patch · August 13, 2024

HELLDIVERS 2 Patch 01.001.003 Fixes Crashes and Thermite Bugs

HELLDIVERS 2 patch 01.001.003 addresses ship weapon selection crashes, fixes thermite grenade mission blockers, and improves swarm performance.

HELLDIVERS 2 patch 01.001.003 arrives as a targeted hotfix to eliminate frustrating shipboard and mission-ending crashes while clearing up specific stratagem and weapon bugs against automatons and terminids.

Crash Fixes

High Command deployed fixes for two major crash causes. The game no longer crashes when a player selects a new weapon while aboard the ship, or when booting up after a saved monitor is disconnected.

Weapons and Objectives

Thermite grenades no longer break the orbital cannon objective and render it incompletable. Mines can now be shot and destroyed when placed near dangerous objects. A bug causing flamethrowers to bounce off energy shields and become useless inside shield generator relay domes is also resolved.

Performance and Missions

General performance improvements target heavy bot swarms. A bug that caused the Evacuate High-Value Assets mission to break when the host left has been fixed, alongside a fix for infinitely loading thumbnails when running low texture quality settings.

Why this patch matters

Patch 01.001.003 delivers necessary stability to HELLDIVERS 2 by wiping out known crash triggers and progression blockers, though several weapon and social menu bugs remain under investigation.