The latest nerfs in Helldivers 2 left many players unhappy with how Arrowhead Game Studios was handling the game’s balance. To voice their concerns, Helldivers went back to the old-school method: review bombing.
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Since the release of the Escalation of Freedom update, which introduced changes to how flames work and weakened the SG-225IE Breaker Incendiary, Helldivers 2 has received 2,138 negative reviews on Steam. These new reviews write about how the developer is ruining the game by patching what is fun.
"The developers seem to think that nerfing everything is the right way to go, despite it being a PvE co-op game and not a competitive multiplayer PvP shooter. If players are having fun, let them," one player wrote in his Steam review.
"The idea of looking at a graph of 'used weapons' and thinking why don't I just change the most used weapons in a way that makes them just as bad as the other weapons is crazy. Instead they could think, why don't I just change the less used weapons in a way that makes them more popular choices in loadouts," wrote another Steam user in reference to Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Shams Jorjani's comment about the reasoning behind the Breaker Incendiary nerfs.
