Uh oh—Helldivers 2's state-owned missile platform players voted into existence is blowing them up, with Arrowhead giving players free shield generators while it figures out what happened
Update: Arrowhead has applied an emergency patch, presumably while its devs figure out what the hell happened. While the barrages continue, the action in question also increases reinforcements by one per active squad member and gives everyone free shield generators. As a Discord message reads:
«High Command has authorized augmentations to Helldiver loadouts while the Planetary Bombardment Tactical Action is active, in order to ameliorate an unexpectedly steep increase in heroic sacrifices. This is a temporary change, while a full assessment of the optimal number of sacrifices is underway.» Original story follows.
I said a lot of nice words about the Democracy Space Station added to Helldivers 2 yesterday, and I want to clarify two things. Firstly, I still think it's a really cool concept, but secondly, I also said that before players had bought any of the station's «actions», such as the planetary bombardment. Now the planetary bombardments are online, players are realising that they've just voted in a synthetic meteor shower that's killing them as often as it's killing bugs and bots.
«Two months for this,» writes an incensed player on the game's subreddit, lamenting their recently blown-off limbs. «Wasn't this supposed to help us? This is honestly kind of insulting, we made a Super Weapon to kill ourselves. Who thought that randomly and frequently bombing where the players are at random would be a fun experience for the player? Is this a joke? What is this?» Democracy, I guess.
A fellow voter adds that, in one mission, «we lost probably 10 reinforcements from the DSS. It killed maybe like 2 robots. It aims at us when the closest robot is 120 metres away. Like actually what is the thought process behind this?»
In case you wanted some video proof, here's a clip one unfortunate player shared of a low-difficulty mission starting where they drop out of their pod, step into a beautiful desert to enchanting music, make it three steps, and are promptly struck clean into
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