HELLDIVERS2

[foggy marsh]

maybe they'll come as a response

ironsight leaked this earlier than the siege weapon

oh also forgot to mention he also leaked images of the cyborgs

https://www.reddit.com/r/HelldiversUnfiltered/comments/1pi9x9t/some_more_awesome_leaks_from_irons1ghts/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[tall yew]

I agree I think that the mechs are shit tier support that are only fun to use as a mech section.

[teal yoke]

I only use them when its like bug hole like terminate certain time yk

[fading thistle]

Cyborgs are 4th faction?

[fading thistle]

They were good for entering bug holes but that’s it

[wild venture]

what

how am i JUST learning about this

[fading thistle]

Yah the dude above just posted it

The tanks are def gonna be necessary

Don’t forget the APCs as well

[wild venture]

sledgehammer??
THE CODE AROUND THE MELEE WEAPON MENTIONS EXPLOSIVES?????

thats it

[fading thistle]

This game has practically been leaked around every corner

[wild venture]

welcome back decimator from killing floor 2

if we actually get this explosive shotgun hammer aglomeration, i gonna cry of joy

this is real now

[foggy marsh]

it is a sub faction for the automatons probably

[fading thistle]

Coolio

[eager yarrow]

holy shit the drip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtvwvsJRSKk

this might actually get me back into playing

IF the weapons are actually stealthy and it works like that

[teal yoke]

I love the outfits

That announcement got me to play yesterday and actually enjoyed doing the missions again

[teal yoke]

My current outfit looks similar to this one but it's more bulky and a little lighter in color

[fading thistle]

They’re gonna buff stealth and Smoke this upcoming patch

[tall falcon]

Why is he posted up like big boss in ground zeros

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-metal-gear-solid-big-boss-ground-zeroes-mgsv-gif-2880818837257777372

[eager yarrow]

oh shit what a reference

[fading thistle]

Honestly the C4 will be nice cuz u can lay at least 6 out wherever and blow something up while being across the map

[eager yarrow]

how do you know?

[fading thistle]

Cuz that’s how C4 works

[eager yarrow]

no, how do you know they're buffing stealth?

[tall falcon]

Probably bc they made a stealth warbond?

[fading thistle]

They always buff something related to the upcoming warbond theme

lol

[eager yarrow]

Well actually they usually make a problem that the warbond solves

so if anything they'll nerf stealth into the ground and then make the armour the only viable stealth thing

[fading thistle]

Well stealth hasn’t really been touched on so that’s what they’ll be doing

[tall falcon]

Warbond that makes u have gud teammates when

[fading thistle]

Party up then

[eager yarrow]

kek

[fading thistle]

Also stealth warbond I’ll be kinda useless solo queue

[eager yarrow]

source: trust me bro

I'll believe it when I see it tbh

[fading thistle]

K, but I’m sure they’ll buff smoke

At least

[eager yarrow]

trust me when I say I've been wanting stealth since like, day 1, but I honestly don't see them doing it

but who knows, they've fucked up so many things then 'fixed' them afterwards i guess anything is possible

[fading thistle]

Also something really bad is gonna happen next week lore lore wise

I agree with the whole “make a problem, sell the solution” but the solution usually comes with a buff

[fading thistle]

But stealth hasn’t really been a thing at all

[eager yarrow]

kek

[tall falcon]

Metal gear collab when

I need it

[fading thistle]

We already know what the passives are gonna be

[eager yarrow]

do tell

https://tenor.com/view/showme-show-me-morpheus-gif-5144220

[fading thistle]

I don’t know the exact values but it reduces noise and the distance enemies can actually see/detect you

[eager yarrow]

ah damn, we already have one like that

[fading thistle]

Also there’s a WW1 themed warbond (trench warefare themed specifically) and a Demo Detonation 2 looking one as well

[eager yarrow]

where'd you see that?

[fading thistle]

Leaks/files/they have models already

We get a heavy flamethrower n a Ruger

Helldivers is like the most leakage game, we’ve known about a stealth warbond since 4 months ago

[fading thistle]

Armor/mech passive customization/upgrades coming soon as well

[teal yoke]

Yeah theres an armor already with that perk that actually is a cool perk when doing the ICBM tasking bugs dont really bother you

[fading thistle]

The only thing the other passive does is 50% reduce movement noise, however enemies can still see you by default

So this upcoming warbond is actually alot better for stealth because it also adds the 40% reduction in detection range which is actually the much better half of the passive

[fading thistle]

They delayed the Warbond

[fading thistle]

RR war bond dropping the 22nd

Just in time for my return to PC

[fading thistle]

Jihad Jeeps are now possible in Helldivers 😂

[queen helm]

you are playing Helldivers on a mobile device? :O

[fading thistle]

Screen recording from a yt video

[teal yoke]

Is the update out yet or not yet?

the redacted warbond?

[fading thistle]

Yes it’s out

[teal yoke]

[foggy marsh]

"As far as I'm concerned, that's SUPER EARTHS' ASS"

[tall yew]

@wicked quartz @fleet plaza

[wicked quartz]

A fuckin Men

[tall yew]

The commando missions are 🔥

[fading thistle]

I haven’t done them yet cuz I don’t trust randoms

[tall yew]

They are a wholesome solo experience too

[eager yarrow]

commando missions?

[fading thistle]

New type of Helldiver mission, no Super Destroyer, Stealth is Key, mainly just blowing shit up or Recovering stuff

Also very limited respawns

[eager yarrow]

interesting

[tall yew]

Yeah pair up with your favorite stealth armor and go fuck bots

[tall yew]

anyone on for some divin'

[foggy marsh]

https://youtube.com/shorts/utB-slwSfGU?si=aXggBhhkLUxoUS_G

[fading thistle]

New war bond dropping Feb 3

Armor passives allow a regain in stamina when taking damage

G/SH grenade is a mobile, single helldiver bubble shield

The warbond after this will most likely be a WW1/Trench warfare themed

[tall yew]

I think the launcher is gonna be the ultimatum redux

They should make the one true flag be an anti material rifle. When you stab an enemy it should fire the same round at the amr

[fading thistle]

Explosive tipped spear

[fading thistle]

Feb 3 is gonna be a HUGE update…

Massive spoiler but we kinda already knew this.

https://youtu.be/UGB5c4AjxgE?si=PXtsX9rHVTdCRiXV

|| includes the new tank, cyborgs, everything from the new warbond, etc. ||

[tall yew]

Yeee factory worlds with enemy “cities”

[hazy sable]

@eager yarrow Currently reinstalling Helldivers 2

[eager yarrow]

hell yeah

Make sure you're on the slim branch

[hazy sable]

Slim branch?

[viral spoke]

The beta, it's like 30 gb or something.

Slims the files down or something.

[eager yarrow]

love it when that happens

[fading thistle]

Nice

Tmrw huge update hopefully

[eager yarrow]

https://c.tenor.com/YBmIIerzqQ0AAAAd/tenor.gif

[fading thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/shanemcmahon-shane-mc-mahon-entrance-wwe-gif-7976782

[tall yew]

https://tenor.com/view/jon-hamm-dance-gif-5098290674016424011

Update day. Did not have the tank on my bingo card

Good day to be a helldiver

[eager yarrow]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-gif-25832437

OH MY GOD HUGE

@hazy sable AURA FARMING SOCKS JUST WENT THROUGH THE ROOF

GRENADE LAUNCHER GOT HEAVY PEN?!?!?

https://tenor.com/view/vince-vince-mcmahon-gif-20562072

[tall yew]

Yes some real dubs for the divers this week

[fading thistle]

No way

I knew about everything beforehand but the GL being heavy is crazy

Now I just need my WW1/Trench themed warbond and we’re set

[eager yarrow]

THE NEW WAR BOND HAS A BELT FED GRENADE LAUNCHER

!!!!!

[fading thistle]

I know

GL is grenade launcher

[mental zephyr]

If we aren't fighting squids then its a good day to be on.

