With Super Earth on the line, Helldivers 2’s developed a glitch that’s stopping speedy-inputting players’ stratagems from working, but Arrowhead says it’ll be fixed “ASAP”

Uh oh, with the battle for Super Earth in its critical final phase, Helldivers 2’s developed a pesky glitch that really looks to be hampering players’ efforts to hold off the Illuminate. Stratagems inputted rapidly aren’t deploying on cue, and Arrowhead says a fix is coming “ASAP”.

As I mentioned, the timing of this becoming an issue is really, really bad. The divers are right in the middle of trying to stop an apparently once in a century invasion of their home planet from wiping out every last mega city. Oof.

As showcased by multiple exasperated players over on the game’s subreddit, following the deployment of yesterday’s patch, rapidly inputting the button combos that trigger stratagems is resulting in them not being deployed.

It seems you can still get them to roll out if you press the arrows a bit more slowly, but given a lot of the stuff you’re calling in – from air support to the deployment of ammo and stim restocking stations – is the kind of thing you’ll want to be activated as soon as you request it mid-firefight, folks are understandably irate.

“It’s the first time a bug on this game actually made me want to stop playing,” one frustrated player wrote, “Not only that, but it’s something that affects a CORE MECHANIC of the game, why do they keep green lighting patches without at least testing if the core mechanics are working fine?”

The good news is that Arrowhead knows about the issue and is on the case. “We are aware of the stratagem input glitch and we are currently testing a fix and intend to put one out ASAP,” community manager Katherine ‘Baskinator’ Baskin has just announced in HD2’s Discord server, “We will let you know when it’s ready!

So, all you can do is try and hang in there until it arrives – and to be fair, other MOs affected by major tech issues didn’t consign the Helldivers to inevitable defeat as far as I remember, so all isn’t necessarily lost.

Has this stratagem glitch impacted your efforts to help hold Super Earth? Let us know below!