Why Helldivers 2 Feels Terrible After New Update 

If they’re going to add gunship patrols they should already be adding the air to air eagle strategem

When the devs said TTK was too high, they were not talking about enemies, they were talking about players

These armored chargers are more common than regular chargers.

“We have decreased the heavy enemy spawn rate by about 30%” bruh the chargers be spawning like crazy

The ragdolls in this game are getting ridiculous. If I barely take damage from a rocket, I shouldn't get launched 20 m into the air. If I'm behind hard cover and take zero damage from an explosion on the other side of the cover, I shouldn't be thrown back 15 m out of my cover. If I'm thrown to the ground by _anything,_ don't force me to stand up as slowly as your local centenarian. Let me stay prone and quickly shoot or stim, or let me get up as quickly as if I had deliberately been prone.

It's strange that they said TTK was a problem and then they added a beef lord to the bugs

The bullet flinch is the main reason I hate playing Automatons. The Autocannon already has a super slow aim and heavy kickback. So im just missing half my shots from getting shot at...

It’s crazy that they can’t stop nerfing shit, whole community crying out to stop the nerfs. Player count plummeting, still secret nerfs in every patch.

I thought I got shittier, but this explains everything. Really unfortunate. Also, I like the gunship patrols but I find it ridiculous because I got screwed over at the start of a mission because there was a gunship patrols, a regular patrol and some stationary bots close by, so I couldn't take down the ships because of it and couldn't kill the bots while getting blasted by the ships, so I was just like, "Nah, not doing this" and quit to desktop. Also, have been getting headshotted way more and it is really REALLY frustrating, sometimes I don't even get to react.

So far it SEEMS like the gunship and shrieker patrols are a mission modifier. Its the bugged modifier that doesnt show any text. So you can just play on missions without that if you want to play weaker anti gunship

Arrowhead: We don't often test our code, but when we do, we do it in Production.

*_I fear no bot._* But... those gunship patrols... *_they scare me._*

The original Helldivers had Helldivers be glass cannons, but actually cannons. You could be splatted in a second, but you could also mow through enemies if you knew what you were doing. Reducing our power and making enemies bullet sponges makes this less fun than the original. Arrowhead doesn't get it.

Being a Helldivers 1 vet, I said from the beginning that Arrowhead will likely destroy Helldivers 2 with their obsessive balancing and patching, just like they did with the first game. People didn't believe me. Well look at it now. It's HD1 all over again.

Alexus has escaped confinement. I repeat, *_ALEXUS HAS ESCAPED CONFINEMENT!!!_*

I agree with you, the amount of people coping and defending things that clearly still need improvement is wild. Not shitting on arrowhead I'd say it's actually nice to see some work in the right direction but the game is not in perfect state by any means in terms of balance.

They need to make flinch tied to the armor type, light armor will remain the same, medium armor will have reduced flinch and heavy armor have no flinch. Its really annoying to get hit and immediately have to dive out of the way because trying to wait for your aim to reset is not worth it.

OhDough's list of complaints in this video, in order: - Recoilless Rifle takes 25% longer to reload. - Gunship Patrols/leads to limited variety of weapons you can bring to deal with them. - Charger Behemoth spawn rates. - Arc Thrower/weaker weapons useless simply because Behemoth's exist. - Newest buffs irrelevant because not every weapon can deal with heavily armored enemies. - unintentional Recoilless Rifle/E.A.T. damage bug/reload speed. - bots/bug hunters seemingly more accurate. - doesn't like bullet flinch and weapon sway, compared to enemy accuracy. - packing methodology upgrade broken. - Amount of Patrols heavily increased. - "Gunship Patrols shouldn't exist". - HMG shouldn't have two reloads and only 75 ammo. - Realism shouldn't matter in this game. - Support weapons should be top fun balance priority over strategems/primary weapons. - Railgun should pierce enemies. Personally, I agree with several of his points, but disagree with a few of his proposed changes. Overall I share the same sentiment that spawn rates are insane, and support weapons need some more love in order to deal with the increased quantity of heavy armored enemies.

