Helldivers 2: For Managed Democracy!

[dusky solar]

You know what bug irks me the most

DOT bug

I want to use napalm + orb gas

[glacial light]

Big same

[sour whale]

the DOT bug is rendering a good few weapons and stratagems unusable atm, yeah. i'll be glad when they fix it

[glacial light]

I only get to use it during solo but napalm eagle is so good

[barren reef]

I've been having decent luck with napalm grenades not as the host.

[honest acorn]

It's not guaranteed that they won't work

But its weird and unreliable

I've had back to back gas strikes deal damage or fail to

[glacial light]

Unreliable is a big one though

[hot meadow]

Unreliable is almost worse than not working IMO

[dusky solar]

Agreed

[keen zinc]

Sounds like it's on the priority chopping block atm

[hot meadow]

I bet it’s a major one for them yeah

[glacial light]

I assume the bugs on their aware list are their priority

[hot meadow]

We will see, I am happy to wait patiently since I know they’re working on it.

[glacial light]

Over the unlisted ones

[hot meadow]

And even if the warbond once a month is a lot… well I’m gonna keep buying them.

I am delighted by the game overall so it’ll take a lot to annoy me off it.

[glacial light]

I'll buy them as long as I play assuming the warbonds have good fun I'm interested in

[barren reef]

God this is the worst kind of bug to deal with.

Desperately trying to replicate this consistently will drive you mad. This way lies the demons of race conditions and network fuckery.

[hot meadow]

My only fear is it is baked in in some un-unfuckable way, like fps and damage for certain attacks in destiny

[glacial light]

The worst

Please keep tick rates separate from frames for PC games

[glacial light]

I love load bearing bugs

[azure pewter]

Wormko the squirmable

[keen zinc]

🪱

[hot meadow]

Okay so, here’s a fun one for the group

What is your pet stratagem. I’m hoping something outside the usual mainstays - 500kg, Airstrike, orbital laser, EATs, quasar

What do you swear by, and why

[blissful sparrow]

EMS strike

All day every day

[hot meadow]

(This brought to you by me learning about 380 and falling deeply in love)

[blissful sparrow]

there once was a day where everyone got the EMS strike for free.

[hot meadow]

For me it’s the GL. I am convinced it is the all around best support weapon in the game,

[winged hearth]

sees striders making a return SHOWDOWN FROM PROJECT WINGMAN STARTS PLAYING

[hot meadow]

And while other weapons may exceed it in their niches it is always a good choice.

[barren reef]

I love the rover. I know it's pretty widely used but damn. Love that lil guy.

[hot meadow]

Four rovers can be utterly deadly to the team though lol

(I also always take rover for bugs buuuuuut I know it can be killer)

[honest acorn]

It was gas strike till the bug

[barren reef]

They can also be deadly to the enemies! I once got my team to all use rovers and the scythe simultaneously for the extract.

[quick crown]

yo stop you are activating the hype part of my brain.

[honest acorn]

Now its Airburst but I think airburst is relatively meta?

[keen zinc]

Me love precision strike

[hot meadow]

I’ve never seen airburst in the wild.

[ionic holly]

Cluster bombs

[honest acorn]

I've been on multiple teams with 3-4 airbursts

Shits crazy for area denial

[ionic holly]

They can OHKO striders, and with those lil fucks back, it's good to have gotten good with them

[honest acorn]

Can basically solo 70% of a bug breach

[hot meadow]

In this we are siblings. I think it’s my favorite eagle.

[quick crown]

Entire kingdoms are made by people like him
"He's still just a merc"
Not every king is Just

Absolute dumb silly lines that are so fucking hype

[keen zinc]

Jump Pack, Precision Strike

[barren reef]

I'll pick the mech, once they make the rockets... Aimable.

[ionic holly]

Project wingman my beloved

[winged hearth]

When I get out of classes im hopping straight on helldivers and fighting one of those huge mfs

[hot meadow]

I wish to know more about why you like precision strike please!

[blissful sparrow]

EMS + Airburst + Autocannon + Something Against heavy armor was my loadout for most of my playtime.
Airburst is just so incredibly satisfying with its super deep bass explosion

[keen zinc]

It kills everything you hope a 500kg will

[glad marsh]

+1 to airburst
It looks cool, I bring it for anything bugs

[winged hearth]

hell yeah

[quick crown]

My pet strat is easily the EMS mortar/Railcannon.

[glad marsh]

It's like

[ionic holly]

Oh i also adore the EMS strike too, the "fuck you get stunned" option is always so fun

[quick crown]

Its so incredibly satisfying

[hot meadow]

Maybe I’ll try airburst instead of cluster this evening.

[glad marsh]

The one thing that stays in my loadouts consistently

[keen zinc]

Precision Strike is 500kg but reliable.

[hot meadow]

Just to spice it up

[keen zinc]

And doesn't get jammed

If it hits a Bile Titan it kills it instead of exploding and doing nothing

[ionic holly]

Ironically i find it the other way around

but i also tend to just have better luck with my eagle

[hot meadow]

Interesting! I feel like I dismissed it cause it was auto unlocked.

[quick crown]

OH

i was worried because i thought you meant it didnt get jammed by towers

[keen zinc]

It is, in my opinion, the best and most reliable stratagem in the game

[ionic holly]

the amount of bounced stratagems that should've got me in the angle are too many

and the amount that actually killed me are like
3

[quick crown]

I was like

[hot meadow]

My wife’s favorite stratagems are her mortars, both EMS and regular.

I think she has names for them.

[glad marsh]

EMS + mortar is a good combo

[keen zinc]

Precision Strike kills all the buildings that 500kg can, and doesn't have the coin flip of "cool explosion zero damage" of the 500kg

[quick crown]

I have gotten the "1 less stratagem" effect on my difficulty 7 runs back to back wayy too often

[ionic holly]

I've
never had zero damage happen, weird

[hot meadow]

oh lmao she calls them mork and mindy

[keen zinc]

Doesn't get AA Jammed, sounds cool as fuck, the effect it has on bile titans on direct impact cannot be understated

[junior badge]

My pet strat would be the orbital Gatling.

[keen zinc]

It seriously looks like they got hit with a truck

Like they got punched by a giant robot

[glacial light]

Not 0 damage but titans will survive 500kg sometimes despite being visibly hurt and damaged by it

[junior badge]

Super quick cooldown, lasts a while, does a surprising amount of damage.

[keen zinc]

It's so kinetic and satisfying to see an orbital precision strike dome a bile titan and send it reeling

[hot meadow]

I think it speaks really well to the game how varied these responses are lol

[junior badge]

Great crowd control, generally safe to use.

[hot meadow]

you are selling this really well btw

[keen zinc]

Also it kills Hulks, the 500kg has never reliably pulled this off for me

[ionic holly]

Yeah i'm still sticking to the 500 myself, it does what i need and has has a better cycle for how i play

[keen zinc]

And I used to run it instead of precision strike as my auto pick

[glacial light]

Napalm when dots work, shuts down airdrops and will kill most of the reinforcements from bug breaches and you get like 4

[keen zinc]

I am the "strike and assault" type so I don't need a second bomb, I am the second bomb

[ionic holly]

Is there a way to respectfully say skill issue? like... i don't wanna shit talk you but that is more personal than objective

[glad marsh]

Precision might replace railcannon for me

All depends how much I trust my aim

[sinful bay]

https://tenor.com/view/dark-souls-skill-issue-gif-23859816

like this /j

[keen zinc]

No, straight up 500kg will just whiff it's whole damage splash over small terrain bumps

[hot meadow]

I’m not that poster, but I personally don’t mind being told skill issue if I’m also told how to do it right?

