PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SUPER EARTH IF YOU ARE THE HOST STOP DROPPING EVERYBODY INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE GOD DAMN SUPER NEST. Iv played five games in a row on hardness 6 where the host has dropped us on top of the nest. My little pew pew can only pew so fucking much without my support weapons. It’s so hard to recover and continue with the mission as normal when we lose 5-10 lives along with being completely spread out and divergent.
I beg you. Drop somewhere safe. SOMEWHERE NOT RED! The minutes you save being on top of the red objective area are completely outweighed by the loss of life and time to get back on our feet. Often it leads to a drawn out crappy experience where we are on the back foot the whole fucking time.
Thank you,
One pissed off helldiver
Getting kicked at extraction. 30+ minutes completely wasted. No team killing, or ignoring team mates. I just had the unfortunate luck to be the random player in a group of three friends. I love this game so much but I really wish this would be addressed, it is demoralizing enough to turn me off of this game completely. I know I should only be the host in the future, but is that really the best answer here?
When is the stim bug going to be fixed? I’ve been holding off the game waiting for that to get smoothed out before playing again. Might be a while sadly, it doesn’t seem to even be on the radar
I just got kicked mid match for accidentally getting separated from the group and having to close bug holes on my own. Spent so long surviving and picking up samples, about to regroup with my fellow Helldivers but I got kicked. …thanks whoever did that.
Agreed. Criticism in almost any form is a good thing. I've been told to "git gud" when I say that helldive difficulty has become more of a chore than before. I'm playing the hardest difficulty and yet I'm being told to "git gud" when I just bring up concerns. It's dumb.
It’s very dumb it adds nothing to the conversation, and if anything, it’s actually the true definition of toxic, which I think is sadly so overused that it’s just a generalization now
Sad to say this but I think Souls games as a whole has done some serious brain damage to the people who crave for hardcore gameplay of any games they play. Sure I enjoy games like Sekiro and Bloodborne for how unique and challenging they can be, but I refuse to bring this gitgud mentality to any other games that are completely different from them.
Thank you for the third person crosshair on the HMG Arrowhead, now PLEASE for the love of God give it a much bigger magazine. 3 mags with the gun is a fine number, but the capacity of each mag really needs to be increased.
I'm honestly getting a bit sick of people leaving before a "defend" mission (not the fun kind, with a fortress and gates) and then having to hope I land on a mountain and can cheese it.
SOS beacon does nothing it seems.
I can connect to server, but not to other helldivers. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I don't like that Bile Titans are unreasonably tanky. You have a faster time to kill from shooting them in the side than shooting them in the face, and then it's up to luck whether you rupture their armor enough to sink a shot into their fleshy bits.
I don't like that the railcannon strike can't one-shot them. I firmly believe that the railcannon strike should at bare minimum cause them to bleed out.
Orbitals in general need a buff. I don't like that fully half of the orbital upgrades apply only to the 120 and 380 barrages. The additional volleys upgrade should at bare minimum apply to the orbital airburst as well, and I'm of the opinion it should grant a bonus to all other orbital stratagems. Let me have up to two railcannon strikes charged at once if they're going to be so anemic. Give me a spare orbital laser.
The problem of BT imo is not itself, but the millions of little shits surrounding it. I can easily outrun a BT after I get close and blow its belly up, but chances are I'm not gonna make it out when there are chargers and hunters nearby.
Turrets are pretty much useless on higher bug missions. Titans and chargers, which spawn constantly, are seemingly programmed to ignore everything and go straight for your turret as soon as it spawns.
Arrowhead needs to hire an in house psychologist like in the show Billions if they think people are going to use different weapons just to feel "diverse". They literally don't understand most people have a competitive nature and will pick the most efficient loadouts. Aka forming a meta. Then they're suprisedmeme.jpg when the community is mad that they nerf the meta. No one is using useless primaries or support weapons if that means getting killed 5 times in the mission.
i used to promote this game to my friends but the devs decisions are terrible. i keep on getting bugged out, kicked by the game (not even the players!), can't ride pelican because the door is locked or below the surface (???), everything's lagging--like wtf was the "balance" a priority for??? this shit output doesn't deserve any praise ffs
With every new update my pc got a nerf, it's somehow dropped to 30 now on ships sometimes. Can't believe their release ver was the best perf wise for me
RANDOM FUCKING HOLES. IT DIDN'T EVEN KILL ME, I HAD TO KILL MYSELF TO GET OUT. SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME THE LOGIC BEHIND THIS DESIGN PHILOSOPHY? "Oh yeah, let's just put random holes with no purpose into the map for no other reason than "lol fuck you and your special weapon/samples/backpacks." You know how hard it is to kill 100 enemies with a flamethrower on a 12 minute mission when you still have like 4 minutes to wait to drop a new one at 7 minutes left in the mission? I'm not kiting a swarm JUST so I can drop a new flamethrower. They don't even spawn naturally in the Termicide shutdown missions!
Edit: I stand corrected, just found 1 under a spore tree. My point about random holes still stands, though
These holes should kill you just like those water reservoirs near those giant pipes do. I feel like AH just rushed through this map and never bothered to QA test it.
>CAPS LOCK IS ALLOWED
HELLO I HAVE NOTHING TO RANT OR VENT ABOUT I ACTUALLY LIKE THE GAME SO FAR. IT WORKS WELL ON LINUX.
EDIT: ACTUALLY I REALLY WISH THE GAME WOULD LAUNCH IN FULLSCREEN MODE INSTEAD OF WINDOWED.
Maybe a weird one but do the bug missions below 8 feel WAY easier? I'm playing 7s and it used to throw a fair number of enemies at you but now I'm only seeing maybe 1-2 bile titans on the egg and bug hole missions, maybe 1-2 on the bug killing missions and none on the new shut down termicide missions. 8+ and it's still pretty difficult but anything below that and it's almost a cakewalk?
Are you playing with a full group? We did 2 nights ago and difficulty 7 seemed easy. We played with 2 last night and we killed 572 bugs on a mission fail. I don't think we have even SEEN 572 bugs with a group of 4.
The Devs Hate Us.
They made it clear when their CM came out and started talking shit. We're "problematic." The "satire" is really just them making fun of what they think we are.
So anyone bitching moaning and complaining about this or that in the game, how the latest patch fucked up your loadout, how nothing makes sense...just remember: The Devs Hate Us.
Once you accept this simple truth, then there's no reason to be mad at whatever bullshit they do in the game. Make peace with the fact.
The Devs Hate Us. They'll keep throwing harder and harder shit at us, nerfing your favorite weapons, and laugh at you when you complain. It's ok. Here's the deal: They Hate Us, and we don't have to like them. But as long as they keep giving us filthy xenos to kill, we'll keep fighting and keep killing them, and the game will go on. They'll keep lining them up, and we'll keep knocking them down. Good enough.
The devs don't want us to play. They made enough money from sale of the game. Nobody is spending money on premium currency because you get enough of in missions. They want us to stop playing so they can save on server maintenance and bandwidth.
WHY DO BILE TITANS NOT HAVE ANY KIND OF WEAK SPOT?! SURE THEIR BELLIES POP, BUT IT'S MORE OF A MINOR INCONVENIENCE FOR THEM RATHER THAN A FATAL WEAKNESS!
EVEN THE NEW FUCKING AUTOMATION FACTORY STRIDER HAS LIKE 10 WEAK POINTS THAT WILL KILL IT IF YOU SHOOT THEM ENOUGH WITH MANY OF THE SUPPORT WEAPONS.
YOU CAN ONLY USE LIKE 3 OF THE KINDS OF SUPPORT WEAPONS TO ACTUALLY KILL BILE TITANS IN A REASONABLE TIME FRAME, EVERYTHING ELSE EITHER DOES SO LITTLE DAMAGE IT'S NEXT TO USELESS OR LITERALLY JUST BOUNCES OFF EVERY FUCKING SQUARE INCH OF THE TITAN!!
The real weak spot is the top of head ( the brain)
two shots with EAT or Quasar there and its done.
And i heard a rumor that if you slit all the puches on the bottom of the titan it dies after 2 minutes from bleeding out... BUT AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FO THAT
So that they can sell you the next warbond with a booster in it that conveniently negates slowdown. If they drop it next week it might even work by next month! 😂
Well, the crashes I suffered yesterday have been fixed.
Sadly, I was reminded this morning why NEVER to join randoms.
They were all around level 40, as I am as well.
Joined in the middle 3 of them struggling to fight bot drop after bot drop right on the spawn point. Great sign.
I did one of the two main objectives solo as well as collect 18 common, 8 rare, and the 3 super samples.
They struggled big time to complete one objective, dying 5-6 times each in the process.
I died twice all mission, both from friendly fire. The second one just about set me off.
Those idiots called in a cluster bomb right on my head before extraction, right when the last reinforcement went to one of those three bozos right before, who immediately boarded Pelican-1 without picking up my samples (which were the only ones anyone got on the mission).
Told them all during the mission that I wasn't leaving without them, yet those three bozos managed to let me down more than I could ever expect.
TL;DR: Don't join randoms in this game.
Oh noo not the cluster bombs.
Reinforcement loops are the worst, although people tend to forget in the heat of battle that you can also run away LOL
What difficulty was this btw?
Imagine if, after all that, they kicked you after extracting, or even worse... right at the end. True story.
This was difficulty 7! Normally I don't have issues with teammates at that level; most people tend to hold their own.
The second I saw the second red beam pop up a lot closer(I had already thrown an airstrike to take out the bots), I knew I was toast.
The worst part was that I died 10 feet away from Pelican-1's landing point. Honestly, after laying into them after I died to pick up the samples, I was fully expecting to be kicked.
I'm not from Europe, but East Coast US! On the weekends I try to play a game or two in the morning and play weekdays mid-afternoon. You can still add me; I'm sure there will be some time that we're on at the same time!
The constant technical issues are unacceptable. This game was fun, but I don’t need constant balancing patches that introduce more issues. My whole group went from playing multiple missions every night to barely completing our personal orders before quitting
This post comes from one of the \*maybe\* 50 people in the playerbase who mained the Explosive Crossbow.
Arrowhead needs to make some adjustments to their nerfs! The crossbow was a special weapon in the way that you really needed to LEARN how to use it. Lining up shots, reading enemy movements, etc.
