>ex-Halo dev said they pitched a game like this
>said pitch got shot down
>Microsoft missed out on this success for no reason
loving every laugh
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Is it like uhhhh battlefield or something? i dont get it
it's le epic FOTM game that is totally goty material because the hype hasn't cooled off yet. the game itself is contrived, repetitive slop with a main theme that's been overdone to hell and back but Black folk still eat it up because le heckin' democracy or something
now describe it without being an insulting little b***h. ill wait
>if you insult my favorite FOTM game your opinion doesn't count
how's that rootkit going for you? you able to play the game you forked out $40 for yet? you fricking Black person
I’ve been able to play just fine for a week. With my buddies too. Can you say the same?
>he can't afford it so he's seething about it
Haha
>
you'll have to try again
why not show your hours and instead take this ant sized screenshot
>n-n-n-no! now the conditions for me believing you have changed!!!! the goalposts have moved!!!
i'll accept your concession
that was my first post in the thread it's just a weird way to take a screenshot of steam is all I'm saying
would be based I wouldn't mind some Helldivers 2 ripoffs in other settings
That wasn't even me you homosexual. Nice screenshot moron, there were never any goalposts I literally just made fun of you for being a poor homosexual contrarian butthole that wants to complain about a game he never played
>i-i-i-i-i-it's slop trust me i totally didn't play 100 hours already
LUL
lmao look how mad you are at a video game, it's adorable
>maybe if i say he's mad i'll do an epic gotcha moment! we did it reddit!
kys
wow maybe you should go back and have a nice day there and not mess up our carpets you flying homosexual
>n-n-no you!
i accept your concession too. it's too easy to dunk on Black folk around here
>nuh uh you don't have le game!!! ur just poooor!! stop hating on my FOTM!!
you already lost, you can stop kvetching now
>kvetching
somebody said this word in another helldivers 2 thread and im thinking you might be the same person. since you used it again i guess you didnt see my reply where i corrected you saying its spelt kvatch and its a town in oblivion. i dont know why you're trying to use it as a verb.
>being this paranoid
another mindbroken Black person to add to my long list lmaoooooooo you need help
i think your trying to gaslight me.
>informal, north american
oh so it isnt a real word. thanks for proving me right anon
>>oh so it isnt a real word
>trying this
>when his counter argument is a non existent connection to an old ass game
you lost
>m-m-m-maybe if I turn what he said back on to him I can still win!!!
you still lost
you're wrong just like the other Black person so you might as well be. you also lost
just to add more spice to my decimation of your butthole, here you go. your shitty attempt at acting like a knower of le deep esoteric terms didn't work
Its a common phrase, kiddo
>t. Jane
He was making a joke you turbo autist
>i was just pretending to be moronic
yawn
Why are you referring to yourself in the third person?
Kek you're a fricking moron
that's clearly a joke because we are on a video game board you actual mongoloid israelite
shut up moron
bro you got some new material?? you already said that to another anon.
>conform to my standards or ur wrong
i told you you could shut up already, you don't need to keep going. I've given you permission
yet you still got it wrong in an attempt to nuh uh me you dumb Black person. christ it's funny how you keep self owning
>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
thanks for your surrender
>you still got it wrong
I'm not that guy, pal. Calm your tuchus.
I'm glad you're not playing it. We don't need shitters like you clogging up the servers
The gameplay loop is repetitive but it's still a fun game. I think what people are overlooking is how barebones the launch was
>only two of three enemy types from the first game
>no mech or tank stratagems
>broken servers because the devs expected the game to flop
After filtering your superfluous b***h-made criticism, I agree with the core post
There’s not a lot to do aside from the loop of dropping in, blowing things up, and getting out, the core gameplay is pretty solid but I’m eager to see what else they’ll do to spice things up
Luckily I got this game as a gift, so I can get everything done and check back at my own pace
Why is "FoTM" Ganker's new buzzword?
because ‘slop’ was extremely problematic
because thats what games like this are, after a month they get completely forgotten
I've seen Ganker apply "FoTM" to every single game released in the past year, including Elden Ring's yet-to-release DLC. I think it's just third worlders who can't run new video games.
well yeah calling something like elden ring fotm is just dumb
it's even better when they refer to a single player game or show as "FOTM"
are people just supposed to play/watch something forever after finishing it?
Given that Ganker for it's literal first decade since it's inception was about getting in and everyone jumping on Flavour of the month games, the recent influx of people shitting on them is not only indicative of being an outsider but also correlates with the increase of non English speakers using the site in greater numbers. (Specifically South Americans and Chinese) [Read: Poor people]
Did you make Suicide Squad?
It's so joever for Rocksteady. Sad.
This poster was so right, he kicked the samegay beehive. The average Helldivers discussion is like scrolling through a 40k rage comic subreddit in the year 2010. It's cringe as frick.
It's Starship Troopers (movie version): The Videogame.
Its the best game you've played a million times before
>halo has orbital drop shock troopers
>helldivers are orbital drop shock troopers
It's Starship Troopers with ODST armor.
I have played the first one. If its like the the first one, a team of four drop into a small map to do a set of objectives while an endless horde try to stop you. Due to the nature of ordinance at your disposal team killing is common but you get endless respawns as long as one person calls for more soldiers to be dropped in.
halo got punished as a franchise for having biblical themes in its inception. the israelites that run microsoft will never allow it to be good again
>israelites that run microsoft
Any time someone uploads an image of a black person my face contorts as though I've just smelled something foul
That's a (You) problem, anon.
So I just need more (You)s to solve the problem? Reply to me more then, b***h.
OK latinx
ok Tyrone
That doesn't make any sense. Why would a brown person dislike looking at other brown people?
not even latinx like brown people, this is a well known fact
There are hierarchies within the brown global majority.
They know whitey is already sitting comfortably on top so they squabble over second place.
meanwhile black people are like "MOM SAID IT'S MY TURN AS THE MASTER RACE"
>Latinx
Spotted the old white lady
That's a natural reaction any human has to sub-humans.
same
also have the same reaction to pajeets since they're the Black folk of asia
He's not wrong gay.
Haha it’s the goofy face Black person xD!
Anytime someone does something, this Black person does a goofy face! So talented and funny lmao.
it was allowed to finish a trilogy, I wouldn't say it was punished. Instead, it was the idiots who kept it going who were punished
Not just biblical themes. When you read the lore between the lines, it's just 1-to-1 recreation of israelites vs Christians. San'Shyuum being the small population of genetically fricked prophets of the covenant, who think that they're chosen by the gods and hate humans (christians - John 1:17 being the reclaimer) with a passion
Wow another FOTM game. Who cares
Not every game needs to be played for a solid year. This isn't an MMO and the point of playing a video game is to experience it and enjoy playing it. Then pick up a new game and have a fun time.
>Wow another FOTM game
Everyone point and laugh at the poor thirdie
an ODST game in the vein of helldivers would have been cool as hell
its adhd deep rock galactic and its fun as frick
now describe it without being an insulting little b***h. ill wait
no frick you moron if calling something adhd is insulting you can frick off and never come back you whiny homosexual b***h frick you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No.
I would, but your adhd ass is already gone
Frick off leaf lover.
Imagine Helldivers but WW1 shock troopers/
That would be the shit
Imagine Iron harvest setting but instead of shitty company of heroes clone they made it like that.
>our studio has never made a single good game but TRUST me guys we pitched an idea JUST like this hit game and it would've been amazing!!!
sounds about right, yeah
Which armor has the best ass?
someone last thread said one of the scout armors has a more noticeable ass but idk
None of them are really packin
They'll add bikini armors and a beach planet in the summer warbond.
Wow, he pitched a similar game? Amazing. Truly he was robbed. By having the idea to copy Starship Troopers. That man's creative genius will surely not go unnoticed.
I ask again, what is stratagem SCATTER? Not the fricking scrambling, that's separate.
makes shit land further away from your beacons, pretty sure it only affects orbitals
what do you think scatter means you dumb moron
Haha, wow. I guess he must be a scatter brain.
i guess he could be thinking that it turns all orbital weapons into airbursts but thats dumb af fr 100
I wish the revolver wasn't dogshit
yea
I wish the Liberator Explosive actually did some noticeable AOE explosion of real consequence like an airburst grenade
Anyone got any tips on how to kill the adam smashers faster?
railgun his fricking face 3 times
or use any other armor weapon
but hit his little face
Slugger downs them decently fast, also stunlocks the one you're shooting in the process. Other than that, aim for the head or blow off their arms.
Shoot them in the head.
Shoot the arms, not the giant glowing distractions. Their arms fall off and they become non threats. If you run out of ammo swap to your machine pistol, it's surprisingly good at killing them.
Also use actual weapons. I swear to god if I see another moron using the lmg at difficulty 6+ I'm just going to start kicking all of them.
