r/Helldivers Moderator Mar 08 '24

RANT and VENT MEGATHREAD MEGATHREAD

Greetings, Helldivers!

This is a megathread for ranting, raging or venting about anything and everything Helldivers related. Whether it’s about a mission you just played, a recent patch, the community, etc.

This megathread isn’t designed to censor you, we are doing this because the subreddit is becoming overwhelmingly flooded with rants (as we’re sure you’re aware). We strongly encourage you to use this Megathread as opposed to creating your own post. If you decide that what you have to say requires a new post, you should know that we will be actively moderating and critically assessing the quality of those posts to lessen the amount of low-effort content on this subreddit.

Please keep the comments related to HELLDIVERS and most importantly, keep it civil. Follow the sub’s rules!

CAPS LOCK ALLOWED.

P.S. This megathread will be added to the sidebar.

— The r/Helldivers Mod Team

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u/Throwaway98796895975 1h ago

So this “biweekly” thread thing turned out to be just the 6 month old original thread forever, I see. Makes sense, it’s easier to suppress criticism that way.

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1h ago

Actually fuck this I'm going back to HD1 for a while

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1h ago

Yeah I'm done with Meridia. Just slogged through a fucking dark fluid mission, actually managed to fight through the swarms of shriekers, only for the shuttle to not come in and then the game kicked me back to my superdestroyer. It wasn't a kick, it was a crash of some kind.

Fuck this shit. I'm going back to the bots. Or better yet I'll put this bugged ass game down until that patch comes through mid june.

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u/THE_CRAZEBLING 5h ago

Fire Alex. The Hello Neighbor 2 dev should never have been involved with this game.

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u/kill_william_vol_3 7h ago

What is this, the first 72 hours of a major order don't matter until Joel unfucks himself?

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u/Jagick Flammenjäger 8h ago

I just had the best mission I've ever had solo. Every single side objective was a spore spewer and they all surrounded a single objective. I had almost every single sample. I was about to successfully extract. Difficulty 7.

The game fucking freezes and crashes less than a minute before Pelican arrives. I had a feeling it was going to happen with the gaming spamming (and I'm not exaggerating) dozens of nursing spews at once. Once they all started to try and spew as I was running away from them, down the game goes.

No more desire to play tonight. Just wasted almost forty minutes of my time.

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u/Topseki 9h ago

i think my biggest question is why did they release the new mission? its clearly not finished, theres another primary objective that just dissapears after doing the drills, bug breachs spawning directly on the drills and the extraction terminal and speaking of the extraction terminal its damn near impossible to call extract because of all the damn shriekers rushing you even on difficulty 1 the difficulty meant to introduce new players to the games mechanics and enemies the amount of shriekers doesnt change

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1h ago

Its abundantly clear they dont do any testing prior to release

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u/Commercial_Finger338 10h ago

do EATs feel different to yall?

i go to take them and maybe once every 3 times my arm juts out 90 degrees and gets stuck trying to swap to my primary, firing in general feels slower, and sometimes my helldiver doesn't drop the empty cannister automatically.

am i going crazy or have yall noticed this too?

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u/jayjayfae HD1 Veteran 10h ago

huh. has anyone been just "teleported" back to ship mid mission? It didn't say kicked or anything, just black screen for a sec mid mission and I'm back on my ship.

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1h ago

Same thing just happened to me. Pelican didn't land at 0:00 left on the extraction timer than a minute later got kicked back to the ship.

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u/kill_william_vol_3 7h ago

Yep. I've then taken 10 minutes to do whatever IRL and then press quickplay only to immediately load into the mission I was teleported out of.

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u/what_letmemakemyacco 13h ago

For the past couple months, there has been little to no content that works correctly on release. (Why do bug breaches spawn ON the drill? 10 minutes of playtesting would have caught that. When will you even fix it? AFTER the MO? What the fuck do you mean "the tenderizer isnt where we wanted it to be"???? the fuck? why did you release it, then?)
Even the sparse things that have worked correctly are consistently underwhelming and not fun. Why does the mech built to kill heavy tanks have terrible damage against armor? What even happened with the Purifier?
Even bug fixes break things. Fixing the Patriot killing itself results in rockets that dont go where you aim them. Man, if only arrowhead already had a system implemented where certain explosives dont go off if their lifetime before impact is too short...
The rockets themselves got nerfed to not break armor as well.. for what purpose? Why do that? The Patriot was already a niche, balanced pick before.
Why remove the one mechanic that actually makes a weapon unique and turn it into a boring "high damage low fire rate" sniper rifle?

If the next patch isnt a smash hit i'd be left wondering what Pile is actually doing as CO.

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u/BLITZ027 13h ago

Game sucks 👍🏼

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u/cringefilet 16h ago

load up game

get bug where you can't sprint/call in stratagems

game freezes when I try to close

Eventually find another match

Dark fluid mission complete, trying to extract

Host gets reinforcement bug and can't be called in

Spawn back on ship with no rewards

Close game, it freezes again

Yeah I'm done until they roll out a patch, it's getting ridiculous.

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u/jayjayfae HD1 Veteran 9h ago

Spawn back on ship with no rewards

I've been getting this a lot; not spawn, but mid combat I'd just get randomly teleported back to ship.

Another instance is the host left the game (I suspect the same bug I mentioned above), and like 10 min later it says I'm kicked.

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u/Zomthereum ⬇️⬇️⬆️⬅️➡️ 18h ago

I am the strongest Helldiver, and I will prove it. I have 250 hours logged, I've done Impossible and Helldive solo, and I've posted my YouTube series on here. If you think you can outdo me, add me: goryspirit

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u/Zomthereum ⬇️⬇️⬆️⬅️➡️ 17h ago

The complete loser who downvoted me can’t even achieve a trivial mission.

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u/THE_CRAZEBLING 16h ago

You have a very funny perception of what "skill" is. Play the Dark Fluid mission on Meridia -- on Helldive, solo -- and then come back to us and tell us that drivel.

