Helldivers 2 Are Behemoth Chargers Broken!? The Level 7 Curse!? 

This hits home. I mostly play on lvl 7 and yesterday we landed and there were about 20 chargers in under 10 mins. It was so frustrating. 95% of them were behemoth chargers too.

Before chargers used to turn/maneuver slower it seems they stealth buffed them now after some recent patches. The chargers turn and pivot quicker than before

All this time i thought "if D7 is THIS crazy, D9 might be so much worse" Turns out it's just broken and it's all i've been playing lately 😂

From what I can see just based off this footage and whenever someone tagged a heavy unit you ran into 29 chargers and one Bile Titan. Of course I could have miscounted so let me know what you guys got

Yeah this has been happening to me too. Chargers literally spawn inside one another. Two or three per patrol (mind you, a patrol every minute or so) and five from a single bug breach. If you don’t have a flamethrower, you are screwed. Not only on level 7 either. Though that’s the main issue because of charger behemoths, I had regular chargers attacking me in groups of four on difficulty 5. Bots follow roughly the same scheme of crappy spawns. Around three hulks per bot drop on Helldive, but a whopping FIVE from a SINGULAR DROPSHIP on 7 and 8. Not a whole drop, one ship. With five hulks. And factory striders too, but those are broken beyond belief. Two spawned on top of each other during a civilian extraction, and a further two were dropped in. This, along with the numerous disconnects and crashes making me lose all progress from a thirty minute mission, has forced me to stop spreading democracy until further notice

The spawns have been broken for a while...not just level 7....makes game not fun...

Damn, I have been playing level 7 to avoid the stress of 9. Maybe I should just do 9 anyway. Even lvl 7 is just frustrating, especially with the frigging sandstorm (slows you the f down but not the bugs) and crap.

On 8 i usually fight 3-5 chargers at a time with 1-2 titans. I use the Titans to kill the chargers and then kill the other Titan then kill the last one. Flamethrower is great for chargers

It’s also a geological survey. The mission matters. Some missions give you more enemies it feels like.

I’m ngl I feel like seeing more behemoth chargers is pretty cool, it makes it feel like an actual war, where the enemy now has to start sending out their best and strongest units cause we keep pushing them back

literally had this issue but on a lvl 9 difficulty, me and three friends dived in and i kid you not there was a large patrol literally spot on the spot where we were diving into too (for context most of the hives were all over the place but this one spot on bottom right section had nothing, was perfectly clear for like 1/4 of the map area), the second we got out the pods, one of those little buggers called in a bug breach which insta spawned a titan and two of the elite chargers on our spot. while all this was happening 3 seperate patrols were also coming in from different directions in the span of like i think it was 12 or so seconds one after another. every time a new patrol showed up, again one of those tiny little buggers would scream the place down and call in another bug breach. we ended up with like 5 seperate breach all on our drop spot which pumped out i kid you not 9 titans, 7 elite chargers, 8 normal chargers and joel only knows how many of the other bugs. we burned through our like 15 or so respawns in less then a minute just trying to get out of that mess. it got the point that i just carpet bombed the area with a 380mm, 120mm, orbital laser and gas bombing all at the same time and still there were bugs after all that. I damn sure that there has been some sort of hidden buffing of bug spawn rates cause in the past me and the guys could reasonable handle a lvl 9 but nowadays its just insne just trying to dive in let alone actually finish the sodding thing :P

@Coud Plays I was LITERALLY just commenting on someones channel yesterday on their video "Is the Purifier viable at Level 9 Difficulty" or some such, and made the comment that his run looked like a Level 4-5 because his run looked so easy compared the 7's Ive beeen running all week and how hectic it was. Glad you posted this!

I typically run 7s and was questioning my skills last night 😅

i mainly play on 7 and yes the charges are nuts, you should put out more game play vids like this not just the info/update vids you do. over all great work and keep diving for democracy..... Myzareth of the SES Spear of Democracy.

