Latest Helldivers 2 update patch notes: Fewer Bile Titans, you can one-shot Chargers now, and the worst modifier? Gone [UPDATED]
The latest Helldivers 2 update makes good on Arrowhead’s promise to reduce elite unit spawn rates.
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Update 3/12/2024 at 1:30 p.m. PT / 4:30 p.m. ET:So, some news for you fellow Helldivers: they weren’t put in the patch notes, but players have discovered that flying Shrieker bugs were also added to the Terminid faction with this update. These bat-like creatures swoop down from above and attempt to cut players to ribbons.
You can read more about Shriekershere, but in brief: they’re nimble, but have low health, so using automatic weapons and automated drones or sentries is a great way to take them out. Like Stalkers, Shriekers come from nests you can destroy with stratagems or a Hellbomb. Their nests are mushroom-shaped structures that look similar to Spore Towers.
ManyHelldivers 2players have felt that the spawn rate of large, tough-armored enemies like Chargers and Bile Titans at higher difficulties has been overtuned for a while now, and that problem was exacerbated by some nerfs that came to the meta-defining Railgun inlast week’s balance patch. A few days later, though, developer Arrowheadpromisedto address the issue in a future update — and now, that update is here.
Patch 1.000.102 arrived early on Tuesday morning, reducing the spawn rate of Chargers and Bile Titans as well as the “risk of spawn spikes” for these units on Tier 7-9 difficulty. This means that there’s now less pressure on everyone in your team to bring anti-tank weapons in their loadout, with anti-personnel options such as the Stalwart machine gun raising in viability as a consequence. Bringing one of these along will definitely be a good idea; Arrowhead notes that Helldivers should “expect other enemy types to appear in greater numbers,” so while there’ll be fewer big boys, you’ll have to deal with larger swarms of weaker foes.
Interestingly, the health of the Charger’s head has been nerfed as well, to the point where players can now one-shot the tanky Terminid brawler to the head with a well-aimed Expendable Anti-Tank or Recoilless Rifle rocket. This will likely replace the “leg meta” — previously, the fastest way to kill Chargers was to use anti-tank weapons to crack off their leg armor and then shoot the exposed flesh with some small arms fire — and makes both of these rocket launchers some of thebest stratagemsto bring against the bugs.
Both of these changes are great, and this next one is fantastic, too: the Electronic Countermeasures operation modifier has been removed (apparently, it was actually removed in last week’s update, but this was omitted from the patch notes) so the developers can rework it. This is the modifier that scrambled your stratagem inputs so you couldn’t reliably call down support weapons or airstrikes when you needed them, andas I wrote last week, it was one of the biggest reasons why stratagems often feel underwhelming in high-difficulty missions.
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“We found that this modifier wasn’t communicated clearly enough and overall caused more frustration than excitement with the way it was currently implemented,” writes the devs. And, yeah. Desperately trying to call in an Orbital Laser while legions of Automatons closed in only for RNG to decide over and over that youactuallywanted a new shield backpack was quite unfair and never fun, so I’m glad Arrowhead has axed it while it works on an overhaul.
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It’s a bummer that some of the nastiest bugs withHelldivers 2’s new Exosuit mechsstill persist — the crash that occurs when attempting to use a stim while piloting one is still in the game, and so is the glitch that causes mechs to blow themselves up when you fire one of their rockets while turning — but overall, this is an excellent update that features the exact changes I was hoping for in the aftermath of the game’s first balance patch. Make sure you check out the section below for the full patch notes.
Helldivers 2 patch notes today (Patch 1.000.102)
In this section, you’ll find the complete patch notes for the March 12 update. The notes have been taken directly from Arrowhead’sofficial news pagefor Patch 1.000.102 on Steam.
Good day citizens of Super Earth. A new patch to aid you in your efforts is coming in. May Super Earth give you courage.
Overview
Today’s patch is dealing with the spawn rate of heavily armored Terminid enemies as well as the possible play against them. It also contains some fixes to UI elements and crash fixes.
Balancing
Enemies:
Gameplay
Fixes
Known Issues
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