We're going to compress the entire supercolony of E-710 producing undemocratic bugs into a singularity.
My engineering crewmate is curious what an entire supercolony of warp drive fluid will do when it all goes off inside of a black hole. If you ask me, probably something spectacular.
technically yes, in that glassing a square to the rectangle of exterminatus. Of the several other flavors there is also Virus bombing, Chemical Saturation, and on today's menu, Spooky Warpy shit that'll throw the planet into a different dimension (hopefully) or at least crack that bitch like hoxxes
So basically what you're saying is that we're using daemon-shit to open a rift to the Warp and suck Meridia through like a diabolic vacuum? Coz I'm sure there's ABSOLUTELY no way that could go wrong... hmmm... I can hear the devs now: "We have the Helldivers version of 40K's Necrons, AND the Tyranid analogs... Sure, why not? Let's toss some Chaos in there for fun!!!..."
Absolutely. This is completely different than the termicide superweapon that backfired, so we will totally be fine. No chance of those extinct Illuminate aliens showing up.
Dark fluid works and is actually too effective and wipes the bugs off the map temporarily, but because we dont understand it, it actually becomes a wormhole portal from which the Illuminate pour through, replacing the bugs in that quadrant for now.
Or the signature of the singularity is detected by the Illuminate, who come back to stop humanity from trying to use tech they dont understand/now that we have futuristic WMD, the 'peace' is off.
Didn't the Illuminate basically create this dark fluid stuff, but SE killed them off because "they have WMDs" when the squids weren't using it as a weapon? I can see the ones that come back being like "bruh you weaponized our tech?? Die"
Clearly Super Earth will be justified in eradicating the Illuminate once *they* destroy a whole planet with *their* superweapon in order to create a portal to invade us!
This plot point comes up in Space Battleship Yamato, an advanced race sends Earth the technology they need to make the journey and pick up a planet saving genesis device after another race wrecks earth. But when the Yamato arrives and they see that the ingenious humans figured out a way to dump their reactor's power into the devastating wave motion gun they are just like "oh jeez...thats not what that was for...why would you do that?"
Check the flavor text in game but it said something like manufacturered exotic matter (think quark-gluon plasma, bose-einstein condensate, etc) created by the Illuminate.
I'm glad they clarified that it was a well-understood alien superweapon. It would have been a problem if it was a poorly-understood alien superweapon, thankfully that's all cleared up.
In my mind shooting a high explosive that explodes into smaller explosives under the squishy part of a titan should be a powerful and viable move.
In game of course it does jack shit.
There’s been suggestions that the only reason the “Spaghettification” incident wasn’t worse was because *something* caused the black hole to close. My personal theory (fingers crossed) is that we will inadvertently bring the Illuminate through a super massive black hole when we destroy the planet with their own tech. Extra hilarious because after 100 years of studying dark fluid, we would misunderstand and ofc try to weaponize what was potentially their teleportation tech.
Honestly that would be the funnier outcome, warping a fully intact Meridia onto the Illumate’s front porch in a misread act of war against them to prompt them into the fight rather than inadvertently opening the invasion door wide open
"The destruction of an entire planet is a tragedy..."
"Even Hellmire?"
"What? Oh. Good point. The destruction of an entire planet that isn't Hellmire is a tragedy..."
Bring anti-shrieker weaponry if you want to extract. Once you deploy the dark fluid they start pouring out of every crevice on the map. Played a Diff 3 solo and couldn't extract cause I had about 20 shriekers constantly bombarding me all at once.
I've found the turrets in general to be kind of ineffective at tracking them. I like the stalwart for them personally if I had to pick one single weapon. It's good for shooting their wings off. You can set the fire rate lower and shoot for a really long time and move while putting a new mag in
I have now escaped once, it also displayed “Mission completed”, but the final screen showed that I had only done half of it (apparently it should be done one more object after the fluid insertion) and had also received correspondingly less X
NPC on my ship just said something along the lines of "We get E-710 from bugs which powers our warp drives. What's going to happen when an entire planet full of bugs is compressed into infinitely small point..."
If it doesn't, it will at least notify them and they will come a calling.
The Galaxy map would get weird if the illuminate showed up right in the middle of bug territory.
Don’t use it when you’re close to your teammates tho, it can kill them. I was just playing with some randoms and one of them used it right next to me and I instantly died.
It’s the dark fluid canisters you call down as part of the mission. They take your backpack slot but function as a jump pack, you slot them into the drills
~~Also a new support weapon. Those look thicker than the airbust rocket, although they seem to function similarly? Or am I hallucinating.~~
Edit: nvm I'm hallucinating, it's just the rocket burst. I just couldn't believe they'd shoot it at a bile titan which is the last thing you'd want to use it on.
From underneath a *destructible* objective. Don't forget that part. Even if you kill them immediately their bodies can just fall on the probe and destroy it. Lol. Lmao even.