>LMG
>bad
Frick off and stay in 7s. With the accuracy crouch armor it is laser accuraete. I hope I kick you right before extracts.
how do you deal with heavily armored stuff like chargers and bile titans with the lmg?
you dont, lmgs are for bots and medium armoured stuff
so youre just useless against heavily armored stuff?
its a team game anon not everyone needs to bring the exact same build
No-one need help clearing bots and medium armoured stuff, though. Everyone can do that with 0 issues. But now if you're bringing an LMG, they also need to carry you when anything heavy shows up.
>No-one need help clearing bots and medium armoured stuff, though.
you have no idea the amount of times ive been playing with randos and we've been overrun with little bugs because everybody brought anti-heavy strats and weapons
0?
Everyone has a primary weapon and a secondary weapon, anon. Even the absolute worst picks of those categories can deal with the chaff no problem.
Look, if you want to bring LMGs go for it, maybe you find that fun, but they don't contribute anything you can't already do with primaries and just mean you're relying on your team-mates to deal with the actual threats.
I've solo'd 8s, but am waiting for my friends to move on to 9s. As for you, I'm sure anyone can make it to 9 and even win there if they're being hard carried, even someone who brings LMGs, so I'm not making any guesses.
i sincerely doubt you have any idea what you're talking about if you've never been swarmed in higher difficulties, especially if you have morons with drones that pull in every patrol in a 100m radius
Of course I've been swarmed, but an LMG is barely any better than the primaries in those situations. If you really want to kill everything you need air support or even mortars or whatever, machineguns are not nearly enough to help, but in reality you should really just retreat anyway. Any swarm on real difficulties includes a bunch of heavy armor targets regardless, the swarm itself still isn't the actual threat. Also thankfully the people I play with learned drones were shit back when we were on difficulty 5 or so.
Yeah, stealth and repositioning is definitely the name of the game at this point at these higher difficulties, at least for me and the people I play with. Personally I much prefer that, so it's fine by me.
Playings 8-9s is more of a stealth game than actual fighting just like the first game and the only time I’d go railgun or RR with reloader. You sound like a meta slave. 9s right now are just low levels joining for muh fast xp and medal farming. Can’t find an honest game.
are we even playing the same game? 8-9 just become more daka booms.
I thought I was talking to a guy who plays in 7s, but now I have proof you’re just a 5 shitter or lower.
i'll give the lmg a shot in high level stuff. was messing around with the spear earlier today
Use the armor that gives you accuracy when you crouch. Even if it doesn’t outright kill Devatators fast enough which are the biggest bot threats, the suppression is good enough to hopefully screw up their rockets.
Then my 500kg and railgun strike do the work. If if’s on cd, I leave it to the other guys or run away.
Drop an orbital rail or a rocket turret or call an eagle. Or GTFO and don't engage them at all, that's often the best course on higher difficulty
EAT, 110mm eagle, 500kg eagle, orbital rail cannon, orbital laser.
LMG's should be primaries, higher ammo capacity for lengthier reloads is a fair exchange.
is EAT actually good? i see people praising it a lot but when i see it randomly spawn in the field and shoot something with it it never dies.
You get two every 70 seconds which gives it a lot of utility.
>Breaks leg armour on chargers in one hit
>Shoot down Automoton dropships in one hit
>Destroy factories/Bug Nests
It can frick up Hulks, tanks, and bile titans as well but wont be enough to kill them on its own, I always bring it on the clearing nest missions incase I run out of 'nades.
If you mean these guys you can either shoot them in their face or shoot their midsections, both should be glowing red
I mainly mean the ones with shoulder rockets and those frickers with shields and chain guns.
Also, what do when there's a conga line of them gunning for me?
>conga line
Grenades. You get 4 of them. Toss them at your feet and keep running.
>the ones with shoulder rockets
you either shoot them in their face (very small) with something that has at lease medium armor pen or you can flank around and shoot their massive glowing vents (weakspot) on their back
>those frickers with shields
shoot their gun hand with any weapon or shoot through the shield with a railgun
>what do when there's a conga line of them gunning for me
meme answer: run, pray, shoot, di(e)ve
serious answer: try to stay calm and shoot weakspots
Thanks, I just wish I was a better shot with my slug throwing shottie.
>The conga line of rapebots
I always fricking unloading into these. Pure dopamine with the (apparently not) HEAVY MASHEEN GUN
Also need help deciding on a good air support option to go with AMR/Supply pack/EATs
Get the auto shotgun and aim for the glowing hips, auto cannon my beloved at longer to midrange
dump one clip of the uzi into them, have not tested the smg yet
I play almost exclusively bug missions. I hate the robots, but these guys are not that hard to kill. Use the only real primary weapon - the breaker and just shoot them in the face 3-5 times.
autocanon. They go down fast.
Man I love the aesthetics of some of these maps. This shit reminded me of the Umbara arc from The Clone Wars. Also, I love being an armor/tank buster. My favorite thing to do in any Battlefield game was dedicate myself to blowing up big shit. I just love this game in general. This might be the only time I have FOMO'd into a game and not regretted it.
my favorite map I've seen so far was a burned out jungle. It was one of the bot planets we just lost so I can't play it anymore but it was easily the most visually interesting thing I've seen so far
it had like coral looking buildups around the scorched trees it was neat
I like the sand bug planet. Especially at night, but the gas/red tint can get pretty obnoxious
Does this fricking piece of shit game work yet can I fricking buy it already
The servers are stable now. Way better than they were, at least. I still crash sometimes. Its fricking infuriating when you're 20 mins deep into a mission, have tons of samples, and BOOM you crash. Or the host crashes.
Also still some bugs. I actually just had a glitch where I started the animation of extracting from the ship, but my guy flew through the ship and died. Lost all my samples. Fricking bullshit.
Its mostly stable though, and I'd consider it playable. Just accept that bullshit still happens.
ODSTs probably aren't disposable enough for an HD2 style game
>ODSTs probably aren't disposable enough for an HD2 style game
While the main idea of the Spartan III program was to create "lesser" Spartans to trade lives for time, Mostly because Ackerson was a fricking idiot.
That being said, considering the fact that even the cheaper Spartan III's had Superior training and augments with less members, Why the hell would you sacrifice your better solders when you had a choice?
How do I end lobby if i'm the host, do I just have to manually kick everyone out?
>Join impossible, egg hunt
>all level 40+
>they all take railguns
I should have just quit then.
>take GL and shield gen because clearly I'm going to be the only person actually blowing up eggs
>all three if them sit at drop fighting a horde
>run off solo because that's moronic, take out two egg nests solo while the other three use up 15 reinforcements doing frick-all
>meet up with them at the third egg nest, get killed by friendly fire
>drop in nearby, call down my GL and shield
>teammate takes my shield right in front of me
>kill him, take shield back, blow up the last eggs
>2 reinforcements left
>gunning it to extract with the samples I've found and picked up off bodies
>host dies in a random spot, call him in on the extract while it's running
>he runs off to aggro patrols while the two other players frick around on the opposite side of the map
>he brings multiple hordes to the extract forcing me to abandon it, timer resets
>"You have been kicked from the game"
I was shocked because my experience with public matchmaking had been really positive so far.
Then I checked recent players and saw the PSN logo.
PSA: they turned on crossplay. Turn it off to avoid console players.
From my personal experience, you made all that up.
I guess it was fun during the first few days when everybody was a sub level 20 rando shitter including myself
But now I get it, me and the 23 are doing all the heavy lifting and the two level 7s are just team killing with explosions and not picking up our samples
Left 8 commons and 7 rares on the ground
I'm so mad
the quality of randos has sharply declined in the past week or so
It's crossplay.
They enabled crossplay even if you haven't linked your PSN.
Turn it off. Instantly better teammates.
i have it off anon and i still run into droneshitters who shoot at every patrol they see
Real.
>Last night
>pushing higher difficulties for medals
>get a group that sticks together through 3 ops
>based southern accent dude cheering us on and strategizing
>even manage to finish a 6 civilian extraction
Today
>constantly matched with Black folks with music in the background
>barely intelligible Black speak
>none of them do the mission objectives
>all of them too low level for Suicide difficulty
Just yell at them and tell them to turn their trash music off and then start blasting some cringe ass dubstep.
>constantly matched with Black folks with music in the background
>barely intelligible Black speak
>none of them do the mission objectives
>all of them too low level for Suicide difficulty
God I'm glad I have mates to play with and they're all white
That's what randoms are for, playing with them is an optional challenge mode where morons eat all your respawns and perpetually aggro every enemy on the map.
If you want to actually get things done you play without them, ideally with friends but even solo is easier than with randoms.
I'll be honest 2 of them died and I chose to not bring them back
Only way they were getting back in is if the other 2 of us died and it automatically kicked them back
This is true in any game, but I get the impression H2 needs some massive updates to TEACH people how to play properly. Frick, I was playing a difficulty 3 mission against Automatons and the whole thing was complete impossible shitshow between not everyone being perfectly on point and gear limitations. There needs to be instructional videos or a bestiary or something telling people where you shoot what and how you need to go about certain tactics - for instance the "help scientists escape" mission it isn't even obvious what doors are active until you're close enough to press the console and its not like there's even an instruction that you have to do that in the first place. To say nothing for creating a safe path despite constant bot drops etc..so they don't just get gouged or blown up by someone trying to create the path in the first place etc. Its a fricking mess.
