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Helldivers 2 makes its “hardest” difficulties harder and its actual hardest mission easier as servers struggleYou might be able to complete that Defend event now, if you can get in
You might be able to complete that Defend event now, if you can get in
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While the studio promise they’re still working on sorting those issues for good without making you wait in a queue, they’ve released a separate patch to make some in-game bug fixes and balance changes - notably twiddling the dials for some of Helldivers 2’s hardest difficulties and an event that wasn’t meant to be its hardest challenge, but has proved almost impossible for many players. (Including me.)
Mostly importantly, though, the patch includes a ‘fix’ for several of the game’s hardest difficulty levels, including Suicide, Impossible and Helldive, which were apparently too easy for being difficulties with such intense names. Eradicate missions have also been made tougher, but with more time on the clock - 15 minutes - to complete them.
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On the flip side, the much-dreaded Defend community event currently taking place - which requires players to fend off the game’s robot enemies while leading civilians to safety - has been made easier. As someone who has tried and failed to complete even one of the missions, let alone the eight required to complete the time-limited event, I can tell you it was an absolute bastard of a level, as scores of armoured robots appeared, mowing down both fleeing citizens andHelldiversalike with relative ease. Hopefully this latest change means I won’t need to turn in my cape just yet.
“We know this is the highest urgency for most players and we treat them very seriously,” they wrote in thepatch notes, with disconnections, broken mission rewards and other issues still happening. The problems led the team to temporarily boost mission XP and currency rewards over the weekend as a way of making up for missions that don’t pay out - but with the servers still capped, you might find it tricky to even get into the game for the time being.
