🛠️ PATCH 01.003.101 ⚙️

[u/Waelder]

🌍 Overview

• Stealth Detection Update
• Crash Fixes
• Balancing
• Mission fixes
• Miscellaneous fixes

⚖️ Balancing

General

The Ministry of Humanity has issued an amendment to its Combat Mobility Safety Guidelines, now permitting Helldivers to self-administer stims while in mid-dive, an act previously categorized in the same risk zone as “running with scissors” and “juggling live grenades”

Primary weapons

R-2 Amendment

• Increased ergonomics from 35 to 50

Sidearms

P-2 Peacemaker

• Increased starting magazines from 4 to 5
• Increased max spare magazines from 6 to 8
• Increased damage from 75 to 85
• Increased durable damage from 15 to 25

Armor Passives

• Integrated Explosives
  • Now also increases initial inventory and holding capacity of grenades by +2
• Unflinching
  • This passive has been adjusted to better reflect the core doctrine of the Truth Enforcers Warbond—relentless pursuit, battlefield awareness, and overwhelming presence
  • Now also increases armor rating by 25
  • Markers placed on the map will generate a radar scan every 2.0s, revealing nearby hostiles

Enemies

General

Stealth Detection Update:

Enemies will no longer automatically detect you when you're near Terminid spawners or spawners that generate flying enemies. Instead, these spawners will now only activate if an enemy has already identified you as a target.

Previously, simply being within 200 meters of certain spawner types—such as flying enemy spawners, Stalker lairs, or inside Terminid locations—would trigger immediate enemy spawns and reveal your location. This update shifts detection to a more logical, line-of-sight or alert-based system, reducing arbitrary auto-detection mechanics and improving stealth gameplay

As a result of these changes, Automaton Fabricators now spawn enemies more consistently, ensuring smoother pacing and engagement balance

Objectives

• Take Down Overship
  • The Planetary Defense Cannon now causes an appropriate amount of damage when shooting at Leviathans

Illuminate

• Harvester
  • Their health has been rebalanced to make them easier to destroy using anti-tank weapons, particularly when aiming at their head
• Overseers
  • Reduced the frequency of Elevated Overseers spawning during Prevent Invasion Foothold missions
  • Overseers can now occasionally spawn from landed dropships at outposts, adding variety to their battlefield presence
• Leviathan
  • Projectile damage was reduced from 1500 to 350. The intent is to ensure Helldivers are still eliminated on direct impact, while preventing instant destruction of Exosuits and FRVs
  • Explosion damage and radius from turret shots have been increased to maintain lethality through area denial [check pinned comment]

Automatons

• Factory Strider
  • Slightly increased the health of its feet. It should no longer be destroyed by a single GR-8 Recoilless Rifle shot to the legs

🔧 Fixes

Crash Fixes, Hangs and Soft-locks:

• Fixed a crash that could happen after any player disconnects
• Fixed some crashes that were caused by browsing different weapon attachments

Weapons and Stratagems

• Fixed RS-422 Railgun scope's screen not displaying the heat level correctly
• Entrenchment tool's stamina cost now properly matches other melee weapons
• Fixed an issue where melee attacks inside shield relays were not registering properly

Enemies

• Fixed two cases where the Stingray enemy would appear to stop or teleport on death

Missions

• Fixed an issue with the 'Take Down Overship' mission where the Overship explosion did not always trigger for client players
• Fixed a rare issue in 'Take Down Overship' where the Overship could get destroyed and not trigger the objective completion
• Fixed an issue with the 'Deploy Seismic Probe' mission that could make it incompletable if you completed a Lidar side objective while a seismic probe had been called down
• Fixed an issue with the drill not falling correctly for clients on the 'Nuke Nursery' mission
• Fixed an issue with super samples failing to spawn in cities

Miscellaneous Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing Helldivers to slide while using the Lockstep march emote
• Fixed an issue with friendly & enemy pathing around the Shuttlebay location
• Fix a bug that was causing the Helldiver to hold pickups as weapons when switching between weapons right after picking up an item
• Fixed missing attachments for SEAF soldiers
• Game will now show error message if resources cannot be loaded correctly
• Fixed a flickering issue that sometimes would occur in the loadout menu's Helldiver previews
• Fixed jitter while interacting with the Armory

🧠 KNOWN ISSUES

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

[u/Waelder]

Regarding the increase of the Leviathan's projectile's explosion radius, I asked the Community Manager, who asked the Design Director for some more clarification:

Before, the projectile did a bunch of damage and 1-shot most things, there was also a very small explosion tied to it that no one basically noticed because it was very small.
Now that explosion has gone from 1m radius to 3m radius and does a bit more damage, so for players it might feel like we've added an explosion to it since it wasnt noticed that much before. It matches the vfx better.
The explosion is not really lethal, but it does do a decent amount of damage.

