Helldivers 2 Patch 1.000.400 notes buff durable part damage on rifles & MGs
Published , by TJ Denzer
The latest Helldivers 2 update has dropped and Patch 1.000.400 is a big one. This update brings a wealth of changes to enemy health, player weapons, missions, and much more. With such a chunky patch, rifle and machine gun fans have reason to rejoice. A number of them got buffs that make them more effective versus durable body parts, meaning they’ll make quicker work of enemy part damage with enough sustained fire.
Helldivers 2 Patch 1.000.400 notes
Arrowhead Game Studios released Helldivers 2 Patch 1.000.400 and its accompanying patch notes this week. This time around, the studio took special aim at weapon, Stragagem, planet, and enemy balancing, which included a notable update to various rifles and machine guns. In most cases, these guns have received specific buffs for durable part damage, making them better for chipping away at the most important parts of your foes and giving more viability to each of these weapons. There’s plenty more that was shared in the patch notes, so read on below for the full details:
Overview
For this patch, some of the major areas of interest are
Visible Supply Lines & Attack Origins in the Galactic War.
Stratagem, weapon, planet, and enemy balancing updates.
Various crash fixes, stability improvements, and other updates.
Invite-only lobby creation.
The right most option in the Lobby settings. Currently only localized in English. Additional languages coming in the next patch
Balancing
Goal with stratagem balance changes this patch: With these balance changes we wanted to buff up some of the weaker stratagems to make them more viable and add more possibility for variety in the loadouts. We also changed a few to make them more consistent, but the goal was to keep a similar or higher power level.
We are looking into the stratagems more to see if there are any other stratagems that might need some buffs or changes to make them more viable. We also want to be better at explaining what our goals are with the changes, please see the linked blog post for more information.
A/MLS-4X Rocket Sentry
Decreased spread
Prioritize larger targets
Increased target distance from 75 to 100m
Decreased Rockets per salvo 2 to 1 (to get a better ammo economy)
Increased explosion radius from 1m to 4m
Decreased explosion armor penetration (Explosion can no longer damage heavy armored enemies. The projectile still has enough AP to damage heavily armored targets.)
Increased total damage from 420 to 570 damage per shot
R-63 Diligence
Increased projectile damage against durable* body parts from 10% to 25%
* Some enemies have durable body parts that receive only a portion of base damage from projectiles
Other
Updated Recoil stance modifiers: We made changes to the recoil stance modifiers to make them more consistent and also reward being prone more. Almost all of them will improve the recoil and only a two have been made worse (and only by 10%)
See the blogpost for a more detailed description.
Gameplay
General
Removed operation modifier AA-Defenses: Reducing the stratagem slots by 1
We want to look over the operation modifiers in the future. Right now there are too few of them which become repetitive and the ones we have do not create variety or promote different playstyles. For now, we removed this one because it only encourages the players to bring the best stratagems and does not promote variety
Disabled the Retrieve Essential Personnel defend event mission for the time being
This is to give the mission the proper attention and care that it deserves as it is now deemed not fun enough or performing as we want it to.
Super Samples
Super samples now spawn on difficulty 6. The reason for this change is that we feel that their existence only on difficulty 7+ forced some players to play the game on a harder difficulty than they wanted to comfortably play on. We do however still want a gating of them but a less punishing one.
The SEAF Artillery stratagem is no longer blocked by stratagem jammers or Ion Storms, and is available after the mission timer ends and the destroyer leaves close orbit.
Enemies in melee range of the gates in the Evacuate High-Value Assets mission will now attack it more consistently.
Added the ability to chat from in-game menus and mission loading screen.
Updated some first person crosshairs to improve readability.
The spike plant that appears on certain planets has been reworked.
No longer causes bleed or stamina drain if hit by the plant explosion or spikes.
Now “pops” three times sending spikes everywhere, dealing increased damage.
Fire Tornados
Fire tornados have had their behavior changed, they should no longer feel like they actively respond to player movement, and should move more randomly.
While a fire tornado storm takes place, enemy vision is reduced. Player vision is unaffected.
*Fire tornados being more random should result in more variance in situations players find themselves in. Tornados are significantly less likely to pile up and overlap on extraction points or objectives, and will generally be a bit easier to deal with.
Tremors
Tremors have had their spawning tweaked to be slightly more random.
Tremors have had their epicenter size and effect range increased.
*These changes should result in more situations where enemies away from the player get stunned, as well as reducing how consistently the player has a tremor occur next to them.