DRG isn't perfect but it does tell you what needs to be done pretty clearly and gives you a good idea of HOW to do it, you can research any enemy type and see its weak spots etc. They need that at very least, and better guidance for everything else.
Thanks. Would be good if they mentioned this at the console where you buy the thing. Also is the "rearm" basically a strat you have to input that rearms all Eagle strats, but I'm guessing it has a cooldown when it goes an rearms (I do vaguely remember something about that in the upgrade area of the carrier, making the rearm faster etc? )
>Also is the "rearm" basically a strat you have to input that rearms all Eagle strats
Yes. When you use all your charges the Eagle will go to rearm on it's own (I think it's a two and a half minute cooldown, or something) using the Eagle rearm stratagem will make it rearm early.
I’d love a bestiary, not only do I have an autistic fascination with them in general I kinda need one because the names and behaviors of elite enemies is beyond me
I just call them what they look like and it’s probably confusing to people over voice chat, Charging Things, ATSTs, Praetorians, Spitters, Rocket Things, although it only took like 2 hours of play to find out that they really are just called Chargers, but I still got no idea what those front armored bugs with the big carapace crowns are
the orange ones that curl up into a phalanx sort of position? hive guards. if you ping them it tells you their name
That's a good point too. One thing you CAN do is if you're pretty accurate, you can use Q to basically flag an enemy and your grunt will often say its proper name especially if its a bigger one, but yeah aside from that they have both local and similar missions like
>Kill 25 devastators
what the frick is a devastator? Which faction is it on? Etc. Unless you knew in particular or got killed by one and saw it named 'you were killed by devastator" and then noted exactly which of the robots actually killed you,... yeah its kind of a waste to note have a bestiary. They can and should do it in character should be good for some laughs.
i dont think ive heard them actually say their proper name, i only remember them saying "heavy" when pinging chargers
That's possible, they don't always say the name - its one possibility I think. Sometimes they call it out by name, other by "role" like heavy, armored etc. . All the more reason for a bestiary.
I see two ends of the system, maybe four depending on the plan, and I recall that Helldivers 1 had two more distinct factions, wouldn’t know i never played it, but if they ever add more enemy factions they’re absolutely gonna need a handbook get the names down for new players
In-character of course, like half of it is useless propaganda and personal insults and the other half actually is good to know if just to let you know what to expect, either be dodging missiles for days or let you know to check your back for invisible bastards sneaking up somewhere
I played Helldivers 1, and it had 3 enemy factions as i recall, as well as way more weapons, vehicles and the like for players to use (it was top down, not 3d like this). It did have a bestiary that detailed the enemies major features; don't reember if it was in character but they can do better here.
I know we'll be getting all kinds of new gear, stratagems etc but even new classes of it. Two of the big things missing out are Vehicles (from a bike with sidecar up to a APC or halftrack , to even tank things) and "power-loader type single pilot Mechs (with different weapons on the arms melee and ranged). We saw a video shortl before launch that showed a mech that looked exactly like them from HD1 saying "soon". Enemies on the other hand are evolved versions of HD1 enemies
>HD1 Bugs became these slightly different bugs
You find lore in the game that the chemical that allowed jumping through space faster was found in the bodies of the bugs from HD1, so they were basically "farmed" by Super Earth and because of that were artificial selected and grew more powerful, eventually breaking out of their farm preserves and going willd
>HD1 Cyborgs became Automatons
They were more biological and were vaguely hinted to be more respectful of individuality and a collectivist society than Super Earth's "my way or the highway" managed democracy. People had the right to modify/upgrade themselves into wh40k tech priests etc.. but super earth shut that down, they all ran away into other systems. Then mysteriously thees automatons appear from nowhere with even better tech, more robotic, etc.. but with the same symbols as the old cyborgs as Super Earth invades their systems
>HD1 3rd faction were Illuminates, "blue" colored squid-protoss - they may show up soon?
They had advanced tech and were nearly protoss style, forcefields etc..its thought they'll be the next new civilization, or some successor, to come.
Couple videos out there that will tell you names and weak spots for all the enemies. The ones you're talking about are Hive Guard.
Thanks, Guards is much easier to go with
I just called them out as that because I thought they kinda looked like the Xenomorph Praetorians when I saw a couple in the middle of the night
Here's a bestiary-ish. Hopefully someone has a higher res version.
>I get the impression H2 needs some massive updates to TEACH people how to play properly
back in the day when I was a 13 yo moron playing online I would always say "hey guys, I'm kinda bad, how do I play this part?" and use common sense from the advice I would get.
People are just either morons or incredibly self-centered nowadays, no games should be teaching you 24/7 how to play.
Talking to other players and figuring it out how to get better is like 50% of the online fun imo
Having to depend on someone not to tell you to STFU and to know the proper mechanics and willing to tell you them in order to learn general play mechanics necessary to contribute in a cooperative title, is not a good idea. Its not about "24/7" instruction is about having reasonable way to learn what's necessary and progress, especially because when you don't its liable to frick up others games. Even the first Helldivers had better tutorial info, a bestiary etc so I don't think its unrealistic rather than hoping someone will tell every 13 year old noob they meet the ins and outs of gameplay and that every 13 year old noob will receive it accurately.
>This is true in any game, but I get the impression H2 needs some massive updates to TEACH people how to play properly. Frick, I was playing a difficulty 3 mission against Automatons and the whole thing was complete impossible shitshow between not everyone being perfectly on point and gear limitations.
I could solo full clear difficulty 3 automatons with an antimaterial rifle, it's dogshit easy tier. You guys are moronic
Requiring a particular stratagem is bad enough but soloing a mission with one type of objective is different from another. The issue was the shitshow not just because of the lack of gear (a few of them were new players with just the machine gun calldown etc) but also because you can't just frick off when its a Scientist Rescue mission with bot drops all over the place murdering the stupid tards as they run for the bunker and people unable to lock down one direction much less more than one to keep them from not being an errant bullet or being blown up. It requires not just gear but knowledge and play mechanics that aren't easily conveyed just by playing it especially against automatons; you can do it easier with bugs.
Scientist rescue missions are broken and require particular cheese strategies. Honestly at difficulty 3 you probably should be able to brute force them anyway, but either way you shouldn't take them as any indicator of difficulty (in fact you shouldn't take them at all, they're shit). A level 5 scientist rescue bot mission is harder than level 8 regular bot missions, and I'm using those particular numbers because I've literally done bother of them earlier today.
Balance patch this week to stunt meta homosexualry please
Its honestly insane Microsoft didn't do something like this since the literal title is a concept popularized by Halo 20 years ago. Their loss though Helldivers rocks.
Microsoft would frick it up. The fact that they still allow 343 to exist is the only proof I need to show you.
>insane Microsoft didn't do something like this
I can see why they didn't being the market didn't seem all that large for co-op only squad games. Sure we had Borderlands etc that lets you play with friends but that's not drop in and out with randoms pure co-op like say Warframe.
then the last few co-op shooters that dropped sort of flopped. Like that Alien's themed shooter was hot for like a week. Anthem was a train wreck. I think there was a Starship Troopers themed one a few months back but no one cared.
Maybe if HD2 keeps its player base going we start to see more co-op focused games again. I think after years small team PvP games players are now more willing to try co-op stuff too.
The drop pods are from the Starship troopers book 1959, gayblow didn't invent shit
That anon said popularized not invented ya dingus.
Why is every Helldivers 2 thread about Halo? They are not even the same genre. HD2 takes more inspiration from Starship Troopers/Terminator and is a 3rd person extraction shooter
>why are people comparing helldivers to helljumpers
golly fricking gee what a mystery
Probably because people realized Helldivers and Helljumpers (i.e. ODSTs) are basically the same thing
>extraction shooter
1. Helldivers are a very similar concept to ODSTs from Halo which are beloved
2. Halo is inspired by Starship Troopers too
I noticed that threads made by PC users draw more on SST. PS users compare it more to Halo to finally have a "Halokiller", even if that makes no sense. I guess its console war stuff.
Are you moronic?
you're mentally ill
least mentally deranged Starship Troopers PC troon poster, my head hurts after reading your batshit post
Its mostly Snoys using Helldivers for console-warring. If you play the game you notice it has nothing in common with Halo except the ODST themed soldiers.
>game where you play as a ripoff ODST (Helljumper) called a Helldiver
>extract from a ship called a Pelican
>even the ships have stupid Halo ship names
You'd have to be stupid to not see the similarities.
Its mostly console warring stuff, the game kinda reminds me off an EDF version of ze_starshiptroopersescape
>Why is every Helldivers 2 thread about Halo?
.
So, console warring?