[queen helm]

Hell yeah, time to dismantle Cyberstan

[eager yarrow]

belt fed grenade launcher here we go

[foggy marsh]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

[fading thistle]

Bots will always be the best faction

[foggy marsh]

also GL is heavy pen now

the AGL

guess they gave them HEDPs >:D

[fading thistle]

Anyone on?

[eager yarrow]

I am

[fading thistle]

U in mission?

[eager yarrow]

nope

Hulks take something like 6-7 grenades to kill from the front

[fading thistle]

What’s ur #

[eager yarrow]

it's definitely better than "you cant kill them at all" but it's definitely better to just bring a railgun

[fading thistle]

Yeah the GL being heavy pen doesn’t mean it’ll kill heavy’s quickly

It just means it can damage them

[eager yarrow]

cause if you're killing hulks at GL range you can just headshot them with a railgun

and if you can't.. skill issue lmao

[fading thistle]

Friend code is #9595-0531

[eager yarrow]

added

[fading thistle]

Got it

Invited

[foggy marsh]

oh............

[eager yarrow]

https://tenor.com/view/wait-what-wtf-no-crap-haha-gif-9429687

[fading thistle]

we're ready..

[formal ridge]

The tank is actually such a beast

love the tank

Cleared 3 whole OPs and all main OBJs with it; and the only thing that killed it was an accidental friendly 500kg

[tall yew]

Aaaaah it is sick

Wonder what it would be like all four running it, always have a replacement with your buddy. Or the whole teams runs only one the whole game replacing as they go

[fading thistle]

all 4 is fine, just gotta jump out, and get in through the back to gun

its not both ways solo

[tall yew]

All four would be wild

[foggy marsh]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GErrJohhy4M

[fading thistle]

Why did she leave in the first place?

[tall yew]

Professional development

[formal ridge]

The real reason is cause the VA was protesting using AI voices in games
The in game reason is professional development

[tall yew]

You are telling me they can just put it on fiver and get some voice lines

[eager yarrow]

bruh. Helldivers doesn't even use AI

there's no AI disclosure on the steam page either from what I can see

[mossy portal]

High Command was just hacked by the automatons, anyone want to join me in the fight?

[formal ridge]

I know helldivers doesn't the VA was protesting against AI voices in general for all games

[eager yarrow]

That's stupid

[formal ridge]

I would disagree, a lot of human voice actors are being actively replaced by fake synthetic AI voice models

[cloud ore]

nade launcher + supply backpack

nets me on avg 300 kills per match on bots

highest so far is 450

shit just claps

toss in some sentries, there is nothing you cant stand against

[wild venture]

grenade launcher sentry when

[cloud ore]

they would make it light pen just to spite you

[queen helm]

Looks like we are not making progress at Aurora Bay rn...
Really hoping that the American timezone players Helldivers from Sector 7 can turn the tide later today. Otherwise, this MO might be the biggest failure we had since launch of the game (loosing all of our reserves for them ission + being cut off at Lesash, essentially loosing everything we gained=

[cloud ore]

we could steiner counterattack (tm) all the way to cyberstan, liberate the entirety of the bots, all without losing a single helldiver, and AH would still find an excuse to keep the bots around

[fading thistle]

Devs can’t have us beat cyberstan lol, gotta milk it for another 2 years unfortunately

But we are getting to cyberstan cuz there’s already a shit load of leaked content and cyberstan is already playable (has been for awhile) that’s also where we’ll meet the cyborgs, which have been teased a lot, so we’re making it to Cyberstan don’t worry

Devs are forced to take to us there basically

[cloud ore]

yeah, its prolly gonna be a hive world thign

do it if you want

i just hope we arent supposed to go against the the illuminati's homeworld

most boring offensive ever

[fading thistle]

Illuminate need to go tbh, Bots/bugs will always be the most popular

[tall yew]

Illuminate cults will be fire though

[eager yarrow]

If you're working for a company that's using that stuff sure, but why protest against a company that isnt, it doesn't make any sense

It's like a vegan going on strike whilst working at a vegan cafe because butchers shops exist

[eager yarrow]

I love this reference lmfao

[eager yarrow]

they just need to stop being so intent on making the illululu the most annoying faction to fight against.

Like, get rid of the fleshmobs and give us cloaked snipers or something interesting to fight against

[queen helm]

We are making progress on Lesath defense 🥳 Honesty, winning the defense there asap and then returning with our full strength to the MO is the best coa atm

[eager yarrow]

the belt fed grenade launcher is so disappointing

the grenades it shoots have so much less damage, so no real point in taking it tbh

[cloud ore]

you get more grenades with a supply pack and a normal nade launcher omegalul

and they do heavy pen

[eager yarrow]

it takes about 50 grenades from the BGL to kill a titan

okay so I just tested it

1 grenade from the GL will kill all bugs up to commanders and bile spewers etc.

2 grenades from the GL kills commanders, alpha commanders, bile spewers, etc.

It takes 2x the amount to kill the same enemies with the BGL

so the BGL's grenades do literally half as much damage

Hive guards take 4 direct hits from the BGL to the face before they die

only 1 or 2 from the GL depending on how hurt they are from splash damage

Warriors take 2-3 hits from the BGL to kill, same with hunters

And I think the explosion radius is smaller as well

I killed a hunter from a GL that I shot at a warrior and the hunter wasn't even that close to it

shield grenade could be good vs bots if you're taking an AT loadout

cause static reloads etc

[tall yew]

Mornings tea today can’t believe I’ve never shared my mug here, buddy got it for my birthday after the games launch

[orchid zinc]

[eager yarrow]

anyone up for some stealthy commando missions?

[foggy marsh]

https://youtube.com/shorts/TV4YzvqHgxM?si=yI2zaLDhlRNQ7TK8

[foggy marsh]

i think you miss a certain point.. she made a general strike for all, and Arrowhead Company supported her. how?.. they never replaced her with some other voice actor, they made an INGAME lore reason. This just makes Arrowhead the GOAT

[eager yarrow]

cool? but it doesn't really contend with my point. I don't think a company that's using AI is going to care if someone not even working for them is going on strike. Arc Raiders has AI assisted voices and they're doing just fine

[foggy marsh]

it sends a message I guess. wether it works or not is up to the Industry in the future

in related news i just saw a video of a raider using a fake voiceline through voip say "Let's extract together so that I can give you a blowjob!" 😂

[eager yarrow]

lol

[eager yarrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrfT-ox5lIk

WE'RE REACHING LEVELS OF HYPE THAT SHOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE

[wild venture]

yo guys theyre adding dead space

[formal ridge]

Let's liberate those dirty cyborg robots!!

[fading thistle]

Just cyborg brute, def inspired though

[fading thistle]

Can’t wait to see what Joel pulls out of his ass to get us to Cyberstan since he failed to be an actually good Game Master

This whole “anon Joel Game Master” is stupid, everything is predetermined for major events like this, no shit we’re gonna liberate super Earth, get to Cyberstan (not taking it though so shoot that idea down) and any other major event

[tall yew]

BREACHING hammer 2 taps assault striders

keklol

[alpine lake]

what are the chances of this cyberstan invasion goes south? 😅

[teal yoke]

I have a feeling it will

[fading thistle]

It will cuz we can’t take cyberstan dev wise

We’re gonna burn through our reinforces big time

[prime sandal]

Anyone else feel this update spawns are broken again

On level 6 and 7 getting nothing but War striders (all bases can be destroyed and no flares are set up and wham 9 war striders deploy)
That seem to be almost stronger than the temu AT-ATs

[eager yarrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJSxy5uc0aQ

CYBORGS ARE BACK

[eager yarrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leM2NjGmCbY

[fading thistle]

I thought you already knew

But I’m so excited, bots were always a great faction mechanically but now they get another great mechanically created enemies

Something the devs failed to do for bugs

[tall yew]

I think if spewers bugs were like 5% less fast it would make a huge difference

Especially cause acid ones are also mortars.

