🤖🐛🦑helldivers

[empty zealot]

YES

[slim coral]

It should be medium pen

Idc if it deals the same damage as Halt

[plucky lion]

like a double freedom that's belt fed muahaha

[slim coral]

It can have double barrel for all I care where they can shoot each barrel faster rof

Or shoot both barrel at once and slower but ya kno

Immence damage

Wait lmao

So by changing the hive guard head

This patch basically shot the small Maxigun population in the head

[sacred tapir]

mhm

i did say that kinda

[slim coral]

Didnt see that

[sacred tapir]

tis ok

[fleet gazelle]

Not only are they faster, but they can also survive a pellet shot to the head, requiring 2-3 targeted shots to stop them.

The little bugs manage to run through the fire turret before it can kill them. And then they slyly call for reinforcements right on you.

The little bugs manage to run through the fire turret before it can kill them. And then they slyly call for reinforcements right on you.

I don't understand why you're so upset about the hiveguard. I often run around with light spills on bugs. I used to kill it by shooting at the pedipalp-like creatures, and I still do. I feel like it's killing it faster through them now.

But everyone else has become noticeably fatter...

[bleak patrol]

I did some extensive testing and didn't notice bugs getting any faster when I was wearing the armor compared to when I wasn't

I was much faster, which is what the armor is meant to do, but if the bugs were any faster, I didn't notice it

I've heard that they are FRV levels fast so I did bring an FRV and they couldn't catch up as well

[sacred tapir]

alr thats good ig

[bleak patrol]

I'm either lucky and I didn't encounter that bug during hours of gameplay, the bug is there but it's triggered by something else or there's some wacky space magic happening
Or the bugs knew I was looking for them moving super fast and were like "don't let him know, he'll look st00pid"

That being said

I did a double frontflip with the FRV today

[loud bison]

🤔

[narrow trout]

why isnt it in the patch notes

[sacred tapir]

because arrowhead hates everyone who plays their grunt fantasy

[eager cliff]

Yeah , they get high off their buddy's odour and get berserk

[slim coral]

We will provide all of the necessary information in the patch note
Also Patch Note:

[sacred tapir]

we trusted them, like fools

[slim coral]

The effect of "oh you sweet summer child" response

You know

Maybe next ship upgrade is warbond unlock

[sacred tapir]

also im pissed

half my mods for fixing support weapon scopes are broken

im so mad

[slim coral]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKXj7e9gBjA

[fleet gazelle]

What's there to edit? Reticles? Why are you aiming in first-person view?

[eager cliff]

@graceful compass

icebreaker stuff tho is prob massive cope

[earnest stag]

Mfer

Look at the channel

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1056492780857335891/1489742511554691163/speechmemified_Screenshot_20260403-233017.gif

[eager cliff]

https://giphy.com/gifs/homelander-kraladam11-geek-GGADHrBpCtumyzcTdf

[sacred tapir]

Precision with railgun:

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-s-patrick-patrick-star-bottle-dumb-gif-1741625486363070335

[fleet gazelle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3715855792

[lost grail]

Legit impossible to get away from them unless you jetpack onto some rock

And they explode in a gas cloud which buffs enemies but slows and damages you

I can find ways to deal eith this but they make bugdiving very annoying and unfun to play

[eager cliff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIOKEyTqIT0

the mech's shadow has the strategem launcher on it

[sacred tapir]

“Still cant fire the +1 if you remove the magazine” ONLY THE IMPORTANT SHIT ON THIS CHANNEL

The rest is ok ig

[bleak patrol]

I love the new biome, it's so pretty

[plain bough]

there's another on Big Rock, but we no have access to that planet yet

[bleak patrol]

Oh no, guess I'm stuck in the pretty forests

If this game had some sort of freeroam mode I'd love to spend some time here and just drive around

[fleet gazelle]

So it's just a reskin of the swampy jungle with the mangroves removed.

[dire igloo]

https://x.com/bukibread/status/2049299506978763062?s=20

FatFluffyPenguin (@bukibread)

Hi Arrowhead,

-You still have at least 200+ active, replicatable bugs in the game (https://t.co/gMtLXBwZ5P)
-This update, you also: moved the Flame Sentry's hitbox rather than buffing the range from 20m to 34m as you said,
-Gave the Lumberer the damage model of a Crisper

X · Apr 29, 2026, 1:27 AM

holy shit

if they did all this thats pretty funny

what

they didn't do this right

right

[sacred tapir]

They did

But they made the claws weaker and lessened their ho

Hp*

So its a 50/50

Makes no sense

But it doesnt matter

[dire igloo]

yo

thats the stupidest shit ive ever heard

you are telling me like 90% of the sidearms are now useless if you run out of ammo

[sacred tapir]

Are you retarded

I just said the claws are WEAKER

and their hp is LOWER

[bleak patrol]

The did buff the head to be heavy but it doesn't matter because you can kill it faster with leg shots now

[sacred tapir]

They die easier in the weakpoints

[bleak patrol]

Legs are now unarmored

[sacred tapir]

Which is legs

[bleak patrol]

So light pen weapons deal full damage

[sacred tapir]

But not the armor legs

The front claw legs

[dire igloo]

on my life I swear the talon took 2 shots to the head and it just died anyways

why did we change this

pointless change

[bleak patrol]

What they wrote about tanks is also misleading because they only increased chassis health

Even with the increased health on the barrager tank turret weakspot, they will still die in one recoilless

Two quasar

So it's an inconsequential change

[dire igloo]

we removed the dopamine increasing head pop in favor of the dopamineless leg shots

[bleak patrol]

But bug crawl funny with no leg

[dire igloo]

if I check the game anyways rn its prob getting review bombed like every other week

yup

[bleak patrol]

I don't really care about steam reviews

[dire igloo]

I genuinely do not understand how the developers keep going from were so back to were so doomed

every single update

[sacred tapir]

They did make the vents heavy armor

Which is dumb

At least thats what i heard

[bleak patrol]

The recent patch isn't even that bad, it's just a classic mix of dumb stuff and good stuff

[dire igloo]

on the enemy tank?

[sacred tapir]

Yeah

What you thought WE were getting buffs???

