The recent changes to the Railgun inHelldivers 2 haven't gone down well in the community, as fans continue to express their dissatisfaction over the adjustments. The Railgun was nerfed as part of the Helldivers 2's 01.000.100 Update, which despite featuring a pretty short list of changes, affected the meta of the game quite significantly.
Helldivers 2 community figures out the invisible ‘Supply Line’ mechanics
05.03.2024 - 11:41 / destructoid.com
It’s clear by now that Helldivers 2 is way more than just a simple bug hunt co-op shooter. On top of its surprisingly deep gameplay mechanics and an ever-evolving campaign narrative, though, there’s a whole extra layer of community-based meta-progression, with Supply Lines being a particularly notable highlight.
If you’ve been befuddled by how Helldivers 2 chooses which planets the Terminids and the Automatons attack next, it would appear that it’s not all just the whims of a potentially sadistic dungeon master. According to a Helldiver 2 community member, Ghoxen, there’s an entire Supply Line feature carefully hidden away from public eyes dictating how the war efforts progress, and it’s way more intricate than the game might otherwise have you believe.
On Reddit, Ghoxen, who established their expertise in Helldivers 2‘s gameplay mechanics with a remarkably in-depth planet liberation guide, also posted about Helldivers 2‘s Supply Line. His information is based on the handy (and ominous!) Galactic War Status and Progression resource. With most of the active battlefields in a “LOSING GROUND” state at the time of writing, it can get rather disheartening to see the Terminids and Automatons mopping the proverbial floor with Helldiver cannon fodder, but that’s beside the point.
Ghoxen explains that developer Arrowhead Studios has set up a massive interconnected network setting the stage for the war efforts at large. This Supply Lines feature determines which war front ought to open up next. It’s complicated, factoring in variables like whether the Helldivers win against the opposing faction, so the network changes accordingly. Thus the theoretical Maginot Line moves inwards or onwards. Supply Lines dictate features like:
Ghoxen did point out that the mechanics of the Terminids’ onslaught and propagation are currently unknown, as they sometimes “skip” the supply chain by a single planet/battlefield. Spore propagation, perhaps.
“When a planet is attacked by bugs,” Ghoxen says, “all the planets that were previously linked to it would be cut-off, and players will no longer be able to access them.” On the other hand, “When bots attack a planet, a defence campaign is instead started on that planet (e.g. Mantes for the past day). At this point in time, access beyond the planet is not cut off. However, as soon as the defence campaign fails and Mantes is lost, the 2 planets with active liberation campaigns linked to it (Malevelon Creek and Draupnir) would be cut-off.”
As for the planets that have been cut off, Ghoxen explains that these planets essentially behave as if there are no Helldivers active on the given battlefields: “This means no liberation missions or progress will be possible, and any planet regen will
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