[ionic holly]

i have landed 500s into hulks so i think it's really just an aim thing my friend

stick with what you prefer, obviously

[glacial light]

I got used to 500kg being super precision strike and used to having reliable AT

[ionic holly]

but don't put down stuff other's like

[keen zinc]

I have 300 hours in this game, dude. I have killed loads of Hulks with the 500kg. It's just not always going to do it because it has a weird blast radius and relationship with obstructions

[honest acorn]

Yeah that KRR-WHUMP it makes is amazing

Top 3 for call in noises

Railcannon is just also amazing

[ionic holly]

And with that i'm disengaging, i didn't mean for it to be personal Amko.

[glacial light]

The only time 500kg has failed me is if they walk out or bile titans cause the conical nature of the explosion

[honest acorn]

Everything feels so weird with bile titans

[fringe quiver]

Being killed by bile titans feels weird ye

[keen zinc]

I love the 500kg. It's great when it's great. But there are funny moments when your team drops a 500 on a cluster of heavies and kills nothing

[quick crown]

stick bugs are tricky

[ionic holly]

I've headshot so many BTs with my spear, it's my favorite answe to them

[honest acorn]

I've actually never had a 500 fizzle

[quick crown]

They always end up being inconsistent to kill for me

[fringe quiver]

Like i can spend most the fight under them but randomly they decide they don't like me and step on me

[honest acorn]

The radius just seems to be no bigger than the crater

[quick crown]

God i fucking wish i could use the spear more but it makes me worse as a person because the lock on makes me unreasonably angry

[glad marsh]

I've started bringing 380mm barrages into bot missions a lot recently
The thing really does just delete a heavy base reliably

[quick crown]

like league of legends level of mad

[glad marsh]

Even more so if you have friends with it

[keen zinc]

I've seen a 500kg land in a ditch next to a tank and not kill the tank.

[ionic holly]

I simply live with the pain

[hot meadow]

I think I one shot a bile titan with quasar yesterday? But then another ate like 6 shots 😐

[copper crest]

(Found a source for this)

[quick crown]

You are so strong

[honest acorn]

The most what the fuck thing I've seen with a bile titan is a eagle strafing run 1 shot

[ionic holly]

i'll be even stronger when they make it more consistent

[keen zinc]

I remember when me and misc and somebody else threw 3 500kgs at a bile titan and all we did was give it a rad pro wrestler entry

It then melted someone

[sour whale]

the strafing run???

what in the goddamn

[ionic holly]

it'll be like weights literally taken off of me when that bitch has a more reliable lock

[fringe quiver]

They should let you self sacrifice and be eaten by the bile titan and blow it up from the inside with the hellbomb

[keen zinc]

EAT ME

[dusky solar]

Down-Up Left, Down-Up Right, Down-Up

[ionic holly]

Given how flimsy our called in hellbombs it'd likely just get destroyed

[glad marsh]

Are you suggesting we get a bile titan variant that spawns with a hellbomb stuck to it?

[honest acorn]

caught the head from the side while it was spraying bile and hit the jaw connector super weak point

[sour whale]

that's amazing

[ionic holly]

Also fun side effect of the spear if it doesn't OHKO, if i break armour off it's back a railcannon can follow through and (usually) instant kill

[glacial light]

I wish hellbombs once armed just blow up if it gets hit

[ionic holly]

same.

[glacial light]

Making the hellbomb dangerous to be near and arm is fitting imo

[keen zinc]

Am I crazy or are the gloves and boots reddish

Am I having a colorblind moment

[glacial light]

Also itd be funny frustrating if you armed it and a hunter just pounces on it and blows you all up

[honest acorn]

yeah they're reddish

[keen zinc]

Someone said the red and orange clash and I'm like bro the armor has red in it

[honest acorn]

definitely less red than the helmet but I don't think they clash

[keen zinc]

Yeah it's all warm colors accenting black armor

Idk what they mean by clashing

I like to imagine the blaze orange shoulder pad is a "hey friendlies don't shoot me" kinda thing

For an assault trooper to not get shot by friendly supporting fire

[hot meadow]

Very brown to me, but I am a little colorblind

[heady halo]

id say redbrown ochre

[keen zinc]

I am also a little colorblind

It looks like a rusty redbrown to me

Random reddit guy making me have a moment of color identification crisis of confidence

[tall nova]

Walking barage. It's the 380 except you trade a salvo for more accuracy/less friendly fire

[glacial light]

Maybe it's the lighting but I do see red brownish gloves, bright orange upper arm, orange cape, and red helmet which I wouldn't say clashes but doesn't blend together

[keen zinc]

Back to the lab again

[ionic holly]

Oh yeah speaking of drip

[sinful bay]

Yeah those reds crash hardcore

[glacial light]

Nice

I love the heavy armors

[ionic holly]

I wish groundbreaker was one

cause then we'd have a heavy engineering kit

[keen zinc]

I don't understand

Damn I was really liking the look

[blissful sparrow]

just shoot like 3 bugs and you are 90% red anyway

[honest acorn]

I don't think they clash

[keen zinc]

https://tenor.com/view/foiled-again-foil-again-cat-kitten-gif-24575588

[sinful bay]

But hey if you like their colors
And mix
Go for it

[honest acorn]

I don't see the clash haha

[keen zinc]

Ah but you see I have major depression and any flaw pointed out by someone in something I enjoy immediately makes me reject it entirely

[ionic holly]

Holy shit i know that feeling so vividly

[sinful bay]

Big same

[keen zinc]

I will return to my funny grenade armor

[ionic holly]

thats a depression thing? i never knew

[keen zinc]

Self sabotage

[glacial light]

Not always but yes usually

I remember when I used to have that

[keen zinc]

Any perceived flaw in method of enjoyment allows you to hurt yourself by rationalizing rejecting your enjoyment

[ionic holly]

Huh

[rare nymph]

Man, I am not having any luck with randos today

[keen zinc]

[glacial light]

Also might be a little anxiety cause that's also a thing with anxiety

Usually if you have either depression or anxiety you will likely have the other, the fun 2 for 1 wombo combo

[rare nymph]

Usually they’re pretty competent at diff 9 but pretty much all the games I’ve played today have been one kind of nightmare or another

[tall stone]

Late on seeing this, bit the laser cannon

[glad marsh]

Don't let other people's opinions dictate what you wear in a videogame

[keen zinc]

What do y'all think is the lowest tech support weapon and why

[tall stone]

Minefield, because it's basically just a spin deployed full of mines

[rare nymph]

Standard MG

[keen zinc]

Support Weapon

[tall stone]

... but for actual weapon, machine gun

[keen zinc]

and why

[blissful sparrow]

Auto cannon
its literally a toggle lock

[honest acorn]

It's gotta be RR

[tall stone]

Because it's a machine gun

[keen zinc]

Toggle lock is pinnacle of advanced technology

RR is my thought as well due to the very few moving parts

It's a tube and big bullets

[honest acorn]

It's visually pretty clearly a carl gustav and that thing's been in service since 1946

[tall stone]

No bells or whistles. Basically unchanged from it's distant ww2 roots

[glad marsh]

Either the EAT or standard MG (leaning towards the former), on account of those having the earliest developed real world ancestors I think?

