Helldivers 2 New Weapons, Missions and Stratagems Coming! 

yeah its absolutely idiotic to have a giant fireball that seems to incinerate everything only to have a bunch of bugs walk out completely unharmed. they should at least change it to a black dust cloud rather than the giant yellow flash so it at least looks like its possible for things to survive.

@@simonphoenix3789 I swear I got myself at not even 10 meters away from the explosion sometimes (mistakes happen), don't get a scratch and be like : "Lol wtf, I was just standing near a litteral mini-nuke!?"

@@jacktheripper7935 10 meters from a 500kg and you should indeed become part of the crater. lol

yeah, it's basically an orbital precision strike with sparkles

and thats just the blatantly obvious one... there are so many other broken things, visually, and otherwise. I really hate that the anti cheat actively fights with my malware detector... they are doing shady shit!

This‼️ we literally have side objectives where we destroy the aa guns

Or just have the ability to completely ELIMINATE AA Guns like in Hell Divers 1 so they aren’t even a threat to your CAS!

Also where the FUCK are the ALL-TERRAIN BOOTS in the Polar Patriots dlc premium??!

It should just not let us use Eagles near them, not remove a full stratagem slot. The ones who made that modifier are dumb

People were saying this for a while, I guess it gaining more traction now.

that only happens when you let a bot shoot a flare

@@MrBoegela the problem that pretty often it make bot behind rock u can't even see he throw flare and you got factory strider right on main defence objective and you have like seconds to kill it

it often happens that a bot or bug will call in reinforcements near or under the evac site, where it overlaps and clips onto the 2nd or last tier of the map then you just have reinforcements behind your lines when there technically wasnt a mob far enough in to call it there. not to mention factory striders sniping the obj from their spawn like 200m away.

@@johnmcshane4463 haven’t seems the strider snipe yet. Or maybe I did and didn’t realize it.

I hate that the bugs can just one shot the gates. Me and my friends dud a defense and got a titan and 2 chargers. Within 30 seconds the chargers knocked out the first and second layer gates before we had a chance to deal with all of them

id be fine with 2-3 hits from a charger. a battering ram would take that much or more, and it gives a little more complexity with target priority

Defence missions are my favourite missions and when planet defence objectives are on the starmap I only play defence. The main issue for me is the bugs of clipping through terrain, striders shooting over terrain to destroy gens, and the drops/breaches happening on the gens

yes or if you shoot down a drop ship and it crashes on the gate it breaks (which I can understand) but also sometimes it crashes close to gate not touching it and it breaks two...

I don’t even be closing the gates deadass just limits your line of sight

I'm destroying those gates myself with barrages most times so might as well leave them open.

The only game I know where you need to shoot lights to improve your own vision, not gimp the enemies'...

This is apparently an issue with the volumetric fog, if you set it to low or off it fixes the lights

Oh for sure It's like they put the sun in those damn lamps, absolutely blinding.

Omg I thought I was TV brightness but realized it ain’t just me 😂

​@@Auzzymandiastell me how to change it on PS5? guess what u cant

I have to agree, its become tedious to play sometimes, and they seem to have nerfed alot of the weapons in a sneaky way, just not as fun. The game is starting to remind me of those games you played in stores where you had endless enemies attacking you.

I grabbed the game when it first came out and played solely with a friend of mine... we took I think a week break after the sony controversy and everything just felt so weak after the nerfs. I'm just glad Johan is steping in.

Yes, they nerfed weapons, CEO (now CCO) agreed Time To Kill is too high, there's WAY more enemies, usually. All this equates to less fun - which is what they are going to reverse and fix, so I am taking a break currently until it happens. The only way I/we complete 7/8/9 missions with random players sometimes is using the infinite grenade glitch (impact, the one I use).

If this is the reason you have less fun at 9 nowadays why just don't play at 8 or 7? I don't mean it in a bad way

100% agree they killed all fun with the game with their terrible balancing director and lost massive playerbase as a result, now with ceo change they are screaming desperation to try to change the game to get ppl back to buy warbonds. If only they LISTENED TO THE PLAYERBASE from the beginning, they wouldn't be in this predicament. It sucks bc I loved helldivers 2, 280hrs and after polar patriots, I just haven't played it a single time since unlocking everything and realizing the direction the game was going. They want their game to be some e sports hard level bs instead of an actually fun op friends player shooter.

AA guns are already a side objective in the game, why don't they just tie that to the modifier too?

