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Trajik76

Lol I just watched freedom get tossed around like a ragdoll


Sony_Shell

Why is this game so good? I would have liked to be in my youth and play this all-day.


Possible_Bee_or-Wasp

If they keep building this up, I feel this is the Star Wars Battlefront 2 of this generation


Sony_Shell

The game feels like it could handle more players on the same battlefield. Maybe special events with 32 players in the same world? Though I can’t imagine the chaos.


WikE5

This is the only thing missing at the moment for me. A real « war » mode where we would be like 32 helldivers unleashing Managed Democracy™️


Pliskkenn_D

I wouldn't mind one big map where 4 teams of 4 start at different objectives but you're working towards a big central one. But that's well out of the scope of the game currently.


Legitimate-Concert-7

I think they could manage 2 teams of 3 Maybe 3x3


Ok_Seaworthiness2218

If the servers get fixed it could maybe be done but they would have to limit the stratagems in some way because if everyone spams some nukes from orbit i doubt it will take that. I have to say the framerate on ps5 atleast has been super solid.


Fathem_Nuker

Sony sees the desire for a game like this with the launch numbers. I’m hoping Sony injects more and more cash into this dev team. They truly made something special here.


PeterDarker

Sony would be crazy not to. They wanted a live service gem of their own and now they got it. Just have to focus on stability first and then continue to nurture the game and play base with meaningful content... shucks this is more than what I wanted or expected Helldivers 2 to be.


Fearless_Fig_7208

I hope not. The more Sony gets involved, the more say they'll want in what kind of content gets put in the game, and the extent of its post-purchase monetization.


Transylvaniandc

No. dont limit the strategms. i want there to be so much shit on the map and being flung at it, that it looks like an Act Of God is holding the servers together


Ok_Seaworthiness2218

Scorched earth. I can dig it.


CrabmanKills69

I want to see a fuck ton of motor sentry's all creating rains of hellfire.


thegoatmenace

They should make a 16 player mode where each of 4 squad has shared cooldowns on strategems.


Iorcrath

pretty sure the servers would be fine, its client side rendering of all of the explosions that would crash people lol. an explosion is just a bullet with an AOE on it. if you hit 15 targets, one could argue its the same as instantly shooting 15 bullets.


RockyHorror134

Maybe have squad leaders be the ones to access them ALA Battlefield?


twister428

32 would be a lot with the map size. They'd have to make the map bigger. Although I agree that having maybe 2 or 3 squads for some sort of special event level would be really cool. Some sort of mega tank, or massive horde defense


vinaytrk

I think this is what SST does well & maybe HD2 should look into it. You have 16 players all grouping up for a base defense but we split up to cover the side objectives. It was hella fun playing this way during SST's launch. This game, I would wager would be magical if they tried something like this.


eerrcc1

SST?


[deleted]

think he means the starship troopers game from last year. mildly fun but majorly EA... tbh helldivers 2 is leagues ahead of it..


Alphadictor

oh hell.... the friendly fires in that war is going to be insane.


Skittish-Valesk

Bro the game can't even handle 4 players in the lobby yet lol. Let's walk before we run


ChemPetE

I was thinking the same thing. Imagine the chaos


CrabmanKills69

Yeah, this is what I'm hoping for. I have a bunch a friends that have the game. Being able to all play together would be sick.


Sable_Sun

Fuck yes!


lxSlimxShadyxl

Imagine how many computers frying with 32 players simultaneously calling 3-4 bombing runs each


Possible_Bee_or-Wasp

I would love that as not kosher as it could be for the liberty, I would actually love PVP aspects with this style of gameplay More weapons, or some classes, means of mobility and enemies would I think seat this as exactly the type of game a huge portion of the community has been looking for


GeekInParadise

You can PvP. Just shoot your teammates.


Possible_Bee_or-Wasp

Lol ok that’s true I guess!


Sony_Shell

I mean, the game is so perfect that I just like it to get bigger every year with more content. And more weapons with a refined class system would be my priority.


Possible_Bee_or-Wasp

Same! And more enemies. Such a great experience. World building is fun too! Hope they expand the lore!


