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Galaga Galaxian: Apr 23, 2009; What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!

You know that Super Samples are only found at a very specific landmark, right?

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:01

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# ? May 23, 2024 17:52

Saraiguma: Oct 2, 2014

look for the lightning penis rock poi, that is the only place super uranium spawns

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:04

Twibbit: Mar 7, 2013; Is your refrigerator running?

PsychoInternetHawk posted:

I was thinking about how a Chaos Helldivers faction could be implemented and Heavendivers seems just a little too silly-sounding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lvs2FzF64o

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:09

Ra Ra Rasputin: Apr 2, 2011

They should 100% just add a space zombies faction, put all the typical video game zombies in there, slow zombies, fast zombies, fat exploding zombies, half-cyborg gun arm zombies, giant zombies, vomit zombies, big ball of zombies stuck together for a boss fight, just get them all in there.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:14

WoodrowSkillson: Feb 24, 2005; *Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Galaga Galaxian posted:

You know that Super Samples are only found at a very specific landmark, right?

yes, i have played game after game and either no one can find it or we lose the samples before extract.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:14

Oneiros: Jan 12, 2007

ime running 7+ people make it top priority to get those fuckers onto the pelican even if every other helldiver has to bodyblock a rocket salvo from a devastator to make it happen

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:15

WoodrowSkillson: Feb 24, 2005; *Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

i wish that was the case

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:16

Rectal Death Alert: Apr 2, 2021

WoodrowSkillson posted:

ive been playing at 7 for like 6 days now and still only have 3 super samples. its one of the worst grinds ive experienced. id loving love it if one of those hackers woudl hust give me 2000 of it

Each faction has a planet that has a red scrub and rocky biome with 7+ difficulty clear weather missions. It makes the super sample rock extremely easy to see if you want to cheese it that way.

Trying to find them in densely forested maps or even flatter maps with bad conditions like spores is way harder.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:18

Worf: Sep 12, 2017; If only Seth would love me like I love him!

people suck at the scientist escort mission

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:24

Mahatma-Squid: Nov 22, 2004; One of the last true gentlemen left alive . ';,,,,,,,,;'

For anyone doing dailies with annoying strategems keep in mind that failed missions still count towards the kill count, so you can just drop in, start a big fight and just suicide rush it.

Mahatma-Squid fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Mar 6, 2024

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:29

Worf: Sep 12, 2017; If only Seth would love me like I love him!

there are no bad weapons, there are only failed democracies

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:30

WoodrowSkillson: Feb 24, 2005; *Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Rectal Death Alert posted:

Each faction has a planet that has a red scrub and rocky biome with 7+ difficulty clear weather missions. It makes the super sample rock extremely easy to see if you want to cheese it that way.

Trying to find them in densely forested maps or even flatter maps with bad conditions like spores is way harder.

i know, im exlusively doing missions on errata prime right now and still nothing lmao

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:35

Kly: Aug 8, 2003

the radar optional objective will reveal all POIs and make it super easy.

Kly fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Mar 7, 2024

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:39

Rectal Death Alert: Apr 2, 2021

WoodrowSkillson posted:

i know, im exlusively doing missions on errata prime right now and still nothing lmao

Looks like the easier planets to spot super samples (Crimscia) aren't available for missions right now so your best chance is hilly maps with high ground and as clear visibility as possible. You can deal with spore towers but it can't also be a drab desert with blowing sand. Finding the rock on some planets is pure luck and rarely happens unless you have 4 rambos running in 4 directions completing the entire map. Even then you'll miss it in forests.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:40

Relentlessboredomm: Oct 15, 2006; It's Sic Semper Tyrannis. You said, "Ever faithful terrible lizard."

WoodrowSkillson posted:

ive been playing at 7 for like 6 days now and still only have 3 super samples. its one of the worst grinds ive experienced. id loving love it if one of those hackers woudl hust give me 2000 of it

wait, really?

i've done like ~10 level 7 missions in the last 2 days and got about 15 mostly I was the one grabbing them but not every time. You're looking for the buttplug right? And if you go on a planet with a ton of rain/smoke/dust it becomes much much harder to find. I'd also recommend Fenrir if its still up, you can find some high points and see like half the map

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:48

Kly: Aug 8, 2003

Rectal Death Alert posted:

Finding the rock on some planets is pure luck and rarely happens unless you have 4 rambos running in 4 directions completing the entire map. Even then you'll miss it in forests.

other than the forest part this has not been my experience at all doings 7s with randoms. ive also barely had any bad experiences with random matchmaking though so maybe its my luck turning after 160 hours of awful darktide matchmaking luck.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:49

Relentlessboredomm: Oct 15, 2006; It's Sic Semper Tyrannis. You said, "Ever faithful terrible lizard."

