Helldivers 2

2025 Winners:

• Animation: Astro Bot
• Artistic Achievement: Neva
• Audio Achievement: Astro Bot
• Best Game: Astro Bot
• British Game: Thank Goodness You're Here!
• Debut Game: Balatro
• Evolving Game: Vampire Survivors
• Family: Astro Bot
• Fellowship: Yoko Shimomura
• Game Beyond Entertainment: Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
• Game Design: Astro Bot
• Multiplayer: Helldivers 2
• Music: Helldivers 2
• Narrative: Metaphor ReFantazio
• New IP: Still Wakes the Deep
• Performer in a Leading Role: Alec Newman/Still Wakes the Deep
• Performer in a Supporting Role: Karen Dunbar/Still Wakes the Deep
• Technical Achievement: Senua's Sage: Hellblade II

Just like casualty rates, this game implies there is a HD1 board game.

Another peek at General Brasch’s personal armory I suspect

"... Every year on this day, Super Earth citizens will unite for a full 3 minutes of their lunch break in solemn remembrance of those who gave their lives to free Malevelon Creek." -Presidential Decree.

Short animation by Kryptik. 100% accurate.

Try equipping different weapons aboard your ship, by the way.

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Now THAT is a big iron on his hip

Unrelated:

My typical bot loadout has been:

• Medic perk armor
• Diligence Counter Sniper
• Stim Pistol
• Thermite
• Stratagems:
  • 500kg
  • Orbital Walking Barrage
  • Quasar
  • AT Emplacement

But, with the IC, I’ve been running and avoiding catching on fire too much to get the emplacement down until extraction, so I have replaced it with the shield generator backpack. If the planet has the DSS barrage perk, I’ll swap the orbital walking with an auto cannon sentry, but I might do that swap always because it distracts the devastators.

I don’t have the fire resistance armors, otherwise I’d consider those, but having the medic perk with the stim pistol has been really useful to help fellow divers save stims.

Helldive Bots no problem. Don't have LOS? Just jump! Not sure where to throw that strat? Fly up and chuck it with confidence! Need a good vantage point for your sentry? No problem! Even good for emergency stims if you're overwhelmed (they might shoot you down tho if it's too hot, their aim isn't great other than Rocket Devs but with enough lasers in the air something is bound to hit eventually).

Combined with the Quasar currently being arguably better than RR right now and free 380s I'm having a GREAT time, especially now that we're done with that ion storm bullshit

What have you been having an unexpectedly good time with recently, Helldivers?

The E/GL-21 Grenadier Battlement Stratagem is now available for 10,000 Requisition Slips in your Super Destroyer.

Give those socialist bots a taste of freedom.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27504088

Helldivers 2 is locking out players who use older CPUs

Hey fellow Helldivers,

I just installed the game and went through the tutorial and did my first mission where I had to blow up some transponder on some planet with robots.

Whats next? Should I just start picking random sectors and missions and keep playing? I still feel a little lost, like I don't really feel like I know what I'm doing still lol. Is there a way to get more tips and tricks about how to play? Weapons and builds?

And how do I catch up on lore for the game so far? Sounds like we just lost something big (or maybe won something big) related to a Wormhole? How do I catch up on that?

The E/GL-21 is a grenade launcher emplacement stratagem which also deploys a protective barrier

More helmet choices, still just as silly.

So from todays patch notes apparently the grenade launcher nerf was unintentional (or at least over tuned if it was intentional) but grenade range is back whoooo

I also find it funny that Microsoft teams caused a crash, I always knew that it was ran by the enemies of super earth

Why is that first helmet even there! It's alright I don't hate it but I NEED MY COWBOY HAT PILESTEDT

Source: Helldivers (XTwitter)

TLDR:

"Actually, we got a message from the UN asking if we want to talk, in some form, about psychological defense against manipulation," added Pilestedt. This might all sound like the game is getting a little too real, but he said the key was in finding the right tone and using the imagery in an almost educational way: "We do it all in fun and good spirits, and we actually try to get people to recognize the science of what is a totalitarian state. If you start wearing the same uniform as everybody else and do salutes constantly, you might be in a totalitarian regime."

Reports say they have the ability to spawn groups of regular bots, heavier units such as hulks, and even tanks.