Helldivers 2: Patch Notes 01.001.002 – The largest update of the shooter is live

Main Updates

Difficulty Level 10 – Super Helldive

• A new, extreme difficulty level for the most experienced and skilled Helldivers with impressive new enemies and nerve-wracking challenges.

New mission objectives

• Two new secondary objectives will soon be active on a planet near you! With these faction-specific optional goals, you need to attack the human processing plants of the robots to destroy their lethal bio-processor, and you’ll have to venture deep into terminid territory to extract a living larva as a sample that the bugs want back at all costs!

Larger enemy outposts

• Raid the strongholds of terminids and robot fortresses on the new difficulty level “Super Helldive”.
  The challenge is great, but the rewards are even greater. Thoroughly search the conquered outposts for confidential data and take them with you before you evacuate. May freedom guide you.

New bugs and bots

• New and stronger threats to freedom emerge.
  A familiar nuisance makes its comeback: The Impaler returns, digs its head in, and launches tentacles from the ground to ambush you. Watch out for its deadly limbs, but don’t miss its weak point when it digs in – self-preservation still doesn’t seem to be its strength!
• However, the Impaler is not everything. Get ready for more terrifying enemies! The Rocket Tank rolls in with heavy armor and devastating firepower. The reinforced scout walker has protected its previously vulnerable spot and now has two rockets on each side for more firepower! The Sporesprouter fearlessly pushes through the dense, acidic fog. Accompanied by an Alpha Commander – watch out for his friends!

New swamp planet

• Get ready to land on a creepy and foggy version of the swamp planet. Stay alert and don’t let fear overwhelm you.

New environmental hazards

• Acid storms temporarily impair the armor of opponents and players. Use this to your advantage, but always stay alert, Helldivers.

Balancing

• SG-8S Wrecker
  • Increased wobbling effect.
  • Increased spread.
  • Weapon pulls harder.
• SG-225IE Fire-Breaker
  • Max magazines reduced from 6 to 4.
  • Recoil increased from 28 to 41.
• GP-31 Grenade Pistol
  • Ammunition capacity reduced from 8 to 6.
  • Number of rounds refilled from an ammo box increased from 2 to 4.
• CB-9 Explosive Crossbow
  • Now a one-handed weapon.
• AX/AR-23 “Guard Dog”
  • Max magazines increased from 6 to 8.
• Linear Orbital Barrage
  • Number of salvos increased from 3 to 5.
  • Movement speed decreased by 40%.
• 120mm HE Orbital Barrage
  • Cooldown reduced from 240 seconds to 180 seconds.
  • Time between salvos shortened.

Gameplay

• The operational modifier “Atmospheric Interference” has been removed.
  Additionally, we have added the modifier “Low Information” for the robots, which shows objectives on the map that unlock a search radius (just like most elimination objectives).
• Corrosive acid planets no longer have the environmental modifier “High Heat”.
• Cannon ship patrols are now less frequent, and the number of ships has been reduced.
  Cannon ship engines are now less robust.
• The control for weapon preview in the armory has been improved.
• Command user interface has been updated.
• Energy shields like the shield generator backpack and shield generator relay now block both snowstorms and sandstorms.
• A new griefing protection system has been added that allows players who were kicked to continue the game as their own mission. This way, players can finish the mission and receive all rewards, even though they were kicked.
  Bug Fixes

Crash fixes:

• The crash probability when pressing Alt+Tab in exclusive fullscreen mode has been reduced. (Windows)
• A rare crash has been fixed that could occur while browsing war bonds.
• A rare crash has been fixed that could occur when switching equipment tabs.
• A rare crash has been fixed that could occur when inviting PSN friends to a session. (PS5)
• A rare crash has been fixed that could occur when selecting a booster in the equipment menu.
• A crash has been fixed that could occur when pressing Alt+Tab while navigating the acquisition center menus. (Windows)
• A rare crash has been fixed that could occur after joining a game in the equipment menu.
• A crash has been fixed that could occur when ragdolling in barbed wire.
• A crash has been fixed that could occur when joining a mission where vehicle skins of disconnected players were active.
• A crash has been fixed that could occur if teammates with unique skins were thrown from the game or their connection was lost.

