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I could have sworn blowing up a dropship used to do something. It seems like all the bots recently have just been dropping out anyway and gently landing on their feet like cats. Except for the few that get stuck under the smouldering ship because it crashing also doesn't seem to kill anything anymore either? Am I crazy, or did a downed ship used to kill everything on and under it and now it doesn't? Edit: Unrelated but had this happen in a rescue mission:  Also I can't wrap my head around the difficulty options. The actual difficulty seems really inconsistent. Fun as heck game tho A++. Hope we get more side arms and one handers and that chargers go extinct. Cheap Shot fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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I can’t believe there’s people arguing against extremely hard difficulty levels that require practice and team co-ordination. Why would you want to make higher difficulties lower difficulty? Thats what lower difficulties are already for….???  Why is a wider range of challenge ever a bad thing? The games only a month old too. People are going to be on their knees begging for more challenge down the road. If anything, what I’d really like is for them to iron out the consistency of each difficulty level across enemy/mission types, and smooth the stepping of difficulty between lower levels. 1, 2 and 3 are all pretty negligible but there feels like a pretty big jump after 3. I don’t feel like there’s really a comfortable mid difficulty or high difficulty option for playing solo or duos that hits the challenge level I’d enjoy. Especially vs bugs. Gorelab posted:I'm actually pretty convinced that the recoil level now is how it was supposed to be and they just undershot on the initial recoil number and how it interacted with the fire rate. Yeah. It feels much more balanced and intended. Very viable still. I just wish I could erase the pre-nerf breaker and shield backpack experience from my mind. I would have preferred all the guns and support items to be brought up to 11 with them, but I understand that that’s not the tone of this game. I do still hope AR’s catch a buff though. I really loved the starting gun, but it’s just lacking the damage it needs to keep up.
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I really don't feel any squishier than before tbh. It's confusing seeing others pretty upset about the armor changes. Heavy armor still isn't in a good place yet but I certainly don't think we're suddenly worse off than pre-patch? I think more tweaking is needed but I think that's already kinda what they said their intention is. As for armoured units, I feel like the only one that doesn't feel right is Chargers so if they change how they work I'll be happy. They just aren't very intuitive to fight, and their leg armor turning off during specific animations feels unintended. The bot armored units all feel like they're in a good place to me armor and health wise. Happy that they're looking at spawn rates of heavies though? I don't mean for the highest difficulties, I mean for the lower ones. I had 2 bile titans spawn simultaneously seconds after we dropped on a difficulty 6 defence two days ago. One would spawn in to replace each one that died for the whole mission having two active at all times (we did not succeed). On a base destroy mission we had 7 hulks and 2 tanks waiting for us in a base all at the same time on difficulty 5 the other day (we did succeed that one and it kicked rear end). Hard to see because I was being blown to poo poo but this was on a difficulty 4 escort:  I feel like that stuff isn't supposed to happen in mid-low difficulty. The balance of difficulties 1-6 has felt all over the place. Aside from on defense type missions, 7 is currently just the right level of focus up sweat for me with 3 other friends if I want those purple sampies. I'm fine if they want to make 8 and 9 off limits to me unless I treat it like MMO raiding. It's their game and that's what having a range of difficulties is for. Also fwiw, that blue light AOE for meteor showers is not at all visible in time on the surface of that moon like planet during "day" so uh be advised. That's probably where a lot of the confusion is coming from. Cheap Shot fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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ninjewtsu posted:Neither can bot berserkers but the flamethrower is exceptionally unhelpful in that circumstance Tbh the bot berserkers just flat out have a lot of HP rather than armor so it’s not a good flamethrower matchup. It’s not just the flamethrower, even auto-cannon needs to two tap usually. My best success is unloading on their waists with whatever I have that builds up flat damage the fastest. SMG sidearm does that nicely. That seems to snap them in half pretty quickly compared to trying to land head shots under duress.
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I'm starting to suspect people iit might be upset about the server issues!! Joking aside tho I came in here to comment about how shocked I am by the level of overwhelming and histrionic toxicity being directed toward the devs over a single balance patch. We've had lots of (game)bugs and quite a lot of server issues, but people haven't lost their minds anywhere close to how much being told that the difficulties named things such as "SUICIDE" and "IMPOSSIBLE" were intended to mean what they said. Have people like, ever played another video game before?? Every youtube video I see about the game has the comments just flooded with rants about the balance patch. And equipment wise, breaker and RR weren't even nerfed that hard either. It's just buck wild to me which hill people are coming out in droves to die on, and how truly insufferable they are while doing it. I see cool interactions like this from the CEO/devs  And I wonder how people can be such colossal dipshits to devs who seem to genuinely care about their game, when so many developers just dump their game out half finished and go silent for months. I don't want to come off as white knighting. I'm annoyed I can't play the game when I want to. Game has been kinda a mess. I am just genuinely disappointed in others though.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:I dunno. Thats just people. Not even specifically gamers. People are dicks Sure I get that. I am reminded daily of that these days. I guess it's just the oddity of not just how mad people are but also in combination with what they're mad about.