[bleak patrol]

Want me to check it for you

[sacred tapir]

[dire igloo]

so literally just mounting the tank which felt awesome doesnt exist anymore

[sacred tapir]

Go ahead

I could be braindead as usual

[bleak patrol]

I don't believe most of the stuff that community says anyways

I mean, look at the new armor passive

It may be bugged but it doesn't cause the bugs to move faster

It's something else

They are getting high on that galaxy gas

[dire igloo]

https://fixupx.com/muaxh03/status/2049468972630671522?s=20

Muaxh03 (@muaxh03)

I’m genuinely emotional right now. Arrowhead actually listened to me and made Hive Guard armor heavy. This is everything I’ve ever wanted. I reported this everyday since launch.
︀︀
︀︀Pure gameplay perfection. A historic update. Thank you for making my dream come true.

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FixupX · Apr 29, 2026, 12:40 PM

okay this ones pretty funny

seeing 100 bullets ricocheting off its head

[bleak patrol]

Chances are this change might get reverted

[sacred tapir]

I feel like we also need a bastion buff as part of this update

Im not asking for a full heavy armor tank

[bleak patrol]

I mean, I don't really see a problem with the head being heavy armor but I do agree that it's pointless and kinda silly

[sacred tapir]

Just remove the little light armor shit

On the sides

And then maybe make frontal armor heavy

All i ask

[bleak patrol]

Oh yeah and I don't understand why they didn't fix the bastion along with the mechs

They are probably waiting for the tank warbond

[sacred tapir]

Exactly

[bleak patrol]

Like

Just fix the silly boxes

[sacred tapir]

Make the light accessories not transfer to main

And make the front heavy

And its perfect in my eyes

[bleak patrol]

Heavy front would be fine

That's how tanks work anyways

[sacred tapir]

Sides and back medium

Just so that you can take the brunt of it in the face and be ok

But if you make a wrong move, something can blow your ass apart

[bleak patrol]

And that would also make only the big guys be able to deal damage from the front

Like Hulks

And devastator rockets but those are rockets

[sacred tapir]

Yeah, the hulk machine gun does nothing, but the hulk rockets and flamer will

Pretty sure the machine gun is light or medium

[bleak patrol]

Pretty sure it's an autocannon

[sacred tapir]

Look on the wiki

[bleak patrol]

I'm looking

[sacred tapir]

I love wiki.gg

Such a good wiki

So informative

[bleak patrol]

"Fusion Autocannon"

AP 3

[sacred tapir]

Hm

So medium

[bleak patrol]

Yes

[sacred tapir]

Ok so frontal armor would be safe from that

But rockets and flames

And the saw blade on flamer

Hulk

[light nymph]

that's right @sacred tapir , you need to flank around and penetrate their defenses from behind

[bleak patrol]

Holy fuck the saw is AP 5

[sacred tapir]

I mean the breakthrough mech seems to do a better job tanking in the face

Shield is heavy

1500hp iirc

And its quite big

[bleak patrol]

Shield is medium

[light nymph]

[bleak patrol]

It has 5k health tho

[sacred tapir]

Thats so fucking retarded

[bleak patrol]

80% durable

50% explosion resistant

[sacred tapir]

Ok thats better

[dire igloo]

tune in 6 months from now

[sacred tapir]

But still should be heavy and nothing can change my mind

[bleak patrol]

Like, it's not terrible

[dire igloo]

where we make the factory strider even tankier for no reason

because the players are just having fun

toodalooo

[bleak patrol]

Our shield is technically stronger than the devastator shield now

technically

[sacred tapir]

I dont see why arrowhead has a hate boner for vehicles having heavy armor

Thats my biggest complaint

[bleak patrol]

Deva shield is heavy armor but has only 800 health and 75% durable

[sacred tapir]

The weapon balance is ok

[bleak patrol]

And no explosion resistance

[sacred tapir]

It could be better

But weapons are ok

[dire igloo]

They are making the game horrible on purpose so they can announce their next game thats gonna come out 2027 so they force everyone to migrate

[sacred tapir]

Armor is meh, i believe we should use same system as enemies armor

As we have said on a few occasions pyr

[bleak patrol]

I don't want to talk about it for the 3rd time

But we came to some good conclusions

Arrowhead, hire us

[sacred tapir]

Yeah im sure i could make some decent changes

Better than alexus

Im sure

But my point is, most of the game is ok

I like vehicles

But theyre lacklustre

Medium armor where it should be heavy

Or light where medium

Mech arms should be medium imo

And legs

[bleak patrol]

How much durable damage increase did the bugs get

[sacred tapir]

Im not sure tbh

[bleak patrol]

Like I'm not gonna lie it kinda sucks but I remember when I used a Patriot on the last bug MO and that fucker lasted me the whole mission even though it got swarmed like 5 times

[sacred tapir]

Thats definitely luck

[bleak patrol]

Like I walked into a heavy nest

Closed all the holes

Ignored all the bugs

And walked out

And it wasn't even smoking and apparently legs were functional cause I could still walk

[sacred tapir]

I swear your bugs are more retarded than mine

[bleak patrol]

That might be the case

I don't use mechs too often as well

Only on specific occasions

[sacred tapir]

If i did that, they would chew on my ankles obliterate my movement and kill me

[bleak patrol]

I also had better luck than most with the Bastion

[sacred tapir]

I had a good time with bastion with a friend

It works i gues

But it needs lots of help to be easier for average players

That heavy front plate would do wonders btw

[bleak patrol]

I've successfully used the Bastion during the battle for cyberstan

[sacred tapir]

Same

Thats when it worked best

Could make good use of chokepoints and buildings for natural cover

[bleak patrol]

Yeag

[sacred tapir]

If you covered a choke and had someone watching your ass, nothing could make it to you

[bleak patrol]

Ok, hear me out

In addition to giving it heavy front plates

Give it one HMG for one passenger and one GL for the other passenger

Or two HMGs

[sacred tapir]

Id like it to stay as is

Freedom of weaponry

[bleak patrol]

Breaching Hammer Launcher

[sacred tapir]

You can have recoiless rifle on one seat, and a gl or something for the other for chaff

Or 2 autocannons for their utility

Flak or aphet

[bleak patrol]

One thing I'd like to see

Like, I know we have a mortar turret

But how about a handheld mortar

[sacred tapir]

With better stats

[bleak patrol]

Better stats on top of having manual aim but more limited ammo

[sacred tapir]

Yeah

[bleak patrol]

Maybe give it that team reload capability

Which nobody will use

But it's there

[sacred tapir]

Team reload needs just one thing to make it good

That the other person doesnt need to carry the backpack

[bleak patrol]

It is good as is but that would maybe make people use it

[sacred tapir]

Its not good as is, its inconvenient as all hell

[bleak patrol]

I've used an autocannon with a friend and it was glorious

[sacred tapir]

How it is now, requires you to defend an area

And work together

Lest you be flanked or overwhelmed

[bleak patrol]

Team reloads are valid when you play with people you know

[sacred tapir]

Also would it not be easier to pull clips or shells off the OTHER GUYS BACK??

