Gaming🎮 Helldivers 2's controversial balancing changes look to have caused a rift between its community and devs

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While Helldivers 2’s community has earned a lot of positive attention following the game’s release - mainly due to the fun folks have been having roleplaying as defenders of democracy. However, some of the balancing changes and nerfs deployed by Arrowhead yesterday seem to have brought out a side to some members of the game’s community that kinda sucks to see.

If you’re out of the loop, the arrival of yesterday’s patch - which also included the addition of new planetary hazards - came with some key changes designed to to help balance the game a little better. The main targets for tweaking were Extraction missions and weapons, with the latter including nerfs to three of the game’s most popular armaments, the Breaker, Railgun and Shield Generator Backpack.


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