[fading thistle]

I think a lot of bugs are just busted

[orchid zinc]

Bugs are more fun to fight imo

[tall yew]

I Fuck bots

[fading thistle]

Bugs don’t have weak points and require meta builds past dif 6, especially for certain strains/maps. Bots are fleshed out and can be combated with multiple different synergy builds that don’t require metas, cuz they’re literally designed 15x better than bugs

[eager yarrow]

eh.. I don't think so. All you really need is light armour and the ability to not accidentally corner yourself or run into a bug that kills you, otherwise so long as your stamina management isn't terrible you just run away from all of them

I've solo'd a 7 vs bugs before and it wasnt even that hard

[tall yew]

NYET you forget autocannon meta for bug...

[eager yarrow]

I mean imo you don't really need 'meta' stuff for bugs, literally just don't corner yourself and keep running

A lot of stuff is excellent on bugs

RR, Railgun, GL, Stalwart, MMG, HMG, Epoch, Quasar

all very good

[wild venture]

same

[alpine lake]

existential question, should I reinstall the game to do my part?

[eager yarrow]

uh, yes

can't believe you're even thinking about not doing your part

also the game got slimmed down a lot, it's no longer horrendously huge

so it's only like 20GB now instead of 100+

[alpine lake]

I have been busy Knights, gimme a break 😅

I'll be reinstalling the game

[eager yarrow]

UNACCEPTABLE

[alpine lake]

https://tenor.com/view/no-u-reverse-card-anti-orders-gif-19358543

[eager yarrow]

SUPER EARTH DEMANDS YOUR BLOOD SWEAT AND SUPER CREDITS

[eager yarrow]

https://tenor.com/view/director-krennic-andor-season-2-star-wars-gif-12671757811285140657

[alpine lake]

satisfied now?

[eager yarrow]

yes :)

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers-helldivers-2-super-earth-charger-breakdance-gif-9019752240175650552

[tall yew]

Cyberstan landfall in less than an hour GL brothers. I’ll be there after work

Don’t forget to show the borgs your creek capes

[eager yarrow]

15 MINUTES

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1205208528248242237/1341478629149900880/RDT_20250218_1836537959992146815444946.gif

ITS LIVE

LETS GETEMMM

[orchid zinc]

Nice

[errant trellis]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nEvxg3tJruA?feature=share

[foggy marsh]

https://fxtwitter.com/QuiteShallow/status/2021216976874434660?s=20

ˢʰʸ (@QuiteShallow)

Things above Cyberstan are spicy

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shit man

[alpine lake]

shit's poppin'

[teal yoke]

Cyberstan is open now/

?

ope yes it is

time to hop in a match

[alpine lake]

anyone deploying democracy?

[tall yew]

@everyonehttps://discord.com/channels/109869242148491264/1005836111790227538 hell diving time now

[visual haven]

what have you done

[tall yew]

cyberstan needs our help

[unkempt bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-palpatine-the-time-has-come-emperor-palpatine-darth-sidious-gif-19488591

[visual haven]

you pinged everyone

[tall yew]

only in this chat

which means they've followed

which mena they're interested in the game.

[unkempt bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/execute-order66-order66-66-palpatine-star-wars-gif-20468321

[teal yoke]

The guys ive been in parties with are purposefully killing helldivers

[tall yew]

unless ive miss understood how the everyone ping works.

[north needle]

That’s accurate but you should use here cus then it’s people actively online

Just my 2 cents

[ebon sigil]

Hey if were ping everyone can I ping @unkempt bronze

[cedar crest]

I'll just say that I appreciated and was surprised by the ping and I'd like to hop in if you've got room @tall yew

[tall yew]

i got room

[cedar crest]

Suiting up! I'll DM you my helldiver code shortly

[unkempt bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/water-spray-stop-sprinkle-water-gif-11895255

[kindred turret]

https://tenor.com/view/buffyverse-btvs-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-xander-harris-nicholas-brendon-gif-16395672687274935433

[alpine lake]

Taylor, you had the audacity of tagging EVERYONE?

I was already asleep by then

(EU timezone problem)

[eager yarrow]

I would have joined but I was enjoying my Super-sleep time

[fading thistle]

Somehow, Cyberstan is Open

https://tenor.com/view/somehow-palpatine-returned-somehow-palpatine-poe-dameron-poe-gif-20849141

[tall yew]

How it feels beating the brakes off the bots

[fading thistle]

SWEET LIBERTY

this is the BEST update this game has ever had, I really hope IF something in our favor works out for cyberstan, it has lasting effects and isnt just another major event that returns to normal

[queen helm]

same, I'm in love with the update

[unkempt bronze]

I gotta grind to get my ship upgraded and level up once I’m off work

[orchid zinc]

ive yet to play after the update with cyberstan available

gotta try it out

[tall yew]

The game is understandably peak RN I think the bots are the devs favorite antagonist

[fading thistle]

Same, I could only hop on to check this stuff out

[tall yew]

I’ll be on to dive 2300z

[fading thistle]

Ill be on in 30 mins aswell

[fading thistle]

tried to run it with a random squad at dif 7, yeah no

[tall yew]

Not tooo easy

[fading thistle]

tank things are impossible to kill unless you use a single railgun/laser strat

just running wont save you

I'm on rn if anyones on

[fading thistle]

whats your social

[tall yew]

I’m gonna be like 20 mikes still just got home gotta do a quick bio break and settle in

[wild venture]

you mean the vox engines?

i hate em

but throwing 2 thermite on its asshole vent/face most of the time kills it

or just fire like 3 GR8 rounds in its face

or a single leveller to the part above the thing that connects both treads

[tall yew]

@here we got a room started yet

[fading thistle]

im in mission, got one slot left

[tall yew]

4597-8305

[fading thistle]

sent request

@tall yew

anyone else gonna get on @here

[tall yew]

https://discord.com/channels/109869242148491264/927608617245487135

[tall yew]

16466860

80505838

[foggy marsh]

omfg @fossil crag

[fossil crag]

game crashed lmao

[foggy marsh]

i think the porta nuke i set off killed all 4 Vox Machines at the landing sight

yeah i think i overkilled the game

sorry

[fossil crag]

lmao

[foggy marsh]

heheh nuke go boom on Vox :>

welp it's 1:30 in the morning i guess i'll call it there

[eager yarrow]

grenade launcher continues to be the absolute chad

it literally 1 shots the agitators, 2 shots the melee cyborgs

You can kill the vox engines by getting a grenade in the vent when it opens but it's really difficult due to the arc and regular grenades are probably easier

[fading thistle]

Lmao

[tranquil crystal]

i would agree 100% with just throwing a grenade in its bum. They are easyish to kill, the problem is getting to them without being obliterated by the gatling guns or troops near it

[tranquil crystal]

Apparently the devs just said recently that the Vox Engine isn't the worst enemy to be added since the invasion.

Something more powerful is soon to be revealed. I swear to all that is Super on Earth. If it is a dreadnought style flying fortress. Those gunships are annoying enough.

[tall yew]

The vox machine is the dragoon roach for the bots

[fading thistle]

i mean for bots yeah, Vox Engines are nowhere near boss level like Hive Gods are

cant wait to see what it is, no leaks yet

[charred sable]

anyone playing RN?

[tranquil crystal]

Those things are awful to go up against i still haven't figured out what to do with em except to use my Javelin rockets against em

[light epoch]

Anyone playing?

[cunning cave]

for the people @here that struggle with the Vox engines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS3pVvJwBpI

[orchid zinc]

Have you guys ever had the game crash to Desktop with no error messages? Just simply closed down. Happened once here today

[fading thistle]

Happens to steam games sometimes

[eager yarrow]

ARROWHEAD GIVE ME BATTLEFIELD 2142 TITAN MODE AND MY SUPER CREDITS ARE YOURS

Yo, Taylor and I are playing

anyone want to join us?

[tranquil crystal]

where at?

[fading thistle]

Cyberstan

[charred sable]

https://tenor.com/view/automaton-helldivers-2-marching-robot-robots-gif-14090133636459797134

[barren kayak]

I swear this game's physics are DESIGNED to screw the player

[orchid zinc]

HD be like that

[tranquil crystal]

Who's trynna helldive rn?

