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Well, I was going to hold off to see what the reviews are, and also get a digital copy, but Currys in the UK has a fiver off if you use the code DIVER15 at checkout, and I had some cashback type stuff, so I've just placed a pre-order for the grand total of £20. I'll definitely get £20 worth of fun from this just by dropping pods on my teammates.
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My copy arrived, installed, and I had just enough time to run through the tutorial before heading to work. I am not too proud to admit that the Battlefield Injury Simulator Unit got a laugh out of me I'm Gisbon on PSN for any goons I've not hoovered up yet. Edit: I think my ship is The Sword of Benevolence
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I've managed a couple of games with people on my PSN friends list, but beyond that I've had no luck whatsoever joining with the quickplay/using the beacon. Really disappointing because when it actually works, it's great fun! I really hope this gets fixed soon because yikes it's disappointing.
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Feb 9, 2024 18:44
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Holy poo poo. I just gave the robots a go and it is Terminator in 'Nam. God above they are *terrifying*.
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Feb 10, 2024 12:49
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It's not the subtlest satire I've ever seen, but also lol at "Strohmann News"
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Feb 10, 2024 13:31
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Occasionally I've been on a map where all the resources spots etc are shown, without having to be found. Is this a case of the map being interfered with/a bonus type thing, or is there an upgrade you can get that does this? Also lol hot drat do people ever get salty when you use a mortar sentry in a "Kill X amount of bugs" mission. What's wrong, Helldiver, don't enjoy being in a cramped area while freedom friends rain down at random??? Fake edit: Fun new bug as I type this - everyone was stuck on the "pod crashing down" screen for about three minutes, until everyone quit and I finally landed.
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Feb 12, 2024 19:55
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God drat. Killing a Bile Titan with your hellpod on revive feels extremely loving cool.
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Feb 13, 2024 00:31
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Oh dang. The speedy armour that was in the SuperStore the other day (and, presumably, the speedy armour towards the bottom of the standard warbond) is great. Just hauling rear end across the map and running rings around the big fellas before, inevitably, getting absolutely swamped by a hundred bastards.
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Feb 15, 2024 15:00
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Is there a trick/gimmick with the points of interest where it's just a note that says "sorry, I took the supplies"? Even when I've read the note the POI marker stays on the map, and it makes me wonder if there's something I'm missing in the area/just not shooting enough.
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Feb 18, 2024 22:47
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I've generally been really surprised with the luck I've had with pubbies so far, with the exception of this evening. Played an "escort NPCs from one cupboard to another" mission, and as I was running round slapping buttons like they'd been naughty, my team mates were getting into extended and fruitless shooting matches with the bots. At one point I left the objective to hoover up samples and treats around the map, and when I came back five minutes later not a single additional scientist had been rescued. Like, god drat, guys. Come on. Press one button. Please. I'm begging you.
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Feb 19, 2024 22:36
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Light armour with a high move is great fun. Zooming around the map and turning on a dime. Highly recommended. Also if you're going AFK for literal hours and are thinking of writing a script to avoid being kicked, congratulations! You are the captain of the SES Dorkass of Gamer Hygeine.
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Ugh just had the saltiest prick of a pubbie join my game. Suicide Mission, just me and him. Down to the last two revives. He revives me, I accidentally squash him with my hellpod, and I immediately call in a revive. I start running off to do more of the mission, and as soon as he lands he shoots me to death, putting me in the 1m30s cooldown. Absolutely loving not, pal. Off you pop.
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Feb 20, 2024 14:12
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Harlock posted:This is a AAA game. "AAA I'm being overwhelmed by bugs!!" Games> Helldivers 2 - This is a AAA game. "AAA I'm being overwhelmed by bugs!!"
