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Radical 90s Wizard posted:This is just straight up not true though. Guess that's why I'm seeing people bringing arc thrower and flamer and still shield pack to high difficulty missions. They must not have heard of all the other stratagems.
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There are definitely some weapons and strats which are still pretty much nonviable at high difficulties, but there are also some that people think are nonviable but aren't. There, argument solved.
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Bland posted:OK. I disagree. That's why they have lower difficulties as well  e] (it's saying 75% that's bullshit)
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SkyeAuroline posted:Pubbie was more in the right than your friend was. Yeah, no debate, but I was cringing at both of them.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:That's why they have lower difficulties as well Yeah, they're for using those weapons. That's what I said.
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The railgun deserved its nerf.
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Bland posted:You can't just ignore the context of the nerfs. Going into the game's first real balance patch the community was by and large expecting buffs over nerfs because like a good 75% or so of the equipment in the game felt like a liability to bring on higher difficulties. But they weren't liabilities, only relative to the insanely strong rail gun did they seem so
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Just finished a few helldives, despite the CRIPPLING META NERFS game still good, difficulty fun... though I usually ran non meta weapons already so maybe it didn't affect me much. I tried spear which is probably still not great but occasionally one shots titans (just take recoilless instead), we had autocannon, eat, recoilless on the others. A few orbital lasers and one orbital rail cannon rounded out the anti armor. There were a few tense moments but everyone did a good job knocking out threats. Cleared all side objectives and a lot of the hives. Good level of tension, a well placed exo suit can turn the tide of a breach and probably saved the game, and dropping them all at the end is fun as hell. Also exo suit rockets are what our other AT should start at or surpass, power wise. At 4 shots a spear should ohko a charger. A weird thing is a good extreme feels equally tense as a good helldive; I think it's a mix of better players but also a charger will kill you equally hard at lvl 6 and lvl9. I've been enjoying both! Also maybe I've been lucky but I've been pubbing it and had overall good experience. Added the good ones as friends and hop in when I want to play higher difficulty and it's worked well so far. I definitely think the biggest difference in success or failure is just coordination, even if you're not on comms you can tell when a team all has the same idea on how to tackle a map. E: basic eagle airstrike is probably best stratagem in the game btw, does everything in one package highly recommend threelemmings fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Mar 9, 2024 |
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It's funny how this thread talks about reddit and discord being a cesspool and then proceeds to get in pointless slapfights about dumb things in a video game on nearly every page. If you think certain weapons are not viable at high diffs or need buffs or shouldn't have been nerfed, you get a sneering 'maybe you just suck at the game  ' and if you feel the opposite you get some other abuse and let yourself be drawn into an argument.It's kind of embarrassing. We are mostly adults here, I assume? Maybe you can get your points across without acting like children/redditors, and just talk about this game we like and have fun playing.
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It's amazing that a game this good has such a bad thread, yeah.
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Play posted:It's funny how this thread talks about reddit and discord being a cesspool and then proceeds to get in pointless slapfights about dumb things in a video game on nearly every page. If you think certain weapons are not viable at high diffs or need buffs or shouldn't have been nerfed, you get a sneering 'maybe you just suck at the game shutup nerd
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flashman posted:But they weren't liabilities, only relative to the insanely strong rail gun did they seem so It doesn't matter what you or I think of the viability of each piece of equipment. What matters is how the community perceives the issue and how the devs choose to address that perception. e; To clarify I mean that in the context of managing the discourse around the game. I'm not saying if the devs just always do whatever the community says the game will be better or whatever. Bland fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Mar 9, 2024 |
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Bland posted:It doesn't matter what you or I think of the viability of each piece of equipment. What matters is how the community perceives the issue and how the devs choose to address that perception. With an unfortunate slip of professional control after having tons of poo poo flung at them including temper tantruming gamers tracking down their social media profiles to harass them there? Also the customer is not always right.
