Helldivers 2: For Managed Democracy!

[forest crater]

The ones that run towards you and explode, that is.

I already vaguely knew of the other

[hazy oriole]

keep me posted on how this goes, i've been wondering lately if i'd enjoy having smokes as a way to spice up my bot loadout

[dusky solar]

Nier Automata is 1000% worth a play sometime. One of the most fun games to contemplate on how people create meaning in their lives i've ever played.

[lethal badger]

Also will make you fucking cry

[dusky solar]

Whaaaat noooo nier automata is just about cute anime robots teehee~

[glacial light]

You can't fool me the fanmade music video prepped me for a tragedy

In like a good way

[dusky solar]

It has some very satisfying character arcs lol

[random socket]

terminid meteor ships

[lethal badger]

I uh

I have multiple Pinterest boards just for 9S/2B

One is for gender goals

[dusky solar]

😂 i'm more of a "hide my face in the emil head" type

[lethal badger]

The other is for relationship goals

[rare nymph]

Tibit is secure

[pastel igloo]

Lets fucking go

Another victory for Managed Democracy

[wind arrow]

gonna be in HA divin' (currently doing dif4)

[royal lantern]

Just unlocked the Dominator and I'm really enjoying it. In some respects it feels like a straight upgrade to the regular punisher, though it's slower to react to things right up in your face

[glacial light]

0397-8522

[lethal badger]

Gonna be honest I hate desert planets

But this one might be a chance to spot a walker

(:

[glacial light]

I'm curious to see what would happen if we managed this major order and take out the automatons

Probably just temporary but still

[strange vine]

ive seen some story spoilers

we very much are in the prologue of the story theyve planned lmao

[burnt vapor]

Yeah we’re still waiting on the return of the squids so I expect we’ve yet to see any of the actually big story beats

[burnt vapor]

My current theory is they are going to launch an attack on cyberstan’s sector from beyond the frontier

[solid lagoon]

1724-8431

[hot meadow]

I picked up a rando’s and loved it, seems like a great fun

[cerulean sluice]

anyone need another?

[wind arrow]

8292-3835

[keen zinc]

me mode

be disrespectful

[barren zephyr]

really want to see this armor set return in HD2

[strange vine]

work progressing on the berserker, really happy with how the arm turned out

[keen zinc]

<@&1206091872716595200> more soldiers for the cause

[unkempt river]

Fembois? NO! I'M HERE FOR FEMBOTS

[junior badge]

Another way to kill fabs that I learned recently:

EATs to the vent also work.
At least from far away with a relatively flat angle.

In case anyone else didn't know that yet.

[rich marlin]

is there a problem EATS can't solve

if there is I don't wanna hear it, thats treason

[unkempt river]

This also true for Quasar Cannons

[unkempt river]

Reloading >:D #sunsjustwannakillbots

[stone bridge]

EATs is so damn good

[junior badge]

Yeah, right now I know that
Autocannon (if the shot's angled right), Quasar (just aim at the low edge) and EATs can do it.

Almost certainly this means that RR can do it too.

Gotta try GL too, tbh.

Plus, resupply in the vent also does it, since that's a hellpod.

[stone bridge]

GL can absolutely kill fabs

[junior badge]

Gives us a decent amount of flexibility, I think. Sure, grenades and airstrikes or similar are still the easiest way, but we're not actually forced to bring those, necessarily.

[hexed steeple]

i think autocannon is easier than nades tbh. you can do it from insane ranges

[graceful bluff]

I mean if you want range nothing really beats the quasar

[junior badge]

Autocannon is only easy at significant distance, ime. Once I'm relatively close, it doesn't want to work.

[unkempt river]

Quasar? Nah, that's a Sun Shooter

[junior badge]

Quasar does have a bit of a minimum range / the angle can't be too steep, but much easier than AC.

[unkempt river]

Gotta hit the "top" of the vent flap

[strange vine]

yeah with AC you riccochet the shot in via the vent flap

ive sniped fabs from like 200+ meters with AC

[unkempt river]

Nah, you just have to be at equal or greater elevation to hit the interior of the vent

[hexed steeple]

the autocannon is a type of sniper if you’re cool about it

[junior badge]

Again, at long range I've found it easy, but as soon as I'm within... 30ish meters, I've yet to manage with the AC.

[strange vine]

again, shoot the vent flap

[unkempt river]

Odd, I've literally never had an issue.

[strange vine]

its guaranteed kill

[junior badge]

Yes, I've tried that - though previously I was told to hit the middle of the vent, so that's probably it.

[unkempt river]

Yeah, you've got to hit closer to the top in order to kill it within about 30m

[junior badge]

Still, grenades are the easiest way to do it once you're right there, together with stratagems.

Which is all I'm saying, really.

[unkempt river]

??? Wild.

[strange vine]

nah i run impacts, i can get them in the vents but it sometimes takes a few tries

eagle airstriking the fabs is a mainstay but sometimes i want to save those

[unkempt river]

I mean, Strats, yes, 'nades? I might be out of practice (#impactpilled) but there's a serious chance of it bouncing

[glacial light]

My personal ease list is support weapon if you got an angle, stratagems if within 70m then I do a dive toss, then grenade if I need to be closer than 30m and out of everything

[unkempt river]

#quasarpilledbasekiller

[junior badge]

Yeah, guess it's a tad harder with impacts. Though I'm pretty consistent with those too.

[stone bridge]

The grenade pistol will be a godsend for em

[glacial light]

I wish we had a manual mortar
HD2 Reddit: We have a manual mortar at home.
https://www.rxddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bx4458/primetime_ballistic_shield_gameplay/

[hexed steeple]

lmso

oh right the shield got buffs didn’t it

[glacial light]

Oh yes it can survive several direct shots from a rocket

[tall stone]

Man, Hellmire is in trouble over in Terminid Space.

[cobalt patrol]

Hellmire knows what it did.

[dusky solar]

i am soooooo excited for grenade pistol

tonight i tested smoke nades vs bot 9s btw

it felt good?

[glad marsh]

See

I really

Really

REALLY

[dusky solar]

i also tested arc thrower and it was hiiiiiiiiilllllaaarrrrriiiioooouuuuuussssss

[glad marsh]

Like the thermite grenades

[meager saffron]

arc thrower staggering hulks even on chain hit is

insane

why can it do that

[glad marsh]

It WHAT

That's

Huh

[dusky solar]

i wonder if it's secretly someone's baby

[meager saffron]

I mean it should be

as an arc thrower fifth column

[dusky solar]

because if they had nerfed it by 40% dps and the range and given it the stagger it would kind of be mid

[honest acorn]

Arc thrower stagger is wild now

[dusky solar]

but the nerf was only 20%

[honest acorn]

Yeah it unironically needs it

[dusky solar]

cuz they removed the fast charge but buffed the base charge

which i didn't realize initially

so i thought they just wayyyyy overnerfed the dps

[honest acorn]

The damage nerf and RoF fix really hit it hard, and then losing 15 meters of range

And it’s still good

[dusky solar]

yeah, i think the stagger is what saves it now

though the OTHER thing i tried the last few days vs bots is just running no support weapon

it's Just Good

[glad marsh]

It works sometimes

[honest acorn]

It’s pretty decent imo

Requires some bravery

[hot meadow]

TBH less crazy than it sounds!

