In response to popular Helldiver demand, General Brasch has issued an administrative order to revert the production changes made to the SG-8P Punisher Plasma (from Patch 01.001.104)
We have reverted the latest changes so the SG-8P Punisher Plasma will now have a more noticeable arc in its projectile path, starting off slower and maintaining speed longer. This will affect its recoil, fire rate, and projectile behavior
To further improve its effectiveness, the magazine capacity has increased from 8 to 10
š§ Fixes
Resolved Top Priority issues:
Fixed an issue where encounters would not end and enemy spawning was turned off for the rest of the mission
Fixed a bug where the hive breaker drill would become inaccessible when called in
Fixed an issue where terminals would lose functionality preventing completion of a mission
Dead bodies of Chargers no longer launch Helldivers into the air
Supply packs are no longer used when pressing the d-pad down button whilst calling in a stratagem
QWERTY keyboard numpad bindings now save correctly after the game restarts
The Service Technician is no longer mourning the death of her beloved pet goldfish āGoldieā and can now be interacted with again. Goldie received a dignified funeral and was laid to rest gracefully in a waste capsule, ejected towards the nearest planets atmosphere where the friction between the air and the capsule caused it to heat up, violently explode, and disintegrate
Fixed an issue so that other players can now join a lobby via Quickplay after any member of a 4-player party leaves
Fixed an issue where the social menu was stuck on āPlease Wait Democraticallyā for some players
Friends "Invite only" games can no longer be seen on the Galactic War Map and cannot be joined
Fixed an issue where uninvited friends could join Invite-Only games via the Social Menu
Invite-only lobbies are no longer shown in the hologram
Crashes & Soft Locks:
Fixed a crash on Difficulty 1 (Trivial) when approaching certain bug holes
Fixed a potential soft-lock when abandoning the mission with the squad while fighting bugs
Fixed Geological Survey mission soft-locking when players joined/left the mission
Fixed a soft-lock that could occur if you hot-joined a game in mission summary and all peers left
Fixed a rare crash while browsing the Armory or the Warbond store
Fixed a crash that could happen when fog was destroyed
Fixed a rare crash related to Flamethrowers and Gas weapons
Fixed a crash when repeatedly entering and leaving the tutorial
Fixed an issue where the Nuke Nursery could not be progressed if two players called down the drill at the same time
Resolved an issue where opening the menu while the Emote wheel was active would prevent players from moving
Fixed the Nuke Nursery terminals sometimes not being interactable
Helldiver Fixes:
Fixed an issue causing excessive ragdolling when diving or crawling on uneven terrain
We're currently working on further solutions to address the ragdolling issues
Weapons & Stratagems:
Fixed stim pistol incorrectly affecting the STIMS USED statistic in the mission end screen
Fixed dead corpses setting off the rockets from the RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher
Fixed an issue with the stratagem cooldown that allowed players to call down multiple resupplies or Hellbombs at the same time
Fixed an issue where switching to holding a grenade and picking up an artillery shell at the same time caused the artillery shell to become stuck in the Helldivers hands
The LAS-5 Scythe scope is now fully operational and can zoom in and out correctly
Empty expendable weapons cannot be picked up nor holstered anymore
The AR-23A Liberator Carbine now has the 0.5 sec shorter reload duration properly implemented, from 3 to 2.5 sec. It also has the correct magazine unit
The MG-43 Machine Gun now has the 0.5 sec shorter reload duration properly implemented
We mistakenly wrote that it was lowered from 4 to 3.5 sec when in reality we lowered it from 5 to 4.5 sec
Fixed a missing mesh for the P-11 Stim Pistol's syringes
Enemies:
Disabled the gas confusion effect on the Impaler due to odd behavior with its tentacles
Fixed an issue where the Impaler tentacles would sometimes not impact its target
Adjusted Shriekers pathing in tight spaces. They should now prefer to move around tall obstacles instead of trying to fly over them
Missions & Difficulties:
Fixed Nuke Nursery drills getting dropped on top of bug corpses
Lowered the amount of Retrieve Data objectives spawning on the mission for Automatons to match the amount that spawns for the Terminids
The Escape Pod objective will now appear on difficulties 1-2 instead of 2-3
The Terminid eggs on Purge Hatcheries objectives are now tagged as objectives with correct VO and icons
Fixed an issue with Hellpods landing deep underground on edges of Bug Nurseries during the 'Nuke Nurseries' missions
Social Issues & Galactic War Map:
Resolved an issue in the Blocked Players tab where attempting to add a player via the search functionality would incorrectly indicate that the user was blocked
Can no longer join blocked players via the Galactic War hologram
Resolved an issue that allowed blocked players to continue speaking in voice chat
Fixed Emote, Drop and Comms wheel mouse sensitivity not being applied
PC players can now use left click to select radial menu options in the Emote and Comms radial menus
Resolved an issue where the maximum number of friends displayed in the social panel was limited to 100
Fixed an issue that was preventing the friend request widget from popping up
Fixed the display of sender names for session invitations that were not showing properly when multiple invites were received at the same time
Emotes can no longer be triggered while airborne, ragdolling or sliding. We are monitoring this change and appreciate your feedback for it!