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Overlord K posted:I play using a PS5 controller and it gives you a very obvious vibration before the railgun would otherwise pop in your hands, so I keep forgetting that's not a thing for keyboard players. Gotta get that rumble mouse
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Ever since that one video on armor testing clued me into the fact Red Xs = Full Damage, White Xs = Half Damage, I've come back around to preferring the Liberator over the Defender SMG. Fwiw, Defender has a nice advantage of being able to fire it behind you while running. This is great against bots because suppressing fire lowers enemy accuracy. Not having to slow down or stop to do that is very valuable. The gun seems like a great option if you need to stay very mobile, which is a lot of the time in this game.
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bloodychill posted:I hope they bring in more type of mechs or customizable mechs. I want to put auto cannons on that thing. There is a dual auto-cannons mech in the files. Did we only get the rocket+gat one?
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Infinitum posted:Fuckin about potential tag options. 2nd one probably best for Dark Mode Crew These are dope and I hope they roll out. Last time I got a tag, my avatar got tragically set to left align for what is technically a vote Hilary Clinton tag despite being Canadian. Cheap Shot fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Infinitum posted:Nah yeah I'd looked at that, and I get what you mean, but the OG logo follows the curves of the skull. This doesn't solve that particular issue, but I was wondering maybe a combo of both might look good?  like this?
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GlyphGryph posted:Some eagle strats are a line away from you, and some are side to side, I forget which is which. I do wonder where that is draw relative to, though. Your position at some point during the call in so it matters if you move? Your position when throwing/releasing? The angle it hits the ground from, meaning bounces might change it? I’ve never not had it be based on the direction I’m facing as I throw it. It never matters if it bounces around, it always uses the initial direction I was facing as I hucked it to determine which direction they fly in from. Also another useful note about offensive stratagems and enemy aggro that not a lot of people seem to know. When you throw an offensive stratagem, it DM’s every enemy in a mile your home address. Even if they don’t have line of sight on you. And when fresh packs spawn in and see other enemies in pursuit of something, they always join. This might explain some of the complaints I see a lot. People might not understand they’re not just breaking stealth, but setting off a car alarm by hucking tha red beam.
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Warmachine posted:Where I'm less certain is if this affects the blue-beam call ins as well. No, or at least nowhere near to the same extent. Blue beams just make a bit of noise. Red beams text every enemy a selfie of you.
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Mode 7 posted:
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Hateship ended with Chargers. Bile Spewers are my new worst enemy. My ongoing feud with Beserkers and their abilitiy to shrug off impact grenades continues.
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I found out yesterday that orbital gas and orbital EMS are both unlimited use with fairly short cooldowns. Whenever I see a flare go up now I just plant both on that spot and watch the bots get dropped into stank hell. So many things are easy to overlook. I was sleeping on EATs for the same reason.
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Does the “have to be the host to do DoT’s” bug really apply to orbital gas? It might explain a lot…
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LazyMaybe posted:It is so, so much easier for me to think of it as three down-up's with a left then right between them. Oh wow. You’ve done me a super service. Thank you.
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I think the Sickle and the Autocannon should be the benchmark for balancing everything else. They’re both incredibly fun and feel strong, but their drawbacks or limitations make them less of a zero thought choice. If everything gets put on that same level then I don’t know if I’d ever stop playing.
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I mean it’s got that spin-up before it starts firing. It’s small but it means you cant snap-shoot. Something suddenly in your face or bots /bugs calling for reinforcements can be a problem. Once it does spin up though it never stops killing trash. The up time is incredible. I agree it doesn’t need as many reloads as it has. They could cut it down to one or two and I’d still feel good about it.
