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Captainicus posted:Encountered a nest of flying bugs in my last two missions 
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There's something super satisfying about joining a disaster game with quick play where there's just weapons and backpacks scattered over half the map and 1 reinforcement remaining and clearly 2 people abandoned the game so you and another new joiner rally the two newer players still sticking it out and finish the mission. The cowards who fled were the weak links, Helldivers, not you.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:11
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I was playing with goons last night and without fail the person running the thing managed to dump us right dead center into a large bug nest each drop. I was both impressed and terrified, it was definitely entertaining having that much "Oh poo poo" going before you've even called down your supports.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:16
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had a goddamn supersoldier round at suicide the other day. the 3 randos could not stop fighting their way around the map and getting swarmed and chewing up lives, leaving me to scoop up the super samples, doink 2 (was it 3?) spore towers, do the sub objectives and then book it to extraction, where I ate my only death thanks to one of their mortar sentries lol. incredibly tense with my ems mortar saving my life repeatedly and a fuckload of running. still got out with my 15 samples, 10/10 would squad with these dummies again
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Mar 20, 2024 15:18
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Sat on level 50 with maxed samples, requisition, etc and nothing left to do but grind medals for things I don't care for and have no intention of using  Kinda wish there wasn't a level cap given there is basically no point to levels after 25 (Mech unlock). I've obviously democratised too much.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:23
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Durzel posted:Sat on level 50 with maxed samples, requisition, etc and nothing left to do but grind medals for things I don't care for and have no intention of using now you can enjoy the game. the game being blowing up bugs and bots while getting blown up by cluster bombs. hang out at level 5 running suboptimal loadouts focused on having fun
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Mar 20, 2024 15:27
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Friends were getting salty again last night, no matter how many times I explain to them that we need to know when we're outmatched and react accordingly (aka hit da goddamn bricks) one friend in particular gets so bogged down trying to kill every enemy swarming him when it's clear there's no chance to survive then gets frustrated when he dies 3 or 4 times in a row trying to suicide run into a swarm to grab his gear. We played two games on diff 6 and wiped in both but completed the missions and everyone quit for the night all pissy about dying. I think another big bonus of the EAT is not having to worry as much about losing your gear. My other buddy with the autocannon gets tunnel vision when he dies and inevitably sprints out on his own every time to go scoop up his autocannon which gets him killed over and over again and by that point the whole area is overrun so we're all retreating with like 4 less lives and no autocannon anyway. I probably sound like a dick but every time I'm like dude, it's okay, you can call another one in in like 3 minutes just make it work or hang with the team until then. I get the frustration but it happens every single time.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:28
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Finally found the flying bugs today - in this big plateau which also had a spore spewer next to the shriek hive, and it was possibly the highest amount of bugs I’ve seen in a single place. Like easily upwards of a hundred. Utter horrendous chaos
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Mar 20, 2024 15:28
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It's weird how games have evolved so much in the live service era. Back in the day you'd just play a game and have fun in the levels. But now when you cap out the various currencies it feels like there's no point to "playing" anymore. Same thing with people talking about how to avoid enemies and you don't have to fight every enemy. That's why I play the game I want to shoot some drat bugs, not wait for a missile to fuel up while hiding. It's not "wrong", I'm the same way, I love finding samples to progress my character and when I unlocked all the strategems it made the missions a bit more disappointing, it's just interesting how the "reason" to play has shifted so much.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:33
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suicidal and above now appear to almost always spawn flier nests and in my testing they do not go down to a couple shots of the autocannon like spore towers do. as another goon posted here dont kill them if they are swooping you its instant death lmao
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Mar 20, 2024 15:33
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Spookydonut posted:suicidal and above now appear to almost always spawn flier nests and in my testing they do not go down to a couple shots of the autocannon like spore towers do. Please. Tell me more.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:35
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WoodrowSkillson posted:now you can enjoy the game. the game being blowing up bugs and bots while getting blown up by cluster bombs. hang out at level 5 running suboptimal loadouts focused on having fun Sure, but as a longtime Monster Hunter player where your "level" goes up forever but similarly doesn't do anything meaningful after 50, it's nice to have.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:37