Oneiros posted:

ime running 7+ people make it top priority to get those fuckers onto the pelican even if every other helldiver has to bodyblock a rocket salvo from a devastator to make it happen

yea this, I even taught a dude how to drop samples on the evac pad for later so we didnt risk losing them

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:49

Droxis: Dec 24, 2004; "The only thing peace accomplished was stagnation."

Just picked this up and playing around in difficulty 4 missions to learn the ropes. Boy howdy stalkers can go choke on the fat part of my dick.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:51

thalweg: Aug 26, 2019

I wanna fight the demons from Doom. Let me shoot an EAT at a cacodemon

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:52

Relentlessboredomm: Oct 15, 2006; It's Sic Semper Tyrannis. You said, "Ever faithful terrible lizard."

hot take but level 5 and 6 difficulty are the worst bc the game decides to punish you for not having more chargers / spitters or bile titans on the map by adding a bunch of stalkers and just swarms of those hunters who stun lock you.

also my vote is

space dino faction
space orcs
some bizarre cronenberg-esque faction

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:54

Reiley: Dec 16, 2007

Protoss would complete the triangle.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:59

Ra Ra Rasputin: Apr 2, 2011

My friend who just recently got the game brought the mines to a civilian escort mission.

We ended up -575 for civilian deaths.

The buttons themselves had mines on them.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 07:04

BitBasher: Jun 6, 2004; You've got to know the rules before you can break 'em. Otherwise, it's no fun.

Relentlessboredomm posted:

hot take but level 5 and 6 difficulty are the worst bc the game decides to punish you for not having more chargers / spitters or bile titans on the map by adding a bunch of stalkers and just swarms of those hunters who stun lock you.

Stalkers and the hunters that stun lock you eat a lot of poo poo to Arc Throwers. I can't overstate that if someone knows how to use it those things just die in waves. A whole patrol of them is dead in a single digit number of shots in as many seconds and them dodging side to side and jumping doesn't matter much because of the arc jumping.

I need to save some Arc Thrower footage against bugs.

At Suicide difficulty 7 there are still a pile of chargers but it seems the people are far better at sealing with them as no big deal.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 07:06

WoodrowSkillson: Feb 24, 2005; *Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

lol i stayed up late and we dropped the 5 from a lvl 8 right by the pelican door whe na bile titan wiped us

# ? Mar 6, 2024 07:11

Insert name here: Nov 10, 2009; Oh.
Oh Dear.

Rectal Death Alert posted:

Looks like the easier planets to spot super samples (Crimscia) aren't available for missions right now so your best chance is hilly maps with high ground and as clear visibility as possible. You can deal with spore towers but it can't also be a drab desert with blowing sand. Finding the rock on some planets is pure luck and rarely happens unless you have 4 rambos running in 4 directions completing the entire map. Even then you'll miss it in forests.

One tip I can give for finding the samples is if you're running the scout armour with radar on ping: if you find a radar station, after activating it start pinging random POIs that you haven't gone to yet and seeing if there are enemies. At that difficulty almost all the POIs have pre-placed enemy spawns, but the samples rock will be one of the few that will be clear of enemies. Really helps narrow it down I find.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 07:13

PsychoInternetHawk: Apr 4, 2011; Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.; Grimey Drawer

Reiley posted:

Protoss would complete the triangle.

Have I got news for you about the next faction (assuming they're bringing back the missing faction from HD1)

# ? Mar 6, 2024 07:21

masteen: Nov 23, 2010

WoodrowSkillson posted:

lol i stayed up late and we dropped the 5 from a lvl 8 right by the pelican door whe na bile titan wiped us

I've played over a dozen 7+ missions over the past 3 days, and I haven't even seen the lightning butt plug. The new hotness for Rando Calrissian this week is trying to clear every minor objective VERY SLOWLY and then getting wiped on the run to the evac because no Space Gunz.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 07:22

Eediot Jedi: Dec 25, 2007; This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Droxis posted:

Just picked this up and playing around in difficulty 4 missions to learn the ropes. Boy howdy stalkers can go choke on the fat part of my dick.

One of my favourite moments was scanning the immediate area, seeing it was completely clear, checking the map for a sec, but as it closes I register the big red dot moving up behind me.

masteen posted:

I've played over a dozen 7+ missions over the past 3 days, and I haven't even seen the lightning butt plug. The new hotness for Rando Calrissian this week is trying to clear every minor objective VERY SLOWLY and then getting wiped on the run to the evac because no Space Gunz.

