Helldivers 2
- What is the use of heavy armor?
I normally use medium armor, and if I want to be extra fast I use light armor.
Don't get me wrong, I like the looks of chunkier armor, it is more my style.
But what is the use for heavy armor? I understand you are tougher to kill, but I am always left behind because it is slower.
Also I am still thrown around with explosions and I can't still be killed easily when overwhelmed, which I can avoid with medium or light armor by just healing constantly and running away.
So in what situations or what is the tactical advantage of heavy armor?
- Looking for friends to play with
Looking for friends to add who use a mic. Sick of playing solo or getting teamed up with people who can't or won't talk.
If this belongs elsewhere, let me know where to post.
- Heartwarming democracy: im frend.www.pcgamer.com Helldivers 2 community rallies behind wholesome hero after a remorseful villain kicks them, giving rise to Super Earth's new battlecry: 'im frend'
For prosperity. For liberty. For democracy. For frend.
> Helldivers 2 community rallies behind wholesome hero after a remorseful villain kicks them, giving rise to Super Earth's new battlecry: 'im frend'
- AH fixing spawn rate
Twinbeard says:
Helldivers!
As many of you have noticed, something has been off with patrols and spawn rate for some time now. This primarily leads to more enemies rearing their ugly heads than they're supposed to, indirectly to players feeling overrun, kiting, and subsequently less fun gameplay. This has been the case for all players, but predominantly for smaller teams and solo playing. We've been aware, but frankly, the past couple of weeks have been so hectic that we haven't been able to give this the TLC that it required. We now have, and we've concluded that it's not working as intended and we're changing it. There might be some minor tweaks, but overall we're reverting back to how patrols and spawn rate worked before the patch that changed them a few weeks ago. We believe that this is more or less how you currently want them to be.
We also know you want us to do things and changes properly instead of rushing them, and we do as well. Therefore, implementing this will take some time. We want to give it proper testing and review it ... ah heck, simply see that it works this time. Even if this means we're faced with more bugs and bots than even the bravest of citizens would deem realistic for a while longer, we hope you're happy with us fixing the problem.
Onwards and upwards!
- Liberating Planets Light
Logged on today and saw the new major Order.
Did we fuck up so badlyWas the enemy so treacherous that we needed a MO on holding planets that were already ours or is something big coming (again)? What do you think/know? Reminder: Spreading unapproved misinformation or propaganda WILL be reported! - Thinking about getting into helldivers- what should I expect
Title^
Helldivers has been on my radar for a while now and I was wondering what should I expect
Since I dropped planetside I’ve been looking for a “main game” to fill the void
All I really know is shoot bug and if you aren’t getting friendly fired to hell and back you’re playing wrong
- Helldivers 2 gets delisted in more countries without PSN access, blindsided devs call for it to be "available worldwide" | Gamesraderwww.gamesradar.com Helldivers 2 gets delisted in more countries without PSN access, blindsided devs call for it to be "available worldwide"
Countries without PSN coverage are still losing access
https://steamdb.info/sub/137730/history/
- 1.000.304 Patch Notesstore.steampowered.com HELLDIVERS™ 2 - Patch 1.000.304 - Steam News
Greetings fellow Divers! Small patch deploying to a Super Destroyer near you Overview For this patch, we have made improvements and changes to the following areas: Crash fixes Misc fixes Fixes Crashes Fixed a crash triggered when the host left after a player hot joined. Fixed an occasional crash in ...
- Helldivers 2 is still blocked in 180 countries, Sony will do the same for Ghost of Tsushima PC port
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Just sigh. Come on Sony learn harder.
I did change my review back to negative because missing 180 countries full of helldivers is making major orders harder.
- Sony is pushing people to fund the invasion of Ukraine with it's geo-restrictions
Alright, the title is a bit clickbaity, but hear me out!
Little background: Since the start of the Ukraine invasion, Russia and Belarus have been hit with massive sanctions, and a lot of stuff suddenly became unavailable. That includes quite a few video games that became unavailable on steam. Helldivers being one of them. And, since it started, a lot of people, myself included, have left the country in disagreement with the regime, mostly to ex-USSR countries, like Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Others, who, for some reason, are unable or are unwilling to move, either resorted to piracy, or got their steam accounts switched to one of said countries, mostly with help from friends in one of them. This is a good thing in a way that that that it moves place where the taxes are paid, and gives more power to those countries, especially as they grow wary of their warmongering neighbor and increasingly drift away from their shared USSR past, effectively weakening war machine.
