I was on the fence, gave it some time to let others be the guinea pigs.
Having tried it myself, it seems fine. Ran into a few game bugs but no crashes or issues outside of the game. Main issue is just the server capacity.
Nah. I’m 10 hours in and realizing this game isn’t very fun. Quite pretty but there’s not many interesting things to progress to. Gets very grindy and repetitive quickly, and also not worth buying unless you have 3 competent friends to roll with.
I can't get a feel of the arc thrower. At times it seems like it takes several shots to down a medium target like a broodguard, and at other times it seems like it kills one in a single hit AND the other one next to it.
I know the chaining is chance based, but is the actual damage done on an RNG scale as well?
damage is consistent but since the arc path is randomized it deals less damage if it rngs onto armor, shreds if you lucky shot into a bug joint or soft spot.
>que times
Just use the join trick if on steam or the launch from dashboard quick play on ps5. There are no queues. There is only a horde of people trying to push through a door all at once, and using these methods allow you to try getting through more often. If you queue the normal way, there is no line and limiting you to turning that door handle once a minute to see if you have a spot means you will likely be there a while waiting.
how playable is it at the moment servers-wise?
thinking about getting it but if im going to spend hour looking at a login screen then I might as well wait a week
Imagine her being captured by the Terminids and they use a special enzyme to make her body a breeding factory, reshaping her nipples into sloppy frickholes to be filled with their spawn, alongside pumping her womb and guts full from back to front.
I'm gonna say it
Fighting bots it more fun than fighting bugs
they feel way more fair, they keep a reasonable distance instead of crowding around you, and the big guys like hulks and rocket devastators are more manageable than charges, bile titans and bile spewers that sneak up behind you and spray their puke perfectly tracking you
I feel the exact opposite. Bots have so many more ranged options, they're a lot more armored, and you need specific weapons, whereas it feels like you can kill bugs with anything as long as you keep moving.
oh yeah the bot factories are way more fun to storm than bug nests
I feel the exact opposite. Bots have so many more ranged options, they're a lot more armored, and you need specific weapons, whereas it feels like you can kill bugs with anything as long as you keep moving.
>you need specific weapons
it could help that I love the autocannon which works VERY well on most bot elites
spewers lock on in a roughly 90° cone that locks in aiming to their left or right, if you read the telegraph you can juke to the opposite side and the spew cant reach you. i agree bots are the most fun though.
This. Bugs just need to be nuked. Planet aint worth it. Bug holes also seem far worse than factories. Creditsto side objective for bugs like spore towers and illegal broadcasts. Shit is almost too easy with a recoiless
The only problem with bugs are chargers. Big armored enemy that you can't get away from and demands you pay attention to it until it's dead. Fighting multiple chargers + all the other bugs at the same time is not fun.
Chargers would be fine if their weak spot was their ass. Instead they made it their legs and you STILL need heavy weapons to pop the leg. It would make proper awareness and proper dodging mean something. Dodge their charge turn around and shoot.
Hulks on the other hand can be rendered impotent by blowing off their arms, you can kill them by shooting them in the eyes, AND they have a weak spot on their back that can easily down them with sustained fire. Then if worst comes to worst you can actually get away from them because they move slower than you.
Chargers are the only enemy in the game that feel unfair and the intuitive response to deal with them just does not work. Even Bile Titans feel fair and are manageable and they are supposed to be bigger threats.
Don't forget that literally all the bugs stun lock your shit forever.
The little spitters will slow you down, the jumpers stop you from running away and force you to turn around and shoot. Then you have the big spitters and chargers. On higher difficulties, if anything gets close to you, and you have to reload, you may as well drop an airstrike at your feet.
The amount of stun locking is so fricking annoying.
Bro. Your dive?
There have been countless of moments where i've been swarmed by bugs and I've gotten out by just stimming and spamming dives until I get out of their immediate range.
If hunters are on your ass then pull out your pistol, they get 1-2 shot with them. >"I'm out of pistol ammo tho-"
Why are you using your pistol in non-emergency situations.
Same.i hope they add another battle pass soon because I'm almost done the free on and raised enough super shekels to buy the premium one. By next week I'll have unlocked every ship module and acquisition.
No ive been doing super long 40 minute missions on level 8 difficulty, i had vacation this week and no money to go anywhere, so ive got like 100 hours logged already, found a really good group to do em with and a bunch of Gankerers as backups
NTA but the requisition credits (R) have a cap of 50k.
It wouldn't surprise me if the others had similar caps to prevent hoarding so you don't just instantly unlock everything when they add more shit to the game later on. It's dumb.
Remember to thank Eagle Chan for dropping all the carpet bombs and 500m bombs on those dirty Black person bots and Black person bugs. I Love you Eagle Chan!
kind of funny how they managed to take the weird future jingoism of starship troopers and were somehow able to make it gay as frick
democracy worship is the third most moronic thing about the american empire and instead of super earth patriotism it sounds like it somehow turned into the most pozzed game in existence "FOR DEMOCRACY", so fricking dumb
This, the females sound so absolutely awful and cringy while the guys all make a homosexual impression of Yuri lowenthal. I just want a country boy that actually sounds like a man
Oh of course that sòy sounding homosexual has to ruin yet ANOTHER game. He's the fricking debra wilson of voice acting I swear, why can't we get Steve Blum or somebody actually fricking cool sounding not like a b***h on the verge of crying every sentence?
3 months ago
Anonymous
...Debra does voice acting
3 months ago
Anonymous
m-mommy...
3 months ago
Anonymous
>somebody cool sounding >steve "AAAAA HELP MEEE AI IS GOING TO KILL MEEEE" blum
homosexual
3 months ago
Anonymous
Ron perlman and Steve Blum chad man sounding voice > sòy slurping b***h sounding homosexual lowenthal
3 months ago
Anonymous
>ron "im gonna eat shit little donnie" pearlman
picking winners arent you
3 months ago
Anonymous
Learn to seperate the art from the artist you stupid Black person. Just because modern ron perlman is a TDS suffering insufferable leftoid homosexual doesn't mean I'm now gonna say Halo and Hellboy are le bad.
3 months ago
Anonymous
that sure hit a nerve. maybe you should learn to understand your opinions are dogshit
3 months ago
Anonymous
Nah you're just autistic.
3 months ago
Anonymous
i accept your concession
3 months ago
Anonymous
You're an autistic Black person defending lowenthal's sòy slurper sounding voice on a Malasian carpet weaving forum.
3 months ago
Anonymous
dont get so mad that you hurt yourself anon
3 months ago
Anonymous
I think the joke here is that everyone is really young sounding and sound like teenage frat boys, its not trying to be serious and "badass".
3 months ago
Anonymous
the optimal fodder soldier is between 15 and 19 years old.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Lore checks out.
The working age is 7, every child gets a state sponsored rifle as a teen and does military service. Average Helldiver age is 18,5
3 months ago
Anonymous
The point is all the player voice actors fricking suck, they could have done way better with more variety, I'm sure they could have gotten some of those Halo marines to do some voice ups again.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Ill agree that they need more variety, there is nothing wrong with the voice acting itself.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Halo had it perfect by having australians and mexican marine voices, they definitely need to do that for variety don't just have stock american only.
3 months ago
Anonymous
no. super earth is planet america. get over it.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Good thing israelites made america the le melting pot so you have to press 2 for ingles now chud.
3 months ago
Anonymous
aren't the helldivers canonically 18 on this one though
3 months ago
Anonymous
NTA I'm pretty sure they are. Right out of highschool and straight into the field.
I think I saw a flavortext somewhere that implied they were all under 20... and allegedly just came out of cryostasis after 100 years.
3 months ago
Anonymous
when you go into the tutorial there's text that says average helldiver age is 18.7 years or something like that
It was in the 80% range last night, shit goes sour when it's not prime time. Same with Mantes, we were ahead in the blue bar now it's back to being very close. Though when I started in the morning last day we were behind on Mantes, so we're definitely gaining if we keep that going.
So I feel like I need to change my loadout at extreme difficulty and up.
My grenade launcher ain’t cutting it no more. What do I pick? Flamer, autocannon?
I guess it depends on what kind of role you are taking. you've got to have a more balanced team in higher levels. There should be a big gun, a horde clearer, and some support.
I say autocannon, it may eat up the backpack slot which imo for bugs isn't as needed vs bots you kinda need the shield pack. But it has 10 shots, they pierce the hive guards, can 1 shot the spewers with a nice shot down their throat, can cripple titans if you shoot their ass, stops them from spewing, you CAN kill chargers with it if you hit specifically behind their leg armor. and can plug holes with lots of ammo. carry EAT for support oh shits and boom
I just saw a video of a guy playing helldivers difficulty wearing a shield backpack and only using the grenade launcher to clear out big hives and the madman did it with no deaths.
But he was always moving, never stayed still, would retreat the entire time and just did hit and runs.
If you feel like you need to sit down and defend an objective for more than a few minutes then you'll need heavy weapons. But outside of that the grenade launcher is undisputably S tier because you can reload while sprinting, can clear out enemy outposts with it from a distance, and it can still do massive damage to virtually every enemy type including heavily armored ones. The only shit you'd have a problem with would be chargers and bile titans. But a grenade launcher is valuable at all levels.
It's gotta be some strange tangled issue. I always want to read the behind the scenes when they fix it. it's gunna be tied to "oops bugs actually had 1 hp too many which somehow made armor non functional"
Yeah this doesn't make sense to me but I also know nothing about coding. I'm assuming they decided to dump all their resources on figuring out the servers, but the devs also said they have other teams working on stuff like mechs, which are supposedly already good to go.
It's honestly insane. Like you can just assume "Oh maybe they just fricked up a few lines of codes or something" but at this point it's almost like they just didn't have armor figured out at all. It's been nearly three weaks of every armor but light armor being basically fricking useless.
the best heavy armor has only 90points more armor than the light except, you're much slower. Do you think any of it matters when you can't outrun a pack of bugs or tank a shot from multiple droids?
The whole galactic war thing feels so half-assed.
I really do not give a single shit if a planet is defended, won or lost.
Would be way more engaging if when a planet is saved, you get some rewards based on your participation, maybe if you reach a milestone you get a positive mission modifier, or those free strategem testings for a few days.
And if a planet is lost ALL divers get some negative modifiers on all missions vs the faction for a time.
Then you would actually be incentivized to check on planets, help a failing one and so on.
This is probably not going to happen. Mechs are most likely next update (2nd Tuesday of March) but that's also not confirmed. Illuminates have only been mentioned in a news reel at the bottom of one of the ship TV segments and there's no gameplay of them or updates from the developers at all regarding them.
