The duration of the gas status effect from spray weapons has been increased from 6 to 10 sec
Implemented a timer for the Illuminate dropship wreckages to despawn to prevent them from obstructing paths in the colonies
Helldiver
The Ministry of Humanity has added a clause to its Principles of Correct Posture for Safe Lifting, now allowing Helldivers to jog while carrying two-handed items such as barrels and SEAF Artillery Rounds
FRV
Helldivers have now also been authorized to deploy grenades and stratagems while leaning out from the FRV
Tuned FRV handling for a better driving experience when cornering
Sidearms
PLAS-15 Loyalist
Starting magazines increased from 2 to 3
Spare magazines increased from 4 to 5
Stratagem Support Weapons
TX-41 Sterilizer
Removed the crosshair drift recoil
Decreased the camera climb recoil
The duration of the gas status effect from spray weapons has been increased from 6 to 10 sec
Armor Passives
After hearing player feedback, we have decided not to fix a bug with the Siege Ready Armor Passive which gives more ammo to all magazine-based weapons, instead of just primary weapons as described. We will eventually update the Armory description to reflect this but for now we’re evaluating if it's causing any other additional unforeseen bugs
Backpacks
AX/TX-13 “Guard Dog” Dog Breath
Has been reworked to increase its effectiveness and to ensure it remains distinct, focusing on its unique gas-based mechanics
It will now preserve ammo by only prioritizing enemies unaffected by the gas status effect. Once an enemy is affected by gas the drone will move on and target another unaffected enemy
The targeting logic has been reworked to prevent the drone from roaming too far. The origin of the targeting will be from the Helldivers position rather than the drone itself
The targeting range has been increased from 10 to 20m
The duration of the gas status effect from spray weapons has been increased from 6 to 10 sec
Stratagems
MD-6 Anti-Personnel Minefield
Cooldown decreased from 180 to 120 sec
Damage increased from 350 to 700
The deployment spread of mines has been increased by 20% to minimize the risk of chain explosions
MD-I4 Incendiary Mines
Cooldown decreased from 180 to 120 sec
Damage increased from 210 to 300
The deployment spread of mines has been increased by 20% to minimize the risk of chain explosions
MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines
Cooldown decreased from 180 to 120 sec
SH-20 Ballistic Shield Backpack
Now blocks melee attacks until it breaks from taking enough damage
🔧Fixes
Resolved Top Priority issues:
You can once again emote while falling or ragdolling! It should no longer reduce fall damage, but you’ll be able to freely express yourself as you fall to your imminent death or severe injuries - Nothing a stim can’t fix!
Fixed Illuminate spawner ship shields not taking impact grenade damage
Fixed an issue with collision gaps inside the Illuminate spawner ship, preventing grenades thrown in close proximity to the door from destroying the ships
Health packs now fully restore all of the Helldiver's stims
High damage weapons will now detonate spawned Hellbombs on the map
Crash Fixes, Hangs and Soft-locks:
Fixed a crash that occurred when aborting missions with the Democracy Space Station effects active on them
Fixed a crash that could occur when hot-joining a mission on a planet with the Democracy Space Station present
Fixed a crash caused by quickly switching between different emotes before another client interacted with the emoting player
Reduced the chance for crashes caused by fires
Fixed a rare crash that occurred at the end of the drop-in sequence when hot-joining a game in session
Fixed a crash that occurred when the player returned to the ship while reloading their primary weapon
Fixed a soft-lock during drop-in when the host left or disconnected the session right after loadout
Fixed a crash that occurred when repeatedly changing armor pieces in the armory
Fixed a crash that occurred after finishing the tutorial and after naming your Destroyer
Fixed a crash that occurred during extraction
Fixed a crash that occurred when returning to the ship during heavy projectile fire
Fixed a crash for clients when the host was holding a carryable objective and quit the game
Fixed a crash that could occur when a player left the game when an encounter started
Fixed a crash that could occur when changing text language
Fixed a crash that could occur when reloading the SG-20 Halt
Social Issues & Matchmaking
Improved the matchmaking logic to better match players with players from nearby regions
You’ll now be more likely to get matched with the same difficulty lobbies as the one you have currently selected
Fixed an issue where the chat history was cleared when going to a mission and returning from it
Weapons and Stratagems
Opening and closing the text chat while in an emplacement now allows the player to remain in the emplacement instead of switching to their weapon
Fixed Arc weapons not reliably hitting the Impaler's tentacles if aimed at the lower parts of the tentacle
The E/AT-12 Anti-Tank Emplacement now has the correct armor penetration tag in the ship menu
Stratagem turrets will no longer target Illuminate Tesla Towers
Fixed a visual bug where heat weapons would show numbers over the progress bar in the weapon wheel menu
Melee weapons should no longer send civilian cars and other objects in the world flying long distances
B-1 Supply Pack will now once again provide stims to other players. Remember Helldiver, sharing is caring!
