Testing EVERYTHING In The New Helldivers 2 Update | HUGE Patch, Bug Fixes, Buffs, Nerfs & More

hello my friends there has been a huge

patch for hell divers 2 which has

completely shaken up the meta some very

important bug fixes that we have been

begging for since day one along with

massive changes to some very key weapons

and strategems I have spent all day

testing out everything in this patch so

that you don't have to so let's take a

look at the top 15 highlights you need

to know from the latest hell divers 2

patch as I take you through what that

actually means for you so let's start

off by taking a look at the six weapons

that have been changed some fantastic

Buffs and Nerfs and we'll start off with

the biggest upset the rail gun

personally I feel like this thing did

need nerfing not because I hated how

strong it was but because of the fact

that I was upset for all the other

amazing weapons in this game that

weren't being used just because they

weren't as powerful to be specific the

rail gun has had its armor penetration

decreased in safe mode you can offset

this still by holding down the reload

button and switching into unsafe mode

however as you probably know doing so

and overcharging the shot means you blow

up and the other potentially even big

enough is the fact that they have

decreased damage against durable enemy

Parts this means no more to shotting the

armor off of charger's legs so that you

can obliterate them in a matter of

seconds this also applies for certain

Bots bile Titans Hive guards anything

that has destructible parts that you can

shoot off of enemies the rail gun will

still do this it will just be weaker and

slower to do so at first during my

testing it looked like the rail gun shot

was just ricocheting off but this is

actually a visual representation of a

portion of the damage ricocheting off

and as you can see eventually this

charger does go down it will penetrate

the leg it just takes a lot longer

longer and it is definitely now not the

most efficient way to do so next up a

huge buff for the flamethrower it has

had a 50% damage increase uninterrupted

this thing can now kill charges in

around 7 Seconds as you can see it's

melting through brood commanders Hive

guards SES of enemies in mere seconds as

long as you aren't allowing enemies to

get in your face and Hunters aren't

transferring their burning status onto

your own self then the flamethrower is

now a really really viable option and

because the Flames ignore armor it is

even a fantastic option for heavily

armored enemies as I say such as the

charger next up we have got the laser

cannon which not only moves so much

faster now whilst you are using it it

also has increased armor penetration and

increased damage against dur enemy Parts

watch this space I'll be doing a lot of

testing with the laser cannon now that

it's had these improvements because this

could now be the support weapon to use

obviously with so many changes to the

meta and so many Buffs and Nerfs that

means new build guides new most

efficient ways to kill all the enemies

so make sure you subscribe because I'll

be doing loads of testing over the next

few days and pumping out a bunch of

videos to help you really understand the

changes to these weapons but as you can

see the laser cannon is now so effective

I love the fact that as long as you

don't allow it to overheat it

effectively has unlimited ammo and

unlike bullets there is no drop off

range as long as it can hit an enemy

even if they are 50 or 100 m away it

will do maximum damage to them this is a

great weapon for sniping high value

targets before they have chance to get

anywhere near

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code with your phone and next up we have