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Play posted:It's funny how this thread talks about reddit and discord being a cesspool and then proceeds to get in pointless slapfights about dumb things in a video game on nearly every page. If you think certain weapons are not viable at high diffs or need buffs or shouldn't have been nerfed, you get a sneering 'maybe you just suck at the game funnier how you presumably think this doesnt describe you lmao
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Spent like 10 minutes waiting to connect, then a couple hours of smooth gameplay with my group. Still having a good time with this
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I am finding the mech to be pretty awesome used strategically. It's mediocre as an oh poo poo button, but being able to simply murder 4 chargers in a row in a diff 7 was extremely helpful. It was also good for quickly clearing a mortar base and for defending extract. Fun bonus, the bonus mech and strategy mech are on separate cooldown timers so you can keep the pace of mech calling pretty high. Also, both bugs and bots seem to simply ignore empty mechs, so if you want just dump an exosuit on extract at mission start that seems to be an option. Next up need to try it in Blitz missions. TheDeadlyShoe fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Mar 9, 2024 |
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Triarii posted:I don't know how much population size alone explains the toxicity - the past couple of Monster Hunter games got up to a similar size and their communities seemed generally more wholesome and supportive (though, again, I'm not really hanging out on these games' subreddits, just hearing about them second hand). There are definitely design decisions in HD2 that create more friction between players, and combined with everything being kind of broken and buggy, I think there are just a lot of bad vibes and frustration being generated. Monster Hunter communities tend to go up in fire when the whole rise vs world thing comes up, if anyone dislikes either for any particular reason. It's a weird thing in Gaming Communities where as long as people are just shitposting stupid memes or whatever it's fine, the community is fine. But the instant anyone actually talks about the game in any measure it just devolves into the stupidest bullshit possible. Hell, even Deep Rock Galactic, a game that usually has a decent and supportive community, set its self on fire briefly when they added a new enemy the "Stingtail". It made a funny squeaky sound to let you know it had spawned, and what it did was grab you from across the map and either kill you instantly with impact damage, or leave you stranded in a swarm of bugs; in either case it was really hard to revive you if you got grabbed, and shooting it before it grabbed you was really hard to do because it was heavily armoured as well so killing it before it grabbed you was very hard to do. A schism of sorts formed between the people who said maybe this bug needed to be adjusted because it simply had too much going for it, vs the people who just said "git gud".
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BitBasher posted:What ps5 button is right click? i dont know. right click is aim so maybe whatever you use to aim? or the button you use to leave a menu. i wasnt getting stuck on the stats screen when i was playing 30minutes ago so i think its fixed anyway, but try it next time it happens.
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Play posted:It's funny how this thread talks about reddit and discord being a cesspool and then proceeds to get in pointless slapfights about dumb things in a video game on nearly every page. If you think certain weapons are not viable at high diffs or need buffs or shouldn't have been nerfed, you get a sneering 'maybe you just suck at the game personally i think that there's a difference between whining about balance and whining about specific devs or discord mods not being fired
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Have they still not fixed the issue with the 45 medal reward from liberating those two planets? That was two major orders ago now.
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I had a great game earlier where some guy was extremely bad and dying a lot, and I was the only person in the team who reinforced. I was far from everyone else but they were all far from each other too. He was on voice and every time I res'd him he'd say "noooooo why did you do that you're so far away!" And he'd then die about 5 seconds later. Idk how, I was throwing the res thing away from enemies and nobody was bothering me. During the rewards at the end of the game he left before we got our samples and the screen went grey. Does that mean I won't get anything?
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mentalcontempt posted:Have they still not fixed the issue with the 45 medal reward from liberating those two planets? That was two major orders ago now. Recent announcement in the official discord quote:Okay, so we broke it again. And then fixed it again. Three different spikes in traffic over the course of the day have been playing havoc with our server stability, but we're confident that it should be normalizing now and that players should be able to get into the game and earn rewards again. There is still a queue on the medals from previous major orders as well as on purchases of the Combat Mech and warbond items, so please retry if these purchases do not go through on your first attempt. Enjoy your weekend!
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Triarii posted:I dunno, this game's community seems unusually lovely. Things have gotten nerfed in DRG from time to time and maybe I wasn't looking in the worst places but I didn't see responses other than "seems reasonable". Also in over 1000 hours playing it, I never saw people getting kicked for not playing in the exact correct way the host wanted to play. GaylordButts posted:In theory, higher damage and better penetration.
