Helldivers 2’s community has been looking for buffs to the flamethrower rather than nerfs to the firearms like the Freedom Upgrade update, and Arrowhead appears to be delivering on that, having now provided more details on how to add flamethrowers to it. Information about the injector being put into service.
The studio gave us a brief update on its plans for the update last week, now called Patch 01.001.007. At the time it only said “We’re also working on further improvements to the flamethrower weapons,” but here’s some information on what exactly those improvements will look like.
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“We’ve heard you loud and clear, Flamethrower damage has been increased by 33%,” Arrowhead wrote in the first of a series of posts providing more details about the patch, which The patch, which will be released on September 17, “The flamethrower mechanic will be restored to its pre-free upgrade update state, with the flame weapon now able to damage heavier enemies such as Lightning, Bile Titan, Impaler, and Hulk.”
“We’re just going back,” developer Niklas Malmborg said of the upcoming changes during a brief video chat with Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt. “There’s something to go through, but it’s the right thing to do.” The two went on to discuss The armor penetration of these weapons has also been improved as part of the update, as is the issue of spitting fire at giant bugs, with Pileste likening the fight against the Hulk to “a cooking showdown.”
As mentioned before, it looks like this is far from the last information we’ve heard about copming updates, with Arrowhead tweeting: “Daily buffs to keep bugs at bay. Excited to share more about upcoming updates Details, which will include major changes designed to improve your experience in Helldivers 2.
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Just after the news was announced, Pilestedt took to Discord to urge players to wait for more updates while explaining more about the change. “I’ve seen a lot of comments about how long it takes to make digital changes etc.,” he wrote. “While that’s true in isolation, the update we’re rolling out now is part of a larger overall update designed to re-tune the game. How to play.
“We realize that why many of you are excited about some tools like flamethrowers, railguns, injectors, etc., is because they can be more effective against heavily armed enemies than you might imagine based on the description of the weapon. So, we need to The changes made are not only to get the flamethrower back to where it was, but also to bring the other weapons up to where you (and I) thought they should have been from the start.
“The gaming experience with this update will be richer in the way you play,” he concluded, “more tools will be of varying degrees of effectiveness and specialized tools will be better targeted at their intended goals.”
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