UPDATE (18/09/24, 3:00 PM BST): Arrowhead has now deployed a hotfix that fixes the defend generator pack, in addition to a crash which might happen “throughout host migration when a brand new participant joins”. The studio has urged these presently enjoying to restart their sport, presumably to verify this replace will get utilized instantly.
Helldivers 2’s Patch 1.001.100 has typically been taking place a storm because it dropped, however that does not imply its deployment has been completely faultless, with a sheild generator bug that is making gamers proof against melee assaults having popped up.
Arrowhead’s already on the case although, even when some gamers would seemingly not thoughts the studio leaving this one alone, and CCO Johan Pilestedt’s taken the chance to begin teasing the types of adjustments that may be coming with the sport’s subsequent huge patch.
“We’re conscious of the (slightly embarrassing) bug with the non-public defend generator, the place it doesn’t take harm from melee assaults,” the developer, who we just lately came upon loves double entendre, tweeted, “We’re resolving this asap.”
In the event you’ve but to run into it – and it it appears not everyone seems to be – it seems just like the bug is simply as helpful because it sounds for people trying to take a straightforward experience, permitting you to face amid a complete Terminid horde simply letting them whale away on you. You are solely in danger if one thing like a Bile Titan exhibits as much as wreck the enjoyable, otherwise you get by accident taken out by a teammate.
Naturally, the boon it presents has made this bug a type of that folk are cheekily asking Arrowhead to not rush to repair, however Pilestedt’s held robust, joking that this makes the sport “possibly a tad too simple”.
He was additionally requested by one participant if there are “any plans on buffing bounce pack cooldown”, responding by confirming that the studio does certainly plan on “wanting on the bounce pack subsequent patch”. So, there you go, this newest patch has solely been out a day, and we’re already getting teases a few follow-up.
Are you hoping this defend generator bug sticks round for a bit of bit longer, so you’ll be able to kill a bunch of Helldivers 2’s Terminids with out enduring half the same old stress? Tell us beneath!