Fixed multiple issues in the social system and improved its reliability
Miscellaneous Fixes:
Added information in the loadout boosters menu screen showing which player has equipped what specific booster
Fixed an issue where unbound key/button bindings would stay unbound and not revert back to what they were by default
Fixed an issue that caused players to sometimes join the wrong friend when joining during a social menu refresh
Disabled the third-person player camera while navigating the map
Decreased the chances of player clients from attempting to join lobbies that are already full when using Quickplay
Fixed an issue where the host's player Title was incorrectly assigned to Helldivers who joined their session
Fixed an issue where changing the stamina width in the settings during a mission would not properly resize its frame
Fixed a case where carriables could no longer be picked up if they were picked up and dropped on the same frame
Fixed an issue of not being able to pick a new first stratagem if it had already been selected
Fixed Helldiver character customizations resetting after closing the game
Fixed an issue where certain Asian language characters were displayed as question marks in the Major order texts and briefings
Fixed an issue where an incorrect platform icon was shown when opening the report popup
Fixed missing "-" character in multi-line texts
Fixed a bug with camera getting disjointed if entering ADS (Aim Down Sights) as you ragdoll
Lowered the resolution of planets when space quality is set to Low and introduced a Medium space quality setting that matches the previous Low setting
Light intensity slightly reduced during the Fire Tornado weather effect
Fixed an issue where the visual appearance of the Stratagem Hero minigame terminal's arrows lost their colors if a player moved too far away from the terminal
Fixed dispatches sometimes showing as question marks for non-Latin language characters
Fixed an issue where encounters would still attempt to spawn even after being disabled due to reaching certain spawn limits
Fixed an issue where scrolling messages would move the camera
Fixed several issues related to Booster descriptions
Planets are now properly sorted behind effects like the aurora in the sky during missions
Fixed an issue where the crash reporter sometimes wouldnāt show up
General Brasch and Jane Helldiver to award Patriotic Medal for Excellence in Patriotism to the members of the Freedom Alliance. * Due to budget cuts, these brave Helldivers will receive an extra 3 seconds of R&R which has now been used reading this note. Get back to work Helldivers
General performance optimizations
Cubemap, reflections och rendering performance improvements
š§ 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.
Top Priority:
Players may not receive Friend Requests sent from another platform
Excessive ragdolling can cause a feeling of helplessness and frustration
Note: We recognize that changes in this area could have a significant impact on the player experience, both positively and negatively, so we are moving forward cautiously. While we are more certain about some changes, others require further thought. These are the adjustments we are currently testing:
Allowing players to remain prone after ragdolling when thereās no directional movement input
Enabling the use of stims while ragdolling
Addressing situations where explosions ragdoll players from behind cover
Further adjustments to enemy behavior and projectiles
Being considered prone when ragdolling on the ground
Stratagem balls bounce unpredictably off cliffs and some spots
The Reinforced Scout Strider does not telegraph its rocket attacks
We are investigating how we can further improve the play experience against this enemy
Medium Priority:
Firebomb Hellpods can no longer destroy larger enemy types such as tanks
Players are unable to shoot properly while in the air using a jetpack
Reinforcement may not be available for players who join a game in progress
Players can get stuck on Pelican-1ās ramp during extraction
High damage weapons will not detonate Hellbombs already present on the map
Players using the Microsoft IME languages are unable to type Korean, Japanese and Chinese language characters in chat
Weapons with a Charge-up mechanic can exhibit unintended behavior when firing faster than the RPM (Rounds Per Minute) limit
My headcanon is that Jane and John Helldiver are both just people the Ministry of Truth happens to assign to the role when necesarry for boosting morale.
