One of 2024's biggest titles, controversies and poorly received updates that have resulted in a significant number of players leaving the game.

While Helldivers 2 still holds a "Mostly Positive" overall review score on Steam from nearly 665,000 players, its nearly 12,000 recent reviews are showing "Mostly Negative." Many of the reviews on the game's Steam page have criticized Arrowhead Game Studios for unnecessarily tinkering with various weapons and making the game less fun overall, with LeoFinns stating that they're "really tired of the game breaking and being gutted every other patch" and Tolstoj just calling it "Nerf after Nerf after Nerf after Nerf after Nerf."

Helldivers 2's Developer Has Responded To The Steam Rating

And Has Promised A New Patch

Arrowhead Game Studios has acknowledged Helldivers 2's recent reviews in a recent Steam community post, stating that it values player and is "always looking for ways to improve our community engagement." The post went on to outline plans for a patch that will make "significant changes," hopefully for the better, when it goes live on September 17th.

These changes include reworking Armor Penetration, Anti-Tank weapons and enemy armor and health values as part of an initial balancing , while also overhauling a number of different enemies to make them feel more "rewarding" to kill. Responding to complaints about nerfing weapons, the Autocannon, Heavy Machine Gun, and Anti-Material Rifle are all being made more effective, and additional improvements are being made for the flamethrower-type weapons.

Characters from Helldivers 2, Sniper Elite 4, & Deep Rock Galactic in front of the sky.
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There are other changes, which can be found in the full post, but for now it certainly seems like Arrowhead Game Studios is working to fix the issues players have with Helldivers 2 and get back to what made it such a success in the first place. Whether the community responds kindly to this and those who have left will see it as enough of a reason to return, or if the damage has already been done, is yet to be seen.

Source: Steam

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Helldivers 2
Shooter
Systems
PC-1
9/10
10.0/10
Top Critic Avg: 83/100 Critics Rec: 90%
Released
February 8, 2024
ESRB
M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood and Gore, Intense Violence
Developer(s)
Arrowhead Game Studios
Publisher(s)
Sony
Engine
bitsquid

Helldivers II is the follow-up to the 2015 multiplayer top-down single-player/co-op shooter from Arrowhead Game Studios. The sequel, which has shifted gears to a third-person shooter format, drops players into the boots of elite super-soldiers who fight to protect Super Earth from invading alien forces while taking the fight to those who threaten the "democracy of Super Earth."

Multiplayer
Online Co-Op
Cross-Platform Play
PC & PS5
Franchise
Helldivers
Number of Players
1-4
Platform(s)
PC, PS5
Metascore
83
Platforms That Crossplay
PC & PS5
PS Plus Availability
N/A