They really gotta fix the charger spawn, in one game my entire team was literally just fighting off chargers at one point, I think there was 7-6 chargers and more coming from wondering close to our fights

pretty sure it has something to do with overlapping objective spawn zones. My team was trying to complete the seaf artillery on 9 and we had 8 chargers in about 45sec. nearby was extraction and the radar, not to mention a nest.

I went to a small bug nest and had 5 chargers there. 4 Behemoth and 1 regular. I killed them in less than a minute. Stun nades plus Flamethrower

On level 6 not as aggressive but it looks like we get 2 chargers on bug breaches. So I’m thinking it might be double that spawn rate.

30 Chargers ( including the + 5 from Chat ) Is what i could see, give or take a few extra off screen.

Enjoyed the gameplay video from stream, hope you do more in the future but if you do would you consider playing multiple songs other than just the main theme because it got a little repetitive with it alone playing the whole time.

I'm not really one to pay attention to what spawning but I have noticed that skewers are spawning on certain levels and not others for whatever reason so I think the spawn bug is a much wider issue than just the chargers and the biles

Level 6 solo is like this for bile spewers... you only see about one or 2 bile titans a run but chargers are all over and soooo many spewers.

This was... an exciting time for me - Spitting off and taking on the secondaries while you did the primary...

I had 4 chargers on one point of interest without alerting any of them or having any bug breaches. When we started fighting them 3 more joined in

I went into a mission that was in progress on that planet and it was just 3 dudes tryna kill 6 chargers i took out like 4 just to realize we were at 6 again 😅

Level 7 Bots seemed pretty crazy the other day as well. Massive spawns and bots coming from all directions when we were trying to extract.

Reminds me of the clip where theres lime 20 bile titans together

Ayyy who's that super flashy Private in that mission? GG lads ♥

The behemoth chargers have been spawning 2 at a time!!!! 💀

Today on a nursery, we had , i could not count anymore ,so many and on top of that 4 biles . This on the last nuke . And we were with only 2 divers . Mental . It took us al the reinforcements on the last 10 min.

it's all good, the reduced magazine counts make it more challenging. /sarcasm

Rip level 7s. We would welcome this change in level 9 because it’s currently too easy. Or have a higher difficulty

Chargers are the bane of my helldiving existence. One of the issues I have with them is they are far too maneuverable. They turn on a dime, which doesn’t make sense for an enemy of that size.

I have no issue with level seven arguably makes it more fun. It feels like a real fight

Here's me playing level 7 thinking this is enough and not going higher diff cos it would be too much for me

Just make 1 bug breach spawn 1 charger and 0 Bile Titan on Helldives people will be happy.

Bro! missions have diff enemy line ups. 1. More armored targets (this Scenario) 2. More fast target AKA hunters/ pouncers 3. Bile spewers/ warriors Could easily be more variations but I believe these are the gist. Peeps have one experience and call it life crazy

The spawn enemies are becoming a problem in this game now

I don't see the point of playing level 7 anymore anyway now that level 6 also spawns 3 supersamples a lot of times.. No idea why that's not locked on 1-2.. Level 7 should be 3-4, level 8 4-5 and level 9 always 6.. Imho..

I pretty much exclusively play lvl 7 at the moment and in the last couple weeks localised confusion has become bassicly as mandatory as health boost. Without LC you just get swarmed by a patrol with 6 chargers (5 behemoths and 1 regular) and 2-3 bile titans every 2 minutes. Goes from being fun and challenging to frustrating and rage inducing very quickly..

I was wondering what was going on lol. 7 is my normal, but I want to say that this started, or I noticed it at least, with the Bot MO for the children’s hospital. I am actually enjoying it. The only times that I really run 9’s Are with some friends or the discord. Otherwise I normally do randoms. And what I am liking about that is now that you’re seeing more people try the harder difficulties they are having to coordinate and actually work as a unit versus a blind spray and pray. But that is my two cents. More chaos!!