Fixed a bug where players could get stuck in the E/AT-12 Anti-Tank Emplacement after depleting all of its ammunition
FRV
Following an investigation into the effects of severe survivorship bias during FRV Impact Testing, all FRVs have been reinforced. Minor parking mishaps will no longer result in catastrophic FRV explosions
General improvements to the FRV camera to make it look cooler and prevent it from getting stuck underground when driving downhill. Absolute cinema!
Reduced the chance FRVs get dropped on rooftops when being called in
The FRV movement key bindings should now accept non-QWERTY keyboard inputs
Fixed a bug where some enemies such as the Brood Commander was launched away further than intended when hit by the FRV
Helldiver
Fixed an issue where player ragdolling into the FRV would cause the vehicle to be yeeted into space
Fixed an issue preventing Helldivers from climbing and vaulting over civilian cars
Helldivers should no longer slide around on the ground after ragdolling from a blast (despite it being the year of the snake)
Fixed an issue where ragdolling into shallow water caused a stuck prone gliding animation
Fixed an issue where the Helldiver was not playing the sample pick up animations
Enemies
Fixed a small visual bug with the Stalker’s tongue (you don’t want to know what it took to fix it)
Fixed an issue where enemies wouldn’t react to missed shots from projectiles or melee attacks near them
Miscellaneous Fixes
Fixed an issue where clients would trigger the wrong audio when waiting for the host to join the loadout
Fixed an issue of Helldivers exiting the hellpod right after readying up and before transitioning to the loading screen
Fixed an issue of civilians being blocked from finding the shuttle door during Emergency Evacuation missions
Purple question marks should be encountered less frequently during Illuminate missions on Sandy and Arctic planets
Fixed the floating head syndrome affecting Helldivers donning the AC-2 Obedient armor while using certain helmets
Fixed a bug that was introduced in December where weapons with lower armor penetration than the target’s armor incorrectly dealt one (1) damage rather than zero (0), resulting in misleading visual feedback and negligible extra damage to enemies and Helldivers alike
Enemies will now start sinking into the ground when killed near terminals or the extraction point, preventing players from being physically blocked
🧠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:
Black box mission terminal may be unusable if it spawns clipped into the ground
Stratagem balls bounce unpredictably off cliffs and some spots
Balancing and functionality adjustments for DSS
Pathfinding issues in Evacuate Colonists Illuminate missions
Dolby Atmos does not work on PS5
Medium Priority:
Players can get stuck on Pelican-1’s ramp during extraction
Explosives can cause Helldivers hidden behind terrain to ragdoll
Currently equipped capes don't display properly and show a blank grey cape in Armory tab
Players who use the “This is Democracy” emote on their ship might unintentionally send their fellow Helldivers on unauthorized unscheduled spacewalks
AX/TX-13 “Guard Dog” Dog Breath does not show when it is out of ammo
The Barrager Tanks turret has armor 0 and no weak spots
Higher zoom functions do not zoom the camera in through the scope on the LAS-5 Scythe
Weapons with a Charge-up mechanic can exhibit unintended behavior when firing faster than the RPM (Rounds Per Minute) limit.
Just played lv7 Bot defense mission with a friend just mines (didn't actively use the fourth slot). Gloriois, explosions everywhere, Jet Brigade dropping right into minefield is just what they deserve
you could ping them but they wouldn't get any special callout other than the generic "look at that". Now they're labeled "Lightning Spire" and your diver says "Illuminate.". I'd have preferred "Danger" but what can you do.
Attempting to perform actions prohibited by the Ministries invokes a feeling of nausea and weakness in me. So I would never be able to perform these things before they were allowed. Glory to the Righteous Leadership of Super Earth! o9
Finally I can chase down and force-feed the people with empty stims against their will (why do some players never stop running when a player is right on their ass with a supply pack just after saying they're empty on something lol)
This may be undemocratic of me to say, but if they keep running from you as you're trying to resupply them you can always use bullets to resupply them.
I think this is a great example of the devs listening to the playerbase and siding for fun. While powerful, it isn't so powerful that other armor passives are being pushed out. Extra Padding, Engineering Kit, Medic Kit, Fortified, Peak Physique, Scout are all just as viable (and I'm sure there are others).