[ionic holly]

EAT or RR

[keen zinc]

The MG has adjustable fire rates and an optic

Rockets are complicated, even disposable launchers

[ionic holly]

...if you're gonna judge and refute everyone's opinion on a question, why present the question?

[rare nymph]

The BAR had adjustable fire rates

[honest acorn]

Also the super earth version has basically the same optic as the M1

[rare nymph]

It’s not advanced tech

[dusky solar]

I think it's fair, i'd do similar!

[ionic holly]

Shrug.

i wont press just curious

[keen zinc]

Because that's why I asked? To hear and discuss

[dusky solar]

What the game needs is an m2 browning

[south temple]

real

[dusky solar]

Not like, a knockoff, but for arrowhead to go get a licensing deal for that ONE gun

[keen zinc]

Yeah the HMG not being a Browning with a butt stock is a tragedy

[dusky solar]

Imagine you have all the other fake weapons and then an actual m2

Peak comedy

[keen zinc]

I mean

[south temple]

i want a PKM tbh

[keen zinc]

The Punisher is straight up a real gun

[junior badge]

It'd be so on point for the m2 though

Like, it's also straight up in 40k, fex.

[dusky solar]

Yeah but it's called the Punisher in game with some weird SG-8 designation

Either way i agree on the RR being the lowest tech

[south temple]

yeah it’s just a point and shoot dumb rocket

[keen zinc]

Not even a rocket

[glad marsh]

I can't decide if being reloadable makes it higher tech than the EAT or not

[keen zinc]

It's a recoilless rifle

Is a giant bullet

[honest acorn]

It's hard for me to tell what inspired the helldivers machine gun

[glad marsh]

Though...
Yeah I guess they have different ammo don't they

[blissful sparrow]

the backend looks real familiar tbh. It just doesn't have abarrel shroud

[honest acorn]

If it helps the EAT is basically a space AT4 and that was made decades later than the CG

[hollow plover]

I gotta say it's the Arc Thrower

it's literally just lightning in a bottle

[honest acorn]

1987 vs 1946

[blissful sparrow]

Nikola tesla ass weapon

[south temple]

it kinda looks like an M60? idk tho

[graceful bluff]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLOBR2AaEAAUkKG?format=jpg&name=small

Panzer of the lake what is your wisdom

[honest acorn]

https://www.artstation.com/oskarse

Also here is a lot of the HD2 concept art

[blissful sparrow]

"Hold still for a moment"

[honest acorn]

Yeah that's one of the closer ones for sure

[rare nymph]

I’m still of the opinion that the MG is still buildable with interwar tech

[glad marsh]

Tbf rockets in tubes might be an older type of weapon than recoilless rifles though

[ionic holly]

Hey, amko, just wanted to apologize if i've been irritatin' ya

[honest acorn]

I appreciate that the Stalwart has a quick change barrel even if that mechanic isn't present

[glad marsh]

I can't decide if I want to use the specific weapon things are based on or like... What they are

Blaehhh

[south temple]

it’s got the same blocky vibe, if you sanded down the hard angles on the back end it’d be approximate

[south temple]

oooooh

my space m249 stays up

[honest acorn]

Yeah the hard part for me is the huge support for the barrel

[south temple]

yeah i have no idea what that’s from

my first thought would be a really big bipod folded like the MG-42, but i’m not sure

bc i think the bipod is visible and it’s a lot smaller

[keen zinc]

I fucking hate that Google took away view image

[south temple]

tbh it could just be something for cool factor

[south temple]

wdym

[glad marsh]

Super earth ran out of bipod budget 😔

[keen zinc]

You used to be able to jump straight to an image source off Google images but now you can only view the webpage it is on

[south temple]

i see

[south temple]

once we get cyberstan’s mines back up we can afford bipods for everyone

and then they might R&D the HMG so it’s good (pleaaaase i wanna be fire support)

[glacial light]

Was your grandfather a malevelon creek veteran or something?

Did he fight robots and bugs in a war I don't know about

[sinful bay]

Australia fought against Emus
And lost

Does that count?

[modest fiber]

that is always funny

[blissful sparrow]

you may win a battle, but if your logistics are shit you'll lose the war 😔

[glad marsh]

The joke is funnier when you realize that the Bluetooth hearing aid is only paired because he was playing helldivers already

[sinful bay]

As well losing a battle to a fishing boat

Always funny

[glad marsh]

Wasn't there one where a fishing boat took out a sub

Or something like that

[sinful bay]

This is the one :3

[glad marsh]

Oohhh

Makes sense

[sinful bay]

Basically the sub got lost in the fishing boat's next
Sub crew over reacted and got desperate
Found dead 3 days late inside the sub

[south temple]

god that’s so funny

[glad marsh]

What a big catch

[glad marsh]

...submarines still don't have anti-fishing net technology do they

[keen zinc]

Could not for the life of me get the original image only the preview

Fuckin Google

[glad marsh]

Bah

Terrible

[keen zinc]

Locked behind academic publication walls

[sinful bay]

There was also that one time Egypth lost 200 tanks in one day for the Israeli Airforce...

[keen zinc]

A simple image

[ionic holly]

For a very simple with with the recoilless part

[glacial light]

There's a helicopter probably a Chinook vibrating my building and I say we need silly personal helicopter hellpods

[south temple]

they should give helldivers F-16s

[blissful sparrow]

yes

F16 best plane

[honest acorn]

Depends on the submarine

[glacial light]

What about anti phishing

[south temple]

i’m the F-16s strongest defender

[keen zinc]

Anti fishing net technology: sharpen the front into a blade

Also helps with ramming

[rare nymph]

Glue a sword to the front

Simple

[south temple]

whenever i played arma or war thunder it was F-16 ONLY

[south temple]

true

advanced ramming and boarding actions

[glad marsh]

1000 degree submarine prow blade when

[keen zinc]

Why have one F35 when you could have 3 squadrons of F16Cs for the same price and much easier to replace

[glad marsh]

Or.. I guess it'd be a nose blade wouldn't it

[south temple]

exaaaactly

plus they look boss as fuck

[sinful bay]

Best part:

"On 25 June, the submarine was salvaged from a depth of approximately 30 metres (100 ft) and the bodies of nine crewmen were recovered; five sailors had apparently been killed while four agents had apparently committed suicide.[5] The presence of South Korean drinks suggested that the crew had completed an espionage mission.[6] Log books found in the submarine showed that it had infiltrated South Korean waters on a number of previous occasions."

[south temple]

LMAO

props for sending it i guess

[keen zinc]

Wait so

4 of them executed the other 5 and then killed themselves?

[sinful bay]

Prolly

[keen zinc]

Why didn't the 5 guys kill the 4, smh

[sinful bay]

cuz afraid of being found as spies

[south temple]

ultimate commitment to the bit i guess, props

[keen zinc]

You gotta give it to em

[south temple]

posers they were not

[honest acorn]

X-boats had netcutters (though I think they used divers to mount them) for sabotaging anti-torpedo netting

[keen zinc]

Nippon steel

[sinful bay]

Torpedo loses to net
I see the rock loses to paper legacy continues

[south temple]

10000 folds

[keen zinc]

The pankratoboat

[honest acorn]

This was a British design haha

[keen zinc]

Every funny blade is Nippon steel

[rare nymph]

Mount a folding chair to the front of a sub. Have a diver sit on it with a knife

[honest acorn]

Though I guess Albion Steel sort of has a ring to it

[glad marsh]

Snippy submarine

[sinful bay]

So it was dipped in the tea 10000 times, got it

[rare nymph]

Boom - netcutter

[glad marsh]

God if only clipper wasn't already a name that was taken

[south temple]

cursed quench technique

[glad marsh]

Would've been perfect

[hazy oriole]

hey Amko I know you're a pretty chill guy and all so I'm not accusing you of anything, just letting ya know I'm not really comfortable with the word "Nippon" being chucked around like that

[glad marsh]

Blessed quench technique

[rare nymph]

Colonial steel is basically the same except the tea is in a harbor

[south temple]

that shit is NOT blessed

[hazy oriole]

like I'd appreciate it if we didn't like...throw it around so casually

[south temple]

unless it’s the right tea

[sinful bay]

and the cocaine is in the shores?