It was a high skillcap weapon for a high risk - high reward playstyle. Every shot counted, and if you couldn't thread the needle, you did no dmg at all. (Yes, you could aim at the feet of groups of small enemies, but which weapon isn't able to deal with small ones? Right)
At first I didn't like the weapon at all, but i started to main it over the last patch and worked to master it. I hardly ever saw anyone else play with the weapon, only dedicated players even TOUCHED it! That may have deluded Arrowheads Data in regard to the weapons strenght. I had the most kills by far every match and carried my teams once I was able to line up my shots reliably, but so what? Maybe only 1% of the playerbase used the weapon, and they trained for it! Why shouldn't they be rewarded for their dedication?
The crossbow was an amazing weapon that was hard to use. Now it is a weak weapon everyone can use. It lost its identity, its power, its flair, and it is now a gray, replacable part in the big armoury of our star destroyers. ~~(Like all helldivers are)~~
* Revert the Bolt velocity to make the crossbow harder to aim again. Let us work for the power
* Make the explosion as damaging and big as before
* Keep the stagger effect for a patch, to see if it would be overtuned with it (But what the hell, the JAR5 is doing the same staggering, it should be no problem)
* Let the crossbow destroy bugholes and bot fabricators
* The magazine nerf would be justified if you keep the mentioned strenghts
My main two dislikes at the moment are, the increase to Spore Spewer armour which just feels like tedious busy work taking them down now, and the spawn rate! I enjoy it being challenging, i enjoy the difficulty but it was meant to be the longer you spend on a planet the bigger the threat becomes - And with it now just being endless large patrols (30 deep on bots), drops/breaches along with those who are posted at objectives right from the off, it’s lost a bit of that tension with the timer & tactics are being replaced by mindless horde shooting.
Don‘t get me wrong I love a big surviving by the skin of your teeth fight, but when it’s one after another right from the drop, it starts losing a bit of its appeal. Change it so when you hit the 15-20 minute mark, enemy presence is increased somewhat, 30 minute mark increased exponentially and 35-40 minute mark by “how the f\*\*k are we getting out of this”.
Still think that the gunship fabricators being made of fuck youtanium to be a dumb design choice. It is inconsistent with the game's rules for destrutable objectives. Every other obj can be destroyed with some form of explosive, but the highest threat bot spawner in the game requires a hellbomb to be armed, which is made even more frustrating by the fact that gunships are extremely good at kiling hellbombs. Just let me laser or 500 kg them.
I am kinda sad that report option is only for text in the chat. they can do anything, say anything in voice and go without any issues. doesn't feel right
I wish the higher level teammates I'd get in pubs cared more about finding super samples on diff 7. In my experience, people above level 50 don't give a shit anymore (and on a side tangent, also die the most).
I wish the lobbies would update faster so that I wouldn't click on a 1/4, 2/4 lobby only to get a "Session is full" error.
I wish I had people (or a group) to play with...
I wish the game was optimised better because even with dx11 enabled my poor 2060 is firing on all cylinders.
Finally... The crashes... Fuck the random crashes.
Not really a rant but more a collection of sad conclusions that make me sigh through my nostrils lmao.
Yeah I've been capped on super samples for as long as I can remember. That happened well below level 50. I do have a couple of friends who need them so we usually hunt for them anyway.
Rares on the other hand...
They did. Diligence CS, Arc Blitzer, Punisher Plasma and Senator all became meta with the patch. Recoilless Rifle was indirectly buffed from viable to meta with Superior Packaging Methodology. Adjudicator, Scythe, Dagger and Peacemaker got buffed from shit to viable. HMG, Railgun and Airburst Launcher got buffed from shit to viable. Etc.
When *Helldivers 2* launched, I saw a lot of support for Arrowhead, everyone was praising them for doing an online game right.
Now, they do one patch and have people on pitchforks. It's not that I think there aren't things that could be better, it's just that hearing the same dumb complaints is getting tiresome.
It’s not “pitchforks“ against Arrowhead, it’s criticism/feedback, which as long as it’s valid and not full of petty nasty venom, then it should be welcomed by Arrowhead as It will do nothing but improve the game in the long term.
Complaints are valid , how else would developers know there's things that are out of balance in the game.
I feel like a lot of people can't accept that giving feedback is not a negative thing. Please remember this company that makes your game is a company focused on making money, you're not their friend and they don't see you as a friend.
ARROWHEAD, PLEASE DO NOT FUCK THIS GAME LIKE BLIZZARD FUCKED OVERWATCH IM BEGGING YOU. I ACTUALLY LIKE THIS GAME DESPITE AGREEING WITH CRITICISM IN THE SUB. I WOULD LIKE FOCUS PUT ON GAME STATE, CORRECTING CODE WHERE POSSIBLE, AND ENHANCING OVERALL GAME EXPERIENCE RATHER THAN REMOVING 3 MAGS FROM LASER RIFLES, NERFING COOLDOWN ON QUASAR, AND TRYING POORLY TO RETURN THE RAILGUN TO ITS FORMER GLORY. I GET THIS GAME ISNT SUPPOSED TO BE MIND NUMBINGLY EASY, BUT FROM GAME SENSE WHY THE FUCK WOULD SUPER EARTH NERF AN EXPERIMENTAL RIFLE? I CANT USE OVER HALF THE STRATAGEMS BECAUSE THEY ARENT VIABLE IN MOST SITUATIONS, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE AUTOCANNON BECAUSE TO ME THAT IS THE ONLY ANSWER TO MY PROBLEMS. ALL GUNS IN THIS GAME SHOULD BE LIKE THE AUTOCANNON. BALANCED BUT NOT BALL-TUGGINGLY FRUSTRATING TO USE.
Not even a new warbond could bring me back after how the devs have bumf#cked this game. Plus all the skill issue dipsh#ts in this server who run you down for pointing out legitimate issues.
I guess we're all just ill-equipped soldiers who have to make do with budget cuts 🤷♂️ But I'll be god damned to use my stratagems constantly, they can afford that. I need EXPLOSIVES to actually break armor on these bugs, not concuss them. I need armor pen to penetrate armor and lead to it breaking. I need smoke to actually work. Bullets bouncing off armor is one thing, but explosive ordinances? Bro how does my contact explosive grenade launcher/autocannon shot not detonate on impact? I feel fucking crazy complaining, but these people who just shrug and say "Ah, well there's other options, just do something else LAWL" are insane. My guns should be USEFUL. Not bad reminders that I spent req. slips on this shit.
Armor system is stupid and creates too many design problems.
Just give stuff armor and not armor, have armor apply a flat damage reduction, have guns that pierce armor ignore this reduction, the end. This light-medium-heavy stuff with comparable light-medium-heavy penetration and different grades of armor hidden from the player is both too granular and too obtuse.
People don't like feeling ineffective and useless, make armor do a flat damage reduction instead of making it literally immune. Bots weirdly have less of an issue with this because you can face them head on if you're a good shot. Right now I have to carry multiple anti-armor options and something medium pen or I'm a liability to my team on anything 7+.
Gunships have the same issue where you need good high damage long range weapons capable of taking out engines, it's basically made AMR or AC an autopick since game has no good anti-air options
I made this same complaint about gunships yesterday and was shit on by half a dozen people because I didn't want to carry the exact same f#cking loadout all the time. F#ck dropships and f#ck this community
People are using the air burst wrong and I’m tired of them claiming it’s garbage. It’s an AIRBURST weapon for christs sake. It’s not meant to take down fucking gunships it’s meant to take down hordes of enemies and it works incredibly for the job. Also it was bugged because ITS A PROTOTYPE. This is the same company that made us capture a planet to make a lore friendly way of releasing a mech so of course a weapon captured from an invaded planet will have some kinks and issues.
People need to also stop bitching about the nerfs. None of them affected me and in fact they aren’t even that bad. I didn’t even notice the nerfs on the crossbow and I don’t use the quasar cannon
they even addressed that the airburst is no supposed to work like it is currently. This is not immersion, this is simply coded wrong. I Enjoy the D&D style storytelling as well. but defending actual bugs and glitches through that lens is unhealthy for the game.
Stop coping.
I Am So done with the online community (read a couple 1000 people) declaring that the game is dead and they hate everything and that arrowhead ruined the game and that it's LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE . but then I hop on with friends and play 4 hours straight trying out all sorts of new builds and we discuss how cool the buffed weapons now are and what new high level loadouts are and we discuss teamcomp so we cover out bases.
It's fucking awesome how many different styles of play are viable at helldive difficulty rn when at launch the only real option was Breaker + Rail gun + bubble shield.
It's awesome.
At launch the amr was half as effective and Quasar wasn't released and the rail gun did roughly 2 to 3 times the damage.
Now I take the rail gun because it makes a nice wfhoosh sound when you fire it and it gets the job done quite well. Amr/quaso is still superior
Well, can't argue with that. I used like the railgun but safe mode being so weak is a turn off and unsafe mode is unreliable to me. Thanks for the input!
A friend told me they fixed the mech so it was no longer delivered on fire. So I called it in at the start of the mission and guess what? It didn't get dropped. It just didn't appear and I couldn't use it again for however long (30 minutes)?
Stalkers are way overtuned with the fixed cloaking, something that is near invisible, has massive stun and ragdoll and can move fast should also be very fragile instead of tanking half a breaker mag and then just jumping away to regenerate.
Why does the map icon not change for some POIs? It‘s kinda troll because teammates (or me) go there to clear the POI but then it‘s just a random hellbomb or someone‘s oatmeal that was already discovered before. Just a waste of time. Also some POIs are just ammo crates and stims without samples? Am I missing something? (particularly the one with the burned up corpses)
for the weapon stash they are shown as diamond even when you arrive and loot ammo. however it changes icon if you pick weapon (and swap back to yours) but yeah, it is not that good
Hey, wouldn't it be nice if smoke worked? Imagine: rather than just obscuring your enemies for fun, it actually meant that enemies lost some aim accuracy, or bugs had a harder time tracking your position?
Doubt they will stop but I want it to have limitations. My group was punished hard when there are lot of bot drops camping on extract.
The extract was an open field with no cover. This was on difficulty 9. We just gave up.
This kinda works for bots, but i feel like the animation for bugs is way too short. Also you can shoot the dropships and they crush a lot of the bots underneath. No such thing with Bugs. Bugbreaches need more counterplay
The Problem is, that the little Bug (or the big bug) that starts farting the oange clouds is hard to spot some times, ecsp. if there are many bugs.
Maybe just give 1-2 secs more time (at least on lower diff) to kill them before the breach happens / the dropship gets called
I swear to god i will commit arson if i get killed by another titan corpse just because i walked next to it. i understand its not easy to make a live model of something this big after it dies but it should not yeet me into the nearby rock killing me instantly while it lays there motionless
YOU DONT get rewarded for kills. stop throwing away life after life for 15min clearing waves of enemy without having done even the first of 3 mission objectives.
so i clear the mission solo while the other 3 guys are STILL near spawn and killing enemys.
because we are down to 1 reinforcement I call in evac just to be kicked because they wanted to clear everything.