I would assume next update will include: >3-page warbond with new weapons/armors/cosmetics >a couple new stratagems >new shop armor rotation >mechs MAYBE
The only new update 100% confirmed is that there will be a new warbond each month.
Why the frick are there no vehicles? You have at most 30 minutes a mission and you have to go through an entire map on foot? All those fricking outposts, enemy bases, points of intrest full of wandering patrols that call reinforcements and you can only move on foot? Where the fucj are the troop transport cars, ATV's and even tanks of our own? Why do the robots get the Leman Russ' but not us?
We know vehicles are coming, we just dont know how many and how they will be balanced because it would be busted as frick if its just a strat you can keep calling in. Theres also more enemies coming, you can see the flying bugs in the splash screen, and there is a giant AT AT the robos get.
You can see the hulls of humvees with mountd guns around some maps, just like these mechs.
I'd say make it a limited use call in, after that it is a dead slot.
But it also is dreadfully slow so may balance out. you don't want it for traversal.
Pretty much why the extraction missions are completely fricking busted.
They'll drop the mech which can barely fricking move but has devastating offense and defense and those missions will become easy for anyone calling them in.
It shouldn't be too difficult to keep it balanced if they follow the same mechanics as the first game.
All vehicles including mechs should be single time use and have very limited ammunition.
For me it was always a blitz method instead of a different way to conquer an area.
When your ammo runs out that's it. You're a moving target. Jump ship and start fricking running again.
And you bet your ass if you jump out while that vehicle is moving you're gonna bust your ankles and take fall damage.
I managed to complete a quick lvl6 op against robots with 3 randoms who were ten ranks below me, but I fricking did almost everything in a mission right after with two of them. They just fricking stood there fighting bug breaches and dying repeatedly - what the hell is wrong with people? How do you get to level 15 and not realize you can just RUN AWAY?
ATTENTION Helldivers!
If you have problems getting into the game still, just >close the game but leave steam open >paste this old lobby into your browser >steam://joinlobby/553850/109775241156806702/76561198044094085 >wait a few seconds >you should now be on your ship
The literal first armor in the warbonds is what you want. Armor stats are broken but the effects work I think.
Abuse the shit out of it.
You get your samples from scouting for points of interest. Grenade open sealed containers, check all glowing lights, don't die and drop your loot.
You'll find warbonds and requisition in those loots sometimes too.
I've been playing 3 days already on page 4 and own a breaker.
>Armor stats are broken but the effects work I think.
Damn right they do. It's an great deal to eat an aimbot insta-kill rocket and keep going thanks to pure patriotic fervor. Not reliable, but 50%'s high enough that you absolutely do feel it.
Am I to understand you'd be slower with the medium armor though? That's the one caveat to taking light armor for me.
>p2w armour
dont be so proud that you're a paypig
It's in the free warbonds you rubber baby buggy bumper and the premium warbond is also free.
The only thing that is not free is the support the developer package with a few items that have the same effects you'd get otherwise just from playing.
I've pretty much gone with medium since the start since I like the look of the default armor, but I haven't really noticed too much of fatal slowdown, especially if you bring along the stamina booster. Who knows, maybe I just haven't been accustomed enough another weight class to notice the difference yet.
places of interest, the ? on the map, also if there is a diamond icon, you missed a sample usually if it chances to a ping witht he rings you got everything.
>it's another level 40+ instantly jumps into the pelican and some other moron with all the samples doesn't get to the platform in time episode
can these dumb motherfrickers please stay in the orange difficulties?
or even better, go play a different game
Why do people keep talking about how being able to blow off the bile titan sac is a good thing for a weapon.
Why would you want the titan to lose the attack that makes it stand still for 3 seconds and expose its head?
>It's a "two guys split up to do who the frick knows while the host and I try our best to do the main objective, dying and the two shitters across the map respawn me leaving the host to eat shit alone" episode
I get it's a popular episode but why they gotta play it on repeat so often?
Probably because I was picking up the 20 commons and 15 rares that none of you fricks bothered to collect after that last fight before the split, and then I was pinned down by three Bile Titans by my lonesome while you fricked off.
Two impact grenades anywhere on the top turret kills them, sometimes takes three with the big cannon variant but it's consistent with the machine turret one. This is probably a unintended feature so abuse it as much as you can now.
>reload >go through every motion (there's like 3 different subsequent animations for each gun, reloading and adjusting the weapon or whatever) >all done >fire one bullet >have to do the final motion again and lose a mag
does the gun jam or fricking something? or is it part of the same bug
someone tell me why a co-op PvE game needs anticheat
and why they're using one of the most cancer keylogger anticheats out there that still doesn't even work to properly combat cheating
Looks cool but the bonus on that armor seems pretty meh.
Right now I'm running the orange one that gives you extra nades. Looking forward top unlocking the green scout one.
Did they fix the armor values yet so that there's a point in wearing heavy armor?
I'm thinking of getting this game cuz the physics and details of combat look sick, is it possible to build yourself out as a medic or ammo toting support build?
>ammo support
yes, there's a backpack for that
its utility is questionable since if your team isn't a bunch of glue huffing morons, they will sweep through side-objectives which are often ammo-rich >medic support
medic armor gives you 2 extra stims, everyone has 4 to begin with
generally speaking if your team is running out of stims you are doing something very, very wrong
tl;dr probably not the game you're looking for
There is a armour that gives you 2 extra stimpacks, you can theoretically stim teammates, but thats not realistic in a self defense situation.
There is a ammo backpack you can supply people with, a shield generator. Stuff like that.
>ammo toting support
There's an ammo backpack which lets you do just this >medic
Plenty of medic themed armor and you can also inject stims into someone. Stims used by you in medic armor last longer and you can carry more.
The more I watch about this game the more I want to play it
but my impatient ass doesn't want to deal with network errors if they're as bad as they've been made out to be
Nope. Best way to do it really is to just farm trivials and blow open all the conex boxes with 'nades. Maybe bring a partner if you want to speed things up and open the buddy-bunkers.
Got a few games in this morning. Trying to play again and quickplay never finds a game. I can't even play singeplayer. I'm just forever stuck in the drop pod loading screen. Does that game just become unplayable in the afternoon from server overload?
FRICK THE SPEAR TARGETTING
It is so buggy and refuses to fully lock on sometimes
Some poor bastard was trying to reload me but I couldn't even get a shot off on a titan fricker probably thought I was moronic
As a Spear addict here's some tips. >Spear always always works best at long range, preferably more than 50m >within 20m or so it'll refuse to lock on at all, and in the rare occasions that it does it'll overshoot the target >try and get the entire target within the circle if possible >smoke/dust and other environmental factors can gum up targeting >try and have at least 90% of the target visible >try and kinda curve the missile into where you want it to go, if it allows >much better on bots than bugs >sometimes Spear-chan just don't wanna work even when you do everything right
tl;dr engage at as long a range as able, sometimes things are just fricked anyway
I've only used it for a few missions so far but I really like it
This is the first time it's done that and it was absolutely infuriating but I think that's the price you pay for such quick way to dispose of titans
Ah, another real quick one I forgot. If you're having trouble locking a specific target, try tagging it. For some reason that seems to improve its 'visibility' to the launcher.
>randoms choose bile titan on overwhelming >non-stop chargers towards the end
how the frick do you deal with this shit when the AT rifle is 2 shots per call
>Difficulties should have been tied to player level, not clearing an operation on the next-lowest difficulty. >Players should not be able to deploy into difficulties they've yet to unlock.
Change my mind.
There are too many people in fricking HELLDIVE that are sub-level 10.
There are too many people at 7+ who don't touch samples at all, just zerg the main objective.
No wonder people are complaining about 9's difficulty, they're walking into it with no module upgrades and dogshit stratagems designed to handle medium-light enemies, but don't have any heavy armor solutions.
My ship's difficulties are stuck at Medium. I can play at Impossible no problem with my friends but this shit sucks for farming samples solo.
At least I'm swimming in green samples for now, but this sucks.
That's because nearly all of the weapons are dogshit, and the anti-armor stuff has very limited ammo. >Pick railgun because it's basically the only useful gun against armor. >Pick shield backpack because otherwise, enjoy perma ragdoll and getting one-shot by random goons. >Already down 2 stratagems. >3rd one has to be something to take out even tankier enemies. >And then, either you get fricked by the modifiers which makes cooldown last an hour, or take hours to drop, or you're stuck with just 3 stratagems.
Just wait for an armor nerf, devs don't test their games.
What kind of defense? Plain extermination missions actually seem reasonable in that everyone can spam stratagems at the start and you can still contribute to the objective by killing weak enemies while being overwhelmed, and then get out as soon as it's done.
But the weapons suck yes
if you ever get stuck in a loading screen after completing a mission just dc your Internet and it will boot you straight to the ship with mission completion intact.
>All these people saying the que works
Is there a box I didn't check somewhere or something? I get into my ship just fine. Quickplay never connects me to anything and if I try and do a solo mission I forever get stuck on the loading screen of my pod in the atmosphere.
>Invisible scouting drone spots you >Suddenly several shielded tripods warp in right next to you >As you try to flee, walls of pure energy block your path >Your squadmate hoists his gun and shoots you in the head and does the same to your other comrades before being fried by the tripods
You thought the Automatons are bad? You'll beg to fight them again.
>try out the eagle 110m rocket pods bc i like the idea of a targeted anti-big boys stratagem with low cd >shit doesnt even kill hulks, let alone anything bigger
AAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE
I really want to like the barrages but they are useless with an unnecessary long cooldown
if it had some sort of soft aim, then the CD would be justifiable but it has none so it's trash
I appreciate how they dropped me into a mission with no primary or secondary weapons. I don’t need more challenge as I barely scrape by doing solo medium difficulty missions at level 8 so this was pretty scummy. And subsequent respawns resulted in no weapons and I now get the question mark back on my ship.
Straight up, eagle strafing run, grenade launcher, autocanon, watch dog ROVER (the lazer gun version)
These are objectively the best options for every mission. They'll carry you to the end game.
Once you get further the next thing you want is the mortar sentry.
That's worst case scenario shit. They'll never close the distance if you know what you're doing. If you want to clear out an enemy base drop the mortar behind cover. If you want to defend and objective they'll never close the distance. It's only risky on bug planets, but the watch dog will cover your ass
Laser rover
Use that and EAT to farm 7s, use orbitals for the rare bile titan (EAT handles chargers)
I genuinely would not suggest 9 until you have railgun/railcannon/500kg, you just see too many bile titans to manage with your earlier toolsets
I don't say this lightly but it's literally the GOAT, and there's so much potential for future patches. But at the moment it's insane they charged only $40 when this btfo of any $80 game on the market rn.