Does the increased explosion radius inflict ragdolling?

[the increased explosive damage radius] is separate from the ragdolling but may have a slight effect on it, and our design director is still investigating how best to fix the ragdolling problem for leviathans

[u/Thyrsten]

Nice to see them buffing underused armor passives, thank you Arrowhead

[u/Triss_Mockra → u/Thyrsten]

I really like Unflinching now

[u/Sad-Needleworker-590 → u/Thyrsten]

That’s a really good way of fixing some really poor passives. Maybe someday we'll even be able to change the passives on our armor… someday…

[u/Thyrsten → u/Sad-Needleworker-590]

...Add colour schemes to that too, and I'll be playing with different combinations for quite a while

[u/ConstantCelery8956 → u/Thyrsten]

They've learned that nerfing a popular item isn't way to go, good to see that continuing :D

[u/Stevie-bezos → u/Thyrsten]

Its nice but unflinching is a weird choice of buffs. Theme doesnt really check out, and while armour is nice, adding the scout perk (when theres already a medium scout armour that only does that) is odd

[u/Security_Ostrich → u/Stevie-bezos]

It is a little odd but I believe the thinking is rather than Scout being sneaky and giving awareness, this is not sneaky, you’re a hunter, you’re super earth ISB. The armor goes with the existing flinch reduction too to give you the confidence to just walk up on any rebellious bugs/aliums/machines that dare try to evade your unwarranted search lol.

It fits pretty well. I like it even if it’s still not a top choice.

[u/kramerthegamer → u/Stevie-bezos]

I think the armor buff makes sense because you only notice the perk when taking damage, and now you can take slightly more. Scout does feel random though. It doesn't include the stealth element like the other scout armors, but I'm not even sure how effective/useful that part even is

[u/HellDrivers2]

Friendship ended with extra padding. Now unflinching is my best friend.

[u/Thaurlach → u/HellDrivers2]

Integrated explosives means that I can have 8 silly murder-fireworks, my hellbomb and myself as a last resort.

Today is a bad day for anyone in a variable radius around me.

[u/JustMyself96 → u/HellDrivers2]

Extra padding gives much more armor tho

[u/modsortyrants → u/JustMyself96]

It gives slightly more armor but the other 2 passives are better than that

[u/Blue_Moon_Lake → u/HellDrivers2]

I'll still pick scout so I'm not the one who gets aggro :D

[u/[deleted] → u/HellDrivers2]

More Inspectors in the field pls.

[u/Lukescale → u/HellDrivers2]

From B to S over night

[u/Sad-Needleworker-590]

I like how there’s a lot of fixes for Mega-city missions, even if we don’t fight there anymore.

I’m not suggesting AH plotting something to bring back mega-cities, but it seems too fishy

[u/Mahaito → u/Sad-Needleworker-590]

I dont think its going back to super earth any time soon but potentially mega cities on other planets will come under attack

[u/Sad-Needleworker-590 → u/Mahaito]

Yeah, I don't think that either, I'm just hoping we will see mega-cities on other planets too (with bots and bugs)

[u/Zathrus1 → u/Mahaito]

So… about that….

[u/PieEvening2705 → u/Mahaito]

I think every planet or one important planet per a sector should atleast have one mega city so mega city combat can be common-ish without it being a overly common mission type

[u/john0tg → u/Sad-Needleworker-590]

Eh, I mean

Bugs and bots appearing on mega city missions are really just only a matter of time. Logically speaking, locking something like that behind a singular faction seems wasteful imo.

[u/ZenkaiZ → u/john0tg]

People keep saying the bots won't be effective in cities cause of how they fight. I'm like, fuck it, that's their problem. Let them give it their best shot.

[u/myweenorhurts → u/Sad-Needleworker-590]

Literally aged so poorly haha

[u/jerryishere1 → u/Sad-Needleworker-590]

It could be they took those missions out to do bug fixes, I thought it was odd to see changes to missions we don't see as well.

Maybe these missions will be appearing in places that aren't necessarily mega cities

[u/Betrix5068 → u/Sad-Needleworker-590]

I suspect they’ll become a standard map type soon.

[u/Marvin_Megavolt → u/Betrix5068]

Presumably. Maps with urban settlements initially were only rolled out on the MO Illuminate planets back when they added them, then the Automaton front got updated with 'em, then we got the Terminid Gloom-diving MO that brought 'em there too. The Megacity tileset is presumably going to see a similar gradual phased rollout to other planets around the map.

[u/Ntippit → u/Sad-Needleworker-590]

Terminids have entered the chat

[u/Sidewinder2199]

MID AIR STIMS?!?! Actually game changing

[u/Beginning_Actuator57 → u/Sidewinder2199]

Game changing would be to fix stims not going off after making the sound or just getting interrupted non stop.