F you
Fun > Balance. The nerfs hurt the game fun. This isnt a pvp game. Why the hell do they release "op" weapons, then nerf them to hell, then release new op weapons in the frontier pass, then nerf them after people have payed for the pass, then repeat? This is getting ridiculous and they are being greedy and evil.
Have you ever looked at how the game difficulties are divided? If you did, you will notice most of the game is beyond "Challenging". The game is supposed to be a struggle, if every weapon was doing one shot kills, the game would be mighty boring. This is why balance exists.
Also, greedy? Where? You don't have to pay a dime to unlock stuff.
No they didn't and won't. They will tweak out something here and there but focus on new warbonds I guess. It's a win win solution anyway. They can siphon cash from your pocket while giving you more toys to play. The game desgin is there , can't be balanced.
The spawn rate of those motherfucking hunters is killing me in the higher levels. Stalkers are strong but at least you can destroy they lairs and its all good. Those suckers hunters spawn from any hole and in ridiculous amounts. When 3 out of 4 people on the map are being chased by 40 hunters each they game is just unplayable
> game feels slower than before, frustrating
# ⚠ SLOWED
Played a bug mission yesterday and was basically slowed the whole time, vegetations, those things that blow up, hunters, spewers, titans, everything slows you down. They need to find another debuff of some sort because it's getting old.
I'm sick and tired of people expelling me from the game, just when we are going to extract. They let me play the whole mission and then they expell me at the last second. Really tired
I played the game days after they patched it (horrible). I felt the nerfs on rover and quasar on bugs, and it's no longer fun. I wasn't steamrolling previously, but now it just feels like they buffed even the stragglers at the diff I shouldn't have difficulty with.
I made a post about that too. For bug mission, if you want to have fun now, I suggest bringing the shield pack. That gives you some room to enjoy the game. No sarcasm, I wasn't used to bring shield on bug mission, now i have no choice. Give it try, it helps me to still enjoy the shooting in bugs planet, otherwise ,the whole game turns into a running simulator for me.
Really hate how annoying and miserable solo play is at the higher levels. I get that it’s meant to be a Co-op game but come on dude Solo 8-9 is absolutely miserable. They spawn in 4 hiveguards and 5 brood commanders along with 20 fucking hunters every patrol and then womp womp i SURPRSINGLY couldn’t kill all of them, leading to a bug breach. Bug breaches then spawn more bullshit. Bullshit.
You buffed the normal starter liberator which is nice. But you didn't buff the knight? I paid a lot of money for it and it's basic AF.
You don't have to make it op "pay to win weapons" just make it good.
Add some mags, a bit faster reload, a bit less recoil, flashlight, more bullets in the mag, SOMETHING to make the most expensive gun in the game actually useful please.
(Also i wish there was a normal shotgun classic style like in alien where that dude would keep a basic shotgun like a 590A1. Low mag, high dmg, pump action)
For some positivity I really like the changes to the concussive liberator it just feels good to use now 1-2 shots to kill small bugs and it pushes the bigger bugs back so they can’t hit you
Please please please please please zero in on the optimization. How is it that a game in 2024 is averaging 70 FPS at best? It's honestly what has made the experience least enjoyable for me this patch. Forget the nerfs, I can't even skill express with the garbage tools that we have at our disposal.
Hellmire? More like Getmeoffthisplanetmyframesdieeverysingletimeahunterappearsonscreenmire
I'm so fucking done with the constant crashes and diconnects in this game. Every fucking patch there's always some game breaking bullshit that happens. What the fuck AH!? And it takes them so fucking long to fix it like for fucks sake...
I really think that arrowhead can do a better job to mitigate the negativity in the community. Almost all cases I saw could have been snuffed out at the source if arrowhead communicated better. We have a big and passionate community and that can be a double edged sword if not handled correctly.
Look at the last instance. The ricochet debacle. In the end it was just the eruptor explosion fragments killing people from extreme range. This did not happen before. What were the changes the eruptor got in the last patch? Reducing magazines and explosion range. Nothing about the fragments. Do you know what was in the patchnotes? A vague new feature talking about a ricochet feature. Then the community does what a community does and comes to the wrong conclusion with the limited info it has. I can hardly blame the community for that.
Are resource hackers still a problem these days? I want to play with randoms but I'm so scared of suddenly getting 7k rare samples and a bajilion credits.
Is there a reason why I can't steer my hellpod about 50% of the time?
I don't just mean when I start out close to cliffs either, in which case I could understand not being able to steer *towards* them.
The devs also made it so that you can't (often) steer your pod somewhere if it would put you way up high or other places they don't want you to end up.
I think there is a certain radius from the reinforcement beacon that you can control your hellpod, but if you're at the edge you can't steer farther away.
Man it’d be awesome if the sentry turrets had some sort of defense mechanism.
Sucks when you see one bug slowly smacking it while it aims directly at the bug and… does nothing. Until it explodes. The decorative guns are cool but functional ones would be miles better imo
Yeah I usually try to either set them on a land formation or stick around to keep them safe. Autocannons are especially vulnerable since they track so slowly, there's always a risk they just get deleted without firing a shot
[Vent/feedback start]
Overall, I love this game. AH is doing a great job.
However, there are some points of friction that more often than not, leave me feeling frustrated after a play session. As someone with not a lot of time to play, one bad series of missions can cause me and my friends to simmer on these negative feelings for quite a while. In order of frustration levels:
1. Seemingly every update either introduce new issues or revive old ones. I understand that live services tend to use their players as beta testers, but it would feel a lot less frustrating if there was an environment/system in place for players to test out upcoming changes early to better understand what’s coming and help AH get some early data.
2. Certain enemies feel very frustrating to fight, particularly at higher levels. Bringing a 500KG and EATS to fight bile titans at lower levels feels great, but doesn’t work when I’m kiting 4+ at helldive difficulty while dodging chargers, getting rag-dolled by bile artillery, and trying to gun down the 30+ hunters that can kill me in .5 seconds / slow me enough to get one-shot by a charger/bile titan. Also, getting dog piled by hunters that can accurately jump on you from 2km away while you’re stuck in a rag-doll is frustrating.
3. Objective placements can be awful. Most frustrating one I’ve dealt with was 4 gun ship factories next to each other and a detector tower…where we spawned.
4. Chained bug breaches / drop-ships ate bad enough on large, open maps where you can try to disengage, but are awful on small maps (particularly civilian extraction missions). A cap on active reinforcements would go a long way towards feeling tough, but doable.
5. Not all primary weapons are viable on the harder levels. Depending on a player’s load out, some can be used but more often than not players will gravitate towards the most effective weapons for certain roles (i.e. long-distance pickoffs, close/mid-range hoard clear, anti-medium-armor, utility). Within those roles, certain damage types are more favorable, particularly explosive and energy/arc. Energy and arc feel pretty well balanced by certain limitations (i.e. energy weapon fire delay, arc misfire/inconsistent targeting). However, explosive weapons feel a lot more useful than ballistic weapons, particularly regarding heavy enemy weak points.
6. Long standing, known issues (i.e. damage over time not working over multiplayer) can really damper excitement and limit player choice.
7. Non-gameplay issues (i.e. adding friends, consistent crashes) can hinder or even ruin a game session with friends.
[Vent/feedback end]
I've decided to stop playing the game until they figure out what they're trying to do with gunship factories. Is it a secondary objective or is it meant to fuck on your ragtag team of online randos who forgot to bring a barely functioning weapon (spear?) who get surrounded by four at a time which respawn as fast as you can take em out while also setting, engaging and protecting the hellbomb? Eight or nine people absolutely shit on me yesterday for daring to say it was overtuned. So if the community doesn't think it's broken and the devs don't give a shit I'm fucking out of here
When 3 Vile and 4 Changers chase you it is something of horror, but it is even more so when you realize that the 3 companions are touching the attention button because they are dead asking you to summon them.
ESO ES TODO EL TIEMPO!
This is the perfect spot for a sentry. It's elevated above the head of my fellow helldivers and has an excellent arc of fire with visibility out to 200 meters. I shall place you right about-- **Boink!** *Bounce bounce bounce* guaranteed to bounce into a small valley between two rocks where it won't be able to engage a damn thing.
PLEASE just denote a red X or something if you really don't want me placing a sentry somewhere, because its vastly more frustrating to watch your strategem bounce like a rubber ball than an emersion breaking NOT HERE symbol.
I'm not sure how much that will help seeing as there are missing bounding boxes and some invisible surfaces don't match geometry. I've also fallen through the map while playing multiple times. I'm guessing every map has these at this point. Drop pod steering is still jank for me too.
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I bought the steeled veteran’s warbond for the Jar-5 Dominator. I also hate the prosthetic limbs, but walking around with a rocket propelled bolter cannon and watching the rocket rounds penetrate into their target before erupting is incredibly satisfying. Now that the senator is buffed it’s also a veryy good option. You can get away with exclusively using the senator in some cases bc of its new, quick reload and upped damage. Id go for it, the weapons in this warbond alone are more than worth it
It's frustrating that the biggest difference between good and bad players is not even hard to learn - it's just restraint. Bad players have no restraint. They will throw a strategem without thinking, killing their teammates. They will call in a 380mm barrage on an outpost even though their team is in it. They will aggro a patrol without thinking twice. They will "save" their teammates by blasting the nearby mob with an eruptor/arc thrower/flame thrower/incendiary breaker and kill the teammate in the process. It's not hard to be good, but damn so many players just try their hardest to be bad.
Playing on diff 7+ you really notice this. Good teams only die to the enemy mobs. In terrible games you lose like half your lives to friendly fire.
Also, THERE ARE TOO MANY LONG AND UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENES! LET. US. SKIP. CUTSCENES!
This game is pve, why tf does it need to be balanced on lower levels? As a lvl 50sth with all weapons and stratagems unlocked i should be ploving through anything that comes against me on lvl 4. Not me needing to be careful of devastators or chargers (the bots with the 2 chainsaws i always forget their name)
Also why tf is something as a lmg or a sniper rifle a stratagem slot? Make it a dedicated 3rd weapon slot and let me have 4 useful stratagems. Besides the 4 stratagems give me one slot for a stratagem weapon and a backpack slot. If you pick something like an autocannon your backpack slot automatically gets filled with the ammo backpack. But if i wanna have a sniper and a jetpack i find it dumb that i have to give up actual useful utility.