[dusky solar]

on blitzes specifically i think it might be optimal?

[glad marsh]

Having so many strikes is big

[meager saffron]

EAT gamin

[dusky solar]

i don't know about other modes

[hot meadow]

sometimes it's nicer to just drop a million eagles on them

[dusky solar]

but blitzes for sure it's very good

i was orb rail, orb laser, 380

[meager saffron]

yeah for blitzes you can afford to frontload all your power within the first 7 minutes

[glad marsh]

I think it's gonna be even better when we get the new warbond, having AT grenades will be great

[dusky solar]

i have started running up to the enemy spawns at extract to make sure the 380 placement is extra precise and about 70% of the time it's really good

[glad marsh]

As well as a portable flak gun

[honest acorn]

I really like the GL for blitzes

[dusky solar]

bug blitzes especially imo

jetpack GL is like, the most dopamine build

[honest acorn]

Since it lets you stay very mobile and allows you to pop fabs/nests well

[dusky solar]

lol i've also taken to throwing resupps at bot fabs now

esp if i'm good on ammo and stims and won't need it but there's a light base?

yeet

*only on blitzes

i'm excited for the grenade pistol

slightly nervous to lose the redeemer vs fucking berserkers

it reloads so fast and kills so fast

ALSO the light armor currently in the warbond shop with 50% explosive resist is cracked vs bots and i highly recommend anyone reading this with the spare SC to pick it up

[honest acorn]

Yeah grenade pistol is gonna be ace

I barely use my secondary so I’m pretty willing to go for a utility pick

[stone bridge]

Same

[dusky solar]

i wonder if we'll get new stratagems with the warbond

i haven't been keeping track of leaks in a serious manner, but i also haven't heard anything about the next batch of strats

[honest acorn]

My guess is no

Last time they released them 2 weeks after the warbond with little warning

[glad marsh]

We seem to get a stratagem or two every month or so, but they've never been released alongside a warbond yeah

[honest acorn]

I’m guessing that will remain the case with a staggered warbond then strategem schedule

[glad marsh]

There are so many leaked strats though, it could be so many things

[honest acorn]

Yeah

Hoping for missile silo

My gut feeling is missile silo and air burst rocket

But I have no particular evidence for that

[shy prairie]

Mm got most kills with ballistic shield and no support weapon

[dusky solar]

Ballistic shield is going to be fantastic with defender/grenade pistol post-patch

Assuming grenade pistol is one handed

[junior badge]

My feeling is Airburst and AA-Eagle.

[dusky solar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXr-72xMtSY

ohhhhh this makes so much sense

i don't think it's necessary and i don't really want to do it

but

there IS a reason to kill fabs and bug holes

tldw:

1. everyone has a 75m bubble around them. Any overlapping bubbles are considered the same "group" of players for spawning patrols near
2. patrols can't spawn inside your 75m bubble
3. patrols either spawn on a point between you and a fab/bug hole, OR 10m outside the nearest map edge if all fabs/bug holes are destroyed

Thus, if you destroy all fabs/bug holes, make a player group on extract, and position one person to extend their bubble 10m outside the map border (65m from map edge), you can invalidate the only spawn criteria for enemies and have a peaceful extract

I hope they patch this cuz that's realllllllly not fun lol

[merry cosmos]

15 Billion dead fascists

What a time to be alive

Also we need the tato back

(Lazer smg)

[dusky solar]

Defender riot shield really warps your playstyle a lot. You have to focus rocket devs very quickly or you lose your build's main value. I'm not sure how much i like it especially because it suffers vs walkers. Hm.

Grenade pistol will probably make it a lot better when you can just slap striders and you have a lot more ammo

[royal lantern]

How is the mech doing these days? I don't see many people take it and then only in the extermination missions where you're in a really tiny arena

[meager saffron]

a lot less likely to die from being clipped by a devastator

[quick plinth]

since it turns out rocket damage was getting applied multiple times

they fixed that

[dusky solar]

It's great vs bugs especially

You have to learn the yolo aim for the rockets though

It's very "feel" based

I personally always bring it on bug missions in case of dropping near a shrieker nest.

One mech can level the nest and clear hordes

[meager saffron]

yeah rockets are highly applicable to bugs as are the gatlings

being able to solo a heavy nest without many other strats, or not devoting as many slots as the gl+jetpack+light armor combo is reaaaaal nice

[dusky solar]

Soon as we get the mech with quad 40mm we'll be able to play mechwarrior

"Do i want the rifleman or the urbie..."

[meager saffron]

i already want to poptart with the quasar

[royal lantern]

I'll have to give it a try once this bot campaign push is done then, I'm really been avoiding bugs and this has been an excuse because I've found them comparatively very frustrating to fight

[noble shuttle]

tbh bugs aren't as much of a headache once you have a medium armor pen weapon you like

or a flamethrower

[blissful sparrow]

still waiting for the Flamethrower + cannon mech

[royal lantern]

Ooooh I hadn't realized they were mostly medium armored, I actually just got the Dominator so I guess I'll have to give that a go

[noble shuttle]

hive guards, brood commanders, bile spewers, and shriekers have medium armor
Chargers are still gonna take support weapons or explosives to bring down

[dusky solar]

Me omw to play a vapor eagle in lancer

Veagle is the most anime mech in battletech

Including the LAMs

[hollow plover]

https://vxtwitter.com/BitsHammer/status/1776779886826533109

[hexed steeple]

mama mia

[hollow plover]

https://tenor.com/view/im-doing-my-part-serious-stare-gif-11979677

[naive dragon]

I hope the illuminates are fun

I'm going to miss fighting bots

[hollow plover]

I hope you're looking forwards to inverted controls!

Cuz' that's what we're getting

[pastel igloo]

I'm certainly not

[hexed steeple]

i will adapt i got what it takes

[naive dragon]

They spent all that time on bugs and then looked over to my favorite faction and went "what if we speedrun your content"

[hollow plover]

Built Different
(within patriotic parameters)

[royal lantern]

The illuminates making you plug your keyboard and mouse in to different USB slots like Psycho Mantis

[naive dragon]

I will single-handedly start a rebellion on Cyberstan

[royal lantern]

Naw, we still haven't even gotten to the surprise liberation of cyberstan that I feel has to be the climax of this

I can honestly seem them pulling having the galaxy map zoom out a little to reveal how fucked super earth really is

[hollow plover]

The western war was a diversion to conceal the automatons' crack team of socialist spec-ops infiltrating Cyberstan's security aparatus

[naive dragon]

Giving me hope

[keen zinc]

The Automatons are not gonna be wiped out

My prediction is map expansion, Illuminate invasion, TCS failure, automaton stealth fleet arriving at Cyberstan

They're Automatons, they could've built a massive fleet and just sent it coasting at Cyberstan 50 years ago and all this has been a diversion

[heady halo]

i just realised helldivers 2 is an mmo

[naive dragon]

🤔 You know, you're not wrong

[keen zinc]

An MMO where the only gameplay is 4 player instances

[naive dragon]

Imagine my framrate with 30+ helldivers all calling in 500kg bombs

[keen zinc]

Imagine your freedomrate

[naive dragon]

"Democracy officer, his freedoms per second are way too high!"