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BitBasher posted:Why not just not play 9s and play the difficulty you find fun? That would leave the top difficulty for people who want to play like that. This has been confusing me since day one. I see so many people talking like the game is being/should be balanced for difficulty 9, and maintaining a “play on 9 or bust” mentality. The devs keep saying over and over they didn’t intend for this. Pleading for our understanding. Even going as far as to say they were horrified that people were beating and even soloing their hardest difficulty within the first week of launch. They’ve been clear that 9 was supposed to be a monumental challenge, like what static MMO raid groups take on. This is the only game I know where the majority of people don't consider the most extreme difficulty setting to be something reserved for masochists. 9 is two above 7 which is literally named “suicide” for fucks sakes. No one should be surprised when they keep adjusting things to push 9 further out of reach, but consistently seem to be regardless? Like, I’m proud enough that my current level is being able to duo 7s when a friend and I lock it in and tryhard. I didn’t grow up playing shooters, I grew up on The Sims. I plan to try duo 8s tonight in an effort to unlock 9 but I fully expect it to go poorly and I’m fine with that. That’s what difficulty selection is for in the first place. 9 (and probably 8 if I’m honest) should be out of reach for me unless I practice enough to become esports tier, or hate myself more. I get that people probably resent the ego deflation after feeling like gods for making the hardest difficulty their go to default. Is that all this is though? Or is there something else to it? At this rate they’re going to have to give up trying to reason with the community and add difficulty 11.
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turn off the TV posted:the overwhelming majority of people almost certainly don't care about difficulty 9. what you're seeing are just temporarily embarrassed god gamers and they've been around forever. the funniest variations of the genre are always the posts that start with "I'm a dad of two kids" or "i work 40 hours a week" or "i'm a 45 year old retired veteran" to rationalize why the following demand that the game be made easier doesn't mean that they're just bad or entitled or whatever These old veteran bones of mine just want to enjoy a relaxing helldive with my two kids after a long day of walmart greeting. I didn’t survive ‘Nam to be told the Quazar recharges 5 seconds slower!
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Jerkface posted:Love to have this difficulty conversation re-ignited. First quote seems to not understand what is being said, which is that balancing to make 9s harder will have the knock on effect of making the rest of the game worse especially if its balance changes that affect stratagems or weapons. Telling someone to just "not play 9s" when they are saying balancing to make 9s virtually impossible would also make the rest of the difficulties worse is impressive missing the point. It’s a bit moot on either side of that argument regardless because as far as I can tell the devs absolutely aren’t making gear balance changes with the goal being to make 9s harder. Seems like they’re sincerely trying to bring everything closer to how they feel weapons and stratagems are supposed to perform and function across all difficulties, and naturally promote diversity in player loadouts. They’re doing way better on this front than where they started. Jerkface posted:Now for the second quote. Lets just set aside what the devs have said about difficulty 9 and their expectations on completing the mode. 
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For the record, my mention of masochism and adding difficulty 11 was supposed to be tongue in cheek hyperbole. I figured if the devs intended 9 to be harder, it makes more sense this early on to just scale it harder. I had no idea helldivers 1 had additional difficulty levels added later. I need to process that for a while.Lobok posted:The number of player types that M:TG guy brought up might be excessive with all the Spike and Tommy and Angelica stuff but the goon who linked to it was right in that there are some player mindsets that are just not compatible. I know over the years there is definitely a camp that sees an I Win button and argues a game is boring if they're able to keep pressing it to win, and a camp that sees an I Win button and sees only the button itself as boring so they'll try other things instead. I don’t think either reasoning is necessarily wrong, so it’s just up to what the devs want for their game. They chose to take away the button. I think it should be noted though that you can increase the hardest difficulties for those who want that, and the players who would rather self impose challenges can do so on any difficulty they wan’t which kinda seems like an everyone wins?
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Jerkface posted:
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Darth Walrus posted:So if I mainly use autocannons as my support weapon and want a primary that's good for doing fuckoff damage to medium-armoured enemies at extreme close range without any fear of blowing myself up, what're my options? Currently using a Dominator, which is adequate for the task, but wouldn't mind an alternative that trades the Dom's long-ranged sniping capabilities for better usability up close. If I need to snipe something, my cannon is generally good enough. As someone else who favors AC, right now against bots I’m running Sickle and stun grenades. The sickle can mow the lawn of trash mobs better than anything else I’ve tried as long as you feather it a bit and get used to the wind up. It’s uptime from not needing reloads if you handle it right makes it feel really special. It can also focus devastator faces extremely well, especially when you end up too close to autocannon them. The stuns and extra grenade armor give you a solid way to deal with hulks and berserkers and buy you time to cool the sickle between berserker kills. Pick your poison on sidearm. I’ve been rolling grenade pistol because of the stuns, but it doesn’t feel good to me so I’m still shopping. If the sickle doesn’t tickle, then maybe the Adjudicator? It still feels too thirsty for its mag size to me but everything else about it is excellent and punchy. Someone better than me can probably thrive with it. As for bug loadout, I’m still finding myself…
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Lobok posted:Oh, I wasn't passing judgment. I don't think either one is wrong either. That's kinda why both'll always exist. I'm in the 2nd camp and I've come to realize when I come across a 1st camper we're just gonna have to agree to disagree. The camps are terrorist propaganda. They don’t exist and speaking about them is treason citizen.