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turn off the TV posted:personally i think that there's a difference between whining about balance and whining about specific devs or discord mods not being fired The discord mod should've been demodded (and was). They were a dick for literally no reason. You don't want someone whose default and only mode is to piss in your players' faces.
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mentalcontempt posted:Have they still not fixed the issue with the 45 medal reward from liberating those two planets? That was two major orders ago now. I got mine finally I think I got both sets at the same time
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Play posted:Or did you mean without dying? Doesn't seem very helldiver of you Disagree, setting the reactor to overload in a huge explosion and diving away sounds rad as hell.
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Eediot Jedi posted:The discord mod should've been demodded (and was). They were a dick for literally no reason. You don't want someone whose default and only mode is to piss in your players' faces. 
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Triarii posted:There's also a pretty wide variance in what people consider "fun" about this game, I've found. I was playing with a friend + 2 pubbies, and my friend thought it would be funny to kill one of them with a grenade as we were extracting. The pubby did not think this was funny at all, and spent a minute getting big mad in chat before quitting out. Your friend sucks just FYI.
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Eediot Jedi posted:The discord mod should've been demodded (and was). They were a dick for literally no reason. You don't want someone whose default and only mode is to piss in your players' faces. that's fine but i have no words to express how much i don't give a poo poo about official helldivers discord drama and i firmly believe that this should be a universally held opinion
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Triarii posted:There's also a pretty wide variance in what people consider "fun" about this game, I've found. I was playing with a friend + 2 pubbies, and my friend thought it would be funny to kill one of them with a grenade as we were extracting. The pubby did not think this was funny at all, and spent a minute getting big mad in chat before quitting out. Just checking, did they call you a dipshit?
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Insert name here posted:I read somewhere that that mod was a known poo poo Stirrer in the DRG discord too so it's wild he was ever a mod in the first place probably a small pool of people willing to be an unpaid discord mod, and I bet a high likelihood of that pool having pee in it
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:I am finding the mech to be pretty awesome used strategically. It's mediocre as an oh poo poo button, but being able to simply murder 4 chargers in a row in a diff 7 was extremely helpful. It was also good for quickly clearing a mortar base and for defending extract. This is good poo poo. Democracy Officer just said "Do not treat rebels as human. If their ideals are alien to us, then they are aliens too" lmao. I swear they keep adding poo poo in.
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Play posted:Yeah I was worried about how that would work but they are pretty maneuverable and can climb pretty steep surfaces. So far I've just been calling them down on extraction and they help a lot, although not being able to throw strats does hurt a bit, I just conserve my ammo until it's gone then duck out and start launching orbitals and eagles. Still, once they aren't free anymore I cannot see myself using them. Single use, ammo runs out pretty fast, yeah they can kill a lot of enemies but a whole strat slot is a hard sell for me. Also I just found out that if you rebind your melee key to something else you can't stomp attack with the exosuit anymore 
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:This is good poo poo. they absolutely do, some of the lines so far have been directly in response to major order outcomes
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turn off the TV posted:that's fine but i have no words to express how much i don't give a poo poo about official helldivers discord drama and i firmly believe that this should be a universally held opinion Thank you for telling me how you feel, I had no idea you didn't care so much.
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Exodee posted:Also I just found out that if you rebind your melee key to something else you can't stomp attack with the exosuit anymore I realize they're in "oh poo poo make things stable" mode but I really hope they fix some of the keybinding wonkiness. Anything bound to the numpad being reset to the numlock off functions on launch, can't rebind chat, jetpack being inexplicably linked to "climb"? Lots of room for improvement
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incidentally: Tried shooting at the mech with small arms. Most of the mech, including the weapon arms, is actually armored against small arms and the shots will bounce. The notable exception is much of the legs and the little butt plate.
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Does it matter how far into unsafe you charge the New Railgun, or is it still like pre-patch where any amount over seems to do the same damage?
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Piell posted:Just checking, did they call you a dipshit? I wasn't really participating in that conversation. Did they call my friend a dipshit? I dunno, maybe, it was a week+ ago.
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