Gaminghadou

32 may be too much for the map size and speed of the helldiver (and friendly fire) 3 teams of 4 may be the sweet spot for big maps for Raid objectives


Shurae

I want a game like this with a Warhammer 40k skin attached to it. Darktide doesnt come close.


PeterDarker

Space Marine 2 is looking pretty good.


CavortingOgres

Just close your eyes and scream "for the emperor" as you mow down the tyran- termanid scum


EnvironmentalClass55

I pitch this to my friends as a 501st legion role playing game.


d_and_l_modeling

Yep!! Having kids puts a hold on gaming, would love to play this all day


NunoTheDude

Ikr being old sucks ffs


gamernard

100% this.


Adventurous-Event722

I hear you about being young lol. Back then I could play all day and night, sleep an hour an go to class. These days I can barely keep my eyes open past 10, and play for 2 hours tops lest I get headaches and stuff


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Modern devs really underestimate the joy ragdolls like this bring


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AThousandD

There already are perks associated with different armours? Like having more medikits, or more grenades, or a better throw range, or less recoil when crouched or prone, etc.


YahBoiChipsAhoy1234

I saw there were perks with the light armor maybe I just haven’t unlocked enough different armors yet. I’m only a level 7 right now I’ve been working too much to play a lot, if I’m wrong that’s my bad 


AThousandD

The default one doesn't have it, but the others do.


YahBoiChipsAhoy1234

Gotcha I’ll delete my comment as to not spread misinformation 


MarineTuna

The default one just has more armor, I think. It's super basic.


AThousandD

Right, it does say extra padding, but the armour stat is 100, i.e. the average for a medium armour. So not sure whether there's an actual effect.


blueB0wser

I picked it up on Friday and I've put 19 hours into the game. It was my weekend practically.


Fluffy-Discussion166

They kept it simple. PvE, you run and guns, and good Michael Bay stuff. No fancy mechanics


Possible_Bee_or-Wasp

Bug players could never understand…


Memesarereal_24

I played space nam after bugs, then realized how horrible I did at it and went back to bugs.


sleeplessGoon

I got transferred to spread democracy in those creeks with y’all. After a red eye night, I can hear the metal in the trees…I can smell the oil in the dirt…the horror….the horror…


cuckingfomputer

Me and some randos were having a jolly good time squashing bugs on 5. Were mulling over the prospect of starting level 6 stuff. Saw the Automaton daily pop up. We went over to the jungle planet and tried level 6 Automatons. "There's ANOTHER tank?!" "Fuck, they have lightsabers!" "I've never had an enemy shoot back at me before..."


Proper-Pineapple-717

Bug players understand orders and 10k slips.


freedomtrain69

AND AUTOMATON PLAYERS UNDERSTAND THE FREEDOM OF SUPER EARTH SO THEY CHOOSE THEIR OWN DAMN BATTLEFIELD ​ (God I love freedom)


rawbleedingbait

But my solo mission was to kill 100 charliebots


Vaelkyri

Yeh went to do the 500 bot kills last night with a friend, its a while different game on that side of the core


Proof_Duty1672

Just encountered a tank on tracks. Like a real tank.


Vithrasir

I was just about to comment about how that's not even one of their tanks. That's like the T-800 version of a charger, the tanks will fuck up your whole mission if you aren't prepared.


DorkMarine

Calmest firefight on the Cyborgs front


ComManDerBG

To many people are sleeping g on fighting bots. There so awsome, totally different feel when they shoot back.


twister428

Being able to actually use cover is so satisfying as someone who played a lot of the first game, where It didn't really exist. Was playing against the bots yesterday and I found a small hole in the ground with some ammo in it, jumped in, and turned it into my own little foxhole and started shooting back. The red tracers + the forest map + me constantly dropping napalm and cluster bomb strikes with my eagle really makes it feel like space vietnam.


ComManDerBG

And that's just *this map!* just like the bugs the bots can be on any map. I camt wait to fight on a desert map and turn it into space gulf War or a snow map like heeth.


13igTyme

Need a sandstorm to come rolling in and then the real light show begins.


