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If you’ve been putting off jumping back into Helldivers 2<\/a>‘s bombastic firefights for control of certain planets because you’re worried about being blasted into smithereens by a gang of heavily-armoured foes, then I have good news for you – a hotfix should be coming soon that’ll make your helldiving life a bit less difficult.<\/p>\n

Yep, don’t worry, following the array of complaints that’ve been lodged on Reddit and Discord – some in more constructive fashion than others<\/a> – following the the arrival of the game’s highly controversial first batch of balancing changes<\/a>, a fix does look to be in the works. So, hopefully once it’s here there should be less instances of folks being suddenly ambushed by seemingly-indestructible automatons.<\/p>\n

The coming changes that Arrowhead looks to be planning to deploy soon to help make heavy enemies a bit less of an impossible obstacle to overcome have been outlined in a post on Helldivers 2’s Discord server<\/a> from community manager Spitz.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve been putting off jumping back into Helldivers 2‘s bombastic firefights for control of certain planets because you’re worried about being blasted into smithereens by a gang of heavily-armoured foes, then I have good news for you – a hotfix should be coming soon that’ll make your helldiving life a bit less difficult. Yep, don’t worry, following the array of complaints that’ve been lodged on Reddit and Discord – some in more constructive fashion than others – following the the arrival of the game’s highly controversial first batch of balancing changes, a fix does look to be in the works. So, hopefully once it’s here there should be less instances of folks being suddenly ambushed by seemingly-indestructible automatons. The coming changes that Arrowhead looks…<\/p>\n

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