This is such an odd thing to say. Helldivers 1 was published by Sony and became a cult hit, and they decided to take a chance on Arrowhead and gave them a bigger budget and more resources for Helldivers 2 which has allowed it to achieve mainstream success without losing its identity. We should all be happy about that, and instead of whining about it not being on Xbox, Phil should follow Sony's direction and have some faith in their studios. Imagine if Sea of Thieves 2 had the same gameplay but graphics and visuals like Skull and Bones. The key to HD2's success is that Sony took a small chance on a small developer, let them prove themselves, and then took a bigger chance on them with a bigger budget and more resources and still let them make the game they wanted to make. That's not a new fomula, that's the formula that built the games industry and many of the big publishers have forgotten it.
I don't know about you, but Sea of Thieves looks a lot better than Skull & Bones, to me. The water alone is gorgeous.
To each their own. The point is, Sea of Thieves has a very simple visual style despite Rare once having been a huge player in the games industry. They proved that they can actually make a game, and if they did a sequel that had very detailed and less cartoonish looking visuals that looked more like a AAA game like Arrowhead did with Helldivers 2, it would probably be a hit on a larger level. Rare doesn't have the resources for that though so they wisely focused on just making the game fun, similar to how Arrowhead made the original Helldivers be an arcade style twin stick shooter because that's what they had the resources for.
What the frick is a 3rd person extraction shooter?
It's an EDF-like.
EDF is a helldivers-like.
Lol look at the OP. Theres a reason PChads carry this game, Snoys mostly dont play it and use it to dunk on Xbots.
Because space dudes in armor. Really they have nothing else but ther similarity of the armors in common.
Then why no comparisons with SST/40k/Starcraft. Halo doesnt even have bugs or robots as enemies.
The people are treating this as an unofficial SST game, which it basically is. 40k has nothing in common with this but space, so does starcraft which is blizzard's rendition of 40k. The 40k/SC marines/terrans look more like the robots from this game than the helldivers.
>40k has nothing in common with this but space
>what is "Plas-3 Singe"
>what is "Plas-1 Scorcher"
>what is "CR-9 Suppressor"
I don't blame you non-HD1 gays for not knowing the superior Karskin Simulator.
ah yes warhammer famously invented guns. before warhammer there were no guns.
>Starcraft
That's how I always described the first game. It's pretty much zerg/protoss/fricked-up-terrins. Then I remember it's been like 9 years since Legacy of the Void so of course moba playing zoomers don't have that frame of reference anymore. Can't blame them, either, since modern Blizzard is a soulless corpse.
reddithammer fanboys are already coming out of the woodwork begging arrowhead to add 40k cosmetics for them to consoom
I dont get it either, its an EDF clone taking place outside of Earth. Yet every 2nd OP is about Halo. I never played Halo when it released originally in Xbox but got into it when MCC released on Steam. I guess its because HD2 also released on PS, where most players know nothing of Halo.
Snoys using the game for console wars, I guess. I like the threads more when OP is about the SST+EDF elements because surprise, surprise, they dont take part in those as much.
Because Phil mobilised the Shilldivers (Xbottoms)
Because halogays haven't had a good game in years and are fricking fiending for literally anything.
>extraction shooter
dumb fricking Black person
If microshit made it it would’ve have fricking sucked, especially if exhalo dev is either 343 hanger on or even a bungie dev from destiny
>Maybe to israelites and New Yorkers,
To everyone on the internet who chooses to use their phrases to mock how disgusting their entire culture and religion are, goy
god i love going on diff 4-5 missions with the spear and just sitting on a hill blowing up all the bases
Suits are bad at their jobs and stay in power through office politics, more news at 11
>literally hasn't made a single good fricking game
>even the game collection was broken and umplayable for 2 fricking years
>"no but trust us bro, our horde shooter could have been cool"
Anyone expecting any hypothetical 343 game to be good after how israeli halo 5 (specially warzone) and infinite were deserves to get raped by elephants
buff diving and sliding
sliding down hills should be longer/faster and I want to be able to penguin slide down slopes
buff climbing knee high obstacles
It real needs a HOLD SPRINT TO PARKOUR! system
If you're sprinting it should just climb as long as there's stamina
All the verticality in these levels is pretty much wasted
>All the verticality in these levels is pretty much wasted
Invest into the jet pack, best choice of my life.
Would be better if you could trade your side arm for a fortnite grappling hook
>Perfectly time a 13 second orbital strike on a heavy bot tank
>Shot goes straight into the turret top
>*SSSSSHHHBOOOOOO*
>Smoke and sparks fly
>Big explosion
I came
How come call-in times on stratagems differs from game to game? I swear I have played in games where my call-in time on orbitals was like 3 seconds tops
modifiers that nobody looks at before starting the operation.
there's modifiers that make call ins take forever
Some missions have orbital/atmospheric interference or "complex stratagem planning" which doubles call-in times.
does anybody have the leaked footage of some hackerman using the SEAF trooper dropship stratagem
BUFF JUMP PACKS
I WANT TO JUMP PACK CONSTNATLY
LET ME SHOOT WHILE FLYING
LET ME BE A BATTLEFRONT DARK TROOPER
The Dark Trooper loadout, (Slugger, Arc Thrower, Jetpack) is kinda fun but yeah the jetpack is extremely underwhelming.
Also I know the Slugger isnt correct for bf1 what Dark Troopers used, but I like it a hell of a lot more than the other mediocre pump.
Jetpack + Nade launcher is great since you can assault bases solo if you play smartly/a bit of luck.
What's your favorite heavy weapon?
For me, it's the quasar cannon.
I like things that go DAKAKAKAKA or BWOOSH BWOOSH BWOOSH or occasionally KABOOM
>DAKAKAKAKA
mmg
>BWOOSH BWOOSH BWOOSH
ac
>occasionally KABOOM
spear
Autocannon is exactly what I had in mind. I'll take an autocannon in any game that lets me
I like anything that sounds nice and chunky. auto cannon is good, recoilless is good. I want whatever that is, I've never seen that video before.
I also really like the laser weapons, even though they don't go ka-chunk.
>tfw actually like the AMR but everyone else thinks it's shit so when it's inevitably buffed I'll end up looking like a bandwagoning metagay
pro tip- it's just as accurate as any other rifle when not zoomed in, as long as you give it a quarter second to settle between shots it will always shoot straight. Put a dot on your screen or just git gud and you can use it at any range.
What is that weapon? Alternate fire mode for laser cannon?
Looks like someone ripped a video of an unreleased weapon.
Rad, looking forward to the new gear coming. Hopefully content updates alongside balancing really shakes up the game
It's frustrating that you have extremely limited to no options when it comes to killing armored enemies on higher difficulties if you aren't level 20 and have the Railgun / Orbital Laser.
Like if there's 3 chargers in one area, there's just no logical course of action you can take except run away. Trying to stay and fight is a complete waste without the 2-3 tools that make it doable.
2 autocannon shots to a front leg of a charger takes its armour off, then a magazine of machine pistol into it's exposed leg kills it
auto cannon is a level 5 stratagem?
>2 autocannon shots to a front leg of a charger takes its armour off
thats the railgun anon. ac shots just bounce off
Back of the legs works. Auto cannon blows the armor off if you hit the back of the legs, or just does good damage and stagger if you hit it in the joints
You need to wait for certain charger animations like the slow turn or when he skids to stop his charge for any weapon fire not bounce off the legs, it can be very inconsistent
Well, most weapons can take off charger armor but you have to wait for specific animations where they're vunerable, if you don't everything bounces off. I'm pretty sure it's not intedned and bugged, since I dont' think it's realistic expecting everyone to use a railgun which is in the last unlocked weapons currently at level 20. So technically if you can time it you can shoot it off with an autocannon and everything but in high difficulty you don't have the time to wait the charger to do the goofy animations so it's not really viable to use anything but the railgun. They should really fix that.
>autocannon
take a valuable backpack slot and super slow, again with the 3 chargers example it's just not fun to be in that situation
>anti material rifle
it's really bad
yeah sure it's ""doable"" with the dogshit options you have but running away is always smarter until you get efficient firepower at level 20. multiple armored enemies at higher hazard levels just aren't fun to fight in this game
backpack slot is for losesr who need shield 24/7 to babysit them.
Autocannon is great since you don't have to charge it up. Downside is that you can't move while reloading. In fact, I don't know why you say super slow since you do not lose any movement speed.
Antimaterial Rifle?
Aim for leg/weapon/weakpoint?
Hopefully they add that weapon/strategem upgrade system soon
Auto cannon my guy.
Also team coordination. One guy pulling the others killing. Not doable with FOMO randoms with 80IQ but once those thin out in a month or two it'll be easy.
>It's frustrating that you have extremely limited to no options when it comes to killing armored enemies on higher difficulties if you aren't level 20 and have the Railgun / Orbital Laser.
what is EAT-17's, recoilless rifle, autocannon, anti-material rifle (if fighting bots), eagle airstrike, and/or eagle 110mm?
>what is EAT-17's, recoilless rifle, autocannon, anti-material rifle (if fighting bots), eagle airstrike, and/or eagle 110mm?
useless and inefficient is what they are. you aren't going to be killing hordes of heavies on higher difficulties while getting swarmed with those clunky ass weapons, and even if you try your hardest anyway, it's just not fun.
until you get the railgun, higher difficulties are just an exercise in frustration, and even after that I think heavy spawn rates should be tweaked. the player should have way more interesting options instead of 1-2 obviously optimal guns
you don't need a rail gun just use eagles they are superior. auto canon is fine for everything but a bile titan, it can wreck any bot or tank.
