After critical acclaim, the gutsy Titan-hunting six-player shooter Hellraiser 2 has now taken the community through every stage of the Kubler-Ross model’s buff response

Helldivers 2’s latest update, patch 01.001.104, brings a lot of tweaks to weapons, but none of the most notable this week are the enhancements to the P-4 Senator, a double-action revolver that – after being supercharged – —has become a future John Wayans that many Super-Earthers would love to see.

As part of the patch, the gun’s armor penetration has been increased from 3 to 4, projectile damage has been increased from 175 to 200, and projectile durability damage has been increased from 35 to 70. The result? Well, it only takes a few shots to blow up the Bile Titan with it, take out some Hulks, and create a slew of memes about galactic high noon.

But this is only the first phase. Over the past few days, players in the Helldivers 2 subreddit have gone through several other steps, which I call the “buff response Kübler-Ross model,” or the “Four Stages of Grief.”

Soon after the initial flurry of praise, phase two began, and some began to think: “Okay, now hold on, maybe these changes are making the senators a little uncomfortable.” also Overwhelmed.” “I love that feeling when you see the Bile Titan show up and it’s ‘Oh my God, what are we going to do, what can we throw at this monster? ! ! ‘ of the moment, one netizen wrote, “But now just a few shots away from death, I just don’t feel the same fear and awe when I see the Bile Giant. It’s just too fragile.”

What follows is the third phase of Reddit’s equivalent of Twitter’s “retweet something you think is stupid slam dunk” phenomenon (which, to be fair, usually results in some pretty funny posts), where posts tell the few people who made the suggestion that this gun might So OP, they are actually very wrong, thank you very much.

“In my opinion, it’s not broken, I really think it’s good,” one of them argued, “using it has nothing to do with [armour penetration four] Enemies (except the Hulk) are a pipe dream as the damage isn’t high enough. It just helps it do more damage on the intended role of mid-transparent, and has some counter-heavy utility. “They then discussed a number of other weapons, outlining their ideas, and each still had a reason to choose them to be a senator in certain situations.

Stage Four—or Stages Four and Five, depending on how you want to categorize things—starts at the last point. Does this change in senators mean changes in other weapons and strategies in the future? Some people think yes, and they think primary weapons like the Slammer and Dominator should maybe have their armor defense increased to match it.

Others seem to have more support, arguing that Arrow shouldn’t be doing this. “Make any primary weapon [except for the flamethrowers and Constitution] Having AP4 will outperform all other primary weapons,” one wrote. “It will turn off some loadouts because ‘why use Support weapons that should happen”.

The end result of this back-and-forth, at least for now, seems to be that some people have concluded that the only primary weapon that might get level four AP is an injector, or maybe something like a precision bolt-action sniper “.

While all this is going on, it looks like the divers are still on top at the just-concluded Grand Slam. OK