Not your own?

[dire igloo]

team reload was awesome on illuminate when the enemy pool on high difficulty didn't consist of 800 stupid fucking enemies running you down while blocking shit to the vital spot

i used to do this with slouchie

it was awesome

[bleak patrol]

I hate the voteless all my homies hate the voteless

[sacred tapir]

Meatball is worst enemy on illuminate

[bleak patrol]

I always thought I hate the harvesters, but it turns out I just hate the voteless

[dire igloo]

literally you just can't do it anymore cause one of the attacks is just a run at you in straight line

[sacred tapir]

Voteless are meh

[dire igloo]

and start flinging you

[bleak patrol]

I don't really dislike the meatballs

[dire igloo]

and then the damage is never the same and its random and stupid

like fucking hell man

[slim coral]

Man while people defend the change of the Hive Guard

[bleak patrol]

They are easy to deal with, the only problem I had with them was how they CLIPPED THROUGH FUCKING WALLS

[dire igloo]

2 damage or 1 shot, choose your poison sir

[slim coral]

I still dont get why that enemy has to be changed

Like at all

[bleak patrol]

The change isn't necessarily bad, it's just pointless

[dire igloo]

we don't know yet

we need the science people to measure the dopamine of if shoot head and head pop and if shoot leg and nothing fucking happen

[bleak patrol]

Like, you now kill them faster with leg shots and can do that easily with light pen weapons

But why change it at all

[slim coral]

I mean the change on the Devastator is a very welcoming kne

One*

But Hive Guard one is weird

[sacred tapir]

Hive guard head pop is lame lmao

Warrior head pop is better

[bleak patrol]

Ok Bogdan I'll be honest with you now

I get your point

[sacred tapir]

But shut up

[bleak patrol]

But head gone because of big gun

[sacred tapir]

[bleak patrol]

Is more cool

[slim coral]

Also

[bleak patrol]

It's still a silly change

[slim coral]

Apparently my intuition was right the Lumber mech flame was being weird

[bleak patrol]

But I don't feel any strong feelings about it in either good or bad way

[dire igloo]

Glad you agree, Chudtrox could never

[slim coral]

What the heck

[sacred tapir]

Dumbest retard of today calls best retard of today a chud

Classic

[bleak patrol]

Anyways

[sacred tapir]

Peak

[bleak patrol]

I go feed dog now

[slim coral]

@sacred tapir is there a mod that makes Dominator a bolter

[dire igloo]

Atrox: Chud anger activated

[sacred tapir]

Many

But broken

[slim coral]

Dam

[sacred tapir]

Update killed all the good mods

[bleak patrol]

Oh yeah I had to remove all mods because they crashed my game

[sacred tapir]

[bleak patrol]

I don't really miss them much

The intern began to get annoying

[sacred tapir]

I get to have my aiming reticles in 3pp

Thats it

[bleak patrol]

I missed the normal mission control, glad they hired him back

[sacred tapir]

Nah he was just sick

Intern was executed

[bleak patrol]

[slim coral]

Still cracked me up how

They increase mech armor

But they also increase everything dura damage

So basically mech still die from the same amount of attack

[bleak patrol]

Mech is 80% to 100% durable

And now dies only if main health is depleted (which makes me question how did it work before)

[slim coral]

Man they need to add War Thunder volumetric to all armored forces in this game

I would love to see HEAT from recoiless non pen a tank

[bleak patrol]

Yes volumetric armor so that you can be killed by a trooper while inside a mech because it penetrated armor and hit you in the head

How fun would that be

[slim coral]

Thats the point

Also apparently ppl said the mech was supposed to have something extra cuz its shown on shadow but not actual gameplay

[sacred tapir]

Strategem launcher

[sacred tapir]

peak mod image btw

[loud bison]

ope, back to heavy gas armor
the gas is my abode now

[sacred tapir]

i use heavy flame armor with the cremator

[bleak patrol]

The fart dealer

[slim coral]

How good is bastion on bug planet

[sacred tapir]

mid

the new exos are better

but theyre not free

so whatever

[eager cliff]

this is interesting , it's not like they release exosuits every day , how tf did this go past

[sharp gorge]

Small indie company

[eager cliff]

Dogshit

[bleak patrol]

That's not really that much

I like how the hulk punch states it's +15 while the numbers actually show +10

[bleak patrol]

Believe it or not, the mech can still take more hits than before, but the effective increase in durability is only 33% instead of, well, 100%

Or actually instead of 88%

I love doing pointless math

[bleak patrol]

Only the engine vents are heavy, turret vents are unchanged

Honestly I didn't even know engine vents were medium, I always just blasted the turret

I will have to check if Quasar can still oneshot the tank from below

[sacred tapir]

Ah, thats fine

Just means barrager tank needs a strategem or at weapon/support

Or flamer

I guess eruptor too

Barrager tank is the weakest of the bunch though, so no big deal

I swear it does literally nothing half the time

[plucky lion]

ok so bullet storm is more fun than i expected

having dakka always on call is nice when fighting quids

ah hive guards gonna be tankier again i see

rip buff for light pen lol

[light nymph]

What do you mean "accidentally"??? The patchs notes say that legs wen't from med to heavy and claws from light to unarmored, did they accidentally type the wrong shit too???

