The latest Helldivers 2 update 1.000.402 introduced quality of life improvements and fixes. But you know what they say – when you fix something, you often break something somewhere else. And this time it seems to be the FAF-14 Spear weapon that crashes the game whenever it is used.
As we reported yesterday, the Helldivers subreddit is ablaze with complaints about the game’s sudden drop in performance since patch 1,000,402 dropped on June 18, 2024. For many players, there seems to be no difference between running the game on maximum settings. and barely hitting 60 FPS and running it on the lowest settings and getting a whopping… 62 FPS?
But now the most vocal complaints concern the much maligned and recently “fixed” FAF-14 Spear weapon. The support weapon, which must be summoned via the game’s Strategem system, went from being severely flawed (hence the calls for a buff) to crashing your game completely when it’s brought out and fired.
The Helldivers 2 community has become so used to game-breaking bugs and unaddressed balance and technical issues that some are even calling for a news feed to be implemented into the game itself. They were fed up with searching social media and Discords to have their bug suspicions confirmed by developer Arrowhead Studios (and of course). An in-game news feed would enable developers to quickly and directly confirm the existence of a bug and the steps they are taking to address it.
Latest hotfix promises to solve Helldivers 2 Spear problem
The outspoken Helldivers 2 PC community can rest easy knowing that their complaints about the FAF-14 Spear crashing the game have been heard. Arrowhead Studios Community Manager Twinbeard told the community yesterday on Discord that a fix for the support weapon is the main focus of a hotfix patch that just landed.
With the hotfix patch 01.000.403 now live as written, let’s see if Arrowhead has actually fixed the Lance. Hopefully, nothing else broke in the process. But if something did, then I’m sure the Helldivers community won’t hesitate to let everyone know.
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