The former. Its actually worse than usual since the game will be unplayabe the moment the devs can't be bothered with it anymore and is borderline unplayable right now.
There has never been a good game with bad steam %, ever. A game's worth and quality is directly relevant to the audience's score. The people are always right and whoever disagrees is a moronic contrarian baiting for (You)'s.
Anything below 80% is not worth checking out, anything below 90% is not worth buying.
The ratio of players playing and bad reviews don't correlate with the game's merits. The bad reviews were just over the server issues which have already been resolved.
A good game wouldn't have server issues, ever. I wouldn't trust a person with a criminal record to guard my stuff, so why should I trust a game with bad server record?
3 months ago
Anonymous
Unironic small indie studio that has never had to deal with this many players
3 months ago
Anonymous
All studios should have a big part of their budget reserved for ensuring server stability in case their game becomes FOTM. Then, if it takes off, they can enjoy perhaps more than a single month of earnings. Now Helldivers is stained with bad reviews and will be for some time, because only a handful of people ever change their reviews, especially if they have steam updoots or whatever redditry is going on with the ratings.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Every game is an investment, it's easy to say "just reserve a budget for server size" but your investors look at your last game and say "your max was 6k players, we don't care what you say, your server budget is what we give you"
Obviously you don't know what the frick you're talking about, but you're free to just not play the game if you're so cut up about prior server issues.... something literally every fricking indie game deals with at some point when they get too popular. Fricking among us had it, palworld had it. This shit is common.
3 months ago
Anonymous
inb4 this person references AWS or some shit like those 2nd weekend threads were full of
3 months ago
Anonymous
Shut up moron. They wrote pajeet tier code and had zero plan to instance users per-region as a backup. They have some centralized, single node shit and it's pathetic. They literally have massive skill issue.
3 months ago
Anonymous
And they resolved it...within 4 days. So what are you mad about now?
3 months ago
Anonymous
Can anyone confirm what this moron is saying? I'm done playing, are servers at capacity?
3 months ago
Anonymous
You can get in now, server issues are resolved.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I started up the game and am currently on my ship, so I'd say yes
However there's a new issue where PS5 players cannot play at all,
which is fantastic news
Or people with shitty fricked up toasters. The game has crashed on me once in 150 hours. I have no problems playing now that I know how to bypass the queue bullshit and once I'm playing I have stable solo sessions and sessions with my friends.
People are going on and on about hanging on login, crashing, glitches, disconnects and I can only imagine the garbage PCs they must be playing on when my experience with the game has been buttery smooth and I don't even have a top of the line rig.
>armor still non-functional >people can apparently still get frozen on the friendship doors or drop pods >infinite load screens are still in
idk man this game still does not deserve to be above mixed
this was an early access release at best
3 months ago
Anonymous
I agree, if you are having problems you're still entitled to a negative review. Much still needs to be fixed.
It's both FotM and worthwhile. There's certainly some temporary inflation of the numbers since it's the big new thing in a period without much competition, but I can definitely see the playerbase retaining 80k+ people when popular attention drifts elsewhere.
>be playing with a china man >he called in landmines >"let's get out of here before another bug breach happen" >"REY! WRATCH ROUT ROR THE RICE!" >"rice?" >"Yeah yeah, the rice!" >"Oh, rice are cool, what kind of rice do you like to eat?" >"NO NO, THE RICE" >*step onto his landmine* >dies >"I RAID RWATCH ROUT ROR TEH RICE!"
I played a bot mission for the first time on Trivial by myself, the one where you have to open doors I guess and civilians run out to anther building and I got completely merked.
What the hell? Is this game really not made solo on the easiest difficulty? The robots kept spawning and I didn't get a single second for a breather. or to call in equipment.
the planetary defense escort missions are fricked
if its your first time you're probably better off only doing those missions to really hone your skills before you get sent to malevelon
it's bugged, there's an initial bot drop but if any bot spots you they call down more drops near your position instantly
for now go up to level 2 or 3 and do a mission where they aren't constantly spawning on top of you, like ICBM or Data Upload
Cap your framerate in Nvidia control panel (not sure if there's an AMD equivalent).
I noticed the game ran worse after I tried using the in game fps cap option, even with the fps still capped by Nvidia control panel.
Those meatballs can't code for shit.
>Voice Packs >City maps >12-16 player defense maps (limited strategems maybe) >'1 life' maps where multiple squads jump in to clear a certain objective >Flag bearer
This day has been extra cursed for me. >Miss out on dozens of medals >10 pink rare samples >tons of XP and requisition
All because of some bugs that crash me to my desktop or to my bridge.
Fricking hell I can't take this shit anymore!
Yeah, as much fast scrambling around that can occur it just doesn't feel like it's strong enough to justify it unless it's a hardcore group that really knows what it's doing I guess. Hardly seen anyone running them at all, most of the time it's railguns. Shame, I really like the concept.
Being able to reload yourself was a fricking mistake, same for giving Bile Titans and Tanks a weak spot that can be hit by non-armor piercing weapons. No cooldown on reinforce is also just a step back from the first game.
I imagine they probably thought it would be better to half a slow self reload than no one ever using them, if it were up to me id buff them and have team reload or make it even slower(balance changes look like it might be a big ask with the armor shenanigans). Don't really mind the titan but the tank weak spot does encourage moron play until one knows better(or doesn't)
>self reload than no one ever using them
People with friends would still use them. You know? The target audience of this game.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>People with friends would still use them.
large assumption you're making. And my quote wasn't my personal opinion but guessing what the devs were thinking in making that change.
I see low levels struggling with difficulty 3
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You can even start it while people are running to it as enemies don't spawn immediately
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I usually carry RR or Autogun, but the main issue is that there isn't much of an incentive for someone to be a buddy and follow me around the whole map, in the same way there's not much of a reason to give someone your stimpack instead of just waiting until there's a good time to use a resupply beacon or finding one at a location
I can't really see how they could incentivize the buddy system without a straight up buff and even then most people outside of premades are probably still going to want to do their own thing.
3 months ago
Anonymous
The reload speed is almost instant with a second person, it's just a lot of the times assisted reload would be helpful, having that person shooting from a second angle is more significant in terms of damage
Being able to reload yourself was a fricking mistake, same for giving Bile Titans and Tanks a weak spot that can be hit by non-armor piercing weapons. No cooldown on reinforce is also just a step back from the first game.
I wouldn't say botted, but a mix of buttholes that afk'd (which has been fixed), and the fact that steam will say someone sitting at the full capacity screen is technically playing the game. So there is a slight fluff of numbers, which seems to be averaging out to healthy numbers.
my 'Hours Played' on Steam increased, not by actually playing the game, but by being stuck on the login screen. Their system counted wait time as play time kek. Truly masterful.
steam://joinlobby/553850/109775241425600899/76561198024623656
This is an SOS from the Super Destroyer Spear of Iron, requesting Helldivers for a level 5 defensive operation on Mantes.
>afking on a rock while your mortar sentries blow the shit out of everything
no thanks
(me)
unless you mean a mission where you dont have access to stratagems and you have to run around picking up ammo and stims off the ground to survive, that could be cool
I got kicked for calling down the dropship before everybody was clustered around the beacon.
Protip: the dropship doesn't have a timer until the first person enters, then there's a 20 second window before it leaves.
Frick these noobs are moronic.
I waited til I was level 15 til I tried extreme missions, but I'm seeing fricking level is play suicide level and they're barely equipped for any with armor.
I got kicked for calling down the dropship before everybody was clustered around the beacon.
Protip: the dropship doesn't have a timer until the first person enters, then there's a 20 second window before it leaves.
Frick these noobs are moronic.
You can even start it while people are running to it as enemies don't spawn immediately
Yeah, as much fast scrambling around that can occur it just doesn't feel like it's strong enough to justify it unless it's a hardcore group that really knows what it's doing I guess. Hardly seen anyone running them at all, most of the time it's railguns. Shame, I really like the concept.
[...]
I imagine they probably thought it would be better to half a slow self reload than no one ever using them, if it were up to me id buff them and have team reload or make it even slower(balance changes look like it might be a big ask with the armor shenanigans). Don't really mind the titan but the tank weak spot does encourage moron play until one knows better(or doesn't)
I usually carry RR or Autogun, but the main issue is that there isn't much of an incentive for someone to be a buddy and follow me around the whole map, in the same way there's not much of a reason to give someone your stimpack instead of just waiting until there's a good time to use a resupply beacon or finding one at a location
bots are harder than bugs of equal mission level. mortar turret is based (against bots). shoot down dropships when you can to help alleviate the swarm. don't worry about protecting the idiots just let them out the door and run for the next door.
There needs to be armor health, like in drg. Otherwise I don't see how sustainable this game can get if 90% of the robots are some variation of marauders or hulks.
Did it get up-armored?
I'm pretty sure I was able to blast their heads with shredder up until recently, or is it just that enemies get more heavily armored the higher the difficulty is?
What's the difference between green and orange light armor bugs? Also I haven't seen blade chargers yet, are they exclusive to Suicide Mission/Helldive?
Who are those fricking bugs that just eat your ass relentlessly no matter how much you dive and sprint giving you no time to reload? I hate those frickers so much.
Hunters. Probably the most dangerous terminid. People will point to the bile titan or stalkers, but the former can be kited and the latter you can just wipe out their lair.
Hunters come in packs of ~20 and will just jump on top of you, slow you, and rape you.
I understand stand it's coop focused. Is it fun enough with randos or should you really be playing with friends and mic? Like I've had fun joining random lobbies in TF2 but Dota2 is just misery in a random group.
randos can obviously be hit or miss, but 90% of my games with randos have worked out fine. not as efficient or quick as if i had a premade using comms but good enough. plus playing with randos adds that possibility of getting into silly situations which is always fun if you have the right mindset
You can have a more thin body shape and give your character a female voice if you want.
It's doable but it can be frustrating if people going by themselves and dying or, even worse, reinforcing where they are dragging away teammates from their old positions. It really really blows when you try to do an objective, you die and all of a sudden you're on the other side of the map because you're "reinforcing" the dead weight on your team.
this game looks fun but the character design looks so boring from what ive seen. is there a way to make a cute girl in it? or is it all just boring ass dudes?
>n-n-n-no im not a troony >i-i-i just have to play as a e-girlcon anime girl like in my dress up anime games >why? I JUST DO OK STOP QUESTIONING ME!!!1
>n-n-n-no im not a troony >i-i-i just have to play as a e-girlcon anime girl like in my dress up anime games >why? I JUST DO OK STOP QUESTIONING ME!!!1
>is there a way to make a cute girl in it? or is it all just boring ass dudes?