"He can't fucking see"

[blissful sparrow]

don't have to, i played planetside

[naive dragon]

Don't remind me

I had so many hopes for that game

[blissful sparrow]

it gave me my profile picture and about 5000 hours of playtime, so i'm happy

[dusk agate]

https://tenor.com/view/pacific-rim-you-keep-talking-listening-keep-talking-gif-11959377

[sour whale]

so, a destiny-type game?

[craggy lagoon]

Every game is an "mmo", or rather, they've all incorporated mmo elements

[keen zinc]

[heady halo]

counterpoint: roguelikes and deckbuilders

[undone veldt]

https://www.vxtiktok.com/t/ZTLANMKJN/

[keen zinc]

Every game is a deckbuilder if you don't think about it

[glacial light]

I never think

[glacial light]

The mech is fine against bots now I've used it a few times at diff 7 and it tanks well even against rocket devs, it's not as effective as bugs as the mg can't pierce striders and it takes a second to shred medium enemies so you usually run out of ammo quickly. It can take roughly 7 shots from rockets, bruiser hulks, mines, etc but everything else seems to do neglible damage

Also trying to destroy fabs with the rocket is very annoying

[pastel igloo]

as soon as i unlock it i'm going to use it immediately just for the sheer badassery of a Mech

[glacial light]

I try to always bring it to bugs

Being able to solo clear a heavy nest always feels good

And if you wear heavy armor it mitigates the slowness as I believe a mech is as fast as a sprinting helldiver despite looking slow

[cobalt patrol]

While it's very much Not For Me, I always appreciate having a mech user on team

[pastel igloo]

i wear heavy armor so this is good

as an average mecha fan i am legally and morally obligated to pick the mech

[glacial light]

I'm on the fence with bots for it, but being able to charge headfirst into a jammer or AA without fear is great since you don't need stratagems

[pastel igloo]

bringing in the 500kg, eagle cluster, Autocannon and Mech

[junior badge]

I know why it's a bad idea, but I still want a mech that's laser cannon / quasar cannon

Endless reserves!

[glacial light]

I still want an armored core/Fencer mech that has dash boosters and a melee weapon with a tower shield

Or a dodge roll exoskeleton or jetboosters and that let you dash step and make it dark souls

[cerulean sluice]

I honestly just want one where both weapons can break Striders

[keen zinc]

A mech on a team is nice

Cuz it's something you can rally around

It's a mobile hard point for the squad

Empty magazines and need to heal? Go run behind the mech and formulate your plan

[heady halo]

one of its other vs bots is serviing as a distraction and additional health, even out of ammo you can leave it in a narrow gap or infront of a patrol and bots will attack it rather than walk around, bots will focus on it rather than you

like amko says its also fantastic moveable cover, and you can jump out and use your own mech as cover to throw down stratagems

i want a fastmech for moving quickly over terrain wheels cant cover, and an anti air/anti heavy laser mech ballanced by both weapons being quasers, so its SO slow against infantry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU1rTET0n5c FASTMECH

[cobalt patrol]

Oh shit, ride back, that's a blast from the past

[glacial light]

Fast power armor that works like a mech would also be sick

Give me a fast power armor powered by AA batteries but makes me feel like a speed demon

[glacial light]

I am not liable if I step on a teammate that has decided to use me for cover

[keen zinc]

Elemental suits from MechWarrior

[noble shuttle]

that's a weird looking Caliban

[glad marsh]

Nyoooo not the toads

[keen zinc]

One good thing about a Sunday-Wednesday work week is the content drops happen on my Saturday

The BR got me kinda hype ngl

[azure pewter]

Similar with my weird fucky 2 on 2 off 1 long day schedule

[pastel igloo]

i spent all my super dollars on buying heavy armor so i won't be able to buy the back prolly unless i do a bunch of farming

[keen zinc]

Grenade pistol cool but a solid medium range medium pen battle rifle

[pastel igloo]

i'm probably going to be doing farming later today for that reason

[keen zinc]

Got a few days for trivial berrypicking

[pastel igloo]

i have like 130 super credits i think?

need to farm lots

[keen zinc]

I have 2000+

[pastel igloo]

daaaamn

how you get so many?

[keen zinc]

I play a lot

[pastel igloo]

fair

i got the game 4 days ago so i haven't had time to play much yet

[keen zinc]

This game basically hits me in all da right ways

I love being faceless cannon fodder

[pastel igloo]

[keen zinc]

A little inzane

[pastel igloo]

i have 16 hours so far

[candid finch]

What you got left amko?

[keen zinc]

Infinite

@merry cosmos

Just so you know what kinda lunatic I be

[candid finch]

Oh I meant achievements but nah I getchu

[pastel igloo]

holy shit

Durgen is 80% liberated

[keen zinc]

Idk I dont look at cheevos

[merry cosmos]

I have 8 so far from a singular session

[candid finch]

Fair fair. And God I feel the harder we push back the automatons the harder Joel rubs his hands and plots

[keen zinc]

This number does not represent my total amount of time playing NV, I played it a LOT on PS3 and on a different steam account

[pastel igloo]

i feel like with how the map is looking rn

we are going to be witnessing a MAJOR reversal

because otherwise we are just going to like

win?

[stoic lotus]

I think I only have like 150 too

[keen zinc]

New Vegas is my Formative Gaming Experience

[pastel igloo]

at this pace we will absolutely drive the automatons off the map

[keen zinc]

Illuminate inc

No shot that they don't hit us

[idle hollow]

do you know how the galactic war worked in the last game

[pastel igloo]

no

[idle hollow]

you push the borgs/bugs/squids back to their homeworld and they're gone until a new war starts

or they push super earth back to super earth

and if you cant defend super earth you lose the campaign

[keen zinc]

I doubt we're gonna have a war end so early

[pastel igloo]

yeah

that's my thing

[keen zinc]

They're gonna do something so we can have all three factions at once

[pastel igloo]

some kind of reversal is going to happen i think

[idle hollow]

durgen is like

82%

~5 hours left

we are 100% wiping out the bots

[merry cosmos]

For now...

[pastel igloo]

this major order will be completed

[idle hollow]

yea

for now

inb4 they're like necrons and have underground vaults full of robots ready to start the war again

[candid finch]

I can't help but imagine the map zooms out a little and it's like that horror tyranid scene

[pastel igloo]

that would be cool

[candid finch]

Just basically "well done you chipped a tooth on the behemoth".