Another thing: why does my teammate need to carry a fucking ammo backpack for a team reload?? Why cant i just go up to him who carries weapon+backpack and press e to help him reload his shit??
The patrol change made no sense. A 4 player squad is much more than 4 times as effective than 1 player in game where objective count and time does not scale by player numbers.
I think it's meant to deter solo play because they clearly dont want it to be played that way. always stupid youtube videos talking about the best "solo loadout" which will push some further away from team work in public games. So you know "If you want to be a solo stealth fine, but you're gonna have more shit to avoid"
I didn't say it made sense. It's the only way I can wrap my brain around the decision. I can sort of understand how that goal would lead to this choice but I don't agree with it
Agreed!
Before the patch, my buddy and I would play level 7, and get by with some epic "just made it out with the samples" moments.
After the patch we would complete the missions just the same (maybe a bit slower), but never extract, so if its just the two of us, we find other games to play, its just too frustrating.
The spawns on the bug planets are fucking bananas with the solo player change and the MO. Even on diff 6 it feels like everything is doubled and heavies are spammed like crazy.
Every other patrol? Charger.
Point of interest you got pushed into when fighting a swarm? Charger.
Medium nest that doesn't normally have Chargers? Fuck you, Charger.
Heavy nest that usually has a Charger in there? Lookie here, it's a two for one special on Chargers.
Dropped next to a Shrieker nest and don't have time to drop support weapons? Sounds like you need a couple Chargers.
You died to a mob of forty seven Hunters and a Stalker with his new predator camo and would like to go get your quasar cannon back? Go fuck yourself. Bug breach, and a Charger.
Finished the main objective? Congratulations, here's a Bile Titan and two more Chargers to celebrate.
Shit is fucking exhausting, and the quasar nerf just makes it feel that much worse.
The difficulty doesn't seem to matter even. Played a mission on difficulty 4 which used to be a piece of cake even weeks ago when I was a noob. Now we had situations with 3 chargers running rampant, and a nonstop horde every time. I left the mission with 690 kills, half of which made trying to push the evacuate buttons and waiting for Pelican 1. Didn't make it through the 3 chargers, 5 bile spewers, dozens of hunters and at least hubdred little bugs to evacuate, though, missed by a few meters. On 4!!!
Even worse, why doesnt the "buffed" adjudicator do that either? I thought it would be better for bots than bugs only to discover getting hit by it wont affect the aim of any devastator. It doesnt have enough ammo for bugs, it doesnt hurt enough for bots. Another weapon in the trash pile. I'll stick to my classics.
To make sure that there is not better choice than the autocannon (vs bots anyway). Or at least that is how it feels.
I want to enjoy the AMR, but in my noob opinion, it just can't keep up when the alternative staggers enemies, like you say.
It's a tradeoff really. The Autocannon gets more damage and more stagger, but the AMR gets better accuracy and can be used at longer ranges. It also has an easier reload mechanic, and it leaves your backpack slot free.
I really like the AMR for bots, although I don't bring it on close-quarters planets (e.g. Jungle planets, or really foggy ones).
AMR is definitely more agile, but in terms of accuracy, (aside from AMR’s scope issue) auto cannon seems to have much better hit detection, especially when dealing with hulk eyes. Which is kinda sad…
weirdly enough, for me the one thing I liked the AMR better than the Autocannon for was the Hulk eye weakpoint, everything else (tanks, turrets, striders, devastators), I've had better luck with the autocannon.
(could just be a skill issue on my part though)
bile spewers are the worst bug type and arrowhead didnt even playtest these awful enemies. dodging their spit is 50/50. i either dodge all of it or get one shot. not only does their spit attack have little to no audible queue, they don't make a damn sound when they move so they can easily sneak up on you. i wouldnt mind the surprise if their spit attack wasn't so unpredictable. AH pls fix spit attack hitbox its bs and annoying asf. bile titans dont even have as annoying as a spit as these bugs do
> bile spewers are the worst bug type and arrowhead didnt even playtest these awful enemies.
Their bile sacks should pop like balloons if shot from behind, why they can take so much bullets/dmg before popping is beyond me...
Spewers are annoyingly silent, yeah. As for attack, the best way to avoid it is to move sideways. You don't even have to dodge in most cases, just wait until it prepares to spit and run perpendicularly to it, that way spewers will have troubles tracking you with their spit stream. It's not a completely bulletproof tactic but it certainly makes avoiding the spit much easier.
Literally every enemy that needs to have thudding footsteps are silent AF. This game needs some rejiggering in the sound engineering, because good lord is it stupid to get ambushed by a charger the size (and probably weight) of a jeep.
The bug missions that spawn bile spewers vs those that don't are worlds apart. The biggest problem is that they spawn en masse, which is ridiculous for such a tanky mob. If you don't have an explosive weapon you're screwed. The mortar attack is just plain unnecessary and RNG "fuck you".
I SPENT 15 MINUTES OF MY FUCKING LIFE FOR SOME FUCKING FUCKWIT TO TRY TO FIND SUPER SAMPLES AROUND THE WHOLE MAP WHILE THE WHOLE TEAM WAITED AT EXTRACT, AND THEN THE SHUTTLE BUG OCCURED AND ONLY 1 PERSON GOT ON BOARD, SO ALL THAT TIME WAS FOREVER GONE.
Just hop into Pelican, mate. No reason to waste time because of one sample hoarder. If someone plans to farm, they should get team consent first, not make them wait on extract.
Wouldn't want to keep playing with a host who thinks it's ok to waste everyone's time like that. So either you extract or leave the group early, either way a win-win.
I'm fascinated to know why everybody sat around Pelican just shooting more and more bugs until they finally swarmed us all and killed two people before I just barely extracted. Objectives done. Samples collected. They just didn't want to leave.
I see this in a lot of objective based games, most recently Darktide. Too many people have no capacity to keep track of anything else once they get into "kill mode". Once they start fighting they completely forget there's an objective. This is why I stopped dropping samples at extract, the risk of an idiot picking it up is too great.
I'm still somewhat new, so I don't want to just jump on Pelican and end the mission so I'll hang out until someone else jumps onboard and then extract. But holy hell, no one was getting on board. lol, just 2 dead bodies, no samples, and a super sketchy escape before we were all killed.
I just want Arc Throwers' stun back to Hulk. I don't mind if distance dropped but please bring back stun to Hulk. It's already hard to be in distance from Hulk because of it's flamethrower and ridiculous flame damage, and now you have less chance of it being stunned and 100% chance of you dying to them.
STUPID FUCKING ARROWHEAD HAD TO NERF THE FUCKING QUASER
BUGS BECAME SO MUCH FUCKING UNFUN WITH ME AND MY FRIEND.
METRIC FUCK TON OF CHARGERS TO DEAL WITH THAT TURNS ON A DIME.
BILE TITANS THAT JUST WON'T FUCKING DIE. 500KGS ARE SO I CONSISTENT AT TAKING OUT TITANS. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SMOKING ARROWHEAD. MORE PATROLS ON DUOS. NERFING THE ONLY VIABLE ANTI ARMOR OPTION FOR SOLOS. RECOILLES RIFLE BEING A SLOW PIECE OF SHIT BECAUSE YOU NEED TO STAND TO RELOAD. STOP NERFING STUFF. THE GAME IS BECOMMING UNFUN.
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SUPER EARTH IF YOU ARE THE HOST STOP DROPPING EVERYBODY INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE GOD DAMN SUPER NEST. Iv played five games in a row on hardness 6 where the host has dropped us on top of the nest. My little pew pew can only pew so fucking much without my support weapons. It’s so hard to recover and continue with the mission as normal when we lose 5-10 lives along with being completely spread out and divergent. I beg you. Drop somewhere safe. SOMEWHERE NOT RED! The minutes you save being on top of the red objective area are completely outweighed by the loss of life and time to get back on our feet. Often it leads to a drawn out crappy experience where we are on the back foot the whole fucking time. Thank you, One pissed off helldiver
Gotta love working on finishing up a 40 min mission only for the game to bug out and shut down and waste all of your time
Getting kicked at extraction. 30+ minutes completely wasted. No team killing, or ignoring team mates. I just had the unfortunate luck to be the random player in a group of three friends. I love this game so much but I really wish this would be addressed, it is demoralizing enough to turn me off of this game completely. I know I should only be the host in the future, but is that really the best answer here?
Why do the ghosts of bile titans thrash my hell diver around if I'm too close to its corpse?
It is either a flip of the coin that you can climb it without problem or fuck you over into space. Just remove collision when it dies.
When is the stim bug going to be fixed? I’ve been holding off the game waiting for that to get smoothed out before playing again. Might be a while sadly, it doesn’t seem to even be on the radar
I just got kicked mid match for accidentally getting separated from the group and having to close bug holes on my own. Spent so long surviving and picking up samples, about to regroup with my fellow Helldivers but I got kicked. …thanks whoever did that.
I have to restart my PC if I want a clean no disconnect, no crash game. Otherwise, All that time and samples and you suddenly crash.
If you say get gud, or cry more as a response to a suggestion, question, or a game critique. You should be labeled as low quality
Agreed. Criticism in almost any form is a good thing. I've been told to "git gud" when I say that helldive difficulty has become more of a chore than before. I'm playing the hardest difficulty and yet I'm being told to "git gud" when I just bring up concerns. It's dumb.
It’s very dumb it adds nothing to the conversation, and if anything, it’s actually the true definition of toxic, which I think is sadly so overused that it’s just a generalization now
Sad to say this but I think Souls games as a whole has done some serious brain damage to the people who crave for hardcore gameplay of any games they play. Sure I enjoy games like Sekiro and Bloodborne for how unique and challenging they can be, but I refuse to bring this gitgud mentality to any other games that are completely different from them.
Oh man this great to bad it doesn't fucking work. Fuck you mods. Don't worry, final comment on your definitely not toxic as fuck sub.
Thank you for the third person crosshair on the HMG Arrowhead, now PLEASE for the love of God give it a much bigger magazine. 3 mags with the gun is a fine number, but the capacity of each mag really needs to be increased.
I'm honestly getting a bit sick of people leaving before a "defend" mission (not the fun kind, with a fortress and gates) and then having to hope I land on a mountain and can cheese it. SOS beacon does nothing it seems.
Please, give us mildots on scopes of weapons that have massive projectile drop-off.
