[STEAM] Fire Damage Nerfs Push Helldivers 2 Community to Open Rebellion, Again

[Steam 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

developer Arrowhead Game Studios is facing fresh backlash from the community after nerfing ***** damage weapons days before releasing its

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

The balance changes introduced by this week’s Escalation of Freedom update include a number of tweaks to the game’s ***** damage system designed to make flame-spewing weapons behave “more realistically."

Some frustrated community members have taken to social media to complain the update has dramatically nerfed *****-based weapons such as the flamethrower, once considered a potent antidote to armored terminids chargers.

Helldivers 2’s Steam page has seen more than 2,000 negative reviews push its recent review score from ‘mostly positive’ to ‘mixed’ in a few days. Others took to social media to vent about the developer’s perceived nerf-happy approach to ******* balancing.

Arrowhead has acknowledged the backlash, with community manager Baskinator assuring players on Discord that developers had “heard your feedback” related to ***** damage, and the studio was now “having a lot of internal discussions about the best course of action.”

Studio CEO Shams Jorjani subsequently said on

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

that a hotflix will be deployed “at some point” that will “focus on bugs, and might include some balance changes," but “other things need time to cook a bit more."

This isn’t the first time Arrowhead has faced the inferno of community rebellion. Helldivers 2 director Johan Pilestedt said in May that the studio had been overzealous with the frequency of its nerf-laden updates, noting "

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

."

The player base also rose up en-mass earlier this year to protest an

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

to play the online co-operative shooter, eventually

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

The Escalation of Freedom update brought more than just controversy to Arrowhead's co-op PvE shooter.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

, including a new 'Super Helldive' level 10 difficulty, novel mission objectives, menacing enemies, and more.

Anthony is a freelance contributor covering science and video gaming news for IGN. He has over eight years experience of covering breaking developments in multiple scientific fields and absolutely no time for your shenanigans. Follow him on

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

@BeardConGamer

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up