[south temple]

they put that in the blade too

[dusky solar]

Is it not just mocking overly serious weebs, hambler?

[glad marsh]

Well now that's just a matter of opinion. I have to like tea because one of my friends worships it

[south temple]

fair

seems a waste of good tea tho

[sinful bay]

DROP IT IN THE HARBOR

[dusky solar]

"Glorious Nippon" kinda like "Perfidious Albion"?

[hazy oriole]

iirc it's got some roots in some genuinely racist orientalist crap

[south temple]

the true cursed technique is using arnold palmers as a quench

[glad marsh]

NOOOOOOOO NOT THE LIBER-TEA

[south temple]

maybe so, but in this context it’s just taking the piss out of katana fetishists

[hazy oriole]

Welp

[sinful bay]

The ultimate cursed quench technique is ||Drinking the Queen cursed casquet tea||

[hazy oriole]

If you say so

[south temple]

(i’m drinking one rn and it’s on the mind)

[south temple]

NO

BAD

[hazy oriole]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[dusky solar]

Y'all are so boring where's the egirl bathwater quench at

[sinful bay]

https://tenor.com/view/slide-drift-crash-fail-gif-16909243

[sinful bay]

in the making

[south temple]

i am curious tho, when/where is it used in a racist context?

[south temple]

soon i promise

[candid finch]

Having Spear lock on troubles ;-;

It was going faster lately but really struggled last few missions

[south temple]

such is the way of helldiving

[dusky solar]

Maybe it's like calling japanese people ||Nips|| like in ww2

[south temple]

yeah true

[dusky solar]

Which is really racist lol

[south temple]

oh yeah as a japanese guy ik lmao

[dusky solar]

XD

[rare nymph]

One of these days they’ll fix the spear

[south temple]

but even that just comes from nippon, and ‘nippon steel’ is just saying japanese steel

[south temple]

we can hope

i want my javelin

[hazy oriole]

Fuck it, I can't find it
Fuck me and my stupid fucking brain

[rare nymph]

Like on some level it makes sense that super earth doesn’t care about making a guided missile launcher that actually works

But for gameplay I’d prefer it to actually work

[candid finch]

It wasn't even one tapping enemies half the time, and then it's like... okay damn guess I've got to slow unmoving reload and probably die.

[south temple]

that’s how i feel abt the RR

my eat addiction stays strong

[honest acorn]

It's good to be careful with this stuff since I think a lot of it is sort of contextual

[rare nymph]

Cutting edge super earth Manpad:

[candid finch]

At least you can point and click with RR

[rare nymph]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowpipe_(missile)

[quick plinth]

also known as the crap pipe

there's a very good reason you dont give terminal guidance of such projectiles over to the grunts

[hazy oriole]

Yeah, i think I was just worried because I've seen "making fun of weebs" veer very quickly into "making fun of Japanese culture", just as I've seen "genuine criticism of my home government in china" veer into "thinly veiled sinophobia"

[quick plinth]

sure there is an advantage of it being nearly impossible to scramble, however it also lowers the overall hit probably

[honest acorn]

Lordy the latter happens a lot yeah

[south temple]

this is true especially the sinophobia

[rare nymph]

At that point you’ll probably get better hits with a dumbfire rocket lmao

[blissful sparrow]

Immune to Jamming cause it comes prejammed

[rare nymph]

You can’t tell the missile where to go cuz I can’t tell it where to go!

[ionic holly]

Maximum jamming

[quick plinth]

I mean its more that at the time manual guidance of a manpad was acceptable but there's a very good reason such a feature didnt stick around

[rare nymph]

I will say though, the picture used in that article is pretty metal

[keen zinc]

Sorry, I thought it was just the Japanese term for Japan

[glacial light]

The missile doesn't know where it's at

[sinful bay]

Make fun of helldiver fans that buy into the propaganda instead /n

[rare nymph]

And it certainly doesn’t know where it isn’t!

[glacial light]

What does /n mean, I imagine it isn't a newline operator

[keen zinc]

Is "Nihon" similarly offensive?

[sinful bay]

It means no, as in
Don't do that

[sinful bay]

Nihon is literally Japan in Japanese

and Nihongo is 'Japanese' in japanese

[south temple]

well yeah it is

[keen zinc]

I'm confused

Weren't both ||Nip and Jap|| both used as slurs during the war and postwar periods?

[south temple]

yep, and that’s racist, but nippon or nihon aren’t inherently

[honest acorn]

Slurs are always weird because its really rare that the word itself is offensive just that its used enough in a sufficiently offensive context to become associated with it, and the US was SUPER racists about Japanese people around WW2

[keen zinc]

I always thought the aforementioned terminology was just mocking weebs who touted katanas as superior to western steel

[honest acorn]

So the contractions are along with a couple of other ones which no one uses but the full terms are I think only offensive if someone starts doing that "lets swap all the Ls and Rs fake typed accent" thing

[south temple]

yeah it p much is

[keen zinc]

Tbh this is actually the first time I've ever heard of the slur

[south temple]

it’s not as prevalent in the modern day ime

[honest acorn]

I don't think the word is a slur itself its just sometimes used in a context which is exoticizing of Japanese culture

[south temple]

yeah true, and in the case of the previously used “nippon steel” and it’s variations, it was used (in this chat) to make fun of those people

[honest acorn]

The phrase itself is from here https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ken-sama originally so I think its just 4chan adjacent enough to raise red flag occasionally

But it isn't necessarily a problem

It's one of those grey areas which sometimes comes up for like 50 posts in mod lounge haha

[glad marsh]

God these things suck so much

[south temple]

yeah 4chan adjacency is usually good to be wary of

[honest acorn]

This specific thing hasn't but the general principle of someone saying something which could be used offensively but hasn't been in this case comes up and in general we don't go after people for it but will sometimes discuss it like this

[south temple]

this is wise

[dusky solar]

Okay but the Kenichi Smith meme is someone I unironically want to immigrate here and become an american

[honest acorn]

So I guess if anyone is feeling uncomfortable about it my stance is that bringing up that it feels uncomfortable is fine but also using it is ok this is a really no fault situation

[rare nymph]

Me when I call in a hell pod containing a blowpipe (I’m about to be murdered by a gunship)

[dusky solar]

Without a shred of irony

[honest acorn]

A blowpipe or other manual guidance missile would be so much fun

[south temple]

he’s just like me

but unlike him i train 1911 and tanto in accord

merging the superior nippon steel with TWO WORLD WARS to achieve ultimate dominion over the martial arts

[dusky solar]

"I speak english fluently" > is a better english speaker than 99% of the population
"I know and follow the consitution" > is a better citizen than 99% of elected representatives

How is this supposed to be bad

[south temple]

it’s not it’s mega based

[keen zinc]

Elected Representative of Cowboys

[south temple]

god i just reread “in the midwestern and east coast accents” LMAO

[honest acorn]

Only semi-related but speaking of the constitution covid was the best chance in a long time to actually get a 3rd amendment case up through the supreme court and we blew it

[south temple]

as is so often the case

[keen zinc]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/Jn7flRU87b

Can someone please open this in paint and stretch Rambo across all three for me thnx

[south temple]

TRUE

i love being solid snake

[honest acorn]

lmfao that's great

[sinful bay]

It's so fun

Need a bandana helmet
Yes
Stretch a bandana over my helmet

[south temple]

i need a poncho stat

[merry cosmos]

I hope metal gear solid delta is good

[tall nova]

Same

[sinful bay]

Me too, irl specially
Sun is hot

[south temple]

it’ll likely kick ass

[tall nova]

All I gotta say is stealthing your rank 9 missions is for cowards. Red blooded super earth citizens run that loud as hell and make every bullet count!