Matchmaking is cooked rn so I guess i am spared trynna get down with randos

[tranquil crystal]

@eager yarrow i think i understand why it was so hard doing missions yesterday, I didnt realize that there was a heavy armor surge effect present for the city. No wonder it was a madmind fuster cluck

[eager yarrow]

ahhh

[light epoch]

Im down!

[foggy marsh]

heh

[orchid zinc]

omegalul

[queen helm]

our time has come

[fading thistle]

hopefully some more fun missions isntead of shitass raise the flag

[tall yew]

Stay where you are, a democracy officer is on their way.

[tall yew]

A SEAF spinoff game would be nice.

[formal ridge]

A campaign would also be really cool too, the whole intro/tutorial builds up what would be a really neat story but then it just doesn't

[light epoch]

That's because you live the story haha

[violet raft]

The story is based off play, for example if the attack on Cyberatan fails then that will directly affect how the entire bot front unfolds in the future.

[formal ridge]

Yes but I mean more of like a traditional campaign aswell maybe following the legendary John Helldiver or something

[queen helm]

What is your verdict guys?

[queen helm]

Ok nvm, lets safe the blueberries

[foggy marsh]

IMPORTANT INFO

https://x.com/Helldivers_NOW/status/2024434124078141787?s=20

Helldivers NOW (@Helldivers_NOW)

Useful tip for using EAT-411 Leveller by range

X · Feb 19, 2026, 10:41 AM

[fading thistle]

Actually amazing info

[tall yew]

The whole game is the campaign. But I feel you an episodic campaign would be very cool to be able to jump into

[light epoch]

Maybe like a prologue or something

[tall yew]

ewwww or a longer tutorial. Like it covers the other factions too with references to previous battles

[sterile charm]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F6bJypSZW5Q?feature=share

[foggy marsh]

Mission failed

we'll get em next time

[fading thistle]

well yeah

gonna be another 3 years, and next major op better yield some massive results, or else everyone is gonna be burnt out

[undone pewter]

Yeah it was a bit unrealistic. Also let’s not even start about the bugs on the planet itself

Bots teleporting through walls, 10 vox machines spawning on extract above helldive

[tall yew]

The bots are going to counter attack there will be another event in a month. Guaranteed

[winter aurora]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVBjaT9kS6X/?igsh=OXU0a3hqcDRnbmh3
lol

helldiverdonkey

Oh it's a hot drop alright! 💀

Source from, "Zarpd" on reddit.

#gaming #helldivers2 #videogames

Likes

36399

Instagram

[fading thistle]

||you were right, super earth to come under bot attack soon via leaked mechanic audio, planets will soon get multi-factions, but it will only be one faction per-drop operation, not within mission, new WW1 trench theme warbind dropping maybe late March, also SEAF strategems in the works, including a SEAF squad call down, 5 with liberators, and 1 with MG. Illuminate Cultist, which consistent of Zealots, Adepts, Xenobite, and Outcasts, will be dropping at some point (from the videos they see pretty balanced, and look quite fun and interesting, will give the squids some much needed interest and life) ||

[wild venture]

hell yeah

[solid peak]

https://vxtwitter.com/JosephFox_088/status/2025354515604439495

JosephFox2 (@JosephFox_088)

https://t.co/NszwWp8U3F

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 21, 2026, 11:38 PM

[fading thistle]

All Quiet on the Cyberstan front

they better get us back on the squid front and gives us 300 medals worth of easy operations

[undone pewter]

Yup. We failed both major orders that were worth 170 medals total lol

[fading thistle]

i love the C4 pack

I go solo during dif 7 and just destroy every single c4 destroyable objective in one press

[fading thistle]

anyone wanna do some diving for a bit

[fading thistle]

New enhancers that haven’t come out yet

[eager yarrow]

If this is from the leak discord can we spoiler those please?

[fading thistle]

They were just stratagem enhancers

That were leaked a long time ago, just haven’t come out

[solid peak]

Hey what times are people available for diving?

Was wanting to get some Cav guys to play with so we can hit the MO and get coordinated strikes to help liberate faster

[solid peak]

https://vxtwitter.com/Helldivers_NOW/status/2026481077985181990

Helldivers NOW (@Helldivers_NOW)

A shame we didn't get to fight with them

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 25, 2026, 2:15 AM

https://vxtwitter.com/Helldivers_NOW/status/2026488555703513279

Helldivers NOW (@Helldivers_NOW)

Cyberstan will be remembered as one of the most legendary battles of the second galactic war. The fight is over, but the war had only begun.

Submission by TacoNightShenanigans

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 25, 2026, 2:44 AM

[solid peak]

https://hd2galaxy.com

[fervent ravine]

I am up for some diving! Its been a while but I am willing to be part of this diving organization! 😀

[fading thistle]

I’ll be on sometime in the next 3 hours

[fading thistle]

Soon….

[solid peak]

Yeah man, I'm trying to get us together to beat the Major Order

the sooner we win the front against the bugs the faster we get to throw ourselves at the bots

[fading thistle]

Yo I can hop on

[fervent ravine]

What planet are we currently working on?

[ebon sigil]

Chicken

[solid peak]

Let’s hit Oshaune

Fori is almost liberated and Oshaune is falling fast

[formal ridge]

Chicken 🤤

[solid peak]

Okay so Fori was liberated. We're tied on the MO, but we need to have a net positive. Oshaune and Acamar IV are being attacked, Acamar IV is under not much Bug pressure so it should be fine. Oshaune is where we need to hit. It is part of the two MO's one for keeping it democratized and the other if we lose it we go negative again.

TLDR; Defend Oshaune

[raw mulch]

For Liberty

[fading thistle]

|| nuke stratagem incoming, basically a beefed up 500 pounder, most likely limited uses. Also cluster bomb stratagem that takes awhile to deploy but showers an area in a delayed spiral configuration ||

[orchid zinc]

fr? nice

[fading thistle]

Holy hell the next major update is gonna be massive story wise

Holy shit, Not a leak but something cool for orgs coming:

||a platoon system being worked on that allows custom frame/badge/background/system etc. It also introduces a ship or something that leaders can move to nearby planets/systems that allow CLAN STRATAGEMS and clan-wide Stratagem Cooldowns!

Basically extra/(although most likely chosen or locked) stratagem slots for playing on planet/system with clan unit that can are shared among the unit

One clan strat is a Seaf squad deployment

Multiple assignable ranks within clan with differing degrees of command abilities,admin privileges, etc. ||

They’re actually doing some big shit in the future, like actual consequential but also awesome stuff, I cannot wait

Consequential meaning the actual definition, not just negative

[undone pewter]

That will be awesome

[raw mulch]

Nice

[light epoch]

https://klipy.com/gifs/nice-south-park-4

[orchid zinc]

Nice

[fading thistle]

Anyone wanna hop on?

[fervent ravine]

Have we finished Oshaune?

[undone pewter]

Yup

[foggy marsh]

ooooooh noooooooooo https://youtube.com/shorts/BWuXRxDNLPM?si=RcVBJYWhLupqREnM

[solid peak]

We won the Major Order. So for now just hit planets with enemies you like fighting. Currently We on the very verge of losing Mintoria in less than six hours of this post. Mox is next with about 11 hours left to defend before it falls. So if you really feel like trying to make a difference try to hit Mox hard. Tomorrow night we'll reassess and see which planets need immediate defending.

[tall yew]

How reliable is this info

[fading thistle]

Leaked straight from the files, has been teased at as well

[teal yoke]

7cav helldiver clan 😎

[eager yarrow]

I'm going back in for one last mission

[tall yew]

Absolutely

I thought of a Helldivers unit,

Emergency response regiment 404

404th ERR

“Tyranny not found”

[fervent ravine]

Classic!

[tall yew]

https://preview.redd.it/rifle-is-just-fine-could-use-a-75-round-drum-mag-arrowhead-v0-7salz7igo1of1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=b80075ff846d360a824a0138fb357edd75d6461f

[fading thistle]

Apparently there’s only one dev that balances everything and he’s the same one who completely wreck hello neighbors 2 before launch and is responsible the the 60-day patch the super nerfed anything

[tall yew]

Yeah but I think the game is also in a really good spot right now and the most recent stuff BESIDES the maxigun are really well balanced

[fading thistle]

What, not even close

Like 80% of strategem Weapons don’t perform that way they should and are utterly useless

[tall yew]

Not everything has to be d10 worthy. Plain and simple.

