Helldivers 2 Update 1.002.201 Fires Out for Crash and Weapon Fixes

by Damien Seeto March 25, 2025 6:50 am in Title Updates and Patches
Helldivers 2 Update 1.002.201

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A new week is here and another Helldivers 2 update has landed for PC and PS5 gamers. Arrowhead Game Studios has released Helldivers 2 update 1.002.201, and this patch comes with crash and weapons fixes. The developer also fixed issues that were seen in the previous patch.

Read on for the patch notes.

Helldivers 2 Update 1.002.201 Fixes Crashing and Weapons

Overview

  • Crash fixes
  • Weapon fixes
  • Miscellaneous Fixes

Fixes

Crash Fixes, Hangs and Soft-locks:

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when a large number of particles were displayed
  • Fixed a rare crash when aiming scoped weapons
  • Fixed some crashes when playing bot convoy missions
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when receiving Microsoft Teams messages while playing the game

Weapons and Stratagems

  • Fixed an issue where the weapon flashlights were flickering while using ADS
  • Fixed an issue for energy based weapons not charging or overheating properly
  • Fixed an issue with wrong drag setting on the GL-21 Grenade Launcher projectiles that made them lose velocity faster than they should have
  • Fixed an issue where shrapnel from surface-hits was forced in a roughly south-west direction. Shrapnel should now properly fly out in a 180-ish arc in the direction of the surface hit

LAS-58 Talon

  • Fixed an visual issue when reloading in ADS
  • Fixed an issue for not being able to reload without overheating
  • HUD fixes to properly show correct Ammo state
  • Now properly resets the temperature to 0 when reloading
  • Fixed a visual effect issue when holding down the fire button
  • Removed a minor charging delay to firing projectiles

Some unintentional changes made their way onto the Liberator Concussive and the Breaker during the last patch. This is a revert of those changes.

AR-23C Liberator Concussive

  • Starting magazine amount increased from 2 to 4
  • Max spare amount of magazines increased from 5 to 6
  • Ergonomic effect increased from 0 to -10

SG-225 Breaker

  • Starting magazine amount decreased from 6 to 5
  • Max spare amount of magazines decreased from 10 to 7

Social & Multiplayer Fixes

  • Resolved an issue where the Account ID was not visible in the Options tab

Miscellaneous Fixes

  • Fixed an issue for the gas weapons, throwables and stratagems inverting the movement input for the Helldiver
  • The Jarndiver override for the hoverpacks has been turned off effective today. This is reserved for General Brasch and other Super 10 Star Generals(Fixed a bug with the draw and kick emotes that allowed players to stay floating in the air)

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Damien Seeto