How tf did they even manage to "accidentally" make the recoiless slower to reload😂😂

Why couldn't they've just added all the good changes without making unnecessary changes?

They just seem to be incapable of balancing reasonably. If they make one enemy tankier, they should decrease the spawn rates of that enemy. If one heavy armor enemy spawns in large groups very commonly, make that enemy weaker. If there’s more tankier enemies, increase my ammo for AT weapons or make the reloads quicker. Instead they do all the opposites. Make these changes make sense!

To your point about the HMG and the stupid "realism" they claim theyre going for: I'm an actual machine gunner in the military. If we were going to make things actually realistic, the LIGHT machine gun would have a 400% stamina drain multiplier, could only be operated reliably on bipods or tripods, and would require 2 people to operate effectively. You can imagine how the HEAVY machine gun would behave. Also one EAT would kill a charger a bile titan literally anywhere (or at least the spear). These are literally designed to kill bunkers/tanks. Some bug chitin is actual paper to them. Wanted to add, actually the lmg and especially hmg would absolutely emulsify chargers and bile titans as well.

"The new patch is good...on paper" Sums it up pretty well.

11:00 the amount of gun fire is why it isn't fun. Its literally coming from every direction. The flinch is so real. I legit thought i was getting worse at the game. I just couldn't put my finger on what was going on.

Got on after patch, immediately got shot through a wall and my vision went above the map because of being ragdolled in first person. Decided I would try to answer some SOS calls and my game crashed from switching to public. NICE

Anytime I quit the game, it freezes up the game, and I have to restart my computer.

Once again I'm left asking "do you play your own game?" Thank you for making this video, so many creators are primed to put out uncritical, overly positive content, but unfortunately this patch, overall, didn't land.

Who untied Alexus?

I had FIVE charger behemoths chasing me at one time today. Five. I just quit the game. Not going to run in circles for 10 minutes waiting for the ONE stratagem that can deal with them to come off cooldown five times in a row. This game doesn't respect my time, and I am just about done with it.

Everything you said makes sense after playing last night. Eventually, I just started running from every fight because why would I bother

Not to mention in the canyon maps gunship patrols spawn inside the cliffs where they can shoot you and you can't shoot them

Glad it's not just me. This update feels so much worse to play than before. Not only did it introduce new bugs, but the patrol spawn frequency feel worse or unchanged. For wanting to take longer with their patches...it feels like no testing was done on this one.

Somehow, impossibly, SPEAR is now the top-tier anti-tank pick. Locks on everything instantly, reliably one-taps Behemoths to the head. It is now the only anti-tank that can do that.

I got ganked by 5 gunships as soon as I dropped in on a Blitz mission yesterday. This didn't happen once by the way. No, it happened *twice.* Screw gunships, hope they stay in their little incel gunship fabricators and keep gooning forever.

The moment they nerf the incendiary breaker, the game dies for people who like to play against bugs From a game design standpoint, realism in some form is good in games until it gets in the way of fun and gets in the way of the game's fun aspects. Then it becomes a bad game design

"the veggie tale crew" lmao

I'm mainly curious about how the charger behemoth eats food when it's got large horn protrusions above and below its mouth plus no hands (that I can see anyway).

Reminder that Alexus was unprofessional enough to lie about his coding and progress on Hello Neighbour 2, before he cut and ran hoping he wouldn't get caught. He's arrogant enough to think he knows better than the players, and treats balance feedback with outright belligerence. Sounds like the kind of guy that would sneak in his own "balance" reworks because he doesn't agree with Pilested's vision for more fun and tank a patch in the process. He already tanked a whole-ass game.

Dude the flinch, bot accuracy, crouch accuracy reduction, GIANT purple exclamation marks and Question marks. I am constantly dying from FIRE DAMAGE on ice planets with no visible source of the fire? The guns may be better but honestly the reduction in recoil from crouch in addition to the constant flinch from the crazy accurate bots who are shooting me through all sorts of absolutely *BLINDING* visual effects is insane. This patch didn't save the game for me. I'm done dude.

