Helldivers 2 - New Massive Pre - Anniversary Update Adds INSANE BUFFS, Hidden Changes & Warbond

[@T3h_Marganus]

Hellbomb backpack is definitely gonna make jammers on bots a breeze.

[@Claysthetics]

I can't wait for this thing lol, YOU need to get in a game with me im forcing you and we are going hellbombin

[@MisterCynic18]

@@T3h_Marganus I wonder if there's a chance it'll trigger the timer/go off if you get shot or die

[@Mr_Thinks-0k]

@@T3h_Marganus unless they can blow it up on your back

[@YeortleTortle]

@@Claysthetics can I join in on the nuclear shenanigans?

[@markkeating7907]

If it takes a bullet on your way to the jammer you be splattered all over the map

[@SilverGuard]

I think everyone is going to take the portable hell-bomb, activate it, and sprint to the obj yelling "witness me!" at least once

[@dominikbury2]

Personally Imma do it every single time. What's more democratic than giving your life for Super Earth 😩✊

[@AndroidIdentity]

Spamming "LIBERTY IS GREAT" in chat as I rush the active Bot jammer with an armed back pack bomb.

[@D-S-G.]

Activate bomb Get in car leeroy jenkins

[@Zerheart]

Portable hellbomb with the new armor set (which makes you explode on death) and the car. The gates of Valhalla are attending us

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

@@Zerheart Super Earth Postal Service! Nothing stops the Mail.

[@Grimm9890]

cant wait to run around with democracy protects and the hellbomb backpack

[@DinoCopRulezTheWORLD]

He is out of line but he is right.

[@bal-synth]

Gonna 50 50 that stuff XD

[@dante8506]

Your faith in democracy brings a tear to my eye. /salute.

[@thrashtitan23]

@@Grimm9890 nothing like kicking a hellbomb and watching yourself fly a mile away and walk away unscathed 😂

[@lazy7789]

DIGGY DIGGY HOLE

[@Claysthetics]

We love hole

[@Simplefng]

​@@Claysthetics must make The Hole deeper

[@blackreign673]

DIGATUNNEL

[@sal1764]

I AM A DWARF AND IM DIGGING A HOLE

[@TheHugSlug]

I can’t wait to dig trenches at extraction while the boys do the mission

[@Kitz419]

They spread the mines by 20% and added 300% more rag doll. My mines still go off but I love this update

[@Claysthetics]

I love the update and honestly the ragdoll is just gonna get rolled off next patch anyways so its all good

[@exoticbutters4212]

Portable hell bombs are gonna are gonna revolutionize solo playstyle for sure

[@Bashaka104]

Nobody cares about solos tho

[@shinyPIKAx]

Squid Ships fixed huge W. Digging time? Digging Time!!!

[@Claysthetics]

DIGGING TIME the hole just got way deeper

[@ClumsyDrow]

The gas guard dog on bugs is S tier. Pair it with the crossbow and the flamethrower along with some thermites.

[@theFORZA66]

Replace the crossbow with a halt and use grenade pistol for bug holes. Much better loadout. But yeah I agree dogbreath and flamethrower shreds

[@ipodman505]

Im so hyped for the hellbomb backpack. Them stratagem jammers won't know what hit'em! Gosh, it'll be so nice to just run by a detector tower, gunship fab, or strat jammer and just drop your hellbomb pack and scoot. Big efficiency = Big happy

[@WhiteCavendish]

Protip: 500kg bomb will destroy a Detector Tower as long as you hit nice and close to it. My go-to for those. But you're right, portable hellbomb is pretty awesome.

[@Claysthetics]

You have to stand with your hellbomb till the very end. This is the way.

[@WhiteCavendish]

@ Easier to kill more Clankers when you're not dead heh.

[@John_Video_guy]

@@Claysthetics can't you drop it?

[@KerriganTyranid]

I am hoping this Double Sickle to be Medium Pen. We need more medium pen primaries and a Laser one would be sick. In the trailer the Helldiver is shooting a Hive Guard and by the description of the Warbond, looks like it is supposed to hit harder than the regular Sickle. But overall this Warbond is very promising, I hope it delivers the fun and good gear.