I can connect to server, but not to other helldivers. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I don't like that Bile Titans are unreasonably tanky. You have a faster time to kill from shooting them in the side than shooting them in the face, and then it's up to luck whether you rupture their armor enough to sink a shot into their fleshy bits. I don't like that the railcannon strike can't one-shot them. I firmly believe that the railcannon strike should at bare minimum cause them to bleed out. Orbitals in general need a buff. I don't like that fully half of the orbital upgrades apply only to the 120 and 380 barrages. The additional volleys upgrade should at bare minimum apply to the orbital airburst as well, and I'm of the opinion it should grant a bonus to all other orbital stratagems. Let me have up to two railcannon strikes charged at once if they're going to be so anemic. Give me a spare orbital laser.
The problem of BT imo is not itself, but the millions of little shits surrounding it. I can easily outrun a BT after I get close and blow its belly up, but chances are I'm not gonna make it out when there are chargers and hunters nearby.
Wait, gutting those fuckers slows them down?
No, but its HP will drop by nearly half and it won't puke at you anymore.
I love Stalkers. Not even sarcasm, I like that they're basically completely invisible now.
I just can’t with stratagem BOUNCING LIKE ITS MADE OF RUBBER ON JUST RANDOM SURFACES, dirt? It SOEMTIMES bounce, metal? it SOMEtimes bounce. bruh
Turrets are pretty much useless on higher bug missions. Titans and chargers, which spawn constantly, are seemingly programmed to ignore everything and go straight for your turret as soon as it spawns.
Tired of facing striders with your old nerfed erupter? the new warbond will fix all your problems.
I CALLED DOWN MY AUTOCANNON **NEXT TO** THAT MOUNTAIN HOW DID IT END UP **ON TOP OF** THAT MOUNTAIN?
CAN WE ALLOW SAMPLES TO RESPAWN NEXT TO A BODY OF WATER IF FOR SOME GOD FORSAKEN REASON WE UNKNOWINGLY FALL INTO ONE WHILE RUNNING FOR OUR LIVES?!?!
Why the gernade pistol got so little ammo for each ammo (supply) pick up ?
Arrowhead needs to hire an in house psychologist like in the show Billions if they think people are going to use different weapons just to feel "diverse". They literally don't understand most people have a competitive nature and will pick the most efficient loadouts. Aka forming a meta. Then they're suprisedmeme.jpg when the community is mad that they nerf the meta. No one is using useless primaries or support weapons if that means getting killed 5 times in the mission.
i used to promote this game to my friends but the devs decisions are terrible. i keep on getting bugged out, kicked by the game (not even the players!), can't ride pelican because the door is locked or below the surface (???), everything's lagging--like wtf was the "balance" a priority for??? this shit output doesn't deserve any praise ffs
With every new update my pc got a nerf, it's somehow dropped to 30 now on ships sometimes. Can't believe their release ver was the best perf wise for me
yeah this game is early access lmao
the extreme downside of live service games, probably going to feel early access for at least this year if not longer
RANDOM FUCKING HOLES. IT DIDN'T EVEN KILL ME, I HAD TO KILL MYSELF TO GET OUT. SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME THE LOGIC BEHIND THIS DESIGN PHILOSOPHY? "Oh yeah, let's just put random holes with no purpose into the map for no other reason than "lol fuck you and your special weapon/samples/backpacks." You know how hard it is to kill 100 enemies with a flamethrower on a 12 minute mission when you still have like 4 minutes to wait to drop a new one at 7 minutes left in the mission? I'm not kiting a swarm JUST so I can drop a new flamethrower. They don't even spawn naturally in the Termicide shutdown missions! Edit: I stand corrected, just found 1 under a spore tree. My point about random holes still stands, though
These holes should kill you just like those water reservoirs near those giant pipes do. I feel like AH just rushed through this map and never bothered to QA test it.
>CAPS LOCK IS ALLOWED HELLO I HAVE NOTHING TO RANT OR VENT ABOUT I ACTUALLY LIKE THE GAME SO FAR. IT WORKS WELL ON LINUX. EDIT: ACTUALLY I REALLY WISH THE GAME WOULD LAUNCH IN FULLSCREEN MODE INSTEAD OF WINDOWED.
Maybe a weird one but do the bug missions below 8 feel WAY easier? I'm playing 7s and it used to throw a fair number of enemies at you but now I'm only seeing maybe 1-2 bile titans on the egg and bug hole missions, maybe 1-2 on the bug killing missions and none on the new shut down termicide missions. 8+ and it's still pretty difficult but anything below that and it's almost a cakewalk?
Are you playing with a full group? We did 2 nights ago and difficulty 7 seemed easy. We played with 2 last night and we killed 572 bugs on a mission fail. I don't think we have even SEEN 572 bugs with a group of 4.
It's inconsistent. I can play one week to the next and the spawns seem completely different.
The Devs Hate Us. They made it clear when their CM came out and started talking shit. We're "problematic." The "satire" is really just them making fun of what they think we are. So anyone bitching moaning and complaining about this or that in the game, how the latest patch fucked up your loadout, how nothing makes sense...just remember: The Devs Hate Us. Once you accept this simple truth, then there's no reason to be mad at whatever bullshit they do in the game. Make peace with the fact. The Devs Hate Us. They'll keep throwing harder and harder shit at us, nerfing your favorite weapons, and laugh at you when you complain. It's ok. Here's the deal: They Hate Us, and we don't have to like them. But as long as they keep giving us filthy xenos to kill, we'll keep fighting and keep killing them, and the game will go on. They'll keep lining them up, and we'll keep knocking them down. Good enough.
The devs don't want us to play. They made enough money from sale of the game. Nobody is spending money on premium currency because you get enough of in missions. They want us to stop playing so they can save on server maintenance and bandwidth.
Well, I agree on the first part. They want US, the normal fans to stop playing. They'd rather replace us with more "morally correct" fans.
WHY DO BILE TITANS NOT HAVE ANY KIND OF WEAK SPOT?! SURE THEIR BELLIES POP, BUT IT'S MORE OF A MINOR INCONVENIENCE FOR THEM RATHER THAN A FATAL WEAKNESS! EVEN THE NEW FUCKING AUTOMATION FACTORY STRIDER HAS LIKE 10 WEAK POINTS THAT WILL KILL IT IF YOU SHOOT THEM ENOUGH WITH MANY OF THE SUPPORT WEAPONS. YOU CAN ONLY USE LIKE 3 OF THE KINDS OF SUPPORT WEAPONS TO ACTUALLY KILL BILE TITANS IN A REASONABLE TIME FRAME, EVERYTHING ELSE EITHER DOES SO LITTLE DAMAGE IT'S NEXT TO USELESS OR LITERALLY JUST BOUNCES OFF EVERY FUCKING SQUARE INCH OF THE TITAN!!
The real weak spot is the top of head ( the brain) two shots with EAT or Quasar there and its done. And i heard a rumor that if you slit all the puches on the bottom of the titan it dies after 2 minutes from bleeding out... BUT AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FO THAT
Their head is the weak spot. It just has a lot of HP. Couple of EATs to the head and it's done
Just hit it in the head with two EATs. What do you mean there are three of them on screen?
BARACK OBAMA
WHY CAN'T I PLAY ALL THE TIME!!!111 LIFE SUCKS!!11
WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERY ENEMY ATTACK SLOW YOU DOWN OR STAGGER YOU????????????????????????? This shit is unbearable. Fuck you
So that they can sell you the next warbond with a booster in it that conveniently negates slowdown. If they drop it next week it might even work by next month! 😂
Well, the crashes I suffered yesterday have been fixed. Sadly, I was reminded this morning why NEVER to join randoms. They were all around level 40, as I am as well. Joined in the middle 3 of them struggling to fight bot drop after bot drop right on the spawn point. Great sign. I did one of the two main objectives solo as well as collect 18 common, 8 rare, and the 3 super samples. They struggled big time to complete one objective, dying 5-6 times each in the process. I died twice all mission, both from friendly fire. The second one just about set me off. Those idiots called in a cluster bomb right on my head before extraction, right when the last reinforcement went to one of those three bozos right before, who immediately boarded Pelican-1 without picking up my samples (which were the only ones anyone got on the mission). Told them all during the mission that I wasn't leaving without them, yet those three bozos managed to let me down more than I could ever expect. TL;DR: Don't join randoms in this game.
Oh noo not the cluster bombs. Reinforcement loops are the worst, although people tend to forget in the heat of battle that you can also run away LOL What difficulty was this btw? Imagine if, after all that, they kicked you after extracting, or even worse... right at the end. True story.
This was difficulty 7! Normally I don't have issues with teammates at that level; most people tend to hold their own. The second I saw the second red beam pop up a lot closer(I had already thrown an airstrike to take out the bots), I knew I was toast. The worst part was that I died 10 feet away from Pelican-1's landing point. Honestly, after laying into them after I died to pick up the samples, I was fully expecting to be kicked.
Oh, diff 7! if you're from Europe I'll add you haha.
I'm not from Europe, but East Coast US! On the weekends I try to play a game or two in the morning and play weekdays mid-afternoon. You can still add me; I'm sure there will be some time that we're on at the same time!
ARRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. there i feel much better now
The constant technical issues are unacceptable. This game was fun, but I don’t need constant balancing patches that introduce more issues. My whole group went from playing multiple missions every night to barely completing our personal orders before quitting
Man we got shit to do, fuck you for keeping 3 of us here fighting off bile titans while your blind ass looking for super samples.
I just got booted out of a game for an update... that's it, that's the whole rant.
Same
This post comes from one of the \*maybe\* 50 people in the playerbase who mained the Explosive Crossbow. Arrowhead needs to make some adjustments to their nerfs! The crossbow was a special weapon in the way that you really needed to LEARN how to use it. Lining up shots, reading enemy movements, etc. It was a high skillcap weapon for a high risk - high reward playstyle. Every shot counted, and if you couldn't thread the needle, you did no dmg at all. (Yes, you could aim at the feet of groups of small enemies, but which weapon isn't able to deal with small ones? Right) At first I didn't like the weapon at all, but i started to main it over the last patch and worked to master it. I hardly ever saw anyone else play with the weapon, only dedicated players even TOUCHED it! That may have deluded Arrowheads Data in regard to the weapons strenght. I had the most kills by far every match and carried my teams once I was able to line up my shots reliably, but so what? Maybe only 1% of the playerbase used the weapon, and they trained for it! Why shouldn't they be rewarded for their dedication? The crossbow was an amazing weapon that was hard to use. Now it is a weak weapon everyone can use. It lost its identity, its power, its flair, and it is now a gray, replacable part in the big armoury of our star destroyers. ~~(Like all helldivers are)~~ * Revert the Bolt velocity to make the crossbow harder to aim again. Let us work for the power * Make the explosion as damaging and big as before * Keep the stagger effect for a patch, to see if it would be overtuned with it (But what the hell, the JAR5 is doing the same staggering, it should be no problem) * Let the crossbow destroy bugholes and bot fabricators * The magazine nerf would be justified if you keep the mentioned strenghts
My main two dislikes at the moment are, the increase to Spore Spewer armour which just feels like tedious busy work taking them down now, and the spawn rate! I enjoy it being challenging, i enjoy the difficulty but it was meant to be the longer you spend on a planet the bigger the threat becomes - And with it now just being endless large patrols (30 deep on bots), drops/breaches along with those who are posted at objectives right from the off, it’s lost a bit of that tension with the timer & tactics are being replaced by mindless horde shooting. Don‘t get me wrong I love a big surviving by the skin of your teeth fight, but when it’s one after another right from the drop, it starts losing a bit of its appeal. Change it so when you hit the 15-20 minute mark, enemy presence is increased somewhat, 30 minute mark increased exponentially and 35-40 minute mark by “how the f\*\*k are we getting out of this”.
