The great Helldivers 2 rush of 2024 is behind us. The monster hit isn't pulling the same crowds it was at launch, but it's not a sad or surprising occasion: the $40 co-op shooter kept millions of fans on the edge of their seats for months with incredible gunplay, rapid-fire updates, and a surprisingly deep galactic war metanarrative that produced. Those millions played the heck out of Helldivers 2, unlocked everything there is to get right now, and moved on.
Thursday's patch will be a big moment for Arrowhead as we see the first results of its slower update schedule. Many of those"100+ changes and fixes" are likely balancing tweaks to weapons and possibly enemy health pools. Studio head Johan Pilestedt recently said that he believesacross the board. I expect large swaths of buffs, more consistent enemy spawns, and hopefully an end to dying instantly from bile bugs.
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