[merry cosmos]

I mean the ue5 demo looked iffy but it definitely has more promise that anything silent hill related after 4

[tall nova]

You've got reinforcements for a reason, use them

[south temple]

if my hair was worse i’d be a hat guy but alas i gotta keep that shit out always

[south temple]

no yeah i’m pretty optimistic, my only thing is i worry that the pursuit of realism will fuck with the cool vibes

(pea soup fog or bust)

[sinful bay]

FUCK HATS
GO FULL LISA THE PAINFUL

[merry cosmos]

"You've got reinforcements for a reason, use them" mfs when they get hit with running fresh out of reinforcements and drying before completing the main objective

[south temple]

perchance

[south temple]

nah i gotta samuraimaxx

[quick crown]

Ponchos fuck.

[tall nova]

If I die I die

[south temple]

when my hair was longer i could totally do it

[merry cosmos]

I need to start blood pressure maxxing

[south temple]

ponchos and the dumb little plague doctor mantle both fuck so hard

[rare nymph]

How my helldivers tryna be:

[sinful bay]

Me coming to save my team 😃
The Fire tornado dancing on top of my hellpod 😃

[quick crown]

Cloak mantles RULE

[tall nova]

I've definitely shouted "WITNESS ME" as I drop a 500kg at my feet

[quick crown]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-new-vegas-gif-26614980

Dusters too

[south temple]

i’m literally hanbei

[rare nymph]

Love a good duster

[quick crown]

HNGGG HD2 LEMME BE A RANGER

[keen zinc]

I wasn't joking I am genuinely asking for this

[quick crown]

Duster and a senator please

[south temple]

dusters and all coats are so hard

[keen zinc]

I want to make a funny reply to that thread

But I'm on my phone

At work

[south temple]

i’ve got a big ass peacoat and i wear it constantly when it’s cold out

[rare nymph]

Dusters and coats form the vast majority of my destiny 2 drip

[south temple]

i’m also on my phone or i would

[quick crown]

I have a really cute bunny poncho and several cloaks and i wanna buy a peacoat

[keen zinc]

[merry cosmos]

Has if being naked snake and going Rambo is mutually exclusive

[sinful bay]

Grab the crossbow and be one

[merry cosmos]

Ranger is the worst class unironically

[quick crown]

Coats are like, Have the work of an outfit

[quick crown]

DONT GE TME STARTED

[sinful bay]

not on pathfinder 2e

[merry cosmos]

Why does it exist

[south temple]

oh 100% most of my outfits are carried by my outerwear

[quick crown]

Literally EVERYTHING is concentration why even give me fuckin spells

[south temple]

throw a good jacket over a dress shirt and boom banger outfit

[quick crown]

Hunters mark over Hail of thorns

[merry cosmos]

Just play fighter with bow and arrow proficiency

[sinful bay]

Do I need to grab the guide

[quick crown]

Hunters mark over any smite

[sinful bay]

let me grab the kobold

[south temple]

arcane archer :)

[merry cosmos]

That's just a wizard with a bow shaped gun

[quick crown]

I am a kobold ranger for my temp character in a ongoing campaign and i'm like, Fuck why can't Larian take over 5E please

[south temple]

yeees

[quick crown]

They at least made this FUN

[sinful bay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQXICH2aZ4o there we go

good channel

[south temple]

my DM let my play an arcane archer with a bolt action it was a mistake

[merry cosmos]

Hasbro

[quick crown]

I want to use the Wand Gun from Gungeon if i ever do that

[south temple]

it just turned into “die or get really fucked over”

or “get really fucked over and die next round”

[south temple]

yeaaaaaah

[quick crown]

It fires wands one shot at a time and you eject them like spent cartridges

[keen zinc]

[quick crown]

And its so fucking cool and satisfying to use

Bolt action rifles are the fucking coolest

[south temple]

my character had a gewehr 98 and it was beautiful

[merry cosmos]

Pitbull named daisy:

[south temple]

clicky clacky

[sinful bay]

Autocannon

[merry cosmos]

Eruptor

[keen zinc]

Unfunny

[sinful bay]

Using the eruptor made me appreciate my pistol a lot more

[south temple]

i gotta get that gun

[merry cosmos]

In the "overused joke" way or the "wtf is wrong with you" way?

[south temple]

i’ve been playing too much mech warrior not enough helldivin

[quick crown]

She m1 on my Garand till i LOUD PING NOISE

[south temple]

yeaaahagahaghag i love old rifles

[sinful bay]

You reload the autocannon and - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euq7uTeYCP0

when

[merry cosmos]

No that plays for the orbital railcannon

Or the berserk pan

[south temple]

god during last night’s lancer a player jump scared me with the fucking pipe noise

it’s so funny he knocked over a ladder and i just said “hit the noise”

[rare nymph]

Every time someone does that joke formula I always immediately think of the beef stroganoff version and have to suppress a chuckle

[blissful sparrow]

You call in the orbital Railcannon and over the middle of the map a stray Bug gets crushed by a 2m Artillery shell falling from the sky

[south temple]

EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER

[rare nymph]

Lmao

[blissful sparrow]

actually, all orbital call ins should drop shell casings from the super destroyer

when you go to the middle of the map there should just be a mountain of casings the size of a bile titan

[south temple]

it’s like 20 HE barrages but they’re casings

[rare nymph]

We need a tungsten rod orbital

Use the rods as cover when it’s done

[south temple]

true let me have my hammer of dawn

[keen zinc]

I don't think the tungsten rod thing is an actually possible thing

[rare nymph]

It wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t

[south temple]

it is if we believe

[rare nymph]

But still

Funny rod go drop

[keen zinc]

Why would you spend so much energy deorbiting a solid mass of tungsten

[south temple]

for fun

[rare nymph]

Because freedom

And liberty

Need I say more?