[fading thistle]

We aren’t grunt divers and why not? You support only using meta load outs for higher difficulty’s? What’s the thought process behind that

Most of the shit in game isn’t even fun to use cuz it’s so bad/useless, what’s the point of having stuff in the game if it’s only a .005 pick rate? Why waste so many items potentials

The devs are useless anyways in the fact that they can’t even compete 9-10 difs with random loadouts, neither can the top 4 best helldivers. A game has failed if using random equipment at the highest difficulty is impossible, where strategy/communication is naught because the game can’t properly balance weapons

Doesn’t it get boring running the same loadouts over and over and over just to get passed higher difficulties? The same stratagems, turrets, etc.

[tall yew]

idk man, im cool with chill diving diff4 cause there are more squisher enemies. you can run wild kits that could be difficult to use for lower diffs.

No different than other games that just have a high skill meta to it. At the end of the day man the one true flag isnt what you take to kill a hive lord. I dont want it to be, and i think that the game is in a pretty good place and would recommend anyone who likes cooperative games. I think sometimes when you reach the "bottom of the puddle" problems look up to see all that you passed to reach your conclusion.

[fading thistle]

Anger is towards the devs not you, sorry if I came off that way. Anyways helldivers is a unique game that’s solely co op, we are elite troopers that invade planets and kill n enemies with insane kill ratios, why wouldn’t all our weapons be superior. If every weapon was Amazing and still unique in their own way, wouldn’t that be better cuz u could strategize different approaches/loadouts while approaching higher difs? Why should be bring ourselves to a snails pace to use fun weapons? I should be able to use a fun loadout at higher difs, and with communication/strategy still complete the mission, maybe not in a breeze, maybe mad casualties, but we should be forced to just barley complete the objectives, lose 2 helldivers, and fail to complete any side objectives with meta loadouts/full comms..

HP GL is absolutely terrible, wasn’t someone hyped about that? It’s prob the WORST backpack stratagem because it can even kill medium level enemies, and it’s NOT EVEN “HEAVY” pen, this is what I’m talking about, why is a weapon like that so useless, why do players/devs accept that

[tall yew]

its balanced it has over twice as many grenades as the shoulder fired launcher.

[fading thistle]

Doesn’t matter if it twice the ammo count of the grenades take twice as much to kill an enemy

It’s not even heavy pen

[tall yew]

its clearly intended for crowd control

of low pen enemies

[fading thistle]

Ok so I’d love to see crowd control in dif 9

Let’s see it

[tall yew]

you want a medium pen more valuable ammo use the shoulder fired grenade launcher with back pack

problem solved

[fading thistle]

Crowd control is a funny word for doesn’t kill, just staggers, that takes a whole backpack and heavy weapon slot, for crowd control? Why would ANYONE bring that out

[tall yew]

these are non issues because a new gun doesnt have all the bells and whistles.

[fading thistle]

I think it’s an issue when people pay many for war bonds for weapons that are useless

[tall yew]

useless to you, im still playing around with loadouts regardless what im playing.

[fading thistle]

At what dif and is it fun

The CEO of the game even played and mentioned how terrible everything was as well, granted that’s not a CEOs job, but it was more of a shock that him being bad

[tall yew]

all diff, 4 for chill, 6 for a medium diff, 7 for a challenge plus the higher diff enemies, and ill play 10 for events and when im looking for a real challenge.

[fading thistle]

What loadout you use for dif 10

Like recently I should say

[tall yew]

depends faction and subfaction even obj

[fading thistle]

Dif 7 is the last dif u can do with fun loadouts before it gets annoying

Bugs

Also like why is the flamethrower range only 5 feet, that’s not even how a flamethrower works, and the TTK is useless, and this is coming from someone who uses it a lot, why cant it be a real flamethrower

Flamethrowers have large standoff ranges cuz in reality you have to stand still in the open to use it, if I’m facing a bug horde, why am I forced to be within 5 feet of them when the TTK is worst than the distance it takes every enemy except the small dudes to close

[tall yew]

prolly
Tendy
grenade pistol
thermite
SF Grenade Launcher
Suppy BP
MG Turret
Eagle Strike
HPO for booster

With medium fortification armor passive

50% of that is vanilla gear

whats the problem

[fading thistle]

Grande pistol meta, Thermite meta, Supply BP meta, eagle strike meta

[tall yew]

i could do without honestly but i gave you my honest answer

[fading thistle]

Now meta isn’t BAD but try a randomized loadout and see the difference

The fact I’m trying to make is there should be so much more meta items but there just isn’t

[tall yew]

im sorry but CARRYING A SUPPLY DROP is meta and there is nothing you can do to not make it meta.

[fading thistle]

Because they’re simply nerfed to ground for no reason

[tall yew]

what do you want every gun to just to more damage so you dont have to bring Sup BP

[fading thistle]

Not that everything in its base configuration is gonna be equal, but that the things that are good are effective cuz the devs, and things that aren’t are bad because the devs, when in reality their base configuration if everything we equal would be amazing

[fading thistle]

Yeah cuz then I could, use every gun when I want and diversify? Is that a bad thing

[tall yew]

im just gonna agree to disagree

[fading thistle]

Cuz about 80% of the weapons are useless, not said a shotgun should one shot an enemy at 50m, but we all use one shotgun cuz it’s buffed when in reality other x shotgun at base configuration should be as effective

There’s a reason everyone in the community and even top ytbers can’t even make a video anymore without saying how terrible the game is

[tall yew]

I dont see the game in the same way man. i think the game is fun in every way i play it.

[fading thistle]

Well at dif 4 that’s easy to see, I guess your right cuz I cannot stand the slow pacing of lower difs, and love the constant/comms requiring gameplay of super high diff, the problem is that you benefit, an people who like the fast paced, heavy challenge get screwed, so I guess we do have to agree to disagree

Cuz to make it bearable, and give us an actual chance, we are forced to use the same equipment every single time

And yes i know that super difs are gonna be hard, meaning you have to use better equipment, but why is it ONLY a select few out of 100s, im not asking for everything to be super OP, but damn it’s gettin annoying warbond after warbond and nothing changes

[tall yew]

Thats where we disagree, i think if you pick a retarded loadout you should pay the price, melee build on inciniration corps makes you expendable.

[fading thistle]

Anything close range/non mobile = death. I agree with Melee being DOA, it always will, but the fact that that’s understood, and yet the weapons that DO make you slow/stand still are dogshit is the problem

I should be rewarded with high risk/high reward for carrying a maxigun, or a flamethrower, or whatever other weapon (other than shoulder mounted launchers, cuz they’re a lot faster to get a round off) instead the TTKs are horrendous, there’s no reward, and the gift is the enemy closing on you with zero effect and killing you, now u spend the entire game with what could’ve been a warp/jetpack/SP, etc for no reward

If the heavy GL actually heavy penned, if it actually obliberated everything, then it taking up both back slots would pay off, but it doesnt, and thats the issue. So it is forever pushed to the void of non-meta at higher difs, while the same 4 things still preside on top, warbond after warbond

[violet raft]

Illuminate front is about to take cheeks

[cloud ore]

will they finally be fun?

