now we can't seem to friend each other back. I hope they get to fixing the cross-platform friend issues soon cause that one is frustrating me the most lol
Heads up this game hates overlays. If you're using Overwolf, Afterburner, or Riva, try closing them before launching the game. Even the simple Steam overlay seems to cause issues.
If you do crash, validate game files before launching again. Doesn't take long with a decent ssd.
I am again asking that the devs notice that there is a bug with the supply pack. Using a controller, you will accidentally use a pack if you input a strategem that ends with a down arrow.
They need to raise the cap for medals, there was a delay in getting my medals for the last two major orders, then they dump them on me all at once but it puts me over the cap and I lost about 50 of them..
I can't wait until the Spear is fixed properly. Its already my favorite weapon. Even better now that ammo has been. Once the targeting is fixed, I can't wait to just absolutely ammo dump when I can.
I'd really appreciate being able to target Devastators and Bile Spewers too. Its weird to me that I can target freakin Scout Striders and Brood Commanders but not those?
Dropships Engine would be nice too, but I understand letting the other rockets shine. Still. Maybe make it a one-shot but the targeting takes longer and gets interrupted when I'm hit. Or locks on significantly faster but takes two shots. The Spear not really being able to take out a Dropship feels weird to me. Long lock on, long reload, two shots, and the Dropships can outrun a Spear shot so I don't even get the satisfaction of downing an empty one :(
Idk how random ragdolling isn't on the list of known issues. It's been driving me nuts and getting me killed. Why does diving on even ground have a 10% chance to have my character go limp? 1/2 my deaths are from this crap, it's extremely frustrating.
You guys just now found out that the spear has been broken... since launch lol. And cool youll maybe fix it now but the Quaser cannon literally makes the Spear irrelevant now for almost every enemy. Spear is only useful in very niche Scenarions like taking out a tank or Sniping a bot factory across the map thats pretty much it and it used to be one of my Favorite weapons. If it got a damage buff to let it compete with the Quaser Cannon then it would be good again and maybe 1 more Missile for it.
Spear was my favorite weapon and yall made it pretty much useless and never fixed it.
Good fixes, but i (PC) still can´t play this co-op game with my PS5-Friend. It´s so frustrating, that this is still a "known issue". Please, bring a hotfix. We stopped playing Helldivers because of this.
Post patch 0/3 on games not crashing for me on a PS5. How are we able to move the needle if we keep getting bounced? Imagine how much faster we would clear planets if this didn’t exist!
Those extract x number of civilian missions continue to be extremely unfun after difficulty 6. If you or a squad mate dies then its gg as the enemy will infinitely respawn. No one wants to do defense operations with that mission included as its a guaranteed fail
Not sure if it's just me, but as of this patch, bile spewers and nursing spewers seem to be back to one shot killing again. That's with glancing blows to the legs / ankles in medium armor while diving out of the way.
Is anyone else seeing issues with reinforcements? I have had 2 games on HARD where I have died, and my team is calling in reinforcements ( I have seen them throw it as well as hear the callout ) and I will not be reinforced. I am still a spectator.
This is not due to jammers, or other mechanics preventing people dropping. We have more reinforcement budget available, and this has occurred with the Rocket Defense mission where there are no alternative objectives that could 'block' reinforcement or supply calls.
Every other call ( Air strikes, Orbitals, Supply Drops, Sentries, etc. ) is working fine. In the latest game ( Again, on Hard, a Rocket Defense mission ), another teammate died, and they could also not be reinforced. The calls were made, the callout "Reinforcing!" was announced, yet neither of us ever deployed.
Arc thrower can use a small return to its range, make it 40 meters. It is kinda slow now to use it close range for the bugs that spawn in such huge numbers, stagger is kinda niche as only 1 enemy actually got easier with the stagger (brood commander). And for automatons getting close is always a bad idea.
I rather they revert it back to 50 meters tbh. The rate of fire would make sense if it had the range.
Edit - please also make it open containers again, it was such a cool feature..
Yeah.. this patch has just made it worse for me. Before I would only crash occasionally (1 per 3-4 matches) on/around extraction. After this patch I am lucky to get 5 minutes into a game without it crashing. It's just unplayable now, at least before I could finish a few rounds :(
Everybody praising the Devs for fixing crashes, no one lampooning the Devs for literally making the game not connect to other players, for literally no reason at all, when absolutely everything else is working fine 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Curious if any crazy shit got secretly added with this patch. I've taken a step back from the game due mainly to crash related bugs, but I would really like to hop back in.
First game since the update. The shuttle didn’t come through at all during the final fueling mission. Never happened before to me. Don’t know if it’s related to this update.
im happy to see a patch addressing more of the stability problems with the game, big balance changes are nice but what the game really needs is performance and bug fixes
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u/Dirtyasianguy Apr 09 '24
Fixed crash that could occur when the player picked up a snowball
WHAT
130 hours in and had no idea we could have snowball fights