I don't understand why turrets can't be just immune to damage anyway, it's not like they aren't capped on ammo already or that instakilling a swarm isn't better most of the time. Also broke "superior packing methodology" ship module again. Precision orbitals should also be immune to scatter modifier since it basically takes away the one thing they're supposed to be good at. One thing that pisses me off is bullets deflecting, they could just lower it to 10 or 5% dmg instead of flat immune. Also dying and having all your equipment on a 10 min cd is absolute cancer.

btw the RR nerf is accidental, they said it themselves

Even on lower difficulties I'm noticing after the update, there's tons upon tons of enemies in each patrol. Like, 20-25 bots in a single patrol on Difficulty 4, with 3 Hulks at a time, it's Difficulty 4 ffs. I've never seen that many before lol.

The patrols were okay before, now it got worse, with random bots running around, calling more bot drops, on top of an incoming patrol which would end up aggroing the to current bot drop, and more bot drops would be called on top of it. Never have I ever been so frustrated in a game before they say the enemies were nerfed, load of BS.

You're out of your mind dude lol Behemoth chargers are incredibly easy to kill. Flamethrower is just as effective against them as they are chargers. One Scorcher mag to their butt kills them. One anti-tank (meaning recoilless, quasar, spear, EATS) to the plate *above* their butt kills them in one shot.This works for normal chargers too by the way, it's been like this since day one but people haven't learned how to do it. One anti-tank to the leg breaks it and you can kill it with anything from there. 500kg, air strike, precision strike, orbital railgun, orbital laser, eagle 110mm rockets are all one shots or break armor. The upgrades to Gatling barrage and strafing run also damage/break armor too. Rocket turret, autocannon turret, EMS turret to hold them in place. Emancipator exosuit. Maybe not all OPTIMAL but there is PLENTY viable. Now to be fair there is a wonky reason why they aren't breaking in one shot. Fall off damage is reducing the damage anti-tank does by 1. Also if you walk backwards you will reduce the damage they do by 1. The leg has 650 armor and the anti-tank weapons do 650 damage. You have to be walking forward when you shoot to do 651 damage and you'll break 100% of the time. It's a weird quirk of their engine thaand they'll have to increase the damage on weapons by 1 to remove this messed up edge case. Otherwise you're literally just too lazy to learn how to do anything but shoot them in the head. Gunships? Use the same weapons you've always used. Laser cannon, any anti-tank, Autocannon, Anti-Materiel Rifle. But even more is viable! The heavy machine gun is incredible against them with its buffs. The rocket turret works very well against them.The railgun isn't bad. How is that not enough weapons viable against them? There are 4 teammates and only one person needs to bring one of those things, you'll likely have at least 2 people with one of those things because some of it is also effective against other bots. No, not every single weapon and strategem should be effective against every faction and every enemy within those factions. Plenty enough is effective against every enemy with enough cross over that 4 people can bring diverse builds. You actually just aren't trying anything new and complaining that things aren't easy. On the highest difficulties. They even reduced the difficulty to get the rarest science to 6. The game isn't perfect, flinching and ragdolling needs to be toned down or counterplay needs to be added to it like heavy armors not being ragdolled as much, light armor gets up faster etc. But man so many of your complaints are just you not even trying to adapt to new things. There is more things viable right now than there ever has been.