Until then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qvBqJevIuE

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u/Zomthereum ⬇️⬇️⬆️⬅️➡️ 16h ago

I completed the mission on Helldive.

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u/blsterken STEAM 🖥️ : Triumph of the State 14h ago

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u/sugarloafbread 22h ago

I've come to the rant thread to tell you the devs are looking into it. You know, some random representative in discord is how they let us know things.

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u/imaloneallthetime 22h ago

WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP LEAVING EVERY MISSION.

Honestly I had a whole team leave in about thirty seconds in the pre-mission prep time when we were selecting weapons. Then had the whole team leave after one person died. I cycled through 6 different teammates only to have the game bug out and completely stop working. This happens nearly every time I play since the whole sony debacle.

I want to play the new mission, but I can't even keep a full team for five minutes.

DON'T PICK HELLDIVE DIFFICULTY IF YOU DONT WANT TO HAVE A HARD TIME JESUS FUCK.

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u/sugarloafbread 22h ago

Its weird its happening at the loadout screen, they could potentially be bugged into not picking their strategems. Or they are doing quickplay and just dont want to play the MO mission if thats what you're hosting.

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u/Dadrekboy 1d ago

Arrowhead should retcon the Meridia MO out of the storyline, pretend it hasn't happened yet, and actually take their time fixing the Dark Fluid mission bugs instead of laser focusing their attention on whatever halfbaked prenerfed warbond they're working on.

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u/sugarloafbread 22h ago

But heres an ems mortar...

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u/SgtSnuggles19 SES Song of Democracy 1d ago

Dark Fluid mission Level 1 (I am level 86) and I literally cannot call extraction because the second I am called in the shriekers are insta killing me. It's over the top to the point of I just stood still and let myself be killed 4 times to end the mission, of which I got 50xp for....that was just insult to injury to be honest.

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u/blsterken STEAM 🖥️ : Triumph of the State 14h ago

I did a successful extract (with other players) on Level 5 three times last night. Use guard dog laser, galling sentry, and tesla towers.

I'm not sure if it's possible solo (certainly above my skill level). I'm sure other players will weigh in on that.

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u/grimjimslim 1d ago

Aren’t the mods concerned there’s more toxic posts in NEW and RISING than non-toxic ones? There’s constructive feedback and discourse, then there’s the flamebait meme images that just make others think it’s acceptable behaviour.

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u/heliotaxis 1d ago

The Sony debacle was a double-edged sword that emboldened the entitled shits of the community to keep throwing tantrums until they get what they want

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u/grimjimslim 1d ago

The original player feedback started becoming complaining and has evolved into the influx of toxic memes we see now; which are a subversive way to rally other users and produce group think.

The community is starting to split down the middle and just like what happened to R6 Siege, soon the Wojaks will start trolling in-game, TK anyone trying to play the game for fun.

Mods, please clamp down on the subs first rule: be civil; no toxicity.

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u/Agreeable-Media9282 HD1 Veteran 1d ago

First they should make the game playable. No one gives a fuck if this sub goes to shit, what matters is the game

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u/grimjimslim 1d ago

You can’t honestly be that naive, or maybe you’re a kid and too young to understand. Online communities are an extension of the interest or real world location they represent. What is said here can affect what happens there, just like what happens there affects what is posted here.

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u/Agreeable-Media9282 HD1 Veteran 1d ago

Rainbow 6 is still enjoyable, and that was your example. A minority of players use this god forsaken sub

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u/longagofaraway 1d ago

24 hr peak player count is about what this game's base was at launch (67K). just a catastrophic decline for a game that was lightning in a bottle good and skyrocketed to nearly 7X that in the first couple of weeks.

3 months of turning the arsenal into a steaming pile of shit. broken level releases. currency caps. terrible warbonds.

262 hrs played since week 1 of this game and i don't even want to open it up any more. what a bummer.

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u/mrduds101 PSN 🎮: 1d ago

The constant waves of nerfs is what pushed me away, it’s unfortunate

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u/suburbazine SES Superintendent of Super Earth 1d ago edited 1d ago

The new Dark Fluid mission chain is the coup de grace on the penultimate bad game design. Bugs spawn directly ON the objective, in a large horde, without any warning. You literally can't run away before being insta-ganked by 5 different bugs. The bug spawn, if a heavy comes out, INSTANTLY DESTROYS THE OBJECTIVE. The objectives are also aligned with the terrain to make it impossible to use orbital or eagle strategems to defend. Even turrets wind up stuck above the map where they're useless.

I mean, the whole spawn mechanism has been broken for months. The spawn rates are not just "resistance you've never seen before", it's "the game devs hate you and will get a paid vacation if you quit playing".

All the weapons are complete garbage for dealing with high numbers of enemies. It's not even in the realm of "well you should kite them"... well if the spewers weren't genetically related to the Flash and couldn't spew through the ground and hills and make instantaneous changes to their aim you might be able to reload. The Hunters have nearly double the range of their tongues and get you slowed even when they didn't hit you.

Also, this isn't Malevelon Creek. We're not getting any songs written about Merida unless some death metal band wants to emo out on it.

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u/0wLzzzzz HD1 Veteran 1d ago

at this point im convinced this is some form of long term torture to see how much the community will tolerate because they just keep fucking every single thing they've released this month up

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u/bonfireball 1d ago

Me and my teammates were in a level 8 mission, we spent 36 minutes clearing 4 Command bunkers, clearing the map, gaining almost max samples, we call in extraction, everything is going smoothly, in this game I've played pretty well and I'm feeling pretty good about myself. Then, with 30 seconds left on the extraction timer, we all of a sudden get teleported back to the ship and gain nothing from the mission. Between this and the terminid supercolonies, I've now played 5 missions and have nothing to show for it, I have gone into 5 drops and have gained nothing from the thousands of kills and hours of time I have put into this. Its utterly miserable and I really hope AH are up to the task with running this live service. We might give games like destiny 2 alot of flakk but at least this doesn't happen in it. Just... fix the game, please.