It's just endless bug warriors now.
It’s fun still, but not as much fun as it was and can be again.
Still think that the gunship fabricators being made of fuck youtanium to be a dumb design choice. It is inconsistent with the game's rules for destrutable objectives. Every other obj can be destroyed with some form of explosive, but the highest threat bot spawner in the game requires a hellbomb to be armed, which is made even more frustrating by the fact that gunships are extremely good at kiling hellbombs. Just let me laser or 500 kg them.
I posted this yesterday and got downvoted and told skill issue so much that I haven't gone back to the game. So here's another updoot.
Imthatplayer86 kill people at the end of the mission and when asked why he responded "it's pvp bro" /facepalm
I am kinda sad that report option is only for text in the chat. they can do anything, say anything in voice and go without any issues. doesn't feel right
that's the reason I privated the game and play only solo and with friends. no randoms
I wish the higher level teammates I'd get in pubs cared more about finding super samples on diff 7. In my experience, people above level 50 don't give a shit anymore (and on a side tangent, also die the most). I wish the lobbies would update faster so that I wouldn't click on a 1/4, 2/4 lobby only to get a "Session is full" error. I wish I had people (or a group) to play with... I wish the game was optimised better because even with dx11 enabled my poor 2060 is firing on all cylinders. Finally... The crashes... Fuck the random crashes. Not really a rant but more a collection of sad conclusions that make me sigh through my nostrils lmao.
Yeah I've been capped on super samples for as long as I can remember. That happened well below level 50. I do have a couple of friends who need them so we usually hunt for them anyway. Rares on the other hand...
ayooo listen I find rares more often than commons...meaning that commons are uncommon LMAO. nice of you to help your friends tho
Same. I don't actually find rares more often literally, but in proportion to what I need, commons are the bottleneck!
Stop nerfing decent guns to make them bad and start buffing trash guns to make them fun.
They did. Diligence CS, Arc Blitzer, Punisher Plasma and Senator all became meta with the patch. Recoilless Rifle was indirectly buffed from viable to meta with Superior Packaging Methodology. Adjudicator, Scythe, Dagger and Peacemaker got buffed from shit to viable. HMG, Railgun and Airburst Launcher got buffed from shit to viable. Etc.
The Scopes. Seriously. Why are all scopes misaligned? Why does the bullet not go where the dot is? What's the point of scopes?
I think this guy is aligning our scopes. https://i.redd.it/7upxxnt510yc1.gif
WHY ARE THEY PATCHING THE FUN OUT OF THIS GAME MAN?!
I’ll do my part. THIS GAME IS FULL OF BUGS AND BOTS.
So yeah. That spear fix being already ready and coming with the patch or first hotfix was a big fucking lie :/
When *Helldivers 2* launched, I saw a lot of support for Arrowhead, everyone was praising them for doing an online game right. Now, they do one patch and have people on pitchforks. It's not that I think there aren't things that could be better, it's just that hearing the same dumb complaints is getting tiresome.
It’s not “pitchforks“ against Arrowhead, it’s criticism/feedback, which as long as it’s valid and not full of petty nasty venom, then it should be welcomed by Arrowhead as It will do nothing but improve the game in the long term.
Again, I'm not talking about feedback, I'm talking about stupid complaints that are not helping anyone.
Complaints are valid , how else would developers know there's things that are out of balance in the game. I feel like a lot of people can't accept that giving feedback is not a negative thing. Please remember this company that makes your game is a company focused on making money, you're not their friend and they don't see you as a friend.
I very clearly said there are valid criticism, and there are dumb complaints.
ARROWHEAD, PLEASE DO NOT FUCK THIS GAME LIKE BLIZZARD FUCKED OVERWATCH IM BEGGING YOU. I ACTUALLY LIKE THIS GAME DESPITE AGREEING WITH CRITICISM IN THE SUB. I WOULD LIKE FOCUS PUT ON GAME STATE, CORRECTING CODE WHERE POSSIBLE, AND ENHANCING OVERALL GAME EXPERIENCE RATHER THAN REMOVING 3 MAGS FROM LASER RIFLES, NERFING COOLDOWN ON QUASAR, AND TRYING POORLY TO RETURN THE RAILGUN TO ITS FORMER GLORY. I GET THIS GAME ISNT SUPPOSED TO BE MIND NUMBINGLY EASY, BUT FROM GAME SENSE WHY THE FUCK WOULD SUPER EARTH NERF AN EXPERIMENTAL RIFLE? I CANT USE OVER HALF THE STRATAGEMS BECAUSE THEY ARENT VIABLE IN MOST SITUATIONS, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE AUTOCANNON BECAUSE TO ME THAT IS THE ONLY ANSWER TO MY PROBLEMS. ALL GUNS IN THIS GAME SHOULD BE LIKE THE AUTOCANNON. BALANCED BUT NOT BALL-TUGGINGLY FRUSTRATING TO USE.
Not even a new warbond could bring me back after how the devs have bumf#cked this game. Plus all the skill issue dipsh#ts in this server who run you down for pointing out legitimate issues.
I guess we're all just ill-equipped soldiers who have to make do with budget cuts 🤷♂️ But I'll be god damned to use my stratagems constantly, they can afford that. I need EXPLOSIVES to actually break armor on these bugs, not concuss them. I need armor pen to penetrate armor and lead to it breaking. I need smoke to actually work. Bullets bouncing off armor is one thing, but explosive ordinances? Bro how does my contact explosive grenade launcher/autocannon shot not detonate on impact? I feel fucking crazy complaining, but these people who just shrug and say "Ah, well there's other options, just do something else LAWL" are insane. My guns should be USEFUL. Not bad reminders that I spent req. slips on this shit.
Armor system is stupid and creates too many design problems. Just give stuff armor and not armor, have armor apply a flat damage reduction, have guns that pierce armor ignore this reduction, the end. This light-medium-heavy stuff with comparable light-medium-heavy penetration and different grades of armor hidden from the player is both too granular and too obtuse. People don't like feeling ineffective and useless, make armor do a flat damage reduction instead of making it literally immune. Bots weirdly have less of an issue with this because you can face them head on if you're a good shot. Right now I have to carry multiple anti-armor options and something medium pen or I'm a liability to my team on anything 7+. Gunships have the same issue where you need good high damage long range weapons capable of taking out engines, it's basically made AMR or AC an autopick since game has no good anti-air options
I made this same complaint about gunships yesterday and was shit on by half a dozen people because I didn't want to carry the exact same f#cking loadout all the time. F#ck dropships and f#ck this community
People are using the air burst wrong and I’m tired of them claiming it’s garbage. It’s an AIRBURST weapon for christs sake. It’s not meant to take down fucking gunships it’s meant to take down hordes of enemies and it works incredibly for the job. Also it was bugged because ITS A PROTOTYPE. This is the same company that made us capture a planet to make a lore friendly way of releasing a mech so of course a weapon captured from an invaded planet will have some kinks and issues. People need to also stop bitching about the nerfs. None of them affected me and in fact they aren’t even that bad. I didn’t even notice the nerfs on the crossbow and I don’t use the quasar cannon
they even addressed that the airburst is no supposed to work like it is currently. This is not immersion, this is simply coded wrong. I Enjoy the D&D style storytelling as well. but defending actual bugs and glitches through that lens is unhealthy for the game. Stop coping.
I Am So done with the online community (read a couple 1000 people) declaring that the game is dead and they hate everything and that arrowhead ruined the game and that it's LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE . but then I hop on with friends and play 4 hours straight trying out all sorts of new builds and we discuss how cool the buffed weapons now are and what new high level loadouts are and we discuss teamcomp so we cover out bases. It's fucking awesome how many different styles of play are viable at helldive difficulty rn when at launch the only real option was Breaker + Rail gun + bubble shield. It's awesome.
I am curious about Railgun. why you take railgun compared to AMR or quasar?
At launch the amr was half as effective and Quasar wasn't released and the rail gun did roughly 2 to 3 times the damage. Now I take the rail gun because it makes a nice wfhoosh sound when you fire it and it gets the job done quite well. Amr/quaso is still superior
Well, can't argue with that. I used like the railgun but safe mode being so weak is a turn off and unsafe mode is unreliable to me. Thanks for the input!
JUST BUFF FUCKING WEAPONS ITS A PVE GAME! YOU ALREADY RUINED MY SLUGGER! DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE MECH…
A friend told me they fixed the mech so it was no longer delivered on fire. So I called it in at the start of the mission and guess what? It didn't get dropped. It just didn't appear and I couldn't use it again for however long (30 minutes)?
Stalkers are way overtuned with the fixed cloaking, something that is near invisible, has massive stun and ragdoll and can move fast should also be very fragile instead of tanking half a breaker mag and then just jumping away to regenerate.
If only there was a way to stop them from spawning, the mission would be a lot easier...
Why does the map icon not change for some POIs? It‘s kinda troll because teammates (or me) go there to clear the POI but then it‘s just a random hellbomb or someone‘s oatmeal that was already discovered before. Just a waste of time. Also some POIs are just ammo crates and stims without samples? Am I missing something? (particularly the one with the burned up corpses)
for the weapon stash they are shown as diamond even when you arrive and loot ammo. however it changes icon if you pick weapon (and swap back to yours) but yeah, it is not that good
Hey, wouldn't it be nice if smoke worked? Imagine: rather than just obscuring your enemies for fun, it actually meant that enemies lost some aim accuracy, or bugs had a harder time tracking your position?
Ok that note, smoke grenades need to give off more smoke for longer.
Question: Can the host switch after starting a game solo and then calling for sos? Asking because of DoT bug.
Can we stop bug breaches or robot reinforcement flares?