I was expecting some good word from you about the new patch (and maybe addressing the bad changes too). But OOF, straight up "Feels Terrible" in the title. Here's what I have to say: I get it, they basically "upgraded" all chargers to Behemoths (above lvl 6), and render your regular anti-tank useless, forcing you to rely on wasting a strategem, or using flamethrower as a quick fix. They never buffed EATs or Recoiless. They also reduced the Bile Titans, making it less so that you have the fun to blow up 2-3 at once. (Barely any, on level 7) On the bot front, they make it so that all enemy patrols spawn next to you or a player, effectively flanking you all the time, where you had no place to hide. (Also 6-8 gunships right out of the gate is outright disablement). Spear also cannot target Fabs anymore. The only "good" changes are: 1. Eruptor having 550+ damage, which can "replace" the grenade pistols and grenades in general. 2. Orbital Precision Cooldown at 90s, still not stellar, but at least I'm convinced it is an A-tier now. 3. Spear 100% lock on (with a smaller reticle circle and unable to destroy Fabs or Mortars) 4. ARs feels a bit nicer (Carbine feels good to use) but IMO it's still more like a slightly better version of Sickle 5. HMG can deal with medium chaff bots quite easily, but still can't really kill gunships or tank very quickly Bad, or wasted patches: 1. People saying that Strafing and Orbital Gattling are good, are smoked beyond sanity. 2. Eagle 110mm Rocket Pods now deal less damage than my punisher plasma, meaning you need to drop 3 of these to kill a Behemoth (I don't care if it is 100% accurate now) 3. Other changes to deal better damage against chaff, is just laughable. (Why should I waste a strategem slot JUST to deal with chaff??) I have very mixed feelings about this patch. On one hand, I feel that they are going towards the right direction (buffing underutilized items to make it more competitive). On other hand, of 90% of changes, people won't even remember or it just doesn't matter. I only remember about a handful that improve the gameplay. So that 100+ changes, is really just "multiple damage and armor values" folded into maybe like 20 or so items. Warbond is kinda meh, again, shotgun is useless without Medium Armor Pen (yes they are still trying to play the game of "prenerf" because they are deathly afraid of warbond becoming OP, if any). Knife is useless except to maybe one-trick land to kill yourself). Sometimes I kinda wondering what are they doing with those 5 weeks of dev cycle anyway. Most of these changes can already be made in a single day - Eagle, Orbital adjustments don't require additional coding, those are freaking value changes to cooldown and armor pen. (Granted, they had 4 month to fix the Spear, but the new version is still bugeed). It's like, really, you spent 5 weeks just to have consensus with your team about what changes to actually make, and then spend 1 day making those value adjustments. Even a single decent player (such as Dough) can do a much better job (because they already did the field testing themselves). Like, cmon, are they balancing for people who ONLY want to play level 4 or below? Why are there so many bad changes for higher difficulties? I'm not even an elite player, yet I still exclusively play on level 9 because the missions are laughably easy! And the only way to make it more challenging is to disable players with more behemoths and patrols next to players whatnot. Verdict: Patch is B- at best, and C at worst. This is still a significant improvement than previous patches (they are below D grade). They have still a VERY long way to go before any of the underutilized strategem (which is 95% of them, still) can have a chance again. With longer dev cycles, I also know that patches are going to keep sucking a while until, well, maybe Piles finally plays level 7 or higher and realize that "oh, this is not how I envisioned" :/

The devs a screaming “you’re supposed to run that’s how we designed it.”

You nailed it, I now run stealth armor and just run away from everything while clearing the objectives. The gunships and the crazy patrols seems endless, especially when you've cleared the entire map and just trying to get close to the EZ. It seems that it's necessary to bait an infantry to call in for dropship away from EZ and 12 dropship come through sprinkled with gunships. IF only airburst can oneshot the gunships/dropships, then maybe. I dread fighting the bugs now, I have to run flamethrower and EAT + every anti-tank strategem or else no one is having fun.

Good to know it's not just me; the moment I started fighting bots yesterday I couldn't believe how fast I was immediately dying from laser precise shots from a mile away. I used to have a moment of warning like "oh crap, I'm getting shot at, let's move..." now its just like "Oh crap I'm getting.... nevermind, I'm dead". It feels like I'm playing against a bunch of aim-bot cheaters in a bad CS match. Perhaps that makes sense in the lore since they are infact bots, but it's simply not fun. The amount I'm getting rag-dolled now is also absurd, and it was already infuriating before the patch.

while i dont want to be super negative after what should have been a net positive update i totally agree with everything you've said. the only time i will take a non-essential fight now is if i think there are super credits involved, which seem to spawn in containers much more infrequently.

Last night was the first time I felt at level 9 I couldn't hardly do the objective. Every time I would drop, I would hit a group. Literally a bloodbath every match. It was God awful... the worst Automaton experience I have ever had. That's how I felt after like 5 matches.

