Helldivers 2’s upcoming patch might be bringing with it some fairly beefy buffs to the RS-422 railgun, with Arrowhead having slid the weapon’s harm numbers upwards in its efforts to ship the sort of enjoyable that the sport’s group has been asking for.
The studio is providing little snippets of the notes for Patch 01.001.007 in the mean time, constructing on what it shared in final week’s weblog put up and constructing as much as the replace dropping on September 17.
Following up on revealing its plans when it comes to buffing flamethrowers yesterday, Arrowhead’s newest revceal issues the railgun, which was a extremely popular weapon, particularly early on within the recreation’s lifespan when it was getting used to take down armoured foes earlier than being hit with an unpopular nerf.
So, what’s this replace doing to it? Effectively, briefly, boosting up its harm. Arrowhead writes that the gun’s “sturdy harm might be elevated from 60 to 225 and totally overcharging harm might be elevated from 150% to 250%”.
“We booted it up once more,” developer Niklas Malmborg mentioned of the railgun modifications in a brief video chat in regards to the upcoming change with Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt which appear to be they’re gonna be commonplace on all of those posts, occurring to level out that the sturdy harm quantity for it have just about be quadrupled, seemigly with the aim of constructing the gun simpler towards “very massive enemies” whereas in protected mode.
Together with that, Malmborg confirmed that regardless of the overcharge harm having been elevated, the time it takes to chrage up might be staying the identical because it at present is. So, there you go, what seems to be excellent news for people who’ve been desprate to make use of the weapon Pilestedt famously as soon as described in a tweet to be “a threat/reward weapon for prime tier play” meant to work “like a sniper rifle on crack, however with the danger of killing the consumer”. Hopefully this buff will enable its performace to reside as much as that absolute poetry.
Are you content to see the railgun getting some buff love as a part of this upcoming Helldivers 2 patch? Tell us under!