Switch the modifier name to (orbital defense gun) and put a massive cannon on the map for us to kill

A lot of the modifiers are just stupid and make the game less fun. sandstorms that completely blind you, bunch of fire tornadoes that randomly cover extraction or a narrow pass through which you have to go through, and the worst- the heat modifier that makes traversing the map a giant chore.[

Id be down for that. Although personally id say BLOCK Eagle Strats map wide till you kill the AA guns.

i feel like some of these MOs recently have been cutting it close.

Only MO's where player count does anything is kill count ones. Liberation progress scales down the more players are currently playing. That can be seen after completing operation bundle in form of a "squad impact". on release it was about 1-3 per operation and now it has scaled to like 12 per... It's big copium from players to complain about MO's being impossible with current player count, when in reality its just how its inteded to be.

The current MO is legit taking ONE planet and we got 4 days Sure there's also Angel's Venture right now but 2 planets is more than manageable

They raised the hp regen from 1% to 5% after the first day of taking varilya 5. Yeah I’m good not slaving my time away.

I disagree, we were winning MOs way ahead of time so this player adjustment will probably bring us more in line of a balanced OP. I think it's fine if we lose MOs, it builds better lore instead of winning everything.

Yup so much weapons and stratagems are weak.

There was literally no downside to the eruptor. None. Gun was utterly broken. You didn't even have to hit an enemy to one shot them, and one shot could kill as many bugs as the orbital airburst without even targeting the enemy. Horrendous take.

@@Lanthirrhos It was tough to use at close range where it could kill you and your team. Even with explosion resistance it hurt. Now it has a slow firing speed and struggles to kill a single bile spewer regardless of shot placement. Way too long time to kill for any target. I’d rather have 2 or 3 rounds per clip than the damage nerf.

You must be smoking some special stuff because the a raptor did have its downsides. It was terrible reloading. It was slow firing. You had to have another stratitude for your main or use your backup weapon as your main. You don't know what you talking about​@@Lanthirrhos

@@Lanthirrhos The bolt action fire rate and focus on single or small group targets WAS the downside. If a player could survive getting swarmed by various armored bugs or avoid suppressive chain gun devastators, rocket devastators, running hulks, tanks, and screen shaking bullet stagger while being on the move while dealing with massive numbers of flanking spawns they *SHOULD* be rewarded for their skill and discipline with good flow not punished for their dedication and understanding with a weapon. Everyone seem to forget that.

That would interesting. Make medium pen do damage to the belly and have it bleed out. Could alsi add the bleedout to the spewers

It already does...

@@beardedlonewolf7695 proof?

@@beardedlonewolf7695 It absolutely not.

​@@beardedlonewolf7695it doesn't, only the chargers do that

It’s absolutely clickbait when he said “this is the most mad take” then proceeds to agree with almost every point…like wtf…

That's the main reason. The game will increase and decrease with players in a wave when new content comes. Many players have unlocked everything

@@Mark-uk8wz The game is still fun, if some people stop playing completely because they've "unlocked" everything then they never liked the game in the first place.

i thought those who had purchased it already could play but new players couldnt buy

@@beardedlonewolf7695 the game is much less fun, because of all the nerfs. I was thinking about choosing the mech into a drop, but then remembered how bad the rockets are. Your choices against bugs is also very limited. AMR and AC are not good choices against bugs because of their inability or lacklustre capability of dealing with Chargers and Bile Titans (whereas they're perfectly fine choices against bots). Until they properly open up weapon selections, this game has become a routine tedium

@@beardedlonewolf7695 why not, i already have everything and i am lvl 120 soon, there is literally nothing to do for me and i personally dont like the games current state. fighting bots feels like a chore, honestly if i could play the February version of helldivers, i would...

he only agreed with like 4 out of 8 points that's no where near "virtually every single point"

​@@slyx702 i mean he said its the most unhinged player he has ever seen and made it look like some kind of psycho having a tantrum, so even just agreeing with two of the dude s points kinda shows he was overly exaggerating and he did indeed look like he was agreeing with small parts of almost every point

we can agree that snowshoes would have been cool but nobody is quitting the game over it

​@@slyx702if you actually listen to th3 video, he'll "disagree" but when going more into what he disagrees with he just agrees in small parts while also making his original disagreement even more unreasonable.

@@slyx702 he agreed with 6 out of the 8 points. jussayin'. Not "virtually every point" but the majority of them nonetheless.