Slim (Female) body, Female voice.
Bam.
The entire point of helldivers is that they're faceless soldiers that die en masse, if you want anything more than that like skirts or girly shit or whatever then I don't know what to tell you, that kinda shit goes against the design of the game completely.
The nigress on your ship literally says they've been exterminated.
Everyone hated them because they looked like apple store protoss and their gimmicks were annoying you with slows, confuse and walls which most people didn't find fun.
The number of times I've cucked my reloads by performing some other action has really made me appreciate EDF's giant ass reloading bar in the middle of the screen. With that thing, you know exactly how long a reload will take.
And yes, I know you can rack the slide as a second animation, so you don't restart the entire animation, but it's still fricking annoying
Your other option is doing one mission and then going to a completely different area and not completing a set meaning the percentage doesn't actually change
Honestly, this is just Battlefront 2 but with a Starship Troopers theme i.e. "Lol we have them say democracy a lot isn't this biting satire?" ... 6/10 pretty good.
>Failed to join game lobby
>Failed to join game lobby
>Failed to join game lobby
it's over democracybros...
>joining lobbies
>not using the FREEDOM given to you to make your own
Very unpatriotic of you.
Will gameguard rape my computer?
no, but I will
Just play the game on Linux my dude, it works fine there
manually limit your fps to 60 at you'll be fine.
So anybody can confirm that the nguard works like eac, ie launching with the game and closing with the game? Or it's on all time?
Checked since I was playing earlier, it only runs when you're playing
i don't know if i want to trust you my fellow internet friend
this video does not answer my question
For not accepting help from one who enjoys Super Democracy, you shall be denied happiness
>ask question
>distrust the answer
why even ask
beat me to the post. he clearly wanted to hear what he believes, so asking the question was pointless.
I was on the fence, gave it some time to let others be the guinea pigs.
Having tried it myself, it seems fine. Ran into a few game bugs but no crashes or issues outside of the game. Main issue is just the server capacity.
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When are they removing the rootkit anticheat?
they've sold a gorillion copies already, they're not removing it
Actually BECAUSE they have so many more players than expected, if enough people complain, they will.
>they sold copies
Yeah so they can remove it lol.
Official word is the typical bs. They are "looking into it"
I'm hoping in two years when the games over I can ask one of the devs to remove it so I can play
It sure would be nice to login and play the game I payed for.
Best part is you can't even get a refund.
Is there a steam group for gays playing Helldivers 2? Or even a dicksword although I'd rather not.
>singleplayer option
>always online
Should I play this game?
Frick off, we are full.
This but unironically. Wait until this shit stabilizes so us impatientgays try to cram in
Nah. I’m 10 hours in and realizing this game isn’t very fun. Quite pretty but there’s not many interesting things to progress to. Gets very grindy and repetitive quickly, and also not worth buying unless you have 3 competent friends to roll with.
>co-op horder is grindy
You don't say.
I can't get a feel of the arc thrower. At times it seems like it takes several shots to down a medium target like a broodguard, and at other times it seems like it kills one in a single hit AND the other one next to it.
I know the chaining is chance based, but is the actual damage done on an RNG scale as well?
damage is consistent but since the arc path is randomized it deals less damage if it rngs onto armor, shreds if you lucky shot into a bug joint or soft spot.
Infinite ammo, great damage, the only downside is the arc tracks onto corpses or foliage. Also sounds baller, love the thunderclap
I’m about to come home and try to play. How’s the war against the automatons and que times been going, lads?
No queue in EU, not that I think it matters, I get one at US prime times.
Vandalon is basicaly lost, Mantes is neck on neck.
creek status?
No defense on creek, its full red, so I guess we failed.
that's been lost. there was some other planet up for defense yesterday, and the reds got it.
People spam defense missions and pass on the rescue one. The community's own greed is failing the warfront.
>que times
Just use the join trick if on steam or the launch from dashboard quick play on ps5. There are no queues. There is only a horde of people trying to push through a door all at once, and using these methods allow you to try getting through more often. If you queue the normal way, there is no line and limiting you to turning that door handle once a minute to see if you have a spot means you will likely be there a while waiting.
What he said. Use the side entrance not the front door.
The que actually works now, you may have to wait a few minutes but you'll actually get in. It might get overwhelmed this weekend but for now it works.
how playable is it at the moment servers-wise?
thinking about getting it but if im going to spend hour looking at a login screen then I might as well wait a week
I do get a fair number of failed to join connections, but when I connect there's really never an issue and we play a whole operation just fine.
Playable game?
Imagine her being captured by the Terminids and they use a special enzyme to make her body a breeding factory, reshaping her nipples into sloppy frickholes to be filled with their spawn, alongside pumping her womb and guts full from back to front.
What's with Super Earth users and Big Bug wiener posting? It's an obsession.
I'll shove a big round frag down her gaping bug hole before it happens
There are no male terminids.
bros planetrise on hellmire is pure kino
I'm gonna say it
Fighting bots it more fun than fighting bugs
they feel way more fair, they keep a reasonable distance instead of crowding around you, and the big guys like hulks and rocket devastators are more manageable than charges, bile titans and bile spewers that sneak up behind you and spray their puke perfectly tracking you
I feel the exact opposite. Bots have so many more ranged options, they're a lot more armored, and you need specific weapons, whereas it feels like you can kill bugs with anything as long as you keep moving.
oh yeah the bot factories are way more fun to storm than bug nests
>you need specific weapons
it could help that I love the autocannon which works VERY well on most bot elites
It takes like half a mag to down hulks and tanks just shrug it off.
spewers lock on in a roughly 90° cone that locks in aiming to their left or right, if you read the telegraph you can juke to the opposite side and the spew cant reach you. i agree bots are the most fun though.
This. Bugs just need to be nuked. Planet aint worth it. Bug holes also seem far worse than factories. Creditsto side objective for bugs like spore towers and illegal broadcasts. Shit is almost too easy with a recoiless
the bug holes connect to tunnels underground, every time you close bug holes in a sector someone on 7+ difficulty gets bugs coming out faster
The only problem with bugs are chargers. Big armored enemy that you can't get away from and demands you pay attention to it until it's dead. Fighting multiple chargers + all the other bugs at the same time is not fun.
Chargers would be fine if their weak spot was their ass. Instead they made it their legs and you STILL need heavy weapons to pop the leg. It would make proper awareness and proper dodging mean something. Dodge their charge turn around and shoot.
Hulks on the other hand can be rendered impotent by blowing off their arms, you can kill them by shooting them in the eyes, AND they have a weak spot on their back that can easily down them with sustained fire. Then if worst comes to worst you can actually get away from them because they move slower than you.
Chargers are the only enemy in the game that feel unfair and the intuitive response to deal with them just does not work. Even Bile Titans feel fair and are manageable and they are supposed to be bigger threats.
You don't need heavy weapons to pop the legs. Medium penetration weapons will create holes that low penetration can use to damage.
Don't forget that literally all the bugs stun lock your shit forever.
The little spitters will slow you down, the jumpers stop you from running away and force you to turn around and shoot. Then you have the big spitters and chargers. On higher difficulties, if anything gets close to you, and you have to reload, you may as well drop an airstrike at your feet.
The amount of stun locking is so fricking annoying.
Bro. Your dive?
There have been countless of moments where i've been swarmed by bugs and I've gotten out by just stimming and spamming dives until I get out of their immediate range.
If hunters are on your ass then pull out your pistol, they get 1-2 shot with them.
>"I'm out of pistol ammo tho-"
Why are you using your pistol in non-emergency situations.
Bots unironically have too many explosions that insta kill you. They're not fun.
use cover moron
>Always
>Be.
>taking Cover.
Did the first game have a lot of stufff to unlock? I havent even been playing a week and have almost everything
Same.i hope they add another battle pass soon because I'm almost done the free on and raised enough super shekels to buy the premium one. By next week I'll have unlocked every ship module and acquisition.
Are you spamming that bot defense mission? Because if you are, you're literally ruining the game for yourself.
No ive been doing super long 40 minute missions on level 8 difficulty, i had vacation this week and no money to go anywhere, so ive got like 100 hours logged already, found a really good group to do em with and a bunch of Gankerers as backups
Not pictured: Almost all items in warbonds unlocked too
Im trying to help the war effort but others are literally sabotaging it
>obviously hacked samples and credits
Want to help an anon out?
NTA but the requisition credits (R) have a cap of 50k.
It wouldn't surprise me if the others had similar caps to prevent hoarding so you don't just instantly unlock everything when they add more shit to the game later on. It's dumb.
How are people sabotaging it? are they just failing missions
have the yanks tanked the servers yet or is it still safe to get in
SO far so good, better hurry though
Remember to thank Eagle Chan for dropping all the carpet bombs and 500m bombs on those dirty Black person bots and Black person bugs. I Love you Eagle Chan!
I LOVE DEMOCRACY
I LOVE...ummm
I LOVE (You), too!
kind of funny how they managed to take the weird future jingoism of starship troopers and were somehow able to make it gay as frick
democracy worship is the third most moronic thing about the american empire and instead of super earth patriotism it sounds like it somehow turned into the most pozzed game in existence "FOR DEMOCRACY", so fricking dumb
I didn't think it was possible to miss the point as hard as you have.
Opinions on Eagle Chan?
i always picture her as the Valkyries in starcraft 2
dumbass can never hit her targets on time
Yeah it's fricking over. We lost Draupnir.
How do i find more rare samples and the super rare one?
Super rare are all together on every map, next to a rock with platinum veins on it
The rock exists on every map and every difficulty, but only 7+ has the samples around it
Play on harder difficulties.
create/find groups who have samples as the goal or just accept whatever pittance you happen to get.
Harder difficulties brother, gotta spread more democracy.
>game about male soldiers fighting alien bugs
>wwh-whh-wh-wh-wwh-what if big boobie female soldier sex sex sexooooooooooo
You "people" are despicable.
>>game about male soldiers
source
but there are (terribly acted) female voice options
This, the females sound so absolutely awful and cringy while the guys all make a homosexual impression of Yuri lowenthal. I just want a country boy that actually sounds like a man
anon it is lowenthal
What?
hes voice 2 in helldivers 2
Oh of course that sòy sounding homosexual has to ruin yet ANOTHER game. He's the fricking debra wilson of voice acting I swear, why can't we get Steve Blum or somebody actually fricking cool sounding not like a b***h on the verge of crying every sentence?
...Debra does voice acting
m-mommy...