[keen zinc]

The map is going to expand and the Bots are going to be a giant wedge pointed towards Cyberstan

And the Reclamation will begin

And the Illuminate will invade

[idle hollow]

god i hope the siege tank comes back

[keen zinc]

And the TCS will fail

[idle hollow]

that thing is literally a terminator H-K tank

[keen zinc]

Siege Mech*

Remember, there is a guy in there

[idle hollow]

yeah i had tank on the brain

[keen zinc]

Scariest thing about the siege Mech was that there is a very human mind directing this mass of metal and gun

[idle hollow]

also the Hive Lord and Great Eye

[keen zinc]

Deep inside there is a man

[stoic lotus]

amko you know there is a guy driving a tank too right

they're not robots

[idle hollow]

karan s'jet if she wasnt messing around

there's dead hivelord corpses lying around bug planets too

[keen zinc]

When did we start bolting crews into their tanks

[stoic lotus]

you just said it's scary that there's a guy inside it

and that that makes it a mech not a tank

[idle hollow]

i really doubt they have a trooper in the tank tbh

im guessing it's just like

they stick an automaton brain in there

i see no hatch for them to get in and out of

[keen zinc]

More than it's a gigantic machine with massive guns but it is the "body" of a human mind directing all of it, it's not a vehicle, it's them

[idle hollow]

like, uh, a machine spirit from 40k (see: AI)

[glad marsh]

That and the thermite are my big takes from the new warbond

[pastel igloo]

farming super credits also gets me medals and samples at a

not awful rate

[merry cosmos]

Tank AC

I think that's just a Tank AC

[cobalt patrol]

Aww, that was nice

randos who brougth autocannon

and team reloaded me all the time

[blissful sparrow]

Courtsey bow is the most important part of that bond

[keen zinc]

The fact the squat is a victory pose and not and emote is a crime

Let me squat to assert dominance as a fabricator explodes

[keen zinc]

I just can't wait to have an actual good battle rifle

[cobalt patrol]

Muaahahah, i love seeing my kills being higher than the total of everyone elses

Just ignore the friendly fire damage, hellbomb happened.

[pastel igloo]

saving up for Expanded Weapons bay is going well

[keen zinc]

It's well worf it

5 cluster bombs is life

[pastel igloo]

got 90 common samples, so i just need 40 more rare and 7 of the purple ones

[stoic lotus]

their total is 349

[pastel igloo]

ran a quick mission on Durgen just to have been there

unsure if it'll already be liberated by the time i show up later

[runic cairn]

<@&1206091872716595200> divers in chat

[candid finch]

"I was there"
"Like once"
"BUT I was there"

[lethal badger]

AUTOMATONS WILL BE WIPED OUT BY 1 PM

Prediction

[pastel igloo]

hey

i was on Malevelon once too

[candid finch]

I was running tibit, jungle planets are horrible

[pastel igloo]

played it on my Brothers account cause he had to go do something and he was at the extract

i only died once

and we managed to extract

literally had no idea what i was doing but i managed

[candid finch]

Better than my runs on the creek

I got frickin ate up more than once

[cobalt patrol]

IT STILL COUNTS

[candid finch]

I love the creek becoming this symbol

[pastel igloo]

i wish i could have gotten the cape

i joined in a day too late

😔

[candid finch]

What was the necessity for the Cape?

[pastel igloo]

i don't think there was a requirement

[candid finch]

I probably don't have it I only had a few runs

Ahhh

Maybe I do have it

[pastel igloo]

i just joined in like the day after it was given to people

i think everyone who played got it

iirc

[candid finch]

Man these devs are nuts

[pastel igloo]

?

[keen zinc]

I think everyone gets it no matter what

[candid finch]

Just like producing so much so regularly, engaging super well, having regular item outputs, embracing player memes like the creek becoming this big thing and playing in it

[pastel igloo]

yeah from what i saw there wasn't a requirement

i don't have it tho

[candid finch]

Considering my other four player vs ai game before this was darktide the difference in support between the games is massive

[pastel igloo]

yeah

[cobalt patrol]

it's a really impressive thing

I've been enjoying Alexus's posts over on the main discord, where he talks about balance and why

(use the From:Alexus | bringer of balance)

[candid finch]

Oh that's good to hear

[keen zinc]

Wierd, it was supposed to roll out to everybody

[cobalt patrol]

Eg, his current take on Team-reloads.

"I'd say that the assisted reload is in line with our design philosophy. The cost is great, but you turn into a rocket turret for a moment. The biggest issue I see with it is ammo, you just spend it in seconds, that's not even worth the effort sometimes. That's difficult thing to solve, and we have some ideas how to do that, but it's not the most urgent thing at the moment

On the other hand, it's fine if some mechanics are there just for lulz and roleplay"

[candid finch]

I think they joined after it rolled out so it couldn't roll out to them

[cobalt patrol]

Honestly, other than the backpack awkwardness (which has pros and cons in it's current state), i thin kteam reloads are pretty healthy

[pastel igloo]

i bought the game on the 3rd

[cobalt patrol]

the ammo is an issue ,but you cget to Wreak So Much Shit

[pastel igloo]

so i think i just barely missed the cutoff

[cobalt patrol]

Or this comment in regardess to the Slugger damage nerf, which is the sort of thinking i like to see from devs

[keen zinc]

Double my TTK daddy

[candid finch]

Is the Creek one the Fallen Hero's cape?

it is a sick frickin cape

[keen zinc]

Yeah

[cobalt patrol]

I've been wearing it because i just really enjoy fighting on the Creek

spoopy blue jungle is a great time

[keen zinc]

But it'll be hard to replace the Mantle of True Citizenship for me

[pastel igloo]

i'm definitely considering upgrading to become a super citizen rn

games just super fun

supporting it more would be good

[cobalt patrol]

It's genuinely impressive how fun it is from the word go

and how fun it stays

I am nearly 350 hours in >.> and like it hanst got boring at all

The mission/op structure is real comfy too

[keen zinc]

Agreed

[cobalt patrol]

The procedural generation is incredibly impressive too, the maps are always very natural feeling, while being interesting to fight on.

The use of PoIs and bases as fixed arenas is ingenious.
And the build crafting in this game is satisfyingly deep without being obnoxious - you have a basic set of goals to meet with a build

(Chaff, heavies, bases - how do you solve these?) And a wealth of ways to tackle it. Which expands dramatically when you're with a team.

[keen zinc]

I wonder if this Thermite grenade is gonna make Engineering Kit more competitive with Medical Kit

Impact grenades are wonderful but the TR-117 armor is just a huge increase to survivability for me

[glad marsh]

if I can chuck a grenade at a hulk and kill it in one or two hits, I'd say yeah

being able to spawn with AT capability is big

[keen zinc]

Yeah

Going from 4 to 6 isn't a huge deal for some grenades

But if the Thermite is an efficient AT options, killing a Charger and Hulk in 2, then being able to kill 3 in one spawn is a massive death spiral stopper

[mortal wing]

So is some bs going down once last bot planet is liberated?