WE had only 800 playing in the Terminide defense planet at one time, on a SATURDAY.

They already do this. Weapons are being nerfed all the time.

The crossbow needs a buff bad. I use it and the magazine size is atrocious.

@@FazeParticles most they will do is a side buff that doesn't make it perform any better. Same thing they do with all the so called buffs.

@@FazeParticlesCrossbows are atrocious in general lol. NGL….that SEMTEX arrowhead is bad ass though!

@@DracodeusA side bitch? Lol sex and the city? 🏙️

I just go find glitch or run random low level play even they kick me out most of the time cause I clear the map too fast for their liking

Go play rise of the ronin, amazing team ninja game. That's what I swapped over to until they get their shit together at arrowhead. It's hilarious how many times people including myself tried to tell them they were going the wrong direction and making the game unfun. Now it's 3+ months later and they lost 75% of playerbase including me bc they sucked all the fun out of the game and want it to be super hard and grindy when it didn't launch that way. I will never understand why they did what they did, but I hope they fix it to be the game we all love. Unfortunately, there are people who say too little too late, arrowheads reputation is DEFINITELY ruined and it will hurt from their decisions.

Yeah...no. I remember when one played a game for fun. Not to get a treat every half hour. Like a dog.

​@touyang7172 this game is getting toxic. I got kicked as soon as I joined. Worst yet, some bad or impatient players just loved to kill our own

@@sunskyriver They listened to what I call the UBAHplayer 1%ers that want everything 'IRONMAN" type game, because they are the ones making a ton of videos and screaming the loudest.

The shield pack ruins the balance of the game. There’s nothing that comes close to it as far as survivability boosting goes. Really makes the game brainless in a toxic way.

@@isaaccallaghan4585 You could literally say that about any random thing you personally don't like. You're literally arguing in favor of the exact balancing decisions that have pissed players off to date. The correct way to address this is to provide alternatives, or address the problems that cause players to experience sudden damage spikes (i.e. headshots). This isn't a pvp game. If you don't like the shield backpack, you can choose to not use it, but it is a really low tier take to say that 1 of the only 2 defensive equipment item choices is bad, and your only reasoning is that you personally don't like defensive items.

​@@isaaccallaghan4585sh!t I hope you didn't work in game industry. You are the kind of mentality that just loves nerfing that we all dislike

@@MrShinydude exactly. If people feel like they need the shield backpack to survive, let them. But I'll pretty much always pick an offensive strategem because it's more fun.

@@isaaccallaghan4585 Shield backpack is a noobtrap. You sacrificing your offense for an extra defence option that helps you in a clutch situations in which you probably keep getting in the first place because you lacking firepower. Shield backpack is only worth it if one guy brings it to the mission and keep dispensing them to fellow divers every time it gets off CD. Same is true for rover and ammo pack to a lesser degree.

They stealth increased the😅 rate again yesterday so the planet wouldn't be taken, hard to beat the dev when they want us to lose. 0-50% in 24 hours 50-57% in 12 hours. Kinda blatant the change in liberation .

the nerfed our stuff, gave a buff to the bots, gave another buff to the bots on that one planet, added a new bug issue, and lost 100k players.

@@lorddude123 100k casuals, Super Earth don't need casuals.

@@beardedlonewolf7695 good luck with your dying game and 90% drop in player base

Now to take the bot planet

This is exactly how I’m feeling also. I don’t envy the devs, as longer periods between balance changes is the prudent measure, but in the gaming world 3+ weeks to fix nerfs/changes that are literally driving players to away to play other games puts the game in real jeopardy. The smart thing would have been to quickly revert to a build before all the divisive “un-fun” changes were implemented and THEN take your sweet ass time to figure out how to balance things in the super-considered way that they’ve now committed to going forward