>somebody cool sounding
>steve "AAAAA HELP MEEE AI IS GOING TO KILL MEEEE" blum
homosexual
Ron perlman and Steve Blum chad man sounding voice > sòy slurping b***h sounding homosexual lowenthal
>ron "im gonna eat shit little donnie" pearlman
picking winners arent you
Learn to seperate the art from the artist you stupid Black person. Just because modern ron perlman is a TDS suffering insufferable leftoid homosexual doesn't mean I'm now gonna say Halo and Hellboy are le bad.
that sure hit a nerve. maybe you should learn to understand your opinions are dogshit
Nah you're just autistic.
i accept your concession
You're an autistic Black person defending lowenthal's sòy slurper sounding voice on a Malasian carpet weaving forum.
dont get so mad that you hurt yourself anon
I think the joke here is that everyone is really young sounding and sound like teenage frat boys, its not trying to be serious and "badass".
the optimal fodder soldier is between 15 and 19 years old.
Lore checks out.
The working age is 7, every child gets a state sponsored rifle as a teen and does military service. Average Helldiver age is 18,5
The point is all the player voice actors fricking suck, they could have done way better with more variety, I'm sure they could have gotten some of those Halo marines to do some voice ups again.
Ill agree that they need more variety, there is nothing wrong with the voice acting itself.
Halo had it perfect by having australians and mexican marine voices, they definitely need to do that for variety don't just have stock american only.
no. super earth is planet america. get over it.
Good thing israelites made america the le melting pot so you have to press 2 for ingles now chud.
aren't the helldivers canonically 18 on this one though
NTA I'm pretty sure they are. Right out of highschool and straight into the field.
I think I saw a flavortext somewhere that implied they were all under 20... and allegedly just came out of cryostasis after 100 years.
when you go into the tutorial there's text that says average helldiver age is 18.7 years or something like that
It is Lowenthal
So he's disowned his Russian heritage? Fricking zased virtue signaling to show mean ol' Putler.
He’s been the go-to generic young man voice for what? 17 years? Dudes just gotten older
They should be giving the bugs breasts instead
>Turing is still at only 71% liberated
For fricks sake, i want to kill bugs somewhere else, HURRY UP ALREADY
bro we fighting terminators
It was in the 80% range last night, shit goes sour when it's not prime time. Same with Mantes, we were ahead in the blue bar now it's back to being very close. Though when I started in the morning last day we were behind on Mantes, so we're definitely gaining if we keep that going.
Beware, difficulty 7 is starting to get flooded by mouthbreathers that have just hit the super sample progression wall
Im doing my part! Buy Warbonds today and keep the Helldivers in the fight for YOUR FREEDOM
holy frick I thought I was doing good being on like page 6
I'm getting there, lads
>infinite loading when trying to deploy
Patch fricked me, never turned crossplay on and nothing else has changed.
Is crossplay a good idea or nah? I heard console kids are shit.
I turned crossplay on to get my friendcode to add someone. And the quality of players I get matched with sharply declined.
Leave it off.
So I feel like I need to change my loadout at extreme difficulty and up.
My grenade launcher ain’t cutting it no more. What do I pick? Flamer, autocannon?
autocannon, it's so versatile and being able to clear up spewers without burning an eagle is nice.
I guess it depends on what kind of role you are taking. you've got to have a more balanced team in higher levels. There should be a big gun, a horde clearer, and some support.
I say autocannon, it may eat up the backpack slot which imo for bugs isn't as needed vs bots you kinda need the shield pack. But it has 10 shots, they pierce the hive guards, can 1 shot the spewers with a nice shot down their throat, can cripple titans if you shoot their ass, stops them from spewing, you CAN kill chargers with it if you hit specifically behind their leg armor. and can plug holes with lots of ammo. carry EAT for support oh shits and boom
I just saw a video of a guy playing helldivers difficulty wearing a shield backpack and only using the grenade launcher to clear out big hives and the madman did it with no deaths.
But he was always moving, never stayed still, would retreat the entire time and just did hit and runs.
If you feel like you need to sit down and defend an objective for more than a few minutes then you'll need heavy weapons. But outside of that the grenade launcher is undisputably S tier because you can reload while sprinting, can clear out enemy outposts with it from a distance, and it can still do massive damage to virtually every enemy type including heavily armored ones. The only shit you'd have a problem with would be chargers and bile titans. But a grenade launcher is valuable at all levels.
the FOTM it's catching up to me... How do I bypass the stupid "frick off we are full" wall ? I join someone's game then leave ?
frick off normie
The researchers can go frick themselves.
>select ballistic shield in loadout
>game immediately crashes
Imagine posting "Armor still not functioning correctly" in every single patch instead of fricking fixing it. Fricking Black folk.
I wonder how much harder that is making things difficulty wise. Even basic enemies can chop you up quickly.
i've been running light armor since i learned about the protection not mattering and expect to be one-shot when they fix it
The problem is high enemy armour penetration (hrhr), the lazy fix I expect should buff all armour.
Depends on whether "Armor doesn't work" mean everybody has default armor values, or no armor at all.
>Mfw light armor could become even squishier
It's gotta be some strange tangled issue. I always want to read the behind the scenes when they fix it. it's gunna be tied to "oops bugs actually had 1 hp too many which somehow made armor non functional"
Yeah this doesn't make sense to me but I also know nothing about coding. I'm assuming they decided to dump all their resources on figuring out the servers, but the devs also said they have other teams working on stuff like mechs, which are supposedly already good to go.
It's honestly insane. Like you can just assume "Oh maybe they just fricked up a few lines of codes or something" but at this point it's almost like they just didn't have armor figured out at all. It's been nearly three weaks of every armor but light armor being basically fricking useless.
the best heavy armor has only 90points more armor than the light except, you're much slower. Do you think any of it matters when you can't outrun a pack of bugs or tank a shot from multiple droids?
Tittiez
The whole galactic war thing feels so half-assed.
I really do not give a single shit if a planet is defended, won or lost.
Would be way more engaging if when a planet is saved, you get some rewards based on your participation, maybe if you reach a milestone you get a positive mission modifier, or those free strategem testings for a few days.
And if a planet is lost ALL divers get some negative modifiers on all missions vs the faction for a time.
Then you would actually be incentivized to check on planets, help a failing one and so on.
actually kinda smart of the devs to never bother with server improvement seeing that they know its going to be FOTM
where's the illuminate
next update alongside the mechs
thanks babe
This is probably not going to happen. Mechs are most likely next update (2nd Tuesday of March) but that's also not confirmed. Illuminates have only been mentioned in a news reel at the bottom of one of the ship TV segments and there's no gameplay of them or updates from the developers at all regarding them.
I would assume next update will include:
>3-page warbond with new weapons/armors/cosmetics
>a couple new stratagems
>new shop armor rotation
>mechs MAYBE
The only new update 100% confirmed is that there will be a new warbond each month.
>2nd Tuesday of March
Source?
every second thursday of each month, source is the warbond faq in the discord
Why the frick are there no vehicles? You have at most 30 minutes a mission and you have to go through an entire map on foot? All those fricking outposts, enemy bases, points of intrest full of wandering patrols that call reinforcements and you can only move on foot? Where the fucj are the troop transport cars, ATV's and even tanks of our own? Why do the robots get the Leman Russ' but not us?
We know vehicles are coming, we just dont know how many and how they will be balanced because it would be busted as frick if its just a strat you can keep calling in. Theres also more enemies coming, you can see the flying bugs in the splash screen, and there is a giant AT AT the robos get.
You can see the hulls of humvees with mountd guns around some maps, just like these mechs.
I'd say make it a limited use call in, after that it is a dead slot.
But it also is dreadfully slow so may balance out. you don't want it for traversal.
Pretty much why the extraction missions are completely fricking busted.
They'll drop the mech which can barely fricking move but has devastating offense and defense and those missions will become easy for anyone calling them in.
It shouldn't be too difficult to keep it balanced if they follow the same mechanics as the first game.
All vehicles including mechs should be single time use and have very limited ammunition.
For me it was always a blitz method instead of a different way to conquer an area.
When your ammo runs out that's it. You're a moving target. Jump ship and start fricking running again.
And you bet your ass if you jump out while that vehicle is moving you're gonna bust your ankles and take fall damage.
>driving around in the apc
>see a sample, jump out
>get run over by the apc because i didnt slow down enough
good times
> illuminate camera alert
> crabs with tasers swarm
> suddenly a wall splits your mech in half
I was there, man. I was there.
In HS1 they used to be limited to one call-in per mission plus have limited ammo and no rearm option.
Make vehicles take two slots. If you want a mech, you're going to pay for it,
what are the best stratgems attacks? like which eagle?
I starting fighting robots, then I went to bugs, and I went back to robots because bugs were too easy.
>It's a host AFKs after 2/3 of the missions are complete and we all get ACK'd back to our ships
Democracy isn't gonna move at this pace.
Anyone know how to bypass "Failed to join game lobby" without restarting 100 times?
They need to some uber rebalancing of weapons because my God is is really not worth using 80% of what's on offer.
Is matchmaking busted again after the last patch? I cant seem to get games anymore, again.
people are joining me well enough
I managed to complete a quick lvl6 op against robots with 3 randoms who were ten ranks below me, but I fricking did almost everything in a mission right after with two of them. They just fricking stood there fighting bug breaches and dying repeatedly - what the hell is wrong with people? How do you get to level 15 and not realize you can just RUN AWAY?
running for gay
need them side objective samples bro. Also, they'll just follow you to the next objective.
By Allah, this woman needs a taste of my shoes.
>Bother writing all of these
>Half of them are actually written wrong
Why
No dailies today?
Only see the Major Order.
Thought it was just me wonder what they fricked up this time
ATTENTION Helldivers!
If you have problems getting into the game still, just
>close the game but leave steam open
>paste this old lobby into your browser
>steam://joinlobby/553850/109775241156806702/76561198044094085
>wait a few seconds
>you should now be on your ship
How do you guys find so many samples?
Should I get the recon suit with the pings?
The literal first armor in the warbonds is what you want. Armor stats are broken but the effects work I think.
Abuse the shit out of it.
You get your samples from scouting for points of interest. Grenade open sealed containers, check all glowing lights, don't die and drop your loot.
You'll find warbonds and requisition in those loots sometimes too.
I've been playing 3 days already on page 4 and own a breaker.
>Armor stats are broken but the effects work I think.
Damn right they do. It's an great deal to eat an aimbot insta-kill rocket and keep going thanks to pure patriotic fervor. Not reliable, but 50%'s high enough that you absolutely do feel it.
>p2w armour
dont be so proud that you're a paypig
It's literally the first dress uniform in the free warbond, moron friend.
