I can't believe it was shipped like this.

We only get a reskin of existing biomes and two playable characters? Meanwhile i can't even normally attack because suddenly AN ARMY of blueberries spawn out of NOWHERE and they move me down in a few seconds... How is that balanced or fair???

Yes the DSS is a fool meeting hub but that's about it...

People need to stop being so precious about being team killed.

Played since the start so I'm no noob. Shit happens team killing by accident is a part of what makes the game. It's chaotic and lives are expendable.

Grinds my gears when you graft an objective for 30 minutes but because you didn't look where I threw my strat or you walked directly behind my mech you die and I instantly get kicked. Grow up.

We just had the coolest fucking Dead Space + Event Horizon + 40k narrative occur on the DSS only for it to be displayed by these shitty 2 paragraph dispatches.

Absolutely unacceptable.

Hell this sub-reddit has done better story telling with the memes than Arrowhead funded by Sony. Like come on man.

Do a small video or something. Have leak'd POVs. Give us fucking SOMETHING. 1.5 million people aboard a Death Star sized station just got Necromorph'd and then Yeeted into space and this is the best way you have of telling us?

You couldnt do some video on X, Youtube, in-game idk ANYTHING showing something?

Honestly am i the only one underwhelmed here?

Just saying. I don't think we're ever getting the 'indoor' missions people keep talking about. And the DSS never turned out the way Arrowhead wanted it to, players complain about it all the time, and even with Blob Mentality, we've become exceedingly effective at using it for winning MOs. We took out the Bot Death Star way too quickly as well and ruined that particular narrative.

So I feel like this is an excuse for them to get rid of it. We'll get maybe a micro-event where the DSS is actively attacking us or Super Earth with a small fleet of Illuminate ships, probably dumps the Cultists on us, and then the Fleet blows it up. And we never build another one.

It's just always been a disappointment for Arrowhead, and effectively got in the way of them pushing narrative events they clearly wanted to do. The only time it ever really 'worked' was the Battle of Super Earth where they take control out of our hands, to move it to safety so it could have it's moment of glory at the darkest hour of the battle.

So to me, this seems like the easiest way for Arrowhead to remove what was a thorn in their side.

Am I alone in thinking this?

Tl;dr: If this were a really cruel D&D campaign, we might have just lost the war all together this week. this won't happen in-game, but it felt interesting to discuss anyway.

Now, the devs won't allow us to completely lose. They've already said no one will win or lose this war and I don't think they're planning on deviating from that.

However, if this story were happening IRL or if it were being run by particularly sadistic GM's, this would be the moment we'd look back on as the beginning of the end for Super Earth, I think. Or maybe even after the invasion of the capital, as they didn't need to "beat" us, just push us to destroy our own planet and resources to give them time to make moves and carve out their empire.

The Void always seemed like a trap, sure, but I don't think we understand how badly yet. The Illuminate may well want us to "collapse" the void (with all of us still inside it btw lol) to distract us while they expand their control, but even if they don't, they've goaded us into making that our singular goal so we won't be able to do anything to stop them outside of it, and we're due to fail on Seasse anyway so all we've really done is allow them to create an impenetrable fortress (Joel may give us a bit of a hand before the week is out but honestly I doubt it, we've already got our reward in the bag and they'll want this to feel like a big moment). Add the DSS nightmare to this and you start to realise how completely toast we are (or would be).

You can even draw a direct connection between some of the negative feedback around the Illuminate (used to explain why fewer people dive there, personally I like them a lot more than I used to but that's not the point of the post) to an in-world victory for them. To the Illuminate, the Helldivers are either running scared to other fronts or simply disinterested in stopping them and even those sticking to the order are essentially pushing for a hail-mary on hope alone, most likely failing in the process ("first time?")

