Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has launched one other patch for the PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter, this time nerfing the lately added planet hazards.
Patch 1.000.103 adjusts the spawn charges for the varied planet hazards within the recreation, together with tremors, meteor showers, volcanic exercise, fireplace tornados, and ion storms. The upshot is hazards ought to now spawn much less ceaselessly throughout missions.
Elsewhere, Arrowhead stated the patch reduces incidents of patrols spawning on gamers, which ought to make the sport a tad simpler.
The brand new patch doesn’t, nonetheless, deal with Helldivers 2’s troublesome pal request subject. In a submit on the Helldivers Discord, neighborhood supervisor Twinbeard stated that is “considered one of our prime points in the meanwhile.” Nevertheless, there isn’t any significant replace on a repair. “We really get that that is each unhappy and intensely irritating for these of you who’re affected,” Twinbeard added. “We ask for persistence. No dangerous joke or army lingo this time, simply this.”
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Helldivers 2 replace 1.000.103 patch notes:
Overview
For this patch, we’ve got applied:
- Fixes to the EXO-45 Patriot exosuit, recreation stats, UI, and normal stability.
- Steadiness enhancements for planetary hazards and patrol spawns.
Balancing
- Balanced and adjusted spawn charges for the varied planet hazards together with tremors, meteor showers, volcanic exercise, fireplace tornados, and ion storms. Hazards ought to now spawn much less ceaselessly throughout missions.
- Meteor Bathe has obtained the next modifications along with diminished spawn charge:
🔹 Decreased explosion radius
🔹 Decreased meteor injury barely
🔹 Decreased meteor velocity barely
🔹 Meteor coloration has been modified barely to attempt to make it simpler to identify.
- Volcanic Exercise has obtained the next modifications along with diminished spawn charge:
🔹 Decreased explosion radius
🔹 Decreased rock velocity barely
- Lighting on Fenrir III has been adjusted to be a bit much less vibrant to enhance visibility throughout meteor showers.
Fixes
- Decreased incidents of patrols spawning on gamers.
- Exosuit now not destroys itself when firing a missile whereas turning .
- Exosuit retains its melee performance, even when broken.
- Crash fixes for the next eventualities:
🔹 When ALT+Tabbing in fullscreen mode
🔹 After altering voice over language
🔹 PS5 boot subject
🔹 Utilizing a stim inside an Exosuit whereas wielding a grenade
🔹 When becoming a member of an ongoing mission
🔹 When idling on the title display screen
- Pictures from arc-based weapons, comparable to ‘Blitzer’ shotgun and ‘AC-8 Arc Thrower’ stratagem now rely in the direction of “Pictures fired” and “Pictures hit” stats.
- Mounted community desync subject with downed Automaton dropships.
- Mounted Elgato Stream Deck Foot Pedal help.
Recognized Points
These are points that had been both launched by this patch and are being labored on, or are from a earlier model and haven’t but been mounted.
- Numerous points involving pal invitations and cross-play:
🔹 Cross-platform pal invitations may not present up within the Pal Requests tab.
🔹 Gamers can not unfriend different gamers befriended by way of pal code.
🔹 Gamers can not unblock gamers that weren’t of their Associates checklist beforehand.
🔹 Gamers can not befriend gamers with Steam names shorter than 3 characters.
- Hellpod steering near massive or necessary objects is at present not functioning as meant, leading to steering being disabled in a big space across the object.
- On-line options should not functioning when console language is about to Ukrainian.
- Gamers could also be unable to pick out loadout when becoming a member of a multiplayer by way of an exercise card.
- Planet liberation reaches 100% on the finish of each Defend mission.
- Drowning in deep water with a Vitality Booster outfitted places Helldiver in a damaged state.
- Exosuits will generally be delivered in a broken or damaged state.
- Stratagem beam would possibly connect itself to an enemy however it should deploy to its unique location.
- Pink artifacts might seem within the sky when setting off massive explosions.
- Textual content chat field show is obstructed by the cinematic letterboxing throughout extraction.
- Typically the participant’s loadout customizations will reset after restarting the sport.
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