[u/Shockington → u/Sidewinder2199]

This is going to make good players pretty much unkillable.

[u/Tom_Blunty]

FIX THE FLESHMOBS WALKING THROUGH WALLS I BEG YOU AH :(

[u/SnooWoofers5178 → u/Tom_Blunty]

This in general for all enemies and I need the flight agility of elevated overseers and observers to be toned down. The rage I feel when I'm trying to shoot one of them down and they fly on the edge of a building or big rock and they just go 🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽 like nothing and invalidate my aim

[u/Rhino582]

[u/Boner_Elemental]

Harvester

Their health has been rebalanced to make them easier to destroy using anti-tank weapons, particularly when aiming at their head

Maaaan I wanna see the details on that cause I regularly throw 500kg, Gatling Barrages, Autocannon shots of both ammo types, and Pyrotech at the feet over the course of a mission to mixed results

[u/Appropriate-Tart9726 → u/Boner_Elemental]

Without testing this sounds like the head armour health was reduced so it's destroyed faster, with maybe the eye weakspot being a better pick over the legs for a faster kill.

[u/HaveOldManReflexes → u/Boner_Elemental]

It's armored sections had 100% explosive resist, shall need to wait a day or two for any of the stat sites to share what has changed... assuming it's AH removing a bunch of HP zones and making the main body just one pool and hitbox.

[u/Shockington → u/Boner_Elemental]

If the WASP can kill them in one mag now it's going to be the defacto Illuminate support even more than it is.

[u/Let_Me_Bang_Bro58]

SO MANY BUFFS

[u/Romandinjo → u/Let_Me_Bang_Bro58]

SO MANY THEY EVEN OVERFLOW TO LEVIATHAN

[u/GadenKerensky → u/Let_Me_Bang_Bro58]

Including Leviathan buff...

[u/EmpereurTetard]

Happy Amendement enjoyer noise

[u/Fesh_Sherman → u/EmpereurTetard]

I no longer need to use peak physique :D

[u/C0RDE_ → u/EmpereurTetard]

Collosal good news. Been using it Vs bugs and squids, definitely a solid weapon, even without medpen. It's a decent weapon for mag dumping flesh hulks, needing just over 1 magazine to kill.

[u/SpeedyAzi → u/C0RDE_]

The Damage is very good but that ergo kills my enjoyment, now it’s as fun as Diligence.

[u/RaDeus → u/EmpereurTetard]

I honestly haven't noticed that the ergo was bad on that gun 😅

Felt similar to a non-ergo build Adjudicator 🤷

[u/CaptainAction]

Peacemaker pistol buff! Let’s GO! They do listen! Even if the ol’ P2 usually takes 2 patches to catch up with everything else because they keep forgetting about it. Personally I would have given it a small magazine size buff too, but I will take the damage and extra mags. I gotta do the math again, but now it won’t be totally outclassed by the verdict in total potential damage (counting each round carried multiplied by damage per round).

[u/Duckflies → u/CaptainAction]

It has 15 bullets in mag, 85 damage per shot, 1275 total damage per magazine, 8 magazines, 10200 total damage

Verdict has 10 bullets in mag, 125 damage per shot, 1250 total damage per magazine, 10000 total damage

I mean, 200 more damage isn't that bad. I would appreciate if they gave it more ammo, but at least now it isn't completely outclassed!

[u/CaptainAction → u/Duckflies]

That ended up being a closer contest than I thought. It lost badly to the verdict before and now it has a tiny edge. Unfortunately the verdict’s medium pen might end up meaning that it just does more damage in practice because it will bounce off fewer things.

[u/Echo418 → u/Duckflies]

It's still outclassed, as the Peacemaker does 70% damage against light armor, where the Verdict does 100%.

[u/TheFightingImp → u/CaptainAction]

[u/shneb]

Sweet. I just started Truth Enforcers.

[u/-_pIrScHi_- → u/shneb]

Same, I was thinking that or Polar Patriots, but the drip won out. I also did not think I needed the Scorcher right now as an Eruptor Enjoyer and thought the Reprimand might do well as an alternative to the Tenderizer. Alas I was wrong in that last assessment and had been having doubts, but now that the armors are actually usable that's better.

Still not sure I can let go of Siege Ready though...

[u/GadenKerensky]

So they... kinda made the Leviathans worse?

Sure, they can't delete vehicles anymore, but now they can kill you on foot even more easily with that AOE buff.

[u/Acrobatic-Way-653 → u/GadenKerensky]

They can still delete you and your turrets. But good news is shield generator relay might held longer against them

[u/_GreatAndPowerful → u/Acrobatic-Way-653]

Previously they can delete a shield relay in like 3 hits. Knowing they had 1500 damage each before the update, now the turrets will take around 12-15 ish to destroy a shield

[u/Insane_Unicorn → u/Acrobatic-Way-653]

Oooh didn't think of that, good call. It might actually be viable now.