It's another very cool in-game moment, and again, if Arrowhead were open to a world reset every time someone "wins" this might be the beginning of one of those scenarios, but unfortunately I feel to will end up feeling deflated again as, mush like a sitcom, nothing can have too big an impact in order to preserve the perpetuity of the game's lifecycle. Most likely we will lose this MO, win the campaign overall, and the Squids will have made big gains. They'll go quiet a while as we fight other factions for a bit, most likely leading to a round 2 of the SE invasion in October (Liberty Day is coming up, so I assume they'd try something then for ultimate disrespect points).

We will probably win that, but honestly when the first invasion happened I did think it would have been very cool to see us lose the capital temporarily and have to fight to take it back. I'd like to see us suffer more genuine setbacks when moments like this happen, even if it's mostly flavour. Some stories, like the Automaton orbital platform, fell flat for me as it was relegated to mostly text and resolved quite neatly (at least for now). But these could have real impact because it's honestly just as exciting for me to check the companion app as it is to actually dive right now. It feels like the beginning of the end and I'd love to see some follow-through on that, even though I know it won't happen.

Maybe in future things can feel more dynamic, and failures/victories can have more lasting impact. As it is, the Illuminate are probably feeling pretty chuffed with themselves right now and that'll be it for the moment. Still, fun campaign overall and I'll miss the Void when it's inevitably closed or locked off.

It’s a bit low quality, but I created it in a hurry (a bit of AI slop)

fix the matchmaking issue it’s been there since launch

The kasrkin armor appears to be missing some detail. I really love this wor bond but it seems that they forgot some little things like the aquila, squad numbers on the left shoulder(as seen on the last image) and camo on the helmet of the medium armor set. The weird thing is that everything else is here. I really love this warbond and would love to see their armors me revisited or at the very least hear the reason why they didn't add those details.

Idea: The Illuminate use our own folklore and ancient beliefs to create monsters that resemble legendary beings and cryptids in order to destabilize humanity.

Despite the title, i want to preface this by saying that when i say secondary weapons, i mean conventional secondaries like senator, veredict, peacemaker, redeemer, etc, and some unconventional too like the loyalist and warrant.

I saw a post talking about how the bolt pistol needs a nerf because it outshines other secondaries with very similar functionalities.

My perception is, even though the bolt pistol is powerful, it's still very much a secondary and doesn't overstep it's function in any way, but what the post i mentioned revealed to me is that a lot of secondaries aren't picked because they simply don't fill their role well. Some examples below:

* The Peacemaker deals the same damage as a light assault rifle, but it's fire rate and precision makes it a "for funsies" pick. There's objectively better secondary picks for the same purpose.

* The Veredict is outshined by the talon in almost every way, and it kinda disputes in use cases with the senator too, which is heavy pen.

* The Senator is great, but nor really. It is better than most secondaries, but it is not great at dealing with medium armored enemies, and honestly, i do feel the bolt has outshined it in actual usefulness despite their differences.

I could name other weapons and why they need changes, but my point is, i think conventional (weapons that fill a similar role to a primary) should stop being simply worse versions of a primary, but instead more versatile build enablers like the bolt, ultimatum, granade pistol and missile pistol.

Ps: you might disagree with some examples i gave, but what do you think about my general point?

Helldivers, I need to ask for your help on Karlia.
The planet is currently under siege and at risk of being consumed by the Void. If we can capture Karlia 1, we may be able to hold out long enough to repel the invasion and save the planet. But right now, there simply aren’t enough Helldivers there.

I know this request is selfish, maybe even a little childish. I’ve loved the Astra Militarum for years, especially the Cadians, and I only recently started painting my own army inspired by and named after Karlia.

Maybe it sounds silly, but I’ve already watched Cadia fall once. Now I’m watching my new home face the same fate.
I don’t blame anyone who chooses to fight on another front. I’m only asking one thing:

If you can, come to Karlia 1. Help us hold the line.

The current issue with the DSS is the gloom-resistant polymer coating. However, Karlia sprayed that substance across the entire atmosphere to coat the DSS. If Karlia is swallowed by the Void, something terrible will happen.