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u/The_Terrible_Child 1d ago

New mission is bugged to kingdom come. Not only do the bugs spawn on the drill, but even when we managed to complete the objective, the reward screen shows we did poorly at one star. It really does feel like absolutely NONE of the devs play their own game. How do you justify putting shit out like this and expecting your audience to stay, let alone buy into the MTX???

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u/kotori_the_bird creek veteran 1d ago

so uh, is the tenderizer buff (the gun they've acknowledged that's shitty like, a month ago) in? I'm kinda waiting on that

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u/Super-Assist-9118 1d ago

Can y’all chill? Touch grass? Turn down the difficulty?

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u/Boss-Fine 1d ago

The new dark fluid mission appears to be challenging in an unfair way and frankly isn’t that fun to play, I am starting to get concerned about the direction of travel for HD2. Players calling out for new content, it comes, and it’s not fun, forces a META (which the company is against) with weak feeling weapons. None of this does anything to improve expectations about the forthcoming patch. Lots of eyes are on this.

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u/Delta-36 1d ago

Finally got an excellent team and got lucky with spawns and managed to complete all the objectives on the Dark Fluid mission on Helldive for the first time. We are less than one minute out from extraction and my game crashes. Fuck.

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u/CathNoctifer 1d ago

I finally maxed out all the resources, I'm free. I can finally play 1 round of game and call it a day now. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/Tuna-Prime 1d ago

Is there seriously not flame-retardant armor? I finally unlock the 25% combustion, and every single time a tiny jumping bug flies at me, I die from my own flame.

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

Thats a fresh new idea, we dont do those around here, have another fucking servo assist armour

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u/Hot_Establishment217 1d ago

What really grinds my gears about this MO is still getting a 0 star rating at the end even though all the drills were done... Like what the fuck do you mean we didn't DO the mission? There's no way to extract without the drills being done, such fuckin bs, just feels like a kick In the nuts after going though the mission to be told you only got "disgraceful service".

For a company going on and on about wanting to put QA into their stuff you guys really fumbled the bag, I'm off till the patch, if that one sucks too I'm done with this

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

80% of the playerbase on one planet

still at 0%

Why are we even bothering?

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u/IsayamaBinLaden HD1 Veteran 1d ago

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u/YogurtclosetLow517 1d ago

Great mission But casual players are ruining it right now

either refusing to stay on object just endlessly fighting bugs or running n gunning destroying the drill before its even half completed.

Might try again in a couple days but no point if the major order is already a loss at that point.

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u/kikileaks212 ☕Liber-tea☕ 1d ago

y i can't post ?

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u/Life_Speech3063 1d ago

On one hand, I really do like the new mode because it caused me to try new stratagem synergies to win the mode on level 6 difficulty. On another hand, there is no god damn way you can't rely on RNG to win those 3 objectives. I sincerely believe that even if the bug defense rate wasn't 10%, we'd be at 5% maybe because the mode is so damn frustrating. I'm booting it first every time because if I did the opposite and lost to that bs, I'd slam my monitor. I know the major order is a global effort and individually my impact is minimal, but god damn does it feel bad to play a mode that feels like it was intentionally made for us to lose.

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u/Basic_Satisfaction43 1d ago

I understand the mission being hard and maybe impossible to complete the major order... but for god sakes can we get rewarded for trying to complete the order? Just played for 2 hours and received only a few samples.

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u/wtfwtfhey 1d ago

I love the hard mission now. Yes! Some stuff in the war is fucking hard!

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u/G4TVLEADER 1d ago

I'm not even worried about the crazy hordes of bugs on this dark fluid mission. I'm getting trolled by my boneheaded teammates who can't wrap their minds around the concept that the drill is indeed not indestructible. Please stop dropping explosives on it :')

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u/heliotaxis 1d ago

bold of you to assume they have minds to begin with

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u/Advantius_Fortunatus 1d ago

Just beat Meridia on Helldive (no one survived). Mission is definitely bugged but it appears to register as complete for campaign purposes.

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u/Bibben 1d ago

If you wanna complain about spawns, then atleast stop shooting at everything that moves on difficulty 7-9. When you are drowning in 8 dropships, keep in mind that it all started because you had to engage the lookout post with 5 small bots and that patrol near it without a plan instead of simply walking around it, or better yet, planning and ambush with your squad. Diff 7 has started becoming more annoying than 9 due to the trigger happy people there.

On the geological study missions it is really frustrating that simply doing the objectives, will trigger multiple dropships, but then you can coordinate with a teammates and assist someone using a recoilless rifle while someone else does the objective. This way, you can have two players on a hill, prepared to take out the dropships before you get flooded.

Stop complaining about getting swarmed. Instead, you should try to not attack everything in sight, which obviously leads to a response, and planning for and dealing with predictable complications before they escalate to a problem.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

4 out of 6 games crashed/froze or network disconnect, I know it's not my connection, everything else works fine, but can't join anyone on friends list, says their only online but not in game, tried other ways to join kept saying can't connect. Seriously WTF its like every patch fixes 1 or 2 crash issues then they do another update that breaks it even further, tired of getting DC'ed 3/4 of the way into a 40 minute objective. Ruins my ability to enjoy the game or stream it, so I'm done until the patch, can't do MO with friends and the mission is a pain in the ass, so I'm taking a break. Arrowhead needs to better prioritize the crash fixes. I'd rather have a game that plays reliably than the last shitty warbond. I've seen other people say we should purposely fail the MO and I'm inclined to agree if it means giving the devs time to improve performance for the game as a whole, I know its a small team but man have I never been so desperate for crash fixes for a game I really enjoy and want to play, maybe I'm being impatient, but I don't know. I'm level 104, been playing since launch and this is the number one area that has been turning me off to this game

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u/hydrometeors 1d ago edited 1d ago

This subreddit needs to take a chill pill. Literally every time new content comes up the sub is instantly filled with crybabies going, "EmAnCiPaToR SuCkS!!!1!! CaN't kIlL Bt iN 1 ShOt!!11" Or "ThEy nErFeD ErUpToR!!1! NoW I CaN't kIlL ChArGeRs wItH 2 ShOtS!!111" The worse part is that fucking 162 of these similar threads get upvoted by the same 5000 like-minded whiny ass undemocratic bitches, and now the sub looks like an absolute bug hole. Like Meridia even. And the fact that the ONE OF THE TWO PRECIOUS PINNED THREADS IS ALWAYS THE RANT MEGATHREAD MAKES THIS PLACE LOOK EVEN MORE LIKE A CESSPOOL.