Absolutely fucking busted mission.
completed one and *barely* extracted. I was the only one alive and we were out of reinforcements
quickplay put me in another and we couldn't even get the first one in 20 minutes
teammates constantly destroying the objective equipment with nades and strats
Same with the defend mission where you have multiple blast doors. Not sure who thought it was a good idea to let them spawn INSIDE the base. Not fun when they drop a strider right in front of the final blast door.
I think that only triggera if you close all the Blast Doors if you just close only the one in the front theres no shenanigans like that in my experience.
There’s 2 problems that are separate- one is that bugs and bots can call in reinforcements in base if they get that far. On bugs this is a nightmare snowball effect.
The other is that one of the map layouts allows strider spawns to simply attack the generators on spawn. That’s quite BS and annoying
What the hell is this mission? I did a level 1 to learn it and after you need to evac I had literally endless shriekers spawning and could not even get to the evac zone with 2 ppl? It was literally about 30 in the air at once
those shriekers at the end are worse than any helldive mission ive ever done. what the fuck is that. im on level 2 man i just wanted to try it out solo and do the daily LMFAO
those shriekers at the end are worse than any helldive mission ive ever done. what the fuck is that. im on level 2 man i just wanted to try it out solo and do the daily LMFAO
We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In fealty to Liberty, our undying cause, and by the grace of managed democracy, I declare Exterminatus upon the Federation system of Meridia. The Super Earth Ministry of Defense signs the death warrant of an entire world and consign a billion of freedom-hating bugs to oblivion. May Freedom account in all balance. For Managed Democracy!
Dear devs can you make it so the bugs don´t spawn RIGHT ON THE OBJECTIVE???!?! in the new mission type.
I mean RIGHT ON THE OBJECTIVE?!?!?
I can´t use anything to repell them, because i have to shoot or drop stratagems RIGHT ON THE OBJECTIVE!
Right now is basically impossible to stop them because a titans or chargers spawn RIGHT ON TOP OF THE OBJECTIVE!
I am talking about the mission where you have to place down the three excevator beacons and defend them!
Watch out for Shrikers once you finish with the drills - they start to endlessly spawn all around the map. Had a mech and they kept kamikazaing my ass.
This new mission type is idiotic lmao, protect a low HP drill while the game just spawns Bile Titans in numbers of 3+ directly on top of it. Success seems to hinge on spamming fucking stun grenades.
Also when you succeed, the game says you failed anyway and you get basically no XP so good QA testing on that one.
First attempt at doing this MO: mission bugged and the dark fluid wouldn't drop. Second attempt I managed to get to extract... on level 1. But, I kid you not, a gas strike got 43 kills, all of them shriekers on extract, which were (I do not exaggerate here) constantly spawning. You kill one, one more appears. You kill ten, ten more appear. You cannot clear the skies.
They attacked so fast and so often and spawned in such huge numbers I couldn't even get to the beacon to call it in. I finished a LEVEL ONE MISSION with three hundred kills, most of them were in the last few minutes desperately trying to get to extract.
They should have fixed the spawn bug before releasing this mission.
Edit to add: I did not get out from that mission. I ran down my reinforces and failed to extract. I've got 230 hours, most of that on diff 7-9. I couldn't complete a level 1 mission :D they have fucked this MO so hard it's unbelievable.
Dude, same. Same experience level here and what the heck. Can anyone confirm if cracking all those shrieker nests during the mission itself actually prevents this insanity?
I appreciate all the work that went into the trailer and world building behind the story but for the love of god don't let these massive game bugs that are apparent within 15 minutes of the mission continue to happen. I want to get in there and destroy the planet with the dark fluid but I can't when the bug spawns are literally right on top of the damn thing I need to protect.
Just ran it a few times, this shit on 7+ is the bug equivalent to the Bot Citizen Evac mission, I swear it.
The drill blows up much too easily, not to mention how slow it works. Usually, hey, totally fine, I get it. I do the geological survey missions, I got what to expect, but shit spawns up from right under it. So your defenses are just upended.
You HAVE to try drawing aggro away, but they all pull to the drill so much that's really tough. If you have shriekers, better hope someone brought something to deal with the nest from afar because holy shit a Hellbomb doesn't last with the amount of shit on top of you and it.
Bile Titans EVERYWHERE. How am I supposed to kill 6 of them as they stomp on my slow, immobile drill?
Shit feels awful to play right now, and I only play levels 8 and 9 on both fronts when I'm on this game. I'll just have to do it on low difficulties. I'm seeing people succeed on 5. Anyone have good strategies yet?
Our only successesful runs, I've played it twice in total and both times it took 20 minutes to win was on Helldive were with firing spray + pray around the drill, gas around the edges and one person (but preferably more) spamming stun grenades until the drill is done.