[fading thistle]

Already posted

If we going for leaks there about 2 major things about to happen

|| DSS will be turned into a giant bomb, go into the Illuminate warp gate, which will destroy alot of planets ||

And I already mentioned what’s gonna happen to the home front

[fading thistle]

https://x.com/helldiversalert/status/2031373263788716146?s=46

Helldivers Alerts (@HelldiversAlert)

New armor revealed for the Entrenched Division Warbond 🪖 #Helldivers2

• CPG-48 Sapper (Medium) – Grenadier passive: explosive resistance + extra throwables
• CPH-26 Commandant (Light) – Hazmat passive: explosive & gas resistance + reduced sidearm recoil

X · Mar 10, 2026, 2:15 PM

Dropping with the ||multi faction invasion of Super Earth||

Amazing drip

https://youtu.be/k3zP5GWoQi0?si=A16GXcF-vF_NP_8U

NEW:

• SMG with Flame thrower attached, (sten with mini flamer under barrel)

• entrenchment tool - melee, but can also DIG HOLES/MAKE TRENCHES

• MORTAR GAS SENTRY

• GIGA GREANDE, looks EXACLTY like the Anti-Tank grenades of WW1

• Heavy Flame Thrower is DOA, just the basic one with more capacity, no range increase, must stand still to use, like I predicted. Dumbass idiot devs

Even in the TRAILER they had to cut before the bot was about to kill them because of how dogshit flamethrowers are

What are we doing here man

https://youtu.be/tQsjcB2SIko?si=vW7Y1RVTz5ns8WgO

Here’s how it actually should be

[wild venture]

i wonder how the giga grenade will work
if its like an anti tank impact its gonna be fun

[cloud ore]

best AH can do is light pen

[fading thistle]

Well it’s a timed fuse that u will have to throw, prob does heavy pen, however it’ll be DOA as thermites are still king

[undone pewter]

Looks cool but, with a warbond idea like this they could’ve done so much better

Especially with weapons

[tall yew]

My bet is the giga grenade will have higher aoe and explosive damage output than thermite.

[undone pewter]

I mean thermites stick and can pretty much kill or destroy everything. It would have to be rly good to even consider it over thermite

[tall yew]

i bet it could take out few hulks in a decent blast radius

do you guys send feedback to the devs through their feedback forms

[fading thistle]

not gonna happen

[tall yew]

such a poopy pants

[fading thistle]

How do you have that stance on balance then come in saying a grenade should be able to kill multiple hulks

[wild venture]

idk i just wish levellers would 1 shot vox engines to the chest

[wild venture]

hell no

[fading thistle]

Im sayin

I just wish flamethrowers were realistic in range and effect

[tall yew]

it looks like a low range, high explosive grenade, with a decent AOE. if its not im not gonna lose my mind, what am i to say dude.

[wild venture]

i mean, i wish the flamethrowers would scare the enemy more
but i can kill bile titans with it so... idk

[wild venture]

im still mad the maxigun cannot be used while moving

[fading thistle]

U can kill a Bile Titan with anything, try dif 8-9 flamethrower build where you can actually use the flamethrower most of the time instead of on isolated enemies

[wild venture]

long live diff 8

wait

y'all play 10 always?

[fading thistle]

Not always unless I’m in full com/selective builds

Also depends on the planet, enemy type, etc

[wild venture]

i prefer fighting the automatons, and i do it at level 8
with bugs i may go higher
and we dont talk about the squids

[light epoch]

Hell no, I mainly play 5-6

Sometimes 7

[fading thistle]

5-6 is so unbelievably boring though

[light epoch]

Im usually playing by myself

[fading thistle]

Like in a random squad or solo?

[light epoch]

Solo

[fading thistle]

Even the 5 is pretty bare

6 for the super Samps i get

[tall yew]

ill concede that flamethowers dont perform well, ive putit in the feedback forms multiple times now

[cloud ore]

wonder if ah actually reads those lmao

[tall yew]

I think there are just weapons, that are not supposed to perform beyond their intended purpose.

[tall yew]

i think they do, they issue them every week or so. if its not AH its sony. My personal belief is that it is far better than yelling into the void of a discord that gets 10000+ messeges a minute.

[fading thistle]

That would be fine if the flamethrowers before realistic, not damage wise but range/effect wise

[tall yew]

pardon my language and im not directing it to anyone here because i dont know where yall consume HD content, but folks who bitch on the discord, reddit, etc are by the most retarded group of people.

[fading thistle]

I’m not asking for them to melt the enemies more than they already do, just fix range and actually keep the fire effect on them

[tall yew]

i agree

[fading thistle]

I’m not sure if the fire effect is a host issue or not

Cuz on squads if your host the fire ground effect doesn’t damage enemies at all

[tall yew]

but i think some of the AI behavior should reflect the dangers of a stream of fire.

[fading thistle]

At least for bots/squids since they show signs of intelligence

Bugs just walk into anything, stalkers are prob the intelligent

[tall yew]

The fire should create a semi permiable barrier that the AI want to primarily avoid and only if impossible should walk through.

[wild venture]

why would you do something like that

[fading thistle]

Crowd control would be a great to but you’d need the range for that

At least 20-30m

Cuz irl flamethrowers were effective at range, they were not useful in close quarters

[wild venture]

damn 😔

[tall yew]

yea once they put them on vehicles

[fading thistle]

They actually did perform crowd control and bunker/tunnel clearing, ie literal perfect weapon for bugs but devs are brain dead in that aspect

They think the weapon flamethrowers are Elon Musk boring company flamethrowers

Even the auto turret is abysmal because the enemies can walk right through the tip if the fire and almost already be dealing damage to the turret

[tall yew]

i thought they modeled it after the pyro's on tf2

beyond the little bit of weapon balance stuff, they desperately need to add a chat board ingame.

im sure whenever the clan system comes will solve a bit of that

[fading thistle]

Well on that game your extremely mobile which makes the more shotgunny play style viable

[fading thistle]

I hope

I don’t care about being partially immobile using a flamethrower but damn give me some range/effects buff like it was irl, even using them in real life required you to be exposed and at least squatted while standing still, there’s no reward for it

[tall yew]

yea i think the flames should "splash" when they hit something

[fading thistle]

Yeah, instead of dissipate mid air

[fading thistle]

Cultist coming soon

[tall yew]

Don’t you get my hopes up

Cultists are legit the most exciting thing for me rn

[fading thistle]

I mean they’ve been leaked in the files for months with gameplay too and the new posters around maps confirm it

Seem pretty balanced, and visually cool

[eager yarrow]

can we please stop talking about spoilers via leaks in here unless you've got the text spoilered?

[fading thistle]

It’s not a leak anymore

These are found scattered around some squid planets

[wild venture]

the ministry of truth is having a hard time with this chat

[fading thistle]

Idk the cultist seems kinda cool with that poster

I think I’ll hear em out

[cloud ore]

ironic

they dont want space magic

but they add space magic

[left ruin]

I might install again, just the drama behind what's going on is kind of disheartening.

[fading thistle]

Nothing to look forward to if I’m being honest, I get the itch every now and then but it’s nothing worth reinstalling for

[fading thistle]

Watch out for these divers

[left ruin]

It's the fact that the community went after a dude for simply challenging the devs to do a level 10 Dive, basically calling his work and threatening them to the point that they fired him. Called the horse range that he volunteered at and threatened them as well.

Basically ruined a dudes life over challenging a dev group and if they beat it, he would donate 1000 bucks to any charity of their choosing.

[fading thistle]

Yeah

[tall yew]

Thats reddit for you

[left ruin]

Yeup.

[green berry]

I honestly, sincerely am bewildered by the amount of flak the devs get

Some games I understand it even it I don't agree with it. Star Citizen for example, there's very real reasons for people to be very angry at devs. But Helldivers has been my group's go-to game for when we aren't sure what else to play for over a year, I've gotten more than my money's worth and I don't really get all of this stuff about people saying the devs are bad and don't care about their game community

Just seems like bitching for the sake of bitching

[fading thistle]

you said it’s a game that you hop onto when theres nothing else to play, you play it to have fun correct? We’ll what if you want to play high difficulties cuz the lower difs are boring, even with fun builds where you can get fun shit to work it’s too easy, now at high difs u can no longer use those fun builds because they aren’t effective, making gameplay more infuriating. Now try dif 9-10 w/ meta builds on certain maps, quite literally impossible. How is that fun when there’s no strategy, impossible to complete all objectives, and you’re just constantly getting called in from dying over and over just to complete at least one objective

It’s easy for temp players to speak cuz they aren’t grinding, they come in, do their thing, and leave, great point in saying it’s not something you stick too after awhile, I don’t blame you

It’s a damn co op game, you know how many other studios would be blessed with just worrying about co op and not PvP? Why can’t everything be effective at high difs and still present a challenge, a different approach, instead of locking players to metas at high difs?