I daresay I might:

Democracy

[keen zinc]

I'm sad none of you answered my clarion call

[south temple]

wish i could

[keen zinc]

We are supposed to be a unit

[honest acorn]

Cause it hits the ground going REALLY REALLY fast

And if you're already in space its not that much energy

[south temple]

just give it a lil nudge

[honest acorn]

That said the super destroyers actually attack from the middle or lower atmosphere during missions since they "belly down" into it so you wouldn't get the full effect

[rare nymph]

Me when I trip over and accidentally knock the kinetic kill rod loose

[blissful sparrow]

the bigger issue with the rod of god is that the rod is orbiting the planet too, so you do need to deorbit it, which isn't that hard. but you do directly trade time to impact for effort spent deorbiting

[honest acorn]

I think the biggest issue is that you have to put it up there first

It's basically a harder way to do a ballistic missile strike but in a way which won't be mistaken for a nuclear strike

[south temple]

yeah it’s not very practical

but it FUCKS

[keen zinc]

It's super not practical

[glacial light]

Rod from god isn't an efficient use of resources unless you had a cheap way to send stuff up like a space elevator and want like a really difficult to stop projectiles and hard to detect projecile that take a long time to hit their target

[blissful sparrow]

and most importantly, an Inert projectile

[glacial light]

Good for like destroying buildings

Not specific buildings

But against a large city for wonton destruction

[keen zinc]

The whole point of them being powerful is due to their extreme mass

Which is why putting them in orbit would be far more energy expensive than just

Shooting a missile

[glacial light]

Assuming no space elevator if we were lucky to capture an asteroid with heavy metals to make a rod and transport it into orbit for usage later, a lot of missiles would be waaaaay cheaper though

[honest acorn]

Yeah the principle advantage is that its a weapon system which allows for very prompt global strike capability in a way which won't be mistaken for firing a nuclear weapon

[south temple]

https://i0.wp.com/www.jenn-smith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/0BE80153-6A53-4960-AFF8-C283EAA7C2DF_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1

[glacial light]

Honestly i could see super Earth making rods of gods because it's inefficient so it creates jobs

[keen zinc]

TRUE

[blissful sparrow]

Hand carrying Rods to orbit

[glacial light]

Hey I mean they front loaded our orbital guns

And the breech loading upgrade shaves off 10 seconds so whoever was going out into space to reload our guns were like extremely fast at their job

[rare nymph]

I like to imagine the breech loading upgrade still requires someone to go out into space

But they can now load the guns from the back

[glacial light]

Breech loading but they still put the loading port in space

Loader really loves space trips

[rare nymph]

I can’t wait for level 10 ship upgrades, where we can finally install autoloaders

[glacial light]

Actually level 9 is an autoloader
Level 10 replaces the autoloader with 2 manual loaders since it's in tbe budget to hire another staff now

[rare nymph]

Lmao

[quick crown]

I think what makes the kinetic kill rod feasible is that you could acquire the materials from asteroid mining in lower gravity

Damn it! I just realized I didn't scroll down

[keen zinc]

https://imgur.com/a/1dzKyBt

Intrasting

[glacial light]

Same braincell

[honest acorn]

This is probably why people hate the adjudicator isn't it?

[rare nymph]

Oh, that's rough

[glacial light]

Cringe

[short rune]

Yikes

[merry cosmos]

Oh that's why i couldn't aim for shit with it

[rare nymph]

I guess we should've seen this coming, given that helldiver training doesn't tell divers how to zero their weapons

Really its a miracle any of the sights are aligned

[merry cosmos]

The helldiver training gets funnier and funnier the more into this games lifespan we get

[hot meadow]

…gosh.

[glacial light]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/QCd2StKvIO

I mean there's Helldivers who died climbing the first cliff

[merry cosmos]

Like I started back when we were capturing heath and angels venture and even then it's inadequate

Now we have a completely different enemy to fight

[keen zinc]

Slipped and broke a leg and could not continue

Eventually starved to death

How little SE cares

[merry cosmos]

shot in the head*

[glacial light]

My head canon is they just tried and failed until they passed out and died, no one helped or bother to do anything but push them to the sides so no more helldiver trainees trip on their corpse and die

[keen zinc]

@honest acorn can we get instructions for getting the Helldivers role pinned? A lot of folks here didn't know about it

[honest acorn]

Is there a good post for me to pin?

[keen zinc]

There was one a few days ago but atwcat didn't respond to me asking them

I didn't know you could pin

[honest acorn]

I'll pin it if you can link me

Or I can write something up later

[keen zinc]

I'm at work atm

[honest acorn]

same

no rush

[keen zinc]

Gimme shmecond

[shy prairie]

also amko, consider:

[keen zinc]

I dont

Is it ?rank Helldiver or ?rank Helldivers

[rare nymph]

I dunno, I find that the difference between the reds is small enough that it’s not really noticeable

[keen zinc]

Did we go back in time

[rapid plover]

Helldivers

[shy prairie]

to be clear heere i mean that like, i think saying it clashes is silly

[keen zinc]

Why are we back here

[rapid plover]

because that's the name of the role

[keen zinc]

Kk

[rare nymph]

Ah, ok

[shy prairie]

because the matching set has like, a similar red that isnt on the body armor

[keen zinc]

To get the Helldivers role and be pinged when people are assembling to play, go to #bot-stuff and type:

?rank Helldivers

[keen zinc]

That's a shame

Idk shit about color coordination and am easily discouraged from enjoying things but I appreciate the effort

[rare nymph]

I think the outfit works, fwiw

Minute differences in shades either aren’t noticeable or are acceptable if they are

[glacial light]

They're gonna be covered in the same red or bug yellow anyways

[rare nymph]

For example, I like to run the legionnaire armor with the prototype X helmet, despite the fact that their cloth bits seem to be ever so slightly different shades of olive

[keen zinc]

They're gonna be looking for guys covered in blood

[shy prairie]

yeah fwiw i think demo helmet + light gunner is slick

2 streamlined pieces

[keen zinc]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/K8lHgOmkCi

[shy prairie]

and like, it's so viable to have a highlight color on a head that isn't present on the rest of the model, see: the original set, ultramarine space marine sergeants,

[keen zinc]

Oh good Democratic fucking Lord

We're fucked! We're fucked! Hey guys we're fucked!

[rare nymph]

Nah, I’d ➡️⬇️⬆️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬇️

[quick crown]

Which one is that again

[rare nymph]

380 barrage

[honest acorn]

Hoth Moment

[keen zinc]

Democracy Expansion: Fourfold 380mm Barrage

[honest acorn]

Battlefield leveling technique: HE-quad-L

[rare nymph]

Nothing quite like a 15 inch HE shell to discourage continued aggression

[keen zinc]

I want to have a squad bring 4x Walking Barrages

And just sweep bases from existence

[rare nymph]

I love that the input for the walking barrage is like a little walking pattern

[meager saffron]

oo big steppy

[keen zinc]

ITS TIME FOR WORLD WAR ONE~

https://tenor.com/view/historyofjapan-history-ww1-itstime-gif-5356881

[rare nymph]

Throw down a walking barrage, then thrown down a shield gen to take cover until you can start advancing

[sinful bay]

Trench time

[rare nymph]

(Only using the shield as super earth has not yet figured out how to deploy a trench via hellpod)

[sinful bay]

Wish they would deploy bunkers, like in 40k Dawn of war 2

[dusky solar]

Secondary weapon E-tool when

[rare nymph]

Pelican-deployed prefab bunker lol

[sinful bay]

y e s

[rare nymph]

Btw, can the spear target jammers? Don’t think I’ve ever tried

[honest acorn]

no

jammers can't be destroyed without a hellbomb afaik

Or maybe a 380/500 once disabled

[dusky solar]

Nooooo did they change the fab thing?