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If you think about it, they're absolutely right about their new content schedule. I'm someone who drops games after playing for a few days usually, and I often barely log in to the one MMO I actually pay for. I play Helldivers several times a week and I haven't gotten tired of it. They keep my attention very successfully. And when you consider this games whole shtick, it kinda relies on keeping a large amount of their playerbase on that active schedule. Advancing a plot through interactive global events doesn't work if everyone pisses off until new content drops months later like we do in every other game.
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To be honest, the huge pop up when I first launched the game telling me I needed to link a PSN account made no real mention that it was optional at the time. I nearly did so but figured out I could skip it by accident and told all my friends who also didn’t know that they could skip it. I bet there’s quite a lot of people who never even knew it was temporarily optional at all. This game is rad as hell and I feel bad for anyone who thinks this is a big enough reason to quit playing it. A publisher requiring an account log in is obnoxious, truly, but also nothing new. Especially for an online game. I’m a firm believer in picking my battles and I’m super not interested in dying on this particular hill. Edit: except of course for the people who live in places you cant make a psn account of course. I’m pretty confident that will be addressed somehow though. Arrowhead seem pretty responsive and earnest. Cheap Shot fucked around with this message at 15:07 on May 3, 2024 |
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I haven't needed to make a PSN account since I was a teen with a PS3 so I’m pretty out of date on the specifics of it in tyool 2024. Is there no way to just lie? I recently watched a couple streamers play EDF6 early by making Singapore PSN accounts and they said it was very little effort to do so. Obviously not the same circumstances but I genuinely don’t know how it works and would love to know if some players are truly out of luck and without options or not. Also it’s been asked several times but was Helldivers 2 region locked on steam for non psn countries? I’m assuming not but I’d rather not assume if anyone knows.
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johnny park posted:A five second cursory google search reveals that people have been lying about their region since regions were implemented and used gift card codes from US/unblocked region stores to buy games and literally nothing has ever happened to them. Get a grip folks Yeah. I get that this is a negative thing but people going around saying "over a hundred countries are going to get banned!!" is some real nonsense histrionics. Not that we should bend to whatever whims lovely companies like Sony have, but it's worth noting that people from those regions are technically worse off now than before unless Sony relents on the account linking and reverses restricting purchases of the game in those regions. The overreaction of the community has taken the situation from "inconvenient and annoying" to "all in now baby".
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Endorph posted:dude they would have delisted it in those regions with or without any backlash. this is the case for every steam game that requires secondary logins, where the secondary logins dont support certain regions. A PSN account has been "required" since before launch and disabling the requirement was always a temporary measure. The game has been available in those regions this whole time until just now after large scale review-bombing and refunds. I'll admit I can't say with 100% certainty that they weren't always going to but I mean...common. Feels fairly likely they were going to leave it as it was and let people select closest country for PSN accounts because it's all money and number go up on Sony's end as people have pointed out. This might even have been a Valve call because of the influx of refunds. Babe Magnet posted:AH are saying to refund the game actually. That part's fine. Their massive success has kind of insulated them from the problems a bunch of people refunding at once would cause, but it's more ammo to use in the talks with sony Well I mean it was already well into happening regardless. I think it was a smart play to lean into it and try to mend their relationship with the community if Sony is committed to loving them and Gamers are already waging a human rights campaign.
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Babe Magnet posted:I feel like you're skipping a step here. The review-bombing and refunds didn't come out of nowhere, they came as a reaction to the PSN restrictions. You really find it more like that Valve saw a bunch of negative reviews and just randomly decided "gently caress Pakistan, Gambia, and Tokelau!"? What? no. Why would I be saying that? what? How is that your takeaway from any of what I said?
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Babe Magnet posted:this part No I said they clearly can because they did, and feels likely to me that they would have continued to. PSN was required from the start like I said, and was temporarily suspended post launch. If it was Sony's call or Valves I don't know.
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