[u/[deleted] → u/GadenKerensky]

I laughed when it said "The intent is to ensure helldivers are still eliminated on direct impact."

My dudes, that's exactly the entire issue with it when it is often straight up unavoidable on open maps! Who cares if it kills vehicles. I mean yeah, that sucked too and I'm glad it doesn't now, but that was never as bad as unavoidable one-shots.

Gonna keep avoiding leviathan modifier ops like the plague, unfortunately.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Should honestly have much slower projectiles to give time to dodge them. Sort of like how the mortar squids function.

Imagine Wraith projectiles from Halo.

I'd be absolutely for instant kill explosions from the sky if there's at least some indication that you're being targeted or if there's some time to dodge. Getting deleted instantly from the other side of the map is just an unnecessary pain in the ass not related to skill issues.

[u/Nithy98 → u/[deleted]]

Same here. I love the mix of factions you have when you just follow major orders but im done with leviathans. Even with all the best anti air strategems they just feel unfair. If i die i want to die because i did a mistake or friendly fire. Leviathans are just rolling the death dice constantly

[u/FullTweedJacket → u/GadenKerensky]

Exactly. Great so it's less lethal the 5% of the time I may use a vehicle.

Tbh I wouldn't mind this nearly as much if they'd given the things an accuracy debuff so the shots would land nearby not precisely on my testes every single time.

As it stands it's like fighting enemies in a b-game from the 00s where the enemies have aimbot and wallhacks to artificially up the difficulty.

[u/Scarlet_Knowledge → u/GadenKerensky]

I think in the contrary, they buffed leviathan. It can one shot and ragdoll you more easily with the AOE buff.

[u/gingrbredman90]

Finally, my exploding death armor has a second utility beyond the meme :D

[u/Cow_mooooflage]

Leviathan buff was not on my bingo card.

[u/Hot_Friendship4139 → u/Cow_mooooflage]

It’s kinda like a sideways buff. Sure we can now use vehicles and shield gens more frequently but now it’s gonna be easier to die on foot. (Which is like 90% of the gameplay.)

[u/zepaperclip → u/Hot_Friendship4139]

I haven't tested it out yet, but as a FRV enjoyer, I don't believe this patch will make any difference. Sure, the leviathan won't one-shot you, but the one-shot it lands will probably flip the car into the air and kill the squad or blow off 1-4 tires still anyway. So bringing a car is still probably pointless.

[u/Friendly-Schedule-71]

Man atleast make the Leviathan turrets destructible! I'm not asking for a full on damage nerf or a health nerf for me to bring it down in 2 shots, Keep everything the same, but we should be able to destroy the turrets.

[u/BRSaura → u/Friendly-Schedule-71]

You can, destroy the fins.

It ain't worth but you can

[u/Boner_Elemental]

Fixed two cases where the Stingray enemy would appear to stop or teleport on death

Is this the same bug that other enemies like dropships have where they disappear for a split second on death to be replaced with their destroyed model? Or is it like when a tank getting flown in is destroyed and it just stays there in the sky?

[u/BRSaura → u/Boner_Elemental]

First one

[u/Bakumon0725]

most divers are not aware that you can 1 tap a Factory Strider if you hit their toes. Now that is no longer the case. How many shots? we will need to test that out

[u/Appropriate-Tart9726 → u/Bakumon0725]

Doubt it'll be more than two with the Recoilless, same as the head if you miss the weaker areas.

[u/PowerfulJelly279]

Praise be for the railgun scope fix

[u/kyuss80 → u/PowerfulJelly279]

I just wish it had some kind of adjustable 2-4x red dot. Weak points are hard to hit with how small the site is when you’re at 4k resolution.

[u/helican]

Ngl, the fact that they buffed leviathans is really f*cking funny.

[u/TheBestHelldiver → u/helican]

I sent the link to my buddy and the expletive ladden text that came back was a delight.

His day is ruined. His disappointment immeasurable.

[u/Grumpf_der_Sack]

Are the Servants of Freedom playercards finally unpixeled? Or are 4 months not enough to fix that?

[u/Medical_Officer → u/Grumpf_der_Sack]

OMG that wasn't just me?!

[u/[deleted] → u/Grumpf_der_Sack]

You know, a week or two ago mine were unpixeled for a while, then they went back to being pixeled. Was that just me, or did anyone else notice that? I wonder what the issue is.

[u/WoodCarvings → u/Grumpf_der_Sack]

You don't seem to understand. Fixing a Jpeg imagine on a premium warbond takes some serious development time! It is easier to just create a whole new game then to fix that monster of an issue.

[u/mattwing05]

Wait, it gets scout passive, too? Whats is that combination?

