Helldivers 2 Have BUFFED EVERYTHING! 100+ Weapon and Stratagem Changes! 

Finally, buffing what's weak instead of destroying everything we love about the game.

Now I get to say "back in my day, this game was hard! Fire tornadoes used to chase after you, and all our weapons bounced off enemy armor! You new people have it easy!"

A good day for managed democracy

Love the fire tornado change. It literally felt like they were intelligent and hunting you down.

The biggest positive here is that they’re actually explaining what they are doing and why they are doing it. This means that players will understand and be able to communicate back if something doesn’t behave as the developer hoped instead of getting frustrated that their favourite gun or strategem is now mince.

Strafes being able to kill tanks is SO BIG

Come for the patch notes, stay for the unintended rain ASMR.

I like how instead of nerfing the good thing they buff the bad thing. A good example is the airstrike and the rocket pods. The airstrike was good, and the rocket pods were sort of underutilized. So they buffed the rocket pods to make them a valid replacement for the airstrike, instead of nerfing the airstrike and forcing us to use rocket pods as a better option

I hoped on and I’m satisfied. We needed this and it’s a step in the right direction. I hope they continue the good work.

Enjoy your new toys Helldivers, give em hell

Damn the orbital airburst had its cooldown lowered? I already was using it constantly. This is great

The age of the Bringer of Boring (aka Bringer of Balance) has finally ended

Now they just need to buff their discord mods

Im praying my eruptor feels good, gotta jump in and try it

They even buffed furry art in this patch. Its op now on the discord

The Spear just can't catch a break

FYI, From my testing it looks like the Gatling barrage and strafing run are both capable of killing bile titans if enough shots land on the head or an exposed body part. Also, the best way to deal with the charger behemoth is to shoot the leg with a rocket as opposed to aiming for the head. Then just finish it with a grenade or your primary instead of wasting two rockets on the face

This weather is little more than the slight downpour, hardly a monsoon. Glad to see Arrowhead are delivering on their promises of returning the fun to Helldivers

Day 132: Still no buffs for the jumppack recharge time 😔 Stay strong my brothers, we will soar together again one day.

Was already using orbital gatling against bug breaches, now its even better for that job!

The mines literally just need twice the spread from the dispenser. Mines arent supposed to cause sympathetic detonations (chain reactions) one charger usually clears most of a minefield just walking through part of it.

I would love it if they buffed the SEAF Sam site. Its range and damage is horrible. It should be map wide and enough to keep dropships away.

Hearing you read patch notes with the rain in the background was unironically relating.

Are they gonna buff the shield generator relay!! That strategem is very useful against bots and has alot of potential but it goes out wayyy tooo fast !

I hope you survived dude. I've camped in Cornwall in May and it was so wet the tent pegs wiggled around in the ground like a straw in a smoothie.

I want my long range arc thrower back. Covering the team's six was fun.

The Eruptor is essentially a long range grenade launcher now lol 🤯

From my very limited testing against bots Ive found: The eruptor destroys striders one shot to any location It still takes two shots to kill devastators unless it's the head but overall it does feel very nice again The orbital Gatling barrage seems good at destroying tanks and chaff and is available again relatively quickly And the grenade launcher seems very nice at handling groups of devastators now The purifier is still not very good at all it's damage is still not worth the wait The new scope optic on the dmr and amr finally allows you to see small targets in the distance And patrols are definitely reverted no squad rocking up every 20 seconds when your solo

RIP Slugger

Man took a vacation and ended up in a monsoon

Thank you for just straight up reading the patch notes. I'm not able to at the moment and being able to hear it straight is awesome

They buffed the orbital precision and lowered the time lmao that’s awesome was already sick with it boutta be nasty now

the crossbow will never be the same it was my main when it came out everything about it feels different now less damage less ammo less usability...vs its old self i even noticed it bouncing off certain surfaces that aren't enemies like rocks instead of exploding however the devs are trying and it shows with not only weapon changes but enemies as well its a slight change but noticeable nonetheless THANK U ARROWHEAD❤️

Oribital air burst was already good, now it's better? Yall been sleeping on it, if you don't know!

Great changes, looking forward to testing them out

Man is fiendin' from a tent Innawoods

Cool patch, thanks for the sum up there. Sadly for me my friends have already moved on... so did i :( Hope this will catch up somehow to bring the joy back it had in the beginning

the rain was very relaxing, a nice addition:)

Precision strike was, and still is the best orbital apparently.