[@Deadsnake989]

According to the info Eravin looked through. It ramps up to med pen when it's overheating.

[@louiesatterwhite3885]

@@Deadsnake989 this is correct. I've seen footage of a leaker where the gun at first richochets off a devastator breastplate, but after heating up it is able to pen

[@llouis9697]

"Live is the Emperor's currency, spend it wisely" Warhammer 40k Me seeing the hellbomb backpack : You damn right.

[@rawrxdtonepforme9360]

LOOKS LIKE BOTS ARE BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!!! LOCK IN!!! In all seriousness this sounds like an amazing patch.

[@Claysthetics]

IT is an amazing patch and im so happy with it so far

[@Jaxx0099]

Small details like the shovel swirl is what made me love destiny 1 and they never put the same love into 2.

[@Hecrocks]

And there is a bug where other weapons copy the animation of the shovel so you can actually spin any other weapon when aiming in now I am currently unsure how to recreate it but it is something to do with aiming and using the shovel

[@Hecrocks]

It does block like half the screen though because it holds the weapons vertical, so it can be difficult to aim but still fun

[@gambitsheild9814]

There's also hidden nerfs. They did nerf seige ready. You only restore the normal amount of ammo from a resupply.

[@Argoniado]

As it always did, nope? But if not, at least that makes sense as Engineering Kit and Med-Kit passives also don't increase the amount of grenades and stims you get from a resupply.

[@gambitsheild9814]

@Argoniado I don't run med and engineering kit for that reason.

[@Sky_Guy]

I'm still a bit bummed/concerned about the dwindling content in each Warbond. This most recent one now doesn't even have a paintjob to pad the pages, how many items will it even have? Twelve? The first warbonds had 24.

[@shalashaskaseven4841]

@@Sky_Guy All the way back last year they mentioned they were cutting back on the warbonds before releasing viper comandos. As is, we got 2 weapons, a nade, a stratagem, 2 armor sets and 2 emotes. A slight up tick from the usual, don’t count patterns as that’s actual filler compared to content.

[@shadowmoses7431]

I'm feeling the Kingdom of Heaven theme!!!

[@DustedTaint]

Same

[@shadowmoses7431]

As I like to quote "Rasheed has seen it!! 😂😂😂 One of the greatest films ever made

[@Deadsnake989]

1:07 My first time joining Clay on stream. Just me sitting at extract by myself blastin'. I didn't even realize Campbells and Gamorka ever left to meet up with Clay until I turned around and y'all were on the other side of the hill lol.

[@jacoblyons1258]

The patch notes on steam regarding "sidearms" seem to leave out that it is specifically referring to the Loyalist pistol only.

[@arta1924]

I've noticed that when the first person view of a weapon is used it has really good handling and basically no drag when aiming. I can snap turn a recoilless rifle in fpv instantly to destroy dropships but can't do that in 3rd person.

[@EchoDroid]

I've tested this and the aiming in fpv only appears fast. The recoilless doesn't aim as fast as it seems to (unless you're using peak physique). Just spin 180 with it onto a target and fire quick. The shot will whiff off to the side you spun from.

[@howardxu8050]

Seems to be a bug, the FPV is decoupled now somehow

[@SoraTheKobold]

seeing them let us keep the siege ready bug AND bringing back the emote when ragdolling makes me so happy, letting us keep bugs for fun is so great, amazing patch

[@crayab]

New aiming bug murders AMR

[@kingginger3335]

We're getting a hatchet on Thursday too

[@rudrod95_41]

Anyone notice the AMR sight is even worse now? Been using it a lot this week and then patch day it just feels so bad.