Ion Storms
Added additional VFX for Ion Storms.
Visibility
A lot of planets have had their fog amounts tweaked to be a bit less harsh and dense, to provide less fatigue from constantly fighting on planets with bad visibility. We still intend there to be foggy planets with worse visibility, but the balance was a bit off.
Desert planets such as Erata Prime, Chort Bay, Hellmire, and similar.
Highlands planets such as Varylia 5, Matar Bay, Oshaune, and similar.
Artificial light sources have had their intensity rebalanced and reduced across the board to fix situations of lights completely blinding the player.
Unexploded Hellbomb
The unexploded malfunctioning hellbombs that can sometimes be found on planets will now explode immediately if hit with strong explosions or heavy weaponry. They will still have the same delay if hit by small arms fire or weaker attacks.
Vegetation
Vegetation that’s large enough to slow the player now has an extra function. When inside the vegetation helldivers will be harder to detect, reducing their detection range by enemies. This effect stacks with other detection reducing effects such as nighttime, being crouched or prone, or things such as the scout armor passive.
Enemies
Acid Effect
The acid effect applied by hunters, bug mines, etc. now allows you to sprint while under the effect and slows you by 30% instead of 50%. Duration has been increased from 3 to 4 seconds. These changes are intended to make it less punishing for players to be slowed while fighting the Terminids, This allows us to use it in more places without making the experience very punishing, for example the Bile Spewers.
Armored enemy balance
We have toned down the amount of heavily armored enemies like Bile Titans, Chargers on higher difficulties and instead spawn more hordes of smaller enemies, the difference should be quite noticeable and the amount should be at least 30% less than before during bug breaches. We have also toned down slightly how many Hulks that spawn for the Automatons. Our intent is to ease up on the demand of anti-tank weapons and by having more of the other enemies give a better incentive for the group to bring stratagems and weapons that take care of hordes.
Patrols
Patrol spawning is now back to how it worked before patch 01.000.300 with some slight tweaks so that the levels are less empty if you are far away from important locations with enemy presence.
Stunning
Medium and large sized enemies now don't get stunned as easily. This will not affect the stratagems that stun, and will mostly just affect how easily the Pummeler can stun larger enemies
Terminids
Bile Spewer and Nursing Spewer
Spewers will now get slowed if they lose their legs.
Spewer puke now applies the acid effect.
Spewer puke now can only damage helldivers up to 4 times per second and the helldiver cannot take damage multiple times from the same projectile. This should reduce instances where you are instantly killed by it.
Bile Titan
The Bile Titan’s head is slightly less durable against weaker anti-tank weapons. It's not a large change, and will mostly matter for weapons like the railgun.
The Bile Titan’s puke can now only damage the helldiver 4 times per second and the helldiver cannot take damage multiple times from the same projectile. The damage is still very deadly so running through their puke is not recommended. Their puke now also has a bigger spread.
Charger Behemoth
The Charger Behemoth is now joining the battle on higher difficulties, it can now also take more damage than before. This enables us to spawn fewer chargers but still retain the difficulty.
Chargers
Will now only show bleedout effects from the body if the bleedout state has started. It can still show bleedout effects from the mouth without having started the bleedout state.
Automatons
Hulk Scorcher
The Hulk’s flamethrower now does less damage and cannot damage helldivers more than 4 times per second. In addition, the helldiver cannot be damaged multiple times by the same flame projectile. This should reduce instances where you are instantly killed by it.
Automaton Tanks
The Tank armor value on the front has been lowered to be the same as the non-vent sections on the rear of the tank. The intent was initially that it was supposed to be more armored in the front, but the visual language did not show that.
The vents on the back of the Tanks turret still has the same armor value as before, but will check for explosion directions correctly now.
The damage of exploding automaton jump packs has been decreased by 50%, it will still set you on fire though.
Galactic War
Introducing Supply Lines & Origin of Attacks
Supply lines were previously not shown on the Galactic War map to reduce clutter and improve readability. However based on the feedback from our community we have made an implementation showing them on the map. This solution tries to maintain the general readability while still exposing the system to players in game.
You will now also be able to see which planet an attack is originating from, potentially allowing for the community to stop the attack at its source. We have also updated visuals in the sector and planet info pop-ups.
Fixes
The FAF-14 Spear targeting has been reworked and should now function much better. However it has lost the ability to target Automaton Spawners, this is not intended and will be fixed in the future.
Intense Heat and Extreme Cold environmental modifiers will now affect the Quasar Cannon’s reload speed and will show correctly in the HUD.