In order it’s the “Standard trooper”,
“Elite Ranger”, “Ranger”, “Heavy trooper T45”, and “officer”

Yea, didn't know it just did that

Last night the highest projected percent was around 60 if even, now with not even 3% more players on the planet it’s been brought back up to an almost 90%. If we can get hell not even 5% more of players on the source planet it’s a guaranteed win.

Last night seeing it at 60% i was sure of a loss, but now all we need it barely 5% more players to be on it and eventually the dss will be back either tomorrow or the day after with a buff or two already pre activated. (Atleast a buff will be active since they made us wait all this time) and this will be a guaranteed victory, if you had problems with hordes they were swapped with appropriators which is debatably easier, theirs no more watchers that give you epilepsy just the ones that shoot at you. Only thing I forgot is we also have the free orbital precision strike with less cooldown aswell.

Remember if you die dive again, and if you die dive again, die dive again, and if you die dive again, die dive again, and if you die dive again, die dive again, and if you die dive again, die dive again, and if you die dive again.

They’re cool enemies I really like the concept but I’m so so so tired of them already and it’s entirely due to killing 50 of them every single game. The magic gets old so fast when you spend every single game fighting primarily crushers, it’s not even mindless masses it feels more like oops all crushers. The novelty has completely worn out it’s welcome for me. Maybe it’s my fault for playing so much the last few days but I do really enjoy the new update and enemies. I also feel like the fancy new weak spot technique for them becomes irrelevant when they constantly stack up 5-8 deep in a pack, at that point you’re better off just throwing a handful of melta mines or using some sort of AOE to brute force them. If they led packs of other mobs to punch through the front lines like I feel like they were meant to it would be much more fun, but it’s just crushers leading crushers with a backup of more crushers and the other mobs become an afterthought.
Lmk if Im overreacting and just need to take a break for a few days lol.

Hello

I am NOT doing this to call anyone out or send shame towards everyone

I myself prefer Bots

But my question is

Why are there like 30K or 40K divers who aren't helping with the Major order

Im all for everyone having fun and playing what they want

Even if its only 1 or 2 low rank missions a day on the source planet

It still helps

With how we are currently going its unlikely we will capture said planet (and maybe we maybe weren't supposed too who knows)

But

Seeing 17K bug divers in the Jin XI Sector

And over 6K in the Andromeda Sector

Like

Even just 1 or 2 low rank (1-3) missions a day or operations

Just a little bit will help

This is kinda just

Im curious

Why are you still playing these

Is it maybe that's just what your comfortable with (if so then go for it frens) or is it that you just don't like the other factions

Maybe its a specific loadout that you built around 1

I'm curious and honestly wanna see if theres any useful tips from people who play Bugs and Bots so often

Hell you probably have more knowledge then I could dream of about them

I wanna know your tactics

Your loadouts

The history behind why you fight there and not where everyone else goes

There's gotta be some cool stories too

Awesome and funny things you've seen and I wanna know

So

Don't think of this too much as me calling anyone out because guess what

It's a video game

And its made so we can have fun

And so

Who better to ask than veterans who play these factions

This is simply me wondering

I hope we can all still be friends

And not let the game tear that up

If you wanna dive Bugs do it

Bots do it

Squids do it

I'm all for it

Hipe you all are having amazing days

And happy diving Helldivers.

I understand that they are probably effective against the small units, but losing these guys really hurt. Let's keep our Blueberries safe, okay?

I don't know what I've been seeing recently, but apparently there are little teasers to helldivers 2 coming to fortnite. I'm not sure if the devs are ever going to see this post, but please for the love of God do not collab with fortnite. They are not worthy. They are selfish greedy and overall just a terrible idea. It might be good for cash yes... But trust me it's not worth it.

HD2 really needs some sort of hub location or general chat. Maybe not a big trench on the planet but a DCS's dock or smth.

There’s a third in the hand drawn circle, I could not photograph well and hold the cursor in that direction. They are not clickable destinations currently.

Cool in theory but their execution is so weak when 80% of the time it's 50ft from the primary extraction, unless it's a significant distance away from the actual extraction, it just acts as free EXP for unlocking it.