If you've been following the Helldivers 2 news, you'll know that Arrowhead Games is on a democracy-sanctioned mission to turn the ship around and, fair play, appears to have been doing a solid job of it so far.
A huge, buff-heavy balance patch arrived last month. In short, it made a wider variety of loadouts viable for most players, meaning you're no longer hemmed into a few specific weapon choices for missions—something that goes against the game's overall strengths and its Warbonds structure. Despite losing a fair bit of its difficulty, this appears to have been a judicious trade.
