Helldivers 2 - MAJOR UPDATE Kills The Current Solo Helldiver Meta And Buffs Weak Items (What Now?)

rip railgun, rip shield, rip breaker

Time to adapt, lets move forward helldivers, these bugs ain't gonna kill themselves

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:10 Armor Fixed
1:43 Breaker Nerfed
2:43 Shield Generator Pack Nerfed
3:49 Railgun Nerfed
5:25 Shotguns Buffed
5:43 Laser Cannon Buffed
6:02 Flamethrower Buffed

#helldivers #helldivers2 #helldiver

[the_takibo]

What do you guys think about these changes?

Personally i'm a bit excited to test out different loadouts, but definitely sad about these nerfs as well. But i guess it had to happen if the other loadouts are to become relevant.

[TheModernBob]

My main issue with the flamethrower is that mobs on fire act as if nothing was happening. I could understand for automatons but the bugs should react to it, either panic or try to avoid the flaming area.

[liwixgj]

The spear can now pick up one ammo from the ammo box, a big difference.

[Rlogsdon]

This nerf has created 2 camps.
1. "The railgun got nerfed, i hate that"
2. "If you point out the railgun got nerfed then you suck and I hate you"

[ProvidenceXIV]

some in-game testing I've seen on twitter and reddit shows heavy armor is still very underwhelming. medium with democracy protects or medic armor seems the best bet right now

[TheMMObro]

I really dislike the idea of nerfing the fun shit and leaving the other shit unbuffed.

[buetang]

Nerfs rarely fix games. They could've just made some other things better. DMR's should pen med armor, explosives and auto cannons should strip charger armor, etc. These nerfs weren't really needed. Nothing seemed overtly OP imo.

[PeterHolmen]

I did some quick testing. Light armor let me survive 4 little drone slaps and heavy + fortified let me survive 7-8 hits. Results were a little jank and some hits seems to do more damage than other. Also the slug shotgun shares the ammo buff as the default version.

[fankgaming]

yeah I dunno. I feel like they could've buffed....like, most of the shit in the game. At least a little bit. Like, nobody is ever going to use any of the marksman rifles, for example. Theres just so many weapons that have zero solid ground in the game right now. Definitely doesn't feel like nerfing anything was the move right now.

[LeonX]

unlocked the railgun very late last night as i pushed to get it before bed. I am then rewarded with: not being able to buy anything (ship upgrade, spend medals, actually get the railgun), and a nerf on the gun that was meant to save me some hassle. yippie

[AcoVidikovac]

Warframe, Warframe all over again..."We nerf the good weapons and will never buff the bad ones". The railgun, breaker and shield nerfs are awful changes. People saying "Nerf the meta", are already ruining the game. I guess these people don't understand that now there will be a new meta and that will get nerfed, then another and that will get nerfed too, and so on... This sucks so much, it makes me want to take a break from the game.

Update: the armors are awful after the update. Light armor is completely useless, a couple of hits, and you are done. The shield also, a couple of hits and its done, then you have to wait 12 seconds for it to recharge (before it was 6). So, if light armor is not good anymore and heavy armor is too slow, medium should be the best? Well, not really. The only "good" medium armor, and armor in general is the first one you get. Speed is the same with stamina regen, but it has an "Extra padding" passive on it, which gives it a 150 armor rating. I think they listened to the wrong side of the community.

[Fallout_Survivor]

This is warframe all over again
"We will never buff shit weapons but you bet your ass we gonna nerf the few good ones"

[chrisedwards]

False. The Railgun takes twice the number of shots it did on unsafe mode. I don't know who's lying about it, but I've tested it and that 50% reduction in damage applies to the UNSAFE fire mode. The safe firemode does 0 damage to heavy armor. The unsafe does 50% of what it did, and it indeed takes 4 shots to the leg to strip armor on a charger.

[leonc]

And the stability of the game tanked again after this update…..went from crashing every other game to getting disconnected every single game 😩 me and my friends haven’t been able to finish a mission since the update

[ying]

im pretty annoyed about the fact that the "solution" is always to nerf stuff, instead of bringing other stuff up to par

[Meklerens]

Breaker has a recoil as spoon held by a grandpa with a parkinson right now.

[Nevermore-tqge]

this is some league of legends level patch. They failed me.
instead of fixing not working weapons they nerfed working ones. Fucking hell.

[deltor]

Yup, railgun shouldn't be nerfed. Other support weapons need to be buffed in terms of armor penetration.

[memk]

Rail gun is A BIT over nerfed. Now charger deflects a 75%+ rail shot and not even staggering.

[RamonAlek]

Jesus Christ... Some matches I got like 6+ chargers at me, imagine 3 shots to remove the leg armor.