The only actual weapons in the game are the breaker and the railgun. I guess spear is okay at killing titans and big things but it's aim is the most broken cancreous shit ever. Everything else is not worth taking. They should really buff other weapons, they're a complete joke. I want to use a rifle or a rocket launcher but they're just weaker and can't deal with enemies quickly enough on high dififculties. I mosltly play difficulty 8 and 9. I'd love to use other weapons but it's unplayable if you don't use those. Also there's like 5 stratagems that do something at high difficulty.
The weapons in the game are cool in concept but they're all underwhelming to use.
>FOTM streamer slop
>there will never be a book-accurate ST mobility shooter
>bouncing for miles on your jump jets
>tossing nukes like candy
>the very definition of quality over quantity glass cannons
feels bad man
>lid prevents ordnance from launching
light jump exo to basically obsolete the jetpack entirely when
Imagine the cooldown on the jump jets. You'd only be able to jump once per mission.
yeah but then you get
>some kind of heavy chaff gun
>fixed shoulder Commando rockets
>maybe something on the grenade slot, or just let you fire your grenades from inside like the old exostratagem mortar
just shrink a standard exo down in firepower, HP, armor, give it jumpjets, job done
Tribes is the closest you'll get.
Literally fencer in EDF5.
Sorta true. Just wish it weren't murder on my poor age-d hands to play 'em that way.
Play EDF then
Thought I was watching a GunZ K-style video for a second.
Also holy HELL fug the bugs. I thought they'd be a little easier then the frickbots.
dude really posted a cyberpunk 2077 "dude this combat is fire!!" ass webm
Detected the counterstrike players.
What did all that stupid movement accomplish?
Why don't you play EDF5 on Inferno as a Fencer without "all that stupid movement" and find out?
Like I said, kinda true, but my skills and hands just aren't strong enough to manage those controls.
steam://joinlobby/553850/109775242888512056/76561198020888797
8, bugs
Isn't it just EDF? The concept was out for ages, but Helldivers 2 seems to be the second "game" to get it right.
EDF but way less over the top
In EDF you can be calling airstrikes constantly or be in a big armored suit mowing down hundreds of enemies.
This is like if everyone the same density existed but you had half the tools to deal with it. You are supposed to feel overwhelmed all the time
my game just randomly crashed mid mission wtf
Against better judgement I am going to use nothing but fire and I’m about to make it everyones problem
Does the napalm grenades still close holes/factories?
Anyone else see there are not Automaton "defend" missions currently up? The ones needed for the big global requirement where we're at like 5 of 8 defends necessary in the next 3 days or something>?
Halo ODST was already a game about exploring an open ended map doing scattered objectives while avoiding or engaging enemy patrols.
I don't understand why they never expanded on it.
Because they needed to tell the story about John Halo crying over his fake a.i girlfriend for 3 games.
343 is obsessed with Mr. Chef and exploring his emotions
Man I hated the shit out of that game. Huge maps but you move at a snail's pace.
I assume that since ODST was the spinoff along with Reach that was Bungies last effort into Halo as a FPS, so they brought out the experimental ideas to sate Microsoft
343, upon being given ownership, probably believe that Spartans/The Chief are the money makers and barely went to deviate or experiment, the attempts from devs that did reach Microsoft got shut down cuz they’re the ones who believe that idea even harder and have the power to decline it
343, and by default Halo, is run by w*men now. I remember watching a vidoc about Halo 4's development where I saw that Wolfkill lady say something like
>The master chief is human, he has emotions!
and I immediately knew it was over. Bungie always stuck to the
>"He's a blank slate, a self-insert badass for the player"
but they did have lore for him there for those that wanted it. Halo became anti-fun.
because it was a cobbled together project to leave microsoft and make destiny
ironic considering an odst inspired game is kicking destiny's nuts now
Destiny 2 is 7 years old and was making so much money that Sony bought Bungie just to get their beancounters to examine exactly why D2s monetization ending up making so many whales who spend hundreds on the cashshop.
I'm not saying that HD2 isn't doing well but D2 has so many paypigs for so long that a major game conglomerate sat up and took notice.
What key changes this stuff? Right click changes fire mode but I can't do anything with the rest.
up and down on mouse wheel by default.
mouse wheel
Scroll wheel up and down for top and bottom, left mouse button for anything that's on the left side (not found one yet)
the way charger track you as they charge is ridiculous, i havent learn how to consistently dodge them yet
Never forget
>We don't want PvP toxicity so we aren't adding PvP
>Ignores the tribalism in game and the toxicity to players that are just starting
What do you want PVP for? You've got friendly fire, just shoot each other
>game about team play and cooperation
>everyone is doing their part
>I WANT TO FIGHT MY OWN GUYS
We know you do /misc/
Do Eagle or otherwise numerically limited drops per mission replenish after a period of time kind of like the respawns, or is it that a 2 or 4 quantity is that for the entire mission, regardless of anything else?
use it and find out
eagle has a rearm that you can activate whenever which replenishes your strats and the orbital laser is just 3 uses per mission
Eagle stratagems are a set number before the eagle needs to reload. You can tell the eagle to rearm before using all your eagle stratagems. Having multiple eagle stratagems will have your eagle not go to rearm until you use all the charges of all eagle stratagems.
Limited Orbital stratagems don't reload.
>hey, I heard you like not being able to see shit. I'm doing my part.
>immediately destroyed with four shots from my PLAS-1 at 400 meters
What's the difference between base game and whatever super citizen thing is?
Is the monetization sketchy? I haven't kept up with co-op ish games since evolve stage 2 so I'm out of the loop.
Don't buy it, you just get three armor sets. Everything else you can earn in-game easily enough. (the regular unlock tree gives you points for the "premium" one.)
Cool. Thanks anons. Is there a voice command menu to SHAZBOT/[Insult Zeds] with?
I wish. The game really does need a chat wheel with funny dialogue.
There are a few basic voice chat commands from a rradial menu using the ping button, letting you ask for supplies, thank people, stuff like that. You can also pink enemies to call them out, and ping other peoples pings to say that you'll take whatever they're pinging.
You have some basic stuff like wait, follow, yes, no, mark, and you can use one equipped emote
No on demand taunts
Also note that you can use emotes some of which are 2 player, like being able to hug a bro or do a liberty fistbump explosion. One player initiates it, and others can interact with them to activate it. It would be nice to have more specific silly things to say, but note that all your characters say a random assortment of insults and other stuff like the
>HOW ABOUT A NICE CUP OF LIB-ER-TEA!
when fighting, but we should suggest that they need to give people more stuff to say/do just for fun, but the basics are there.
Oh by the way by default your avatar's voices wil be 'random' so if you sound like a woman randomly after a respawn that is probably why. You can fix this by picking a specific voice in your config computer thing on the carrier, there are 4 so far.
They really need to add more voice line options.
We really need a “Go go go!”, “I need help” and a “Taunt” one.
You get the premium battlepass thing that has some extra cosmetics and some guns that suck ass, but you can just earn the premium currency by playing games so its pointless.
>What's the difference between base game and whatever super citizen thing is?
You get the Steel Veterans warbond, along with some shitting armor, a shitty titles, and the Stratagem Hero game on your ship
>Is the monetization sketchy? I haven't kept up with co-op ish games since evolve stage 2 so I'm out of the loop.
Monetization is that you use Super Credits to purchase Warbonds and armor in the Super Shop. Super Credits can be obtained by buying them with money (if you're some kind of loser) or just found in missions from points of interest. Each Super Credit pick up gives you ten SC, and you can find a lot in a single mission. In two weeks I had almost 1000SC just from playing normally. Warbonds are expected to have a base cost of 1000SC, going up or down based on how many items and what kinds of items are in the warbond.
Some warbonds will also have super credits in them as well.
Items in warbonds are gotten by spending medals, which can be found in missions, and for completing missions. You cannot use Super Credits or real money to get stuff from a warbond, just the warbond itself.
The Super Citizen pack gives you a gold ingame title of SUPER CITIZEN
It gives you the MP-98 Knight SMG - which sucks
It gives you some suits of armor
It also gives you a video game to play in the back of your ship
In terms of monetization there almost is none. You can buy the in game currency with real money, but you find it as random loot in missions. You can get every premium thing available without ever giving them another dollar and it doesn't take a ton of grinding to do either. Hit all the POIs on a map, open all the vaults, get tons of medals and super credits per hour.
Its actually not sketchy. If you can afford it when you buy the game, get the Super Citizen thing as it gives you
and overall is worth it if you can spare it for the extra shit.
i'm actually afraid that the monetization is SO fair that the overlords will start demanding that it be harder to buy stuff with in-game currencies like Super Credits in order to make people buy them with cash, or otherwise put down limitations. However thus far its pretty damn solid and its a BIG reason people are so favorable to the game even with its launch problems (which admittedly came from ' we didn't realize we were going to have so many people so the servers are fricked, also we have to deal with PS5 tard crossplay". Its surprisingly good though on monetization
Super Citizen lets you play Stratagem Hero in the ship lobby, it's an absolute necessity for any red-blooded patriot of Super Earth.