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I strongly agree with the phenomenon of failure spirals after the first death. If you die in a fight that wat hot enough to kill you when had fire support off cool down and a loaded support weapon, you're going to see some serious poo poo when you redeploy into it without either. Even if the team member is dead set on getting their samples and gear, it's much better to be thrown outside the periphery of the carnage and then choose your way in. That's something I really dislike about this game - I can't decide where to drop in and team mates often throw me into death sentences. I can go ten minutes without dying then die three times in a minute because I'm stepping out of the pod with clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right. Maybe I should rush hell pod controls, too.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:40
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While that's true, it's also a skill issue. Calling down reinforcements shouldn't be something you just wildly do while flailing around.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:44
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Jack B Nimble posted:Even if the team member is dead set on getting their samples and gear, it's much better to be thrown outside the periphery of the carnage and then choose your way in. That's something I really dislike about this game - I can't decide where to drop in and team mates often throw me into death sentences. I can go ten minutes without dying then die three times in a minute because I'm stepping out of the pod with clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right. God, this. What is my hellpod going to do against a swarm of hunters? They're just going to sit there and wait for the tasty helldiver snack to pop out. Stop throwing my respawn beacon like it's an impact grenade  vvvvv At least if it's into an Automaton base you can try and land your hellpod on a fabricator and clear that out. Icedude fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Mar 20, 2024 15:47
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Ive got respawned into the middle of a big automaton base, yesterday. I'm convinced the pubbie responsible was doing a panic throw. Mightve even thought they were holding a different stratagem. 
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Mar 20, 2024 15:48
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Wouldn't be against the idea of prestiging for better titles or interesting cosmetics to keep the dopamine treadmill running forever
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Mar 20, 2024 15:48
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jokes posted:Wouldn't be against the idea of prestiging for better titles or interesting cosmetics to keep the dopamine treadmill running forever Worked for DRG. Give people some flair to pin to their chest every prestige and nobody will ever complain again.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:50
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Color options alone would keep me dead-set on prestiging constantly
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Mar 20, 2024 15:51
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Tom Tucker posted:It's weird how games have evolved so much in the live service era. Back in the day you'd just play a game and have fun in the levels. But now when you cap out the various currencies it feels like there's no point to "playing" anymore. Yeah, like I remember all the way back in bf2142 it felt like the unlocking everything phase was the tutorial and once you got everything the game finally started. Now it's all about the grind and unlock stuff. E: it is pretty silly that there aren't color options for prestige. Ravenfood fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Mar 20, 2024 15:51
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jokes posted:Color options alone would keep me dead-set on prestiging constantly 100% this
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Mar 20, 2024 15:53
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GaylordButts posted:Sure, but as a longtime Monster Hunter player where your "level" goes up forever but similarly doesn't do anything meaningful after 50, it's nice to have. I initially thought it was a huge missed opportunity not to have the level cap go to at least 100, like they easily could have come up with at least 10 more rank titles, but now I'm almost certain they're working on a prestige system of some sort.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:59
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I will become the Double President
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Mar 20, 2024 16:00
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AtomikKrab posted:I went to robot nam today, Was hectic as hell doing a kill bots mission, got abandoned, more people were spawning in to get killed as I did a merry little dance around the outskirts of the level dodging bots Seems like they overtuned the bot exterminate missions after they were too easy before, though I am typically playing in a two man team. Best solution we've found is dying and then reinforcing on top of the rocks the bots can't reach then spamming sentries. Bonus with this method is when the timer hits zero and the pelican shows up it'll hover and mop up the bots until enough poo poo is cleared we can run to the landing pad, though it's not really an issue if we can't extract on that map anyway as we're never able to grab and keep samples anyway.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:04
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Just ran stun grenades for the first time. They are indeed good.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:07
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The satire in this game is so on point. The very-clearly fascist humans calling the bugs fascist, who, according to them, are also mindless killing machines. Just slapping "fascist" on everything between Super Earth and Space Oil
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Mar 20, 2024 16:07
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AnEdgelord posted:Just run the AC against bots, nothing else compares Sickle + AC + stun grenades + EMS Mortar is amazing against bots. Was surprised how fast the Sickle can take out hulks by shooting them in the vents and if they're facing towards you then two shots in the eyes with the AC will handle them. EMS mortar just locks poo poo down for an extended period of time and makes it super easy to take out hulks & tanks. I've also found EMS mortar to be amazing at distracting bots for an extended period of time during extraction if you toss one down a decent distance away from the landing pad.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:11