Am I to understand you'd be slower with the medium armor though? That's the one caveat to taking light armor for me.
It's in the free warbonds you rubber baby buggy bumper and the premium warbond is also free.
The only thing that is not free is the support the developer package with a few items that have the same effects you'd get otherwise just from playing.
I've pretty much gone with medium since the start since I like the look of the default armor, but I haven't really noticed too much of fatal slowdown, especially if you bring along the stamina booster. Who knows, maybe I just haven't been accustomed enough another weight class to notice the difference yet.
>I like the look of the default armor
That's how you win. You gotta look cool.
I wish the black and yellow was a more common color scheme for armor in the game.
Places of interest and spawn areas have samples. You get access to more types the higher the difficulty
you pretty much got to go to the side objectives. Main objectives have a few, but the majority of them are out in the field
places of interest, the ? on the map, also if there is a diamond icon, you missed a sample usually if it chances to a ping witht he rings you got everything.
nghhh do the characters in-game actually look like this hghgg
I just witnessed a sentry mortar wipe out our entire squad and there wasn't even an enemy near us.
Yea that thing is op I love it and always take it with me
>it's another level 40+ instantly jumps into the pelican and some other moron with all the samples doesn't get to the platform in time episode
can these dumb motherfrickers please stay in the orange difficulties?
or even better, go play a different game
i just kick anyone lower than 1 level below me
you don't need samples to level up
you dumb motherfricker
if you are above level 20
why do you need xp
I'm saying
you moron
that those people don't care about samples because it's not a bar that fills up
>the level 40 cares about xp
and i'm saying
you moron
that these homosexuals should FRICK OFF
Mechs at difficulty 7+ are impossible in a random team.
The difficulty disparity between bugs and bots is insane. Diff9 Bugs are barely as hard as like Diff6 bots.
bro just spam mortars and sentries on high ground
>Instantly get deleted by laser fire
Why do people keep talking about how being able to blow off the bile titan sac is a good thing for a weapon.
Why would you want the titan to lose the attack that makes it stand still for 3 seconds and expose its head?
>It's a "two guys split up to do who the frick knows while the host and I try our best to do the main objective, dying and the two shitters across the map respawn me leaving the host to eat shit alone" episode
I get it's a popular episode but why they gotta play it on repeat so often?
Probably because I was picking up the 20 commons and 15 rares that none of you fricks bothered to collect after that last fight before the split, and then I was pinned down by three Bile Titans by my lonesome while you fricked off.
reminder to kick all "players" with weird squiggly lines as names, this game is about killing bugs, why would you play with one?
How do you deal with tanks? I don't see a weak point on them.
rocket pods one shot tanks. they also have a weakpoint on the back of the main turret
Does the rocket sentry work?
haven't tried that
They at the back so need someone to bait it or if you’re solo summon a sentry
You can use the railgun on the turret, but it takes like 6 or 7 shots from the fronts/sides
Two impact grenades anywhere on the top turret kills them, sometimes takes three with the big cannon variant but it's consistent with the machine turret one. This is probably a unintended feature so abuse it as much as you can now.
>call down supply
>two people instantly raid all 4 resupplies
i fricking swear
I can't wait for dev to add sickle so I don't have to deal with ammo anymore.
embrace the suck
I am leaving all lobbies where someone uses open mic, anyone who has the mental capacity to do this isn't going to be good at the game.
yeah, real stupid that is the default option
halo infinite could have been good
I wonder how many people dont realize you have to complete an operation to contribute to the war effort, not just a mission.
We could be getting these planets done so much sooner if the hosts would just stop FRICKING GOING AFK AFTER THE FIRST MISSION EVERY TIME
You'd think missions giving increasingly bigger medal rewards would be enough, but nope.
lmao its more like shitters in the creek can't complete shit after getting too comfy in the nids
Most of the people playing are absolutely fricking mindless and don't know how to do the most simple of things
this. These frickers in bots maps are barely surviving. Doesn't help they just go guns blazing kek
ftfy
Sure, just remove the mandatory dumb moronic escort mission from every single defense operation and people would do it.
>escort mission
theres an escort mission?
It's the one where you have to protect the scientists while they move from one door to the other
Oh you don't have to "protect" them. you just spam doors until the mission completes.
Failing to protect them to allow their right to enjoy the benefit of Super Democracy sounds a lot like b*t behavior anon
they mean the scientist evac where you have to make sure they get to the escape vessel
>animation of stabbing self with stim
>hear the fricking sound
>doesn't go off
Holy shit fix this already, same weird shit happens with reloading
>reload
>go through every motion (there's like 3 different subsequent animations for each gun, reloading and adjusting the weapon or whatever)
>all done
>fire one bullet
>have to do the final motion again and lose a mag
does the gun jam or fricking something? or is it part of the same bug
someone tell me why a co-op PvE game needs anticheat
and why they're using one of the most cancer keylogger anticheats out there that still doesn't even work to properly combat cheating
Swedish dev who hasn't made a game in 9 years.
Police have no duty to protect the public.
Sounds like they have a cash shop
Who else /Trauma Team/ here?
same, using this for the buffed heals until they fix heavy armor not protecting shit
Looks cool but the bonus on that armor seems pretty meh.
Right now I'm running the orange one that gives you extra nades. Looking forward top unlocking the green scout one.
Did they fix the armor values yet so that there's a point in wearing heavy armor?
Get the twitch armor
>Twitch
I love Helldivers 2, but not that much.
I just left it running on my laptop as I played the game like I do with a ton of twitch stuff
Says they are out of codes for my region sadge
No, I mean the stim and healing boost bonuses on the armor.
I really wish they made the armor bonuses separate from the armors themselves.
gay armor, i use the lightweight recon armor. sneak around hordes and outrun them all
I prefer military kino
I missed out on getting this and I'm still mad.
the stuff in the super store right now has been there before, you'll see it again
While I’m assuming they’ll do a new rotation in the middle of next month, that helmet should come around in 4 days.
I'm thinking of getting this game cuz the physics and details of combat look sick, is it possible to build yourself out as a medic or ammo toting support build?
You can carry supply backpacks and shit, and help team-reload heavy weapons like the recoilless rifle.
>ammo support
yes, there's a backpack for that
its utility is questionable since if your team isn't a bunch of glue huffing morons, they will sweep through side-objectives which are often ammo-rich
>medic support
medic armor gives you 2 extra stims, everyone has 4 to begin with
generally speaking if your team is running out of stims you are doing something very, very wrong
tl;dr probably not the game you're looking for
There is a armour that gives you 2 extra stimpacks, you can theoretically stim teammates, but thats not realistic in a self defense situation.
There is a ammo backpack you can supply people with, a shield generator. Stuff like that.
>ammo toting support
There's an ammo backpack which lets you do just this
>medic
Plenty of medic themed armor and you can also inject stims into someone. Stims used by you in medic armor last longer and you can carry more.
Is this worth getting if I only play with randoms?
do you like co-op horde shooters? if yes, its a great entry and completely playable with randoms.
Do you not like co-op horde shooters? this game wont change your mind.
The more I watch about this game the more I want to play it
but my impatient ass doesn't want to deal with network errors if they're as bad as they've been made out to be
no queue right now
It’s “better” than it was over the weekend. Haven’t DC so far this week. Longest I had to wait was 8 min
Am I just shit at the game or is the scientist evac bots mission completely fricking impossible at Difficulty 7 or above, at least with randoms?
Civies too soft with many bots firing at you
I did it stealth though while the rest just kept firing somewhere
I've done exactly 1 difficulty 7 scientist mission (with randoms) and it took a long time but it wasn't difficult.
a LOT of civvies died to stratagems.
Does the amount of medals/super credits that you can find during missions increase with difficulty?
no
Nope. Best way to do it really is to just farm trivials and blow open all the conex boxes with 'nades. Maybe bring a partner if you want to speed things up and open the buddy-bunkers.
Automaton escort is fricking unbalanced as hell.
Enemy spawns are way too fricking overtuned.
Smokes, no joke.
Enemies won't shoot shit they can't see.
Nakadashi the fresh meat.
Welcome to the hell divers! Now get in your breeding pod!
>max difficulty is Helldive™
Bravo Vince.
Got a few games in this morning. Trying to play again and quickplay never finds a game. I can't even play singeplayer. I'm just forever stuck in the drop pod loading screen. Does that game just become unplayable in the afternoon from server overload?
And now I'm just stuck looking at my ship when I relaunch. Jesus man.
hate bots'
FRICK THE SPEAR TARGETTING
It is so buggy and refuses to fully lock on sometimes
Some poor bastard was trying to reload me but I couldn't even get a shot off on a titan fricker probably thought I was moronic
The munitions cost for 1 spear missile is way too high. I just stick with RR so I can get shots off in a pinch.
As a Spear addict here's some tips.
>Spear always always works best at long range, preferably more than 50m
>within 20m or so it'll refuse to lock on at all, and in the rare occasions that it does it'll overshoot the target
>try and get the entire target within the circle if possible
>smoke/dust and other environmental factors can gum up targeting
>try and have at least 90% of the target visible
>try and kinda curve the missile into where you want it to go, if it allows
>much better on bots than bugs
>sometimes Spear-chan just don't wanna work even when you do everything right
tl;dr engage at as long a range as able, sometimes things are just fricked anyway
I've only used it for a few missions so far but I really like it
This is the first time it's done that and it was absolutely infuriating but I think that's the price you pay for such quick way to dispose of titans
Ah, another real quick one I forgot. If you're having trouble locking a specific target, try tagging it. For some reason that seems to improve its 'visibility' to the launcher.
>randoms choose bile titan on overwhelming
>non-stop chargers towards the end
how the frick do you deal with this shit when the AT rifle is 2 shots per call
Use godmode and infinite ammo cheat. Oh wait, you aren't part of the QA team. Sorry bud, you're on your own.
>Throw mines in a barren crater, absolutely no way you couldn't miss them
>Watch a random teammate just make a beeline right into them then ragequit
Game should've been $70 just to filter these morons out.
>instant login
Can you get in a game though? That's the new broken part
ive had 3 full lobby games via quickplay since posting(ps5)
for me it's
>get in instantly
>ingame quickplay works
>choosing a mission in progress fails 90% of the time
>the other 10% I just infinitely load
>Bought game a week ago
>Tried to play over weekend
>Servers broken
>Came back today
>Servers still broken
See you in another week I guess
>Difficulties should have been tied to player level, not clearing an operation on the next-lowest difficulty.
>Players should not be able to deploy into difficulties they've yet to unlock.
Change my mind.
There are too many people in fricking HELLDIVE that are sub-level 10.
There are too many people at 7+ who don't touch samples at all, just zerg the main objective.
