Patch Notes 01.000.300

LAS-99 Quasar Cannon - Increased recharge time by 5 seconds

This is a nerf right, the time now takes 5 seconds longer to become ready?

Added setting in the options menu gameplay section to disable automatic climbing and vaulting while sprinting.

Yesssss, I can finally stop climbing on resupply pods! The setting is called "Toggle Auto-Climb", under Gameplay settings.

The steam patch notes are lacking some details from the discord patch notes. check out Enemy Patrol

: : : Stratagems

• Machinegun Sentry
• Increased health to match other Sentries
• Tesla Tower
• Increased health by 33%
• RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher
• Airburst Rocket Launcher will no longer detonate when shot near stratagems (HMG turret, Sentries, Resupplies) and other Helldivers.
• Reduced proximity radius

Enemies Balancing adjustments have been made to

• Bile Spewer and Nursing Spewers movespeed slightly reduced
• Hulks: Force required for them to stagger slightly increased
• Hulk Scorcher direct flamethrower damage reduced by 20%
• Devastator fire rate slightly increased (only the standard devastator)
• Gunships sideways movement slightly increased
• Scout strider Riders now less vulnerable to explosions
• Fog Generators health and armor increased
• Gunship spawners now have a much lower cap on how many gunships they can have active at the same time.

Enemy Patrols We unintendedly had non-linear scaling of the patrol spawns so they didn't spawn as often as they should have when less than 4 players. The intention is that 1 player has 1/4th of the patrols compared to 4 players, but it used to be that they had 1/6th.

• Balancing adjustment to patrol spawning.
• Patrol spawning has been increased when there are fewer than 4 players. The fewer the players the bigger the change. For 4 player missions there will be no change compared to before.The biggest noticeable change will be for solo players at higher difficulties.

🎮 Gameplay

• Made minor level generation improvements to how we distribute locations throughout the mission map. This should improve variation in distance between objectives, and objectives will likely not spawn as far away from each other as often as before.
• Added setting in the options menu gameplay section to disable automatic climbing and vaulting while sprinting.
• The Spread Democracy mission otherwise known as “raise the flag” can now be enjoyed on higher difficulties for maximum freedom spreading.
• When readying up, Helldivers now salute to ensure maximum democratic readiness.
• Added ambience to the Tremor planetary hazard to underline the severity so Helldivers can react accordingly
• Shots that ricochet from heavy armored enemies will now properly hit the Helldiver who fired them. Trigger discipline is highly recommended.

Explosive weapons such as R-36 Eruptor, CB-9 Exploding Crossbow. GP-31 Grenade Pistol no longer pulls players inward from the blast.

It was very annoying that if I shot something close and get affected by the explosion, I would fall into the explosion rather than away.

This would just make me be closer to the enemy if I ever shot too close.

The patch note about increased enemy spawns the less players are in your party is strange to me. It's already more difficult with less players, and even when I want to risk matchmaking with randoms, half the time only one or two join me.

I don't have enough friends to consistently have a 4 man party, so it seems a little bit of a backhanded change to make it even harder when I don't think anyone was thinking that was needed

Scout strider Riders now less vulnerable to explosions

Aw man that sounds like a huge nerf to the Scorcher and Eruptor. Being able to kill the scouts by shooting them in the front with explosive weapons made them so much more manageable.

Fixed Anti-Materiel Rifle facing away from the Helldiver after deploying it.

The only bug I ever noticed, finally fixed.

And they're sort of nerfing the sickle, down to 3 mags from 6... Still basically infinite ammo if you don't overheat though.

What did the crossbow do to deserve nerfs? I don't think I've ever seen someone use it, I was underwhelmed with it and it got beat down.

Not a big fan of all the magazine reductions but otherwise seems like a good patch

Happy about the Big Iron buff

Had anyone had a chance to test the ricochet? The way it reads sounds like a stupid attempt to artificially increase the difficulty if every shot just bounces straight back.

It's getting depressing how often my favourite gear gets nerfed.

Still no progress on the RX 7000 cards crashing constantly and without obvious reason. It’s been on the known issues page on the AH website since launch.