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Tom Tucker posted:It's weird how games have evolved so much in the live service era. Back in the day you'd just play a game and have fun in the levels. But now when you cap out the various currencies it feels like there's no point to "playing" anymore. Playing to complete the mission is not 'avoiding playing the game' just because people aren't shooting every enemy they see on sight. I have literally everything maxed out (technically I haven't unlocked the dagger but lol who gives a poo poo) and just play for fun and when I have to option to not fight the patrol with 4+ elite devastators in the middle of nowhere I absolutely take it because objective based combat is 100x more interesting than just shooting enemies in an open field. If you really want to shoot stuff just pick soil sample missions because every main objective there summons multiple dropships/breaches when you activate them. Or eradicates because "constant shootout in a random field" is the entire mission for eradicate.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:12
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Give me a ribbon that shows up on my character's armor for every major order I put an arbitrary amount of work into. Unique ones for special orders (Termicide) and a generic service ribbon that earns stars up to a point for generic orders.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:13
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Warmachine posted:Give me a ribbon that shows up on my character's armor for every major order I put an arbitrary amount of work into. Unique ones for special orders (Termicide) and a generic service ribbon that earns stars up to a point for generic orders. I liked the idea of "put a medal on your diver's armour for every mission you beat, but if you die they get reset"
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Mar 20, 2024 16:16
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people don't need another reason to get salty I'm still enjoying this game with friends, but some of them get mad about getting slowed, Helldivers having to complete an action or they get interrupted (get up! use your stim!) and it bums me out. You're supposed to die.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:19
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turn off the TV posted:it has the wrong image for the scavenger and charger too I just pulled it all from the Sony website! I know there's not the flying guys there, so presumably it's awaiting a general refresh.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:19
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Warmachine posted:Give me a ribbon that shows up on my character's armor for every major order I put an arbitrary amount of work into. Unique ones for special orders (Termicide) and a generic service ribbon that earns stars up to a point for generic orders.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:21
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Tom Tucker posted:The satire in this game is so on point. The very-clearly fascist humans calling the bugs fascist, who, according to them, are also mindless killing machines.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:22
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Insert name here posted:My favourite is the one dialog about how the bugs are relentless expansionists, because super earth has found them on nearly every planet they've colonized Every accusation is an admission of guilt.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:24
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Insert name here posted:My favourite is the one dialog about how the bugs are relentless expansionists, because super earth has found them on nearly every planet they've colonized "You know, the problem with bugs is they're relentless expansionists. In their region of space, we've found them on nearly every planet we've settled."
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Mar 20, 2024 16:27
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Tom Tucker posted:There's something super satisfying about joining a disaster game with quick play where there's just weapons and backpacks scattered over half the map and 1 reinforcement remaining and clearly 2 people abandoned the game so you and another new joiner rally the two newer players still sticking it out and finish the mission. It's honestly kind of stupefying why people die 1-2 times and then leave the game, as if somehow they were carrying you and "letting" them (inevitably) die means you just aren't good enough for their glorious time. Bro, it's a Diff 5 mission that I'm playing just to shoot the breeze and have fun, there is no way that the group is gonna save you from yourself and your bad decisions. Hell, even if that was the case it's not like we're in any real danger of losing if you blow through 10 reinforcements doing stupid poo poo.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:27
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Flint_Paper posted:I just pulled it all from the Sony website! I know there's not the flying guys there, so presumably it's awaiting a general refresh. Yeah I know, I've seen the page before. On top of the switched images it's missing the bile scavenger, the bile warrior, the small hunter, the nursing spewer, the charger behemoth and god knows how many variants of the basic automaton troopers and commissars.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:28
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Internet Explorer posted:people don't need another reason to get salty Yeah I'm dealing with this too. I am constantly telling my friends to use their stims and not trying to be annoying about it. So many times I see them running around with 1/4 health left or trying to actively fight hordes with no health. Stim first, it keeps healing you for a few seconds even when you're at full health  Thankfully they do the thing in this game where you can still get a MISSION COMPLETED even if everyone dies as long as the objectives were finished. "See guys, we did the mission! It's okay! Don't be sad!"
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Icedude posted:God, this. What is my hellpod going to do against a swarm of hunters? They're just going to sit there and wait for the tasty helldiver snack to pop out. Stop throwing my respawn beacon like it's an impact grenade Legionnaire armor just so I can chuck these beacons out of the bs just as the new diver just Leroy’s in.
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