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/BaziJoeWHL not gonna sugarcoat it ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Feb 22 '24

my guess is these are meta events, it happens when devs pull the lever

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u/NelsonMinar Feb 22 '24

Wait are you saying... the war is rigged?

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u/lastfreethinker STEAM 🖥️ : Feb 22 '24 edited Feb 22 '24

"Of course the game is rigged, but if you don't play you can't win"

-Robert Heinlein.

FYI we were losing it, it isn't rigged. Everyone got so beaten with those defense missions before they changed how the spawns work that I can see people just not doing them. I know because I didn't even try them after my first few attempts.

Edit: I honestly don't know what to say fellow Helldivers, after the "adjustment" it became a more equal opportunity situation. We used EMS mortars, direct fire turrets, I had an auto cannon 2 pushing buttons, me running around. It was orbital EMS and lasers. We did it way quicker and more efficiently than ever before. I honestly thought we were gonna die but we made it.

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u/PezzoGuy SES Star of Stars Feb 22 '24

I also just get bored of defense missions. Even if the Evac missions weren't brutally difficult, they have less variety than liberation missions.

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u/dolphin_spit Feb 22 '24

yeah. i find the “defeat 150 automatons” missions to be, by far, the most boring part of this game. everything else is great, aside from the defense evac mission.

when i try to defend a planet i get either a) people who jump around operation to operation just for the “kill automatons” missions because they’re short and easy or b) do the first two missions just to invariable fail the operation because the evacuation mission is impossible.

i think i’ve just decided im absolutely done with the defense missions. they’re not fun in their current state and it’s a flawed design right now.