[keen zinc]

Most likely

[glad marsh]

look, if there are in fact more bots to liberate, I'm all for it

[quick plinth]

many guesses are on the cyberstan front being opened

or the illuminate showing up

though I'd say it's most likely the bugs get planted on planets closer to SE invade

[glad marsh]

hopefully we see a new bug or two

[quick plinth]

like a 50 30 20 split of likelihood
50 bugs
30 cyberstand
20 illuminate

[mortal wing]

oh no, bugs on mars

[glad marsh]

we've had 2 new bots, only 1 new bug

so

I have to wonder if they'll balance that out

[mortal wing]

[graceful bluff]

I already know the other bug they'll add and I'd prefer them not to yet :v

[dusky solar]

"babe, would you still love me if i was a worm?"

the impossible thing that i want the MOST out of HD2 is a multi-faction planet fight

bugs, bots, helldivers, and illuminate all duking it out

[keen zinc]

Watch the bugs actually evolve a way to travel planets

And Super Earths entire oil operation just goes tits up

[graceful bluff]

Instead of using it to invade further, they just fucking leave

[glad marsh]

<@&1206091872716595200> anyone around? (activity 1)

[keen zinc]

We have to launch campaigns just to force them back into our space

And keep them from escaping

[tall stone]

We're holding onto Hellmire by the skin of our teeth.

[glacial light]

https://www.vxtiktok.com/t/ZTLAYcdTK/

[pastel igloo]

probably a good thing that some of the patriotic Helldivers disobeyed the orders of Super Earth and didn't all flood the Automaton front

we need people defending against the bugs

[heady halo]

i wish we could add the super to any title

i wanna be a super space cadet

[pastel igloo]

would be fun

[hazy oriole]

I'll hop on the mire after lunch

[glacial light]

I think super private would be fun

I like we need to be like rank 100+ to be considered a regular private

[keen zinc]

Super Death Captain

[hazy oriole]

In the meantime, wanted to ask the Spear Enthusiasts in the chat if it's got any neat breakpoints
I've been messing around with it but can't seem to figure out any unique utility it has beyond "slightly farther fabricator sniping"

[glad marsh]

we're so bloody close y'all

[stiff pine]

until they fix the spear lockon I'm not using it

[pastel igloo]

lets goooooo

[hazy oriole]

Pretty sure I nailed a Hulk with it the other day and it shrugged it off

[glad marsh]

literally half the playerbase is on that one planet

more than that actually

fully 2 thirds at least

wait what

[pastel igloo]

?

[keen zinc]

Spear needs to be buffed

[glad marsh]

some poor divers got stuck behind the bug lines

[keen zinc]

Omicron was a mistake

They are trapped on that hive

God it's hilarious how badly we got smacked by the bugs the moment we touched their home sectors

[pastel igloo]

poor fuckers

[hazy oriole]

Remember the Hellmire 26

[pastel igloo]

i did not realize that Severin was the only sector the automatons were currently holding

[glad marsh]

they're barely holding it, they only have durgen

[idle hollow]

They’re almost gone

[solid lagoon]

7319-2071

[pastel igloo]

yeah they are getting FUCKED

unfortunately that does mean the bugs are totally fucking us

because everyone is over in Severin

we're about to lose Mirin, though we have Draco at a good 39% at least

[graceful bluff]

It's a problem that hellmire is our bottleneck

cause no one wants to go there lol

[pastel igloo]

i mean 4 sectors still isn't a lot

[heady halo]

they should add termanid allied humans from the civilians left on termanid seeded worlds

humans who work out it was actually really simple to just live with termanids

and are like "oh this is way better than super earth"

[idle hollow]

Bug malevelon

Finally

[graceful bluff]

No everyone wanted to malevelon, no one wants hellmire :v

[keen zinc]

I love Hellmire

It is a jump packs paradise because the firenados don't go into high ground like rocks

[idle hollow]

It literally is Hell

[keen zinc]

I want it to suck more

[idle hollow]

no I mean malevelon 2 as in “useless planet we’ll never take until there’s a major order”

I don’t think it has any supply lines at all

Just like malevelon

[hot meadow]

So as per chat I tried to vary it up on the automatons and it went pretty well!

[pastel igloo]

what is up with the supply lines shit anyway

[hot meadow]

I guess I hadn’t realized you could shoot devastators to death with some primaries tbh

[pastel igloo]

i heard about it but i have no idea how it is relevant

[keen zinc]

A classic image

[stiff pine]

it affects what planets we can get to and how fast

and we can't fucking see it in game

[idle hollow]

It’s how we can attack and what planets they can attack

[stiff pine]

which is A Design Decision

[pastel igloo]

bruh

yeah that's

kinda dumb

ngl

how do you see it then????

[graceful bluff]

https://helldivers.io/

enable supply lines in the top right of the map

[keen zinc]

"some"

[graceful bluff]

under the zoom button

[keen zinc]

More like All

[stoic lotus]

I am concerned by the way this guy is leaning out of his aircraft

[keen zinc]

Like, devastators only have medium armor on their torso but everything else is light

They can be killed with anything but people act like they're bulletproof

Its puzzling

[pastel igloo]

ok so we have absolutely no in to Hellmire

i see

[stoic lotus]

do people act like that

I've never seen it

[pastel igloo]

but we do have supplies coming into Estanu and Crimsica

[graceful bluff]

Also joel totally isn't putting a finger on the scale of durgen :v

blue is progress red is playercount

[stoic lotus]

they're annoying because heavy devs can be hard to snipe the heads off of and rocket devs have a lot of damage and aim punch

[pastel igloo]

i don't get it

[idle hollow]

Shoot the rocket pods for the rocket devastators

[candid finch]

I love that there's less that 2% of players over in bug areas

[keen zinc]

Yes, everyone in the reddit acts like you need to one shot Devs or you die instantly or something

[graceful bluff]

The progress stayed somewhat consistent despite changing player count

[idle hollow]

They normally are destroyed but they do damage to them

[keen zinc]

Medium pen is nice for devs but not even close to necessary

[pastel igloo]

ah, so despite increase in players which should increase progress, the progress has been more linear

[graceful bluff]

yes

[keen zinc]

I mostly kill them with light armor pen weapons like the punisher or sickle

[pastel igloo]

i see

[graceful bluff]

Or rather, the drop in players should have lowered progress but it didn't

[pastel igloo]

oh yeah

that is a MASSIVE drop in players there with no appreciable effect on the progress of liberation

[hot meadow]

I 100% thought it was necessary lol

[blissful sparrow]

you can just headshot devs, their face is light armor

[keen zinc]

It's really not, it's the brute force way to deal with them but the best way is just precision

With the punisher you can stagger them and open up a clear shot to just pump their gut with lead

The head and the unarmored tummy are weak spots

The sickle is absurdly good at this because no recoil you just walk the shots onto their face and the high fire rate basically guarantees a kill

[tall stone]

I for one appreciate how accessible automaton weakpoints are.