[plain bough]

Idk man, these swedish developers smoking crack or something

[bleak patrol]

I told you they are gonna revert it

[bleak patrol]

"Oh hey look a barrager tank. Guess I can ignore it for the rest of the mission"

[plucky lion]

and then the other time it yeets you into a rock at mach speed outta nowhere

[bleak patrol]

Conclusion
Just kill it to be safe

[sacred tapir]

Basically yeah

You kill it for the sake of it, not out of necessity

[bleak patrol]

[sacred tapir]

Bugs are fun

If you dont play gloom bugs that is

I dont like when they have adrenaline for blood

[fleet gazelle]

You just don't have enough ammo to make this fun.

[slim coral]

So head is medium again

[sacred tapir]

Deadass

[slim coral]

Wait

Has there been an orange bile titan

Or it has always been green bile titan

[plain bough]

the orange bile titan is new, gloom variant

[bleak patrol]

galaxy gas variant

[sacred tapir]

mfw "automatons and illuminate is fine for durable damage" and they still buff their durable

https://tenor.com/view/cat-looks-inside-cat-meme-cat-meme-gif-5048959174511859087

ok.

[sacred tapir]

@drifting quail RAAAHHH

[drifting quail]

[sacred tapir]

whats up

yes i just disappeared for 40 min

started mission

[drifting quail]

[sacred tapir]

ARE YOU HOME?

[loud bison]

what do you mean the flame turret couldn't this?

point blank and it can't kill the terminid

swear this update added just as much problems as content

[slim coral]

Lumberer is bugged

Flame damage model isn't correct

I watched the mech showcase and the flamer struggled to kill a scavenger is just hilariously bad

[sacred tapir]

idk why

because the crisper is able to kill scavengers almost instantly

so its got something else going on

and the crisper does same damage as the strategem flamethrower

the base one

just less fuel

[sharp gorge]

Tinfoil hat time https://stupidpenisx.com/i/status/2049811384620486859

Metal Doom Evil COMMS CLOSED (@doom_captain)

I have art block. Learning maladaptive collectivist Sven philosophy is vital for your survival! Did you know that in Helldivers 2, sentries are programmed to shoot you if you've been surviving a little too long, as long as they can make it look like an accident?

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 30, 2026, 11:21 AM

[empty zealot]

[bleak patrol]

7 minutes is all super earth can spare for us

[sacred tapir]

With how i sometimes get mowed down by sentries, i believe it

Im doing great, no issues, no enemies nearby

Then suddenly a scavenger appears behind me and the sentry fucking BLASTS me

[bleak patrol]

The sentries do this weird thing where they start shooting long before they actually turn towards the target

You just have to know where enemies are at all times when using sentries

It will not randomly decide to target you, but it will not stop shooting if you're in it's way

I don't use sentries simply because they cause more problems than they solve

I prefer minefields

Of the anti-tank variety

[sacred tapir]

I always get retard with sentries

I feel like they should work AROUND the player

rather than forcing the player to work around sentries

Because its kinda retarded

[dire igloo]

Is it true that chargers now turn around faster

like after charging

[sacred tapir]

Yes

Hardly an issue in my experience, but it is annoying without AT

[slim coral]

What if we have a mech with hands

That shoot mortars if needed

[bleak patrol]

Let's just get an entire gundam while we're at it

[plain bough]

or a heavier mech like the wrecked models we see out on maps sometimes and that concept art

[sacred tapir]

give us armored core arrowhead

[potent leaf]

https://x.com/PayuHern/status/2050185645264658706

HernFha (@PayuHern)

Not on my watch
#Helldivers2 #Helldiver2art

X · May 1, 2026, 12:08 PM

[sharp gorge]

https://stupidpenisx.com/muaxh03/status/2050539508190302457

Muaxh03 (@muaxh03)

Love the new "realism" change in Helldivers 2 where the directional shield blocks my own lasers.

Makes total sense a sci-fi shield can’t tell friend from enemy, really immersive when I’m my own biggest counter. Thank you Arrowhead.

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 2, 2026, 11:34 AM

[sharp gorge]

Nice job, dipstick

[narrow trout]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-shoo-away-gif-13653609800890535042

[sharp gorge]

https://youtu.be/LiofmciOzQU

[eager cliff]

https://giphy.com/gifs/rizz-horse-good-face-shape-u1FZcaDYnQFBMMdN5E

[loud bison]

sad day if heavy gas armor + vitality gets nerfed

which is in the realm of possibility knowing arrowhead

[narrow trout]

sire its ai
surely you are an ethical gooner

[eager cliff]

i think its 50/50 , the face def looks average AI slop indeed

[narrow trout]

look at the bottom right corner

[eager cliff]

we indeed do not like that

[plucky lion]

bullet storm maybe the best part of the warbond?

[bleak patrol]

"It costs $400,000 to fire this gun for 12s"

[sacred tapir]

Its cool that it has zero recoil

But now it feels like it overshadows the stalwart

So either stalwart will be buffed, or storm gets nerfed, and one seems more likely (or nothing happens)

[plucky lion]

uhh yeah stalwhat?

forget that shit

[sacred tapir]

Yeah so it needs a buff

And im not sure what

More damage maybe? More max mags?

[plucky lion]

pretty sure balance changes will be coming

[sacred tapir]

Shorter reload

Something needs to happen to it

[plucky lion]

it makes squids a joke

just dakka all the things except harvester

and then its back

[sacred tapir]

Bullet hose is fun though

I use it with the hammer on bugs

Just call it down, lawnmower shit, pick up hammer again

[plucky lion]

paired with EAT or commando 👌

[sacred tapir]

Eh commando can gargle my balls, its just a long range eat if you ask me

Eat is better for my purposes

[plucky lion]

it's the EAT you dont share is all

[sacred tapir]

Its the eat for long range

I dont share my eats

[plucky lion]

long range is possible just fine with EAT

but takes some practice

[sacred tapir]

Yeah, but commando is longer range

Simple as

Eat loses effectiveness around 125, where it just becomes more effort than getting closer would be

[plucky lion]

i consider the range difference irrelevant compared to the all in one vs split in two difference

[sacred tapir]

Eat just works better for me

Just need to hit one shot, not 2

[plucky lion]

commando has a major convenience factor for when u want to be more mobile

[sacred tapir]

Until the second shot missed bile titan head and it lives

[plucky lion]

well that aint the gun's problem...