No wonder people are complaining about 9's difficulty, they're walking into it with no module upgrades and dogshit stratagems designed to handle medium-light enemies, but don't have any heavy armor solutions.
My ship's difficulties are stuck at Medium. I can play at Impossible no problem with my friends but this shit sucks for farming samples solo.
At least I'm swimming in green samples for now, but this sucks.
are you finishing operations
Yep. It's a known issue on Discord, no fix for it yet.
Has anyone ever seen what the Super Earth biome looks like? CAN Super Earth be invaded?
Its just the open rocky hills map but green and with clusters of pine trees
Is defense just comically impossible or something? Primary is completely fricking worthless.
It does feel like as armor scales up and armored enemies become more common, everything but stratagems stop being useful.
That's because nearly all of the weapons are dogshit, and the anti-armor stuff has very limited ammo.
>Pick railgun because it's basically the only useful gun against armor.
>Pick shield backpack because otherwise, enjoy perma ragdoll and getting one-shot by random goons.
>Already down 2 stratagems.
>3rd one has to be something to take out even tankier enemies.
>And then, either you get fricked by the modifiers which makes cooldown last an hour, or take hours to drop, or you're stuck with just 3 stratagems.
Just wait for an armor nerf, devs don't test their games.
What kind of defense? Plain extermination missions actually seem reasonable in that everyone can spam stratagems at the start and you can still contribute to the objective by killing weak enemies while being overwhelmed, and then get out as soon as it's done.
But the weapons suck yes
More bullet based air strikes should strip armor, and damage over time effects should do more damage.
>servers still broken
if you ever get stuck in a loading screen after completing a mission just dc your Internet and it will boot you straight to the ship with mission completion intact.
>All these people saying the que works
Is there a box I didn't check somewhere or something? I get into my ship just fine. Quickplay never connects me to anything and if I try and do a solo mission I forever get stuck on the loading screen of my pod in the atmosphere.
>Invisible scouting drone spots you
>Suddenly several shielded tripods warp in right next to you
>As you try to flee, walls of pure energy block your path
>Your squadmate hoists his gun and shoots you in the head and does the same to your other comrades before being fried by the tripods
You thought the Automatons are bad? You'll beg to fight them again.
I can't fricking wait for the squids and whatever bullshit they give them. Hyped. The walls might make Jump Packs useful.
>try out the eagle 110m rocket pods bc i like the idea of a targeted anti-big boys stratagem with low cd
>shit doesnt even kill hulks, let alone anything bigger
AAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE
they one shot tanks but not hulks for some reason. also they tend to miss a lot if you try to use them on hulks
>can get into game consistently now, hooray!
>neither matchmaking or solo missions work
SWEDEN
>cant even join games through steam
amazing, its literally unplayable
>tfw we'll get urban city centre maps
in your fricking dreams, moron (and mine)
Dawg they made them in the first helldivers, you're smoking crack if you thi k we ain't getting them.
>Attempting diplomacy with aliens
You are getting reported to the democratic compliance officer immediately.
it's fine they're not useable for any resources democratic.
get the fricking flamethrower.
I really want to like the barrages but they are useless with an unnecessary long cooldown
if it had some sort of soft aim, then the CD would be justifiable but it has none so it's trash
propaganda to undermine real democracy
real democracy doesn't exist
>people don't vote
What did non-citizen anon mean by this?
he might mean direct democracy
>he might mean direct democracy
So he's autistic?
certainly so
I appreciate how they dropped me into a mission with no primary or secondary weapons. I don’t need more challenge as I barely scrape by doing solo medium difficulty missions at level 8 so this was pretty scummy. And subsequent respawns resulted in no weapons and I now get the question mark back on my ship.
homie, install the fricking Counter Strike already!
Well hopefully you can find a weapon at random dead bodies. Maybe try blowing yourself up and seeing if you respawn with one.
You can still melee. Default F key. Now get in there, soldier.
>weapons and equipment OSP, Snake
Best stratagems I can get at lv10?
Straight up, eagle strafing run, grenade launcher, autocanon, watch dog ROVER (the lazer gun version)
These are objectively the best options for every mission. They'll carry you to the end game.
Once you get further the next thing you want is the mortar sentry.
There you go
The problem with the mortar is that if your team lets anything come near you might get your ass blown to bits. It's risky as frick.
That's worst case scenario shit. They'll never close the distance if you know what you're doing. If you want to clear out an enemy base drop the mortar behind cover. If you want to defend and objective they'll never close the distance. It's only risky on bug planets, but the watch dog will cover your ass
Laser rover
Use that and EAT to farm 7s, use orbitals for the rare bile titan (EAT handles chargers)
I genuinely would not suggest 9 until you have railgun/railcannon/500kg, you just see too many bile titans to manage with your earlier toolsets
So is this this week's FOTM game or is it actually worthwhile?
I don't say this lightly but it's literally the GOAT, and there's so much potential for future patches. But at the moment it's insane they charged only $40 when this btfo of any $80 game on the market rn.
The former. Its actually worse than usual since the game will be unplayabe the moment the devs can't be bothered with it anymore and is borderline unplayable right now.
it's the greatest game ever made
very high potential
even the devs seemed to be unaware of the potential
damn bots, hacking your gameshark codes
fotm shilled by reddit bots
>paying attention to Steam reviews
90% of those negative reviews are from people who didn't even play the game and just downloaded it to refund and write a review about the anticheat
ywnbaw shill
Go tie a rope about it
There has never been a good game with bad steam %, ever. A game's worth and quality is directly relevant to the audience's score. The people are always right and whoever disagrees is a moronic contrarian baiting for (You)'s.
Anything below 80% is not worth checking out, anything below 90% is not worth buying.
The ratio of players playing and bad reviews don't correlate with the game's merits. The bad reviews were just over the server issues which have already been resolved.
A good game wouldn't have server issues, ever. I wouldn't trust a person with a criminal record to guard my stuff, so why should I trust a game with bad server record?
Unironic small indie studio that has never had to deal with this many players
All studios should have a big part of their budget reserved for ensuring server stability in case their game becomes FOTM. Then, if it takes off, they can enjoy perhaps more than a single month of earnings. Now Helldivers is stained with bad reviews and will be for some time, because only a handful of people ever change their reviews, especially if they have steam updoots or whatever redditry is going on with the ratings.
Every game is an investment, it's easy to say "just reserve a budget for server size" but your investors look at your last game and say "your max was 6k players, we don't care what you say, your server budget is what we give you"
Obviously you don't know what the frick you're talking about, but you're free to just not play the game if you're so cut up about prior server issues.... something literally every fricking indie game deals with at some point when they get too popular. Fricking among us had it, palworld had it. This shit is common.
inb4 this person references AWS or some shit like those 2nd weekend threads were full of
Shut up moron. They wrote pajeet tier code and had zero plan to instance users per-region as a backup. They have some centralized, single node shit and it's pathetic. They literally have massive skill issue.
And they resolved it...within 4 days. So what are you mad about now?
Can anyone confirm what this moron is saying? I'm done playing, are servers at capacity?
You can get in now, server issues are resolved.
I started up the game and am currently on my ship, so I'd say yes
However there's a new issue where PS5 players cannot play at all,
which is fantastic news
Or people with shitty fricked up toasters. The game has crashed on me once in 150 hours. I have no problems playing now that I know how to bypass the queue bullshit and once I'm playing I have stable solo sessions and sessions with my friends.
People are going on and on about hanging on login, crashing, glitches, disconnects and I can only imagine the garbage PCs they must be playing on when my experience with the game has been buttery smooth and I don't even have a top of the line rig.
bro??
WE GOT 2% BECAUSE OF REFUNDS SITERS! YAAAAAS
or ya know because things are improving? they've dropped like 8 patches the past week
>improving
>8 patches
aw man
i love fotm shills
>0 issues today and yesterday after the patch
works on my machine
>armor still non-functional
>people can apparently still get frozen on the friendship doors or drop pods
>infinite load screens are still in
idk man this game still does not deserve to be above mixed
this was an early access release at best
I agree, if you are having problems you're still entitled to a negative review. Much still needs to be fixed.
It's both FotM and worthwhile. There's certainly some temporary inflation of the numbers since it's the big new thing in a period without much competition, but I can definitely see the playerbase retaining 80k+ people when popular attention drifts elsewhere.
sample gays go play animal crossing if you want to pick flowers c**ts
>be playing with a china man
>he called in landmines
>"let's get out of here before another bug breach happen"
>"REY! WRATCH ROUT ROR THE RICE!"
>"rice?"
>"Yeah yeah, the rice!"
>"Oh, rice are cool, what kind of rice do you like to eat?"
>"NO NO, THE RICE"
>*step onto his landmine*
>dies
>"I RAID RWATCH ROUT ROR TEH RICE!"
Been laughing for a solid 30 minutes now
i wish i encountered more english-speaking chinese.
lmao
>2 chinese guys in game
>extraction ship arrives
>chinese 1 guns down chinese 2 and leaves
probably one was mainlander and the other taiwanese
>RICE
LIGHTS man
I played a bot mission for the first time on Trivial by myself, the one where you have to open doors I guess and civilians run out to anther building and I got completely merked.
What the hell? Is this game really not made solo on the easiest difficulty? The robots kept spawning and I didn't get a single second for a breather. or to call in equipment.
the planetary defense escort missions are fricked
if its your first time you're probably better off only doing those missions to really hone your skills before you get sent to malevelon
Congratulations, the first mission you chose happens to be the one everyone acknowledges as massively overturned for each difficulty tier.
I recommend playing bugs until you unlock some decent anti-tank options like the Expendable Anti-Tank tubes.
it's bugged, there's an initial bot drop but if any bot spots you they call down more drops near your position instantly
for now go up to level 2 or 3 and do a mission where they aren't constantly spawning on top of you, like ICBM or Data Upload
I haven't had any problem getting into servers but the game randomly crashes all the time even with the framerate set to 60.
Sucks balls
Cap your framerate in Nvidia control panel (not sure if there's an AMD equivalent).
I noticed the game ran worse after I tried using the in game fps cap option, even with the fps still capped by Nvidia control panel.
Those meatballs can't code for shit.
Steam score is not that good, it was 68% last i checked, it has to be a shit game, which is too bad because if it's like EDF I'd love to play it.
>Incoming Johnny Rico DLC
im for adding new voices to the voice pool in general, and making some of them startship troopers cameos would be fun.
i just want a michael ironside voicepack
i want the original helldiver voice back
Day fricking one
Get the OG cast to do voice lines. I would buy them.
haven't tried playing in two days
are the servers still fricking full?
