A new day for democracy, a new Helldivers 2 patch. Though this one is perhaps arriving to a more muted reception than usual, as both Arrowhead Game Studios and the game’s players lick their wounds following last week’s big controversy over Sony account linkage. A throwdown which ended in a gigantic u-turn, bodies in the road, and a reverse review-bombing.
Such is the drama, you’d be forgiven for forgetting there’s still a galactic war going on, and Arrowhead’s latest patch addresses a few annoyances that have cropped up along the way: as well as including one quiet revelation.
Remember how the Helldivers collectively annihilated two billion bugs in less than 24 hours? What a great day for democracy though, even at the time, some wondered if game master Joel had put his thumb on the scale to help out with this major order. Turns out that, appropriately enough, there was a bug in the system:
“Major orders with the ‘Kill task’ now track score correctly. Previously it counted the entire squad’s kills once for each player, meaning it would multiply the score by the number of people on the mission; this is now amended.”
Well we…