[@fastf.8755]

They introduced a bug where scoped weapons are not accounting properly for weapon sway or properly resetting from recoil. The AMR is the most obvious case due to its absurd recoil but it affects every scoped weapon in the game

[@ilovedemocracyy]

Flamethrower change was so much needed. Didn’t make sense why primary Torcher had better handling. I only used flam-40 with peak physique pre patch (Sterilizer got same buff)

[@austinwhite3575]

One thing I've noticed since this patch with the Fast Recon Vehicle, is now when the vehicle is hit by a rocket, say, from a rocket devastator, just send the car absolutely flying. And I mean flying. You'll do multiple flips from just one rocket and spin to death. Before you could get it and it wouldn't cause your car to enter a death spiral. Fix a bug, add a bug. The car is basically worthless on bots if you can get hit by one rocket and just lose it...

[@Im1Thing2Do]

Thanks for putting the hidden changes in the beginning for those of us who read the patch notes already. Greatly appreciated, keep it up

[@jessepinkman3290]

I noticed that guns with lots of sway (example Dominator) have the same "buffs" as he sterilizer. BUT the bullets still go where the crosshair implies they go. (the gun doesnt sway but the crosshair does essentially) therefore it ruins ADS since the bullets go where the crosshair is, but the gun is not pointing to the crosshair. so thats definitely a new bug.

[@Zackmo92]

Really hoping they hotfix this one ASAP

[@Chuckster_83]

Yeah, I think the guns just lack the visual drag. It does the same thing in first person too.

[@catayst9956]

We're digging trenches with this one!

[@Citizen13]

One thing “broke” at the moment we noticed is Peak Physique passive stuck to whatever weapon someone with that passive picked up and dropped. So one person could run Peak and pick everyone’s weapon up and drop it again and those weapons all had it. We restarted the mission and tried it again and were able to repeat it with other players. Dunno what other passives this is affecting, gonna test more later. Urban warfare passive didn’t carry over.

[@lucnederhof2107]

@@Citizen13 oooooo could this work with the ammo capacity passive? Would actually be really good. Maybe even more recoil reduction??

[@Citizen13]

@ imma try that later, kids got home and haven’t been back online yet but I doubt it’s intended or will last long lol

[@Citizen13]

@ tried with urban and it didn’t carry over the ammo. Seems to just be with peak physique so far. I dunno about engineer, that one is a bit harder to tell and none of us noticed it as much as peak physique.

[@Moodyman90]

The gas reworks are almost 100% the suggestions I made over a month ago. Increase effect duration because they're a more concentrated spray just made sense to me and making the dog breath not focusing down a single enemy wasting ammo was a no brainer. And to the "make gas flammable" crowd, No. Make gas conductive, so you make electric shock clouds.

[@MetatronsCube23]

Shovel time

[@Claysthetics]

I wish we could drop with it

[@eirikjohnsbraten6370]

They stealth nerfed gas a bit too. It will no longer confuse Overseers and Chargers. Haven't tested against bots yet, but I guess it's the same for Hulks.

[@jog2243]

Super earth’s enemies fucked up leave shovels lying around. ⛏️

[@hoboryan3455]

"Animals flee this hell, the hardest stones cannot endure it; only men endure."

[@Hunt8rJob]

I hope the seeker grenade can lock onto what ever you have pinged. Otherwise what is it going to lock onto when there are dozens upon dozens of enemies on screen.

[@Incognito_Blazer]

I will say, this isn't the anniversary update, it's a pre-anniversary patch. The actual update will most likely happen either on the warbond day or on the anniversary day itself

[@dalej4241]

Based on leaks it looks like the were going inside the gloom to research technology to stop the singularity

[@SirNarax]

I have noticed less and less being put in each warbond but each item in this one seems really great. I thought the last one was pretty good but now it looks vanilla. Really excited where the game is heading now.

[@t.o.g.thatoneguy5130]

the heavy machine gun seems bugged imo, its handling is way higher but its fp recital doesn't follow recoil making it impossible to aim in first person.