Funny thing is destiny could've been this but they cucked and went FPS
It was supposed to be TPS, and that reflects in the gameplay
The melee weapons, heavy weapons, abilities, carrying items, vehicles, hub areas, everything is third person except the primary gunplay
And it's because they didn't have the confidence to fully commit to this new and more enjoyable perspective
I've finished starship troopers and it felt like such an anti-climactic end holy shit
the thing about bugs using humans as meat puppets through brainbug babies? DROPPED!
all the actual tension between the human characters? DROPPED!
carl being a psyker and him being used as a character rather than a walking plot device? DROPPED!
the conflict between zander and rico? DROPPED!
>343 pitchted it
>the same devs that have done nothing but release stinker after stinker for a decade
No idea why people think it would have been any kind of good.
devs and management are two different things
343 should have just been an IP management division for Halo that keeps the lore and shit consistent (which unfortunately, they're also bad at). Microsoft tried to basically put together a new studio from scratch and they never had any chemistry or big talent. They basically skipped the steps of buying a talented studio and letting all the talent bleed out after they get sick of corporate shit, by creating a studio that never had any to begin with. Good job.
And I'll say this, the one time someone at 343 actually had a good idea, Microsoft ignored them. This is part of why 343 never puts out anything good, they're a content mill that actively discourages people with talent and big ideas from doing their best worth. When those types of people end up at 343 they will inevitably leave for a better gig when the opportunity arises.
Having seen what the Halo games became once 343 came into existence I don't believe a single fricking thing these devs say they pitched. They are incapable of having ideas anywhere in the vicinity of fun.
Liber-tea!
Can someone explain this game to me, what is it? Do you play on a giant server with thousands of players or what? I know nothing
just go watch a fricking video
You drop in as a group of 4 people.
Do a mission that involves a series of objectives.
Extract.
Do it all over again.
The server with thousands of players involves the galactic map. Your operation victory/defeat influences the liberation of the planet. Liberating a planet opens up more planets to choose from.
After the Hanger, which ship module should I upgrade?
the one that does the other stratagems you use
Get the one that gives supply weapons full ammo
Orbital. Turrets are good but you need super rares to upgrade.
i still dont understand whats so great about this game, it just looks like another generic multiplayer shooter
Controlling your Helldiver feels good, the immersiveness between the setting and the gameplay is present with thematic and tonal consistency, in-game events are already happening (and may or not be monitored/influenced by devs, unclear to me), the explosions and impact are on point while both looking and sounding great, ragdolling, terrain deformation from explosions... if anything I would say that the real drag at the moment is all the slobbering special needs that have flooded in following streamers.
that just sounds like every multiplayer game except for the terrain deformation
>that just sounds like every multiplayer game
No, it doesn't.
>that just sounds like every multiplayer game
do you play multiplayer games at all?
Omni-directional diving.
Randomly explosions.
Gore.
Limb damage.
Numerous other small details.
>randomly explosions
Meant to say ragdoll and explosions.
Nah, randonly explosions is pretty accurate.
Bot airfield mission I was just on had the main objective complete when I was nowhere near it. Something happened and shit just blew up. I've had drop ships explode and crash around me when I was soloing with no turrets. Randomly there are explosions.
>Multiple fire mods for nearly all guns
>Crazy attention to detail like different animations for when you exit the freezer
>The fuggen call outs and ragdolls
>i still dont understand whats so great about this game
The only good part is the intro scene and the music that blares when entering a mission. After that, it's an absolute dud. The game loop is "goto point A and blow up landmark, goto point B and survive a bug rush before you get rescued". They incorporate almost zero effort in presentation during the actual gameplay which is ultimately why this game will go back to obscurity after its honeymoon.
Presentation is everything in gameplay. Looks like a movie half the time.
It's a good framework for fun interactions with other players.
Yes, yes "every game can be fun with friends" I'm not saying that. I'm saying the game is pretty good at encouraging team play and coordination to achieve those similar objectives mission after mission.
It definitely could be better, and more variety in weapons and calldowns would be the biggest contributor to that. But boiling it down to just doing objectives is missing the point.
People are H4XX1NG and using not yet released strategems that are already in the game
This one let's you call NPC reinforcements
I can't see a fricking thing
Guy called in a dropship that deployed human NPCs which started shooting bugs
I can't see the detail there, but if that's accurate then
>SURE GOOD THEY CHOSE THE FRICKING NPROTECT GAMEGUARD DESPITE ALL ITS MAJOR PROBLEMS AND PISSING OFF A BUNCH OF POTENTIAL PLAYERS
What a complete fricking waste.
It is hard to see, sorry about that it's just 4 channels parameters
>You play as a white ethnostate
Your ship crew are all ethnic. The family in the opening is a white guy with a black wife and a mixed kid.
>Your ship crew are all ethnic.
It's RNG if you get a crew with white or black facial features. They all have the same skin tone regardless though. It's really bizarre.
THat's...odd. I know that the one bald black-ish woman on the ship is always there, but the female support tech off to the side is tanned but not black and neither is big XO guy with buff armor.
Quickplay into other lobbies and look at the crew, they'll randomly have different facial structures for other players. The buff Officer dude is always white I think, but sometimes he gets an eyepatch.
more like hellcrashers, this game crashes every 5 minutes
I probably wouldn't have bought it if it was a halo game, halo is gay.
>Sony finally delivered the Halo Killer
>after Halo already committed seppuku
pottery
>Orange melees purple before going into the dropship, just a bit of fun banter
>Purple spergs the frick out and shoots all 3 of us in the pelican
>Offs himself with a grenade after
>Fission mailed
What the actual frick man.
Must be a troon
they'd hate it because it's satire and not sucking the wehraboo wiener.
"Satire" has never existed. Read about Death of the Author.
okay.
I'm glad we had a productive conversation.
>pulled off my first extract civilians mission on suicide difficulty on a bot planet
the horror
How many did you kill, anon?
1:1 ratio on bots and civilians. i did it for Super Earth.
(hallowed whispering) for super earth
Cleared it with on impossible with 1 minute left. We retreated from the base looped around and pushed back on it cleansing it of bots, however no Helldivers made it to the rescue boat.
>Glorious sacrifice
God I love this game
They are definitely bugged. You get 15 minutes, but the mission select says 40. I think the pace is set as if you had 15/40 minutes remaining, which is where most missions start to get a bit crazy
I tried one on helldive today with the boys. It's just a joke, i'd like the devs to show me that it's possible, I don't believe it is. extracting 50 civilians for 15 minutes while there's 5 hulks and 2 tanks on the extraction base? I know helldive is supposed to be really hard but it's not impossible for the other missions, sure we need the whole 40 minutes and not all of us make it out but it's doable. But this fricking mission is not.
The only good players are doing automaton missions. Most of the bug players are fricking moronic.
I'm pretty sure it's because you need some basic coordination to kill bugs at high difficulties while bots are easy to stay on top of with three randoms as long as everyone is doing their share of the killing.
Bugs are honestly WAY harder than bots once you're out of the low difficulties.
Except for the evacuate civilian missions, of course, which are just broken and I don't care if they say they patched them.
The bots are slower, but much much more dangerous. A rocket or flamethrower will instakill you before you can even react. You can dodge around chargers and bile titans all day, and nothing else is a real threat
>Bugs are honestly WAY harder than bots
They've actually done a great job in promoting different styles of play between the two factions.
Bugs are all about staying mobile and efficiently dealing with the swarming chaff while focusing on a major target
Bots firing back forces you to move slower an prioritize cover far more than you do against bugs, lest you get sniped by a rocket or an accurate laser burst.
Play style that works against one, doesn't really work against the other. So you always get people who switching over claiming that they are far more difficult.
Why liber-tea? Didn't America disown tea after their liberation? No, America is not irrelevant. All that shouting about democracy, liberty and freedom can only be a parody of Bush era patriotism
frick off fotm streamer-watching /misc/baiting homosexual
It wasn't the tea, it was the 1% tax on the tea.
It's actually a cutting parody of interwar Poland and modern Russia, the world's only Managed Democracies.
Tips for newcomer?
Game needs more bugs on the screen.
I am getting so fricking bored of this game holy shit. I'm 17 or 18 hours in and level 7 jesus christ.
> I'm 17 or 18 hours in and level 7
how
I mostly play on either easy and sometimes medium shooting bugs. I tried automaton and they're not hard but they're not fun. Usually when I play a mission I try to clear out the map but that hasn't net me anything and trying to clear out a map real fast nets me even less. I also play by myself because every time I've tried to play with randoms im kicked or teamkilled for playing the fricking objective.
>18 hours in and level 7
stop playing on trivial anon i believe in you
how the FRICK did it take you 17 hours to get bored of this game? I can finish 1 mission a day TOPS. Anything else and i'll genuinely die of boredom
How? I literally got level 10 after 5 hours of gameplay when I got it? Are you playing trivial?