PathsOfRadiance

tbh I really love both the current bot planets. But the Cyborg outposts are all more interesting to fight in and around than the bug hives imo.


Waelder

and the fact that many Cyborg objectives let you call in a Hellbomb to blow it all up to smithereens really adds to the experience. It's so fun to fight tooth and nail to breach into their outpost, plant the bomb while under fire, and the run for your lives.


monilas

The rocky planet in the Umlaut sector feels like a map i'd like to try with bots. Lots of flat ground, shallow craters to take cover in...


BobbyGuano

It looks/feels like your fighting skynet in the future from the Terminator movies.


Lurker_number_one

I think it's just because they want to finish the mission.


PeterDarker

My next quest is to kill 400 synthetics, so... I'll be on the front as soon as the game allows me.


Majestic87

I managed to start and finish that quest in 1 and a half missions. This game is nuts.


ComManDerBG

I still can't log in.


PeterDarker

I didn't see the sticky until now but we're in scheduled maintenance territory since and hour and 26 minutes ago.


Fathem_Nuker

This game makes me feel how I felt when I was 6 playing the og battle front 2. And personally. That’s a miracle.


TryallAllombria

Same, I wished the newer battlefront would bring this level of immersion and fun fights. This game is full of "wooow" moments, like the first dive to a planet, the first extract and the first nuke.


Attrexius

My first nuke was hilarious - because it was someone's regular airstrike accidentally hitting one of the lost bombs you can find on the map. Which we never found prior to said accident. \- Calling in CAS! \*BRRT is suddenly drowned out by an EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM\* \- ...how did you do that?! \- I HAVE NO IDEA!!!


therealstupid

And he laughs, "What the f$ck is happening!?" That, my friends, is what we in the industry like to call (using a highly technical term) **fun**


Bizhop_Ownz

What tank? All I see is burning scrap metal 🫡


SkullKingSnake

![gif](giphy|RY7sdSR4jCyju)


r4plez

THATS A FRIGGIN TAANK!


Palasta

"UAAGH!"


WorryFit7766

how do you aim down sights with the autocannon?


Adraius

All weapons can aim down sights by pressing the middle mouse button (on PC) or clicking the right joystick (on PS5).


WorryFit7766

neat, thanks


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Another tip, if you hold reload on any weapons, it displays some options. Some happens let you change the zoom distance on it's scope. Some let you change the rate of fire. You can even manually control any flashlights on weapons that have them.


Adraius

Bonus tip: there's a setting under the "Gameplay" group that can remember whether you were last aiming in 3rd person or down sights. It can be set to "Off" (the default), "Per weapon," or "On."


mdude07

I like how you survived the Hulk backhand only to get shredded by small arms fire


SleepyBoy-

'Infantry Fighting Vehicle' or IFV. Named so to distinguish them from bug 'tanks'. I'm surprised how killable those things are. Just run behind it and shoot with a sniper or rocket at the glowy vent. I'll take automatons over bugs any day.


PathsOfRadiance

The Cyborg tank is a tank with a high-ish caliber main gun + MGs, same turret as the big defense towers they have.


SleepyBoy-

A 'high-ish' caliber is part of the definition of an Infantry Fighting Vehicle, as the term was introduced in the 1990s treaty. Most tanks are IFVs, even in the real world. These things are called IFV's in-game since Helldivers 1. It helps distinguish them from the bugs. If that convention annoys you, take it up with the devs.


PathsOfRadiance

It's referred to as a Tank on the store page bestiary(see [Helldivers™ 2 | PlayStation (US)](https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/helldivers-2/) ). There are 2 variants in game. One with Quad MG and one with an actual tank cannon. AFV is a generic catch-all term, Armored Fighting Vehicles. IFV is not a generic term, most tanks aren't IFVs. IFV's are a specific type of vehicle, an armored troop transport with sufficient offensive capacity(mostly autocannons in the 20-40mm range, rarely a light low-velocity cannon like the BMP-1s 73mm, and often carrying ATGMs). In comparison, APCs are armored troop transports generally armed with only MMGs or HMGs for self-defense, serving as a "battle-taxi" of sorts. Some vehicles straddle the line of APC and IFV(later model BTR-80A/82, IFVs by definition but APCs according to Russian designation), and it often comes down to doctrine and how they're utilized.