Just hit the bricks. Pick a selfish solo loadout and roam. Haven't had anyone care that I'm hitting up sides or going for samples. If they trigger an alert, go clear an objective out while the alarm is on cooldown.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 07:36

Molrok: May 30, 2011

The new enemy faction has to be a bunch of Abstention Aliens, just generally against any voting processes with no strong feelings one way or the other.

Also they got ~~cool tech~~ WMDs or something.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 08:07

BitBasher: Jun 6, 2004; You've got to know the rules before you can break 'em. Otherwise, it's no fun.

Just bought the Scout Handshake, had never seen the emote before. Before the mission started I offered a handshake to the host on the way to the pods and immediately got kicked from the lobby, and I don't blame him. Never going to use it again!

# ? Mar 6, 2024 08:11

Worf: Sep 12, 2017; If only Seth would love me like I love him!

BitBasher posted:

Just bought the Scout Handshake, had never seen the emote before. Before the mission started I offered a handshake to the host on the way to the pods and immediately got kicked from the lobby, and I don't blame him. Never going to use it again!

lmao

# ? Mar 6, 2024 08:41

Warmachine: Jan 30, 2012

BitBasher posted:

Just bought the Scout Handshake, had never seen the emote before. Before the mission started I offered a handshake to the host on the way to the pods and immediately got kicked from the lobby, and I don't blame him. Never going to use it again!

I did this to a goon. Felt kinda bad. But also lol.

"I've never seen this one before, and now I know why."

# ? Mar 6, 2024 08:42

Worf: Sep 12, 2017; If only Seth would love me like I love him!

lmao now im curious

# ? Mar 6, 2024 08:45

Sindai: Jan 24, 2007; i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Had a particularly nasty bug today where I suddenly became unable to use my primary weapon, even if I died and respawned or picked up a different one. Since I only brought the EAT as my support weapon thanks to the daily this was less than ideal.

Then near the end of the mission I picked up an autocannon from a disconnected player and that fixed it. Weird.

masteen posted:

I've played over a dozen 7+ missions over the past 3 days, and I haven't even seen the lightning butt plug. The new hotness for Rando Calrissian this week is trying to clear every minor objective VERY SLOWLY and then getting wiped on the run to the evac because no Space Gunz.

Meanwhile I keep seeing the rock in 5s and 6s and being disappointed because it gets marked with a ? but has nothing useful on those difficulties.

Sindai fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Mar 6, 2024

# ? Mar 6, 2024 08:48

raverrn: Apr 5, 2005; Unidentified spacecraft inbound from delta line.

All Silpheed squadrons scramble now!

BitBasher posted:

Just bought the Scout Handshake, had never seen the emote before. Before the mission started I offered a handshake to the host on the way to the pods and immediately got kicked from the lobby, and I don't blame him. Never going to use it again!

It's got the exact same idle animation as the other handshake, I love it so much.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 09:33

Runaway Legs: Oct 11, 2012; Not a hat; Fun Shoe

Has the game been extra buggy these last few hours or have I been lucky until now? Been crashing on both ps5 and steam over and over again

# ? Mar 6, 2024 09:45

Play: Apr 25, 2006; Strong stroll for a mangy stray

Runaway Legs posted:

Has the game been extra buggy these last few hours or have I been lucky until now? Been crashing on both ps5 and steam over and over again

My game was running a bit poorly, didn't have the framerate on screen but it was very choppy in a way it's never been before. Quit before it could crash, I know the signs

# ? Mar 6, 2024 10:47

MissMarple: Aug 26, 2008

Relentlessboredomm posted:

space dino faction
space orcs
some bizarre cronenberg-esque faction

Because my head is still entirely turned by Left4Dead - i'd like some enemies whose gimmick was the same kind of immobilization that almost all the Special Infected exhibited.
Doesn't even have to be a whole faction, maybe just a modifier where a Predator-with-the-numbers-filed-off hunts the Helldivers as they do a mission and if someone gets seperated will happily grappling hook drag their rear end out of there until they can get them to a safe spot to gut them for their samples.
Helldivers yelling into their mic for their squadmates to come and save their rear end.

# ? Mar 6, 2024 10:48

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

quote:

This is the first round in a never-ending series of balance changes. And we believe it's important to be completely transparent about our approach to game balance, especially when it comes to weapons and stratagems that you have strong opinions about.

Our goal is to give you a wide range of weapon choices, where each gun has its purpose and none is strictly better than another. Sure, you will have your own favorite, but it should come from your personal preference, not from the universally agreed knowledge of which gun is the strongest. Generally, we balance each item according to its quirks, so if a weapon is very effective at what it does, it should come with significant disadvantages to balance its power.