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Feb 20, 2024 21:28
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dog nougat posted:Post your ship names y'all! 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
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Just a thought about line delivery - every now and again, you get a variant of the "how about a nice cup of liber-tea?" bark where the emphasis is really heavily on the "tea". That doesn't make sense! "How about a nice cup of LIBER-tea?" makes sense as a pun, because the "liber" acts as a kind of modifier to the "tea", but "How about a nice cup of liber-TEA" implies that it's a tea kind of liber, which isn't a thing. This might be a bit Dark Souls-pilled of me, but obviously that was intentional - a person did that - and so I like to assume it's a subtle nod that these people are completely unhinged, and don't even understand the things that they are shouting. They're not shouting because they believe in it - they're shouting it because that's what Helldivers shout. Edit: spotted a fun bit of world building earlier today https://twitter.com/Brainmage/status/1760267810553422143 Flint_Paper fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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Feb 21, 2024 12:32
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Flint_Paper posted:Is there a trick/gimmick with the points of interest where it's just a note that says "sorry, I took the supplies"? Even when I've read the note the POI marker stays on the map, and it makes me wonder if there's something I'm missing in the area/just not shooting enough. Bumping this in case I've missed anything key since I asked. Is there a trick to it? Is it just flavour? Dammit I want my democracy trinkets!
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Ciaphas posted:can't. brainworms I totally get this! What I've found, though, is that every goon I have played with has been great, even when I've been repeatedly dying like an absolute tool. Add Gisbon on PSN and we can silently disappoint each other 
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Started a match. Threw a grenade in front of a shipping container loot stash. A second later, a chump pubbie wanders over, stands atop the grenade, gets blown to chum, and posts a pass-agg "thx" while waiting to be respawned. Like. That grenade was there before you were, you salty little tit. What did you think was going to happen?
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One frustrating thing I've noticed is the inconsistency of your Hellpod doing damage, especially to Bile Titans. There's been quite a few occasions where I've steered the pod directly through a BT and it's done no damage whatsoever. Last game I played we were out of respawns, had a load of samples/super samples, and were at the last bit of the mission. The only other player respawned me, died, and my pod went through the Bile Titan. This did no damage to it, and it immediately killed me, ending the match. Pretty miffed about that! It felt like real "pushing back against unstoppable odds with lots to gain" fun times, and then it immediately hosed up thanks to weird collision stuff. Edit: god bless you, incredibly efficient German pubbie. You put a lot of work into that.
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This week, in The Continuing Adventure Of Flint_Paper's Encounters With Salty Pubbies: Last night I was on a 3-team suicide mission and we'd ran out of reinforcements. It was an oil extract mission, and we were down to the last step of the process. Both other players died, so I ran off, hoping to avoid the enemies for long enough to call in reinforcements. I dallied about, reloaded my weapons, snuffled up some samples, and generally kept my head down and avoided chargers. Eventually, the cooldown finished, and I called down a reinforcement. The guy immediately started ranting at me. "What the gently caress were you doing? You had two loving minutes to get to the objective and you hosed AROUND doing loving NOTHING what the gently caress???" Given the choice between patiently explaining that I was avoiding dying so I could call in reinforcements and improve our chances, rather than going to the objective and dying of bugs, or not doing that, I went with "ahahahah chill your beans". He then died again and immediately ragequit. Lol. Weirdly, when I (after once again doing loving NOTHING so I could call in my remaining teammate) got to the objective, neither of us could trigger the final stage of the mission. We'd done most of the button presses, but the interact button just wouldn't appear for the final stage. Eventually the timer ticked down, so we extracted with a bunch of (super) samples and failed the mission, but what a weird bug.
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municipal shrimp posted:Why not just come play with us instead? I haven't been in a single bad game (that's our fault) with goons since launch I've got a bunch of goons on m friends list, and I've had nothing but grand times with them, but I think the majority are based in the states so it's slim pickings when it's game time in good old Blighty. Sindai posted:Randomly being unable to interact with stuff seems to be a new(?) and exciting bug. Had a game where I couldn't pick up credits/medals in a bunker or open a bonus pod no matter how many times I saluted at it. Other players had no issue. That reminds me! I spotted another weird bug last night as well - whenever I open the stratagem menu, it also swaps my equipped weapon to the grenade, which is really frustrating when I'm frantically running away from something and trying to shoot my way to freedom. Apologies if this has already been brought up! I'm ~12 pages behind at the minute and the thread moves fast!
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*PSN account required. Content shown requires base game, paid purchase of Super Credits, and game progression to unlock. I'm hoping that that's a clumsily-worded disclaimer, mainly because I can't imagine how they would differentiate between paid for super credits and ones you nicked from the shipping containers. OH BOY am I ever excited about an electro-shotgun
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This is a legit cool and fun way of releasing new content. also: https://twitter.com/PlayStationUK/status/1765755735772700986 Man I hope the 1k price is fixed, at least for a while. I've earned ~1.5k from play, but blown a load on speedy armour in the super store, so I'm down to 800. 1k a pop feels pretty reasonable, given the rate of accumulation
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Just spotted this on the galaxy map and god help me I'm easily pleased https://twitter.com/Brainmage/status/1766619653332152499?s=20
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Every Helldiver that makes it back to the ship returning 1.5 inches shorter and with a completely flat head
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Mode 7 posted:
I am in deepest darkest Wales for my dad's 80th, and this means I can't get in on the new warbond. Plz gang tag me in place of this
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Insert name here posted:Plus you can blue-plate special the jetpack bots This is an idiom I'd not heard before! After some googling I'm still not sure what it means in this context - is it that it's a cheap shot? Where's my dictionary of American slang when I need it
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Looks like the "shots fired" etc trackers are back up, which is either promising or a sign of Further Nonsense to come. Inspired by the thread/new warbond I've been playing with the arc turret. That thing is fun. And safe. Definitely safe.
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God above I had a real Eternal September experience with pubbies today. Just standing stock still on cleared objectives getting into endless firefights, not reinforcing, ignoring the two switch doors. For ages. Across several games. My friends. My fellow divers. I got mad at videogames.
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Sokani posted:
Very strongly hinted that they will, I believe, complete with something that's either a real subtle foreshadowing of them/hints towards their activity, or a straight up graphics glitch/case of player confusion that the devs have been nudge-nudge, wink-wink about just for the sake of being scamps. Unrelated: that youtube of Helldiver shanties posted a couple of pages ago was oddly charming. Felt very early 2010s in the most non-derogatory way possible. Edit: they call me the AMR, because I'm a fukken  but also very much not to everyone's tastes
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The Playstation site (https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/helldivers-2/) has a fun bestiary of what we have so far (apart from the flying guys), with lovely in-world descriptions rich in lore, subtext, and absolutely zero propaganda. Because I don't want to do any work, I thought I'd type those out and drop the pictures here. Edit: some variants etc are missing, and the charger is the weird spikier guy, plus the Scavenger picture isn't right. Text is fun though! Clearly Sony have some sort of conniving bug interloper spreading misinformation... Terminids The ravenous Terminids are guided solely by an instinctive urge to reproduce, spread, and destroy Democracy. They are a fast-evolving plague, a shapeshifting infestation that threatens to devour and disenfranchise every single child on every single planet. Scavenger  The brainless Scavenger is the lowliest of Terminids. Upon encountering an agent of Liberty, it emits a piercing scream that attracts nearby bugs in a reflexive attempt to destroy Freedom Warrior  Warriors are the natural end result of a species optimised for mindless expansion. In controlled environments, they have eviscirated innocent baby cows in under a second. One can only imagine what they would do to innocent baby humans Hunter  The pesky Hunters are known to dodge incoming fire with swift leaps. Scientists note that while this behaviour may appear intelligent, it is merely a base instinct, akin to a housefly avoiding an incoming swat Stalker  A side effect of Terminid gene splicing research, Stalkers can camouflage themselves almost to the point of invisibility. But nothing can hide from the cleansing light of Freedom forever Bile Spewer  Bile Spewers appeared following unavoidable spills of toxic chemicals on Terminid E-710 farms. The Bile Spewer's thorax is bloated with several metric tons of corrosive acid, which it vomits in revulsion upon encountering Democracy Bile Titan  The largest known Terminid strain, a single Bile Titan can destroy an entire SEAF platoon on its own. Engagement is not recommended without the support of heavy duty Orbital Stratagems or a high personnel replacement budget Charger  A rushing Charger is nearly impossible to stop, thanks to its meter-thick exoskeleton. Therefore the recommended response protocol to this situation is the prompt execution of a Rapid Lateral Movement (RLM) Brood Commander  Directing its foul brethren with a mixture od pheromone-like spores and authoritarian shrieks, the bloodthirsty Brood Commander is a rare and deadly strain known for its undeniable hatred of the right to vote The Automaton Collective The Automatons are mindless, bloodthirsty robots, coded for nothing but murder and socialist violence. Their origins are a mystery, but their unthinking hatred of Freedom makes them a threat to all citizens of Super Earth. Trooper, Raider, Marauder  Troopers are little more than guns with legs, base caricatures of consciousness fused to machine guns and rocket launchers. Unlike Super Earth, the bots seem to believe that strapping heavy weaponry to expendable cannon fodder is the solution to every problem Commissar  A crude simulation of military leadership, the Commisssar is augmented with slightly faster processing and a crude command subroutine. The Commissar stays out of combat if possible, as despicably cowardly as it is unequivocally non-sentient Scout Strider  The Scout Strider is a machine operated by a machine, a walking turret guided by the limited intelligence of an Automaton Trooper. Another fruitless attempt to ape true intelligence, in this case by exercising mastery over a machine even more primitive than themselves Beserker  A primitive actualization of barabrity, the Berserker has CPUs in each chainsaw that are programmed to solve one problem: closing the space between saw and target as quickly as possible Devastator  The ironclad Devastator seeks to crush opponents of the Automatons' totalitarian worldview with a diverse array of heinous weaponry: arm-cannons, arm-shields, arm-machineguns and arm-rocket-launchers. Variants: Armcannon (Base), MG/Heavy, Rocket Hulk  As with all Automaton units, the plodding Hulk is brainlessly optimised to do nothing except deliver heavy firepower. If encountered, the recommended protocol for Helldivers is to immediately call in the largest orbital bombardment available. Variants: Autocannon/Rocket, Flame, Rocket Tank  Shamelessly copied from Super Earth tank designs, the Automaton Tank is clearly inferior in such a multitude of aspects that it would be impractical to list them here. Variants: Heavy Cannon, Quad HMG Dropship  Packed to the brim with robotic infantry, Dropships conduct rapid deployment of mindless, mechanized despotism Flint_Paper fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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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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Aipsh posted:An NPC just showed up in my game?? There is some talk of a friendly dropship dropping soldiers into the field, along with a couple of YouTube clips of it. Could either be A) janky test stuff Or B) bollocks people have made for YouTube. What was the NPC like?!
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BadLlama posted:I asked for one but never got one I assume there's still a load to process! They seemed somewhat popular when I asked for mine, so that's what I'm clinging to. Cape-wise, back in Helldivers everyone would turn in tight circles to spin round, and by the name of sweet Liberty I would love a cape twirl emote that calls back to that
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Joel (the GM) dropping into random games and giving out an APC https://twitter.com/Helldiversmedia/status/1771900000202870872/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1771900000202870872¤tTweetUser=Helldiversmedia Extremely sick.
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johnny park posted:The devs have explicitly stated that they do not do this and all instances of this stuff happening are hackers Ahh man 
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WoodrowSkillson posted:
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Hwurmp posted:If it's anywhere, it's in the massive Helldiver contract at the end of the tutorial. That is a legitimately funny bit of writing. drat this game has fun lore tucked away in corners. The Helldivers' contract posted:4.1 Unless otherwise stated, the Enlisted shall be solely and exclusively responsible for any and all damages, harm, liability, loss, costs, expenses, craters, atrocities, and crimes (civil, uncivil, war) https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Helldiver_Contract_of_Employment
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After avoiding the crash on extract bug, I've just had it twice in a row. Ugh.
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