Helldivers 2’s neighborhood has been asking for buffs to flamethrowers slightly than the form of nerf that fireplace weapons acquired alongside the Escalation of Freedom replace, and Arrowhead appears to be like to be delivering simply that, having now offered extra data on simply the way it’s gone about turning the in-game warmth again up.
The studio gave us a short glimpse into its plans for the replace, now dubbed Patch 01.001.007, final week. “We’re additionally working in direction of further enhancements for the flamethrower weapons,” was all it wrote then, however this is some data on what precisely these enhancements will appear to be.
“We have heard you loud and clear and Flamethrower injury is elevated by 33%,” Arrowhead wrote within the first of a string of posts offering extra particulars concerning the patch within the run as much as its arrival on September 17, “Flamer mechanics shall be reverted to the state earlier than the Escalation of Freedom replace and flamebased weapons can now injury heavier enemies like Chargers, Bile Titans, Impalers and Hulks.”
“We simply went again,” stated developer Niklas Malmborg in a brief video chat concerning the upcoming change with Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt, “There was some stuff to undergo, but it surely was the suitable factor to do.” The pair went on to speak about spraying flames at huge bugs with assist from the rise in armour penetration these weapons are additionally getting as a part of the replace, with Pilestedt likening battles with hulks to probably being like “a cooking showdown”.
As alluded to earlier, it appears to be like like this’ll be removed from the final data drop we get concerning the copming replace, with Arrowhead writing within the tweet: “A buff a day retains the bugs away. Excited to share extra particulars about upcoming replace, which can embrace important adjustments aimed toward enhancing your expertise in Helldivers 2. Any further, day-after-day we’ll shed an increasing number of mild on the September 17 replace.”
On Discord simply after this was revealed, whereas urging gamers to attend for extra updates, Pilestedt supplied a bit extra clarification of what is gone into the change. “I see lots of people commenting on it taking lengthy to do a numbers change and many others,” he wrote, “Whereas it’s true in isolation, the replace that we’re launching now’s a a lot bigger holistic take to realign the gameplay.
“The explanation why so lots of you discovered pleasure in some instruments such because the flamethrower, railgun, eruptor, and many others, we realized is as a result of they might cope with closely armored enemies rather more successfully than they had been purported to in line with how the weapons had been portrayed. Due to this fact the adjustments we would have liked to make had been a bit bigger than simply getting the flamethrower again to the place it was, additionally getting different weapons as much as the extent that the place you (and I) really feel all of them ought to’ve been from the beginning.
“The sport expertise of this replace shall be rather more substantial in the way you play,” he concluded, “Extra instruments shall be various levels of efficient and specialised instruments will work significantly better in opposition to their supposed targets.”
Are you excited to check out your favorite flamethrower once more as soon as this subsequent huge Helldivers 2 replace drops? Tell us under!