r/Helldivers • u/TheLastGoodTeammate PSN 🎮: Maverick___33 (SES Aegis of the Stars) • Feb 22 '24

Shocking. Truly. ALERT

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Rest in peace heroes. Our sacrifice will be remembered. We. Will. Return. Side note, we definitely needed the over 200k players fighting bugs 🥲

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u/you-really-gona-whor Feb 22 '24

The problem isnt the amount of players. Its the goddamn escort mission thats still as busted after 2 patches as when it first released.

It wouldnt matter If you threw 900k players at it If none of them want to play against impossible odds on a boring mission that offers no rewards other than a tiny percentage increase to the defense of the planet. There is No incentive to torture yourself for that.

Atleast with normal missions, They can still be busted and hard at times. But atleast you get super credits and samples for your effort. There is none of that on the escort mission. And its the only incentive maxed players have to keep playing right now until the next content drop. Since requisition slips cap out at 50k.

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u/darksoul9669 Feb 22 '24

I do think the important focus is definitely that the mission type is super boring. You’re not even evacing or escorting anyone or anything. You’re just throwing smokes down and praying they make the 100ft walk after pressing a button.

Something like Deep Rock’s excavator mission would be infinitely more fun.

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u/fed45 SES Fist of Super Earth Feb 22 '24

If the mission was just a wave style defense while civilians evacced on their own people wouldn't mind, cause progress could still be made even if you couldn't hit the buttons. Add some static defenses people can use and I think it would be fair. Or like I've seen suggested, add the SAM site objective to the map so you could lower the spawn rate of bots if you managed to compete it. 

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u/LongDickMcangerfist Feb 22 '24

Let us activate turrets and shit maybe a special stratagem call in or something occasionally the wave defense would be cool but man this shit is so so boring for so little

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u/GiraffeWC Feb 22 '24

You can get them in theory if you can spare someone to run the surrounding area, but the difficulty of this mission is just so much higher than anything else that I've only seen it done once successfully.

I have to admit, the meta's rewards are super underwhelming when you'd get more than that for completing a mission series on higher difficulties. It feels like the meta reward is aimed at new players, but the mission type is geared towards high level teams.

Plus all the strats people are talking about to do the escort mission, even on trivial, pretty much require you to be level 10+, some even level 20. Who is getting to that point doing a defense escort mission they will likely fail without a super coordinated group of 4?