[burnt vapor]

So that's not joel that's the scaling at work
This isn't hard confirmed but data shows that they have implemented liberation progress scaling vs total player count
So as the player count goes up the effect of each player is reduced and vice versa which is why the progress looks so smooth because while the total player count has risen or lowered the % of the playerbase has stayed consistent

[heady halo]

oh thats nasty i love it

so it really DOES matter what gets focused on

more than just how many people are there

[pastel igloo]

oooh

cool

[keen zinc]

Yeah

[burnt vapor]

Yeah Helldivers.io has a section that explains it better
https://helldivers.io/

[keen zinc]

They don't want to have the actions of people be meaningless during low activity hours

[keen zinc]

So it scales

[pastel igloo]

going to do a bit more farming for super credits

at 215 atm

doing it on durgen to help out

even if i am doing low level missions for farming purposes, every bit counts

[oak crow]

i’m almost hoping they make it back to Meridia. Miss fighting bugs in the jungles.

[burnt vapor]

It also makes it much simpler for them to plan how hard and how long liberation is since they have consistent output from the playerbase without huge spikes or dips

[pastel igloo]

so close

[keen zinc]

Jesus christo

That's a lot of people

[meager sandal]

illuminate about to come in with that steel chair

[muted burrow]

we're gonna win!

[keen zinc]

And I'm at work

[cerulean sluice]

Nah, the cloaked fleets will go outside the edge of Super Earth’s known space and take Cyberstan

[honest acorn]

Good lord 300k on one planet

Shame I’m gonna be touching grass

[keen zinc]

Stuck at work

[cobalt patrol]

<@&1206091872716595200> get in loosers, we're going Helldiving.

[keen zinc]

[graceful bluff]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/922162163500597328/1226563514148061224/GKhj42zbMAAYg2y.png?ex=6625394a&is=6612c44a&hm=dc659e02edf7868698f2df5e14fe1727f107928e7b10330bdc07f42c743b555a&

[keen zinc]

[rotund marten]

finally, helldivng when I am in fact free

I haven't even seen a strider yet

[stoic lotus]

I'll make it 4 then

[cobalt patrol]

We arent voxing, or at least, i'm not @rotund marten

but it looks like everyone else is?

actually i think we have 4, so you will need to start a new group

[stoic lotus]

oh if you're with the 3 in vc then yeah

[merry cosmos]

Were actually gonna do this...

Godamm

[stoic lotus]

wanna hop in HORUS misc?

[merry cosmos]

Me?

[stoic lotus]

misc

[cobalt patrol]

You, misc and alex would be anotehr crew

[stoic lotus]

but you're welcome to join

[dusky solar]

Liberation progress scales with percentage of playerbase on a planet

The graph itself is tracking the wrong thing; if you just had it based on raw player count, every time NA went to bed the rest of the world would basically be watching every operation fail

[pastel igloo]

yeah

that makes sense

me and my singleplayer looting missions are contributing to the percentage

[dusky solar]

Yeah, the normal way would be cooler but i like the inclusivity

Sometimes you get the ultra late night koreans

I've never seen any jp usernames

But a few korean ones

[pastel igloo]

going to keep farming a bit

almost at 300 super credits now

[forest crater]

For Democracy!

[pastel igloo]

'

[muted burrow]

:D

[azure pewter]

all gooped up

[undone veldt]

Ah

There’s the catch

[pastel igloo]

?

[undone veldt]

The liberation bar is stuck at 99%

It won’t go any farther

[graceful bluff]

It probably requires a manual button press at arrowhead

just in case of bugs

[muted burrow]

no bugs here

[azure pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers-helldivers-2-typing-bug-scout-bug-gif-13311446608745300663

[hollow plover]

Or botting

[idle hollow]

WE DID IT

[muted burrow]

:D

:D

[pastel igloo]

did we get it?

i'm in a mission

on Durgen no less

[muted burrow]

i did my part last night!

[barren iron]

EXCITING SHENANIGANS

EXCITED TO SEE JUST HOW IT GOES DOWN

[muted burrow]

will they have some cutscene

[barren iron]

would be cool

[pastel igloo]

40 super credits in this mission

lets go

[muted burrow]

how do they usually do big story beats/updates?

i am p new

[muted burrow]

nicee

[barren iron]

we dont know yet

it's not been done before like this

[muted burrow]

ah makes sense

[heady halo]

yeah the game is one month old and heldivers 1 didnt have them

[barren iron]

hd1 didn't really work the same as this does

[muted burrow]

also i read that hd1 was a bit different

[barren iron]

hd1 was purely liberation and decay and galactic wars were fairly quick

[muted burrow]

guess we'll see!

[heady halo]

yeah tho there was some lore. like how they lost the defense of earth and so went got a new earth

[pastel igloo]

extracting now!

[pastel igloo]

LETS GOOOOOO

[idle hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-gif-5292317

[heady halo]

only 92????

[pastel igloo]

MANAGED DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

[graceful bluff]

because

[heady halo]

STANDIF BY

im gonna eat icecream

[candid finch]

FUCK

I'm going to go eat ice cream

[pastel igloo]

final mission on Durgen was hella lucrative

[glacial light]

No more bots only bugs

[pastel igloo]

got 9 samples and 50 super credits or smthn

[candid finch]

Heck yeah

.... we're so going to get destroyed for this aren't we?

[merry cosmos]

...We did it

[pastel igloo]

beautiful

[dusk meadow]

almost certainly

[meager sandal]

new bug mutations?

[candid finch]

I'm so looking forward to it

bigger badder better bots

[meager sandal]

or hoping it's the illuminate show up

[candid finch]

Maybe the illuminate

[heady halo]

bug / illegal broadcaster alliance

[alpine seal]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-scared-gif-27466237

[merry cosmos]

Oh

[dusk meadow]

this is...

[alpine seal]

the order IS done, this was done in post

[dusk meadow]

Oh

[hexed steeple]

yayy more bots to fight

[alpine seal]

looks like this is the leadup to something that may happen in the future

[dusk meadow]

so we're really really going to get destroyed for this then

[merry cosmos]

Direct cyberstan invasion.
We are in the "learning phase" after all

[candid finch]

Call me an idiot but I love the moment of victory before everything goes so so wrong.

[barren iron]

I want to see just

[candid finch]

We're about to be red wedding'd

[barren iron]

GIANT

bots

[pastel igloo]

where is this statistic from?

[barren iron]

like actually just massive

[merry cosmos]

Helldivers.io

[barren iron]

give me a 40k titan that can only be killed with artillery and airstrikes

[pastel igloo]

is it an official site or what?

[barren iron]

not official but it's something you can see in the code iirc

[pastel igloo]

325 super credits

doing good

i guess i HAVE to fight the bugs now

[glacial light]

This is when they bring back the dogs from HD1 en masse

[burnt vapor]

No absolutely not

[blissful sparrow]

we already have hunters

[burnt vapor]

I will fucking riot

[alpine seal]

No not the dogs

[graceful bluff]

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

[candid finch]

The bugs don't know what's about to hit them

[graceful bluff]

Considering that one planet has 11% and another 7% of the playerbase, they're about to get ran for everything they got

[merry cosmos]

Now what

Take a big break and kill bugs for a while?