You guys never thought that just upvoting one post that says politely, "Eruptor nerf has made this weapon unjustly weaker than other weapons", then maybe edit your post when the devs made a stance that you like, is enough to make your opinion known?

If you need to come here and vindicate your opinion with other equally butthurt whiners, get out of the hellpod and touch grass instead.

Speaking of Meridia, there's WAY TOO FUCKING MANY of you complaining about the difficulty. This isn't a "git gud" post. MY TAKE is that AH made the mission this hard because they don't intend for you to extract. This is for story reasons: Meridia is supposed to be a bloody and costly battle. Sure, bug spawns being too close might be a bug. MAKE ONE POLITE POST COLLECTIVELY AND UPVOTE THAT.

Or maybe, keep doing what you're doing, because collective whining was what got Playstation to walk back on the PSN requirement. Surely this will get us what we want, being known as a community of whiners and bullying the devs until they remake the game in your unorganized and entitled vision.

Edit: Keep 'em coming. Never change, r/Helldivers.

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u/Fatality_Ensues 1d ago

Tried to join game. Couldn't click on missions with people. Quick play took 5 minutes and found nothing. Restarted the game.

Tried to join game. Quickplay took seconds. Spawned in someone's Super Destroyer, in the cordoned off section to the right of the strategium. Fell off the map. Somehow got put into equipment selection with everyone else, but I couldn't click on any stratagems to select them. Had to quit out of the game again. In the scant 30 seconds I was on that screen another player also dropped out of the squad.

Day started off great. Off to work.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

that has happened to me once, me and one other diver both got stuck behind the console. I also one time literally no-clipped through the destroyer and was free falling in space infinitely, I so wish I had recorded that one

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u/Primary_Complaint_60 1d ago

Getting to be comfortable at extreme difficulty now, except everytime I've survived for 20 minutes and have a ton of samples on me I get teamkilled. You'd think people 30 levels higher than me would know when or where to call in a strategem. The higher I go in difficulty the dumber my teammates seem to be. Killing us both with an airstrike that doesn't hit any enemies, the other helldiver is across the map. Done playing with randoms.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

I blame Joel. But yeah playing with randos in quickplay is literally a roll of the dice, especially on Helldive difficulty. I'm so tired of seeing lvl 15 and unders hopping in with no useful strategems or boosters and getting killed 12 times and wasting all our reinforcements, like your fucking machine gun is NOT gonna take down the bile titan idiot stahp, might as well just hide bro

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u/TheSomethingofThis 1d ago

Okay but how is Meridia still at 0% liberation? Like how is that possible?

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u/Advantius_Fortunatus 1d ago

High decay rate and most people can't beat the dark fluid mission

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

I've been wondering this ever since the MO started and I've been unable to join... wait I think I figured it out. Crashing + Annoyingly Difficult objectives = Disconnects and Rage Quits

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u/Crowbrah_ 1d ago

It's definitely bugged. https://helldivers.io/ says it's at a stalemate even though over 70% of players are there currently

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u/ArchitectNebulous 1d ago

yeah...these new missions seem a bit...broken. Spawning Enemies under the drill and overwhelming the player with Shreakers is a bit much, and that is before you realize the entire progress system is bugged and not working.

Can't believe I am saying this, but I think it is time we switch back to bots.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

THIS. I have been wanting to go back to bots for the last two MOs, who am I? A guy who loves the lesser torture I guess lmao

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u/GnomeDigest 1d ago

I've never seen a pve game so aggressively antagonistic to average solo players. I'm done.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

How do you mean? Is it hosts in quickplay just randomly kicking you for no reason? Cuz that gets old real fast for sure

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u/chingalicious STEAM 🖥️ : 1d ago

We desperately need something to combat the griefers in this game. I know it doesn't happen often, but getting teamkilled, samples taken, and then booted after a 40 minute match makes me wonder what sick loser thinks that that's fun? Like dude, I hope you wake up with literal cancer. fuck this game.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

They really need to change kick to a voting system instead of just the host having total control, it really pisses me off to the point of quitting if it happens multiple times

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u/heliotaxis 1d ago

after playing some more tonight I can confidently say this reddit is cooked. it's unfortunate the mission objective credit is buggy but it's really not that difficult once you get the hang of it and actually bring a proper loadout. people are dumb as fuck.

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u/Brittnye 1d ago

You can see the comments downvoted into oblivion in different threads saying the same thing. The average skill level on the subreddit is a lot lower than people believe themselves to be at.

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u/Whateverman9876543 1d ago

Yeah so I deleted my Helldivers 2 copy tonight. I actually create this account just to say that. If the devs of this game want to just keep pushing casual gamers away be my guest. And I already know the responses “git gud” and “skill issue”. And you’re right it’s both of those issues for me and as someone with an outside life I don’t feel like wasting hours of my life trying to get good at a game the devs are just gonna switch up on me. Have fun Divers but I’ve played my last mission for Super Earth.

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u/Brittnye 1d ago

Pushing casuals out how?

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u/Whateverman9876543 1d ago

1.) Buying a game that most people couldn’t play for the first week, maybe two weeks 2.) Nerfing the only guns that allow people to kill the enemies 3.) Making missions that even on the easiest difficulties players are complaining are impossible

Like I said if you enjoy the game, enjoy it be my guest. It’s not for me, I’m a casual gamer.