The AC-8 Autocannon is a good example of a well-balanced weapon: it packs a powerful punch, has a very good range, but requires you to carry an ammo backpack or have a friend assist you. The GL-21 Grenade Launcher is the opposite example. It's a good general purpose weapon that gives you so much flexibility, it obviously can't deal too much damage without becoming overpowered.

But weapons that are both powerful and versatile become a no-brainer choiсe during the weapon selection phase. It robs you of your own agency, as stale "meta" builds force you to make an unfair choice between a fun weapon and an effective one. In short: Powerful weapons can't be too versatile, versatile weapons can't be too powerful.
Having said all that, after analyzing player feedback and the data we've collected over the past month, we found three biggest offenders of that principle:
SG-225 Breaker
RS-422 Railgun
SH-32 Shield Generator Backpack

All three of those were quite strong with too little downsides, overshadowing all other options on higher difficulty levels. So with this patch, they're getting significant downsides to balance their power. However, we strongly believe that the changes won't ruin this build, but rather help the affected items find their place among the other options and stay effective in capable hands.

On a more personal note, I know that having your favorite toy nerfed absolutely sucks. Investing countless hours into mastering a weapon is an incredible dedication from you. which is the main reason we're making this game in the first place. And then having that weapon weakened feels like a punishment for being too good at the game.

But I implore you not to compare a changed item with its older version, but to evaluate the existing one as it is and see if it still has a place in your heart.
We thank you for your dedication and commitment to spreading Democracy in the most optimal way possible! Now it's up to us to make it as fun and entertaining as we can
Oh and we also buffed a bunch of weapons as well!

hell yeah

quote:

PATCH 01.000.100
Major Updates
Planetary Hazards active
Many planets now have additional environmental challenges that will appear at random while you are deployed, from fire tornadoes to meteor showers and many more.

Balancing
Eradicate Missions
Eradicate missions now require more kills and enemies spawn more often. The time to complete the mission was previously shorter than intended and should now usually take twice as long to complete.

Primary, Secondary, & Support Weapons
Balancing adjustments made to the following:
SG-225 Breaker
SG-8 Punisher
SG-225SP Breaker Spray & Pray
RS-422 Railgun
FLAM-40 Flamethrower
LAS-98 Laser Cannon

Stratagems
Balancing adjustments have been made to
Shield Generator Pack
Orbital 120MM HE Barrage
Orbital 380MM HE Barrage

Fixes
Fixed armor rating values not reducing damage as intended.
Fixed certain Bug Holes (including Stalker Nests) that were unnecessarily hard to destroy.
Fixed anti-aliasing toggle not working on PS5.
Balanced lighting across all planets to solve cases where the game was too dark.
Improved flashlight efficacy.
Increased visibility during �sand rain� weather on Erata Prime.
Updated tutorial materials and lighting.
Improved cases where some materials could look blurry if "Lighting" graphic setting was set to "Low".
Fixed timing issues that could occur in the �Extract E-710� primary objective.
Changed button interaction behavior for buttons in bunker POIs. Helldivers will now let go of the button after holding it for a few seconds.
Fixed some cases of large assets floating if the ground beneath them was blown up.
Helldivers standing next to ICBMs during launch will get properly toasty with a chance of not-so-spontaneous combustion.
Fixed unthrowable snowballs after ragdolling.
Fixed being able to use grenades after drowning.
Camera no longer locked on the player's own corpse and blocking spectator mode.
Helldivers now take damage from fire, gas etc. generated by other players.
Armor no longer stretches when dismembered.

Known Issues
These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.
Picking up items from caches may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time.
Picking up items from bunkers and caches in quick succession may render one of the items unpickable.
Players cannot unfriend other players befriended via friend code.
Players may be unable to select loadout or return to ship when joining a multiplayer game session via PS5 Activity Card.
Occasionally mission reward multiplier may not be applied.
Mission objective HUD displays different numbers for client and host during some missions.
Default armor is always shown while viewing the warbond, regardless of the armor that player has equipped.
Text chat box display is obstructed by the cinematic letterboxing during extraction.
Some text in the HUD/UI is missing or not displaying correctly.
Players may experience issues when many players attempt to login and/or play at the same time:
Login rate limiting
Players may become disconnected during play
Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers
Some games may not be joinable by others for a short period of time

Time to give the new guns a go

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# ? May 23, 2024 17:52

Sindai: Jan 24, 2007; i want to achieve immortality through not dying

EDIT: beaten

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