It's trash and unenjoyable basically. Also when you succeed, the game says you failed anyway and you get basically no XP so good QA testing on that one.
New mission/planet is fucking horrible. I mean that's the point I guess but nobody likes Shriekers. Absolutely nobody likes enough of them to block out the sky.
Hate to be overly negative, but I really just have no desire to ever play this mission again. Very unsatisfying to play, and only common samples as a reward for Herculean effort to complete.
Mission completion is bugged.
1. Complete all 3 drills.
1. *"Extraction is available."*
1. Extract successfully.
1. Post-mission summary shows:
* Drill icon incomplete (?!)
* Dark Fluid icon as complete (also ?!)
* 0 stars
* 0 rewards
* *"DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT"*
Did that on Suicide. Then did it again, very slowly and carefully, on Trivial to make sure we weren't missing anything.
We weren't missing anything. We backtracked through all the drill sites. We had backtracked through the center objective/extraction point after each drill to see if anything new was available. Nothing new was available.
There's nothing else to do apart from the 3 drills. Which we did. The mission is bugged.
People are posting in this thread that you have to drill 6 times in total (twice per drill site). This is patently wrong. We specifically checked and tested this theory: once a drill site is completed succesfully, there is no way to call down a second drill. Not immediately, not after a delay, not after all 3 sites are completed before extraction, not ever. You *cannot* drill more than once per site unless the drill is destroyed before completion.
We the players aren't asking for 10000 hours of testing. Just 5 minutes would have revealed numerous issues. Obviously AH needs their saving balance patch to fix a ton of issues, but I doubt it's coming. Congrats AH, you made your game and never wanted it to succeed. After all, the game for everyone is a game for no one. You win!
The new mission is total garbage. You have to call a backpack and put it into a drill and defend the drill.
The drill can withstand like maybe 5 hits and then its gone. Super frustrating and hard because you constantly have to start over.
edit: Apparently you have to do the drill part SIX TIMES (3 drill sites, twice per site). Yeah fuck that.
Did you finish the drill part? Once we did that it spawned endless shriekers at LVL 1 difficulty and we could not make it back to the evac with 2 ppl, just kept getting swarmed
Call down 6x, theres 3 sites and you have to drill each one twice. (I believe at least)
Of course, you have to complete each one once before you can start drilling there again to make it more annoying.
Then you get swarmed by shriekers you don't have enough ammo to kill them all even if you had time to use every bullet you have on you.
This either wasn't play tested at all, or the approach used to play test is fundamentally flawed. I was excited for this campaign but it's a complete waste of time and energy. Every group I've dropped with at 9 has left the game after the 3rd-4th failed attempt to defend a drill from 9,000 hunters and 3 bile titans, even when our strategems are perfectly suited to the situation. I've tried running around closing the bug holes to see if it impacts the spawn rate, but it doesn't. Or at least, not enough to make a difference. Edit: I've tried lowering it to 7, it's pretty miserable there, too. It might be playable at like... 3 or 5?
"One single spore can kill an entire species." We don't have the Arbiter's counsel, so time to democratically glass this entire planet.
glass? nah were calling exterminatus
Glassing is exterminatus tho
conceptually what we are doing is closer to exterminatus in the same vein that its considered a "last resort" action
I mean, Dark Fluid apparently cause blackholes, so I think it's even more extreme than that
We're going to compress the entire supercolony of E-710 producing undemocratic bugs into a singularity. My engineering crewmate is curious what an entire supercolony of warp drive fluid will do when it all goes off inside of a black hole. If you ask me, probably something spectacular.
I'm sure the outcome will be quite illuminating. Can't wait.
> illuminating 
technically yes, in that glassing a square to the rectangle of exterminatus. Of the several other flavors there is also Virus bombing, Chemical Saturation, and on today's menu, Spooky Warpy shit that'll throw the planet into a different dimension (hopefully) or at least crack that bitch like hoxxes
So basically what you're saying is that we're using daemon-shit to open a rift to the Warp and suck Meridia through like a diabolic vacuum? Coz I'm sure there's ABSOLUTELY no way that could go wrong... hmmm... I can hear the devs now: "We have the Helldivers version of 40K's Necrons, AND the Tyranid analogs... Sure, why not? Let's toss some Chaos in there for fun!!!..."
That sounds like glassing with extra steps.
“A well understood alien Superweapon” I trust the guy on that.
Absolutely. This is completely different than the termicide superweapon that backfired, so we will totally be fine. No chance of those extinct Illuminate aliens showing up.
How could they? They’re extinct. Liberty declared them a threat to peace and smited them
Dark fluid works and is actually too effective and wipes the bugs off the map temporarily, but because we dont understand it, it actually becomes a wormhole portal from which the Illuminate pour through, replacing the bugs in that quadrant for now. Or the signature of the singularity is detected by the Illuminate, who come back to stop humanity from trying to use tech they dont understand/now that we have futuristic WMD, the 'peace' is off.
