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New mines vs new rocket launcher.

The next major order has come in to Helldivers 2 players. For the first time in the game's short history, players will be faced with a choice: Liberate Choohe or liberate Penta. Depending on which planet is liberated first, players will end up unlocking either the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines or the RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher.

This new major order is called "Legitimate Undertaking" and is a multi-phase order. Both of the planets...

Electricity based weapons can lead to game crashes.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has warned players to stay away from using electricity based weapons. A new crash issue began to pop up following the release of the 1.000.103 update for the game, which arrived just this week.

The developer is urging players to not use the Arc Thrower, Arc Shotgun, or the Tesla Tower because these items can result in game crashes. The warning went out through the official Helldivers...

Oh no, it's a new NewsBits. A NEWsBits as it were.

A few things happened at the tail end of the week ending March 15, 2024 and then a couple of things popped up over the ensuing weekend. I have a severe case of the Mondays right now, so that means we're doing a NewsBits and so help me you better enjoy it.


• New rumors about the PlayStation 5 Pro popped up over the weekend. Inside Gaming claims that the PlayStation 5 Pro retains the same Zen 2-based AMD APU, but...

Will compensate by increasing the spawn rate of other enemy types.

The 1.000.102 update for Helldivers 2 is now available. Today's update seems to be mainly focused on balancing some of the more challenging difficulties. There are also a few fixes included in the game with this update.

Arrowhead Game Studios has adjusted the spawn rate of some of the game's heavily armored enemies with this update. You may have noticed that prior to today you were getting bombarded with...

The fixes begin on February 20th.

Arrowhead Game Studios say that they are releasing updates for Helldivers 2 starting on Tuesday, February 20 that will begin to address the "most serious problems" plaguing the game. The first update arrives on Tuesday but Arrowhead is quick to note that "no single update will solve all the issues."

This is part of the announcement made via the Helldivers 2 Discord server. They continued on to say that they plan to...

Login issues and crashes are preventing players from making progress, bonus or otherwise.

Over the course of the weekend, Arrowhead Game Studios decided to offer up a 50% bonus XP weekend for Helldivers 2. This bonus XP was meant to serve as an apology for the ever ongoing server issues plaguing the surprise hit of a game. Unfortunately, issues with server capacity not being able to meet player demand were never fixed and, for a lot of people, it has been impossible for many to even...

You have until sunset on Sunday.

Arrowhead Studios just announced a special 50% bonus XP weekend, which is now live and set to end at the end of the day on Sunday, February 18th. This event will reward players with 50% more XP and Requisition for each match played until the end of the weekend.

This is being done due to a recent issue that prevented some players from earning any rewards after a mission. Deputy game director Sagar Beroshi took to social media to say that...

More improvements still needed.

Throughout the evening on February 11th, Arrowhead Game Studios worked behind the scenes to try to improve the servers for the newly released Helldivers 2. You probably ran into some issues logging in, staying connected in matches, or found that you were unable to receive progression if you managed to complete a mission.

This is because the game is far more popular than anticipated. Just as the case was with Palworld, Helldivers 2 is seeing...

Bugs and all.

Despite a rocky launch yesterday, Helldivers 2 quickly became the biggest ever PC release for a Sony published title. Helldivers 2 surpassed the previous top PC release for Sony, God of War, in spite of server woes and crashing issues.

Helldivers 2, developed by Arrowhead Game Studios is a co-op action title that Sony Interactive Entertainment released on PlayStation 5 and PC on February 8, 2024. Thanks to SteamDB, we see that Helldivers 2 peaked at 81,840...

A new trailer was also shown off for this sequel.

A new PlayStation Blog update on Helldivers 2 comes out of the gate swinging. This upcoming PlayStation 5 and PC title will feature crossplay support between the two platforms. Beyond that, Sony and developer Arrowhead Game Studios talks more about the PC specific features for Hellblade 2. In addition, we are given details on the minimum, recommended, performance, and ultra requirements.

No matter what performance tier...

Ahoy, thar be trailers in here.

The PlayStation Showcase for May 24, 2023 just ended. There were a bunch of trailers shown during the event. Here are most of them save for the ones I miss or forgot about. Yes, this is a Newsbits in all but name, the title was already long enough. The trailers aren't in any order besides the order in which I look at the numerous emails I just received. I've tried to include all release dates and known platforms. There are some that I have only seen ...