got changes to three Primary Weapons as

well in no particular order the breaker

has been nerfed significantly it's

magazine capacity being reduced from 16

to 13 and my god when you're using it do

you realize that them extra three shots

really made a difference this is not as

good as it was and I'm very happy about

this because means other weapons are now

viable everyone just used the breaker

because there was no reason not to and

on top of the magazine capacity Nerf it

also has had a recoil increase nearly

twice as much from 30 to 55 meaning you

can no longer just spray and prey with

it the recoil does start to go a bit

Haywire if you try to pump out all 13

Rounds at once so still very good don't

get me wrong but there is now more more

viable options which makes me so happy

and talking of more viable options the

next primary weapon we'll look at is the

Punisher this was actually my favorite

shotgun for the longest time and I'm now

so happy how insanely powerful this

thing has become it's had a 50% ammo

capacity increase from 40 to 60 shots it

also has increased stagger Force so as

long as at least some of your spread is

hitting your taret taret they're going

to be staggered for longer meaning this

is actually a great offensive weapon to

use defensively and on top of that it's

bullet damage has been increased from 40

to 45 damage per bullet and the final

weapon that we'll be looking at today

before we move on to bug fix's

strategems and more is the breaker spray

and prey firstly and most importantly

this has had increased armor

penetration if you've seen my video a

few weeks ago you will know that it was

unable to even even destroy eggs before

it can now destroy eggs thank God for

that it's also had its fire rate

increased from 300 to 330 its number of

pellets per shot increased from 12 to 16

and the magazine size reduced down from

32 to

26 overall it shoots faster with even

more bullets so it's now even more spray

and even more prey than ever with the

added bonus that it can

now penetrate armor thankk God because

this thing was genuinely useless there

was not a single situation where you

would ever use this gun it was so weak

whereas as you can see now it can

actually kill things and it is

potentially somewhat viable in crowd

control

situations next up let me show you the

three strategems that have been changed

the Highlight is that the personal

energy Shield backpack has been nerfed

and the 120 mm and 300 1880 mm orbital

barges have been buffed let me talk to

you about the specifics now the energy

Shield backpack now has an increased

delay before recharging once it has been

taken out so when an enemy breaches that

Shield it takes longer before it comes

back online and starts protecting you

again I don't know the exact amount of

seconds off the top of my head but the

editor for this channel my wonderful

wife I'm sure is about to give you a

demonstration side by side of how long

it took to recharge before and how long

it takes to recharge now so let me just

pretend I know what that is wa oh my God

what a what a Nerf that's that's a long

amount of time is that convincing okay

swiftly moving on we have also got the

120 mm and 380 mm orbital barges these

have had huge Buffs they are now so

viable and I'm really excited about this

both of them have had their durations

doubled so using the 38 80 mil as an

example it now lasts for a full 30

seconds dropping down upwards of 20

shots and it also has a decreased spread

and please don't take decreased spread

to mean Nerf this is a really good thing

cuz as you know these barges cover huge

huge areas this just means it's now less

random less likely to miss it Target

less likely to hit you and your

teammates and as you can see here on my

first ever use of it it manages to take

out the entirety of a medium Nest

without me even needing to step foot in

it I wanted to love these barges before

because in theory they sound so cool

they look so awesome but they were so

unreliable before not anymore with the

increased duration and the more accurate

spread they are now really viable and

really powerful especially for taking

out big nests and factories the next

update before we take a look at the

important fixes is the fact that

eradicate missions now require more

kills to complete anyone who has seen my

leveling guide will know that you could

easily drop into an eradicate Mission be

it bugs or bot spots being preferred

plun down a load of mortars and complete

the mission in 2 minutes flat the devs

have stated the time to complete the

mission was previously far shorter than

intended and should now take

approximately twice as long to complete

doing a solo eradicate Mission here just

on medium difficulty to test as you can

see the amount of bugs needed to kill

now is

225 when previously on a medium Mission

it would have been only around a 100 or

so even though I was killing them all

very quick and very efficiently it took

somewhere in the range of 7 minutes to

complete as opposed to the 2 minutes

that we are used to so yes this has been

significantly nerfed no more farming for

XP and medals on eradicate missions and

on top of that another side effect of

this that I want to make sure you're all

aware of is that mortar sentries will

now become less effective in these

missions because they can and almost

definitely will run out of ammo far

before the end of the mission so if

you've just brought in a load of

sentries by the time they'll run out of

ammo they will still be on cool down and

the second half of the mission will now

be far more challenging because you will

have no strategems to back you up

therefore please make sure you are

taking a more diverse portfolio of

Weaponry into these missions with you or

you will really struggle in the latter

half now we're on to the seven big

important fixes for this patch and I've

just realized this video is going on far

longer than I initially expected it to

so let me try and hurry it up here so

I'm not wasting too much of your time so

you can get back to diving for Freedom

as soon as possible if you stand next to

the ICBM during launch the devs have

said and I quote hell divers will get

properly toasty with a Chance of not so

spontaneous combustion and yes as you

can see here when you stand by the ICBM

it g melt you next up the biggest and

best thing for me personally armor

rating values not reducing damage as

intended has been fixed armor rating now

works to test that I put the biggest and

beefiest armor on here this one doesn't

even have any traits or perks it just

has the highest armor rating in the game

and as you can see I am taking a beating

from hive guards and they are barely

doing anything to me it's taking like

seven shots just to get me down to low

Health having these armor rating values

working is going to be such a game Cher

no longer are traits the only thing to

worry about heavy armor is now very

viable and you can and will be a tank

next up something that I didn't even

realize was an issue but now that it's

been fixed it is mindblowing the sand

rain weather effect on AATA has been

fixed visibility was substantially lower

than the developers intended originally

as you can see in this older clip I

literally cannot see anything it is

absolutely abysmal it was pain and of

course I died instantly trying to defend

myself against waves of basically

invisible enemies however now towards

the end of this eradicate Mission sand

rain weather effect does come into play

and as you can see visibility has been

lowered but I can still see and this was

actually such a relief to read this in

the fixes and find out that this was a

bug and not something that was intended

and talking of bugs certain bug holes

that were unnecessarily hard to destroy

have been fixed this includes as I'm

sure many of you will be praying stalker

nests there are certain nests that it

seemed you would throw grenade after

grenade at and they would not explode

unless you got the perfect angle they

seemed to be really finicky and only

blow up under certain conditions this

has been completely fixed and the angle

at which you can throw your grenades at

holes has become far more generous and

even if you're slightly off your grenade

will find your way into that hole and it

will be destroyed first time as we move

into the final three changes For Better

or For Worse the button interaction

behavior for buttons in bunkers has now

been changed you will now automatically

let go of the button after holding it

for a few seconds meaning you do

actually have to coordinate with your

fellow hell divers when you press it

because if you press and hold for too

long when it forces you off the button

you'll be locked out of the bunker for a

few seconds and on high difficulty

missions this is very Val valuable time

loss so now you do actually have to

synchronize and coordinate when you're

going to push the button to allow you to

enter the bunker next up and the one

change that I think could still do with

some improvements apparently the

flashlight efficacy has been improved I

don't really see any difference at all

if I'm entirely honest with you I feel

like the flashlight could still be

better apparently as I say it has been

improved but I don't know I'll leave

that one up to you as to whether you

feel like the flashlights are any use at

all at the moment and finally something

that's going to be the cause of a lot of

friendly deaths hell divers can now take

damage from fire gas Etc generated by

other players that's right it was not

intended that if someone threw down an

orbital gas strike you would be

unaffected now if you're anywhere near

it just like all of the bugs and Bots

you are going to choke and you are going

to die so now be very careful when your

teammates are throwing down Napalm

strikes orbital gas strikes and even the

flamethrower that will probably be much

more used now with the buff so yes any

fire any gas any status effects that

your allies produce they can and will

hurt you as intended and with that my

friends that is the 15 most important

highlights from today's patch make sure

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all that's left for me to say is thank

you so much for watching I hope you have

an amazing day and I'll see you in the

next one

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