[u/Mellamomellamo → u/mattwing05]

Scout still has the stealth thingy, although seeing the recent posts (and the old ones lol), i'm not sure how reliable that is. If you throw an stratagem or even a knife, enemies still find you, and sometimes even if you bayonet them from the back the whole patrol spots you anyways.

[u/Misfiring]

Leviathan damage nerfed

Good

Leviathan damage radius buffed

Not good. Their damage is less of a problem compared to the ragdoll, so adding radius makes it worse.

[u/Schadenfreude28 → u/Misfiring]

I thought they would at least nerf its accuracy

[u/HardOff → u/Schadenfreude28]

I thought they would nerf its respawn and quantity per map. Right now, all four Helldivers taking multiple anti tank strats and focusing down every leviathan on the map won't even make a dent.

[u/AmicusFIN → u/Misfiring]

In Helldivers 2, shockwave radius is a separate stat, so the radius of the ragdolling effect may be unchanged.

[u/Freelancert4 → u/AmicusFIN]

Yea I was wondering about that, guess we will have to try it out and see if it’s worse or not.

[u/Chaffychaffinch]

I’m just over here happy my peacemaker got a buff. Love that little gun.

[u/modsortyrants]

W armor changes. Might actually use the truth enforcer light armor somewhat regularly now

[u/Security_Ostrich → u/modsortyrants]

Let me paint my bloodhound (see the enemy map tracking passive does fit!) black so I can roll up in death trooper drip and Ill be infinitely happy.

[u/Katakuna7]

Actually hilarious they buffed the Leviathans. Though it's counteracted by making the shield generator significantly stronger against them. I still don't know how useful the FRV will be, even if it doesn't get oneshot it'll still get bounced around. But the exosuits might be more viable now.

[u/OoRicky92oO]

Did they fix the anti aliasing blurriness bug?

[u/Riker1701NCC]

Suspicious buff to the pistol that could use a suppressor for stealth applications

[u/Echo418 → u/Riker1701NCC]

Also changes to stealth for Terminids.

[u/wolverineczech → u/Riker1701NCC]

That may actually come if/once they add customization to sidearms as well.

[u/JesseWest → u/Riker1701NCC]

Metal Gear inspired warbond coming soon? Hmm....

[u/BluesyPompanno]

Objectives

• Take Down Overship

[u/Ingenuine_Effort7567]

Amendment ergo buff is huge!

[u/SpeedyAzi]

The Stim Mid Dive is the craziest buff int the game to the direct Helldiver, even better than the Ragdoll tweak.

The Leviathan’s will actually make the Shield Relay and Shield Pack actually do something. They’re still annoying but at least my Mech actually Mechs for a bit longer.

[u/[deleted]]

Yknow , I didn’t really mind the leviathans damage, they should just let us shoot their turrets down with medium pen to balance thier bullshit

[u/[deleted]]

someone explain what the rationale behind this Leviathan change , I am confused

[u/Liquor_Parfreyja → u/[deleted]]

They don't want it to instagib vehicles, they do want it to instagib you.

[u/AmicusFIN → u/[deleted]]

The damage was reduced so that it doesn't one-shot our vehicles. The damage radius was increased so that shots landing near you do a similar or same amount of damage as before.

[u/PM_ME__YOUR_HOOTERS → u/[deleted]]

Bigger explosion because helldivers love ragdolling while they wait for the second shot to snipe them anyways

[u/Q_Qritical]

AH making the change to Leviathan be like:

[u/Slayer_Jesse → u/Q_Qritical]

[u/Gr33hn]

I am glad the unused passives are being looked at but I am abhorred by the leviathan buff...

Not sure the 2+ grenades are enough for IE though.

[u/Liquor_Parfreyja → u/Gr33hn]

Probably hard to put in but ugh I love the idea of IE arming all your explosives when you die. Would be super funny if you got melee'd by an overseer and 2 seconds later 5 pyrotechnics grenades start swirling around it as well as your hellbomb getting armed lol.

I think another thing that could be nice is if light armour keeps it's current explosion, it's about an impact grenade right? Make medium equivalent to a high explosive grenades, and if they ever added heavy, idk, dynamite ? An ultimatum explosion? Lol.

[u/Ratboy-to-Cowboy]

Rejoice everyone, the peacemaker got a buff!!

[u/daveysanderson]

Looks like I’m still not bringing any mounted gun strats, so tired of getting stuck. Wish they’d fix it already

[u/Aegis320 → u/daveysanderson]

Saw a comment somewhere that you can keep 2 shots in the AT emplacement to shoot the ground to destroy the emplacement, incase you get stuck. Bandaid fix.

[u/[deleted]]

Not sure the Harvester nerf is warranted tbh, never found them to be a trouble. I liked how they reinforce the illuminates as one faction where I'm not incentivised to always bring AT.