[rare nymph]

Figures

[honest acorn]

Oh fab ones can be

[rare nymph]

They did not, thankfully

[honest acorn]

Sorry I mean the jammer itself

And the spear can lock onto the fab

[dusky solar]

Ah dope, i wouldn't put it past AH to change that

[rare nymph]

Well then, I’ll stick to my usual strat of storming the jammer, shutting it off, then dropping a 500kg on it

[keen zinc]

Precision Strike can destroy them once disabled

[rare nymph]

Unless it’s the rare scenario in which the jammer is fully secure - then I’ll use the hellbomb

[honest acorn]

IME the jammer is usually secure enough to hellbomb if you can turn it off but yeah sometimes its not

[keen zinc]

My usual strat is to jump pack directly to the console area, sweep it with impact grenades and a can-do attitude, disable the jammer, call in the strike, and jump away

This usually works

[rare nymph]

Usually I end up carving a path to the console, which tends to leave a couple devastators around to start attacking by the time the jammer stops

And if I’m solo and/or low on ammo, I’d rather not try to get between a rocket dev and the oh-so tasty hellbomb

Though I suppose my experience is colored by the fact I most play with randoms

[keen zinc]

Yeah you don't even have the Helldivers role

[rare nymph]

This is true

[honest acorn]

I usually wind up fully clearing the site

[keen zinc]

I usually get the thing disabled ASAP

Usually because someone is dead and waiting for reinforcement

I am Mr Mission First

[dusky solar]

Man everyone else is so much faster than me on side objectives

I go slowwwwww

[keen zinc]

I am speed

I am attack

I am violence

I am action

I amko

[rare nymph]

If you get unlucky with an uncoordinated group of randoms, you can easily find that the jammer is drowning in bot drops

[dusky solar]

I am "7 0 death bot 9s in a row" lol

[hot meadow]

I’m really cautious and die very little but tend not to complete outposts unless they’re in between me and the objective.

[honest acorn]

yeah I think you just need to run away for a bit if that happens

[south temple]

ur literally the mobile infantry w that jet pack punisher combo it’s crazy

[keen zinc]

I must attack

[hot meadow]

I used to do them more but dropping with randos I often find they’re eager to map clear so I can just focus down the main stuff solo or mostly solo.

[rare nymph]

I am “drop into random bot 9s I which the host decided to drop in the dead center of the map, surround on all sides by bot assets”

[hot meadow]

I am the guy who used to cluster bomb because it was what I had unlocked, but then I cluster bombed because it was good, and now I cluster bomb to feel anything.

[south temple]

exaaactly

[honest acorn]

that always bugs me

I think past 6 its always worth hot dropping on an objective since odds are you'll just hot drop onto the ass end of nowhere if you try to avoid it

[rare nymph]

Yeah

My go-to is the edge of the map next to an objective, for similar reasons

[hot meadow]

Do you avoid the red glowy zones on drop or nah

[honest acorn]

not at high diff

[keen zinc]

Objectives or Extraction

[rare nymph]

Largely because they mean nothing at that point lmao

[honest acorn]

Yeah there's pretty much always something where you land

Might as well make sure its something worth blowing up

[keen zinc]

Landing on extract is nice because you don't want the jammer outside extract to be a surprise at the end

[honest acorn]

yeah extract is an ok spot especially if its a red extract

[rare nymph]

I like drop routes where you pass extract at roughly halfway through

That way you can clear it if need be and also drop off any samples you have

only for a rando to pick them up again

[hot meadow]

Makes sense. If it’s just me and the missus I do try to get soooome breathing room but if it’s a party of four I agree there’s really no difference

[rare nymph]

In any case, any game in which the squad hashes out a general route from the drop zone is gonna do well

Even if it’s just using your mouse cursor to vaguely indicate a path

[honest acorn]

Also if there's an objective in an inaccessible ass end of nowhere split I always like to drop on it so that you only need to path there once

[rare nymph]

True

[keen zinc]

Anybody down to play at around 5:45 PST?

<t:1713314700>

[undone veldt]

Was the stalwart buffed recently?

Because I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about it that I’ve not seen before recently

[meager saffron]

maybe the secondary buff of getting all mags back on resupply giving you greater uptime on an ammo hog

that + the existence of the funny explosive gun

making it much better as a primary in your support slot and vice versa

[keen zinc]

I've always loved it but it's lack of hitmarkers is a continued irritant

[undone veldt]

I see

[undone veldt]

I gotta grab that

It seems very fun

[supple siren]

I'm having a hard time finding a use for the Crossbow that the Eruptor doesn't do better :|a

[stone bridge]

Isn't the Crossbow way faster?

[hot meadow]

Yeah, but I really dun wanna be in a situation where I need to be fast when I’m shooting either tbh

[hazy oriole]

has anyone been having trouble with connection issues lately? and can disconnects be caused by poor framerate?

[hot meadow]

Yes and no respectively.

I do not know what’s triggering my connection issues though, I’m hard wired

[hazy oriole]

Could just me HD2servers being HD2 servers tbj

[kindred lintel]

teusday is steam server day

don't expect the usual connection for the next few hours

[hazy oriole]

Ahhh

[glacial light]

Does crossbow destroy buildings?

I heard that it doesn't early on launch

[merry cosmos]

How do you even get this to work?

[kindred lintel]

https://discordtimestamp.com/

[glacial light]

Oh interesting I use hammer time

[kindred lintel]

i like the look of this one more

[honest acorn]

that is a nice ux yeah

[glacial light]

Whelp I wasn't attached to hammertime hello new thing

[naive dragon]

I'm trying to remember a time where I wasn't teamkilled constantly

I have had the most horrific round lol

[keen zinc]

Bugs

It is a horde clearer that can catch whole swarms of Hunters in a moments notice

[honest acorn]

I think the higher fire rate and even larger blast radius make it better for hordes yeah

[civic apex]

seeing the walking factory like

[idle hollow]

i had uh

two factory striders

dropped on me

during an exterminate

[pastel igloo]

those Factory Striders hella dead when they meet me and the boys

did a few missions with them today and we utterly decimated them

[keen zinc]

I mean to be dead means being previously alive

[pastel igloo]

true

[keen zinc]

I am thinking about using stun grenades

[pastel igloo]

i'm using High Explosives

[keen zinc]

Or I just might try wombo combo EMS strike and precision strike

[pastel igloo]

i like throwing all of them at the same group of enemies

[keen zinc]

And keep my impacts

[pastel igloo]

fair

[keen zinc]

Impacts are like

God I love them

[pastel igloo]

impacts are ok

[keen zinc]

Destroying a tank with impacts is so satisfying

[pastel igloo]

i have done that before

though i usually use my Quasar

[keen zinc]

I am a jump pack man usually moving at high speeds around the battlefield

[pastel igloo]

i cannot use jump pack cause i got my dive button bound to space bar

[keen zinc]

I'm sorry for you

[pastel igloo]

i usually just use the shield pack

or the laser doggo

[keen zinc]

Idk why but I don't like using high tech stuff

Something about it doesn't hit me in the same way as shotgun and revolver

[pastel igloo]

i am full of lasers

bit sickle fan

i have also recently gained an appreciation of the 380

and will now drop it on any base i find

[meager saffron]

380 made me appreciate the precision strike more by association honestly

[keen zinc]

The Quasar is so good, a sustainable AT weapon that needs no backpack and is "reloaded" in the move

But it just doesn't feel right for me

[pastel igloo]

i'm sure precision strike is great

[meager saffron]

getting to back-to-back 500kgs is pretty nice but for a similar amount of devastation and a lot less finick I can just precision a lot of problems

[pastel igloo]

but i'm more of a "fuck everything in those grid coordinates" kinda gal

[meager saffron]

the 380 is just precision strikes dropped at random locations

[pastel igloo]

i need to rain terrible death on my enemies for extended periods of time

[meager saffron]

is the reason why lol

[keen zinc]

Whenever I equip the sickle and quasar I suddenly feel this obligation to perform

Like, I'm using the best stuff, I have to carry

[meager saffron]

that's what made me appreciate the precision more

[pastel igloo]

just hitting one precision strike just doesn't hit the same

[meager saffron]

like oh yeah even having one of these is good

[pastel igloo]

you know?