MANTES HOLDS THE LINE
FRICK malevelon creek can't see bot silhouettes for fricking shit there for all the fricking trees and dark
What can improve the game for in the future?
>Voice Packs
>City maps
>12-16 player defense maps (limited strategems maybe)
>'1 life' maps where multiple squads jump in to clear a certain objective
>Flag bearer
This day has been extra cursed for me.
>Miss out on dozens of medals
>10 pink rare samples
>tons of XP and requisition
All because of some bugs that crash me to my desktop or to my bridge.
Fricking hell I can't take this shit anymore!
I love big breasts stuffed behind military uniforms and armor.
Just launched the game and got in immediately. We're so back
Any big lobbies?
Big lobbies? The max is 4 squads.
Big as in big individuals (4) in the lobby.
Need big strong hell divers to squash bugs
EIGHTEEN (FOUR) NAKED DIVERS IN THE SHOWERS AT SUPER EARTH RANCH.
How do I get around the post-mission black screen without closing the game?
>Laser Cannon
what the frick do you do with this?
Peace between Super Earth and the Automatons!
someone post the bot on the computer picture
how is cheating in the game?
do you see people sharting out nukes while they fly at mach 10?
rewards exceeding expectations like literal millions?
I played with some chink who zoomed across the map only to get killed by impact damage. Most of the time these fricks are grinding samples
So it's fair to say the player numvbers are botted to shit?
Forgot my image
achievements are just bugged, the player count is definitely real because the servers are constantly full
i like how every steam release we get these moronic cheevo posts as if people don't know in [current year] that achievements lag in their reporting
im level 36 playing on suicide and still haven't provided an assisted reload
Most people don't have a reason to assist reloads outside of very specific situations, and even then it's usually better to do other things
Yeah, as much fast scrambling around that can occur it just doesn't feel like it's strong enough to justify it unless it's a hardcore group that really knows what it's doing I guess. Hardly seen anyone running them at all, most of the time it's railguns. Shame, I really like the concept.
I imagine they probably thought it would be better to half a slow self reload than no one ever using them, if it were up to me id buff them and have team reload or make it even slower(balance changes look like it might be a big ask with the armor shenanigans). Don't really mind the titan but the tank weak spot does encourage moron play until one knows better(or doesn't)
>self reload than no one ever using them
People with friends would still use them. You know? The target audience of this game.
>People with friends would still use them.
large assumption you're making. And my quote wasn't my personal opinion but guessing what the devs were thinking in making that change.
I can't really see how they could incentivize the buddy system without a straight up buff and even then most people outside of premades are probably still going to want to do their own thing.
The reload speed is almost instant with a second person, it's just a lot of the times assisted reload would be helpful, having that person shooting from a second angle is more significant in terms of damage
Being able to reload yourself was a fricking mistake, same for giving Bile Titans and Tanks a weak spot that can be hit by non-armor piercing weapons. No cooldown on reinforce is also just a step back from the first game.
I wouldn't say botted, but a mix of buttholes that afk'd (which has been fixed), and the fact that steam will say someone sitting at the full capacity screen is technically playing the game. So there is a slight fluff of numbers, which seems to be averaging out to healthy numbers.
my 'Hours Played' on Steam increased, not by actually playing the game, but by being stuck on the login screen. Their system counted wait time as play time kek. Truly masterful.
steam://joinlobby/553850/109775241425600899/76561198024623656
This is an SOS from the Super Destroyer Spear of Iron, requesting Helldivers for a level 5 defensive operation on Mantes.
I wanna stop and go to bed but the war for Mantes is basically neck and neck.
motherFRICKER I need SLEEP
I would fricking kill for a "Objective: Survive" mission type.
>afking on a rock while your mortar sentries blow the shit out of everything
no thanks
(me)
unless you mean a mission where you dont have access to stratagems and you have to run around picking up ammo and stims off the ground to survive, that could be cool
>you dont have access to stratagems
You pick up single-use stratagems and weapons from dead helldivers.
>motherFRICKER I need SLEEP
You can sleep when the bots do, diver. Now get in the pod.
daily reminder to NOT STAND BEHIND ROCKET USERS
CLEAR THE BACKBLAST AREA
I live in fear every time I join a game with low levels, as it's almost always people who you can't even trust to piss in the bowl sitting down
I got kicked for calling down the dropship before everybody was clustered around the beacon.
Protip: the dropship doesn't have a timer until the first person enters, then there's a 20 second window before it leaves.
Frick these noobs are moronic.
I waited til I was level 15 til I tried extreme missions, but I'm seeing fricking level is play suicide level and they're barely equipped for any with armor.
I see low levels struggling with difficulty 3
You can even start it while people are running to it as enemies don't spawn immediately
I usually carry RR or Autogun, but the main issue is that there isn't much of an incentive for someone to be a buddy and follow me around the whole map, in the same way there's not much of a reason to give someone your stimpack instead of just waiting until there's a good time to use a resupply beacon or finding one at a location
>weapons randomly disappear maybe once out of every 30 dives
is this a hacker in the game or is this a bug?
Ive heard its the hacker known as Ganker (its me)
Yeah I had a game where I had no sidearm
Am I supposed to be raped by bots in resuce missions? That shits harder than anything else I've tried so far
bots are harder than bugs of equal mission level. mortar turret is based (against bots). shoot down dropships when you can to help alleviate the swarm. don't worry about protecting the idiots just let them out the door and run for the next door.
quantity over quality.
There needs to be armor health, like in drg. Otherwise I don't see how sustainable this game can get if 90% of the robots are some variation of marauders or hulks.
I actually prefer my space modelled after the Byzantine Theme System.
frick those rocket snipers
I dont speak terminid.
She looks like she fricks human men.
I hate the bile spewer like you wouldn't believe...
Did it get up-armored?
I'm pretty sure I was able to blast their heads with shredder up until recently, or is it just that enemies get more heavily armored the higher the difficulty is?
cute bugs
What's the difference between green and orange light armor bugs? Also I haven't seen blade chargers yet, are they exclusive to Suicide Mission/Helldive?
Green is toxin (damage over time), orange is acid that seems to be instant damage and destroys your limbs.
Green bugs explode when you kill them, orange don't.
Orange is instakall horseshit if you happen to round a corner or they get the drop on you.
is this game popular in japan?
its too violent for mainstream appeal but it has a following among more hardcore
>white heads
you are being trained to shoot white people for ~~*democracy*~~
Are all skeletons white people to you?
>120mm HE orbital
>Hits literally nothing
>Walking orbital
>Hits literally nothing, but at least it kills random factories and bug holes.
>tfw finally broke out of difficulty level 4
feels good
Who are those fricking bugs that just eat your ass relentlessly no matter how much you dive and sprint giving you no time to reload? I hate those frickers so much.
just use the rover 🙂
you WILL be stunlocked by tongues
HUNTERS TONGUE MY ANUS
Hunters. Probably the most dangerous terminid. People will point to the bile titan or stalkers, but the former can be kited and the latter you can just wipe out their lair.
Hunters come in packs of ~20 and will just jump on top of you, slow you, and rape you.
I understand stand it's coop focused. Is it fun enough with randos or should you really be playing with friends and mic? Like I've had fun joining random lobbies in TF2 but Dota2 is just misery in a random group.
randos can obviously be hit or miss, but 90% of my games with randos have worked out fine. not as efficient or quick as if i had a premade using comms but good enough. plus playing with randos adds that possibility of getting into silly situations which is always fun if you have the right mindset
You can have a more thin body shape and give your character a female voice if you want.
It's doable but it can be frustrating if people going by themselves and dying or, even worse, reinforcing where they are dragging away teammates from their old positions. It really really blows when you try to do an objective, you die and all of a sudden you're on the other side of the map because you're "reinforcing" the dead weight on your team.
this game looks fun but the character design looks so boring from what ive seen. is there a way to make a cute girl in it? or is it all just boring ass dudes?
genuinely asking here
moronic coomer
gay
only women we see are bald black women now piss off
>game devs become allergic to hair after Nvidia hairworks shits all over performance.
Hmmmmm
God coomtrannies are so fricking pathetic
gayg
>n-n-n-no im not a troony
>i-i-i just have to play as a e-girlcon anime girl like in my dress up anime games
>why? I JUST DO OK STOP QUESTIONING ME!!!1
just admit you you dont like women instead of assuming everyone is a troony
I'm married so of course I don't like women.
>of assuming everyone is a troony
no one mentioned troons but you.
??????
see
kys troony
>is there a way to make a cute girl
I 'm sure some israeli doctor will do it for ~~*democracy*~~
>is there a way to make a cute girl in it? or is it all just boring ass dudes?
Slim (Female) body, Female voice.
Bam.
The entire point of helldivers is that they're faceless soldiers that die en masse, if you want anything more than that like skirts or girly shit or whatever then I don't know what to tell you, that kinda shit goes against the design of the game completely.
Faceless military girls ARE cute, and if you think otherwise you can jump in a bug breach
The Illuminate will return
Inb4 they are just a red herring and the plant monsters are the real new third enemy.
The nigress on your ship literally says they've been exterminated.
Everyone hated them because they looked like apple store protoss and their gimmicks were annoying you with slows, confuse and walls which most people didn't find fun.
Ok, disinfo glowie.
Cope
>Not seeing the news tag that some citizens have spotted illuminates and have been "re-educated" cuz there's NO way the illuminates are back bro.
Jesus. EAT-17 needs like a 30 second cooldown, otherwise it's just not useful at all past challenging.
EAT is one of the better anti armor options. you have the upgrade that gives you two per drop yeah?
>escort mission is the worst one
Kek. When will game designers learn?
The number of times I've cucked my reloads by performing some other action has really made me appreciate EDF's giant ass reloading bar in the middle of the screen. With that thing, you know exactly how long a reload will take.
And yes, I know you can rack the slide as a second animation, so you don't restart the entire animation, but it's still fricking annoying
>EDF
is that the helldivers-like game I've heard about?
whoa
Im getting raped on helldive bots
WHEN WILL HOSTS STOP GOING AFK AFTER THE MISSION WE'LL NEVER COMPLETE TURING AT THIS PACE
Your other option is doing one mission and then going to a completely different area and not completing a set meaning the percentage doesn't actually change
>You have to complete all of them
Is this a joke?
Are you? It makes it pretty blatant that if you select one that has more than one mission in an area, you get extra rewards for doing all of them
>Bought all Stratagems by rank 31
What does money do for me now...?
you save for the mechs
Honestly, this is just Battlefront 2 but with a Starship Troopers theme i.e. "Lol we have them say democracy a lot isn't this biting satire?" ... 6/10 pretty good.