Helldivers 2's latest patch lets you impale baddies with flags, as the bots take aim at the Democracy Space Station

Plus, a clump of limb balancing tweaks

Fresh Helldivers 2 spot alert. This one's spot 01.003.200, and it brings the latest successful pointy emblem extremity technology, successful summation to different circular of limb balancing. You'll request that emblem stabbiness too, arsenic the latest Galactic War twist has seen the Automatons effort to wrestle power of Super Earth's abstraction station.

Yep, halt trying to rename a metropolis 'Gun' for 5 minutes, immoderate stuff's going down successful HD2 that you request to beryllium clued successful on, adjacent if its conscionable truthful you tin tally astir the country cheering astatine however overmuch much effectual your Flame Sentry'll present be.

As has go the modular for Helldivers 2 updates that walk a definite beefiness threshold, spot 01.003.200 has some notes and a video explainer that sees plan manager Niklas Malmborg joined by elder decorator Patrik 'Fluffy' Lasorta to speech done the changes.

First of all, the devs person somewhat reduced the clip it takes your diver to get up aft ragdolling, arsenic good arsenic boosting thorax wounded bleed harm due to the fact that the second was antecedently astatine a level truthful debased that "it appeared to person nary effect". There are besides a clump of tweaks to weapons, chiefly aimed astatine boosting however effectual stunning, bayonet-induced stagger, and the firestarting capabilities of worldly similar the aforementioned Flame Sentry are.

By acold the astir important change, however, is the pursuing 1 to the Masters of Ceremony warbond's One True Flag stratagem. "Thanks to immoderate groundbreaking subject probe into pointier emblem tips, the emblem tin present beryllium proudly planted straight into enemies — dormant oregon live — ensuring the eternal colors of Super Earth are ne'er tainted, lone quenched by the humor of its foes," Arrowhead wrote, with Malmborg adding successful the video that "a astonishing magnitude of code" needed messing with to propulsion this off.

Hellpods and enemies person besides undergone immoderate tweaks, but I'm present gonna pivot to thing acold much urgent. A caller Major Order dropped alongside this patch, and it's seeing the Automatons determination to unafraid sites cardinal to the moving of the Democracy Space Station - which the divers person been utilizing to assistance further Super Earth's goals since precocious past year.

Claorell, Tarsh, and Gaellivare are the planets folks are being tasked with holding to forestall the DSS being destroyed oregon falling into force hands. Arrowhead besides notes that "enemy unit movements bespeak this is lone the archetypal of respective planned waves of attack", meaning "additional invasions are anticipated".

So, it looks similar defending the floating hunk of metallic is gonna beryllium the adjacent large goal.