It’s just a lazy approach

Why can’t one true flag have a health boost radius when planted? Why can’t stim pistol have auto-seeking darts like that other pistol? Why does it have sway at all? These things don’t make sense and are the reason nobody uses them at higher difs when on paper a stim pistol should be a MUST have for higher difs

What’s the point of using the flamethrower if it’s range and TTK is worse than my primaries, has a bigger cone than a shotgun, requires me to almost stand still to use effectively, and doesn’t even have a effective stagnant effect, which doesn’t even work for helldivers that are hosting server btw (which hasn’t been fixed in MONTHS even though the community has been screaming at them about it) with little to zero consistent communication with devs, etc

[tall yew]

If you could use any loadout on any difficulty it would be too easy. Damned it you do damned if you don’t.

[fading thistle]

I mean I can use a secondary the entire time with no strats on dif 5 and below, doesn’t mean other weapons should suffer

Just because 4 strats, 4 primaries, 4 secondaries are satisfactory as metas don’t mean u just let everything else rot

[tall yew]

One more day until trench boys get thawed out.

[fading thistle]

Oh it drops tmrw?

I just hope the heavy flame is a legit flamethrower

[tall yew]

Likewise, games been a staple in my library. Perfect sci-fi game for the sci-fi scratch.

[fading thistle]

Also I like trenching ability idea, but when has any emplacement/barricade other than shield worked? I know the force of law one isn’t really used a lot. If trenches can prevent ragdolling from explosive and bug charges that’d be awesome

[tall yew]

You’ll have to wait for patch notes I guess. 🤷‍♂️

[fading thistle]

I will dig a hole to the center of the planet

[green berry]

I mean I'm a "casual" player but I'm level 95, I've got a few hundred hours of play. I agree with all those suggestions - flag, stim pistol etc - I just don't understand how wanting a gameplay mechanic change turns into this sort of weirdly obsessive anger

Every game I've ever played had things I wish worked differently, but for whatever reason Helldivers attracts a sort of person who behaves as though they're being personally attacked by every development choice

[fading thistle]

It’s anger because the devs don’t ever communicate, anytime the community finds something fun or useful the devs reveal it to be unintentional and destroy it (where they wouldn’t have have they not seen it from the community) there’s too many massive bugs I can’t even count, that haven’t even been addressed by the devs either. We’re all in limbo, that’s why people are angry

[tall yew]

Preach.

[fading thistle]

Not the point, the point is that the devs are ever so silent about blaring issues, refusing to fix things even when they are performing incorrectly, the stuff I wish changed sure, but the main issue is the devs overall lack of communication and response to both bugs and lacking items

Especially for items that are released from a warbond having bugs that are still months on without any word

[light epoch]

It's kinda the same issue with Broken Arrow I think, it's the whole reason I stopped playing it after a month.

[fading thistle]

Same, I had such high hopes for that game, but matchmaking was terrible, sadly it’s dead now, but same issue, devs waited too long, couldn’t balance anything correctly.

[light epoch]

Yeah they're balancing just flipped the favorite/meta to completely the other side while also making it worse

[fading thistle]

I remember when they did respond, they’d just post a random PDF showing stats, but it eventually just proved the players right

I think Russia low rank was OP but US high rank was OP, it was Russia tank meta and US air meta?

[light epoch]

I think so. And then the ballistic missile launchers were super OP and were nearly unavoidable.

[cloud ore]

thing is how much do you listen to your playerbase

im sure if they listened to all the high profile requests, game would be too easy

but i think there is a difference between arrogant about it, and being constructive about it

i.e with the bouncing strategems being handwaved for no real reason

[undone pewter]

Whenever it’s illuminate I just don’t play. Just not enjoyable like at all

[fading thistle]

I was talking about bugs, not player suggestions, big difference

strategem bouncing isnt even a complaint either

[cloud ore]

it is in alot of circles. but yeah, ah is allergic to fixing bugs it seems

[fading thistle]

I will say the strat bounce is inconsistent, if it was consistent it could be written off as certain surfaces

[cloud ore]

its anything elevated

[eager yarrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_uyAaJ3Z0

New 80s style horror/mystery video thingy

content is dropping on friday

will this content convince me to start playing missions against the illuminati?

find out in the next episode of helldivers

[eager yarrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9hQLRj3Pas

First half of the video is spoilers for the new content (which I personally skipped)

Patch notes start at 4:17

Flamethrower can actually stagger or disrupt small/medium enemies now, wow

that's kinda huge

stim pistol has 100% more heal and 50% faster muzzle velocity

they nerfed the GL back to medium pen

the flag now has a 'taunt' effect so enemies will focus any player holding one or if it's on your back

it wasn't clear in the video but they gave the beltfed GL 20 more grenades in the backpack an I think also left it at heavy pen instead of nerfing it also down to medium pen

standing near exosuit legs no longer gives you a heart attack thankfully

the maxigun also got more ammo, but in the preview clip for the maxigun the person playing the game and capturing the footage was literally missing all of his shots until the enemies got closer, very embarrassing tbh.

I also think it would be amusing to watch the devs play d10

[fading thistle]

Good, it desperately needed that

[fading thistle]

Tbh Heavy Pen wasn’t doing much, I think they changed it to medium pen but bigger explosion radius maybe?

[fading thistle]

I’m glad they finally did something with the flag

Now it can be used to strategize and farm using teamwork

[fading thistle]

*D10 Oshuane raise the flag 😂

[wild venture]

this is a very sad loss for me

[foggy marsh]

i bet host or non host has a slight unintended effect

[fading thistle]

Yeah

I’ll have to check but I guarantee flame effect for host has not been fixed

[foggy marsh]

LMAO.. Warbond is one thing

THE SUPERSTORE EXCLUSIVE THOUGH BEATS EVERYTHING OUT OF THAT WARBOND

[tall yew]

Guess I’m giving the swedes my money

[fading thistle]

SMG with flamethrower isn’t gonna be good unfortunately

Shotgun will be sweet

I think this is the first warbond w/ mixed passives

[eager yarrow]

Those stats confuse me

I forget how fast light armour is though so that doesn't help

[tall yew]

550

[fading thistle]

So that’s a medium armor?

[foggy marsh]

no its heavy

[tall yew]

450 speed is the default heavy speed

500 is medium

[fading thistle]

yeah

I just got the warbond, about to hop into my first game

anyone on for one match

[cloud ore]

nah, was brought back to medium

[eager yarrow]

crazy, it's even more ass then

[fading thistle]

GIGA grenade:

1 shots chargers

2 shot bile titan

1 shots automation tanks

1 shots Hulks

4 shots factory striders

2 shots the Illjmiate blob thing

2 shots the walker thing

Doesn’t have big radius but a direct hit on a target is insane damage, it’s fast, and blow up on contact

Only get 2 w/o grenade armor, can destroy bug holes without making it into the hole

https://youtu.be/XWMAjF-sdFo?si=qoX0OaBiPP_PWkXg

See when flamethrowers actually get their flame effect and does stagger/crowd control it becomes a viable weapon in high dif

The normal Flmaethrower is dead though, no heavy pen, no sustained fire, and it’s not worth the back slot

[fading thistle]

However, you only get 1 per resupply, meaning thermite/pyro still get more value than GIGA

[formal ridge]

Playing in the B/ACD company lounge if anyone would like to join me

[tall yew]

I’m hearing good things about the new warbond.

[fading thistle]

Half good half bad

The mechanical changes saved it a bit

Shotty is good, armor is ok (just a mix of other passives so can’t really say) grenade is meh unless they fix the resupply amount. Drip is amazing, SMG is SMG so it’s DOA, heavy flame is amazing (because they sorta fixed and added the new flame effects) gas mortar is ok

[foggy marsh]

oh

the new enemies have arrived

[fading thistle]

Heavy Bulwark armor can survive a grenade explosion while holding it

[tall yew]

lol based

[turbid bough]

Time to start dramatically dive onto grenades for teammates

[covert jay]

Join us in 2nd Platoon lounge for some diving!