[sacred tapir]

Nah its because titan likes to put its leg in my fucking way

90% of the time it happens

[plucky lion]

yeah it is annoying

i often just chuck thermite and run away lol

[sacred tapir]

i often just torch them

works well enough

[plucky lion]

big bug scary, i dont want to be that close :/

[sacred tapir]

i like being close, and if you can proc the multi stomp, youre left with lots of time

to flamer them

[empty zealot]

I either scorch their face or go under them and destroy their belly

[sacred tapir]

yeah thats where the multi stomp comes in

lets you run right under

[slim coral]

With 10

[potent leaf]

🔟 👍

[sacred tapir]

its kinda sad the new pocket missle cant 1 pop a charger head

it leaves 200 hp left

actually probably more counting durable

one sec

no wait, because its durable is identical to its standard, it does 1000 damage flat out

so yeah 200 hp will be left on the chargers head

wait so in theory, you should be able to just slap it in the face with an impact grenade to finish it

because its 400 explosive damage at heavy pen

unless im getting something wrong

so if explosive damage is affected the same as normal damage against armor, it will do 65% of 400 damage

which is still more than 200

so it should kill it after the missile hits it

hmm

@bleak patrol is this correct?

lmk later

also how long you think until lumberer and flame sentry flamethrowers are fixed?

i give it 2 weeks

because they take ages, even when people are bitching

[bleak patrol]

Charger head is 25% explosive resistant so you're 5 damage short, I think

Behemoth charger is even worse cause it has 1600 health on head

[sacred tapir]

really? where can i see that

i never saw explosive resistance anywhere

id like to know where to find this stat on enemies, unless im blind

[sacred tapir]

WHY IS IT ABBREVIATED

[bleak patrol]

I dunno blame whoever runs the wiki

[sacred tapir]

i wasnt informed of that being abbreviated

and i literally checked and it said charger wasnt explosive resistant, but it didnt come from wiki so idk what i was thinking trusting it

wait is the ass explo resistant?

because maybe thats what the source meant

[bleak patrol]

Ass is 25% too

Bear in mind that a lot of enemies have 100% explo resistance on body parts

So the fact that charger isn't 100% explo resistant is kinda uncommon

The reason for it is that explosions kinda go through stuff so if body parts weren't resistant to explosions you'd probably instakill stuff with one grenade due to the explosion covering multiple hitboxes

[sacred tapir]

hmm so people are just retarded and lie

internet

as usual

and im retarded for listening

[sacred tapir]

is that why some explosives can fuck up chargers quick?

wait would that not mean the 300 explosive damage of the missile would deal damage?

to the inner body

[bleak patrol]

Inner body of?

[sacred tapir]

the charger

like under the armor

the fleshy bits

[bleak patrol]

No those are 100% resistant

Inner flesh and underside is resistant

Butt armor plates and the smol front claws are also 100% resistant

Everything else is just 25%

However the fact that inner flesh and underside is resistant doesn't really change much, as those hitzones deal damage to the main health pool anyways

If they weren't resistant you'd deal 3x damage

It would kinda make sense to remove the resistance when the armor plates are broken, but as it stands it's just there so that you don't deal extra damage when you're not supposed to

FunFact this is also the reason why rocket devastators were so bad on release

Because players didn't have explosive resistance on limbs

So one single rocket dealt damage to everything and you just died

Now we have natural 50% resistance to explosives + limbs are 100% resistant

So you can survive rockets

Because that explosive damage doesn't overflow into your main killing you instantly

[sacred tapir]

hmm

ok

[fleet gazelle]

I tried out a heavy hand grenade launcher on them, but I didn't like it at all. It only kills a warrior after 2-3 shots, and the blast radius is negligible. You practically have to empty half your backpack on a Titan's head to kill it. The only thing is, the chargers fly off quickly, but they're very rare on these worlds. It's better to run with an anti-materiel rifle.

[sacred tapir]

you mean the belt fed?

yeah its a piece of shit

[slim coral]

Idk why grenade pistol feels

Weirder to use compare to normal GL

I thought its a 1 shot version GL

[solemn crypt]

shit's fire. sadly serves no purpose except just staring at it

[eager cliff]

you can throw urself in it and rid us of yourself

[solemn crypt]

show me how

[loud bison]

did they get rid of daily personal missions?

or is it bugged?

[solemn crypt]

no i've completed mine yesterday :|

[bleak patrol]

For Titans specifically you need to aim at it's underside to maximize the explosive damage cause it's 50% explosive resistant on every body part except the underside which has 0% resistance. By shooting at the head you only dealt a fraction of damage you'd normally do

[bleak patrol]

It originally served a purpose of foreshadowing, now it's just a landmark

[solemn crypt]

hopefully they'll make something connected with these "landmarks".

[bleak patrol]

They already did, squids came out of this one

[solemn crypt]

out of black hole?

[bleak patrol]

Yes

They also used it to destroy a few planets

[solemn crypt]

yeah i saw them

from the first glance at description, i thought helldivers destroyed that planet with some dark substance so it became a black hole because there were alot of tyranny.
but now that you say so, they made the situation worse?

destroying one kind of enemies, and in result there are squids

[bleak patrol]

There was a whole ass campaign to stop the terminids from spreading, a long time before the gloom came

[loud bison]

i didn't even get one yesterday

[solemn crypt]

idk really

[bleak patrol]

Meridia used to be a planet with environment similar to Malevelon Creek but with volcanic activity. It used to be placed between Fenrir III and Turing in the Umlaut Sector. Roughly near the beginning of the war we tried to eradicate terminids from it using TCS. We were deployed to start up special towers that would spread gas that would kill off all the terminids on the planet. It worked for a while but it backfired - some terminids adapted and turned the planet into a terminid supercolony, so we had no choice but to destroy it. We filled it with dark fluid and the planet eventually collapsed into a black hole. The black hole would eventually start to produce weird noises, and after a while the illuminate would start appearing, attacking singular colonies in the southern region of the galactic map. Turns out they were gathering energy to move the black hole towards Super Earth and destroyed a few planets using it, before eventually their main force came out of the hole and went towards SE. That's when the Battle for Super Earth happened

[solemn crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/writing-fire-absolute-cinema-gif-15085453417287561698

there's some lore

[bleak patrol]

I was there

The other black hole, in the automaton region of the map

We also made that one

But it seems to be fine

[solemn crypt]

saw that one too, was to curious if there are other black holes excluding that one near automatons :)

liked meridias more than the other one.

well that explains why that "rift" backpack is similar to that black hole, and that dark fluid type shi.
there was also a description tied to dark fluid.. iirc.