[@Bohdisattva326]

I love this game. For super earth 🌎

[@vulcanist]

Love the stealth additions so far. Hopium is strong again, can't wait for the anniversary to see what we get

[@TheRyderShotgunn]

can you check if the HMG fire rates have been reduced? i didnt pay that close attention before, but firing the HMG (emplacement and support weapon) felt kinda off to me

[@kristatum6688]

I think they did so the recoil is lower I can tell by the recoil because I've been snipping hulk eyes with the hmg so not a nerf but a buff

[@DeathStrikeDemolisher]

Planets can affect RPMs i believe

[@dwarfdigger135]

Its not an anniversary update

[@charKT-7461]

some teammates of mine said that they had their Helldiver throw a stratagem with an underhand throw, but I didn’t see it for myself. you can also fail objectives now. I was playing against the Illuminate, and we failed a SEAF SAM site, causing it to be inaccessible and its map icon red. we didn’t know what caused it to fail

[@slavcow]

I've failed a sam site before this update , but still no idea what did it

[@charKT-7461]

@slavcow huh. one of my teammates said it was from the new patch

[@hades2659]

I want a full build around the hellbomb backpack. 50% chance not to die will be my best friend and I'll walk out unscathed

[@MannFace51]

Dope update review my dude

[@Hecrocks]

There is also a bug where other weapons will copy the shovel animations when aiming in, I am unsure how I did it but I ended it by aiming in with and using the shovel again, but it was fun to spin a quasar cannon before aiming lol it does make it difficult to aim though

[@Joseph-mw2rl]

The upcoming double edge sickle is mind boggling backwards game design. For the privilege of medium pen, which should be the MINIMUM, you burn yourself in a game with no passive health regen?

[@Swankster9000]

I can now spend 5 minutes digging a trench to emplace the FRV

[@torreyjones4421]

Question; does the explosive armor trigger the hellbomb backpack? If so then I hereby declare a full team of 4 with suicide armor and hellbombs, loaded in a FRV the "WITNESS ME!!!" loadout.

[@RoxxSerm]

These devs are just winning. Since the sony/PS drama is mostly out of the way ( but not forgotten, fk em ) this game just keeps shining.

[@collinkaufman2316]

The gas rework is so nice, i always wanted a no effort high capacity crowd control

[@PluuuumE]

Still waiting for the update that let's us see what enemies will be in the mission before we deploy, kinda like DRG

[@imfam0usjay]

BING BONG

[@childofblacklies7209]

I thought the anniversary update comes out on the 8th? the update from this morning isn't the anniversary update lmao. it can't be.

[@AntboyIan]

Yeah I doubt it. If this is the "anniversary update" I'm going to be a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong this is a great patch but I'm definitely expecting a little more at the end of the week as far as actual new content goes. At least the rest of the Illuminate army which they're teasing very heavily rn.

[@childofblacklies7209]

@AntboyIan February 8th is the big day. That's this Saturday. That's when the big update happens that's the big day.

[@Bzya.]

I found one more hidden change. Ballistic shield NOW CAN block melee attack and flamer Huck's, but at the cost shield strength. It a HUGE buff this stratagem

[@pasatebo]

@@Bzya. its in the patch notes

[@bryanaportela7874]

Did the anti-material rifle get nerfed or did bots get stronger? I used to two shot them now it takes like 4-5 shots, not complaining but did notice that but have no explanation why

[@Tentaculat]

You can see the raise weapon emote in the trailer

[@eliteecho9383]

So the shovel is the lance and baton all in one minus the stun effect? ......

[@demonicdude1328]

Are bile titan bug holes exclusive to level 10 mega nests?

[@PluuuumE]

How do I avoid the instakill move avaliable for all factions - suddenly being disconnected back to my destroyer due to poor connectivity? I have good enough internet to enjoy any game with dedicated servers with no lag, but P2P games always suffer

[@gab_plays6235]

There is so much cosmetic leak that I think the super store is gonna be pack

[@kevinrobb86]

I picked up a shovel without realising and when I saw it in my hand I'm like wtf is this and where did I get it from

[@Bandit-mt2gb]

BALLISTIC SHIELD YES

[@moroblizniak4457]

Only thing about gas guard dog i hate is that it reloads ammo only when he has 0 gas left. Why it cant slowly charge ammo when its tucked away? Its not like it discard magazines and use new ones like lib guard dog. At least let it reload when it has less than 20% gas...

