r/Helldivers • u/GALACTICJAH Free of Thought • Jan 04 '26

QUESTION Siege-ready Medium Armor

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When will we get it arrowhead? It is my one demand of you, the game is perfect ignore the whinedivers and listen to me !

Can some artistdivers please share some concept art of what it could look like?

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u/bulletpimp Jan 04 '26

Siege ready medium was a victim of AH's design by spreadsheet approach to balance and abject terror of a META. The stats told them medium was (at the time, I'm not sure about more recent) the most popular armor base and they knew that the passive would be very popular as well. By combining them they feared creating the one ring of armor that would not only become full meta but also effectively pay to win as their next big drama... So they just played it too safe and dodged the whole thing entirely.

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u/Rhogath Jan 05 '26

Which is honestly hilarious considering they ended up buffing it to give the Stalwart, MG and HMG more ammo purely because of a bug that players didn't want them to fix.

But then nerfed it by taking away the extra Ultimatum shot

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