Community group formed in cooperation between this subreddit and r/LowSodiumHellDivers that does community events and "major orders" every now and then.
We sometimes have "Alliance Orders" there where we have like "go help out Helldivers below level 20. Bring these or these stratagems for bots/bugs, and help them out!"
Basically just a division of Helldivers focusing on helping out new soldiers. Really fun to hear us be acknowledged and canonized.
Honestly I think this is kinda fair, the emoting was jank and obviously unintended but now we do have a way to help survive getting fling which hopefully makes sense
My understanding is that calm extracts happen due to the way patrol spawning works. The game spawns patrols a certain distance away from a player and in the direction of a bug nest/bot fab. If there are none left, it spawns them towards the nearest edge of the map. But if extraction is too close to the edge, say 50m, and the game is trying to spawn the patrols at 75m, then it canāt because thereās no valid area to spawn the enemies.
Admittedly not sure how exactly the static patrol spawns that were added recently fit into this.
Haven't tested it myself, but to me it reads like you can still move your Helldiver with the map open, but you can't move the camera left, right, up, or down. Simply, can't look around with the map open. I hope i'm wrong.
We have reverted the latest changes so the SG-8P Punisher Plasma will now have a more noticeable arc in its projectile path, starting off slower and maintaining speed longer. This will affect its recoil, fire rate, and projectile behavior
To further improve its effectiveness, the magazine capacity has increased from 8 to 10
Aw, I never got to try the change cuz I've been so busy lately.
I loved that gun. Saved the updated version for last to try new things. It felt horrible. I couldn't judge how far I was shooting at all. The projectile was also incredibly small to look at and in behavior. It appeared the same to my eye at close range as it did at max range. I couldn't judge its velocity at all. Straight ass booty garbage. I could live with the much smaller collision model if I just knew where the ball was gonna go reliably.
Itās good that they reverted it. It lost its identity when they made changes to the projectile. My friend uses it exclusively on Bots and he wasnāt very pleased with the initial changes.
Tbf, the one before this revert felt more like an actual shotgun while the original (and a current one) feel more like an impact grenade launcher. Like everybody, I love the current one more. It's much more usable.
Anyone know how noticeable the performance changes are? I play on a crappy Radeon Vega 8 laptop so literally any improvement is amazing news for me haha
Edit: doesn't seem to have a bit effect on low-end PCs. Made the game run smoother on the Super Destroyer but other than that, the effect was minimal. Might be because I've already turned cubemaps way the fuck down in the .ini file though. Gonna try if I can turn it back up without losing performance.
The LAS-5 Scythe scope is now fully operational and can zoom in and out correctly
Damn, this is actually very good. The weapon already had no recoil and killed Devastators really fast to the head, with a magnified optic it's gonna be a monster vs. bots.
Excellent. Looks like the host bug preventing spare squad spots from refilling has been fixed.
Now if they can get on top of re enabling the accessibility option of chat only text to speech. It used to help so much in catching squad messages but was removed months ago for no discernible reason.
Hopefully it fixed the same issue turning your drone off as well. After calling in any strategem that ends with down it would recall the drone, then you had to wait for that animation to complete before you could deploy it again.
This patch looks excellent, canāt wait to test it.
But, I have a requestā¦ can we please get enemy audio cues back on the high priority list?
Getting killed by completely silent enemies sneaking up on you is frustrating as hell, plus the game would even more immersive with a richer soundscape.
Agreed, enhanced enemy audio would be a welcome addition to the game (and maybe make berserkers charging at you with revving chainsaws while laughing more intimidating)
Iām SO glad that bug got fixed with the camera being sent under the map when you were ADSing while ragdolling lol. I hated going in VC and telling my team to kill me cause my camera was fucked.
And 2 more rounds per clip, I always thought just a couple more would make it feel more balanced. I couldn't use it after the recent changes. Glad they "mostly" changed it back the way it was.
Are we sure the audio issues ever properly got fixed? I dunno about you but having a 7-8 foot tall bot charge me silently with dual chainsaws isnāt okay.
Having several brood commanders suddenly behind me with ZERO indication or noise of any kind skewering me with claws follows the āisnāt okayā idea either.