Now with geographic restrictions put on all of those countries on Steam, I've been pondering if there's a way to still somehow buy this game for my friends to play with, some of whom are still residing in Russia, and stumbled upon this:
https://shop.buka.ru/item/HELLDIVERS\_2\_versiya\_RF
This is a totally legit, official store of one of the oldest major publishers in Russia, and official SONY's partner. What caught my attention is that they have two separate versions available - one for Russia and Belarus, and another for ex-USSR countries. The first one is a little problematic as it means that SONY is continuing doing business in Russia and doesn't give a fuck about it waging a war. But whatever. The second one, on the other hand, is completely nuts. As far as I can tell, it is the only place where you could obtain the game officially in said countries. With the price of roughly $40 with 20% VAT included, that'd be $8 straight into Putin's pockets for every copy sold. Sweet liberty! Plus whatever the publisher's cut is, that gets further taxed down the road. For a person who fled from dictatorship and is conscious about where their money go, or for a citizen of a country that was invaded and is still partly occupied, or a person displaced from their home because the peacekeepers just told them to fuck off and left, that sounds like a bad joke.
I do realize that VAT from video game sales is a drop in the ocean, compared to oil and gas exports. But still, I'd say that a good enough reason to keep pushing SONY to lift geographic restrictions on Steam.
- Tips for fighting bots?
I feel happy with my loadout vs bugs. Spray and pray is easy to understand. Run and gun. I'm not as confident with bots.
Loadout: Armor is medium with crouch aim bonus. Base gun, the Adjudicator (assault rifle) from Democratic Demolition because of its armor pen. 2ndary is Autocannon and ammo backpack. Strategems are orbital laser, eagle airstrike, and mortar sentry.
All the advice I read is "go slower, avoid patrols, etc." and I'm fine with that but everyone I play with does the opposite. They engage EVERYTHING. I feel like I've got OK damage per shot, but everyone is getting there faster and killing things faster because they got there earlier. So I end up feeling like I'm not pulling my weight.
- AH CEO confirmed the 3 new region is to fix an error made previously
No update on the situation otherwise.
- Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve
So there was some speculation whether Valve delisted the 177 (now 180) countries to protect itself legally or if Sony had done it for Sony reasons. It appears that Sony has been confirmed to be the one who delisted it
- Three bugged missions
So in a first for my group, we were hit with three bugged and failed missions tonight.
1st was a defense missions where bugs stopped spawning and missiles stopped shooting.
2nd what the extraction vehicle left immediately when one person entered it.
3rd what no one could get in the shuttle.
This was a serious WTF night, we lost so many samples. While I appreciate the devs, stop trying to balance and fix some bugs.
- 3 more countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) added into the delisted region. [Update]
!CEO have no idea what's going on.
Edit: Interestingly there are 3 unknown country codes in the list of deisted regions previously, so optimistically it might just be them correcting it and they would start selling world wide again.
Also some people say this might put them in violation of EU laws, but I'm no law expert nor an EU resident.
Edit 2 [update]: screenshot from someone who got denied a refund. Looks like it's confirmed to be Sony's decision.
- My headcanon as to why missions are on a strict timer
Things that happen in game differently from my headcanon:
- During a dive, destroyers just hang around over player heads
- Even worse, there's an actual game mechanic that causes orbital stratagems to have an AoA at 90° at the center of the map but lower it at the edges, like the ships were actually hovering over the center (realistically, all orbital stratagems calls would have roughly the same AoA)
- I say "even worse", because I have to actively ignore a decision the devs made for the sake of realism rather than just tell myself "eh, they didn't think about this too much"
- Even worse, there's an actual game mechanic that causes orbital stratagems to have an AoA at 90° at the center of the map but lower it at the edges, like the ships were actually hovering over the center (realistically, all orbital stratagems calls would have roughly the same AoA)
- Orbital stratagem timings make no sense, and are strictly a gameplay balance issue that cannot be realistic: the loading screen shows the first helldiver drops well outside the atmosphere and take several minutes to reach the ground, but turrets take 3 seconds to deploy? This game sucks, literally unplayable
- Surely Eagles must be capable of atmosphereless flight, if the cheap ahh shuttle is?
- At the beginning of the loading screen, the destroyer doesn't have an atmospheric re-entry fire effect which would be countered by shields or whatever
Things that oddly do make sense:
- Hellpods do have the atmospheric re-entry fire effect immediately after launching, which wouldn't make sense in the absence of (less than extremely thin) atmosphere
- ... that's it, actually
The reason I made this nerd emoji of a post: I've played KSP and my suspension of disbelief towards games or shows with spaceships is completely broken.
- During a dive, destroyers just hang around over player heads
- Arrowhead CEO says Helldivers 2 balancing patches have 'gone too far' recently: 'It feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun is removed'www.pcgamer.com Arrowhead CEO says Helldivers 2 balancing patches have 'gone too far' recently: 'It feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun is removed'
"Just tweaking balance numbers is a blunt tool."
Replying to a player on Twitter who said recent patches have made the game "unplayable," Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt conceded that he's not satisfied with his studio's current balancing approach.
"Hey, yeah I think we've gone too far in some areas. Will talk to the team about the approach to balance," he wrote. "It feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun is removed."
- Twitter Poll: Release New Warbond tomorrow or delay?
