“I’m honestly heartbroken…” Helldivers 2’s latest patch upsets lovers of a gun that once caused accidental self-murders so much that they’re drawing MS Paint diagrams | Gaming

Uh oh. The pretty titchy Helldivers 2 patch that dropped yesterday has managed to earn the ire of players who love a certain gun. It’s the Eruptor, and as you might have guessed if you’re a HD2 veteran, the tweak that’s caused the aggro is to the shrapnel the gun kicks out in order to do a lot of its damage.

For the folks who don’t have an empirical knowledge of every weapon and stratagem in Helldivers 2, the Eruptor and its shrapnel made headlines last year because the rogue bits of metal turned out to be behind a wave of weird instances of divers suddenly dying to their own gunfire. What followed was the removal of shrapnel by Arrowhead, something Eruptor fans weren’t best pleased about, before the gun finally got a proper revamp heading into…more

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