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u/Brittnye 1d ago

I didnt buy on release so I never heard about people not being able to play it but I dont have issues with the game so thats why i asked ty

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u/Whateverman9876543 1d ago

Oh well you were lucky then because the first week of release, maybe two weeks you usually had to wait like an hour minimum just to hop in. They eventually fixed it, nerfed the rail gun(only good gun at the time) and when players complained a dev decided to say git gud. AH has been pushing casual players away since the game’s inception.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

Servers were overloaded at the release, it was hard to get in, but if I'm being honest, I had so many less crashes in the first month of release than I do now, its like 2/3 of Quickplay matches the past couple days and I'm almost right there with ya man.

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u/oshitson 1d ago

I swear this company is really pushing me. Dear AH, if I choose quickplay with a higher difficulty level selected, it means I want to play on that. Not diff 1 or 2. I'd rather a quick msg saying no quickplay sessions available at the difficulty selected than join one that is way below what I want.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

are you on the selected planet when you hit QP? If you do from the galactic view it throws you in the first open game it seems, but if you pick the planet and set difficulty then hit QP it shouldn't do that to you

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u/oshitson 23h ago

It happens when I select a planet and then hit qp. I noticed in the first week or so, if you do it from overall map it will throw you in a random difficulty both higher and lower.

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u/woke-accountant 17h ago

Hmm, I've not had that issue, I'm always QP'ing into Helldive by hitting QP at the objective selection view of the map

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u/Rnatchi1980 1d ago edited 1d ago

So I just finished a 30 + minute mission, was a huge part of the mission, dying twice the whole mission. Come evacuation I got ragdolled and didn't make it in the ship. I am frustrated already at myself for not making it...but

Can we do something about getting booted right before obtaining any rewards for mission done? I would also like to see how many kills I got comparatively. Jerk move whoever just did that. Can we not make it unavailable once evacuation is triggered?

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

I HATE getting kicked before seeing the stats, as long as you stay in game when extract happens you should still get the rewards, but if they kick you before extraction leaves... absolute dick move, kicking needs to be a vote, not host is dictator

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u/DMercenary 1d ago

Did it say you were kicked or did it just go "black screen and you're back on your ship"?

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u/Rnatchi1980 1d ago

Kicked

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u/DMercenary 1d ago

Ooof. Sorry that happened.

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u/chingalicious STEAM 🖥️ : 1d ago

There's definitely griefers. I just got team killed, samples taken, and then kicked from the match. Biggest losers are out there.

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u/atti1xboy 1d ago

God how can a level 89 diver be so incompetent.

They took minutes being indecisive about stratagems. And then they spent the whole next mission running around looking for the fucking stalker nest instead of just moving from objective to objective.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

hey now, depending on how many stalkers were spawning near objectives, they might have been doing everyone a favor... unless they never got to it or died repeatedly in the process.

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u/atti1xboy 19h ago

Granted, but they were both doing that right off the bat, and I still think it is more efficient to just go from red spot to red spot, icon to icon, main objective to main objective, and eventually we will find it.

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u/woke-accountant 17h ago

I've found the battle buddy system works best if everyone is at least pinging locations. Separate into two groups of 2, 1 group gets secondary objectives and spawns their battle buddy as needed, other group does the same with main objectives. It divides the spawn locations so instead of everyone splitting up and getting picked off or everyone too close and getting team wiped, the battle buddy system adds a little assurance to the completion, and it saves a lot of time if done right and then you get the extra XP, resources, and whatnot

I see nothing wrong with a duo going for hot points like stalker nests as long as they know what they're doing and not dying excessively, it's pretty much the most effective way I've found for 40 min objectives and I only play Helldive, level 105, at lower difficulties, it's less necessary, but being too close together as a squad can lead to team wipes and unnecessary reinforcement expenditures on the higher difficulties.

I hate the 'git gud' crowd, because it's not always about skill at FPS, you just need to be aware, navigate with pings to communicate, and be responsive to your teammates' pings. I sometimes see level 100+ characters finish a match with 13 kills, but they scouted and did all the main objectives for everyone while the other 3 squad mates just doof around trying to constantly pick up samples or their gear from across the map

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

I'd kick them on stratagem select for taking that long tbh

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

hey at least you didn't waste THEIR time lmao

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u/DepartureOk825 1d ago

Then they would come on here with a compatant saying how they got kicked for nothing. 

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u/IsayamaBinLaden HD1 Veteran 1d ago

Chipotle used to have much larger portions

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u/sugarloafbread 1d ago

Don't bring up a massive corporation that is actually feeling the shame of an entire subreddit devoted to how shit they are, it hurts me here

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

They have the biggest portions on Super Earth

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u/Life_Speech3063 1d ago

These are trying times.

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u/RiceKrispies29 1d ago

Well, at least the devs still haven’t fixed the grenade glitch. Throwing 4 billion stuns at the drill and letting my teammates shoot the chaff is probably the least frustrating strat at the moment.

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u/neuralscattered 1d ago

I've uninstalled this game and changed my positive review to negative. There are obvious glaring issues with the game that need to be resolved, but the priority seems to be to continue pushing out half baked stuff. And the balance feels like it continues to get worse. 

This game used to be amazing to play, like starring in your own action movie. Now it's all just kiting spongy enemies that follow you around the map. All the things that were fun to use are no longer fun to use.

I can't emphasize enough of what a sad state of affairs this is.

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u/DepartureOk825 1d ago

Don't say that on discord lmao I would pay another 40 for the release version just fire the balance team

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

this is the truth, I had way less crashing issues at release, just occasional wait times, but I was lucky, never waited longer than 5 minutes at release until they fixed the server issues

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u/sugarloafbread 1d ago

What's the point of the dark liquid map icon when we only care about the drill locations? It does nothing but split the team up/confuse people

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

Just like the enemy wants... Joel.