[candid finch]

Now we wait for the shoe to drop

[muted burrow]

😨

[pastel igloo]

well

[graceful bluff]

Peace, obviously

[pastel igloo]

i guess i'm on bug duty now

[graceful bluff]

considering the time window, we'll probably see a big reveal tomorrow

[alpine seal]

give the bugs hell for a day or two before we inevitably start detecting slipspace ruptures in the west at -1000% per hour

[graceful bluff]

it was very much intended to finish late sunday(eu time)

[pastel igloo]

i have only fought the bugs like two times so far

so i am going to have to learn i guess

it is late on sunday eu time

[candid finch]

So bugs like stuff that can deal with crowds or heavy armour, so EATS and a shotgun, arc thrower with a missile eagle or orbital railgun

[hollow plover]

Later, eu sunday time

[meager sandal]

aliens are planning a sneak attack during the eclipse

[pastel igloo]

source: i am swedish

[alpine seal]

generally more stratagems are good against bugs but less weapons are good against bugs

[meager sandal]

500kg bombs are importoant for the bile titans

[alpine seal]

precision weapons especially fall in favor of immediate close range damage

[meager sandal]

way more important for bugs than bots

[candid finch]

the airburst bombs are great for clearing hordes of bugs, and your own teammates

[graceful bluff]

(I know, that's why I said it :v)

[alpine seal]

though this is kind of weighted towards getting owned by a stalker so you can definitely survive with one aside from that case

[candid finch]

Note, I always find clearing nests a lot harder than clearing buildings

[candid finch]

God

[blissful sparrow]

On higher difficulties you can have like 20 bug holes in one nest, while even the heaviest bot base has like what, 3 fabricators?

[graceful bluff]

bug holes are hard because there's just more of them so you can't just yeet a 500 at a base

[blissful sparrow]

Air strike keep winning

[graceful bluff]

so it means you have to get in there with the moshpit

[blissful sparrow]

just need to be very strategic with your strike path

[candid finch]

Grenade launchers are great for clearing groups of bugs and then closing bug holes. You just have to worry about ammo

[graceful bluff]

https://fxtwitter.com/helldivers2/status/1777058473311625238

grenade launcher supply backpack is just so comfy

[kindred lintel]

holy crap we did it

[blissful sparrow]

Autocannon also good vs bugs, can also close bugs, and its good vs all the mediums, just less agile than the GL

[graceful bluff]

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/man-thinks-games-were-better-when-he-was-blind-to-their-blatant-political-themes/

[glad marsh]

we did it

bots are no more

[stiff pine]

Wow, I can't believe we won

With no repurcussions

😌

[glad marsh]

we'll never see them again

[candid finch]

https://tenor.com/view/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-11th-doctor-matt-smith-doctor-who-gif-5313904

[glacial light]

As always there's never any consequences to our actions

[candid finch]

https://tenor.com/view/the-critic-and-nothing-of-value-is-lost-gif-22296260

[barren iron]

Imagine if they do this and then they just leave it like this forever

[blissful sparrow]

i am so sad that i'm on a 4 day business trip in a few hours and will miss The Consequences™️

[barren iron]

abandon development on the game and leave it with only three bug planets

with no new updates

after the warbond drops

[glacial light]

Noooo

[kindred lintel]

I can't get on soon, are there actually no more bot planets

[barren iron]

yeah

no more bot planets rn

[honest acorn]

Unqualified victory super earth eternal

[quick plinth]

welp

[kindred lintel]

Victory for me who doesn't like bots

[quick plinth]

time for something "unforseen" to happen

[pastel igloo]

i do not like fighting bugs

this sucks

i really don't get how people enjoy this more than automatons

[barren iron]

bugs are awesome

they run at you and you spray them down with a machine gun

then you get cut down by a fucking hunter

both automatons and bugs have their own brand of fucked up bullshit that annoys the hell out of you

[quick plinth]

what annoys me isn't the enemies

[rough ravine]

Is there a new major order?

[quick plinth]

its the random teammates

[pastel igloo]

what the hell do i do about the big ones that run at you

my bullets are just bouncing off

[oblique lotus]

eat-17 to the head

[blissful sparrow]

Thats not very specific

The very big ones? the medium big ones?

[pastel igloo]

i don't have whatever eat17 is

[alpine seal]

well we do have a swath of bug planets to go

[oblique lotus]

got a recoilless?

[undone veldt]

It’s the expandable anti tank support weapon

[supple siren]

Explosive rounds to the exposed backportion, air strikes, fire...

[pastel igloo]

i have an autocannon

[undone veldt]

It’s one of the first ones you unlock

[alpine seal]

so if the bots are gone for more than a day we at least have something to do

[rough ravine]

Yeah the oneoff shoulder rocket

[undone veldt]

Then you should be able to unlock the EAT

[blissful sparrow]

Auto cannon kills a Charger in about 3 shots to the butt

[barren iron]

use an anti tank weapon

EAT-17s, Recoiless Rifle, Quasar

[blissful sparrow]

the only bug thing AC cannot kill is Bile titan

[barren iron]

yeah

[heady halo]

or flamethower

[barren iron]

I wouldn't say 3 shots

it's like 5-6

[undone veldt]

Or arc thrower

That works too

[blissful sparrow]

i just full auto into its butt, so i don't count the shells 😄

[barren iron]

I would say if your issue is chargers use the Recoilless

[tall stone]

I'm liking the Laser cannon myself.

[undone veldt]

I mean EAT, Recoilless and Quasar can all one shot them

[tall stone]

Just because of sheer sustainability.

[barren iron]

I am a certified recoilless rifle lover because killing chargers with it is maybe the most satisfying thing in the game

[heady halo]

i wonder how long the war gaps were in hd1

[pastel igloo]

ok yeah i am just not going to play any actual missions like this

i'm going back to farming super credits

[supple siren]

That's giving up insanely fast

[undone veldt]

What’s wrong with the missions?

[barren iron]

its your prerogative but I wouldn't dismiss half the game (or maybe 1/3 of the game if we get the illuminate soon)

[supple siren]

People are offering valid suggestions and just hit with "this is stupid actually"

[oblique lotus]

you can take much more aggressive positions against bugs since they mostly don't have ranged weapons

[keen zinc]

Did we win

[barren iron]

yes

the galaxy is secure

victory is established

[oblique lotus]

but you will need more horde clear imo

[pastel igloo]

we did

[barren iron]

I feel like these first two months have actually been a preamble to the real galactic war

afaik we aren't actually officially in the second galactic war

[hot meadow]

Sorry, what’s the problem?

[keen zinc]

Equip the punisher

Wear light armor

Throw grenades

[cobalt patrol]

Arc thrower and falmethrower also v. good into bugs

[keen zinc]

Identify status applicators for target priority

[oblique lotus]

the flamer is great

[cobalt patrol]

It flames and wurfs things and makes ahahahaha noises.

