Helldivers 2’s newest replace, Patch 01.001.104, introduced with it a number of tweaks to weapons, however few have seen extra chatter this week than the buff to the P-4 Senator, a double-action revolver – after being supercharged – has turned a number of Tremendous Earthers into would-be John Waynes.
As a part of the patch, the gun had its armor penetration elevated from 3 to 4, projectile harm elevated from 175 to 200 and projectile sturdy harm elevated from 35 to 70. The consequence? Nicely, with the ability to use it to blast away Bile Titans in just some pictures, take out some hulks too when you’re at it, and a cascade of memes about it being excessive midday throughout the galaxy.
That was simply stage one, although. Over the previous couple of days, Helldivers 2’s subreddit has seen gamers undergo a number of different steps of what I am dubbing the buff response Kübler-Ross mannequin, or the 4 phases of griefing .
Stage two kicked off not lengthy after that flurry of preliminary reward, with a few of us beginning to suppose ‘nicely, maintain your horses now, possibly these adjustments have made the Senator a bit too overpowered’. “I really like the sensation you get while you see a bile titan seem, it’s that second of ‘HOLY S**T WHAT DO WE DO, WHAT CAN WE THROW AT THIS MONSTER??!!’, one wrote, “However now with it being some revolver pictures away from lifeless I simply don’t really feel that very same dread and awe when seeing a bile titan. It’s too fragile.”
Following on from that, stage three was the Reddit equal of Twitter’s ‘retweet to dunk on a factor you suppose is dumb’ phenomenon (which, to be honest, routinely produces some very humorous posts), with posts telling these few who’d steered that the gun may be too OP that they had been, in truth, very fallacious, thanks very a lot.
“It isn’t damaged imo, I truthfully suppose it is nice,” argued one in every of these of us, “Utilizing it vs [armour penetration four] enemies (moreover hulks) is a pipedream as a result of harm not being excessive sufficient. It simply helps it do extra harm at its supposed position of medium clear, with some anti heavy utility.” They then went via plenty of different sidearms, outlining their ideas that every of them nonetheless had causes you’d go for them over the Senator in sure situations.
Stage 4 – or 4 and 5 relying on the way you wish to categorise issues – follows on from that final level. Ought to this variation to the Senator imply anyuthing when it comes to adjustments to different weapons and strategems going ahead? Some of us thought sure, arguing that main weapons just like the Slugger and Dominator ought to maybe have their armour pententation upped to match it.
Others, seemigly with much more assist, argued that no, Arrowhead shouldn’t try this. “Making any main weapon [except for the flamethrowers and Constitution] have AP4 would outclass each different main weapon,” one wrote, “it could shut down sure loadouts as a result of “why take x weapon when you’ve y weapon that may do AT”, hell it could even outshine some assist weapons which ought to actually by no means occur.”
The endgame of this back-and-forth, a minimum of for now, appears to be some of us concluding that the one main weapons that ought to doubtlessly be given stage 4 AP are the Eruptor or possibly “one thing like a exact bolt-action sniper”.
And, whereas all of that is been occurring, it appears to be like just like the divers have nonetheless managed to return out on prime within the Main order that is simply completed. Good.