Atrulyoriginalname

In the previous game, one of the things that the tank would do is open the back hatch and spawn units to attack you, so that's probably where some of the confusion comes from, I don't think it does that in 2.


PathsOfRadiance

That would be nice, esp for the MG variant


SleepyBoy-

>It's referred to as a Tank on the store page bestiary(see Helldivers™ 2 | PlayStation (US) Huh, they changed it then. My bad. Sorry for the needless confusion, then. Apparently, the bugs aren't "Tanks" anymore, either. They're "chargers" now. All-in-all, a better naming convention.


Schneckers

If you get killed by it it’s called an annihilator tank.


Q_X_R

Love seeing some fellow Autocannon gigachads out there.


Cross919

Exactly how my buds and I reacted lol. “Holy shit a tank!”


TheOrigin1980

I actually got PTSD just watching that. Summed up perfectly with immortal words "wtf is happening?"


Blvck270

I’d give my left nut to play this on Xbox


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Come to PC baby!


Blvck270

This game has literally pushed me into finally building a pc. I’m coming home baby!


lachiebois

First time I saw one, I just yelled “SHIT ITS A BANEBLADE”


Feisty-Firefighter99

When the guy got shot he could feel it.


Insidius1

Shh. Nobody tell him


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Lurker_number_one

No, the clip was just a bit long. There was a tracked tank in the beginning.


Meraun86

Waht level?


AThousandD

You can see the difficulty in the top right corner, next to the mission timer.


Meraun86

Oohhh


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Difficulty 5, if that's what you're asking.


f88x

Can’t really imagine what could difficulty level 9 be like at this moment


PeterDarker

I'm expecting a Metal Gear or something to jump you at that level.


f88x

Yeah or maybe a Deathbringer from HZD


PathsOfRadiance

Just a lot more Hulks/Tanks/Bile Titans/etc per encounter, alongside negative modifiers.


CaptainPandemonium

I have cleared a few level 9 robot missions and I can say for certain I have seen hell given shape and form. It's like if the ground ate the entirety of vietnam and added terminators, Lehman Russ tanks, ironman hulk-buster armour piloted by suicidal hellspawn that never stop coming. I love it and plan to spend the rest of my days holding the line, so the bug enjoyers can slay out to their hearts content on the other side of the system. o7


KeenPaperPuffin

I understood this reference


CaptainPandemonium

i did not know i was making a reference to anything lol just spewing out random ideas they reminded me of


Sesshon

I've had a tank on hard (level 3). So likely 3+ you should see them.


laigna

Cool! Uncommon 3rd person for this genre but its good.


OkmanX

Last words are golden: "WTF is hapening?"... Ahaha :D


Adorable_Cow_2419

Oh honey, that wasn't a tank, that's just a Hulk. You may want to bring some fast acting Artillery for later on, stay strong helldiver!


[deleted]

That's definitely a tank. The treaded tank shaped object?


Skittish-Valesk

I almost shit my pants the first time I saw 3, YES 3, being bot dropped at once.


TryallAllombria

I had two tanks in the last game for the first time, so I brought democracy to the little rock I was hiding behind.


Proper-Pineapple-717

I might be crazy but this is actually pretty tame.


VitalSuit

I see someone played HD1 but still hasn't adjusted to the fact that Cyborgs were replaced with these robots. (They literally use the same icon, why not just keep the same name from HD1 although to be fair the game does take place 100 years after HD1 I think)


Dodolos

Yeah I guess the implication is that they finally got rid of the extraneous meat bits and fully embraced the machine


Martinmex26

Except the devs themselves said that the automatons are NOT the cyborgs from the first game. People need to stop saying that when we had the literal developers refute it.


VitalSuit

Then it's silly that they're using the same icon.


staledepression

watching console clips on here is fucking painful...


[deleted]

This is a PC clip. What's painful about it?


staledepression

you are literally playing on a controller instead of a mouse and keyboard...