Time and time again, arrowhead prove they have no idea what theyre doing

Is it me or has the player ragdoll gotten insanely annyoing in the last few weeks? It feels like its way worse than on release. Feels like if enemies only look at you or if you touch a pebble while diving you start rolling around and losing control of your character for seconds. And you can kind of get stunlocked in that state until you die by impact or a rocket, it´s very frustrating lately

i swear i started after the update and was like wtf it should be easier now but it feels way harder i wasnt sure if it was just me having a few bad games in a row or if they fucked something up again

Arrowhead needs QA. After all the hullabaloo about doing the patch "right" this time, it's kind of sad to let dozens of new bugs straight through without any proper QA. So much talk about "balance" but a just cursory glance at the pummeler and the liberator concussive (or indeed most weapons) show that they simply don't see what the problem is.

They said they reduced hulk spawns but I swear I saw a hulk every 9 seconds while playing

I agree with you completely. Yesterday after update our four man squad had a terrible time finishing the missions. Just like you said, It was not fun getting knocked around while not being able to fight back effectively.

Ah i knew something was up with the bot accuracy after getting my head knocked off 5 times in a row by the same heavy devestator

Just played on automaton medium doing a bit of super credit hunting and seeing if I can try out other builds solo, you would think I was on hell dive the enemy’s were coming from everywhere as someone else said you get behind cover and your rag dolled out of it or you have enemy’s coming at you from all angles went back to my normal ballistic shield pummeler combo managed to complete missions but rarely able to extract

About automaton accuracy: instant triple kill for a sneaky heavy devastator today. 4th diver was loner..

I absolutely love gunships and shriekers patrolling around the map now, I just wish gunships were vulnerable to more than just two or three support weapons. You absolutely have to have an autocannon or laser cannon at all times now, and there's really no other alternative.

Never shot and killed by a scout strider from full health before until this patch too…

I'm pretty sure the Devs got some beefs with Helldive players

The recoilless/packing methodology thing seems like a classic code merging fuckup. The new patch build was probably already in works at the same time as the previous .300, and they forgot to add the .300 changes to the new patch once it was done, or overwrote them by accident. Thing is, if they were doing more testing as they claimed, they absolutely should have caught this. It isn't a weird edge-case. You just need to fire the recoilless to empty and try to rearm while you have all the upgrades.

Bro how??? If this is Alexis' doing, he gotta go. This is just stupid. How do you fuck it up so bad. And I bet it will keep getting worse

Getting rocketed into the sky like team rocket really shouldn’t be a thing.

I'm fully convinced that some of the dev team is actively working to sabotage HD2, because a lot of the problems seem very targeted.

the huge problem with gunship patrols is that they respawn like regular patrols even when the gunship factory isnt on the map.

Yesterday I fought the bots in a rocky valley the size of half the map and all the patrols spawned close enough to the fighting to immediately be a part of it. Cue 12 minute endless war with nowhere to run. We spent all 20 reinforcements on extraction and only 2 got out. It was endless madness. I've never seen so many lasers. We got toasted on lvl 7. With the flying gunships spawning in patrols I now feel like I have to bring the autocannon more than ever.

Came back after a couple month break. Im having fun but the game feels waaaaay more arcady. It's hard to explain but, everything is much faster paced. Difficulty 9 bug missions are just constantly reminding yourself to run away as you dump galling barages and other chaff clear behind you while trying to deal with the new charger and biles. It feels way less tactical, like there's always a few patrols breathing down your neck at every moment. I remember being able to like stealth and pick and choose engagements way better. Calling and taking out patrols with certain stratagems before they could reinforce was way more common back in the day. Now it feels like if you try you're going to aggo crap from every direction and start the enver ending breach patroll cycle. Breaches throw so much crap at you that you don't have enough to completely wipe out what spawned so you constantly have to be on the run. They're giving out free flamethrowers at least... And I like using a flamethrower, and I like how fast it kills the new charger but that's kind of the only good option we have atm. Not everybody wants to go into a bug mission and pick the obligatory flamethrower + 500kg (because you probably got the orbital scatter modifier) If the eagle 110 rocket pods consistently killed chargers or at least consistently striped their armor, it would at least be another option to combat this. Back in the day it felt like a group of competent randoms could tactically chew away at the mission, either by grouping up, splitting into groups of two, or having a solo build to speed run objectives off on the side. Now when she hits the fan it's like every man for himself since your focus needs to be all over the place, fast, at every moment. It's almost like it shifted from rewarding good positioning and tactical thinking to rewarding reaction time? Maybe a good change for some players, I don't know.