I play only lvl 7 and that looks like a normal amount of chargers after the change to patrols spawns also i used to get 20+ chargers after the main objective is completed but yeah that's why we run at least 2 quasars and i'm not even counting the POIs with 3 chargers. But if helldive is easier i should try it ... i have helldive unlocked but never tried it.

Look it's very apparent not everyone is gonna be happy. I play 7 -9 exclusively 7 you deal with tons more Hunters that make the Chargers more of a problem 9 Bile titans cut into the Hunter Spawning.

As someone that does a ridiculous amount of hell diving, my opinion is that sevens are way too nerfed. The large numbers of charges probably makes up for the lack of Titans (7to9 comparison) from my experiences.

So i was thinking about it and the buff's from the last update don't really feel like buffs. We have way more small to medium enemies per spawn now, chargers got a major buff, you can call them something different but they're buffed chargers and I'm not sure if they ever mentioned it or not but we all know that the bile titans also got a major buff a while back. Aftet the last update i still find very little insentive to try different load outs, i have given a few other weapons a fair chance but i always end up just falling back to the same few load outs. Why make things more difficult for myself. I'm not ragging on the game at all, i still like it but all the balancing goals they say they have don't match with what they do in my opinion.

This makes me feel a little better about regularly finishing level 7 with my friends. We dont really go higher and occasionally go lower. Though idk, I don't feel like I've seen as many chargers as you have lmao. That feels insane.

Just treat it as an event. Makes sense with this this greater evolution event is happening. My Level 9 mission last night had 5 chargers at every POI and objective. There was however what I would call a glitch in that if you clear an area out and turn your back on it, it'll respawn a new set of enemies.

I was playing level 9s last night, found it tough, barely won. So I dropped to do level 6. Way too easy. Bump up to level 7, and it was harder than level 9 and we lost, I think there is something to this.

I thought I was the only one that realized this! But I stopped playing Lv cuz it’s simply broken! I rather play Lv 9, 10, 11, 12 etc etc

Those supplies when you are running the spear, you need to take 1 and reload before picking up another pack. You can only hold 3 in the backpack at a time +1 in the launcher. Losing 1 missile each restock. Extra tips with the spear is to take your time to get a great angle on your target and you can 1 shot everything. If there is an enemy in the distance, shoot at it first to get it's attention so it faces you.

No way. They are just fine how they are. I game on helldive sometime I have 6 running after me but makes it fun. Well for me anyways. Bring the good load out then it should be no problem.

I did a lvl 7 solo exterminate terminid swarm yesterday, 3 minutes in I had 5 Bile titans on the map, can't say I've had the charger problem though.

Yeah level 7 is just as hard. The amount of spawn rates is crazy. You getting over run with hunters and warriors and guards. WILD

Honestly bro I love the chaos! It makes the game fun! Really feels like you have to earn that extraction lol

How is it that you’re doing level 7 and there is still only 3 purple ultra rare samples ?! What ?!?! I thought there would be at least 5 or 6 to find. That doesn’t make any sense cause on level 6 you can find 3 purple ultra rare samples… am I trippin ? Are they easier to find or what cause they don’t seem fair to play a harder difficulty for the same amount of samples as the easier difficulty.

I just worked my way up to level 7 and I thought this was just how it was and that it would be worse on level 8. Is it less on 8? Should I just skip up there? I need to farm super samples and level 6 just has too few.

I only play on 7 and I haven’t noticed to many chargers. But then again chargers for me really aren’t a problem. Didn’t think they were for every one else.

And? You handled them well. It’s the upper tiers of difficulty. What do want? Like one at the extract as a boss?

I had to start playing level 6 which hurt my ego but had to keep diving. Too hard to find a reliable team so it’s nice if I get matched with at least two people that can play and not kill us fellow divers

That's right😂 I was chased by 3 BE.chargers and a bile titan yesterday on phat bay lvl 7 difficulty 😂

The Behemoths need to be massively tamed down. They say they want less anti tank but then make at least 75% of charger spawns the tank Behemoths like come on.