[hot meadow]

I use breaker incendiary, impact grenades, cluster, rover, quasar or eats, and air strike or rail cannon or a different support if I chose eats

[barren iron]

personally dont like quasar against chargers

[supple siren]

Breaker Incendiary is brutal now

[barren iron]

the chargeup is too slow

[undone veldt]

That’s fair yah

It can be a problem if you don’t get the drop of em

[barren iron]

recoilless has no chargeup and it's reload is about as fast as waiting for the quasar cooldown

[oblique lotus]

its usable but tricky

[barren iron]

downside is that you arent able to do anything during the quasar cooldown

sorry

[oblique lotus]

gotta do it from range or you're relying on some pretty narrow windows

[barren iron]

recoilless reload

[undone veldt]

I mean there is the big difference that you can do other stuff while the quasar is cooling down- yah

[barren iron]

but the chargeup itself

is also a massive timesink

[blissful sparrow]

just tossing EATs every 70 seconds is like having a quasar without a chargeup

[supple siren]

Bugs do love making great use of that 3 second windup

[barren iron]

the real benefit imo of the quasar is that you dont need to target priority as hard

if there's a bug you hate, like an annoying brood commander or stalker

you can bap them with it

[graceful bluff]

I honestly prefer the chargeup to the RR's reload

[undone veldt]

Fuck you random Hunter- QUASAR CANNON GO

[graceful bluff]

same time, but you can move at the cost of it being front loaded

[barren iron]

but with an RR you need to like, pick your targets because you only get 6 shots per resupply

6 shots is usually enough to deal with big targets like chargers or annoying spewers

but

[graceful bluff]

yeah I'm more talking the act of firing it itself

[barren iron]

yeah

I personally prefer the RR reload

[graceful bluff]

everything past that is just more of a bonus

[barren iron]

I can use it in split second situations

there have been times I've seen a charger charging me so I whip out the recoilless and kill it and it slides to a stop infront of me

[keen zinc]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/RMozJmvaqU

[barren iron]

I've seen a leaked illuminate model

and they are fucked up

[glacial light]

Mother of liberty

[barren iron]

I cant find it anywhere

[undone veldt]

Very in character for them

[barren iron]

I remember it looking like ||A cyborg-ized flood from halo||

[merry cosmos]

We already got new orders?

Sick

[undone veldt]

What are they?

[graceful bluff]

bugs

[undone veldt]

Ok so now they’re dropping the pretenses

We’re just going to secure oil fields

(The oil fields are bugs)

[merry cosmos]

Pretense?

They never had any

[pastel igloo]

going to take a break for a bit

[glacial light]

Imagine if we somehow manager to wipe out bugs and there's just no missions for a day

[merry cosmos]

👆

[undone veldt]

I feel like if that happens arrowhead has a big emergency button to unliberate a bunch of planets

[merry cosmos]

Also I now have 1150 supercreds

I love war

[forest crater]

Woah...since when was the goop after the mission a thing?

[pastel igloo]

where my medals for doing the major order at

[glacial light]

War is good for the super Earth economy, how can it be bad?

[graceful bluff]

They're usually a bit delayed for big ones like this

[pastel igloo]

ah ok

[undone veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-rising-desperado-winds-ofdestruction-sundowner-grin-gif-18169825

[graceful bluff]

We've completed a second major order before getting the reward for the first one once lmao

[keen zinc]

Space mail

God I can't wait to fight bugs again

Been fighting bots for so long

[undone veldt]

Ah shit

I just realized I never got to fight the gunships or Walking Foundries

I never encountered them

[cobalt patrol]

Gone forever now, sorry.

[graceful bluff]

Sadly you'll never ever be able to now

:v

[undone veldt]

Hopefully the bots are back by tomorrow when I can play again

[undone veldt]

[cobalt patrol]

Really brave of the devs to permantly remove content

[graceful bluff]

following in the shoes of destiny

[stoic lotus]

destiny 2 pilled

[graceful bluff]

lmao

[forest crater]

They did it with HD1, didn't they?

[glacial light]

New enemy is terminid fabricator striders where the pilot is a scavenger

[undone veldt]

With HD1 the factions respawn after a bit I think

[glacial light]

And terminid gunship that a shrieker flies

Completely unique enemies

[graceful bluff]

just a bot gunship with a shrieker pilot

[forest crater]

I'm very excited to see the heavy flyers in the bug front

[merry cosmos]

This but unironically (in the context of helldivers 2)

[glacial light]

I hope it's like a giant Quetzalcoatl or a giant spore filled blimp

Imagine just fighting and it suddenly becomes dark then you realize it's just a shadow above you

[forest crater]

Gods yes

Imagine if it and the shriekers dove in formation

[burnt vapor]

In HD1 the factions reset with every new war and wars lasted around a week or so

[glacial light]

Dang that's kind of long

[burnt vapor]

Tbf once a faction gets wiped that meant you were getting close to the end as everyone then dog piled the remaining 2 factions

Also a week might be overstating it I haven’t played in a while

[forest crater]

We're gonna have to deal with the creekers again once everything resets lol

[merry cosmos]

I just thought to myself

[merry cosmos]

Helldivers 2 has got to have one of the most unique new player experiences I've seen in a live service game

Like, Let me give an example.

[solid lagoon]

We made them pay for the creek

[merry cosmos]

Say you started playing destiny 2 today. You'd go through a scripted campaign designed by professional game designers with a ok ish plot

[modest fiber]

huh just noticed we got rid of all the robots for the moment.. well that was fast

[merry cosmos]

Say you started playing helldivers 2 today. You just missed us driving an entire faction out of the galaxy and 2 months worth of in game history

[solid lagoon]

Goddamn right I’ll be right back at the creek

[dusky solar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlKM8ZLnla8

[merry cosmos]

It's weird to think about for me because I was here from the beginning

I saw the first liberation of heeth and angel's venture

[glacial light]

I started a week after launch when tbe major order was defending malevelon creek and armor was broke

Such a hell scape to be thrown into

[solid lagoon]

You can take a diver out of the creek, but you can never take the creek out of a diver

[merry cosmos]

I never stayed long enough because I only go where the MO tells me to go

[solid lagoon]

It was such a brutal experience when I first started playing

[merry cosmos]

It's also cool seeing how far we've come in two months and the plethora of new stuff we're waiting for

We have another premium warbond on the way

[quick plinth]

wtf are those lights on the horizon

[graceful bluff]

I am kinda sad we won't be able to use the anti air rockets vs the gunships for a bit

[honest acorn]

Not bots I tell you what

[quick plinth]

they be shimmering

[graceful bluff]

metal gear

[honest acorn]

Ohhh

[modest fiber]

just wondering, have any of you else gotten your medals from the previos major order?

[honest acorn]

Those are one of the terrain features for planets with the lava blasts hazard

[ionic holly]

They'll be delivered later on, as usual

[graceful bluff]

major orders like this that have a fuckload of players to be rewarded takes up to a few days yeah

[honest acorn]

It’s the like “volcano forest” biome planet

[alpine seal]

can you delay it to thursday high command i'm at the medal cap :(

[quick plinth]

and then ofcourse

an extruding bug

[ionic holly]

ah fellow medal saver