HELLDIVERS™ 2 - 60 Day Timeline - Progress Update - Steam News
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It’s been a couple of weeks since we committed to our 60-day plan, and our team has been hard at work refining the gameplay experience, addressing your concerns by doing in-depth reviews and adjustment of various systems, from weapon balancing and enemy behavior to the overall game mechanics. We are fully committed to ensuring Helldivers 2 meets the high standards we all expect. We see the steam reviews and we hear you loud and clear.

TLDR: Big balance pass to make weapons more effective and enemies weaker to a degree coming Sept 17

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    215·
    2 months ago

    How about just buff all the guns because WERE FIGHTING FICTIONAL BUGS AND ROBOTS NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT BALANCE WE JUST WANT TO BLOW SHIT UP! God damn. It’s not like the game is a competitive online PVP game that needs balance updates twice a month. We’re fighting space bugs for fucks sake. I’m glad they’re buffing stuff but the nerfs were already so brutal I haven’t played the game in over a month.

    • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
      124·
      2 months ago

      Yeah I haven’t been playing much at all since the last nerf. The breaker incendiary is just so lame now. Played again last night and it just feels like I’m shooting peas while ragdolling everywhere.

      • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        92·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, I stopped playing after they added 50% more downtime to the quasar cannon for “balance” because it was too effective at dealing with bugs. You know, too effective, like how a weapon would be designed to perform.

        But the bug that keeps 4 chargers on us at all times? That’s fine. That gets no attention.

        Such brain dead devs that had everything but pissed it away with bad management decisions and even worse gameplay design ideas.

  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    163·
    2 months ago

    The amount of idiots who posted on that is insane.

    I doubt many of them even play the game

    All I know is that I am excited as he’ll to see what they come up with

  • MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    They’re going to nerf my precious commando aren’t they.

    No more one shotting bot factories.

    • GhostlyPixel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Im pretty sure they confirmed the commando being able to one shot factories as a bug when the commando was released, unfortunately

    • PunchingWood@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Damn, it was the one thing I always carried in bot missions. It almost felt like a necessary weapon to work around the stupidly insane amount of ragdolling you otherwise had to deal with from getting too close to some bases.

      Also it’s the only way I managed to do the 6 minute achievement, we dropped, got weapon, I could blast like 6 spawners from my landing area and then we got the fuck out lol

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    134·
    2 months ago

    Q: But what does a balancing pass entail, and how are you conducting it?

    Our design team led by our Chief Creative Officer, Johan Pilestedt, analyzes player feedback, internal and external playtests, gameplay data, and the original design goals for each weapon and stratagem. This process allows us to identify discrepancies—such as weapons that are underperforming or overperforming—and make precise adjustments.

    God fucking dammit. They still have not learned their lesson. People do not want nerfs to whatever they deem are “overperforming” weapons.

    • dvoraqs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      I am happy with nerfs to avoid power creep as long as things are generally getting buffs.

      I don’t want to get into a situation where everything needs to keep getting blanket buffed for balance because they find imbalances and going up is the only option.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I see your point, but I can’t think of a single thing that is so OP right now it needs a nerf. Even the Incendiary Breaker was good before the nerf, but not crazy strong where it made other guns obsolete. I was still running the Scorcher or Blitzer before more often than not. So just because a gun is popular doesn’t mean it needs to be gutted.