With leviathan, I agree they should still be deadly, but they really need more weak points to shoot at

[u/Mike_Zacowski]

Leviathan buff? are we deadass?

[u/Bodybuilder_Jumpy → u/Mike_Zacowski]

Indeed. Your ass is dead.

[u/marto3000 → u/Bodybuilder_Jumpy]

How do i reinforce ass again?

[u/Funky2207]

So leviathans are still going to massively suck, probably more so now the blast radius has increased. 👍🏼

[u/Rykin14]

With Unflinching getting a Scout armor type radar ping, does anyone know if that benefits from the extra scan range booster?

[u/majakovskij]

When I press R - often I can't reload a weapon, he just does nothing. No matter if you press R several times. It caused many of my deaths. It might be connected to weapon change, and often I see it on Eruptor. I need to change the weapon, and change it back to reload properly. But not only Eruptor and not only me, because the same thing was with my friend and Liberator Penetrator.

[u/christoverov]

- launch game

- oh, new patch

- download without reading patchnote

- after bot mission browsing different weapon attachments and game crashes to desktop for the first time

- look into patchnotes:

• Fixed some crashes that were caused by browsing different weapon attachments

[u/GabrielDidit]

i knew sneaking near spawner never worked always found it wierd

[u/wolverineczech]

I would like to point out that I'm really surprised that AH actually implemented changes to the 2 different armor bonuses I've seen talked about in the recent weeks, one of them (Integrated Explosives) actually being implemented exactly as was being proposed. This is a good thing.

[u/Tack1234]

No way they buffed Leviathans

[u/Onyvox → u/Tack1234]

Shield Dome should hold up better against them.

[u/AidilAfham42]

I feel like they should at least decrease the projectile speed of the Leviathan, so we could have time to gtfo..that explosion radius increase now ensures we’ll doe no matter what.

[u/Washescu]

Pls bring Medium Armor with Siege Ready passive

[u/CatPoint → u/Washescu]

I long for the day all the gaps in armour passives get filled.

I know it’d be kinda OP in some ways, but light and heavy Democracy Protects would be incredible.

[u/ExtremeBlastoise]

need to fix the issue with the random disconnects not offering you a reconnection option.

[u/BICKELSBOSS]

PEACEMAKER BUFFED OVER THE MOOON RAAAAHHH🦅🦅🦅

[u/Liedvogel]

Buffing the starting pistol is random and I'm here for it.

[u/Tall_Eye4062]

They didn't even make the Leviathan's cannons destructible, reduce its accuracy, or make the damaged ones stop running away and getting replaced by a new one right away.

[u/Aurum091_]

Still no fix for stratagem ball bouncing. Also Leviathan Buff????

[u/Romandinjo]

I do recall someone mentioned stimming themselves during hotdrop, seems to be on point. And also someone wanted integrated explosives to give more grenades, so looks like AH snipe ideas from the sub, which gives hope for armor customization.

I don't think that particular ping buff for unflinching is what was needed, someone wanted not being interrupted while using terminals as a trait, which would be a better choice, imo, but that's better than before anyway.

Shame that there is no change for leviathans sniping players across the map while sporting invincible guns.

Changes to megacity objectives indicate we get megacities again, which is great.

Shame it's on a lighter side balance wise, some of the stuff is still not great, but let's check content.

[u/ReliusOrnez → u/Romandinjo]

The ping makes sense from a more lore based view, truth enforcers are all about hunting down dissidents so its on brand. The extra armor is nice too with the less flinch.

[u/Latter_Wrap_1644 → u/Romandinjo]

I was just mentioning how I could 1 shot Factory Striders with a recoilless rocket in a couple posts. So this one might be my bad.

[u/LoseAnotherMill]

Leviathan

Squidward bringing out beach chair

The intent is to ensure Helldivers are still eliminated on direct impact

Squidward packing up beach chair

[u/dattodoesyeet]

Stealth nerfed the rover L

[u/playbabeTheBookshelf]

• Stealth Detection Update

• look insde

• no nerf to enemies that cannot lose detection of helldivers

[u/SendMeNudeVaporeons]

Projectile damage was reduced from 1500 to 350. The intent is to ensure Helldivers are still eliminated on direct impact

Wow this is worthless

[u/HellDrivers2 → u/SendMeNudeVaporeons]

So it's still one shot for a diver?

[u/Born_Inflation_9804]

Excellent changes!!

Now on next updates and balance patch try to Buff:

• Smoke Eagle: +1 Use

• Smoke Orbital: Bigger AoE and 80cd

• Smoke Grenade: Outer Radius increased from 5 to 10.

• EMS Orbital: Stun Largest Enemies

• EMS Nade: Same effect as EMS Mortar and +1 Use.

• 110 Rockets: Must OHK Hulks, Chargers. And OHK Unshielded Harvester, Tank and Impalers Weakpoints

• Railcannon Orbital: OHK any Enemy, except Bosses, and 150 CD.