[bleak patrol]

Dark fluid was illuminate technology

[solemn crypt]

[sacred tapir]

Im gonna kill someone

Because the lumberer flamer

Doesnt FUCKING WORK

“Sorry mate, that hive guard was actually 0.003 millimeters too close, so the flamethrower didnt work, better luck next mech champ”

But like all the time with half the enemies because they are a rush faction

[bleak patrol]

I need to play for a bit, I want the shield mech

[sacred tapir]

Also the random light weakpoints on the shield

Thats just weird

(The arm clips through the shield in 2 places)

Arrowhead seal of quality

[loud bison]

hmmm
strange

[empty zealot]

https://youtube.com/shorts/XrDZx_HdXjY?si=xQCaCuqgD_U-oLTM

[bleak patrol]

I'm so proud

Hold up, 8 months ago?

[empty zealot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy0RWzaPiyo

[rotund niche]

If arrowhead knew what fun is

[bleak patrol]

Somehow it reminded me of this clip
#🤖🐛🦑helldivers message

[solemn crypt]

damn

[bleak patrol]

#🤖🐛🦑helldivers message

[bleak patrol]

Never trust any body of water on terminid planets

[empty zealot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G810TVzGesk&pp=0gcJCQMLAYcqIYzv

[lost grail]

the OG movie is fucking weird

if that is the one i am thinking about

It's really pro big oil, like unironically.

[steady zinc]

It's Better Call Saul.

[lost grail]

ah

for a moment i thought it was from landman

[fleet gazelle]

Did someone say scatmen?

https://youtu.be/hiEM5rkx1XA?is=eVR3mZcn4ZwnLPac

[solemn crypt]

no one did

[fleet gazelle]

[solemn crypt]

i wonder if any1 knows why am i missing the achievement for completing tutorial

i already have 24 achievements unlocked

[sharp gorge]

THIS GUY DIDN'T SIGN THE CONTRACT

[plain bough]

worse, he read the contract while the contract specifically stated you can't read it

[solemn crypt]

[celest elm]

time to come back since the patch came

hopefully I can check out these new biomes

fuck its not getting attacked

[potent leaf]

I dislike that so many fire themed weapons, stratagems and grenades are locked into seperate warbonds. Like the flame sentry, fire nade, fire nade impact and heavy flamethrower are all in seperate warbonds and not in the fire themed warbond

Like I want the fire sentry but a whole warbond just for 1 strat? Lame
I want the fire nade but once again it's a whole warbond

if I could spend like 100 credits just to get only that I'd be happy

[eager cliff]

Sony cant pay Concord off , sorry Sam

[potent leaf]

I wanna burn stuff but... :(

[twin nebula]

The "grind" has become a nightmare, you need to spend 6k sc and 1000 medals just for one build

Shit just takes too long, if you have a job and/or other games to play and just get sc in regular mission, by the time you get 1000sc theres already a new warbond out

Even farming them aint much faster

And its a total killjoy

I liked the idea that Kai had, having MO's that gives a "free warbond token" upon success would help even just a little

[dire igloo]

only game I know that got review bombed as hard as helldivers 2 by the Chinese is slay the spire 2

[potent leaf]

or every 50 levels in game = 1 warbond token

[bleak patrol]

MOs should give a small amount of SCs and maybe we should also get a small amount of both SCs and medals upon leveling up

This would speed things up and maybe people would actually do MOs

However, another issue would arise then

People are already saying that MOs are rigged when there are no real rewards

[plain bough]

hackers forcing MO completion

[bleak patrol]

Imagine what would happen with SC rewards

[potent leaf]

Okay I did one mission where one guy had no head
the warbond had an invisible man
Enemies spawned on top of me
And the final screen got stuck for like a minute and 2 people dc'd during it

[bleak patrol]

Ok, so two issues

[potent leaf]

we're so back

[narrow trout]

We were never back

[plain bough]

I've been in games where hackers just force complete missions and we're out in 3 minutes

[bleak patrol]

The no head thing is actually a bug that allows you to wear two armors for two passives and it's easy to replicate

[narrow trout]

We were chest

[bleak patrol]

Can we instead be leg

[narrow trout]

Sure

[bleak patrol]

Goob

[potent leaf]

we can be leg

[narrow trout]

MY LEGGG

[bleak patrol]

Yay I'm leg

[potent leaf]

mossed up

[narrow trout]

Also nowww youre upset about stratagems being in warbonds?

[plain bough]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-fred-fred-my-leg-my-leg-cartoon-gif-21318414

[bleak patrol]

That was a problem from the very start, I only got Polar Patriots for the Verdict and Truth Enforcers for the Reprimand

If anything we could just ditch the "spend X medals to unlock next page" thing

[narrow trout]

Have we gotten any free strat this year

Compared to 2024 and 25

[plain bough]

bastion

[narrow trout]

Right
The tank

[bleak patrol]

We probably got a lot of free stratagems in 2024 because the game just came out and they just had them on standby

[plain bough]

paper mache medium armor tank

[potent leaf]

i'm upset about themed strats being spread out all over

not about them being in the warbonds themselves

[narrow trout]

Well too bad fuck you keep spending money

[bleak patrol]

You know

[narrow trout]

I dont

[plain bough]

burned out on HD2, getting the same feeling for arc raiders too

[bleak patrol]

I recently did something that I said I would never do, which is I spent a day exclusively grinding SCs to see how it is

I got like, 500 or so

And while I understand why people don't like that, because they just want to go pew pew some stuff

I weirdly had a good time?