I play on lvl 7. Never played higher cause I didn’t think I was good enough…. Guess not lol

I knew something was up! I had such a hard time playing on 7 compared to nine lol Ps i was able to find 23 chargers, give or take maybe 3, but still thats absolutely crazy!

level 7 harder than level 9? fuck yeaaaa

just wanna say dude you got excellent skill in this game, way better then me thats for sure and no one can ever say get gud either cause you already are ! love your vids dude

I haven’t noticed this and I’ve felt since patch the 7s spawned less behemoth chargers and that was my concern after the patch was the increase in behemoth spawns.

This is so true!!! 7 was a struggle!!! I use to just run through them with ease. Reminded me playing 9!

This not a level 7 thing charger spawns go crazy sometimes, happened twice to me yesterday on level 9

Just yesterday had 5 chargers on me at the same time and it wasn’t the numbers it’s the movement cause they were just sliding everywhere 😂

Lol! I don't understand what u mean broke.. seems normal.. they reduced bile titans so 7 is easier now

Flame Thrower is better for bugs it's a horde clearer, anti tank it literally does everything better than spear

That’s the normal difficulty I play on don’t really notice guess I should re try lvl 9 and see

It’s been like this for months. We always make jokes about 7 is the new 10 🤣

i play lvl 9 with my duo and we always have even higher charger spawnrates idk if me and my mate are cursed

btw the lip sync when you started the twitch commentary was a bit off but realigned 5 min later

Im so grateful that Shadow of the Erdtree is here to save me from playing this garbage 🗑

Lvl 7 is absolutely BRUTAL. I like it because it is like a filter. All the griefers and trolls just disappear. The downside is every player needs to have 2 anti-tank stratagems.

I had a behemoth charger at level 5 I've never seen one before and I played level 6 missions before

That’s weird because on level 9 it’s pretty calm with the new chargers.

Lvl 7 teaches divers to use anti tank for the following difficulty lvls.

I found a medium bug hole and there was 4 chargers in the middle. I was like wtf

Behemoth spawns are definitely broken but I just feel like difficulty scaling for bots is scuffed too cause it feels like 7 is too easy and doesn’t have enough objectives to complete and the difficulty spike when you go up to even just 8 is ridiculous. Heavy devastators are the most busted unit in the whole game, shooting through their own body/shield, shooting through the cover that is supposed to be your main defense against the bots, literally instakilling you to any part of your body with any level of armor on, and also having nearly flawless accuracy and theres so many more of them compared to either of the other types of devastators. Nothing to do with bugs I just had to vent

just got super citezin in this morning and I love it!

This game is creating early stages of Parkinsons disease, after the update!

I play 7 or 9. My opinion is 8 is the hardest one and I don’t understand why.

Seven is not harder than nine I like this guy, but don’t let the cap get you

Proud to say i just manhandled 4 chargers today and got out alive😅

I had 2 person with spears and another one with EAT all of them with orbital rail gun. Just to deal with all the chargers and occasionally bile titan.

Tbh I feel they don't have a single hold on spawning lol I don't think they've had this entire time. Every week, every game, after diff 6 shit is just glitchy glitchy glitchy. Ever run a helldive and nit see any titans. Just cray

Oh yeah 👍 level 7 is fkin insane!!!

Helldivers 2 it's not available in my region????? ;-;

Not just chargers, sometimes the more heavily armored ones too

Had a 3 bile titan 6 charger, lvl 6 extract yesterday. The spawning is…interesting….

add 3 bile titans and shit you got level 9 roflmao!

People would comment about this clear issue and just be told get gud. The copping is real.

Hunters cause way too much damage when they hit you.

Regularly play lvl 7 as casual run, 9 times out of 10 we have zero casualties.

Did a 7 the other day and we took down 26 Chargers

Yes, i thought this was common knowledge

That should be a mission, destroy the charger swarm before X.