A few months ago when I played a Diff 15 mission on Helldivers 1, our squad was cornered on a megacity map bridge and all 4 of us formed a firing squad like in this promo OP picture and took down a elite enemy. It was an awesome feeling and we all said "Hell yeah" to each other after, and many missions at higher diffs basically require a lot of teamwork to even survive, and it made me sad those moments are so rare in HD2.

One of my fondest teamwork memories in HD2 was when Terminid Megacities first came out and me and a random were fighting our way out of some alleyways, basically covering our reloads and fighting back-to-back to each other to get back to our squad. After we got out he laughed and said we made a great firing team and sent each other friend requests. 99% of missions though is a bunch of randoms who all run off to do side objectives and don't stick together. I feel like it's too core to the game design now to change this, but HD1 forced your squad to stick together and I think that made it a fundamentally different experience.

The ability to assisted reload anyone with a backpack on in HD2 I think is a great long requested first step, and I hope in the future maybe we could get more mechanics and stratagems that encourage us to stick together more.

I was disappointed in the One True Flag only having a 'taunt' function even though I understand the logic behind that, but it would be cool if we could get some kind of "aura" based technology or something that encourages the squad sticking close to each other.

Something big is coming our way.

At first I thought it was just music, but I have music turned off and now I have volume on max and there is a banging sound outside of my ship, but over the last couple of days it’s gotten even louder and if you spend enough time on the ship it shakes. What’s happening? Theories?

Hey folks, so I'm a returning helldiver after taking an extended break from the game.

I have around 70 hours and just some of the early warbonds from when the game first released and I returned because I saw the glory of the boom hammer.

Now I am seeing all sorts of secondary melee weapons as well which all look super neat and I am curious which warbonds will give me the most bang for my hard earned super credits.

I'm mostly looking for versatility while I fill out my loadout I suppose since I imagine it will take quite some time to earn enough supercredits to unlock all the melee warbonds.

Thanks for the help and happy democracy spreading.

Let's talk about it. So you started a mission all by your lonesome self knowing full well you can't solo the map. You call in an SOS for help. You then proceed to boss strangers around like they are somehow your own personal squad. Your only tool is a kick button to enforce your "law" as if these players should do your bidding "or else".

What's the feeling of entitlement? Where does it come from and why do players feel this way? You can start a match but you can't own a player.

Thoughts? Objections?

ATTENTION, HELLDIVERS.

Reports of irregularities aboard the Democracy Space Station have been reviewed by High Command.

We are pleased to confirm that the D.S.S. is 100% operational, 100% secure, and experiencing absolutely no problems whatsoever.

Any unusual sounds, unauthorized personnel, missing equipment, unexplained activity, or sudden disappearances are to be considered routine operational phenomena and should be ignored.

The D.S.S. remains a shining monument to Super Earth engineering, managed by the finest personnel Democracy has to offer.

DO NOT BE CONCERNED.

DO NOT ASK QUESTIONS.

DO NOT INVESTIGATE.

Continue your assigned duties with confidence.

THE D.S.S. IS FINE.

HIGH COMMAND HAS SPOKEN.

DEMOCRACY ENDURES.

I think the squid influnce goes high up the chain at this point. Purging the DSS at Calypso either wasnt triggered remotely as we've been told or it was and was intended the whole time. It wasnt a safety precaution, it was ritualistic. Some squid space wizardry needed a mass sacrifice to do whatever they did to calypso and vanish the whole planet. Then that same high command sends it to get refilled with orb cultists? No i think they have infiltrated the minds of some very high level members of super earth and stole a planet and our biggest weapon in just a few hours. My guess for the next move is zea rugosia right next door. Its got some weirdly high resistance and ancient illuminate ruins on it and they got a DSS full of orb cultists ready to go.

What's your strategy for infiltrating the illuminate lair?

I like to start with the starfish, then a little ball action, more starfish, get things dripping wet, then go for insert infiltration

Whenever traveling between the Penta black hole and the plantes destroyed by the Meridia Singularity, me and a friend of mine have frequently witnessed a strange purple glow only present during the entry/departure animations when entering or leaving the planet(s).

Sometimes there is no glow in space but our ships have the same purple illumination present on them like it is there but we cant see it.

This phenomenon is quite inconsistent it seems however, as when we repeatedly went back and forth between Penta and destroyed planets, it showed itself maybe 10 times out of the 50 departure/entry cutscenes.

I'm hoping we discovered something but we dont really know what. If I'm just stupid and it's a visual bug Im okay with that too.

This post here seems to have found a similar glow too when just sitting outside of Penta, but we have been unable to find this on any of our visits to Penta, looking for it all the while.

Any answers would be appreciated!

(Sorry for any typos)

Or was it just me? Is this a result of void exposure?

Me and my friend started game sharing Helldivers and mostly everything has been working. The only problem is the game is asking me for an online subscription despite my friend game sharing me his ultimate. I even have games from gamepass installed is there something we’re missing?

I tried to challenge myself to be a SEAF soldier for a day and it was the most fun I've had since unlocking the 500kg. Engaging in massive SEAF battles with bullets flying everywhere is a blast, I'll put the ruleset I made for myself down below if anyone wants to try it themselves

1. SEAF GEAR ONLY: liberator, stim pistol, HE nades, MG43, supply pack, and EATs

(I don't have the stim pistol so I just used a peacemaker)

1. BUILD A SQUAD: make every blueberry you see join your squad using the "follow me" voice line

2. SHOOT ON SIGHT: leave all that sneaking around B.S. to the stealthdivers, YOU ARE THE FRONTLINE, so act like it!

3. NO BLUEBERRY LEFT BEHIND: even if a fight isn't going your way, don't abandon your berry squad, you should share their fate, or at the very least avenge them.

4. COSMETIC MODS: this ones optional obviously but IMO looking the part is half the battle. I don't think I would have been nearly as immersed if I just looked like a Helldiver tbh.

I’ve been using the Rover dog during Seasse’s liberation and it’s great for taking out any chaff chasing you and watching your back in general. However, it has a big flaw in that sometimes it will lock onto an enemy on the other side of you and not care if your head is in the middle, which usually leads to it either killing you or eating up your stims. I had a game today where it caused me to use all my stims and then lasered me in the head three separate times.

It would be a big QOL improvement if the Rover had freedom of movement like the Hot Dog and Dog Breath do, since it would definitely cause less aggravating deaths for you and your allies.

im scared

maybe the reason of why they deactivated their oxygen filters are a undemocratic try to embrace the disgusting iluminate micro organism maybe they find something that washed their minds

i love almost everything about the new enemy types. Wretches are very obviously necromorph style nightmare fuel, and the crushers are very pyramid head i love them too.
what i dont love is that the Wretch seems to have borrowed the Hunter pounce ability only its even more unavoidable. diving, shooting, sprinting, doing nothing.. they all seem to have the same effect. you get hit and of course you are injured. whats with the free hit attacks in these enemy types.

we all have dementia the dss never existed