ODST's don't fit the co op horde shooter, they're shock troops but to be an ODST against covies means you're weak and they're strong. It takes like, a cilp of AR just to pop an Elite's shield, so you can't really have a dozen of them
what logic is this? in helldivers most enemies are straight up invulnerable without the right equipment
you can literally kill everything but a bile titan with no special weapons.
but then you're using your own logic, where it takes a lot of clips to kill certain enemies
you problem is you need special equipment you don't. Is it hard will you end up without amm? sure. but it's possible so manager your engagements. properly
that's moving the goalpost, you said halo wouldn't work because some enemies need to be mag dumped to kill and you're relatively weak, where mag dumping to kill one target and dying is super frequent in helldivers
Just increase the damage values of everything. You can blow someone's head off with a single DMR round, can't say the same for Halo.
Halo Wars sure as hell didn't care about established damage numbers
Reminder: The game is an satire and humanity is a fascist regime using propaganda to promote colonialism and capitalism.
You literally find death camps on Automaton planets where they executed all the white colonists, and their symbol is a red star.
Do they use the people they capture to make more automatons or do they just kill them?
Why do you think the corpses are decapitated, and they're all so weak to headshots?
Reminder: we don't care, super earth is cool
the game is about shooting a large amount of bugs and robots using various large explosives
So it's made by ork players?
The cornerstone of any right-wing extremist ideology.
Colonialism against non humans is morally correct. If you don't enforce your will against aliens they will enforce theirs against you.
Read Three Worlds Collide.
Why are so many against diversity of the cosmos? All galactic cultures are equal.
Correct. Some are just more equal than others.
Do you want to coexist with a society that eats their children ritually even though they have the capability to not do that?
Do you want to coexist with a society that merges their bodies into one big barely differentiated hivemind?
What do you say when either of those societies tells you they view something about human society immoral and they want you to change it? What if they tell you they already built a genetic retrovirus that will alter humans to have broods of children so we have enough to ritually eat?
Nope. Coexistence with aliens is categorically impossible. Better to wipe them out on sight
>What if they tell you they already built a genetic retrovirus that will alter humans to have broods of children
bro dont fricking type this on Ganker what is wrong with you
I don't even know why we are escorting them to another building. Won't that building just be overruned once we leave? They're just sitting ducks inside the bigger builder.
they get extracted by pelican anon
Really? I never see it. I just see those idiots run into the middle building and that's it.
it leaves when you complete the objective
ThE GUNS ARE TRASH. There i said it. they need to allow mods, they would gain so many people if they had a tarkov style gun mod system.
>they would gain so many people if they had a tarkov style gun mod system.
NO
FRICK OFF
it will be added in the future with ammo types
why do you hate unique gun gay.
/k/gays are insufferable
and tarkov's mod system allows for 1 or 2 meta builds per gun and this game already has a problem with metagays
who cares about meta gays? just make the gun look cool for you instead following meta of the same shit.
Did the devs playtest scientist/civilian rescue missions at all?
It's just people being moronic and not bringing in the right equipment
They didn't play test anything past challenging mode if they think these weapons are balanced
>Did multiple today on difficulty 7 with no civilian losses
Probably.
>just run around in circle gays then get one gay with smokes infiltrate in
Yeah
Being in the diversion team is tons of fun.
Microsoft has been beyond incompetent when it comes to Halo lately.
9/11 for halo fans.
How so, this game is nothing like Infinite in terms of gameplay. My friends and me mostly switch between the 2 and Warzone.
>How so, this game is nothing like Infinite in terms of gameplay. My friends and me mostly switch between the 2 and Warzone.
Because the marketability of the halo franchise is effectively being written over. 343 burned most of the good will they had in their last 3 projects. Even though Halo has received fair post launch support, it missed the launch window when most eyes were on halo. If they would have made a helldivers 2 like experience, even if it was shittier, it could have road along on the brand name alone. Thats missed market saturation while its already dying. Halo infinite no longer has its 10 year plan. They're already thinking about moving on. That shows low faith in the product. While they may still make another halo it now sits on a shelf of titles that have such low importance that it could be canceled to make the company more lean. I still have halo infinite on my Steam Deck but producers are cynical.
You hug all your homies before a mission, right?
i can't, because every time i start the game all my gear and emotes get reset and i forget to equip the hug emote back
1 team member gets exactly 1 hug from me, anon. You wanna be it?
Looks like matchmaking is fricked again.
steam://joinlobby/553850/109775242900299830/76561198008680191
bugs 7, looking for super samples, rest irrelevant.
>7
stop farming and play the real game please
>about to finish a helldive difficulty blitz mission
>only a quick and easy exterminate mission left after this
>can already smell the warbonds
>Black person host leaves
>blackscreen when we return to the ship
They need to fix this shit ASAP, theres no fricking reason why our whole group has to get fricked if the thirdworlder homosexual has his potato battery die on him while we do our shit.
What do I have to do to actually progress in this game seriously that won't fricking bore me to tears at this point.
I assume 15 of those hours were spent being unable to connect?
a couple hours waiting to get in so yeah
Play higher difficulty, you can get 900~ xp in under 20 minutes with some of the little confined exterminations
play on a non-toddler difficulty
>refuses to play higher difficulties
>refuses to play with randos
>complains the game is boring
honestly try getting a refund because i dont see how a coop horde shooter game is ever going to be fun for you
I'm sorry that I tried to play with others and always got fricked over by the brownest people either teamkilling because im playing the objective or getting kicked for the same thing.
thats bad luck anon. maybe try waiting for someone in these threads to host a game and join that
homie just do higher difficulty missions
Stop playing trivial Black person, 1 hard mission will level you up 2 times at your current level.
I am not playing trivial im playing on easy and medium
Step up to challenging and try to be less of a whiner
You might as well play on trivial, medium and easy are basically the same as trivial. At least play hard, which is also quite easy but at least gives xp.
Are you making sure to call down a better weapon at the start of the match? Challenging is fricking nothing. Just get good routines.
I do that every time it's just that on hard I don't have anything to help with the super armored bugs that charge at you.
Refund and move on. The game isn’t for you.
Just play higher difficulties..
Have friends
Play higher difficulties, you coward. Baby levels give you significantly less XP and cash.
steam://joinlobby/553850/109775242882944481/76561198024623656
2/4 slots currently. Level 5 defense operation on Mort. Don't wanna go higher cuz its bullshit.
>ex-Halo dev says they had an idea for something like Helldivers 2
>Bungie is just going to make fricking Destiny bullshit until it goes bankrupt or the Earth falls into the Sun, whichever happens first
Why did this happen? Why did Bungie leave Microsoft just to make a pseudo-MMO for decades?
bungie as a company is only bungie in name. the company you knew has been long gone and scattered
Most gamers have no idea about who actually made their games. They just see names and go "that's a brand I recognize"
guarantee you at least one microtroony dev killed themselves over this
If they had the idea, why didn't they just make it themselves, after they went solo? Sounds like they missed out more than Microsoft.
Im tired of halo Black folk constantly trying to affiliate themselves with this game. Helldivers always existed. Just be happy for the company's success. Frick off.
Oh my God the medal collecting takes forever, the more you progress feels like the “ Requirement” also increases.
>the more you progress feels like the “ Requirement” also increases.
anon you can literally see the medal cost go up
Shut up anon,
sorry, i'm not a mutt so i can't vote in the muttlection
Can we not make the op a bait next time please. the /vg/ threads are worse than this.
Why does the call down ball sometimes bounce and not stick? It seems like 95% of the time it always sticks where you throw it, so that is how I assume it pretty much works. Until the times it bounced off a bot factory or something and the air strike comes right back on my face.
Certain high up surfaces are just banned territory for call ins. And the only way to know which is which is by testing. Generally if you can only get there by hell diving in you can't put things there
This reads like a useless bot post I would get making a support ticket or something. No, I'm talking about throwing an air strike eagle at a factory and having it bounce off it instead of stick to it.
Probably bounces off if it hits the sides, but sticks to the roof.
How necessary is it to have a premade 4 man team?
I only have 1 friend guaranteed to play this with me and don't know if filling with 2 randoms is cancer
you can do any mission level with randoms except escort bot missions.
just go private mode gay.
>you can do any mission level with randoms except escort bot missions.
I know, what I'm asking is if playing with random people is a shitty experience or not
It's like any coop game. You get some morons, some bros, and then your average person who's reasonable enough.
Turn off crossplay and you'll never have to deal with consoleBlack folk. They're the vast majority of mental boom tks.
Even solo is extremely doable and fun as long as you like stealth games. I've done all the way up to the 8th difficulty that way (out of 9), and I know there are people out there who solo 9s.
Duos are absolutely fine, I've done plenty of games that way when only one of my friends have been around too. You're just playing the normal game at that point, no need at all to add randoms.
Randoms themselves are completely unreliable of course, but can be fun to play with just for the chaos and unpredictability occasionally.
