Everything You Need to Know About the April 29 Update on Helldivers 2

The latest update for Helldivers 2 brings numerous adjustments affecting weapons, enemies, and missions. For aspiring galactic democrats, understanding these changes is essential for planning future incursions on the interstellar battlefields.

In this update, you'll find major adjustments, gameplay modifications, and crucial bug fixes aimed at improving your gaming experience.

The Patch 01.000.300 update on Helldivers 2 modifies various aspects of the game, including weapon balancing, strategies, and enemies. Significant adjustments have been made to refine gameplay and increase playability, with specific changes to certain weapons and a reduction in burn damage.

Among the general changes, armor with a rating above 100 now also reduces headshot damage, and only extracted players can now celebrate with victory poses to prevent undue appropriation of glory.

Regarding primary, secondary, and support weapons, various modifications have been made, such as reducing the explosion of the CB-9 Exploding Crossbow, increasing the recharge time of the LAS-99 Quasar Cannon, and changing the firing mode of the BR-14 Adjudicator to automatic by default.

Adjustments have also been made to stratagems, with increased health for the A/MG-43 Machinegun Sentry and the A/ARC-3 Tesla Tower to better withstand assaults.

On the enemy side, the movements of some, like the Bile Spewers, have been slowed, and the damage of the Scorcher Hulk has been reduced by 20%.

Minor improvements have been made to level generation for better objective distribution on the map, and the Spread Democracy mission is now available at higher difficulties.