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After being criticized by the community for favoring releasing Warbonds over fixing Helldivers 2, Arrowhead Game Studios released a large update addressing many issues in the game as well as making many changes to the weapons. Although not every change has been met with positivity, one update has been a hit with players.
The latest Helldivers 2 01.000.300 update saw the following changes made to the Senator pistols,
“Increased damage from 150 to 175. Speedloader added when reloading on an empty cylinder–speeds up reload on empty considerably”
But, it is the speedloader change that players are praising the developers for. Not only does it speed up reloading, but Arrowhead Game Studios overhauled the animation for the weapon by adding the speedloader.
U/GameOVerDeo took to Reddit to share a video of the new animations, which was meant with a lot of praise from the community.
U/ClarenceBerthier replied to the video saying “That is just awesome. It’s little things like that, attention to detail – that go a long way in making a game from just good to great I reckon. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such accurate reloading of a revolver in a game before.”
In an unexpected twist, it turned out that the Associate Community Manager SpitzerFX, had been pushing for the speedloader to be added to the weapon saying,
“I pushed for the speedloader change so hard that I was literally sending videos of competition shooters to the weapons team and animators. I’m glad they did such amazing work with it in such a short time.”
Some players also praised the damage buff, which hasn’t gotten enough attention, with U/Siege_Dongs saying “The damage buff is nothing to sneeze at either, in my first game testing it can now one shot warriors (used to be 2) and two-shot Nursery Spewers (used to be 4).”
With so many changes being made to the weapons in the 01.000.300 update, now is the perfect time to reassess your load-outs for taking out the Automatons and Terminids. To do this, we highly recommend checking out our Helldivers 2 best weapons guide and best armor guide so you can be in the best position to bring democracy to the galaxy.