Weapon & Tactical Equipment Fixes

• FS-55 Devastator Armor:
  • Corrected incorrect description.
• Blitzer:
  • The fire button can now be held down to shoot continuously.
• GP-31 Grenade Pistol, LAS-7 Dagger, SG-22 Bushwhacker:
  • Moved to the sidearms category “Special”.
• ARC-12 Blitzer, Plasma Punisher:
  • Added missing armor penetration indicators.
• LAS-16 Sickle:
  • Corrected incorrect value for fire limit in weapon statistics.
• SH-20 “Ballistic Shield” Backpack:
  • Enemy line of sight is no longer blocked.
  • Does not collide with the combat walker anymore.
  • A bug has been fixed that caused ballistic shields to drop when a SSSD disk was picked up.
  • Ballistic shield no longer collides with the player while being carried.
• AX/AR-23 “Guard Dog”:
  • Can now be refilled from ammo boxes on the map.
• A bug has been fixed that caused weapons to be held sideways after a tactical equipment interruption with a syringe heal.
• Bows previously did not fire bolts when the line of sight to the enemy was blocked by an obstacle. The bolts are now fired but hit the obstacle. Players previously received insufficient feedback on the dropouts. We hope it’s now clearer how the weapon behaves.
• The dropouts of bow weapons when shooting quickly at horizontally aligned enemies have been fixed.
• Missing haptic feedback when firing the AR-61 Tenderizer has been added.
  Bug Fixes in Social Menu
• General improvements to social menu systems.
• Some issues related to inconsistent options in the social menu have been fixed.
• Issues with the block button in the squad menu have been fixed.
• Diverse issues with the user interface in the social menu have been fixed.
• The “Block Menu” now shows blocked players more accurately.
• Improvements to the “Recent Players” tab.
• The reliability of options in the social menu has been improved.
• Issues related to friend code generation have been fixed.
• “Please wait democratically!” now occurs less often.
• Players should now be able to join games of others more easily.
• Players should now be able to send/accept/reject friend requests more easily.
• The user interface for “dangerous” actions has been improved (kicking/blocking/remove friend).

Various bug fixes:

