[STEAM][PRESS]Helldivers 2’s First Patch Since PSN Fiasco Makes Much-Needed DOT and Scope Fixes

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Helldivers 2’s first patch since the PSN login debacle is out now, making some much-needed fixes to the game.

Highlights here include a fix for

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’s troublesome damage over time (DOT) problem, a fix for misaligned scopes, and a fix for the R-9 Eruptor to combat

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Patch 1.000.302, out now across PC and PlayStation 5, is the first to launch following

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that had sparked a backlash within the game’s PC community. Developer Arrowhead will be keen to put the events of last week behind it now Sony has buckled to PC gamer demand, although CEO Johan Pilestedt has admitted the studio has work to do rebuilding player trust.

To that end, the Helldivers 2 patches are still coming thick and fast, with this latest following

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last week. Helldivers 2’s next Premium Warbond,

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, launches May 9.

Helldivers 2 update 1.000.302 patch notes:

Balancing
Primary, Secondary, & Support Weapons

R-9 Eruptor

• Increased ********** damage by 40 and removed shrapnel from the **********

This is to avoid cases in which players would randomly one-shot themselves or their teammates in a huge radius around the **********
Enemies

• Increased Shrieker sight and hearing range slightly.
• Increased Gunship hearing range slightly

Fixes

Gameplay

• We have fixed issues with the way Damage-over-time effects were being applied. This should fix issues where only the network session owner could apply them, and other cases where they would be applied inconsistently.
• ******* the Punisher Plasma while wearing a shield backpack no longer damages the Helldiver
• Fixed issues with some ******* scopes not being aligned in First-Person-View.
• The sound when stimming no longer plays while being interrupted
• Major orders with the “***** task” now track score correctly. Previously it counted the entire squad’s ****** once for each player, meaning it would multiply the score by the number of people on the mission; this is now amended.
• Helldivers can no longer land on tall rocks in the “Horde Defend Missions”
• Helldivers can no longer land on top of bug pillars in Deactivate Terminid Control System missions
• Fix for the reinforce stratagem not being present if a Helldiver leaves the session before readying up and then hot joining the active session

Crashes

• Fixed a ****** that could occur when all players were ***** on the “Deactivate Terminid Control System” mission
• Fixed a ****** that could occur on game shutdown
• Fixed a ****** that could occur when leaving the mission and rejoining
• Fixed a ****** that could occur at the end of cutscenes
• Fixed a ****** that could occur when diving into missions
• Fixed a tutorial ****** that could occur on PC when ALT+Tabbing
• Fixed a rare ****** that could occur when using beam weapons
• Fixed a rare ****** that could occur for players on startup when using VPN
• Fixed a soft lock that could occur if the player would open the text chat while having the stratagem menu open
• Other general ****** fixes

Social Menu Fixes

• PC players adding friends through friend codes can no longer show up as “Unknown”
• Fixed overlapping footers inside menus
• Steam friends should now be visible in Social Menu, even though Friends List is not set to Public in Steam Privacy Settings
• Recent Players list will now include hot-joining players
• Players are now able to unblock players that were not in their friends list beforehand
• Fixed issue with empty friend-names in Social Menu
• Lobby privacy mode text updates immediately when changed
• Player names longer than 26 characters should now update properly in the Social Menu
• Fixed issue where non-host players could kick others indiscriminately including the host

Other

• Total purchased counter on the right side of the Robotics Workshop section no longer displays 7 / 8 despite all stratagems being purchased
• Resolved some edge cases related to Steam AppId related errors on login

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