[potent leaf]

it's peaceful

[narrow trout]

Its boring

[potent leaf]

just do it while listening to youtube or w/e

[bleak patrol]

I would just drop in, instantly complete the objective and drive around with the FRV

Grab my money and leave in 5 minutes, repeat

[narrow trout]

But i want to play the game
Not go poi to poi hoping rng blessed me

[bleak patrol]

Which is exactly what I said

[narrow trout]

Ye

[bleak patrol]

People want to actually play the game and that's valid

I'm just weird and enjoyed driving around the map for 5 minutes

[narrow trout]

When you do it nonstop for 2 3 hours straight it gets very fucking tedious if sc doesnt spawn

[bleak patrol]

I would literally return to the super destroyer and was like "I wanna go again"

That's why I said that I would love some sort of a freeroam mode

[potent leaf]

infinite map that generates more and more the further you go

[bleak patrol]

Because I just had fun in my 2 hours of peace

[potent leaf]

roguelike mode where you gotta find weapon and stratagem drops

[narrow trout]

Lmao the engine would break

[bleak patrol]

What constant chaos does to a mf

I also think that it was that new forest biome that made the whole thing so fun to me

It was literally just a relaxing experience

[narrow trout]

Thats what i hate about high difficulties
Theres no repsite

Not a single moment

[bleak patrol]

Oh there are gaps in chaos

I sometimes have whole 5-10 minutes of nothing happening

Happens at least once per mission

And extractions where literally no enemy appears

[potent leaf]

The new oasis place is honestly so chill

I fuck with it heavy

[bleak patrol]

Do we have access to it right now?

[potent leaf]

yeah I just played a match

planet name starts with K rn

[bleak patrol]

I'm gonna go grab some SCs then

[potent leaf]

part of major order

[bleak patrol]

Lemme absorb the atmosphere

[potent leaf]

wait no not K

it's the one terminid one we have to defend

[bleak patrol]

I need to get back to actually playing the game, collecting SCs ruined me, I just enjoy the peace now

[narrow trout]

Cant believe youd rather play helldivers and not the hit game dead as disco o
ut now

https://tenor.com/view/dead-as-disco-charlie-disco-ol'-charlie-hemlock-game-gif-16799203613976165393

[potent leaf]

one costs 30 dollars the other I already own

[narrow trout]

Never stopped you before

Theres also dishonored i guess since you had like
2 missions left

The duke

[bleak patrol]

I confirm, and the car slides a lot on the sand so bonus fun points

[slim coral]

Did this game get better

[sacred tapir]

perchance?

idk

[bleak patrol]

Depends on who you ask and on what timescale

But knowing you Cuppa

You probably don't really care :)

[fleet gazelle]

If you have Alzheimer's, every new entry into the game will feel like a breath of fresh air.

[potent leaf]

https://tenor.com/view/we-are-rich-rich-deep-rock-galactic-compressed-gold-gif-24791651

[sharp gorge]

Any a 100?

[potent leaf]

nah no hundos

got a hundo last time i did farming tho

was tight

WELL HOWDY

Thank you for the blessing dry

Kissies

[bleak patrol]

MONEY

PLAN

WE NEED MONEY FOR THE WARBOND, ARTHUR

[plain bough]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/686379208862073744?l=english

[dire igloo]

Did they finally answer when ship upgrades

[dire igloo]

So the same answer as the reddit ama

Wonderful

I love corposlop answers

[bleak patrol]

Summer

[sacred tapir]

Fall

[bleak patrol]

Winter

[dire igloo]

Spring

[bleak patrol]

Summer

[lost grail]

farming super credits

https://tenor.com/view/jesse-pinkman-jesse-pinkman-depressed-sad-gif-14614205673094656184

[sacred tapir]

farming

[plucky lion]

it realy do be boring

only thing that makes it somewhat bearable is trying to do tricks with the FRV

can u use the frv to get into bunkers?

[sacred tapir]

idk, i dont farm

i found an unknown foreign benefactor once, and not once have i farmed since

[plucky lion]

up here in the 1% jeez

[sacred tapir]

i only have 2k left

i spended it on warbonds

[plucky lion]

how many warbonds do you not own

[sacred tapir]

i dont own chem agents, or cutting edge

or masters of ceremony

i could get them all

with the 2k and the extra 300 from each

but i dont care for any of those

[plucky lion]

lol damn that benefactor really helped

[sacred tapir]

yeah, i was missing like 9 before that

spent 7k or so

left 2-3 like i said

im missing one other, the ODST one

but its mid anyway

[plucky lion]

idk i want to get it but they keep doing the new shiny thing and i get distracted

[sacred tapir]

1500 for a warbond that brings nothing new

besides a silenced secondary

the rest is just lame reskins really

the smg is just a suppressed version of the sta with less mag cap if you ask me

and the rifle is an adjudicator with less recoil

not enough to justify its existance

[plucky lion]

the shotgun and the pistol are wat i eally wanted

[sacred tapir]

oh yeah the shotgun

right, the midgun

the double freedom is better, and the sweeper is also better

just more versatile

[bleak patrol]

New recruit and he already has the hammer, I'm so proud

[rotund niche]

The halo assault rifle is solid imo, best thing besides the odst armor in that warbond

[sacred tapir]

its still mid

its not enough to warrant buying a 1500 cred warbond

[narrow trout]

The warrent is that it tickles my halo fan brain

[rotund niche]

I mean I disagree on it being mid but yeah, it's not worth it just for that

[sacred tapir]

1500 creds for 3 mediocre weapons with no customization, and 2 mediocre armor passives (cool armor tho) with nothing else of note

and the M90 ig

[rotund niche]

I mean I would call the halo shotgun just straight up bad

[sacred tapir]

better than the smg was

so it gets a pass compared

[spice cypress]

But he's an good long-range shotgun shooter

[bleak patrol]

That's correct
It's medium pen

[narrow trout]

which makes its superior to the other assault rifles

and also sounds cool

[celest elm]

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DYCwzOQtvn0/?igsh=MTU3cHhuMDNtdTVnbg==

[bleak patrol]

Counter argument
Liberator is cool

[fleet gazelle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/447161363949813760/1501900998531219457/89717d3bbe0aa66df071aa35ac679ec6f1cea9e0310cff792ae1405842fe3469_1.mp4?ex=69ff134e&is=69fdc1ce&hm=ec3e3676639d23568ead63a25360956c07f798743c7db57115c5151b6c6bfe56&

[fleet gazelle]

[sacred tapir]

first time ive seen gameguard do literally anything

the fact i had 9k super credits at one point is proof its fucking useless

[fleet gazelle]

To update GAMMA, I needed to enable a VPN at the system level, but it was stubborn. I had to redo it to make it work.