[keen zinc]

When I have my fun stuff I care more about having fun

[pastel igloo]

i could be bombing the absolute ass off those bots for like 30 seconds

i like pairing it with a 500 or cluster

[keen zinc]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/91SdFVgVt4

[pastel igloo]

can i do 120 and 380 at the same time

[meager saffron]

yes

[pastel igloo]

or do they timeout eachother

oh excellent

[meager saffron]

the 500mm is one of my favourite combos

it just terraforms a couple acres

[pastel igloo]

i could totally do 120 into 380 into a cluster or something

120 into 380 into cluster into 500kg

no possible chance of survival

most normal helldiver thing

[keen zinc]

Bile Titan:

https://tenor.com/view/wwe-john-cena-are-you-sure-about-that-gif-16752399

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers2-helldiver-bile-titan-get-bile-titan'd-lol-get-stickbug'd-lol-gif-8379539401124280472

[pastel igloo]

the 500 easily clears it

[keen zinc]

50% of the time every time

500kg and Railcannon Strike competing in the not one shotting their primary target competition.

[pastel igloo]

this is why i have the 380

simply blanket obliteration

[hot meadow]

hell yeah it's so fun right

[pastel igloo]

it is

[pastel igloo]

love area denial

denying my enemies and especially my friends

this is now a no living things zone

[keen zinc]

I'm very democratic so 380s never hit me

[winged hearth]

<@&1206091872716595200> anyone up for a game?

[keen zinc]

30 mins

[pastel igloo]

Based

[hot meadow]

I like it with the servo assist. So I throw it at a bunch of bugs on a point, right, and it kills a bunch, but the ones thaht don't get killed start moving towards our position, where they're easy pickings for my teammates, airbursts, or cluster bombs.

[winged hearth]

alr, ping me when your ready so we can get in a game together

[crystal badger]

I'll be on

[keen zinc]

My girlfriend made me dinner and I didn't know

+5 minutes

[naive dragon]

Dinner 👀

[keen zinc]

Actually I'm sorry I can't join I am suddenly realizing my exhaustion post work

(I laid down and suddenly I realized how tired I am and how much my neck and back and head hurt)

God I really am almost 30

I'm becoming boring

A younger me would see waking up at 5, working for 10 hours, and immediately jumping into a high energy game as no problem

[glad marsh]

Oh no
Amko
Is
Aging

[keen zinc]

OAIA

[naive dragon]

I want to slap people who steal my weapon drops before I even get to them :(

[pastel igloo]

who tf steals weapon drops

[glad marsh]

????!!!!

[pastel igloo]

wtf

[keen zinc]

Wake up at five, leave for work at six, arrive at work six thirty, leave work at seventeen, get home seventeen thirty

[naive dragon]

I join an SOS my guns are stolen

[pastel igloo]

fuck kinda behaviour

[keen zinc]

The fuckin hell

Execute them NOW

[glad marsh]

That's so

[naive dragon]

I just bailed

[glacial light]

I wouldn't take anything but EATs unless they have given express permission

[glad marsh]

Undemocratic

[keen zinc]

https://tenor.com/view/hammer-gif-3284201032904258120

[naive dragon]

"Fine take my ballistic shield that none of you even need" shit

[naive dragon]

I am going back to D7+, I don't know what is going on in lowdiff these days

[glad marsh]

?

[naive dragon]

Anecdotal bias

It's probably just my luck

[glacial light]

I had a fun idea for a grenade, it's an impact stagger one that's yeeted hard like a baseball with quick throw time to knockback whatever it hits

[keen zinc]

Concussive grenade

[stone bridge]

rock

[honest acorn]

Rocket propelled rock thrown like a football

[glacial light]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FgmCTii214

I want this but at a Hulk

[keen zinc]

Huh

[honest acorn]

lmfao

[keen zinc]

Didn't expect to find out that one of the Helldivers 2 subreddit mods is a fetish artist but life sure has a way of sprinkling little surprises for you

[honest acorn]

OUTPLAYED IM JUST BETTER

[keen zinc]

I was trying to look up an older response on a thread and hm okay

[pastel igloo]

💀

[keen zinc]

Not my cup of tea but life is a beautiful tapestry with different strokes for different folks

[glacial light]

A graceful winner

With how much money is in nsfw work I don't blame artists

They're usually very good and reliable clients too

[keen zinc]

Interesting to say the least

I just wasn't expecting that to show up on my phone screen scrolling down through their posts trying to find a specific Helldivers thread

[meager saffron]

D I V E R S I N P O D S

[glad marsh]

Wizards when they ponder a bigger orb than another

[glad marsh]

It's only 10 hunters

I can deal with that

[keen zinc]

Other countries sometimes use . instead of commas

[glacial light]

Eagle 1 needs me? Seems legit what do I have to download

[kindred lintel]

How much money does she need? Yes my queen

[glad marsh]

It's not like it makes much of a difference anyways. They're all enemies of democracy and more of them just means I can't miss

[keen zinc]

Exploding crossbow

10,001 dead Hunters

That's right we even got an extra one that was just passing by

Liberty bless

[glacial light]

Kill 6 billion Hunters

Your average bug mission

[pastel igloo]

precisely

[glad marsh]

I love this image amko

[keen zinc]

Thanks I stole it

No one will ever know

[glad marsh]

Eh they've certainly got it in the budget to get another one made

[keen zinc]

My girlfriend did it for me btw

She also did this

[glad marsh]

:0

[keen zinc]

Since nobody here answered my call to action

#1204832579287519292 message

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/ETQz0hngdz

Question

Do you think I will get banned for this

[honest acorn]

odds are pretty good you won't but reddit mods are fickle

[wide zenith]

Anyone want to go for a game?

er, in 5 minutes or so?

[keen zinc]

I think cass and daily Benny were trying to get people a bit ago

You should @ the role if you want to attempt a gather

[wide zenith]

Which role?

[hazy oriole]

does anyone else's helldivers 2 register as 2 instances in task manager?

[keen zinc]

How convenient of you to ask

[keen zinc]

Gameguard

Hit that little sideways arrow

[keen zinc]

Check the pins

#1204832579287519292 message

[wide zenith]

Thank you!

[hazy oriole]

gotcha, thanks

[keen zinc]

Iirc the game task shows both the game and nprotect gameguard

[hazy oriole]

has anyone else been experience reduced computer performance after playing this game? i know it's a weird question but it seems to be something that's been happening with me (and possibly a friend of mine too)

[keen zinc]

Nprotect gameguard sometimes doesn't shut down after closing helldivers

[wide zenith]

Well then, fellow <@&1206091872716595200> , I am starting a game in the HA chat. Anyone who wants to join may do so!

[keen zinc]

Could be that

[glacial light]

I tried the laser cannon and I don't feel impressed by it, am I missing something? The time to kill troopers seem to be a bit slower than like a sickle

[wide zenith]

Unfortunately, due to lack of interest (and a surpise pickup game), I am cancelling my helldive. Sorry, super earth.

[unreal merlin]

It stands out in its ability to damage heavy targets in their weak spot. Devastator heads, tank and turret vents.

It's not as effective for killing small targets due to being less wieldy than its smaller counterparts

[rare nymph]

It can also take out hulks if you walk the beam over their eyes

And gunships if you hit the engine

[pastel igloo]

neat