Arrowhead fires off an emergency patch after players found a way to spawn infinite Stratagems—and tank everyone’s game in the process.
Helldivers were having a blast. Literally. Someone figured out a glitch that let you drop Stratagems non-stop with zero cooldown. No limits, no consequences—until your screen froze, your lobby crashed, and everyone rage-quit before the first bug even spawned.
It spread fast. Too fast. Subreddit mods started banning videos and screenshots just to slow down the chaos. Even memes weren’t safe.
Arrowhead saw the fire and dropped a hotfix straight through their Discord: Patch 1.001.005. It doesn’t rebalance weapons or add content. It just targets the bug and snuffs it out like a bug under a mech boot.
Glitch of the Week: Stratagems on Infinite, Fun on Hold
The exploit made for some cursed fun. Players were stacking Impalers like fireworks at New Year’s—and yeah, it looked cool for a second. But when the sky turned into a Stratagem soup and the framerate tanked, it got old fast.
Even if you weren’t the one spamming, someone else in your lobby probably was. Crashes became the new meta.
Thankfully, it’s gone. The fix is live. You can actually finish a mission again.
Arrowhead’s Patch Was Fast, Quiet, and Brutal
No delay. No dev blog. Just a Discord post and a clean kill.
That’s how you handle a live-service mess. Helldivers 2 might still have its rough edges, but the dev team moves fast when it counts.
What’s Next for the War Effort?
Arrowhead isn’t slowing down. CEO Shams Jorjani teased a potential Dead Space crossover, and the community’s already calling for Warhammer 40K. So far, we’ve only had Killzone, but if the devs are taking requests, the wishlist is growing.
Beyond Helldivers, Arrowhead also confirmed their next game, codenamed Game 6, is in the works. It’s early concept right now, and they’re going fully indie—no publisher, just chaos.
TL;DR
Helldivers 2 got hit with a game-breaking glitch that let players spam infinite Stratagems, crashing lobbies and frying frame rates. The exploit spread fast—so fast that subreddit mods had to ban posts about it.
Arrowhead didn’t waste time and dropped hotfix Patch 1.001.005 straight through Discord, killing the glitch without touching anything else.
The chaos is over (for now), and the game’s back on track—with bigger updates, crossovers, and a new self-funded game on the horizon.