Honestly logged in and unlocked half the warbond but it’s still a lazy warbond

The main issue i find is that every non big enimy can call for reinforcements, they need to stop allowing reinforcements to call more reinforcements it makes a endless loop of taking down enimies and makes it a slog especially since patrols on just difficulty 6 can have like 40 enimies now or so…..if they fixed this so every patrol or group could only call a limited amount of reinforcements annnnd made it so those reinforcements also didnt chain in more reinforcements? Itd be better….also them saying requiring less anti tank lol all i can do is laugh last night i repearedly had 2 to 3 hulks and a tank drop on me each time theyd call for help….ya suuuure…..do love the presicion strike now tho

Real helldiver have no problem, we help thousand kids 😂😂

It's astounding how they don't seem to have any internal feedback or control of the changes they claim to make. They tell us patrols and heavily armored enemies are less frequent but its not the case at all... Movement feels way worse and there are multiple clipping bugs and prone issues. Why do the patches mess everything up so badly?

This patch was 1 step forward, 1 step back.

It was crazy when I decided to chill at difficulty 6 and there were suddenly many gunships and shield devastators making me flinch like crazy. I can’t imagine newer players playing on the bot side and trying to learn from it.

I think 1-2 gunship patrols would be ok, it's when they come in packs of 5 that it gets stupid. And of course they should not spawn on top of you. It's not just gunships though, regular patrols just spawn besides you now too. It's kinda the same with Behemoths too - if like one spawns it's not bad having a tankier charger, but it seems like they just kept the spawn numbers the same and replaced them with Behemoths. They said there would be less heavy enemies to reduce the need for AT, but instead there's more enemies, they are tankier, and you need even more AT than ever before. It has to be broken. They just slam some numbers in and don't test it despite the longer patch cycle and all Piles has said. I do like plenty of this patch, but it's all messed up due to patrols and enemies being worse than ever.

Now it feels like I'm literally being spawned on top of constantly. I turn my back for a second then back again and a new horde is in my face. I don't have confidence that Arrowhead even knows what makes the game fun.

It seems to me the devs need to code more and play the game more lol

so far i havent really felt any impact of the buff-part of the patch (except for the improved fp sight) but a lot of the downsides...since the patch i have started about 15 games and aborted 14 of them because it was just frustrating

I love that fat armor so much. They probably have a couple of game journos playtesting at lv 2-3 difficulty, there's no other explaination.

Now i know why the game feels awful. Why does Arrowhead suck at tuning their own game so bad. It's like they don't test this shit at all. Also please buff the Railgun

Kind of a stupid part is that SPEAR deals with gunships effortlessly, but it's SO EXPENSIVE to use ammo-wise (and the fact that literally every heavy target usually won't die in one hit only makes it worse... as well as broken superior packing, yah)

Gunships being patrols (and shriekers hypothetically) is awesome. Encounter variety is a W. What's not fun is Gunships being able to shoot volleys of rockets, each of which have a decent chance of killing you, at blisteringly quick intervals. Gunships are overturned in terms of damage potential, health pool, and armor/resistance. Get rid of their rockets and keep everything else the same and it would help immensely. Do that and let us kill them with light-arms fire and i think they'd be in a very fun spot. On a tangentially related note: I think we are all, collectively as a community, quite tired of the bots ragdoll spam. I love fighting the bots, but i hate the rocket devastator's ragdoll potential and despise the Gunship's ragdoll potential.

rockets 100% had a massive damage increase. I used to be able to survive a headshot from a rocket with light fortified armor. it is now a one shot which is annoying. they also broke the last supply upgrade thing again. backpacks don't refill full ammo anymore. I can confirm this on spear and AC

I admire Dough bringing up the issues that we still have, because Arrowhead needs to be held accountable, but it just feels like complaining after awhile

Yes it does! Especially on level 9 bots! Gunships im looking at you!