He was right on some, missed the mark on others. I mean he agreed with most of these to an extent

the actual weakspot on chargers is their legs, you only need to take one off to kill a charger. the main issue is that most weapons can only pen the back of the legs, so trying to get position to get the angle, along with timing the chargers excessive legs movements thats filled with desync and poorly timed animations(and spotty teleporting hitboxes), and the aim to hit only the back of the legs with enough damage fast enough to not have to do the same thing again, is very difficult, and ends up being counter productive to just shooting the easy big sack on the back. i think the biggest problem with chargers is the netcode/animation, they really need to go back and make it more fair/ more consistent. if you flinch one mid charge, it shouldnt slide another 50 ft forward after stopping. if you are running tight circles around it, it shouldnt be able to turn with you, while still charging. if its stopped and going to turn around with the little rearing up backhanding animation, the attack shouldnt one shot you on the windup. it shouldnt be able to just skyrim its way up walls instead of running into them. and it shouldnt be able to continue charging after going down a 20 ft cliff. like im honestly surprised i dont hear as much complaining about chargers vs anything else, because imho, the chargers are the least polished out of all the enemies. oh and lets not forget about the missing sounds and screen shake and controller rumble when those things are right behind you. sorry for the wall of text, there's just some loathing for chargers that burns deep inside.

​@@johnmcshane4463what does this have anything to do with what the dude said

@@buttruedamagebro9505 The way he was killing a charger in a background video was painfull

It is wild how someone using the flamethrower this way talks about more experienced players being “unhinged” and how the game doesn't need players like them.

The reason I never changed my review from negative and didn't play the game since...not my first rodeo with Sony... And Arrowhead is not better in any way.

We still got time and now Angel's Venture is secured so we can do a big push

The reason why the planet is taking so long is because it has a regeneration rate of 5%. For context, any other planet has a regeneration rate of 1%, this planet has been given 5x the regeneration rate specifically for this major order.

@@riseandbucketYet they won’t take any time to buff the autocannon mech while players who have seen the leaks are complaining about how weak it is 😭 if you’re not going to take the extra time to fix or readjust the mech, why bother to increase the regen rate in the first place?

If you think that the Devs are not manipulating the numbers then you are a naive child. This is a tactic to show you that "yeah look we have the mech ready to go. You just have to unlock it". Really the mech or the anti tank mines are not ready to go. They just put on a bullshit major order to give them more time to finish the Stratagems. We will fail this major order. You watch. It won't be because we didn't try. Arrowhead will manipulate the numbers to show we lost.

They will readjust it. The leaked versions are not the final versions​@@crackededge9351

This, knowing roughly what's gonna spawn would help a lot picking the right loadout

I found that. Unlocked an explosive weapon the other day & it made bots fun again. That and the laser secondary

Let's go 👍

For Democracy!

I feel like the AMR and Railgun should have way more penetration than they do. Tungsten rounds can punch through tank armor rn today irl. Why the fuck can't the super space army produce the weapons as advertised? It's in the name, the whole concept behind the technology...😂

@@RecluseBootsy That would be nice. I wouldn't put money on them changing either of them though :(

When the illuminate arrive, you'll use a lot less heavy weapons in general.

This is a telltale that all AT options suck ass if 3 people bring it on top of 500 kilos and orbital railgun and its still not enough. All dedicated AT guns need serious buff to their killing power since it sits on your back 95% of time contributing nothing. Like 1tap headshot on titans and oneshot on hulks body.

That'll take a long time, they struggle to do just 3 right, no offence to Arrowhead's small team

No thats what im saying, there are already labels for premium and standard warbonds, so they could release another standard one and i think they do need to shake up the warbonds cause they're adding guns just cause of the warbonds. Make one with capes and emotes, idk that's my rant 😅

that will be probably the case, i'm quite sure the monthly cadence of bonds was mainly cause of trying to appease sony, and a new free one or expansion of the one we have is only held back by the fact they phisically had no time to put it togeder with all the extra work

5 per war bond is a good safe bet instead of 3.

They will probably charge more then instead of 1000 credits. Probably be 3000 credits for another 9 page warbond.

Yea it's a great mission except against Terminids because the Titan simply walk over the walls which is a bit stupid, I don't know what this clown is talking about, it's the kind of annoying gamer that will never enjoy new missions or new enemies no matter what and devs should not listen to this kind of people.

He sounds like Krusty the Clown.

Ye tbh it does feel like a spawn rate bug because some missions are totally normal and sometimes there are 30+ bile titans during 30 minutes mission.

SONY's really bucking on that, if anything they added more countries to the list

Yeah push it to 100 -125

Most weapons need bullets buff

Maybe the robots have infrared vision lol

@@gaze1ngm0rph1c4 so what's the point of the smoke stratagem? Make them high?

@@TheMRFast1989 guess it’s like trying to use arc or fire against robots. You’re just not meant to-

@@gaze1ngm0rph1c4 if you see the tutorial video of the stratagem are used bots for the demostration. just dont hide behind a finger please,i like the game but some bullshit are just too much.