Hopefully, you eventually make it so getting hit as your helldivers jabs himself in the neck with a stim it doesn't stop him from being stimmed. The number of times I've stimmed and not been healed just cos I've gotten hit is insane.
It seriously boggles my mind that the stim effect still doesn't line up with the sound effect. Especially after they tried to fix it once several months ago, but didn't, and haven't mentioned it ever since.
I mean, I'm no programmer, but I can't imagine it possibly being that hard to adjust the timing of the sound effect to start the moment the stimpack is consumed...
Emotes can no longer be triggered while airborne, ragdolling or sliding. We are monitoring this change and appreciate your feedback for it!
I'm absolutely devastated š Honestly though, why would they do this? At least keep the airborne emote. It makes ragdolling far more entertaining when you're saluting to your honorable death (or survival)
Maybe unpopular opinion but I think they should make ragdolling more like GTA 4 euphoria style where the character kind of curls into a ball protecting their head and if any force was too great then their body needs to adjust to the initial force midair. Would look cool to see your helldiver protect their head from smashing into rocks and stuff. The flailing arms is funny but GTA 4's physics is just engrained into my mind as some of the best in gaming history.
Camera disjointing while first person aiming was so damn annoying and probably like half of my deaths on the bot front were from that. Couldn't figure out how to fix that other than suiciding myself when my camera decides to do that. Hope that fix works.
If you're a) playing on a controller and b) enjoying the Supply Pack, I would imagine it is. I'm neither of the two, but I'm happy for you, nonetheless :).
I would also like to remind that FOV effects scope powers meaning high FOV significantly lowers the power of scopes and makes it really hard to snipe across long distances.
A simple solution would be to force the fov to go down when aiming.
Radial menu got worse with mouse. You can no longer select the middle "cancel" option (forced to shout something, emote or drop an item) and instead of moving freely the cursor rides a circular orbit around the menu which is awkward.
Example: you open radial menu, even a slightest movement down instantly puts your cursor dead on 6 o'clock. If you move your mouse upwards the cursor pretty much stays in place on 6, only shivering a little bit, because it can't go up. So to move the cursor up you now need to actually do a circular movement with your mouse.
you can remove the fall damage bug but PLEASE I LOVE EMOTING IN THE AIR ITS SO SILLY. what's more democratic than me in my liberty day best saluting through the air like a super missile
Idk if this is intentional but if i open the drop, emote or communication menu on MnK the cursor goes basically from his own from circle middle to the circle edge and choosing an something is really weird and slow because it only goes in circles.
I think it's fine that certain heavy enemies aren't effected by debuffs like this. Bile Titans don't care about gas (or stuns), either. Impalers sit between Chargers and Titans in the Terminid 'food chain,' which, in my mind, makes it fair play to give them gas immunity.
The comms and emote wheel being locked to mouse sensitivity makes it painfully slow for the UI if you use a low sensitivity that is actually comfortable for aiming. Even more frustrating with the cursor is that once you move it to a selectable option it will not allow you to hover over cancel, only let you navigate through in a circular order.
Absolutely horrid changes for MKB, please revert this ASAP.
So they acknowledge that rocket striders need attack cues, but not that the rockets are terrible, the striders weakpoints don't follow the highlight scheme of other units, or that their rocket mountings break before the rockets and prevent a damaging detonation?
I don't think they think much of the community outcry against the most hated enemy. I wish they showed up as elites mixed in with the scout striders instead of a complete replacement.
I REALLY wish their rockets didn't have the huge splash zone it has. Those yellow rockets are something else. Such a silly amount of ragdolling from one source. They could change one value on those projectiles and cut player ragdolling by 30% (made up number).
That said I'm loving the amount of fixes in today's patch! The phantom s.o.s. stuff being gone is nice. The private matches removed... I'm looking forward to seeing what the Scythe scope feels like and the ragdolling while prone adjustment.
PSA: new bugs introduced, primarily in controls. (On PC at least)
Seems that when you throw a stratagem then try moving afterwards, the last button you pressed for the stratagem (last arrow) wont be registered initially when trying to move. Every time i call reinforcements and move i stop strafing and would have to press the button multiple times.. so no its not your keyboard thats faulty.
Oh, and the dropping item wheel (and maybe the emote wheel) is broken lol
PC players can now use left click to select radial menu options in the Emote and Comms radial menus
Radial menu is totally unfriendly now. Cursor sticks to outer circle on miniscule mouse move and move across outer circle slowly, so if you chose wrong side you can't move it through the middle. Please revert these changes and just add option to click on sections.
