Highlights

  • Helldivers 2 patch 01.000.202 focuses on stability, gameplay adjustments, and crash fixes for a smoother gaming experience.
  • The update also adds a revamped stats UI that is intended to offer a more accurate representation of weapon capabilities.
  • Despite known issues being actively addressed, Helldivers 2 remains popular, outselling other titles in the UK gaming market.

Developer Arrowhead Game Studios has released Helldivers 2 patch 01.000.202, ushering in a wave of improvements and fixes aimed at enhancing the overall gaming experience for players. This update, focusing on stability, gameplay adjustments, and crash fixes, aims to address critical issues reported by the Helldivers 2 community.

Helldivers 2 is a cooperative third-person shooter game where players join the elite Helldivers to fight alien threats and defend Super Earth. Released on PlayStation 5 and PC in 2024, the game emphasizes teamwork, customization, and narrative-driven missions set in a galactic war scenario. Helldivers 2 takes a step aside from its prequel and brings the camera closer to the explosive action. Players strategize loadouts, use diverse weapons, and call in powerful stratagems to complete objectives and contribute to the war effort, embodying themes of freedom, peace, and democracy.

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Recently, Arrowhead Game Studios teased a Helldivers 2 patch, promising fixes for crashing issues. Now, delivering on its promise, this update focuses primarily on enhancing stability and addressing the various crashes players have faced during gameplay. These fixes encompass crashes related to mission deployment, extraction, support weapon deployment, heat-based weapons, jetpack usage, and more. Additionally, the update addresses crashes triggered by specific in-game actions, such as picking up a snowball or completing objectives, ensuring smoother gameplay sessions for all Helldivers 2 enthusiasts.

In terms of gameplay adjustments, the update introduces a revamped stats UI for Helldivers 2 weapons, particularly those dealing explosive damage. This update aims to provide a more accurate representation of weapons' capabilities, especially the PLAS-1 Scorcher, which benefits significantly from this UI enhancement. Furthermore, the update includes fixes for issues like hang-ups while navigating the social menu and instances where picking up Medals and Super Credits would immobilize players temporarily, streamlining the overall user experience.

Despite these improvements, the update acknowledges certain known issues that are actively being addressed or monitored by the development team. These issues range from friend invites and cross-play challenges to damage-over-time effects, weapon inconsistencies, targeting issues, and more. The team assures players that they are diligently working on identifying and rectifying these issues to ensure a polished and enjoyable gameplay experience.

Helldivers 2 is outselling popular titles like Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and EA Sports FC 24, dominating the UK gaming market. Its popularity continues to grow thanks to strong support from the community and regular updates. Players diving back into the game can expect a more stable and optimized gaming experience following Helldivers 2 patch 01.000.202.

Helldivers 2 Update 01.000.202 Patch Notes

Overview

This update includes

  • Stability fixes

Gameplay

  • We have updated the stats UI for weapons to take into account any explosive damage done by them. This is to give weapons that do damage with explosive projectiles a more fair representation in the UI. Most notably affected is the PLAS-1 Scorcher.

Fixes

Crash fixes

  • Fixed some crashes that occurred when deploying to mission.
  • Fixed some crashes that occurred during extraction and right after it.
  • Fixed crashes that could occur if the squad deployed a large amount of support weapons.
  • Fixed various crashes that could occur during gameplay.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when using heat based weapons.
  • Fixed crashes which could occur if a player died while using the jetpack.
  • Fixed crash which could occur when large volumes of enemies were present.
  • Fixed crash which could occur when the player picked up a snowball.
  • Fixed crash which could occur when completing an objective.

Other Fixes

  • Fixed hang that could occur while navigating the social menu.
  • Picking up Medals and Super Credits will no longer lock the player in place.

Known Issues

Various issues involving friend invites and cross-play:

  • Player name may show up blank on the other player's friend list.
  • Friend Request cannot be accepted when the requesting player changed their username before the request was accepted.
  • Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab.
  • Players cannot unfriend players befriended via friend code.
  • Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand.
  • Damage-over-time effects may only apply when dealt by the host.
  • Players may experience delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts.
  • Enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions.
  • Certain weapons like the Sickle cannot shoot through foliage.
  • Scopes on some weapons such as the Anti-Materiel Rifle are slightly misaligned.
  • Arc weapons sometimes behave inconsistently and sometimes misfire.
  • Spear’s targeting is inconsistent, making it hard to lock-on to larger enemies.
  • Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location.
  • Explosions do not break your limbs (except for when you fly into a rock).
  • Area around Automaton Detector Tower makes blue stratagems such as the hellbomb bounce and be repelled when trying to call them down close to the tower.
  • Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission.