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Wish someone had told me before I returned the game that the intro screen lies to you and the "mandatory" captcha I couldn't pass isn't actually mandatory and you can just skip it. Debating whether or not to buy it again. because man does it look fun, but that whole experience left such a sour taste in my mouth, what sort of company tells you you need to pass 20 captchas to play a game (and then makes you take 40)?
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Kaddish posted:The what now? There's a screen that says you need to link it to a playstation account to play, but wouldn't let me create one to link it to unless I correctly answered 20 captcha questions, and when it did I said I needed to answer another 20, and then it told me I had failed and wouldn't be able to proceed. I didn't realize you could just skip by that screen and still play (since the screen explicitly and directly says you can't)
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Feb 14, 2024 19:42
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Badly Jester posted:Re: linking to PSN account on PC, it's actually a requirement that they temporarily suspended too get around technical issues. So you're going to have to deal with it eventually, regardless of whether you use crossplay or not. This is good to know, if I bought the game, again, only to later lose access to it, AGAIN, I would have been pissed.
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Feb 14, 2024 20:52
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Phenotype posted:Wait holy poo poo this happened to you too? It was when I was trying to link my Playstation account, which it said WAS mandatory, and it made me do this stupid matching puzzle 8 times, and then I guess I messed one up, so it made me do it 8 more times, and again it said "that wasn't quite right" and made me do it again. It took me literally four repetitions = 32 puzzles to get in. Like what on loving superearth I felt like a goddamn 3rd grader being told I couldn't go to recess until I got 100% on the worksheet. Yep, same thing here, except it started out wanting me to do 20 for the first batch and then when it said "that wasn't quite right" at the end of the second batch of 20 I decided to give up. Based on the high starting count, at this point I'm assuming it had already decided I was 100% a robot and it was never going to let me pass no matter how well I answered.
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Feb 14, 2024 23:36
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But how else am I going to undermine their Managed Democracy!?
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Feb 15, 2024 00:03
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Black Griffon posted:I also didn't get any of the corn puzzle poo poo, always have 2fa It requires me to do the same 40 questions and then fail process to enable 2fa, so that doesn't help. What did help is asking one of my family members to create an account for me which they managed to do with no problem (just a simple 2 question captcha and a much easier one than my brain melter), and then i linked that to my steam account. So that's part done, at least! I repurchased the game, confident i had solved the problem and excited to play, finally got to do the tutorial and get my cape (which took multiple tries since I kept getting booted due to network issues)... and discovered that attempting to select a mission from the mission select screen instantly crashes my game. Man, this is a bad week. It started out with blood and sewage and really hasn't gotten any better since then, I just wanna shoot some goddamned bugs and chill out for a while. ;_;
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Feb 15, 2024 02:38
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Every map Ive escorted on has had three buttons so far
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Feb 16, 2024 03:03
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Is this "login limit" new? I havent been able to play for a while because the login limit was reached, it says
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Feb 16, 2024 14:13
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I did the HE mission and it didn't count. now I did 8 automaton defend campaigns and it didn't count. It sounds like plenty of bile spitters you kill don't count as well. Does this game have serious problems tracking quest completion or what?
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Feb 16, 2024 15:27
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dog nougat posted:Just play the strategem commander or whatever it's called mini game in the ship Isnt that one of the things you can only get by spending a large amount of real money
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Feb 17, 2024 00:55
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Its crimininal that you can only have one emote equipped
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Feb 17, 2024 01:56
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Tom Tucker posted:But I named the drat thing Did you? Im pretty sure the guy that named it died a long time ago.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:39
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Only 290 super credits away from getting the premium warbond without having paid real dollars.... Now if only the game hadnt randomly emptied my inventory of all my collected samples, goddamnit I still dont have a single upgrade unlocked because of that, I was gonna go on a shopping spree!
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Feb 19, 2024 14:21
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I've been able to get in reliably the last few days, but have managed to play with another human being once.
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Feb 20, 2024 14:37
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I love the game but my Steam review was also negative, because I had just gotten off doing my 60th captcha they were requiring me to do in order to wait to play.
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Feb 20, 2024 15:57
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wilderthanmild posted:Wait, is this actually a thing? Yesterday when I queued I never had anything like that. Most people don't get any. The people who do get stuff don't usually get them as bad. But man it was loving miserable. CuddleCryptid posted:Automaton spotted, right right down left right down No, no, I eventually passed! I swear I-
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Feb 20, 2024 16:09
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Kazinsal posted:It was fine. Neat concept, decent execution, fun to play with friends, but absolutely zero staying power. My friends group got about three weeks out of it, because its replayability drops off a cliff after about that long. You've done everything there is to do, seen everything there is to see, poo poo yourself in all the ways you can poo poo yourself. Its got a lot of REALLY good mods and it uses the thunderstore mod manager which makes it trivial for everyone to play together with them, which helps a lot. My group is still playing it every week, and honestly I can see going back to it for years just because the fundamentals are so good (its sound design execution was WAY better than decent) Theres apparently a major content upgrade in the pipeline. Helldivers news, I finally got to play with randoms for a couple matches today, was so much fun to not be solo again. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Flint_Paper posted:Can't remember if I posted it here or in the discord, but I started with SES Sword of Benevolence, and now I'm the proud captain of the SES Stallion of Individual Merit I am also on the SES Stallion of Individual Merit!
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Feb 21, 2024 01:32
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Why is the anti material rifle so goddamned bad? Like, it's genuinely surprising how bad it does. It reliably leaves things alive that my goddamn side arm kills with no problem. It fails to take down basic robot infrantry with two body shots, despite that being enough to kill them with basically any other weapon in the game (and I actually had several survive what I could swear were head shots, even). And it's a sniper rifle you have you aim with low ammo capacity. And it seems to be less accurate at range than the machine gun is, somehow!? I expected it to... I dunno, do something, be good at something, but what is the point? As is, I'm gonna be glad to be done with this mission and never touch it again. Am I missing something?
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Feb 21, 2024 15:32
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What is the support shotgun? Is that the slugger or something else?
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Feb 21, 2024 19:00
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raverrn posted:The key to jetpack use is that it's a ~3 second invincibility timer - you get totally out of melee and most ranged attacks will miss hard. You can hit it to let a stim tick, you can hit it and reload your weapon midair, all of that in addition to being able to jump onto inaccessible terrain or jump off cliffs safely. They really need to let you use it midair, though. It feels really bad that you can't.
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Feb 22, 2024 16:47
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absolutely. If I can't jetpack straight into the side of a building, killing myself, what's even the point?
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Feb 22, 2024 17:16
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Each character has a hundred levels they can accumulate across various skills like accuracy and stamina that significantly improve performance and get discarded to start over every time you die. The stats do nothing, but good luck surviving long enough to figure that out.
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Feb 22, 2024 20:59
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Man, some good games today, but pubbies are really bad at doing the drat mission. At least the ones today responded to instructions, it was glorious, we got a few perfect missions because they were willing to listen to basic suggestions. ("press the buttons", "run!", "go to evac and call shuttle while I destroy last two outposts" and "get the samples!". It was greatly appreciated)
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Feb 23, 2024 15:06
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CuddleCryptid posted:The only objective I've had issues with pubbies on is the dish alignment one since you should have someone on the console to tell the dish person when to stop. Usually I do it and direct them like I'm helping them back into a parking space. You can just listen and stop when you hear the ting. Unless the person on the console is hitting the button over and over again making that impossible! :shakes fist:
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Feb 23, 2024 15:24
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Oxxidation posted:has it been confirmed the Evacuation missions are bugged somehow or are they an infinite spigot of robots on purpose? once the enemy gets momentum it's near-impossible to get it back The point of evacuation missions is, I think, to keep the momentum. But if you bring the right gear and strategy you totally can get the momentum back even from a pretty bad situation, or at least enough to push another few batches of folks over the finish line. It usually involves drawing the enemy's off somewhere else to fight.
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CuddleCryptid posted:Imo the eradication defense mission is trivially easy on the majority of difficulties. If you get a couple turrets and some sort of heavy weapon then you can just shoot down from the high ground and grind them into paste before they can even get close. me and some pubbies decided to see if we could clear extreme eradication without firing a shot. Not only did we clear it, I got the cheevo for doing an extreme mission with no one dying too, lol. Trivial missions type.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:43
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I love the EATs but what I would really love would be an upgrade rhat lets me drop it three in a pod for those difficult missions. Also I havent seen anyone comment on it yet but shooting down ships making them dissapear and then fly in sliding across the ground is so dunb, this isnt just a me thing is it?