I think it feels better, at least as a solo/small squad player who was already enjoying the adjudicator and the HMG support weapon. The game was unplayable before with the patrol spawns. The game is still too difficult for small squads on lower difficulties, but it’s an improvement over being unplayable.

Glad i saw this miles away and still not re-install this sh*t, was once a great game turned to dogass

Am I the only one who has noticed that grenades are thrown waaay left of the crosshair now?? I can't even land a thermite grenade on the broad side of a hulk this patch, let alone throw a knife precisely... wtf??

Bots are a nightmare right now. Tons of rocket devastators and heavy devastators with pinpoint accuracy, helldiver weapons that feel like I’m shooting at them with airsoft

If you wear the ballistic shield, your Helldiver will sometimes crouch or prone on their own, and won't be able to stand back up. And I'm suddenly much more often getting launched underground by explosives, and now getting stuck there instead of just floating back up. Ever since this game launched, every major patch has felt like a rogue saboteur has reverted segments of the code to older and older beta versions. The enemy spawns have still never felt as good as they did at launch.

It's still rough around the edges, but the devs have finally started to steer towards the right direction.

RR needed a reload nerf, its a squad weapon(i do think the QOL it needs is squad reload from YOUR backpack not that they have to wear it but that's besides the point) it should perform well with squad reload and its meant to be slow for solo play, same as the spear. Gunship patrols are is a modifier, deal-able with a rather large amount of guns, as long as 1 person is running a decent gun for it, its not really an issue, just check for the modifier(currently doesn't have a label, just a reused icon) I think they are waiting for the data on all the changes they made before adjust the Arc weapons and stuff they didn't touch. RR reload speed is intentional imo and a neutral change enemy accuracy is down from last patch overall broken things like spawn rates and ship modules not working are bugs, im not sure they should be considered since they can be patched out in the next small bug fix that is probably coming soon. Patrols are not heavily increased, that is a bug, havent had this issue. HMG should probably have another reload but having the RPM lower helps a bit considering its Medium Pen and can deal with entire swaths of enemies at once. I think Support weapons(which are stratagems) should be balanced with other strats and primary weapons should all feel functional but should not overshadow a support weapon. Railgun(and the other nerfed meta weapons) will get some attention later after the other guns are balanced appropriately, the last thing they want is to buff it too much and have to nerf it again and listen to the bitch-fit again. Overall i find this to be a nitpick video on bugs/glitches(spawn rates/gunships) rather than actual info. If the modifier actually said Aerial patrols, i think people would stop bitching and start preparing properly. I think nitpicking after a update that basically buffed all the weapons in it, some to very good levels, other to use-able levels, is bad for the community.

Was thinking of coming back But it seems they just cannot help themselves but nerf unnecessary things or make weird gameplay decisions. They really don't test their game do they

I don't get why the ass of chargers (and behemots) need to be so tanky. Like sure make the front very strong, unpennable without AT weapons, but if I make the charger miss and I get behind them I should be able to kill it by shooting the squishy glowing butt. But no, even an EAT to the ass doesn't make it explode. And regular weapons need to dump several mags to kill it

typical arrowhead design, never tested their own patch

Blizzards seem to not affect bots at all. I've been been trying to sneak past enemies through a blizzard that aren't even close and they somehow manage to spot me and start shooting. I've been getting shot through Blizzards by bots that I can't even see

I don't think AH learned their lesson yet. They don't seem to understand what made their game successful in the first place; it was fun. And they're still buffing enemies, but only a couple of weapons and stratagems actually got meaningful changes. And it took them a month to do this...

Gunship patrols are just so insane, I was in a map where they spawned in 6 gunships and there was 2 walkers and when two drop ships came in my game got super laggy and crashed. The amount of enemies is just too much

I play last night and the patrols are 100% broken. Sometimes there's nothing, and I mean nothing, I am legend territory of nothing, and then out of nowhere a chirrillion patrols spawn out of nowhere, and it happens on every difficulty including trivial.