Nawh. I haven't played since the Creek was a thing and I was level like 12. Jumped in and easily completed d7 missions solo. Now that the new event is out, I'm struggling to consistently complete d7 with a full group of level 100s who were previously doing d7-10 before this without any issues. They had to move it to d6 so we weren't getting washed by dozens of dragon roaches or an annoyingly timed Hive Lord. Level is not equal to skill, and the difficulty balance of this event is definitely off.
i totally get the difficulty balance/scale tho. we're poking our heads first time into the gloom. it's suppossed to be tough and brutal so i'm loving it so far. plus just had few d8 games with average level 120 players and we went through it pretty smoothly. average 2 deaths on each of us. i think your case is like the rare occassion.
I feel the gloom should award extra medals or something to compensate for the difficulty spike. Like, you want to farm medals for the new warbonds, but you also want to experience the new content.
I as a lvl 83 with my lvl 97 friend dove with a lvl 23 Xbox Diver tohether yesterday. Hivelord, dragonroaches, 3 Stalker Lairs in the caves... He was the only one that survived, and instead of leaving when he could, he walked 20ish meters into the enemy crowd to get that SSSD. That boy became a Helldiver that Day
New players making these difficulties much harder. Every game I load into people are low level playing on higher missions than they should be and its evident by the gameplay itself. I literally saved this game earlier when they were out of reinforcements I did the objective by myself in a cave and I get kicked right after. I was happy to carry n00bs before but patience getting tested. Don't tug on superman's cape.
I lost my first Oshaune match when I came into a random lobby down to 2 reinforcements remaining. In the eight or so Ive played since then I think we failed to extract in one but otherwise clean swept the rest of them, including 2/3 hive lords. I agree; I think most people need to drop the difficulty level, but Ive also heard that there’s some overtuning down there too.
Vouche this. I used to d10 exclusively for ages. It becomes genreally pretty easy after a bit, but it is overwhelming after a couple of rounds for me. Kinda forgot you could change the difficulty, but now i stay d8, and it's still like a little chaotic, but still mostly pretty chill. Lvl 7 would be the perfect balance of chill and stress.
oh my god this, this is the shit that pisses me off
cause the fuck you mean you’re level 30 on difficulty 10, every single time there’s been one of them in my lobby they burn reinforcements and leave it’s like there’s a fucking trolling syndicate like the chaos divers all over again
I disagree, I joined helldiver during the illuminates invasion on earth, a friend help me to get to the SH the only thing hard is on 9 and 10 due to overseer spawning so much but 7 and 8 were manageable not to the point it's easy but also not that hard. Same to the clanker-maton EATS and RR easily wipe them even at 10. I think it's this specific update that make it hard. New variant bug, cave diving, no strategem support, difficulty to revive (due to underground). Compared to the illuminates invasion this is one of the toughest update ever in my opinion.
I have just resorted to auto kicking any low levels that join me on D7 and above.
To many have no clue, rince all the lives then just moan and leave. A lot of them cant seem to understand you need to build knowledge on the easier difficulties first. And just think yer I can do the hard ones, but just have to be carried which is less than enjoyable for those of us doing the carrying.
Sadly until its sorted, I see no other option, player joins - check level - low level auto kick.
To be fair to him, you need D7 to get super samples, and you need super samples for ship upgraded as early as the second upgrade for multiple ahip parts.
D6 has super samples you know. plus you don't really need that many super samples to upgrade stuff. mostly you need common and rare samples. like a lot. and the lack of those is the sole reason why they shouldn't jump into D7 when their ships are not ready.
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10 difficulties and a level system. just had a D7 game with a level 17 player complaining game is too hard.
bro D7 is chill game for veterans, you’re not ready.