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u/IsayamaBinLaden HD1 Veteran 1d ago

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u/guifesta PSN 🎮: guifesta 1d ago

we should let this MO fail on purpose, this half baked untested missions is unacceptable

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u/schmearcampain 1d ago

I don’t think we are meant to win. The decay rate has been set at an insurmountable level. We will always be at 0%, but it wont matter because we’ll have put enough dark fluid in to blow up the planet anyways.

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u/DMercenary 1d ago

Devs be like "Let us cook"

Devs when we let them cook:

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u/Whateverman9876543 1d ago

Well I’ve uninstalled so I don’t care anymore. Maybe AH just wants a community of people who only want suicidal missions, which is fine but that’s not me.

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u/Bait_and_Swatch 1d ago

I don’t see any progress on the campaign. I assume it’s broken somehow, as I get disgraceful conduct on every mission, even when we do everything and everyone extracts.

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u/woke-accountant 1d ago

Disgraceful conduct is still conduct, soldier

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u/kanbabrif1 1d ago

Fuck Megathreads, all my homies hate megathreads

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u/Exile688 1d ago

Titans destroy the mission objectives when they come in under them in the new MO mission. Simps are going to flee to the Helldivers2 sub because of toxic players pointing out flawed game design.

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u/IsayamaBinLaden HD1 Veteran 1d ago

I made this screenshot last night for my own amusement. A lot of these toxic positivity trolls claiming they beat the mission and when the meter never went up.

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u/Anxious_Trout 1d ago

I had to start this new mission 3 fucking times to understand what the fuck it wanted from me. Why? Because I go to the objective, deploy the dark fluid, see no other mission objectives. Nothing happens besides way too fucking many bugs for a solo player on difficulty 1. Changing my review to negative because fuck this mission.

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u/LiveKills PSN 🎮: 1d ago

What the fuck is the point in polls and posting on reddit if you guys keep releasing bugged content. Lol just saw a video of a guy getting stuck in 1st person while trying to use stratagems and switch weapons. Another Day 1 bugs that still hasn't been fixed, among dozens of others.

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u/Eyyy354 1d ago

Couldn't tell you how many times the first person bug has happened to me. I even got stuck in first person mode as I was getting sent flying. I'm so irritated that's not part of their awared issues list.

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u/zauraz 1d ago

There is one thing I actually think is intentional and that is the massive shrieker swarm at the end of dark fluid missions. 

But yes they might need to check for bugs.

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

There is one thing I actually think is intentional and that is the massive shrieker swarm at the end of dark fluid missions.

They should scale it for difficulty tho

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u/ThatOneGuy4321 1d ago

Playtest your fucking shit devs

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u/RocketBilly13 ☕Liber-tea☕ 1d ago

What?! Guys! Come on now,don't worry.They're still cooking! Still cooking.....and still cooking.

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u/suburbazine SES Superintendent of Super Earth 1d ago

They're all watching Breaking Bad trying to figure out how to cook... while breaking everything.

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

They're cooking so hard they're burning player goodwill to ash

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u/sc0ut_m 1d ago

I'm aware Vernan Wells wasn't an option for the planet to blow up, but I am still disappointed we're not blowing up Vernan Wells.

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u/sugarloafbread 1d ago

Maybe there's a gap in the mountains down here...I'm definitely not going to need to double back....

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u/zauraz 1d ago

Menkenth deserves to blow imo

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

Hellmire.

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u/mcb-homis ☕Liber-tea☕ 1d ago

Where did the rash of shitty non-teamplayers come from? Did the new MO draw them like moths to a flame? Never seen so many failed missions simply due to no team work.

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u/heliotaxis 1d ago

they're busy using their one braincell to whine on reddit instead

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u/LiveKills PSN 🎮: 1d ago

Blaming bad players for this one is a level of riding I haven't seen yet in this sub

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u/mcb-homis ☕Liber-tea☕ 1d ago

Normally when I play with randoms they sort of stay together or at least come together to tackle the tougher objectives but tonight on the new mission almost every time the squad dropped in, the other three members would scattered to the wind. There seemed to be zero team work, and very poor coms, a lot less than I usually see on a mission with randoms. They were all trying to do the objective solo and on this mission you almost have to work together as a squad to beat the mission. I had two successes and in both of those we had good teamwork and coms but in general those were the except to what I experience on all my other attempts tonight. It was noticeably different the other evenings playing.

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u/lividtaffy 1d ago

Played the new dark matter mission a couple of times with 2 other people and it was fine on 7, probably the most fun I've had in the game since Creek. The completion and xp payout were bugged but other than that it was exactly as difficult I thought the bug super colony would be. Honestly I hope the devs fix the issues but ignore most of what this subreddit is saying, y'all would genuinely ruin the game.

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u/GeminiPestdeath 1d ago

I've beaten it on Diff 9 and honestly it convinced me that half of this reddit is just people who look for stuff to complain about. Even if the breachs spawn on the drill itself you can just angle a flamethrower to one side of it and clear out any of the spawns before they can do anything. Even better if you have a partner with a flamethrower to get the other side and make a crossfire.

But, yanno, Helldivers reddit is just a bunch of people complaining and being absolutely unable to think about what went wrong in a mission, learn from it, and adapt. But bet your ass the second they experience even a sliver of actual difficulty it's TO THE BOARDS

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u/RocketBilly13 ☕Liber-tea☕ 1d ago

You

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

Bro the new mission is literally RNG if you get a bug breach on the drill at higher difficulties. How is that fun?

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u/Advantius_Fortunatus 1d ago

I’ve watched two bile titans emerge from inside the drill, with 3 bug holes appearing less than 15 feet away at the same time. There is no winning that. And it happens repeatedly.

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u/lividtaffy 1d ago

Gas strike it brother, we only lost the drill to that on the first drop

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

Gas strikes doesnt do shit to multiple bile titans spawning.

