Helldivers 2 update 1.000.302 patch notes: R-9 Eruptor changes and more

It’ll be more difficult to blow yourself up

Arrowhead/Sony Interactive Entertainment

The developers at Arrowhead must have had a sleepless weekend due to the massive backlash against Sony’s attempt at forcing players to connect their Steam accounts with a PSN account, but luckily the publisher backed down from this demand after a steady barrage of review bombs.

With democracy triumphant once more, a new Helldivers 2 update is contributing to the return of a positive atmosphere surrounding the game and its community, as patch 1.000.302 has several important changes in tow. In terms of balancing, the R-9 Eruptor is in focus – shrapnel has been removed from its explosion with the damage being buffed in return, as Arrowhead promised. This change has been made primarily to avoid players from blowing themselves and their allies up with the weapon.

However, some enemies have been buffed as well: Shriekers and Gunships had their hearing ranges increased slightly to better detect any Helldivers, so stay sharp out there!

Several crash and gameplay fixes round the update out – among them is a correction to how the kills for Major Orders are counted. Remember when Helldivers killed two billion Terminids in just 14 hours? Turns out that the suspicions many members of the community had back then about these numbers being trumped up were correct: Such kill orders apparently counted each dead Terminid four times – once for each squad member. This bug is now fixed, so any future orders of this type should reflect the community’s real bloodthirst.

Find the full Helldivers 2 update 1.000.302 patch notes below.

Helldivers 2 update 1.000.302 patch notes

Balancing

R-9 Eruptor

• Increased explosion damage by 40 and removed shrapnel from the explosion

This is to avoid cases in which players would randomly one-shot themselves or their teammates in a huge radius around the explosion

Enemies

• Increased Shrieker sight and hearing range slightly.
• Increased Gunship hearing range slightly

Fixes

Gameplay

• We have fixed issues with the way Damage-over-time effects were being applied. This should fix issues where only the network session owner could apply them, and other cases where they would be applied inconsistently.
• Firing the Punisher Plasma while wearing a shield backpack no longer damages the Helldiver
• Fixed issues with some weapon scopes not being aligned in First-Person-View.
• The sound when stimming no longer plays while being interrupted
• Major orders with the “Kill task” now track score correctly. Previously it counted the entire squad’s kills once for each player, meaning it would multiply the score by the number of people on the mission; this is now amended.
• Helldivers can no longer land on tall rocks in the “Horde Defend Missions”
• Helldivers can no longer land on top of bug pillars in Deactivate Terminid Control System missions
• Fix for the reinforce stratagem not being present if a Helldiver leaves the session before readying up and then hot joining the active session

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when all players were dead on the “Deactivate Terminid Control System” mission
• Fixed a crash that could occur on game shutdown
• Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving the mission and rejoining
• Fixed a crash that could occur at the end of cutscenes
• Fixed a crash that could occur when diving into missions
• Fixed a tutorial crash that could occur on PC when ALT+Tabbing
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when using beam weapons
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur for players on startup when using VPN
• Fixed a soft lock that could occur if the player would open the text chat while having the stratagem menu open
• Other general crash fixes

Social Menu Fixes

• PC players adding friends through friend codes can no longer show up as “Unknown”
• Fixed overlapping footers inside menus
• Steam friends should now be visible in Social Menu, even though Friends List is not set to Public in Steam Privacy Settings
• Recent Players list will now include hot-joining players
• Players are now able to unblock players that were not in their friends list beforehand
• Fixed issue with empty friend-names in Social Menu
• Lobby privacy mode text updates immediately when changed
• Player names longer than 26 characters should now update properly in the Social Menu
• Fixed issue where non-host players could kick others indiscriminately including the host

Other

• Total purchased counter on the right side of the Robotics Workshop section no longer displays 7 / 8 despite all stratagems being purchased
• Resolved some edge cases related to Steam AppId related errors on login