[fading thistle]

https://youtube.com/shorts/-PFru3ULW5M?si=1hudmE5Sxg0PGIAB

[tall yew]

Yippee new mechs locked behind a paywall

[wild venture]

yay.

[cloud ore]

yeah thats a big no from me

mechs are terrible against any enemy with decent ap (so about half of them)

[wild venture]

the emancipator is pretty good

for the 1 minute max that you can have it

[fading thistle]

One mech is a shield/melee mech, other is a flamethrower mech

Both are gonna be ass, drip is also bad

[tall yew]

I think the At/flam mech will be decent.

[eager yarrow]

If the shield mech's shield is made of the same unobtainium that the heavy devastator's shield is made of then it might be worth it

[green berry]

I honestly don't think I've ever died in the autocannon mech

I've always run out of ammo before the suit gets destroyed. Admittedly I don't take it out on bots though

[fading thistle]

https://youtu.be/jLrRbxJU7es?si=JghwdhRWw06dtC4x

[orchid zinc]

A lot they could have done or should do for sure.

[cloud ore]

drop new mech warbond
double mech health
increase durable damage that enemies do
hive guardian armor to heavy

brother

these devs

i swear to god

has the whole games industry had a massive brain drain over the past 10 years or something?

[tall yew]

Hive guardians rest of body is unarmored and has almost health its original health.

[cloud ore]

yes

but

they oftentimes have angles which make it alot harder to hit from the front

YES I AIM FOR THE ARMPIT, but it is oftentimes very inconsistent, especially if they huddle up

[fading thistle]

They always buff stuff right before a warbond, even if the reddit AMA they admit the entire dev team doesn’t follow a same goal, they’re unaware of how small changes affect the game, they also admitted they’ll change mechanics based off the warbond instead of just fixing shit when it should. They’re all in disarray and have no idea what they’re doing

[tall yew]

I haven’t played yet I’ll refrain from casting judgement before

[fading thistle]

No this isn’t about the update this is based off the general dev team behavior has that has always been

[tall yew]

I just play the game man. I don’t work there who cares

[foggy marsh]

^

I know you care about the game but.. goddamn.. the negativity really burns me out more than the game itself

[fading thistle]

It’s because I’m passionate about the game and hate to see it run by incompetent people

[covert jay]

This update has taken the game back to mixed reviews on steam. The content released behind a paywall combined with the poorly received AMA has even the helldivers official discord up in arms.

That being said I’m happy to see the mechs get buffed.

[tall yew]

Yeah I expect the apc to be a warbond stratagem. I’ll still however defend that the game has a good amount of “free” content that does not require super credits for you to be a good member to a fireteam.

It is nice though I to see at least most new types of stratagem categories be free first and new iterations be added behind a paywall. But my fireteam I usually play with has been mainlining the bastion and even against the new bugs it’s hyper successful

[covert jay]

The balance between free and paid war bonds could be improved, I don’t think it’s gone so far that it’s blocking players from being effective or paywalling play styles. The buffs and debuffs could definitely be handled better/in a more organized way.

[cloud ore]

there needs to be a way for older warbonds to be acquired easier

fuckin lower the price at least

250 sc for the oldest

[tall yew]

Hard to justify since you can sc farm pretty effectively

I’d rather have it the way it is had over fist. But I’d ofcourse love a better way

[cloud ore]

im lucky in the sense i have all but 4 warbonds

of those 2 are shit

i feel bad for new guys

[covert jay]

I think lowering the price for older content is a very fair way to compromise with community without outright removing monetization from aspects from the game.

[tall yew]

Yea it’s a tough call cause you have to remember every warbond comes with a 3 dollar rebate basically if you put them on to much of a sale you can inadvertently get multiple warbonds for super cheap or even make money back in the form of super credits.

[green berry]

I think if they drop em to 600SC that'd be fair. With the 300 rebate you're talking 300SC effective cost, and realistically many people won't even get the final tier of 100SC from it because of the medal cost

I do think the game leans too heavily toward paid content now. At the beginning when we had 4-5 warbonds it was one thing, but if you're a new player now the majority of the game is paid which isn't right.

With that said, I'm not sure what it is about Helldivers in particular that attracts such a negative community. Maybe other games have it too, but honestly one of the reasons I don't really follow Helldivers content is how whiny and exaggerated the vocal player base is.

[tall yew]

It is because the game is a time sink. And progression can be tied to real money purchases.

[cloud ore]

its cause the community is too divided

too many differing types of players with differing types of opinions trying to put their vision onto the game

as a game dev, you can never please everyone, so you cant take feedback too seriously, but if you dont take it into account at the same time, everyone leaves

like take me for example

I play solely on difficulty 10. i can do bots, squids, and bugs. I can effectively play against these factions and keep my casualty count below 5 well over 90% of the time, and below 2 about 70% of the time. I have captured flag objectives solo on bots. once with the hulk spam seed. I can also have a high kill count for the vast majority of my missions.

I have the vast majority of warbonds. I have my ship upgraded.

with that being said, i consider myself among the top 10 to 20% of players skill wise.

But my opinions are for myself. And im sure other players in my bracket have vastly different opinions to me.

But how valid is my opinion compared to someone in the top 1%? How about someone who just bought the game?

[tall yew]

I’ve been playing since launch I don’t play diff 10 anymore and find 5-6 enjoyable enough. I don’t want to play meta classes and shit no more nor do I care about max mining the currency gathering. Game is still just as enjoyable as it was at launch

[tall yew]

heck divin?

[woven prairie]

Hell yea

👀

[cunning cave]

Hate it that they put the new mechs behind a paywall

[woven prairie]

Real

[cloud ore]

effective loadout ive found vs spore bugs

primary is the knight

some notes:
armor? - drip, nothing more.
senator? - if your EAT doesnt 1 shot a bile to the head, the senator can 1 shot it. Plus, having heavy ap on hand can come in clutch
eat? - you can probably use a quasar cannon in its place, but i like how snappy the EAT is
sentry? - great for horde clearing if you use it right

[cloud ore]

sample run

an example of dealing with a spore bile

[green berry]

This senator tip is excellent

I honestly thought I was just missing my shots suddenly but turns out they have more hp. Being able to finish em with senator is big

[cloud ore]

I discovered that tactic after experimenting with the railgun a few months ago. I noticed once you hit it a few times, you could sometimes 1 tap the head with the senator to kill it.

But since the railcannon is inconsistent, i didnt really find serious application of it until i tried the EAT and QC. If it didnt outright kill bile titans with a headshot, the pistol does the rest

Senator supremacy shows once again

now vs 4+ bile titans at once?

no one has a good tactic for that

[cloud ore]

anotha one

but this one is just more silly

[tall yew]

https://tenor.com/view/bender-futurama-neat-wow-gif-5744318

[woven prairie]

Me n da homie was fighting illuminate

Pov when yall live somehow

[tall yew]

I will not play against spore bugs no more

[green berry]

How consistent is it? Like if you EAT or quasar a normal (non-spore) titan, but just miss the head, is it a consistent one-tap with the senator?

[cloud ore]

very. about 8/10 attempts

one i needed another shot, the other i needed a second

but im sure that was because i missed a direct hit on the head

with the normal, id it would be just as effective. normals still have heavy ap heads

yeah, would be just as

if the AT just outright doesnt delete it

but you have to hit the head

[cloud ore]

id rather play spore than pred

id rather play pred than rupture

[tall yew]

I don’t know what the random speed boost spore bugs get but it’s a bad mechanic

[wild venture]

oh yeah i heard about this in a random hd2 shitpost video

[eager yarrow]

https://youtu.be/W2c4RpRKAMg

lol

[queen helm]

https://youtu.be/xRQi00kCST8

👀

[fading thistle]

Well it was bound to happen

Hopefully it’s not a flop like other collabs

[cloud ore]

honestly im not expecting much

lasgun maybe