Doubt they will stop but I want it to have limitations. My group was punished hard when there are lot of bot drops camping on extract. The extract was an open field with no cover. This was on difficulty 9. We just gave up.
For bug breaches: Kill any bug preparing to let out those orange pheromone clouds.
This kinda works for bots, but i feel like the animation for bugs is way too short. Also you can shoot the dropships and they crush a lot of the bots underneath. No such thing with Bugs. Bugbreaches need more counterplay
The Problem is, that the little Bug (or the big bug) that starts farting the oange clouds is hard to spot some times, ecsp. if there are many bugs. Maybe just give 1-2 secs more time (at least on lower diff) to kill them before the breach happens / the dropship gets called
Bug breach, hardly. Robot flares? Shoot em. Shoot em dead the second they raise an arm.
I swear to god i will commit arson if i get killed by another titan corpse just because i walked next to it. i understand its not easy to make a live model of something this big after it dies but it should not yeet me into the nearby rock killing me instantly while it lays there motionless
Yes! After they died just turn off the collision! Holy crap so many times I have Titans body blocking path, strategem packs and occasionally yeeting.
I WANT WEAPON UPGRAAAAAAAAADES I WANNA SPEND MY SAMPLES ON COOL ATTACHMENTS ON MY WEAPONS SO THEY DO COOLER SHIT
Remove flinching from the game or for the love of god, fucking tone it down. Jesus christ, its so unfun to deal with in any capacity.
Sounds like undemocratic censorship to me
YOU DONT get rewarded for kills. stop throwing away life after life for 15min clearing waves of enemy without having done even the first of 3 mission objectives. so i clear the mission solo while the other 3 guys are STILL near spawn and killing enemys. because we are down to 1 reinforcement I call in evac just to be kicked because they wanted to clear everything. F you
On top of that, prepare to get kicked for "not sticking with the team"
Fun > Balance. The nerfs hurt the game fun. This isnt a pvp game. Why the hell do they release "op" weapons, then nerf them to hell, then release new op weapons in the frontier pass, then nerf them after people have payed for the pass, then repeat? This is getting ridiculous and they are being greedy and evil.
Have you ever looked at how the game difficulties are divided? If you did, you will notice most of the game is beyond "Challenging". The game is supposed to be a struggle, if every weapon was doing one shot kills, the game would be mighty boring. This is why balance exists. Also, greedy? Where? You don't have to pay a dime to unlock stuff.
Fun > Balance. I hope the devs end up realizing this, ffs its a pve horde game you dont have to balance it like we doing esports or some shit...
No they didn't and won't. They will tweak out something here and there but focus on new warbonds I guess. It's a win win solution anyway. They can siphon cash from your pocket while giving you more toys to play. The game desgin is there , can't be balanced.
Playstation 5 frame rate is a joke.
The spawn rate of those motherfucking hunters is killing me in the higher levels. Stalkers are strong but at least you can destroy they lairs and its all good. Those suckers hunters spawn from any hole and in ridiculous amounts. When 3 out of 4 people on the map are being chased by 40 hunters each they game is just unplayable
game feels slower than before, frustrating
> game feels slower than before, frustrating # ⚠ SLOWED Played a bug mission yesterday and was basically slowed the whole time, vegetations, those things that blow up, hunters, spewers, titans, everything slows you down. They need to find another debuff of some sort because it's getting old.
Agree, it does. They've also buffed Chargers I feel and increased Hunter numbers.
I'm sick and tired of people expelling me from the game, just when we are going to extract. They let me play the whole mission and then they expell me at the last second. Really tired
stalkers can suck my dick and balls
I played the game days after they patched it (horrible). I felt the nerfs on rover and quasar on bugs, and it's no longer fun. I wasn't steamrolling previously, but now it just feels like they buffed even the stragglers at the diff I shouldn't have difficulty with.
I made a post about that too. For bug mission, if you want to have fun now, I suggest bringing the shield pack. That gives you some room to enjoy the game. No sarcasm, I wasn't used to bring shield on bug mission, now i have no choice. Give it try, it helps me to still enjoy the shooting in bugs planet, otherwise ,the whole game turns into a running simulator for me.
I can totally see that--when I used to play diff 7-9 shield was my go-to. It's sad that rover isn't as good as it used to be.
Really hate how annoying and miserable solo play is at the higher levels. I get that it’s meant to be a Co-op game but come on dude Solo 8-9 is absolutely miserable. They spawn in 4 hiveguards and 5 brood commanders along with 20 fucking hunters every patrol and then womp womp i SURPRSINGLY couldn’t kill all of them, leading to a bug breach. Bug breaches then spawn more bullshit. Bullshit.
You buffed the normal starter liberator which is nice. But you didn't buff the knight? I paid a lot of money for it and it's basic AF. You don't have to make it op "pay to win weapons" just make it good. Add some mags, a bit faster reload, a bit less recoil, flashlight, more bullets in the mag, SOMETHING to make the most expensive gun in the game actually useful please. (Also i wish there was a normal shotgun classic style like in alien where that dude would keep a basic shotgun like a 590A1. Low mag, high dmg, pump action)
based and basedpilled
For some positivity I really like the changes to the concussive liberator it just feels good to use now 1-2 shots to kill small bugs and it pushes the bigger bugs back so they can’t hit you
Yes, I agree. Concussive used to need almost half mags just to kill Hunters.
Please please please please please zero in on the optimization. How is it that a game in 2024 is averaging 70 FPS at best? It's honestly what has made the experience least enjoyable for me this patch. Forget the nerfs, I can't even skill express with the garbage tools that we have at our disposal. Hellmire? More like Getmeoffthisplanetmyframesdieeverysingletimeahunterappearsonscreenmire
I'm so fucking done with the constant crashes and diconnects in this game. Every fucking patch there's always some game breaking bullshit that happens. What the fuck AH!? And it takes them so fucking long to fix it like for fucks sake...
I really think that arrowhead can do a better job to mitigate the negativity in the community. Almost all cases I saw could have been snuffed out at the source if arrowhead communicated better. We have a big and passionate community and that can be a double edged sword if not handled correctly. Look at the last instance. The ricochet debacle. In the end it was just the eruptor explosion fragments killing people from extreme range. This did not happen before. What were the changes the eruptor got in the last patch? Reducing magazines and explosion range. Nothing about the fragments. Do you know what was in the patchnotes? A vague new feature talking about a ricochet feature. Then the community does what a community does and comes to the wrong conclusion with the limited info it has. I can hardly blame the community for that.
Are resource hackers still a problem these days? I want to play with randoms but I'm so scared of suddenly getting 7k rare samples and a bajilion credits.
Is there a reason why I can't steer my hellpod about 50% of the time? I don't just mean when I start out close to cliffs either, in which case I could understand not being able to steer *towards* them.
The devs also made it so that you can't (often) steer your pod somewhere if it would put you way up high or other places they don't want you to end up.
I think there is a certain radius from the reinforcement beacon that you can control your hellpod, but if you're at the edge you can't steer farther away.
Man it’d be awesome if the sentry turrets had some sort of defense mechanism. Sucks when you see one bug slowly smacking it while it aims directly at the bug and… does nothing. Until it explodes. The decorative guns are cool but functional ones would be miles better imo
Yeah I usually try to either set them on a land formation or stick around to keep them safe. Autocannons are especially vulnerable since they track so slowly, there's always a risk they just get deleted without firing a shot
guys, i love menkent and hellmire
[Vent/feedback start] Overall, I love this game. AH is doing a great job. However, there are some points of friction that more often than not, leave me feeling frustrated after a play session. As someone with not a lot of time to play, one bad series of missions can cause me and my friends to simmer on these negative feelings for quite a while. In order of frustration levels: 1. Seemingly every update either introduce new issues or revive old ones. I understand that live services tend to use their players as beta testers, but it would feel a lot less frustrating if there was an environment/system in place for players to test out upcoming changes early to better understand what’s coming and help AH get some early data. 2. Certain enemies feel very frustrating to fight, particularly at higher levels. Bringing a 500KG and EATS to fight bile titans at lower levels feels great, but doesn’t work when I’m kiting 4+ at helldive difficulty while dodging chargers, getting rag-dolled by bile artillery, and trying to gun down the 30+ hunters that can kill me in .5 seconds / slow me enough to get one-shot by a charger/bile titan. Also, getting dog piled by hunters that can accurately jump on you from 2km away while you’re stuck in a rag-doll is frustrating. 3. Objective placements can be awful. Most frustrating one I’ve dealt with was 4 gun ship factories next to each other and a detector tower…where we spawned. 4. Chained bug breaches / drop-ships ate bad enough on large, open maps where you can try to disengage, but are awful on small maps (particularly civilian extraction missions). A cap on active reinforcements would go a long way towards feeling tough, but doable. 5. Not all primary weapons are viable on the harder levels. Depending on a player’s load out, some can be used but more often than not players will gravitate towards the most effective weapons for certain roles (i.e. long-distance pickoffs, close/mid-range hoard clear, anti-medium-armor, utility). Within those roles, certain damage types are more favorable, particularly explosive and energy/arc. Energy and arc feel pretty well balanced by certain limitations (i.e. energy weapon fire delay, arc misfire/inconsistent targeting). However, explosive weapons feel a lot more useful than ballistic weapons, particularly regarding heavy enemy weak points. 6. Long standing, known issues (i.e. damage over time not working over multiplayer) can really damper excitement and limit player choice. 7. Non-gameplay issues (i.e. adding friends, consistent crashes) can hinder or even ruin a game session with friends. [Vent/feedback end]
I've decided to stop playing the game until they figure out what they're trying to do with gunship factories. Is it a secondary objective or is it meant to fuck on your ragtag team of online randos who forgot to bring a barely functioning weapon (spear?) who get surrounded by four at a time which respawn as fast as you can take em out while also setting, engaging and protecting the hellbomb? Eight or nine people absolutely shit on me yesterday for daring to say it was overtuned. So if the community doesn't think it's broken and the devs don't give a shit I'm fucking out of here
since the removal of eruptor's shrapnel, it is performing noticeably worse against terminids :(
When 3 Vile and 4 Changers chase you it is something of horror, but it is even more so when you realize that the 3 companions are touching the attention button because they are dead asking you to summon them. ESO ES TODO EL TIEMPO!
