Arc weapons shouldn't crash your game anymore in Helldivers 2, so you can zap to your heart's content
The latest Warbond for Helldivers 2 includes a lot of ways to dispense electric justice—and ways to survive those zaps when they inevitably blow back in your face. Unfortunately, an entirely different problem's been slaying Helldivers lately: A frozen game client.
For almost an entire week, weapons like the Arc Thrower, the Arc Shotgun and the Tesla Tower stratagem have been crashing games at random, even if you're not the unlucky sod firing the things. It's one thing for a weapon to boot you if you're using it, it's another entirely to hope your three other random teammates got the memo and don't deploy with a game-killing gun.
Fortunately, that should all be fixed now. Arc weapons and stratagems should no longer crash your game. Community Manager Baskinator also shared a list of known issues the team at Arrowhead's still working on, as per the game's official Discord:
Honestly, this is good news. I've been taking a bit of a break from Helldivers 2 to plant bombs on cyclops heads in Dragon's Dogma 2—but I won't lie, the potential of getting punted out of a game I'm in (and losing all of my hard-earned XP, requisitions, and samples as a result) hasn't had me thrilled to jump back in my hellpod.
As for what we have to look forward to in the future—definitely not heavy machine guns. They're an Illuminate hoax invented by the Cyberstan propaganda council and spread by pamphlet-wielding bugs, which are totally real—my democracy officer tells me that I've seen them myself. Our guns are perfectly fine, especially now they'll no longer boot you to your desktop.
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