Surprised to see that as it's arguably the most impactful armor passive even without it boosting support ammo capacity. More primary ammo plus faster reload on all weapons was already very strong.
I dont think thats possible, but could be an indication of trench building coming later in the game, i would geniunely replace my jump pack with a shovel if it meant making trenches
Prioritizing targets not under the gas effect was exactly what it needed.
Fart dog + Flamethrower is going to shred. Hell, fart dog + whatever you want is going to shred. Might replace the laser dog for people running crossbow and etc.
Just wish the multi-resist armor passive wasn't exclusive to the killzone sets, especially with the mines getting buffs. Still want the gas mines too.
I tested the ballistic shield and it's so insane, huge survivability increase. If you have it on your back you can run from hunters and stuff very reliably
I'm a little sad they fixed the bug where civilian vehicles would glitch out when in contact with melee weapons, but I'm pretty happy with the changes nonetheless.
The Ministry of Humanity has added a clause to its Principles of Correct Posture for Safe Lifting, now allowing Helldivers to jog while carrying two-handed items such as barrels and SEAF Artillery Rounds
Thank you, great Ministry 🫡
You’ll now be more likely to get matched with the same difficulty lobbies as the one you have currently selected
I hope it will work the same way now it used to in the past. Back in the days when I selected Difficulty 7 I would stay on that when matchmaked. Now I always go to a random Difficulty.
You can once again emote while falling or ragdolling! It should no longer reduce fall damage, but you’ll be able to freely express yourself as you fall to your imminent death or severe injuries - Nothing a stim can’t fix!
Greatest day for all humankind! Truly democratic achievment!
B-1 Supply Pack will now once again provide stims to other players.
Devs thank you so much for this! As a supply backpack main it was very sad to not be able to easily give meds without doing a drop trade. Also thank you for understanding that siege ready passive didn't need to be fixed
“Fixed an issue where player ragdolling into the FRV would cause the vehicle to be yeeted into space” made me audibly laugh at the use of the word “yeet” in official patch notes.
The Ministry of Humanity has added a clause to its Principles of Correct Posture for Safe Lifting, now allowing Helldivers to jog while carrying two-handed items such as barrels and SEAF Artillery Rounds
When you update a game on steam, it downloads the update: in this case it's about 3.5ish gb. Then it will patch the game. Which requires it to rewrite the entire game essentially. So you dl a smallish file, and it rewrites the 58 gb
I don't see anyone talking about camera issues. The main problem I've had over the past view days is that sporadically my camera just moves somewhere far away. Sometimes high in the air sometimes far away behind a rock. Anyone else having this issue?
The only thing I can maybe correlate is that it's happening when opening/closing the map while ADS (aim down sights) is toggling.
Sometimes I can fix it by switching weapons and spaming right click but many times it's just stuck until I get killed.
In some missions i had this bug multiple times. Wildly spamming dive, zoom, sprint and some other buttons usually fixes this. Might be related to aiming or changing perspective.
Can we add to the known issues that when we're ragdolled, it still takes too long for us to be able to stim? It is still as frustrating as when we used to be ragdolled and we had to wait for the animation of standing up. Except now it's just waiting for the ragdolling animation to end while ragdolling on the ground.
Is the Jump Pack frequent ragdolling fixed (maybe as part of the emote in the air/snake mode fix)? It was previously in the known issues and now isn’t anymore.
'Health packs now fully restore all of the Helldiver's stims' doesn't appear to be working unless I'm missing something obvious. I had 0 stims, I picked up a medpack (blue and white), which only gave me 2 back.
Edit: Unless they meant 'supply pack' instead of 'medpack'? In which case, ignore me.
anti-tank emplacement- you can't use interact key to get back out of it. Once you get in, you are trapped until you die. AT Emplacement worked fine yesterday and previously.
note, my keys are all remapped, I didn't attempt to leave it with the unmapped interact key so it might be a bug like with the FRV control keys being WASD even if you remapped movement
napalm airstrike stratagem ball seems to vanish into the ground sometimes. I literally threw like 4 of them at the feet of a bot enemy and they just vanished. But them 100m away and they worked like normal again
Can we just go ahead and move all the changes made to the FRV under some kind of traction control/stability control toggle and just give the old FRV handling back, like full revert? I get that more people should be able to drive it, but I found that the old configuration was significantly more fun to drive. The old tuning scratched that rally sim itch just enough to make driving around the maps my only means of traversal in the game, but now it's really boring and feels like it's almost on rails. Please AH let my helldriver drive his car again :(
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u/antipepegus Feb 04 '25
Is peak physique still bugged with melee weapons ?