They need to increase melee damage while holding a ballistic shield

Appreciate your commitment to covering the update. I knew you were on holiday because you mentioned it in the previous video, so it was a treat to see this video pop up on my feed. Enjoy the camping trip Stylosa!

The rocket sentry needs to be switched to an anti air sentry. Rockets tracking slightly. Id buy that for a dollar

The rain in the background was so soothing 🧘

Props to you for working on holiday. You didn’t need to drop this video but we appreciate it 👍 enjoy your time off sir

I'm surprised they buffed OPS, but I'm not complaining.

Very nice looking change. I liked the rain sound in the background, very calming.

Cannot wait to jump back on tonight been a while as game was not fun anymore. Let’s go

Hmg is so good now. I lowered the fire rate to 450 and easily chewed through everything outside of chargers and the reload speed is noticeably faster.

I dont know why but playing with experienced players made the game really fun. The way we hold points of interest against an army without dying and communicating of dropship waves is such a great experience.

For the eruptor, if they wanted to add the shrapnel, I think a red hot shrapnel animation, just a glowing orange dot wizzing across the screen, might work as a solution. I just loved how the shrapnel worked. It was so unique.

Just wanted to say I enjoyed the weather in the background

I gotta say the limited test I did this morning the machine guns feel fantastic now way way better

The rain in the background is very relaxing.

Most changes are welcome, but idk if they really read the feedback for the Eruptor and the crossbow given the one thing being requested for both was increase in splash radius back to what it was. For the Eruptor, the lack of shrapnel isn't really offset by increased damage not to my knowledge. I like the crossbow being more useful but the eruptor gaining more damage won't do much as proven in the past. We'll see maybe they stealth buffed it without mentioning it. I'll test it more to see. As for the Spear, man it can't catch a break with the bugs lol

I love the background rain smoothing and getting the daily news brother say less 😂😂

I love this and can't wait to see the next patch, school for me is almost out so I will have a lot more play time!

I hope you get to enjoy a Cornish pasty, those were delicious when I visited, and thanks for the video!

We don’t have new enemy types, the behemoth charger was already in the game. It would mostly appear during the evacuation missions, there would be just one inside the main objective.

ASMR rain. Thanks STY for taking time off your holiday to have us covered. Now go back to some well deserved R&R.

Finally. I havnt played in weeks out of protest for this update. Looking forward to trying out the update.

Damn, right as I was starting to enjoy the Spear. Guess I'll take the Autocannon for now. I hope the fabricator bug is fixed quite soon, it's the only reason I used the thing. Everything else seems like a good change though, can't wait to dive after work this afternoon.

I never really noticed the fire tornados following me though? But I tended to run where they just were even if I got set on fire.

the MG-43 was actually pretty good already, with its medium armor penetration, although one more magazine is greatly appreciated, I don't think they needed to increase the reload speed, especially with the added damage.

Good to hear this stuff. At work at the moment. Looking to helldive after work, but I have guests coming over for a cigar and rum. So I may do terrible after the drinks 🍹. 😂😂😂😂

i actually have been running iwth the missle turret the past month or so because it does tend to focus on large enemies first and the ammo lasts longer. where as the autocannon will focus on small or large enemies first (random) this buff should make the missle turret even better.

The warbond isn't available to me for some reason. Anyone else?

I think I like the rain in the background, lol

Dont know if its in the patch notes but gunships spawn as patrols at least on Marfark.

Honestly I'm surprised the orbital airburst take rate was so low. I'd bring it literally every bug mission. Even before the buff you could pop it on top of a bug breach and get an easy 15-30 kills or throw it almost at your feet and kill anything chasing you. Glad they are buffing it though, I'm looking forward to my continued cooperation with the Space Shotty.

Man I thought I was crazy for noticing that it seems like the fire tornados followed players. I thought I was just seeing things. Glad to know I was not wrong!!

New warbond release was delayed hours after the patch. I will be gone until July. I got up at 4:45 this morning to give it a go before I left. Guess I won’t be checking the warbond out until July - hype gone. The tenderizer does feel much better now as it had its ammo resupply fixed and can effectively clear up to spewers with some trigger discipline and precision. The HMG is a monster now. Eruptor is still in need of some work. The damage buff is nice, but the low rate of fire and need for minimum two shots on medium enemies means it still isn’t viable for taking out medium enemies.

The monsoon is ✨atmospheric ✨

Stylosa with the commitment to duty

Stylosa and his getto setup

I find that there is no more relaxing sound than rain on a tent roof. Hope you don't get flooded out.