Does helldivers 2 have a solo mode or is it online socialization only?
You can play solo yes.
sorry this a scam artist free thread, your looking for a palworld thread buddy.
voting for him the 3rd time this year and couldn't feel better about it tbh
>not voting Afroman
It's like you don't even believe in meme magic
>Played with friend and his friends
>Felt like I was walking on eggshells the whole time knowing if I fricked up even once everyone would go silent
I'll just stick with randoms.
get new friends
You need to lighten up. If you frick up, you laugh at whoever died in the process, and say "my bad." If they can't have a laugh over getting blown up in a video game, then you need to find new friends.
WATCH YOUR FRICKING STRATAGEMS
STOP BLOWING ME UP YOU moronS
Stop running into the bug nests
I always tell people to get back before i call in an airstrike or a 500 kilo. If you don't get back, that's your problem
Frick I wish this didn't have crossplay with shitstation players so we'd have people actually using textchat
Stop charging in mindlessly. Even back in WWI they knew how important it was to soften up enemy positions before sending in the cannon fodder
I'm playing a light/shotgun build, that's literally what i do
>I'm playing a light/shotgun build, that's literally what i do
yeah you and 99% of the rest of us. throw your eagle/orbital like everyone else first then go in. that is the norm on tier 3 difficulties even with randoms that have more than two braincells to rub together and didn't bum rush the game.
Depends entirely on what the adversary is.
Bots, certainly. Soften that shit up with orbitals and eagle strikes first before you go in.
Bugs, far more efficient to not give them time to spawn and run in to throw grenades into the bug holes and save the stratagems for the big targets.
Extreme is my new comfort zone. Just the right balance of challenge without the spammy bullshit of suicide.
Are the servers good now or should I wait to get this game?
Haven't had any login or queuing issues since the server cap was bumped to 700k
microsoft had castle crashers as their co op crush game
is their fault not going for a modern castle crasher
Frick automatons
Anyone farming samples?
will the game master let us have erata prime tonight?
I genuinely think all that moronic arguing about starship troopers was guerilla marketing.
dont remind me that halo died 12 years ago
>playstation makes a great game
>xbox fanboys seething because it's a better halo game than any halo they had in decades
>our shitty games don't sell so we're porting them to the PS5 in hopes they sell, that means we should get a helldivers port in exchange
>come to every thread to shit on the game because they can't play it
this shit is pathetic
>continuous projection from a console war gay
Grow the frick up holy shit
>>xbox fanboys
PC player here
The world would be better if you people were dead
actually kys you fricking loser
Shut up consolewar gays. The only war here is on the bugs.
And the bots.
Post playtime and achievements you fricking homosexual console warrior
the fact that you think achievements are something to flex as if showing your worth just tells how much of a loser you are trying too hard to find anything to be proud of
>not posting playtime
I accept your concession have a nice day console war homosexual
there's nothing to prove to you, your opinion, achievements and entire life don't matter
all your cries do is validate and reinforce my words
how did you do the orbital barrage achievement? did you do it with friends or randos?
friends
well shit I don't have friends for that one
I did the 360 seconds one with randos I should of stuck with them to see if they were doing the barrage one
why xbox players acting like we gatekeeping? They got Palworld, we get Helldivers. That's it.
>Paldivers
>Hellworld
>try to join other ships as to not play alone
>Always far above my level
This really will be a one day a week game for me...
Above 20 character level has no ramifications towards gameplay at all. You can always pull your weight in a squad if you avoid dying like a moron so you can res people, put down supplies, and call in a quick orbital strike.
>Above level 20
I'm level 3
Play more than 2 missions, nerd
Just don’t try to join missions higher than 3-4, you legitimately don’t have the gear for it yet. Get to lvl 5 first
How do I have fun playing this game? I played it for two hours and it seemed extremely bland. Movement speed is too slow (I guess they're going for an MH sort of feel but I don't like that in shooters), DPS feels very low, survivability feels very bad, and there's a sudden spike at Hard difficulty where it feels like I'm expected to grind for 30 hours or something to get the tools to beat it. Playing with friends is okay but it's nothing special.
>Movement speed is too slow (I guess they're going for an MH sort of feel but I don't like that in shooters)
Pick faster moving armor. I think there's also a booster for faster movement for your entire party.
>DPS feels very low
Unlock better guns, stratagems and ect. In fact, some stratagems are so powerful that it can wipe a enemy base for you.
> survivability feels very bad
Part of the game. People will die.... a lot. That's why they give you like 20-30 revives.
> and there's a sudden spike at Hard difficulty where it feels like I'm expected to grind for 30 hours
Upgrade your ship and get better equipment/stratagems. Hard is baby level.
Might be a you thing, everyone else is having fun.
you see anon
you are supposed to play on the hardest difficulty before you can have any opinion on this game
and by the time you play that difficulty the gays here will say how come you have so many hours clocked in if the game is bad
lol lmao
anyway idk, the DPS does feel low compared to what you get in HD1. In HD1 scout bugs die to 1 bullet, no matter the source, and you could melee bash much quicker, and also get bayonets for massive melee damage, and so on. HD2 is lacking a lot of content.
>TFW I just have a few more ship upgrades to unlock and I will have beaten the game
It was good whilte it lasted but im guessing its going to be a few months before the next content update. o7 see you around bys
new warbond every second thursday of each month anon
What happens to the old warbond?
All warbonds are permanent, devs are explicitly anti-FOMO. They’re surprisingly based
>Not being able to style on new players in year 2 with guns and gear they can never get
Lame.
>thinking any sort of FOMO in games isn’t cancer
lmao
Also you’ll still be able to do that, they’ll still be able to get the same gear but the amount of medals newbies will need to grind will be insane
>Fomo
Sounds like a zoomer word. Peak flexing is sporting raid gear/mounts that new players arent allowed to get anymore. If you werent there for it, you shouldnt have it. Simple as.
>t. useful moron
That's the spirit. Keep working on those medals like it's your job. Never stop playing, you wouldn't want to miss anything
>NOOO I HAVE TO HAVE MY PARTICIPATION TROPHY EVEN IF ITS 5 YEARS LATER
I see zoomies are out in full force tonight
nothing
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HQwHN8_uRu8
I'm impressed that you can actually stealth your way if you really want to.
I fricking hate meme shit.
Why does this need freebird over it? I shouldn't be surprised though since shorts are for literal toddlers.
You not only can, it's incredibly strong. It could just be that I'm bad at more normal TPS type gameplay, but stealth is the only way I can do high difficulty missions. Full guerilla warfare is the way to do it, bypass patrols, strike bases and objectives with incredible firepower and then vanish into the jungle again before the enemies can properly gather and react.
If it was a Halo game it would've been super lame and super gay
Halosisters... it's truly and forever over... they palworlded us... Helldiver 2 will take the few players he had left...
it is only dust and echoes now...
only silence...
it was good to serve you all...
But I now take my leave...
Good night Halo...
It was good while it lasted...
...
Sgt. Johnson... is that you?
Its been so long!
Just hit level 40 without doing any mortar farming. In till armour gets fixed, my favourite (onions) load outs are
>bug
>orbital
>500kg
>grenade launcher
>laser dog (frick you it kills stalkers while I’m blowing nests)
Autobots are more boring since
>shield
>rail
>orbital
>emp mortar
Though, I play just obj. I let the team mates pull the shit while I go for the samples and secondaries. Seems fine so far except when they come to me and not kill the commissar that’s firing the flare. Once armour is fixed, I hope we have more diverse load outs.
Anti-material is mai waifu
Difficulty 4 is filtering the shit out of me.
I keep getting blown up by my random teammates over and over again. I just want to get to 5 bros
Difficulty 7 is unironically easier than difficulty 4 because it filters out all the team killing bads from the party.
>random teammate who kept blowing everybody up is the only survivor and about to extract
>abandon mission with squad so nobody gets anything
Wear light armor, run fast, dive fast, avoid fights, run from fights when you can, kite enemies around environmental obstacles, only engage when you need to.
Most importantly use your mic and tell people what to do. Either you find other normal people who will communicate back, or you find submissive homosexuals who do whatever the loudest person says.
My first ever mission was difficulty 4 with some friends, that's still the tutorial.
Just play solo if friends aren't an option, don't bother with randoms ever if you want to actually win.
i fricking hate fighting bugs.
>t. bug
is there a way to play solo?
I enjoy the teaming, I love co-op, but sometimes I just want to do a simple ass mission without having to deal with someone griefing me "for fun".
I can at least turn crossplay off to stop the fricking hoverbots shitting out ordinance strikes to crash my ps5.
>Game makes me mad as frick, have to step away before I punch a hole in the wall
>30 minutes pass by
>Want to play again
I can't remember the last time a game put me in this violent cycle, it was easily over 10 years ago as a teen.
Does the constant third to first person aiming shit bother anyone else?
just don't it
i dont use fpv except for the amr which is rarely use anyway
No. I loved Battlefront.
343 & Bungie deserves to die.
MIGRATE Black folk
You dont tell me what to do, queer.