Reload speed on Cold planets -2.5 sec
Reload speed on Hot planets +2.5 sec
The radar pulse that detects enemies on the mini-map is now visible.
Most of Automatons weapons have now gotten tighter limits to how much the projectile they shoot can deviate from its weapons muzzle angle. What this means is that situations where devastators shoot sideways and similar should be fixed.
The weapons of the Exosuits are now allowed small adjustments in the angle they fire their projectiles versus their muzzle angle. This should make their weapons more accurate.
Ballistic shield now collides with grenades.
The unblock button should no longer disappear from the social menu.
Blocked players can no longer join the blockers lobby through recent players.
Fixed a bug where enemies killed, missions played, and missions completed stats would not be properly displayed in armory.
Fixed issue where the player can throw an unlimited amount of grenades by pressing the "Quick grenade" button right after closing the Stratagem menu.
Helldiver now also switches to the last active weapon when out of grenades, fixing the issue where they would be holding a stratagem ball without the stratagem menu being open.
Fixed some text overlap in various locations.
The burning effect applied to the player when a combat walker dies is now a normal burn. The intent is that you should be able to escape it alive. But you will be on fire so hit the ground!
The extraction shuttle can no longer take damage preventing extraction. New high grade materials directly from Super Earth R&D have been utilized.
On PC you can now navigate the super credits menu with “WASD” keys
Fixed an issue where sample count in missions were incorrectly displayed
Levels no longer generate with blocked areas preventing player progression.
Your Ships bridge is no longer cast in perpetual shadow.
Reduced situations where blue stratagems would bounce when placed next to the detector tower.
The warbond menu now displays correct emote & victory poses in the thumbnail.
War Medals cap is now displayed in the UI.
Fixed a bug where the Helldivers armor could appear invisible for other players.
Refined player reporting UI.
Fixed issue where Helldivers could be launched into the air if close to a Bile Titan or Factory Strider corpse.
Fix for Factory Strider sometimes spawned an extra model after being destroyed.
Reduced situations where helldivers could spontaneously die while walking into seemingly walkable valleys on some planets.
Fixed rare issue on arctic planets where players could spontaneously die close to large bodies of water.
Fixed Pelican-1 sometimes leaving immediately after any player gets onboard.
Fixed bug where helldiver could get stuck in grenade idle state after throwing grenades
Fix Superior Packing Methodology not working for other peers.
Recent Players list will now include hot-joining players.
Relaxed disconnection policy for PC users.
Fixed an issue where previous sessions' player names might not be saved correctly when restarting.
Defend event attack origin now visualized when hovering the planet with the defend event or the attack origin planet.
Implemented outlines for previously poorly readable texts.
Crash Fixes
General crash fixes.
Fix for a crash that could occur when applying wounds to multiple enemies.
PlayStation Only: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause a crash when switching between Quality and Performance mode.
Fix for a crash when a player leaves after all their railguns have exploded.
Fix for crash that could occur when rejoining a previous session
Fix for crash that occurred when trying to throw a snowball in ADS mode
Fix for potential crash when loadout is aborted during hotjoin.
Fix for rare crash linked to leaving a session while aiming a weapon.
Known Issues
These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.
Sending friend requests via friend code in game currently does not work.
Players may be unable to be joined or invited to the game.
Players added to the 'Recent Players' list will appear in the middle of the list.
Players may experience delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts.
Spear targeting is unable to target Automaton Spawners.
Enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions.
Arc weapons sometimes behave inconsistently and sometimes misfire.
Most weapons shoot below the crosshair when aiming down the sights.
Plasma Punisher is unable to shoot out of the shield generators.
Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location.
Helldiver may be unable to stand up from crouching when surrounded by enemies.
"Hand Carts" ship module does not reduce Shield Generator Pack's cooldown.
Bile Titan sometimes does not take damage to the head.
Charger’s butt does not take damage from explosions.
Players may become stuck in the Loadout when joining a game in progress.
Reinforcement may not be available for players who join a game in progress.
Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission.
"Raise Flag of Super Earth" objective does not show a progress bar.
Mission count in the Career tab is being reset to zero after every game restart.
Some weapons’ descriptions are out-of-date and don’t reflect their current design.
BR-14 Adjudicator has incorrect recoil values
That covers the Helldivers 2 Patch 1.000.400 notes. Be sure to follow our Helldivers 2 topic for the latest news, updates, and guides on the game.