Helldivers 2

Been awhile since I've played online with others...too much grief, getting (too) old, all the online games are FPS, everyone else studies the game like a college exam.

This is a bit different and it's been great. I usually hit quick play to end up in different scenarios with different squads, and this one was like that. We had one guy level 5000 super blood admiral citizen and one guy level -10 super earth resident who tells us he just got the game the night before, apologies (which we tut tut, none necessary- since we're all gonna die alot anyway) and we're going around and he's asking about this, and that....what does this do? sometimes it gives you super credits, rec slips, rare samples etc.

and then we come across the hellbomb.

"Hey man, see that thing?" SE Admiral

"buried in the ground?" New Guy

"Yeah, shoot that thing and it drops a stratagem rifle for you" SE Admiral

at this point I turn and run, and so does the other guy while the new guy blows the hell up and everyone is rolling, especially the new guy!

"Ah man, I've been trying to get someone to do that for a month!" he says.

And then last night I was killed by my squad 3 times vs. 2 by the bots. No grief...shit happens for managed democracy.

It's a different kind of game and one I hope we see more of.

I tried but there was no fourth world that was a connection to the fight for Super Earth.

Source: Found a team who was cool, game crashed, lost em forever :(

Recent Players menu referenced people from a session 21 hours ago

Doesn't feel to good, to be honest. =/

Basically, it was an ICBM mission, we had 20 minutes left on the mission and everyone was at extraction (Which peeved me a bit, as we didn't do any POIs).

I see a radar station literally right next to extraction, and say in chat i'm going for it.

Well, in the middle of raising the radar station disc, extraction lands and they all immediately get in, remember, the radar station is RIGHT NEXT to extraction, and we still have 20 minutes left. I barely finish the radar station objective before the pelican takes off.

Suffice it to say, I went from a bit peeved, to pretty peeved and just kicked them all.

I'm starting to wonder if some people just don't have chat enabled or something.

Nice thoughtful video on the relative effectiveness of flames vs bugs in the new patch.

Some time ago I saw a gif from someone with what looked like a Japanese username. It was a gif of the spear doing 1-shot kills on bile titans and it had little lines showing how to line up the dot and the triangle relative to the launcher muzzle to hit the titan in the head.

I can't find it now. Does anyone know where to find it? Frankly I think it was buried in a reddit comment thread but I just lurk over there these days.

Edit: found it, it’s https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cu0ewh/comment/l4fggwq/ or https://imgur.com/a/ptvdcvf which is too large to post directly.

Sucks that they use Shitter to communicate, but just waiting for this to be available - taking bets it's a reward for linking your (optional) PSN account!

Hd2 on linux do not detect a mic any more after the latest patch. Mic works in all other programs. And also in steam mic test. Anyone noticed something similar?

Just been running a hard bug mission mostly to get the daily done any samples are a welcome plus.

All 4 slots full and we were pretty spread out across the map, we complete the mission and a few of us were just finishing up the radar tower and a bug nest.

Then player 4 bee lined to the extraction called it in and jumped on the pelican despite me asking him not to on comms.

There were 3 players spread across the map with no chance of getting back so I kicked the guy.

Was I in the right for this? Do you think he learned his lesson?

Message from the Helldiver's Discord:

#You saved the children!

We have received a very special message for everyone from the children of Super Citizen Anne's:

*Dear Helldivers, Thank you so much for saving us. They told us you made a lot of sacrifices (mines/lives) to help us. We'll always be grateful. Now, we can grow up to become Helldivers too.

With Liberty, The Very Sick Children of Super Citizen Anne's*

KEEP BEING A HERO! http://donate.savethechildren.org

https://fxtwitter.com/Pilestedt/status/1801603873502638151

via: https://x.com/helldivers2/status/1801607654214713451?s=46&t=VGqOdxWDtLsShLYLikeioQ

Breaking: Helldivers face deadlier odds! Roaming bands of Shriekers AND Automaton gunship patrols have been observed.

But our valiant soldiers stand strong against these airborne adversaries to save our citizens.

Anyone else got this? I'm on PC and since the patch I can't access the friends list on the social panel.

Reinstalled the game in case it was a game file but no dice.

If I somehow had my wishes heard (Hi Devs!) I would love to see 2 things.

1: different color reticle for different rifles. Currently using Defiance counter sniper and the A-M rifle have the same color and it fucks me up.

The other would be: Campaign Ribbons.

These would be doled out to those who participate in Major orders....and there would be additional swag for each, like IRL.

Did you participate in theater? ribbon. Did you complete X task? Oak leaf cluster Did you complete X qty missions? Bonze ,silver, gold star etc.

(Picture, me and my boys diving against the bots)

01.000.400 just went live

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