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As Helldivers 2 struggles after the new update, Arrowhead's CEO promises fixes while also expressing disappointment in how it's performed. (www.pcgamesn.com)

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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I have to respectfully disagree. I think that the breaker nerf was massive. I don't find it fair at all. They should have nerfed the outgoing damage rather than make it impossible to actually use as a primary. 4 mags is functionally nothing. My friends run supply backpacks pretty often and I just kept hearing a chorus of "damn, you're out of ammo again?"

I switched to the Slugger and it's just a better weapon all-around, even with the changes. The recoil is heavy but the armor pen is choice against everything. Mag size is fine, single reload is great because you can't fuck that up, and when it hits you feel the punch.

Flamethrower nerf is a huge travesty. Makes me really upset overall. It was the only tool consistently good at clearing chargers.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same. I'm finding myself constantly out of ammo having to use my secondary a lot and running out of ammo there too, as I wait for a resupply.

They mentioned they mostly do their testing at difficulty 5, which is nothing.

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I tuned into the live stream the other day to get the orange armor and it was massively painful watching the devs play the game worse than your friends. Watching them try to deal with chargers by mag dumping them in the head was kind of infuriating. Apparently the "peel the leg" meta is not obvious? They said something about thinking the easiest way to kill a charger was to attack the head, which is for sure not the case.

[–] Ruorc@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Some of those shown in that stream were from Playstation, not devs. While there were some devs on, they stated during the stream that there's devs that play the harder difficulties (7+) and some that solo level 9.

Thing about the charger is right, if you use something like a EAT and are able to headshot it. The Breaker incinerary being nerfed did not gut the gun, but made it more skill intensive in terms of ammo conservation rather than point and mag dump in a given direction.

[–] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was the only tool consistently good at clearing chargers.

I feel like this is maybe the root cause issue more than anything else

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

It’s also just plain wrong

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

I enjoy the slugger again, adding back the punchy stun was all I wanted for it, and adjusting the falloff and accuracy to match is a fair compromise to their initial issues with it.

Now you get a real choice of the punisher for light pen damage, and the slugger for medium pen stun but lower damage overall. It makes both of them useful.