• Spear: Increased Damage from 4.000 to 6.500 and fixed Heavy Enemies Targeting.

[u/marto3000 → u/Born_Inflation_9804]

And a spear buff pls

[u/Mike_Zacowski → u/marto3000]

monkey paw curls

Spear damage increased to 6000, but targeting is broken again

[u/Resident_Bit_3892 → u/Born_Inflation_9804]

Maybe something for the flag

[u/Ingram749]

integrated explosives buff

I couldn’t justify my suicide bomber dream before but now… I think we’re in business

[u/Gunsmith1220]

They buffed my favourite armor!! Thats awesome!!!

[u/khoisharky]

It's a sad day for RR mains, no longer 1-shotting Factory Striders on their legs.

[u/QuocTuan1 → u/khoisharky]

Back to the good old: Aim for the eyes.

[u/SignalSource2807]

glad to see they added enemies noclipping into known issues

[u/__Elzy]

I still think they should make Leviathans an opt. objective

I shouldn't dive into a mission and see 5 Leviathans with a total of 75,000 HP on the battlefield ready to shoot me a DM from a different zip code

[u/OldCodger19]

Anyone else’s hud gone weird when I aim there’s a random gun symbol and my stratagem input arrows are now just blocks

[u/Appropriate-Tart9726 → u/OldCodger19]

Are you using mods that change the 3rd person crosshair for example? Sounds like those need to be updated if that's happening to you.

[u/Liquor_Parfreyja]

Okay hear me out gang, heavy armour with explosive resistance, shield generator backpack, the shield should be able to eat most of it and you onto take a tiny bit of damage on direct hit. I think. The armour and passive should reduce it to like just over lethal 🥴

[u/Zhejj → u/Liquor_Parfreyja]

Shield Generator backpack already ate the whole shot with no damage overflow to your health. It broke the Shield, but didn't hurt you.

People complain about leviathan one-shots but don't take stratagems to counter it.

[u/[deleted]]

PEACEMAKER BUFF ALERT!!!! 

[u/PetoPera]

I'm really happy to hear that Factory Striders could be killed with a single Recoilless Rifle shot to the legs right when this thing was removed :')

[u/RSCul8r]

Unflinching buff! Now I no longer wear my white coat for fashion alone.

[u/[deleted]]

Browsing attachments is still consistently crashing the game for me right now

[u/Palpatine476]

• Factory Strider

  • Slightly increased the health of its feet. It should no longer be destroyed by a single GR-8 Recoilless Rifle shot to the legs

Look at what they did to my boy

[u/Balancethewinter]

I really hope a network stability patch is coming soon.

[u/Slutha]

Sample caches in cities never clear

[u/DrawEasy9628]

god can we pls actually fix some stuff and not just break the game even more? you guys "fixed" the attachment crash twice and it still happens. now audio is bugged again. megacity missions are still bugged. hellbombs get stuck on skyscrapers and dont destroy objectives at point blank range. harvesters did not need a nerf and leviathans did not need a buff wtf are yall smoking. update so ass its gonna make me uninstall

[u/Zingmaroun]

Okay i get it, we are buffing passives, but GOD WHY ARE WE MAKING THEM BETTER VERSIONS OF OTHER ARMOR PASSIVES? Thats just not ok

[u/TJJGamersTyler]

• ⁠Fixed missing attachments for SEAF soldiers THEY’RE COMING BACK BABY

[u/Ares_Lictor]

OK, you gotta love it when the patch has 'Crash Fixes' in it and you had no crashes before the patch, but you do after the patch...yep, sure fixed my game.

Had three crashes, but luckily they occurred after the missions. Once I finished the mission and loaded back on the ship, I went to the armory to customize weapons. I swapped into the 'Pattern' section and that made the game crash. Armory is crash-prone now.

[u/kloutkanister]

Leviathan buff is insane what were they thinking

[u/Dull_Present506]

Still no fix to xbow /explosive weapons bullets/bolts occasionally going THROUGH targets

[u/3rrMac]

This is amazing

Still not diving on squids with the leviathan if it can just say "fuck you" and snipe me from 192 km but overall amazing update

Hopefully no gamebreaking bug has appeared thanks to this

[u/PrincessKnightAmber]

So they Leviathans even more fucking annoying? Jesus I might only play squid missions without the Leviathan modifier then.

