Helldivers 2 - 60-Day plan conclusion and Patch notes

There’s no better way to conclude our #BuffDivers journey than with another insanely long Patch Notes video 💪
We have been thrilled to work on this 60-Day community commitment and seeing your reactions to the work we’ve done. We hope you enjoy these changes!

[BadgersDen]

*Timestamps for those who are curious!*

0:00 - Start

0:20 - 60 day recap (Looking back over the past 63 days with Johan and Mikael)
1:42 - Progression (Galactic War and the Game Master)
3:00 - Community (Communicating with the community, livestreams, closed betas)

4:35 - Start of looking into the patch notes for day 63 with Johan and Niklas

5:50 - Minimap Visibility
6:17 - Helldiver Armour
7:14 - Plasma weapon changes (Includes Purifier, Scorcher, AND Punisher Plasma changes)
9:23 - Assault Rifle changes (All Liberators (Minus the Concussive), Adjudicator, Tenderizer)
11:30 - JAR-5 Dominator changes (Moved to the *Special* category now)
11:55 - Sidearm changes (Stim Pistol, Verdict, and Senator)
13:24 - Grenade changes (High Explosive, Throwing Knives, Frag Grenades, Incendiary Grenades)

14:50 - Autocannon changes (FLAK rounds (Programmable ammo))
16:44 - Recoilless Rifle changes (High Explosive rounds (Programmable Ammo)
17:35 - Stalwart changes (Faster ergonomics)
18:08 - Machine Guns changes (Both HMG and MG got increased magazine size)

19:20 - Jump pack changes
20:06 - Drone (Guard dog) Backpack changes
21:54 - Shield Generator Backpack mentioned ( *NO CHANGES* - They just mentioned it)

22:18 - Sentry changes (Lower cooldowns for multiple sentries)
22:49 - Mine changes
23:20 - Tesla tower changes
23:54 - Shield Generator *Relay* changes

25:06 - Patrol Spawning changes
27:06 - Terminid changes (Enemies)
27:46 - Automaton changes (Targeting and enemies)

31:28 - The End!

_Apologies if I didn't get into the nitty gritty for each section or if I potentially missed anything! I hope you still get use out of this!_

[redrus]

"We giving HMG and MG a 25 more bullets"
Reason: I just want my character to laugh more
Me upon hearing this : *HAHAHA-HAHA-HAHAHA*

[NychusX]

Marked resupply on map is best update ever. I'm actually crying a little from happiness.

[pete]

man it is so insane seeing developers actually talking about their thoughts behind buffs and nerfs and actually talking about the impact those changes have on players.

[EvaandJavier]

Patch feels incredible. Suggestion if I may: Please add “Heavy Kills “to the match stats 👊

[CamiloGullans]

"I just want my character to laugh more, when I'm shooting"
This gave me the warm and fuzzies

[syrusalder]

The way they described the DSS implied it would function as a resource sink for the entire playerbase, where we donate our excess samples toward giving new toys to every diver once it's done, and that sounds amazing.

[gunraptor]

They made the Senator a "bear gun, " like a real large caliber revolver. Well done.

[LevelUpLifting]

18:27

“You don’t wanna finish too fast…I know all about that”

Johan just like me fr

[ntrophe]

11:26 the stalker approaching on the left genuinely made my blood pressure rise

[SaurusSineater]

Johan Pilestedt - ”He came, He saw, He fixed"

[krm]

If you guys are reading the comments then please understand we DONT need other currencies. The Requisition slips are useless. Give us more ways to spend them and your problems are solved.

[shadowwolf]

*Bugs sweating E-710, Bots leaking Oil* Joel on Oct 26 "It's my turn now" Helldivers sweating Libertea!

[NivRel]

justice for the gungan shield generator, now naboo is safe

[akirachisaka]

I have to say I am very pleasantly surprised by how well the 60 day plan turned out.
A lot of my friends complained about how there wasn’t really any communication during the 60 days. But it turns out, that’s just how a sprint works. Too much communication will make every design decision devolve into knee jerk PR decisions, which makes it hard to actually come up with a cohesive balance plan.

[themius-and-astaroth]

“We changed the autocannon…”

*Begins to draw new senator*

“We introduced flak”

*holsters senator*

[CubeFrog]

Every single change tied to this update makes it so much harder to pick a loadout because IT'S ALL SO PUNCHY AND AWESOME

[xavierticas]

From all of us Space Cowboys, THANK YOU! The Senator is the defacto weapon of any diver who goes to battle with some style.

[Gddi]

I JUST TRIED THE UPDATE, AND THE EXTRACTION AFTER MISSION IS DOUBLE THE FUN!!! CAN'T BELIEVE SMALL CHANGE COULD HAVE GREAT IMPACT

[heyyou]

“We noticed the shield backpack was over represented. So Instead of doing anything to the shield generator pack, we’re trying to make the other backpacks more powerful and appealing”

This is how Balancing should work. Nobody likes it when you nerf the most utilized weapon/equipment in the game. Almost always brings negative feedback, barring the exceptions when a weapon is just comically OP. Approaching balancing from the perspective of “everyone uses this thing cause it’s better than the rest, let’s make the other options just as good so people can switch it up and play according to their style and not have to conform to the one thing that’s currently the best” is what we want as a community