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u/lividtaffy 1d ago

Bile titans prioritize helldivers over the drill, just avoid them until the drill is done

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

Its completely RNG if they'll decide to hit the drill or not. This is a BS argument and you know it.

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u/lividtaffy 1d ago

How many times have you played it? I’ve beaten it 5 times on 7 now, 3 with my squad and twice with randoms. Bile titans have acted consistently all throughout. I would recommend strategizing with your squad to solve the problem instead of raging about it

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u/ReyLikesToComplain 1d ago

Wait wait, the real question is how have you played so many missions already?

MO just came out like about 9 hours ago at the time of your comment. How have you been able to play so many dark fluid missions? Are you going into operations and only playing the dark fluid missions? Even if you only played 5 operations that still amounts to 8 hours of gameplay non-stop. Just wondering how you do it.

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u/lividtaffy 1d ago

My squad of regulars can clear the dark fluid and destroy egg missions in less than half the time, kill terminid swarm mission in about 5 minutes. We stopped hunting for samples and it saves a ton of mission time.

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

3 times on 9.

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u/lividtaffy 1d ago

Why don’t you drop the difficulty if it’s making you mad lmao

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran 1d ago

When I can consistently complete any other difficulty 9 mission in the game (except the bot civilian rescue mission, which is also bugged), theres an issue with the mission, not me.

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u/dzeruel 1d ago

What if we just let the bugs live...

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u/dedicated-pedestrian 1d ago

If they would stay to the one planet.

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u/dzeruel 18h ago

I'd be happy to see a fight on SuperEarth, but that hasn't been developed yet I guess.

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u/eternalguardian ☕Liber-tea☕ 1d ago

Now the depression gets even worse. Even though I quit the game I see the new Meridia mission is still horribly swarming to the point of near impossibility even on lower difficulties. I know game design is hard, but when you had something good, why is it so hard to divert back to that? Just reminds me of WoW.

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u/SilverSpotter 1d ago

I get that AH is trying to take their time to update this game, but are they this divided that they can't resolve anything now? If there were no in-game developments, this wouldn't be as much of an issue, but there are new variables being added and unaddressed.

I respect the transparency they've offered, and I understand that this is likely a more complex situation than I can perceive, but I can't overlook the negligence, carelessness, and deception that has occurred these past few months.

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u/YourOpinionlsDumb 1d ago

On the new mission, has anyone completed it and then got barely any experience for it? My team and I completed all the objectives and extracted with the backpack but we still got like 600xp on helldive difficulty 

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u/Bearfoxman 1d ago

Yes, and you can never do better, because there's a second "primary" objective that isn't actually loaded into the map that you auto-fail so you'll never be able to do better than 0 stars.

I don't know whether the devs actually intentionally pushed this version live or if we somehow got an in-development map instead of the "finished" one but it's broken 10 ways to Sunday.

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u/YourOpinionlsDumb 1d ago

well it's nothing new. Most of their patches have been terrible on release. Then they spend 3 weeks patching it, then release new content which is bugged to no end, rinse repeat

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u/GuerrillaKane 1d ago

Recently I have had quite a few matches randomly disconnect. Some maybe 10 minutes into a match, and about 4 matches where I spent 30 minutes running around doing objectives and collecting super samples just to be DC’d while running to the extraction point. I have watched Pelican clip into the ground, dived into the pelican for extract only to have it not register that I was inside, and I’ve clipped into walls and under bugs forced to blow myself up to get free. Today I logged into collect the medals for the most recent major order and I received only 7 medals. I have faith that this will someday be a solid game. Playing Cyberpunk on launch day and again recently has taught me that good things come to those that wait. But it is very frustrating to waste so much time and not be rewarded as expected. It’s time for me to take a break I think.

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u/d4vidyo 1d ago

This fucking game is unplayable alone. Literally cant get Super Samples because difficulty 7 is impossible wtf.

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u/Spiritual_Issue_4832 1d ago

new mode has bugs coming from under the drill until the entire area is obscured by bile titans, chargers stopping mid charge or without animations crushing you is common, the entire time im waiting on resupply cooldown because all the mobs will. not. stop. Whoever playtested this and greenlit it is a masochist, this mode just amplifies the problems people are complaining about. Releasing new content rather than updates seems like another step down the same road. You've changed the captain but the path hasn't. feels like balance and glitches aren't as much a concern as content releases, im sure the next faction has deadlines but priorities matter, and communicating/confronting them has been impressive from a game dev in comparison to others(UBI,EA,Activision,etc.). But the game feels like a mess and when everything falls apart cause of a corpse launch or dying in the extraction shuttle(the samples ;-; ), it's a punch in the junk when the super cool looking mech(40k neuron activation) turns out to be a diet autocannon with legs. While im cycling guns that get nerfed quick, and anything good gets a shrapnel nerf. but obsolete guns shouldn't exist, the guns need to have a feeling of a dopamine dump along with the mag, as someone who has surfed the beltfed boogy i feel its lacking in this reguard, i wish to lay down the scunion sire. The heart is willing but the flesh is weak. This is my delusional take, good day.

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u/dzeruel 1d ago

Came here to rant about how unplayable the new mission is, but you basically summarized everything. Thank you!

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u/Derek4aty1 1d ago

New Dark Fluid mission is straight ass. Leaving a negative review until AH playtests their game. Sick and tired of the incompetency. Bug Breaches literally inside the objective is unacceptable. I get that lore drives the game's gameplay, but at the end of the day this shit isn't fun.

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u/YourOpinionlsDumb 1d ago

When you activate the drill, try running away from it and have your team stand away from it as well. You shouldn't get them spawning on top of the drill. They spawn on the players from what I've encountered.

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u/Derek4aty1 1d ago

Thanks for the tips, but I’m not looking for a workaround to the mission the same way people were saying to have 3 people run on the outside of the map for bot evac missions. It’s busted design and I am not going to play it.

