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PATCH 01.000.200
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Overview**
This update includes
* Balance changes to missions, stratagems, weapons, enemies and Helldivers.
* General fixes and stability improvements.
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Gameplay**
Planetary Hazard additions
* Blizzards
* Sandstorms
# * Maximum level cap raised to 150 <:diverSalute:1212879696530772048>
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Balancing**
**Missions**
* Retrieve Essential Personnel
Moved the enemy spawn points further away from the objective to give players a fairer chance of defending the location.
There are fewer civilians required to complete the mission on higher difficulties.
* Destroy Command Bunkers
Now has more objective locations, the mission was too easy before compared to other missions.
It can now appear in operations from difficulty 5.
* Halved the negative effect of operation modifiers that increase stratagem cooldowns or call in times.
**Primary, Secondary, & Support Weapons**
* Arc Thrower: fixed charging inconsistencies; it will now always take 1s to charge a shot.
* Arc Thrower: reduced distance from 50m to 35m.
* Arc Thrower: increased stagger force.
* Guard Dog: now restores full ammo from supply boxes.
* Anti-Materiel Rifle: damage increased by 30%.
* Breaker Incendiary: damage per bullet increased from 15 per bullet to 20 per bullet.
* Fire damage per tick increased by 50% (from all sources).
* Liberator Penetrator: now has a full auto mode.
* Dominator: increased damage from 200 to 300.
* Dominator: increased stagger.
* Diligence Counter Sniper: increased armor penetration from light to medium.
* Slugger: reduced stagger.
* Slugger: reduced damage from 280 to 250.
* Slugger: reduced demolition force.
* Slugger: fixed armor penetration tag in the menu.
* Slugger, Liberator Concussive, Senator: fixed incorrect armor penetration tags in the menu.
* Recoilless Rifle: increased the number of rockets you restore from supply boxes from 2 to 3.
* Spear: increased the number of missiles you restore from supply boxes from 1 to 2.
* Heavy Machine Gun: the highest fire rate mode reduced from 1200 rpm to a more moderate 950
**Stratagems**
* Patriot Exosuit: rockets will now penetrate armor only on direct hit.
**Enemies**
* Balancing adjustments have been made to
Chargers normal melee attack now does less damage against Exosuits.
Bile Spewer and Nursing Spewer do less damage with their puke.
The Bile Titan can no longer be stunned.
Shriekers no longer create bug breaches.
Shriekers hitting you while they are dead now does significantly less damage.
**Helldiver**
* Balancing adjustments have been made to
Heavy and medium armor protects better and you now take about 10% less damage than before while wearing heavy and about 5% less when wearing medium armor. Fortified commando and light armor is unchanged.