For those that have a twitter account, there's a poll from Johan Pilestedt asking if they should delay the new warbond.
- Nothing to see here AH. Carry on...
Not about the recoilless rifle
You can cancel out of the reload animation on a recoilless rifle as soon as HUD icon turns from red to white.
Just hit the crouch button as soon as it turns white.
- Patch 1.000.303 Notes (Steam)store.steampowered.com HELLDIVERS™ 2 - Patch 1.000.303 - Steam News
Overview For this mini patch, we have made improvements and changes to the following areas: Crash fixes Fixes Crashes Fix for common crash related to damage over time use Fix for very common crash related to hot joining quickplay session that become full This unfortunately means that hot joining pla...
Fixes
Crashes
- Fix for common crash related to damage over time use
- Fix for very common crash related to hot joining quickplay session that become full
This unfortunately means that hot joining players won't show up in the recent players list until they drop down to the planet, or not at all if they leave from the loadout.
- Carbot: i Drew EVERY Automaton In Helldivers 2... i think
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- Helldivers 2 community manager seemingly fired after encouraging negative reviews over now-canceled PSN mandate: "I knew I was taking a risk with what I said"www.gamesradar.com Helldivers 2 community manager seemingly fired after encouraging negative reviews over now-canceled PSN mandate: "I knew I was taking a risk with what I said"
Spitz says they were involuntarily let go from Arrowhead
- Helldivers 2 PSN Related Country Purchasing Restriction for Steam
tl;dr - Helldivers 2 was removed for purchase on Steam for countries unable to create PSN accounts. This was not reverted.
tl;dr Steam Console command - Replicable results by performing: Run >
steam://open/console
> Execute command:package_info_print 137730
As many are aware, on May 6th Sony has rescinded their mandatory PSN account linking that was scheduled for May 30th. Although this is a big win, many are not aware that the same countries that were going to be restricted due PSN limitations have already been restricted on Steam as of May 4th (SteamDB - Change 23416542 - https://steamdb.info/changelist/23416542/). This was not reverted.
You can find current information regarding this through Steam console:
- Open Steam console (Run > steam://open/console)
- Execute command
package_info_print 137730
(This is the command to print current information for 137730, which is the sub/package for Helldivers 2) - Here's the current output for that as of this posting:
] package_info_print 137730 PackageID : 137730, change number : 23416565/23416565 "137730" { "packageid" "137730" "billingtype" "10" "licensetype" "1" "status" "0" "extended" { "allowcrossregiontradingandgifting" "false" "AllowPurchaseFromRestrictedCountries" "0" "PurchaseRestrictedCountries" "AF AG AI AL AM AN AO AQ AS AW AX AZ BA BB BD BF BI BJ BL BM BN BQ BS BT BV BW BY BZ CC CD CF CG CI CK CM CU CV CW CX DJ DM DO DZ EG EH ER ET FJ FK FM FO FX GA GD GE GF GG GH GI GL GM GN GP GQ GS GU GW GY HM HT IM IO IQ IR JE JM JO JP KE KG KH KI KM KN KP KY KZ LA LC LK LR LS LY MA MC MD ME MF MG MH MK ML MM MN MO MP MQ MR MS MU MV MW MZ NA NC NE NF NG NP NR NU PF PG PH PK PM PN PR PS PW RE RS RW SB SC SD SH SJ SL SM SN SO SR SS ST SX SY SZ TC TD TF TG TJ TK TL TM TN TO TT TV TZ UG UM UZ VA VC VE VG VI VN VU WF WS XD YE YT ZM ZW" } "appids" { "0" "553850" "1" "2506210" "2" "2506220" "3" "2506240" "4" "2506250" "5" "2506260" "6" "2506280" "7" "2506300" } "depotids" { "0" "553851" "1" "553853" "2" "553854" } "AppItems" { } }
- Notable fields: AllowPurchaseFromRestrictedCountries=0 (Meaning do not allow from Restricted Countries); PurchaseRestrictedCountries={List of Countries}
You can also find a better formatted version of these limitations on SteamDB here: https://steamdb.info/sub/137730/info/
Hope this helps put things into perspective. Come to your own conclusions regarding this.
Edit: https://lemm.ee/post/31661746 - Steam announcement that these restrictions were requested by the publisher Sony and to find more information about this decision through them.
Edit2: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-gets-delisted-in-more-countries-without-psn-access-blindsided-devs-call-for-it-to-be-available-worldwide/ Gamesradar post from another community post.
Edit3: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2024/05/ghost-of-tsushima-psn-steam-refunds/ Ghost of Tsushima related issue.
- Patch 1.000.302 Notesstore.steampowered.com HELLDIVERS™ 2 - Patch 1.000.302 - Steam News
A democratic day to you Helldivers and Citizens Today we bring you yet another patch addressing various freedom hampering issues Overview For this patch, we have made improvements and changes to the following areas Some weapon and enemy balancing Crash fixes Social Menu issues DoT damage fix Misalig...