Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has adopted up final week’s launch of the sport’s massive steadiness replace and premium warbond with a brand new patch that applies a protracted record of fixes.
The spotlight is a repair for the Spear help stratagem, which has suffered all types of issues for the reason that PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter launched earlier this yr. What needs to be a dependable monster of a weapon has for therefore lengthy been fickle, with its anti-tank homing missile failing to correctly observe locked-on targets.
According to the replace 1.000.402 patch notes, there’s a repair for the Spear not focusing on a number of entities (spawners, compound objects, and many others). This ought to encourage extra gamers to convey the Spear onto the battlefield.
And right here’s one other useful repair: Hellbombs now get referred to as down going through the participant, relatively than away from the participant. Players have gotten used to Hellbombs going through away from them, so there will probably be a little bit of unlearning to do with this one.
Arrowhead up to date the identified points record, too, outlining what the studio is engaged on fixing with upcoming patches. Of be aware: the Bile Titan generally doesn’t take injury to the pinnacle, and the Charger’s butt doesn’t take injury from explosions. What an arse!
Last week was a giant one for Helldivers 2 and Arrowhead, which not too long ago revealed it was within the strategy of setting the studio up so it might “make extra and higher stuff” within the long-term. In an introductory post on reddit, new CEO Shams Jorjani, who not too long ago changed earlier Arrowhead CEO and now present Chief Creative Officer Johan Pilestedt, stated the studio has needed to regulate to the large success Helldivers 2 has dropped at the corporate.
Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation recreation of all time, having shifted an unimaginable 12 million copies in simply 12 weeks since happening sale earlier this yr. Amid the massive income Helldivers 2 has generated, Arrowhead itself has suffered a lot of crises, together with launch server issues and, most not too long ago, a battle with Sony itself over the console maker’s controversial try to pressure Steam gamers to account hyperlink to PlayStation Network.
Helldivers 2 replace 1.000.402 patch notes:
Overview
For this patch, we now have made enhancements and adjustments to the next areas:
- Quality of life enhancements
- Crash fixes
- General bug fixes
Fixes
Crashes
- Fixed varied crashes that may generally happen when altering settings.
- Fixed potential crash or corrupted font texture when altering the language
- Fixed a crash which may happen after exiting a mission.
- Fixed a crash that happens when opening the social menu with greater than 100 pals. As a end result we now have additionally restricted the buddies record visibility to 100. You will stay pals with anybody over 100, however it’s possible you’ll not have the ability to see them if they’re offline.
- Fixed crash when opening social menu and having many blocked gamers and/or buddy requests.
- Fixed a crash when minimizing after altering fullscreen mode.
- Fixed uncommon crash which might happen when selecting up tools.
- Fix a crash when a consumer interacts with a terminal in a ready state after host migration.
- Fix a crash associated to minefields.
Misc Fixes
- Fix points with dodge and inclined.
- Fix not having the ability to arise when wielding the ballistic defend.
- Fixed the Recoilless reload velocity.
- Fixed problem the place customers could not write an outline on console when reporting a participant.
- Fixes automobile preview not despawning in Warbonds when shortly scrolling via the catalog.
- Fix Spear not focusing on a number of entities (spawners, compound objects, and many others).
- Sentries have the next destruction worth so most explosions don’t immediately destroy them whatever the injury quantity.
- Fixed bug the place operation progress could be misplaced when kicked because of inactivity,
- The “Remove Friend” and “Block Player” buttons at the moment are hold-to-confirm as a substitute of a single click on.
- Fix bug the place dying would attempt to enter ADS.
- Fix a smooth lock for those who obtain an work together emote whereas holding a grenade.
- Fix projectile to crosshair inaccuracies in ADS when the participant is in numerous stances
- Fixed damaged participant mannequin in profession tab when on another person’s ship.
- Adjudicator: mounted incorrect recoil values.
- Fixed armory terminals dropping their performance if the final consumer participant who interacted with them leaves the host’s ship.
- Fix lacking localization for flying patrols operation modifiers.
- Fix problem the place throwing knives could possibly be left floating within the air.
- Support for non-latin fonts within the recreation’s set up folder path.
- Vehicle skins at the moment are utilized to all automobile variations when equipping immediately from Warbonds.
- Fixes flag aims not correctly monitoring Helldiver’s place whereas on a Combat Walker.
- PH-202 Twigsnapper helmet: mounted lacking description.
- Fixed the problem the place the shuttle would clip via Bile Titans and terrain throughout touchdown sequences.
- Improved efficiency on PS5 when CPU certain
- Fixes FX remaining when destroying Spore Spewer
- Ensure stim vfx stays on display for all the length of the stim impact when med-kit bonus is current.
- Fix for emote receiver gamers having the ability to use their weapons throughout emote animation
- Hellbombs now get referred to as down going through the participant, relatively than away from the participant.
Known Issues
These are points that had been both launched by this patch and are being labored on, or are from a earlier model and haven’t but been mounted.
- Sending buddy requests through buddy code in recreation at the moment doesn’t work.
- Players could also be unable to be joined or invited to the sport.
- Players added to the ‘Recent Players’ record will seem in the midst of the record.
- Players could expertise delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts.
- Available Operations are generated once more after reconnecting after getting AFK kicked.
- Enemies that bleed out don’t progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions.
- Arc weapons generally behave inconsistently and generally misfire.
- Most weapons shoot under the crosshair when aiming down the sights.
- Plasma Punisher is unable to shoot out of the defend turbines.
- Stratagem beam would possibly connect itself to an enemy however it should deploy to its authentic location.
- “Hand Carts” ship module doesn’t cut back Shield Generator Pack’s cooldown.
- Bile Titan generally doesn’t take injury to the pinnacle.
- Charger’s butt doesn’t take injury from explosions.
- Players could grow to be caught within the Loadout when becoming a member of a recreation in progress.
- Reinforcement is probably not accessible for gamers who be part of a recreation in progress.
- Planet liberation reaches 100% on the finish of each Defend mission.
- “Raise Flag of Super Earth” goal doesn’t present a progress bar.
- Mission rely within the Career tab is being reset to zero after each recreation restart.
- Some weapons’ descriptions are out-of-date and don’t replicate their present design.
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