[@hoksus1322]

you can see the emote at the end of the trailer

[@AngryBaldyGaming]

Yall, what does super earth know that they are giving us pocket Fat Boys? What are we about to face?????

[@electrolitez4237]

The final cope was real

[@Claysthetics]

One last ride

[@SpaceTrump]

I KNOW WHAT TO DO!

[@anthrax2413]

Did the flamethrower sentry also got the prioritization changes?

[@caledaniel8288]

Bot missions in cities on lvl 3!?!?!?

[@lethalfumes]

What!

[@Claysthetics]

SUS no way

[@chapellbrock7447]

yeah just check seems bs

[@MetatronsCube23]

I saw thicc play this, but it was not showing up for me, so it might be random. It's on LV 3 sabotage supply base dives on Zefia, supposedly. Playing it right now. It's very random and doesn't always show up.

[@caledaniel8288]

@@Claysthetics it’s a specific mission

[@Snake-d6i]

cant wait for that hellbomb pack

[@lethalfumes]

Gonna be a good anniversary

[@Claysthetics]

I am so excited lol

[@lethalfumes]

@ really hoping I can activate the hellbomb backpack and then get behind the wheel with a beer in hand and ram that shit into a stratagem jammer

[@Kyytsi]

Antimaterial rifle feels different

[@loudsoup9185]

The grenade is just ukrane simulator

[@kira68200]

and apparently there is a chainsword in game files

[@Kylav1996]

I'm fairly sure the flamers are just bugged with most strat weapons as their drag seems to be broken. (edit) all strat weapons aim is fucked.... nice, tested each one myself.

[@t.o.g.thatoneguy5130]

also dif 10 on bugs at least is so much easier i some how only got 600 kills between me and my 3 friends things just are not spawning right

[@masy9595]

This ain't the Anniversary update what are you on about

[@Skollrodriguez]

Any clues about rhe shovels damage ?

[@pendingchange3776]

Matchmaking is a lot better yea

[@cotenaijo3112]

Is this the update we got today or is this for the update Feb. 6th

[@nicbarrax76]

Trench warfare is here. Dig in and bug out!

[@dalej4241]

Illuminate spawning feels increased on lvl 10

[@erns_t]

YEEAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Claysthetics]

BIG UPS

[@mr.s0ap425]

Massive

[@biomewanderer6312]

Im excited for it, looks cool as shit

[@K1NG_of_ReVeNGe1]

They just have to come out with cool shit right when Kinhdom Come 2 came out man, I'll check the warbond when it launches but I can't play it much, have to steal stuff in medieval times

[@collinkaufman2316]

Frv is great now

[@wise_crack]

Idk, I don't feel this warbond. A lot of silly gimmicks instead of actual meta guns. Also, if that all they have prepared for anniversary - that is just straight up disappointing

[@aldyrinc6870]

So many crashes at the moment. Can't finish a game without crashing. Fighting bugs

[@cocojumbo539]

1:40 what exactly is a heavy bile titan?

[@cocojumbo539]

@toddbender3463 read the text on the bottom

[@infectedpotato117]

@@toddbender3463 dude hes talking about the text under the chart, not the subtitles

[@theelmozusflame3015]

TRENCHES

[@norbertscheibenreif8336]

Keen Astora short shovel +9

[@metzgerov]

It wasn’t “massive”. It was cool but smaller changes.

[@preservinglight]

DISPOSABLES LOCK EEEEEEN

[@KeelanHobbs-u4t]

I hate the new ragdoll it’s so annoying!

[@SupaGema]

I personally don’t get why anyone is excited about the shovel. Like, when do you even have TIME to dig when running from one POI to another anyway??

[@comradedog7144]

massive?...

[@KerriganTyranid]

OH NO! The ragdoll is back to being stupid strong?! Damn it.

[@Lord_Phantom-vn3hf]

Not first.

[@Claysthetics]

But you are here and I respect that thank you!