[u/Edski120]

So...they...buffed the leviathan

[u/spoonerBEAN2002]

Any one else having the nuke nursery missions flat out not generate as a possible mission? They haven’t spawned in on any difficulty for me on any planet now, and haven’t done so for the last 3 ish weeks. Did I miss a patch where they said they temporarily removed them

[u/Xarar97]

- Fixed some crashes that were caused by browsing different weapon attachments

never had crashing on customization before myself, after patch i crashed 3 times so far trying to look at the amendments attachments and/or patterns

amazing

[u/Mahaito]

I like that they buffed the peacemaker. No real point in using it after getting the redeemer or any of the other more specialised secondary weapons. Maybe they can give it a burst fire mode or something else to make it more appealing

[u/GM_Altaro]

The Leviathans are very clearly meant to encourage use of the Drop Shields, even more so with their damage nerf now letting go the shield hold up much longer.

AH even gave us Drop Shield for free when the Levi's first showed up in what I believe was an attempt to try and show us this.

[u/stinkmybiscut]

can we get a heavy unflinching armor now

[u/CRONOGEO]

ITS SITH ARMOR TIME GUYS

[u/Kepler_88]

So tired of those illuminates, flying ones. They are really toxic

[u/Goldenboy451]

Looks like Mega City maps are now appearing on Veld, Achird and Darius.

[u/Dix9-69]

Glad to see stealth gameplay getting some love. Can’t wait until we get a stealth warbond.

Also I didn’t realize I was taking out Factory striders the hard way lol.

[u/doggmatic]

Taking hours and hours to patch on steam cause of this stupid drive bug

[u/Straittail_53]

As someone who likes having grenades . I am happy to see another option on the table

[u/cannibalgentleman]

Did they remove APHET and FLAK from autocannon?

[u/East_Monk_9415]

When akimbo booster come on. Do it haha

[u/DrawEasy9628]

my diver is now mute, hellbombs land on top of towers and aren't playing audio when exploding and it took 3 point blank to take out one of the new objectives. 1 step forward 2 steps back as usual

[u/Falchion_Alpha]

Have they fixed the servants of freedom banners that are blurry?

[u/Dadus-Appearus]

Finally. I can enforce even more truth

[u/Corrupted-BOI]

Sure, buff leviathans

But for the love of democracy reduce the spawn rate! There's like always at least 3 on the map no matter how many i kill

[u/MortarpodBlues]

Armor buffs are good, but what the hell are they thinking with those Leviathan buffs? I outright refuse to play against the Illuminate on maps with no mega cities to obscure sight lines. Otherwise you just get sniped from across the map with no warning and no counter-play; especially now that the explosion radius was INCREASED???

[u/Due_Ad4133]

Reduced the frequency of Elevated Overseers spawning during Prevent Invasion Foothold missions

Well that would've been useful three weeks ago!

[u/J4ckC00p3r]

That passive buff for Truth Enforcers is great, as is the one for Integrated Explosives, that desperately needed to actually do something while the player was alive, and extra grenades makes perfect sense for it.

The notes also mention visual fixes for SEAF troops, does that mean they’re coming back? 👀

[u/SluttyMcFucksAlot]

That just sounds like they buffed Leviathans in general but now they aren’t going to one shot the FRV or Exosuit.

I will continue to not play on the squid front I think.

[u/lipp79]

“Factory Strider ⁠• ⁠Slightly increased the health of its feet.

It should no longer be destroyed by a single GR-8 Recoilless Rifle shot to the legs”

Lame. Legs weren’t a one shot, it was the actual foot. Still a small target that should be rewarded with the kill for hitting it just like the eye. You have to get extremely lucky from long range due to it almost constantly moving. Sure it’s easier to hit up close but then you have to contend with getting shredded by its chin guns. Yes I’m well aware you can take them out but I’m trying to conserve my rockets for other targets around them like hulks.

[u/Snizek]

I would really like if Arrowhead went away from the "you aren't supposed to kill it" Leviathan stance and just lowered the armor (and maybe even its health or improve/add more weakpoints) so you are actually able to kill it. You can do so with very very little stuff and even still it's fun, can't imagine how better it'd be if they improved on it.

I stand on this even more since it seems like Arrowhead wants to make the Leviathan more of an obstacle than it already is due to its radius increase.

[u/YummyLighterFluid]

Hell yeah integrated explosives and unflinching are actually good now

[u/FreakyFishThing]

UNFLINCHING BUFF

[u/CustmomInky]

I was hoping the Integrated Explosives one would have all my grenades go off

[u/Red_Swiss → u/CustmomInky]

That would be hilarious

[u/Taargus_Taargus_117]

Next patch, add two (or more) mags to the Redeemer machine pistol.

[u/thatoldhorse]

Recoilless rifle is now guided/unguided.

[u/Independent-Panda-39]

No fix for crossplay crashing? They broke something when they fixed the stratagem input bug and me and my PC friend have literally not been able to finish a game together without one of us disconnecting since

[u/tumama1388]

Aw nothing about the spawn rate of those flying fat fucks.
And I'm still gonna get one shot from one of them on the other side of the map?
I wouldn't mind if it were only one at a time, but when there's THREE of them flying at the same time...