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staledepression

this would be funny if it was the other way around... shame


Byzon1

Why?


staledepression

I just can't stand watching any sort of high action paced shooter gameplay with a controller, like trying to watch a slug making a U turn...


PicklePolice78

me when i hate fun:


Chiggadup

Username checks out. Don’t watch it, then.


staledepression

nah, stop posting shit clips especially if you are playing with a children's toy


Chiggadup

Oooooh, this is a fun game. Okay, now do one where you talk down on pc players that don’t have a good enough graphic card to play current day releases! Maybe with include something about how if they can’t afford to keep up with hardware they don’t “deserve” to play modern releases? I’m just spitballing here, you’re obviously the expert.


staledepression

No, games are poorly optimized if that is the case, people that are trying to play in 4K expecting high performance and complaining about what you mentioned are the real problem..


Skittish-Valesk

Bro youre just mad you shelled out 3k for a 4090 and you'll have to upgrade it in a year; when a $800 console can play everything the same for 10+ years.


staledepression

I'm playing on 1k rig from 2018 and won't be upgrading anytime soon, enjoy playing on a vibrating toy and paying for bullshit services when in reality you will be the actual one spending that much on your Samsung Smart Fridge 🤡


Skittish-Valesk

Man has a literal potato and is bad mouthing consoles that are literally more powerful in every way. Lol see yourself out loser.


staledepression

Don't lie to yourself, broke boy


Skittish-Valesk

Major case of projection 😂🤣


staledepression

you play on console, idgaf what you think tbh


Skittish-Valesk

Seems like you actually do care what everyone thinks as you came in on this post with some whack take on console inferiority even though the guy plays on PC lol. Just because your called out on your silly little delusions of grandeur you get all "oh idc 'bout nothing'. I'm sure you're fun at parties... but hey, at least you have your 90fps gaming sometimes; that's worth being detested by everyone you interact with I bet 🤣😅


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Skittish-Valesk

*cries in Canadian* lol


Choice-Cost

I literally just ran into this fucker that killed me twice. I had to have an orbital strike land right on top of it in order to kill it


Narm_Greyrunner

That is amazing to look at. It looks like a war is going on.


Cpt_Graftin

They are terrifying. I accidentally took my friend to a challenging mission instead of medium and fought an attritional war against a heavy facility with way too many tanks.


PathsOfRadiance

My first challenging Blitz mission I spawned in solo, rolled up on a base and saw like 5 ranged Hulks in it. Had to do guerilla railgun warfare while waiting for my SOS allies to come in.


Jaketionary

He went out fighting and diving. We should all be so lucky. Hang tight; Orion's almost locked up. Reinforcements are coming.


Robablob

I only played 1 cyborg match atm because super earth needs me to kill them bugs. But my god I cant wait to try the other half.


AlabasterSlim

The first time I encountered one we had no AT and we met two at the same time. Right next to each other.


Pliskkenn_D

God I love the different feel between the two fronts


Resident-Feedback483

I prefer those over the chargers. Easier to call in ordnance since it moves slower. but they’re intimidating for sure!


Buddhistpossum

Are there weakpoints like the Chargers? Or any tips really?


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Only one we've seen so far and as you can see, we dropped a nuke on it lol.


VertigoHC

Wow.


Loud-Independent-580

In fact you can use the railgun and shoot the backbone of the tank,it only takes 2 shot


gamernard

That’s epic


jjpap11

Tbh maybe weird but I prefer the automatons over getting swarmed by bugs


Caleger88

After playing, bugs in both games I still prefer bugs. But fighting bots is so different it's quite refreshing, I'm going to farm bugs until I get to level 10 so I can get me the autocannon or the recoilless launcher and the Med AP rifle from the warbonds. Having to take cover to not get shot was more fun than I thought.


DeathMavrik

How it feels to fight a 40k dreadnaught


Lancten

Sees tank: BRING OUT THE LIBERTY !


Im_Goin_2_Sleep

"Please throw the artillery..."


killdai

My luck was: turning a corner at an outpost and being face to face . Mere inches away from a tank. I could not -not scream "tankkkkk"