It works the same way as blizzard bots won't be able to see you from 3 meters away but if they already saw you they will shoot you from mile away with pinpoint accuracy. Which is kinda dumb and definitely need to be looked into but it is how it is. You can use smoke to get into stratagem jammer/watchtower/gunship facility stealthily and hellbomb their ass into oblivion and that's it.

the other backpacks are all great what are you talking about? guard dogs are great for bugs, supply is good for everything, jetpack is fun for getting to places you couldnt normaly. if you cant take off the shield then thats an issue on your end

Man, There's a difference between Criticism and just complaining. Doesn't even sound like you enjoy the game, You're asking for so many changes that it'd fundamentally change the game and the mentality a lot of people have. Sure there's a few good points in this pile, but if they were to change all of it, it'd only really pander to YOU.

@@ZoeyCakes You're saying you *wouldn't* enjoy these changes? You'd like the game LESS if these things were changed/repaired/unbugged?

​@@tailstalker the last take is fucking trash my dude, resupply backpack is S tier and oftenly used even in solo play and the laser guard dog is on the same level of usage as the shield pack against bugs, good game knowledge with the jetpack and resupply can provide more survivability than just letting the shield pack carry you through your mistakes like a crutch

@@buttruedamagebro9505 *shrug* Don't get me wrong - I love and live for the supply backpack. Favorite by far. I'm still not seeing it enough on 7+. The biggest issue with it is that lots of weapons require a backpack slot and if you're on a level with strategem effects (especially -1 strategem slot) you NEED that backpack slot for something else. Jump-pack's cool-down is too long - it would be great as a maneuvering tool IF it could be used as one. As it is, it's mostly for taking advantage of how dumb the A.I. is. Which, fine, legit, go for it, but it's got so much potential to be cooler. The laser-guard dog is adequate. Unfortunately they suffer from shield *being* an auto-pick for lots of players - two guard-dogs rovers working together can be great and three can be AMAZING if you can get more people to pick them, but that's a big 'if'. The Guard Dog basic is actually really cool...as long as it has bullets. Running out and then not being able to reload it in ANY FASHION except a supply box or summoning another one just sucks.

If they made weapons more viable, and made it high risk high reward thing... It could work.

AMR or AUTO-Cannon with Stun grenades are an amazing strategy to use against hulks

The arc thrower is such a let down now

Try the Spear, its actually not AS bad as its said. Its lock on is sometimes wonky, but if you get a hang to it, its a hell of a anti tank weapon. And I totaly agree with you on the META thing.

This Meta bullshit is always gold... I literally played with other weapons all the time, only to be nerfed every f ing week.... So what is the point too try anything when next week the Data will say more people use it and they hit it with the next put it in the trash nerf.

@@TheMrWhitmore I tried it but personally, it is not my cup of tea. Mowing down chaff with the stalwart is just fun. I understand the reasoning for the spear, it is great to take out towers from afar but I just love MGs.

@@chrismath149 Fair enough :D Thats what other squadmates are for, in this case, you got the MG and someone else (should) bring something anti tankish then^^

@@UmbraWeiss I don't think META is bullshit, but I wouldn't want to be forced to use META when I am bringing something to the table that is useful ( in my case clearing mobs ).

MG-43 was probably one of the very first support guns they developed and game balance was drastically different back then. It absolutely should have more spare mags like 5 or so.

HMG just needs a bigger box mag like maybe 100 -125 instead of 75 They could add a minigun / gatling with a backpack tho,that would be nice

I think we may need some variety with the defense misson, like it always the same loadout and map.

it's pummelling some stalker ass. the weakspot isn't the ass, it's the head, but you get my point.

​@@manboy4720It be pummeling the little shits

Doesn't do it as well as the jar 5 though. Jar5 and laser rover I can go through 8 stalkers and close the nest solo. I have not been able to with that, ttk and %ammo in a mag needed for 1 kill is much higher

Yeah but the pummeler pretty much makes the stalkers your bitch plus I’d rather not use the rover due to it killing me a bunch of times. Yes the rover is good against bugs but I couldn’t count the amount of times it killed me.

@@isaacboyer2694 Pummeler allows you to shoot while SPRINTING AWAY which is gonna save your ass a lot. Plus it stuns them for quite long duration you can dispatch 3 stalkers at once no problem. This gun is what concussive liberator supposed to be.