Helldivers 2 Latest Update Causes MASSIVE Backlash, Arrowhead Studios Responds

Helldivers 2 recently had a big balance patch and today we're looking over the response from the community.

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00:00 - What's going on?
01:50 - Helldivers Reddit
05:45 - Arrowhead Studios Response

[MrHulthen]

The past 24 hours have been pretty chaotic to say the least.

[AshySlashy]

Developers’ response “use your stratagems”. Yes, rely on strikes that are not always reliable and have massive cooldowns while being chased by chargers and bile titans. Did these guys work for Diablo 4?

[pynjkl]

Orbitals now reflect off heavy armor back into space blowing up your destroyer.

[kurthaberle]

So they nerfed the best weapon for taking out heavy enemies however I am still getting swarmed by 3-4 chargers at one time. Seems fair.

[BetarayBillLover]

It feels just so hard for the sake of being hard, before the patch it felt hard but fair but now it’s just unfun

[zenex]

Devs: UsE StRaTaGeMs
The stratagems: 3 minute cooldown to potentially kill 1 out of the 3 bile titans and 4 chargers.
The new meta is, kite every enemy on the map and just do the objectives. Fighting enemies with sub-par weaponry is a waste of effort.

[CrazyCaboose]

I have no issue with nerfs. But the fact that they chose to nerf our fun while not giving us other options by buffing the other 90% of our arsenal that suck ass to use, is just dumb on their part. This has left us feeling naked and underpowered against the oppressive forces of the heavy armor enemies. The railgun was literally THE ONLY way to deal with these tanky enemies.

They say they want us to have fun, but they nerf the only weapons we can currently have fun with...or at the least these weapons reduce the amount of agony we are in.

[rudolfrotnase]

i swear, they will patch this wonderful game to death.

[MR_E-]

Its not just a handful of Chargers or a couple of Bile Titans.. we are still dealing with the dozens of hunters, spitters, brood commanders, drones etc. I do think "balance" is important and the game shouldn't be easy. I just don't think limiting Helldiver resources or their effectiveness is gonna accomplish what they want it to. If you don't want a Meta, then how about making other tactics more viable. But hey, what do I know, I'm just complaining.. Right.

[justevil]

My biggest issue is the constant crashing on PlayStation 5. Before the patch I had maybe three but last night I had 8 in a row. There are also constant disconnects I have seen with many members on many teams. As far as I'm concerned this patch broke the game.

[JoeRowland]

For me...

With how Armour was bugged and how the Breaker Spray & Pray was a pea shooter and couldn't even destroy the egg clutches...
It tells me they don't even know how underpowered a lot of the weapons are.

[torvic]

How to ruin a massively successful game within a month. They didn't even have the balls to put the buffs to the enemies in the patch notes.

[PeterHolmen]

The player's headshot hitbox is to easy for enemies to hit.

[therdku]

I feel Arrowhead enjoyed a very decent amount of goodwill in the last couple of weeks... and this is rapidly depleting.

[justbarelyme]

I honestly don't see the harm in buffing all the useless weapons...like, do the devs seriously think that if they buff all the weapons that nobody uses then that will all of a sudden make the game easy??...If they think that then they REALLY don't play their own game. People don't use most of the guns because they are literally useless on higher difficulties. If they want us to use them then they need to make them useful, not make the guns we do use, useless.

Every difficulty mode should be playable (that's why they exist), so if they want Helldive mode to be unplayable then it serves no purpose and should be removed from the game.

[BVBZACHARY]

I think my biggest issue is that they need to stop worrying about what's "Meta" and just make a fun game. They way they mention the "Meta", it's almost like they're offended by it. I'm loving the game and hope they don't fall down the rabbit hole of constantly changing stats and the way things feel to because it became part of a "Meta"

[jacobboyd-olfn]

We need:
-True helmet armor
-fix the constant crashing at the end of matches
-if we’re to rely on strats then reduce the damn 5 hour cooldown for most

I love the game, liked it better before the patch though.

[jimjr]

They nerfed the whole game and try to justify it in there response . They Obviously cannot comprehend why so many bought it Let’s see there response when many suddenly stop playing . A game should be tough but not to the extent that it is a huge chore . Spending the whole match having to run away is lame . When you take away the fun factor in any game you will force mass amount to quit . They took away the ability to feel powerful, took away stealth . What good did it do to nerf the railgun while at the same time increasing by a large amount how many that come at you at the same time . Just plain silly . Took away the ability to solo . Again SILLY . With the huge amount of bugs coming at you now it forces many times of being seperated . Shield was barely usable as it was . Being taken down quickly . Nerfed to uselessness now it used to be FUN. These companies never, ever learn . So many people bought it as it was FUN . Now its just a run away game .

[zevriungames]

I think the most overlooked change is whatever they did to the enemy ai, they are alot smarter now with navigation and they spawn breachs/drops more often with more aggressive enemies. Id love to see how mechs will shake things up though as well is getting more lightning/energy based weapons next week

[Jakeverhart]

We don’t use the Breaker because its broken, we used it because its the only primary that is useful. Now if more than 2 enemies are on me, im in deep trouble