• A softlock has been fixed in the game where the evacuation shuttle sank into the ground and prevented evacuation.
• A bug has been fixed that caused menu entries that were not visible by scrolling to be clickable in the settings and key mapping menus.
• The game no longer hangs after changing the crossplay setting and exiting the menu.
• A bug has been fixed that caused Hellpods in the swamp biome to not destroy trees.
• Weapons supporting automatic reloading attempts were sometimes reloaded twice when the reload was interrupted in the last phase and the weapon was fired before continuing. Automatic reload attempts can now be canceled by pressing the reload button.
• A bug has been fixed that caused delays in transitions to jogging and sprint animations when these were spammed.
• The visual effect of the “Experimental Infusion” booster has been toned down.
• The missing description of the “Experimental Infusion” booster has been added.
• A bug has been fixed that reset the prone rotation of Helldivers after dodging while aiming.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the HUD setting for stamina visibility to have no effect on the stamina display.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the number of tactical equipment owned not to be updated when purchasing.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the hologram map preview to not show the evacuation point.
• The performance of terrain destruction has been improved.
• A bug has been fixed that caused Helldivers to get stuck in cryo chambers after a film sequence was interrupted by the host.
• Improvements to the physics of the “Ballistic Shield” tactical equipment, as well as fixes for several physics-related bugs.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the top title in the effects tab to be incorrectly displayed in Portuguese.
• A bug has been fixed that caused changes to resolution, render scaling or screen to occur when scrolling through the settings menu, even though no changes were applied.
• A bug has been fixed that caused special characters in player names to not show when picking up objects.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented players from pressing ESC to discard changes in resolution in the pop-up window.
• The labeling of Screamer nests as bug holes when pinged has been fixed.
• The swarm breaker drill now deals damage when dropped in missions to bomb out incubation chambers.
• A bug has been fixed that caused weapon targeting modes (both globally and per weapon) to not be saved between closing and reopening the game.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the objective progress bar for “Over-Earth Flag Hoisting” to not be displayed.
• The behavior of flame effects has been made more realistic.
  • The effect no longer penetrates various bodies/objects where one would expect a bounce, such as armor and static objects.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed interactions on the mini-map during ion storms.
• Changing the text language in the game no longer causes terminals to appear empty.
• A bug has been fixed that caused equipping a skin in the war bond confirmation menu to reset the player’s armor selection.
• Hellpod skins are now visible on ships. The first hellpod drop from host ships uses the host’s skin selection while subsequent reinforcements use the individual skin selection.
• Samples are transferred to the shuttle upon boarding. If players die in the shuttle, no samples are dropped.
• Resetting to default settings in a tab no longer overwrites settings in other tabs.
• The mini-map now closes when exiting an exosuit (if it was open).
• The requirement times in the equipment menu now include transport time, so they match the values in the game.
• The hellbomb tactical equipment is now shown in the HUD when you are near a target that it can be dropped on.
• A fix has been made to prevent some tactical equipment (SOS beacon, turrets, supply pod) from being used within the rescue capsule.
• Graphics presets for the Steam Deck have been added.
• Helldivers can now use syringes even at full health to gain the effects of their other democratic effects.
• The personal command “Kill x opponents with Guard Dogs” can now be completed.
• The most recently released war bond is now displayed at the top of the war bond list.
• The display “[0/0]” in missions to take down enemies has been fixed.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the equipment preview to load forever.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the names of teammates not to display in their color when picking up an object.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the text chat cursor not to work.
• A more meaningful button to toggle “Quick Play” has been implemented.
• A bug has been fixed that sometimes caused the effects tab to not display correctly.
• A bug has been fixed that caused mines to not be visible for players joining an ongoing game.
  • Additionally, a bug has been fixed that caused recently deployed mines to become invisible.
• Mines no longer explode when shot from outside through the shield of a shield generator relay or when placed behind a solid obstacle and shot at.
• Hit markers are now displayed for all weapons.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the muted icon not to display for muted players.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the sprinting of other players to be interrupted by using a syringe.
• The syringe animation while holding a single-use anti-tank has been corrected.
• The trophy “Only 360 seconds left!” is now awarded on difficulty levels 6 and higher instead of just difficulty level 6.
• If a hellbomb is destroyed while armed and the timer is active, it explodes.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed a player to throw grenades/throwing knives endlessly after jumping off a ledge while holding the last thrown weapon and then throwing it.
  o Another bug has been fixed that caused a player to hold invisible grenades/throwing knives when they still had some left after landing in the same manner.
• The option “MICROPHONE ON/OFF” has been added to toggle microphone activity in voice chat.
• Turrets now no longer try to attack certain buildings, and turrets with bullets no longer waste ammunition on landing ships.
• The HUD visibility setting for the info feed now works correctly.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the tactical equipment UI to display when opening the map, even though the tactical equipment HUD visibility setting was set to “Hidden”.
• A bug has been fixed that sometimes displayed the wrong number of destroyed bug holes on the user interface.
• Patriot Exo suit rockets no longer deal damage to its own exo suit.
• A bug has been fixed that caused explosions from a distance to have no effect against armored enemies.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented text chat from being used while in the equipment menu and the rest of the team was in mission.
• Fixes have been made for the radio operator’s voice output not playing.
• A bug has been fixed that caused audio language changes to take a long time (sometimes forever).
• A bug has been fixed that caused the account linking menu to automatically close when accessed via the in-game settings if the user’s account was already linked.
• The progress of the defense event is now displayed correctly in the sequence at the end of the mission.
• A bug has been fixed that caused text in the effects tab to sometimes not display correctly.

Known Issues

These are issues that either were introduced with this patch and the developers are currently working on or are from an earlier version and have not yet been fixed.

• The game can display an endless loading screen if a player loses connection during the mission film sequence.
• Players may not receive friend requests from another platform.
• “Invitation only” games created by a friend are still visible on the Galactic War map, but cannot be joined.
• The mission “Conduct Geo Study” may not be completed if a player requests the ground probe and immediately leaves the game or loses connection.
• Acid Titans sometimes take no damage at the head.
• Enemies bleeding out do not count towards personal commands and extermination missions.
• The corpses of very large enemies can sometimes launch Helldivers into the air.
• Most weapons shoot below the crosshair when aiming through their scope.
• Flamethrowers activated within a shield generator relay cannot deal damage to enemies.
• Wire fences protect against flamethrowers.
• The tactical equipment beam can stick to an enemy, but is applied at the original position.
• “Guard Dog” rover does not overheat during sustained fire.
• Reinforcements are sometimes not available for players joining an ongoing game.
• Service technicians on ships cannot be interacted with. They have complained that they were interrupted too often and could not perform their work efficiently.
• Enemies can sometimes shoot through obstacles.