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hey mom its 420 posted:which weapons can kill bot dropships? only recoilless? EATs at least
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Honestly, I can't even recall the last time I was teamkilled that wasn't either me loving up or something that wasn't really anyone's fault (like someone getting knocked down while they were about to throw a strike or something)
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Also the robots that land call in more dropships lmao, seeing a bunch of flares in the sky during a defense machine really makes you want to give up But yeah also shooting down dropships is satisfying but doesnt seem to actually DO anything.
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I still really love bringing a machine gun and EATs to every mission (because the eats can be fired and dropped so I can pock back up the machine gun). The machine gun is still just my favorite weapon in the game by a big margin. Just so fun to shoot at max rpm.
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wilderthanmild posted:It seems like it takes ~3 EAT shots to take out a charger too, which is annoying. I brought EAT on a "Kill Chargers" mission and both of them took 3 hits. So not only would you need to bring them, you'd need to use more than one pod of them. One EAT to the leg will sometimes kill a charger, and if it doesn't you can finish it off with less than a clip from your primary by hitting the hole it makes. Also, I usually kill the first Charger with the pod itself, don't forget the utility of them coming in an insta-kill package! I'm actually fine with the damage EATs do, but I would absolutely love if they dropped three instead of two, maybe with an upgrade or something. Ra Ra Rasputin posted:I find if you unload absolutely everything into the bug breach as soon as the warning appears it stops things from growing out of hand quickly, orbital gas strike followed by 500KG as the titans crawl out of the hole seems to cover the entire threat. I've actually really fallen in love with the orbital gas strikes recently against the bugs. I haven't brought it into the very highest difficulty levels yet but it is so, so nice at lower levels. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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I don't know how to use EATs to kill tanks or really any sort of robot though so I've stopped taking them on bot missions, they seem less than worthless there. But great for bug missions.
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I mean, I sometimes beeline for extraction just cause it can be nice to have the dropship ready to go for folks, but I also trot around the map afterwards blowing up nests and getting samples usually, and aside from one mission today where someone was apparently in a huge hurry to leave, everyone seems fine with holding the ship for me while I do it unless it looks like we are gonna squad wipe if they dont bail, often times someone else will even do the same in another area after dropping off their samples at evac
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So I've fallen out of love with the gas. It's good and powerful and the reload is quick but the fact that it's accuracy is fuckin' garbo really tanks it's usefulness. When I throw gas, I want the gas THERE, not a hundred feet away on top of a mountain! It happens often enough that it gets quite frustrating after a while, which sucks! Why handicap it like that?
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DarkDobe posted:Im pretty sure that's the 'orbital scattering' planet modifier at work. poo poo, this is probably it. Ive only been running eith the laser and rail for my other orbitals which probably aren't impacted by that since they auto target. Thanks for convincing me not to dump it, hah. Also, I generally play where my group sets a way point at the next objective, we all split up and take sligjtly different routes to get to it to nab stuff on the way, and then we might up and have a big fight before repeating and extracting. I like it that way, plenty of shooting, plenty of sneaking, we are regularly on our own but also close enough to help each other out. Seems optimal to me, in terms of maximizing fun and rewards both on higher levels.
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Has anyone else had bug patrols just... brazenly spawn around them? I was just by myself in the middle of an empty field heading towards a POI, and then suddenly surrounded by at least 10 hunters and some smaller bugs. They seemed just as shocked as me, thankfully, meaning I managed to survive, but it was a terrifying thing for a moment, hah.
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You are not forced to get every single upgrade, and in fact can trivialize not having them by playing on a lower difficulty where their benefits don't actually matter.
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SkyeAuroline posted:You are not forced to play with buffed non-railgun weapons, and in fact can trivialize their existence by playing in a 4-man that doesn't bring any, where their existence doesn't actually matter. I didn't claim I was. You did. You get the difference between being called out for bullshit you actually said, and you calling me out for bullshit you made up, right? Because those are different. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Feb 27, 2024 |
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