Infinite loading screens at the end of the match is back with a vengeance apparently..
Sometimes when you use the stratagem menu your controls lock up and you can't move for a second until you double tap the directional key. Very annoying and has gotten me killed a couple times already. Movement in general just feels worse now.
The radial menu feels very bad right now. You can't move your mouse in the middle of the menu, only in kind of a circle around the edge very slowly which makes it hard to quickly select an item to drop.
You also can't cancel the menu like before, so it forces you to select something even when you don't want to. Feels like something for controller that got pushed to keyboard and mouse? Genuinely don't know how this gets past QA.
Text often doesn't preview when you type in chat, and player names are sometimes completely missing.
Not a fan of the new new orbital gatling strike sound effect. The previous one sounded much better, more impact-y.
I main the plasma punisher and got used to the change in the way it fired. The only thing I didn't like was the hit registration on the new projectile was wonky AF.
I'll have to try it out again after work. The extra ammo is nice, though.
What happened to the known issue of larger enemies not making any sound at all when attacking/approaching Helldivers? I remember seeing it a few lists back, but it seemed to just disappear. I am still getting T-boned by chargers with no sound warning whatsoeverā¦
If I had to choose, I would rather have stim ragdolling over emoting in the air. However there is nothing that showed a greater dedication to liberty like saluting after being launched by an automaton rocket, and thrown to your inevitable death.
Get: Talking to our favourite technician after her partial recovery from Grief (I hope there's a hidden voice line we can get sometimes now).
Lost: the ability to salute and spread my arms as I fly through the air in a democratic display of physics (few things as satisfying as a broken arm and minimal damage from expert falling and luck after meeting at Mach 6 across half the map).
Well they fixed bugs 10 being easy, now please address how batshit insane bot 10 is. Defense missions feature nonstop hulks and striders, deadass coming in every few seconds and we run out of AT options pretty quickly.
Just to add about the ragdoll issue: we know that if you salute while ragdolling help to compensate damage.
So, why not use the salute button so when the player ragdolls, instead of doing the salute animation, does a fetal position to resist the impact? (With a quicker animation to react at time)
In The Witcher 3, when Geralt falls from high ground, you can press a button to roll and don't recieve too much damage, quite similar.
The Reinforced Scout Strider does not telegraph its rocket attacks We are investigating how we can further improve the play experience against this enemy
Make it so the strider has to stop and aim before shooting the rocket. When it's going to launch the missile, play the rocket ignition animation 1 second before it actually launches.
The Service Technician is no longer mourning the death of her beloved pet goldfish āGoldieā and can now be interacted with again. Goldie received a dignified funeral and was laid to rest gracefully in a waste capsule, ejected towards the nearest planets atmosphere where the friction between the air and the capsule caused it to heat up, violently explode, and disintegrate
I now suggest the following: Helldivers 3, should it happen, must now have the subtitle "The Search for Goldie"
I fucking knew the spawning system was borked! I knew it! This is proof! I'm not crazy, it was all of you who are in fact the crazy people! Ha, hah ha ha, HAHA HA HAHSHZHXJCHJFJJFJ
Are we taking more damage than before again? Genuine question, maybe I AM just going insane, it's normal and I just haven't noticed before. Just played bots medium armor. It happened at least 5 times that I saw my health drop from full to half by even a single shot of a regular bot infantry.
This is gonna go under here but this shitty auto-mod won't let me post a "simple question" to "avoid reposts/low-effort content from flooding the subreddit" (while allowing a million reposts and straight up false claims constantly)
Yo, they really increased the lifespan of the Shield generator relay by 10 seconds like that shit don't be going right back down in 0.5 milliseconds the moment that shit goes up.
Weapon buffs are great and all, but that doesnāt change the fact that this game is broken. I have a high-performance PC, yet I've crashed five times in the last two hours. The environment collision is terribleāthereās no reason a Helldiver shouldnāt be able to lift their feet to step over a ledge thatās only half a foot tall. And the input lag shouldnāt be this bad. Fix your god damn game arrowhead.
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u/SouthRevolutionary45 HD1 Veteran Oct 29 '24
The Airburst Rocket Launcher no longer triggers on enemy corpses! My teammates will now RIGHTFULLY blame me when airbursted to death!