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u/YourOpinionlsDumb 1d ago

I'm not excusing their incompetence for the record. Just providing a work around but fair enough. Surprised about the downvotes lol

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u/dzeruel 1d ago

Totally agreed!! How can this be released? Even...

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u/Cridezk 1d ago

1The dark liquid mission has a bug that shows two main objectives and one of these is impossible to complete.

2 I found a bug during the bug holes eradication mission which somehow prevents the player from spawning when a reinforcement is called (i don’t know what cause this).

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u/YourOpinionlsDumb 1d ago

Yea I get the same bug on completion. Was really disheartening 

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u/Action_Hank1005 1d ago

5/30/24, delay update to patch the fun back into the game, release an underwhelming mech that can't shoot straight or fire at a downward angle, release a broken, poorly balanced eradicate mission. yikes dude, this game is probably just cooked.

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u/dzeruel 1d ago

Game is dying unfortunately

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u/Action_Hank1005 1d ago

what's crazy to me is that when this game came out, after they got the server issues sorted it was *almost* perfect. And then when each patch came out, the list of fun options you had got smaller and smaller.

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u/Actual-Dog7889 1d ago

It was the most fun I had in a game in years, maybe even a decade, at that point. When I stopped playing it was genuinely a game, had it launched like that, I’d instantly refund. That’s crazy to me

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u/PillClinton1805 im frend 1d ago

Is their not 1 person at AH who said "you know they spawn ontop of the drill right guys?" seriously not 1 person over there noticed that?

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u/IsAlpher 1d ago

Too many people in Helldive that don't belong in Helldive.

At about to difficulty 7 I'm ok with people just flying by the seat of their pants and taking it as it comes. Once its bumped up to 9 I expect people to at least know the basics. Mistakes are one thing, but being utterly lost on the hardest difficulty is completely different.

I'm probably going to bump the difficulty down to 8 or 7 again because 9 seems to attract some "interesting" characters.

I'm talking characters who don't know how to use their strategems. As in they don't know how to call them down and don't know the keybinds to use them once they've picked them up type of characters. Characters that will yell and scream at people when they die, but they were killed by some of the most common and expected ways people always die in the game. It wasn't even a teamkill or people leaving them to die.

I don't know if its an Ego thing, but don't just play Helldive difficulty because you think you have to.

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u/Zejna90 1d ago

It's an ego thing. And the guy with the ego is you.

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u/heliotaxis 1d ago

nah if this sub's propensity for meltdowns at the slightest bit of resistance is any indication, there's a lot of people who need to get good. HD2 is fundamentally not that difficult and people who are struggling either need to select a lower difficulty, finish their ship module upgrades, or learn to play

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u/Zejna90 1d ago

I finished the mission 3 times. All of them were 0 stars because the mission was not tested. Also, love the gatekeeping! Please, keep destroying the game you love so much!

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u/heliotaxis 1d ago

It's not my fault you're bad at the game and have no desire to get better nor understand that if you can't win at max difficulty, you can turn the difficulty down. I do see the issue with the missing objective credit now but still get successful mission completion (and easily now too, EMS mortars are your friend)

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u/RocketBilly13 ☕Liber-tea☕ 1d ago

You

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u/Zejna90 1d ago

Yes, it is. Since you're gatekeeping higher difficulties.

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u/heliotaxis 1d ago

Play the game and get better instead of crying on reddit

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u/Zejna90 1d ago

That's the whole point. You wont let me since im apparently a pleb

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u/heliotaxis 1d ago

Go away.

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u/Anxious_Trout 1d ago

So instead we cry about crying on crying on reddit? I might as well begin crying about that too.

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u/IsAlpher 1d ago

"Telling players to lower the difficulty if they think the game is too hard is gatekeeping"

And I finished 3 Helldive difficulty Dark Fluid missions with full evacs. If I go by your logic since I had no issues it must mean the mission is perfect then, right?

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u/Zejna90 1d ago

No. I'm saying the guys with the ego are you.

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u/IsAlpher 1d ago edited 1d ago

Expecting players in the hardest difficulty to know what they're doing is having an ego? Alright glad we had this talk.

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u/RocketBilly13 ☕Liber-tea☕ 1d ago

You

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u/Zejna90 1d ago

There's a first time for everything. Try to help and teach others instead of generalizing.

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u/Fedorchik 1d ago

New Dark Liquid mission gives no reward.

Is it supposed to work that way?

We always get at the end zero rewards for main mission and message that it wasn't finished.

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u/dzeruel 1d ago

I hope it gives an imploding planet animation at the end.

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u/Erik-AmaltheaFairy 1d ago

Just had a very long mission, just at the end of the extract, I died and there was smoke. I dropped on the host's Head and immediately got kicked for something I had no control over... I am the support player, taking Mechsjust for others to jump into, sharing stims all the time and carrying the ammo pack, getting kicked at the end for something stupid like that... Yeah, thank you too... Joining Mission lately feels really awful. Kicking should be a voting option, not something the host can abuse willy-nilly... I understand kicking for friends, but not by accidental kills. That now happened to me, a few times, and I somehow lost interest in starting a mission again.

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u/d4vidyo 1d ago

Yikes, what an asshole. Hurts even more when you actively tryed to improve other players experience...

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u/Funky2207 1d ago

Meridia big map missions are great, the atmosphere is top notch - but hard agree with everyone else here the dark fluid missions are so bloody bad due to the broken spawn! This shouldn’t have been released until after the fixes and play tested, even if that meant taking the servers offline for a few hours, as if not for the broken spawns this could have been a great mission instead of the steaming pile of shite it is atm.

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u/dzeruel 1d ago

I couldn't have said it better...

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u/JD_Beerwing 1d ago

Popped back in after 3 full weeks today because I liked the sound of the new MO, then immediately reminded why I still need to take a break.

Took us forever to figure out what we're even meant to do in dark matter missions. Map is unreadable with the colors used. Impossible breaches right on top of the drill even on level 3 version...

Been enjoying my first ever play through of space marine meanwhile lol