AA-Defense reduce stratagem slot by 1.....removed.........best patch ever!!!

There's a lot of fixes and a lot of band-aids slapped on with this patch. It's no the be-all-end-all patch we probably were hoping for, but it's something. Like "damage buff to mines" and "explosive damage buff for the Eruptor" are complete band-aids for the problem they have. Mines just spread either too uniformly or too widely to where all it takes is 1 sucker to hit a mine, they'll bounce onto every other mine that just happens to be on the path the AI will take, and no other path through your mine field will ever be taken. Either that or like 5 chaff run into your mine field and chain detonate everything so you no longer have a mine field. I also don't buy the excuse that "the Eruptor's shrapnel was too difficult to detect and it's not good to get no feedback on what killed you." Johan's really got to learn what his medium is. I know that every single one of us has been killed by an enemy and then had the message popped up "Killed by: yourself." THAT is getting no feedback on what killed us and again, the Eruptor's shrapnel only became an issue after the ricochet mechanic was jammed into the game. The literal "Fragmentation Grenade" yeets shrapnel you can see. This is a very poor excuse for why they can't put the shrapnel back in. The orbital blats (air burst, and gatling barrage) are kind of still not great. The problem is that the game's RNG will always put it so that the random yeeting spread of projectiles from both coming down will some how always Matrix their way between the appendages of the enemies if they're not something mahoosive like chargers or tanks. Like if you try to air burst a horde of hunters, you'll get maybe 3, but everything else survives. I've honestly used the Air Burst the same way I've used the Gas Strike. If it's able to, you can get it to come in as a solid round and strike Automaton Fabricators before it actually bursts and blow them up. But I am glad that they're getting back on track with their arcade multiplayer horde shooter. 9 bile titans can hardly be called a horde if that's just what spawns as standard. The "death by 10,000,000 cuts" hordes are a bit more cathartic to mow down. Both are cathartic, but it's the difference between Dynasty Warriors and Dark Souls. Do you find more joy seeing and entire section of the battlefield fall from your cannon fire or are you into getting your rectum fed to you while it's still attached? To each their own.

Great patch honestly!

bruv read the explanations before the actual patch note

Personally, i am VERY happy about this patch. The new Tenderizer and HMG is my favorite anti-bot combo. The update to 110 mm rockets accuracy was also great. So much good stuff this patch. I hope they keep on track like this. Let's make sure to give them lots of positive feedback about the stuff we like ^^

they should also have public tests occasionally

Stylosa risking life and limb to read us patch notes!

My liber-tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got outta pod at all

Right on! Might swap the orbital rail cannon strike for the precision strike. More shots more often. Just need to be better. I’m excited.

Still sore that arc thrower bug remains and they nerfed the pummeler but rest is nice. Hope they fix spear again soon funny how it goes from one bug to another

The retrieve personal mission being fixed is good. One in I wanna say 20 would bug out on me, where the guys would just stand in front of the door thus making the mission incompletable. I tried knocking them in, killing and bringing in new guys. I crashed the game once by having too many out.

Reading those patch notes is the highlight of my week. So glad they made all the automatic weapons better. 10% less recoil while standing still and scoped (first person). Super cool! The only thing I’m skeptical of is the Eruptor change. It needs to one tap a spewer to the face, one tap the backpack on a devastator.

Chief Creative Officer, not CEO, he stepped down as CEO.

my dudes absolutely geeked heheh

has anyone had issues with loading and crashing after this patch?

This update with the new buffs and fonts look absolutely sick

That's a lot of stuff to test.

It's not a necessary change, but I really wish the Jumpack's cooldown time was decreased by even a second or 2. It would help me live out my Jango Fett dreams even more!

RAIN SOUNDS IN THE BACKGROUND?!?! W

The charger behemoth ( aka behemoth in hd1 ) has ALL Its body parts armoured ( even the torax ) or butt. Its annoying, but wait till they add the impaler, obelisk, grotesque, etc😂😂😂😂😂 They will join the bile Spewer,bile titan, charger as the most annoying ahh mobs😂😂😂

These are all good changes

Goated for doing this in a monsoon

Extra eruptor dmg might help Aw, wider spread for titan puke Neat stuff; now I'm wondering what will be broken in the game this patch lolol

Finally I can fur fill my heavy machine gun and eruptor load-out IM SO HAPPY

Buddy where abouts in Cornwall are you?