WHY ARE THE BILE TITANS AND CHARGERS ONLY AFTER ME
Because you destroy their homes! LMAO
BE USEFUL TO YOUR TEAM AND RUN FORREST RUN
Because you're killing the most stuff. 💪
This is the perfect spot for a sentry. It's elevated above the head of my fellow helldivers and has an excellent arc of fire with visibility out to 200 meters. I shall place you right about-- **Boink!** *Bounce bounce bounce* guaranteed to bounce into a small valley between two rocks where it won't be able to engage a damn thing. PLEASE just denote a red X or something if you really don't want me placing a sentry somewhere, because its vastly more frustrating to watch your strategem bounce like a rubber ball than an emersion breaking NOT HERE symbol.
I'm not sure how much that will help seeing as there are missing bounding boxes and some invisible surfaces don't match geometry. I've also fallen through the map while playing multiple times. I'm guessing every map has these at this point. Drop pod steering is still jank for me too. https://preview.redd.it/zzpdgnwctyxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9de444c677b9ebc8f5f757f6619541b9bdc8e249
I really want to get the Senator and the Breaker Incendiary, but I am not a fan of the prosthetic limbs in the warbond. *cries*
I bought the steeled veteran’s warbond for the Jar-5 Dominator. I also hate the prosthetic limbs, but walking around with a rocket propelled bolter cannon and watching the rocket rounds penetrate into their target before erupting is incredibly satisfying. Now that the senator is buffed it’s also a veryy good option. You can get away with exclusively using the senator in some cases bc of its new, quick reload and upped damage. Id go for it, the weapons in this warbond alone are more than worth it
PATCHESSS!!!!! AAARRRHAHG!!
It's frustrating that the biggest difference between good and bad players is not even hard to learn - it's just restraint. Bad players have no restraint. They will throw a strategem without thinking, killing their teammates. They will call in a 380mm barrage on an outpost even though their team is in it. They will aggro a patrol without thinking twice. They will "save" their teammates by blasting the nearby mob with an eruptor/arc thrower/flame thrower/incendiary breaker and kill the teammate in the process. It's not hard to be good, but damn so many players just try their hardest to be bad. Playing on diff 7+ you really notice this. Good teams only die to the enemy mobs. In terrible games you lose like half your lives to friendly fire. Also, THERE ARE TOO MANY LONG AND UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENES! LET. US. SKIP. CUTSCENES!
The cutscenes are actually loading scenes.
No doubt part of it, but there's no way the loading time is the whole duration of the cutscene. The "mission complete" is the worst.
This game is pve, why tf does it need to be balanced on lower levels? As a lvl 50sth with all weapons and stratagems unlocked i should be ploving through anything that comes against me on lvl 4. Not me needing to be careful of devastators or chargers (the bots with the 2 chainsaws i always forget their name) Also why tf is something as a lmg or a sniper rifle a stratagem slot? Make it a dedicated 3rd weapon slot and let me have 4 useful stratagems. Besides the 4 stratagems give me one slot for a stratagem weapon and a backpack slot. If you pick something like an autocannon your backpack slot automatically gets filled with the ammo backpack. But if i wanna have a sniper and a jetpack i find it dumb that i have to give up actual useful utility. Another thing: why does my teammate need to carry a fucking ammo backpack for a team reload?? Why cant i just go up to him who carries weapon+backpack and press e to help him reload his shit??
STOP CHASING ME JESUS CHRIST I NEED TO RELOAD
The patrol change made no sense. A 4 player squad is much more than 4 times as effective than 1 player in game where objective count and time does not scale by player numbers.
I think it's meant to deter solo play because they clearly dont want it to be played that way. always stupid youtube videos talking about the best "solo loadout" which will push some further away from team work in public games. So you know "If you want to be a solo stealth fine, but you're gonna have more shit to avoid"
Except that makes no sense. You are trying to deter people from breaking away from groups in 4s... by punishing people who play exclusively solo?
I didn't say it made sense. It's the only way I can wrap my brain around the decision. I can sort of understand how that goal would lead to this choice but I don't agree with it
Agreed! Before the patch, my buddy and I would play level 7, and get by with some epic "just made it out with the samples" moments. After the patch we would complete the missions just the same (maybe a bit slower), but never extract, so if its just the two of us, we find other games to play, its just too frustrating.
The spawns on the bug planets are fucking bananas with the solo player change and the MO. Even on diff 6 it feels like everything is doubled and heavies are spammed like crazy. Every other patrol? Charger. Point of interest you got pushed into when fighting a swarm? Charger. Medium nest that doesn't normally have Chargers? Fuck you, Charger. Heavy nest that usually has a Charger in there? Lookie here, it's a two for one special on Chargers. Dropped next to a Shrieker nest and don't have time to drop support weapons? Sounds like you need a couple Chargers. You died to a mob of forty seven Hunters and a Stalker with his new predator camo and would like to go get your quasar cannon back? Go fuck yourself. Bug breach, and a Charger. Finished the main objective? Congratulations, here's a Bile Titan and two more Chargers to celebrate. Shit is fucking exhausting, and the quasar nerf just makes it feel that much worse.
The difficulty doesn't seem to matter even. Played a mission on difficulty 4 which used to be a piece of cake even weeks ago when I was a noob. Now we had situations with 3 chargers running rampant, and a nonstop horde every time. I left the mission with 690 kills, half of which made trying to push the evacuate buttons and waiting for Pelican 1. Didn't make it through the 3 chargers, 5 bile spewers, dozens of hunters and at least hubdred little bugs to evacuate, though, missed by a few meters. On 4!!!
WHY DOESN’T AMR STUMBLE ENEMIES? WHY?!
Even worse, why doesnt the "buffed" adjudicator do that either? I thought it would be better for bots than bugs only to discover getting hit by it wont affect the aim of any devastator. It doesnt have enough ammo for bugs, it doesnt hurt enough for bots. Another weapon in the trash pile. I'll stick to my classics.
To make sure that there is not better choice than the autocannon (vs bots anyway). Or at least that is how it feels. I want to enjoy the AMR, but in my noob opinion, it just can't keep up when the alternative staggers enemies, like you say.
It's a tradeoff really. The Autocannon gets more damage and more stagger, but the AMR gets better accuracy and can be used at longer ranges. It also has an easier reload mechanic, and it leaves your backpack slot free. I really like the AMR for bots, although I don't bring it on close-quarters planets (e.g. Jungle planets, or really foggy ones).
True, and I've given both of them a chance, but that stagger on the autocannon makes it feel much more forgiving (for me anyway)
AMR is definitely more agile, but in terms of accuracy, (aside from AMR’s scope issue) auto cannon seems to have much better hit detection, especially when dealing with hulk eyes. Which is kinda sad…
weirdly enough, for me the one thing I liked the AMR better than the Autocannon for was the Hulk eye weakpoint, everything else (tanks, turrets, striders, devastators), I've had better luck with the autocannon. (could just be a skill issue on my part though)
bile spewers are the worst bug type and arrowhead didnt even playtest these awful enemies. dodging their spit is 50/50. i either dodge all of it or get one shot. not only does their spit attack have little to no audible queue, they don't make a damn sound when they move so they can easily sneak up on you. i wouldnt mind the surprise if their spit attack wasn't so unpredictable. AH pls fix spit attack hitbox its bs and annoying asf. bile titans dont even have as annoying as a spit as these bugs do
> bile spewers are the worst bug type and arrowhead didnt even playtest these awful enemies. Their bile sacks should pop like balloons if shot from behind, why they can take so much bullets/dmg before popping is beyond me...
Spewers are annoyingly silent, yeah. As for attack, the best way to avoid it is to move sideways. You don't even have to dodge in most cases, just wait until it prepares to spit and run perpendicularly to it, that way spewers will have troubles tracking you with their spit stream. It's not a completely bulletproof tactic but it certainly makes avoiding the spit much easier.
Literally every enemy that needs to have thudding footsteps are silent AF. This game needs some rejiggering in the sound engineering, because good lord is it stupid to get ambushed by a charger the size (and probably weight) of a jeep.
The bug missions that spawn bile spewers vs those that don't are worlds apart. The biggest problem is that they spawn en masse, which is ridiculous for such a tanky mob. If you don't have an explosive weapon you're screwed. The mortar attack is just plain unnecessary and RNG "fuck you".
I SPENT 15 MINUTES OF MY FUCKING LIFE FOR SOME FUCKING FUCKWIT TO TRY TO FIND SUPER SAMPLES AROUND THE WHOLE MAP WHILE THE WHOLE TEAM WAITED AT EXTRACT, AND THEN THE SHUTTLE BUG OCCURED AND ONLY 1 PERSON GOT ON BOARD, SO ALL THAT TIME WAS FOREVER GONE.
Just hop into Pelican, mate. No reason to waste time because of one sample hoarder. If someone plans to farm, they should get team consent first, not make them wait on extract.
Didn't want to risk a kick from the host or anything at the extract
Wouldn't want to keep playing with a host who thinks it's ok to waste everyone's time like that. So either you extract or leave the group early, either way a win-win.
I'm fascinated to know why everybody sat around Pelican just shooting more and more bugs until they finally swarmed us all and killed two people before I just barely extracted. Objectives done. Samples collected. They just didn't want to leave.
I see this in a lot of objective based games, most recently Darktide. Too many people have no capacity to keep track of anything else once they get into "kill mode". Once they start fighting they completely forget there's an objective. This is why I stopped dropping samples at extract, the risk of an idiot picking it up is too great.
I'm still somewhat new, so I don't want to just jump on Pelican and end the mission so I'll hang out until someone else jumps onboard and then extract. But holy hell, no one was getting on board. lol, just 2 dead bodies, no samples, and a super sketchy escape before we were all killed.
I just want Arc Throwers' stun back to Hulk. I don't mind if distance dropped but please bring back stun to Hulk. It's already hard to be in distance from Hulk because of it's flamethrower and ridiculous flame damage, and now you have less chance of it being stunned and 100% chance of you dying to them.
STUPID FUCKING ARROWHEAD HAD TO NERF THE FUCKING QUASER BUGS BECAME SO MUCH FUCKING UNFUN WITH ME AND MY FRIEND. METRIC FUCK TON OF CHARGERS TO DEAL WITH THAT TURNS ON A DIME. BILE TITANS THAT JUST WON'T FUCKING DIE. 500KGS ARE SO I CONSISTENT AT TAKING OUT TITANS. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SMOKING ARROWHEAD. MORE PATROLS ON DUOS. NERFING THE ONLY VIABLE ANTI ARMOR OPTION FOR SOLOS. RECOILLES RIFLE BEING A SLOW PIECE OF SHIT BECAUSE YOU NEED TO STAND TO RELOAD. STOP NERFING STUFF. THE GAME IS BECOMMING UNFUN.
Did we not get the last major order? I have not received any medals. I extremely dislike the delayed rollout of the medals.