The current state of the weapon sandbox in\u00a0Helldivers 2<\/em>\u00a0isn’t ideal, as players keep seeing fun guns getting nerfed while the rest of the weapons are receiving almost meaningless buffs\u2014and Arrowhead’s CEO agrees that something needs to change.<\/p>
This\u00a0seemingly won’t last for too long, as on May 13, the Arrowhead developer by the name of Evil-Bosse on\u00a0Helldivers 2<\/a><\/em>\u00a0official Discord shared<\/a>\u00a0that the CEO, Johan Pilestedt, is doing a “major internal push on balancing,” and there are currently “a lot of talks meetings and a lot of chats going on” about the matter.<\/p>
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Last week,\u00a0Pilestedt mentioned<\/a>\u00a0that he believes Arrowhead has gone too far in some areas\u00a0and intends to talk to the team about how to approach weapon balance. “It feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun\u00a0is removed,” he wrote.<\/p>
Aside from\u00a0certain primary weapons<\/a>\u00a0feeling extremely underwhelming, players pointed out that weapon\u00a0nerfs\u00a0might affect more than one weapon. “Pre-nerf Eruptor allowed me to use the Stalwart in ways I never did before (I never really used it much before),” one player wrote, adding the latest\u00a0R-9 Eruptor change<\/a>\u00a0ended up nerfing two guns for them.<\/p>
Others highlighted that heavy weapon nerfs often kill the identity of the gun.\u00a0For example, the R-9 Eruptor had its explosion shrapnel removed, and the\u00a0CB-9 Exploding Crossbow<\/a>\u00a0had its explosion size reduced.<\/p>