[sacred tapir]

i dont remember this being the stalker chat channel

[solemn crypt]

did you cheat?

[bleak patrol]

He didn't

[sacred tapir]

I didnt

but SOMEONE did

thats literally why i said it

dummy

the point is gameguard is a pointless anti cheat

it does borderline fuckall

besides cause issues

[solemn crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-gif-682144618173357891

[sacred tapir]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-meal-genuinely-having-fun-realization-lame-ahh-chud-happy-gif-3224928209417998845

[slim coral]

They have a robotic bug?

[marsh panther]

What would happen if helldivers would entirely ignore the MO and try to storm aurora bay and the other planet to encircle cyberstan?

[loud bison]

the story would move on
the war continues
your helldiver becomes mpreg
and the devs will still try to kill the game

[bleak patrol]

The planets directly neighboring cyberstan have around 6-7% enemy resistance which is impossible to beat even if everyone were to run successful operations all the time, so we would waste our time and fail the MO

[sacred tapir]

https://tenor.com/view/67-6767-676767-cat67-cat-gif-18345003009543756801

[marsh panther]

sad

[bleak patrol]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1341944630375219242/1474246706915966986/HD2idunno.webp

[potent leaf]

I hope they add 3 way battles soon. Like bots being attacked by bugs and you drop in to steal stuff or disrupt the enemy kinda similar to the commando missions

[solemn crypt]

sounds like WH40k Space marines 2 stratagem where enemy forces are mixed (chaosites and xenomorphs)
yeah that would definitely be cool

[eager cliff]

https://giphy.com/gifs/meme-wectie-wectiee-gccuyjoY5IMIdI7gjq

So naive...

[loud bison]

something something game engine can't handle it

uhhhh have a warbond that adds no value

[potent leaf]

praise be

[solemn crypt]

and all i get is +10

[bleak patrol]

Let's ask @sacred tapir if the engine can't handle it cause he plays dorktide and it runs on the same engine, surely he knows something

[bleak patrol]

Honestly I don't think any of the enemy factions would fight each other as they specifically want us and only us dead, if anything they might just work together

Missions against bots and bugs together or maybe even all 3 of them at once would be interesting

[narrow trout]

i like to think that they DO fight
helldivers are just a higher priority target due to all the shit they did to the factions

[bleak patrol]

I believe that Cyborgs could probably get along with Illuminate, at least for as long as Super Earth remains a threat

But they probably could not get along with bugs because... well

[narrow trout]

yeah squids and cyborgs have the biggest chance of being allies

bugs tho

idk how sapient they are

[bleak patrol]

Bugs aren't as smart as they were in the last war

They are just feral

[rotund niche]

https://tenor.com/view/starship-troopers-paul-verhoeven-robert-heinlein-only-good-bug-is-a-dead-bug-its-afraid-gif-23642454

[sacred tapir]

Chaosites and xenomorphs

[solemn crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-meme-cat-meme-laugh-rindo-muito-gif-17099446189457116528

[sacred tapir]

Its just so far off

[solemn crypt]

did you play space marines 2?

if yes - yk what i mean

[lost grail]

he is 100% russian lol

no one outside of russian speaking communities calls Chaos "chaosites"

[solemn crypt]

yeah

[empty zealot]

I think we also call such types of enemies in SCP games, too

[solemn crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-silly-cat-long-cat-cat-long-long-gif-16891440472442756567

[sacred tapir]

yea, and theyre just chaos and tyranids

[solemn crypt]

wait i said xenomorphs? wtf

brainfart moment, not what i meant lol

i thought why you laughing 😂

i mean xenos

[sacred tapir]

yeah, tyranid

[potent leaf]

bro got the samples they have their priorities right

[sacred tapir]

i care more for the guy getting mauled

i dont need no damn samples anymore

[bleak patrol]

That's what a traitor would say

Are you a traitor, atrox?

[sacred tapir]

nope, i just care for my fellows

[sacred tapir]

unlike some divers

[bleak patrol]

Caring for your fellow divers is good, but Super Earth needs those samples

[sacred tapir]

my ship is done, i have maxxed out sample coffers, so i leave it to the others

[slim coral]

Is the cookout good now

Or its still shit

[queen viper]

Oh there’s a hd2 channel, howdy how yall enjoying it

[celest elm]

OH MY GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[grizzled dagger]

https://fixvx.com/Helldivers_NOW/status/2054227907460190551

Helldivers NOW (@Helldivers_NOW)

https://t.co/fWM1YZ1fOm

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 12, 2026, 3:51 PM

[loud bison]

[eager cliff]

havent played in more than a month and that should speak for itself

game is in a downfall again

[sharp gorge]

I have not played in about.. 3 months?

[old sun]

this is a game that exists?

[fleet gazelle]

It sounded like some kind of introduction from an Alcoholics Anonymous club.

[eager cliff]

[fleet gazelle]

Who will be the next to speak out, how long have they been sober?

[empty zealot]

But like, I think I've just logged in, and that's all, so more than that

[queen viper]

yeah game aint holding out too well

[sacred tapir]

Most of us dont do that “enjoying” thing

[sacred tapir]

Oh boi, devs did something retarded and we are seeing the aftermath

Its the what, third time?

[sacred tapir]

Its been about a month or smth tbh

[queen viper]

It’s more

We get a slight buff

But enemies have to get buffed too

Like if the enemy factions can log off the game

[sacred tapir]

Yeah. Retarded

[plucky lion]

tbh i dont understand why all the hate lately. the mechs dont go down as easily by quite a fair margin

and some of the new toys are nice

overall none of the changes were really a problem

the lack of changes in certain ways is always a problem, but that's nothing new

[queen viper]

Are we blind?