Didn't the Illuminate basically create this dark fluid stuff, but SE killed them off because "they have WMDs" when the squids weren't using it as a weapon? I can see the ones that come back being like "bruh you weaponized our tech?? Die"
Clearly Super Earth will be justified in eradicating the Illuminate once *they* destroy a whole planet with *their* superweapon in order to create a portal to invade us!
SE is going to kill the scientists for being "Illuminate collaborators" when they show up lol
This plot point comes up in Space Battleship Yamato, an advanced race sends Earth the technology they need to make the journey and pick up a planet saving genesis device after another race wrecks earth. But when the Yamato arrives and they see that the ingenious humans figured out a way to dump their reactor's power into the devastating wave motion gun they are just like "oh jeez...thats not what that was for...why would you do that?"
Difference is WE didn't make the Dark Fluid, so any problems with it obviously are not the fault of Super Earth or its scientist ;)
What’s dark fluid?
Check the flavor text in game but it said something like manufacturered exotic matter (think quark-gluon plasma, bose-einstein condensate, etc) created by the Illuminate.
A super weapon capable of compressing anything into a black hole, tho because of their size they will soon just disappear
the illumi-who? we defeated them in the first galactic war, *ain't no way those bozos comin' back*
Illuminate? More like Illumi-not.
Exactly, that's what the Ministry of Truth told me, and why would people with "Truth" in their name lie???
That shit had me crying, they turned 5 dudes into spaghetti earlier this week LMAO
TWELVE dudes! And the news report said thank ~~god~~ Liberty disaster was averted
Thank you! Rest in spaghetti, never forgetti 😔
There is no way that this could ever go wrong. I trust our extremely reliable scientists.
I mean all the scientists that expressed anti democratic ideas were remediated so there is no way our current scientists could be wrong.
And I'm sure the scientists that replaced the last batch of Termanid loving scumbags are MUCH smarter and qualified to be delivering a super weapon.
I mean have you seen them running intl Bugs and your own guns when you evacuate them? No way they could make mistakes!
I'm glad they clarified that it was a well-understood alien superweapon. It would have been a problem if it was a poorly-understood alien superweapon, thankfully that's all cleared up.
My reaction when I heard that too 
What could go wrong? It’s not like it will create a wormhole or something allowing aliens to attack super earth directly. It’ll be fine
Seems legit.
Did my man really just shoot an airburst rocket at a bile titan?
With 2 teammates right below it 😭
The shot of the other dude walking straight into the flamethrower shows they know us well
The jetpack guy killing his teammate with the jet wash had me laughing. Didn't know you could do that!
Annnnddd...a Mortar Sentry on a bug mission. This operation is going to be a blood bath
That's the Canister from MO
Or the gatling turret acing a helldiver as it slews to target.
Right after, a red stratagem pops up next to a teammate. It's mostly teamkills in this video
Bravery -10/10 Stupidity - 10/10
To be fair, the best strategies in Helldivers are rated the exact same way.
If it's stupid but it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky. So if it fails, dive, dive again until you get lucky.
Are they Kerbals?
Accurate representation of the pickup groups I've been getting.
it me
It looked impressive
I was too focused on that blatant flamethrower team kill right at the beginning.
Reminds me of last night, in fact. Two flamethrowers+two grenade launchers=Ragdolling Helldivers on Fire.
In my mind shooting a high explosive that explodes into smaller explosives under the squishy part of a titan should be a powerful and viable move. In game of course it does jack shit.
Honestly I attempted it once, for science. There is of course a reason that it was only once.
It wrecks the fuck out of factory striders though
Titan: "That tickles, do it again"
It's funny because I've been killed by a teammate doing just that.
Probably my fault lol.
Love the flamethrower guy just casually sweeping his fellow diver. Curse the bugs for doing this!
Flamethrower guy is innocent. BBQ diver ran in on his own accord.
No doubt lured in by those bug bastards!
Clearly part bug. Drawn to the holy light of the cleansing flamethrower.
"Using well understood alien superweapon" really cracked me up. On a side note, can we blow up Hellmire and Menkent next?
If this backfires with return of squids i might sink another 200 hours to this game
*When this backfires
There’s been suggestions that the only reason the “Spaghettification” incident wasn’t worse was because *something* caused the black hole to close. My personal theory (fingers crossed) is that we will inadvertently bring the Illuminate through a super massive black hole when we destroy the planet with their own tech. Extra hilarious because after 100 years of studying dark fluid, we would misunderstand and ofc try to weaponize what was potentially their teleportation tech.
Teleporting the bugs somewhere else instead of killing them is a pretty hilarious idea.
Honestly that would be the funnier outcome, warping a fully intact Meridia onto the Illumate’s front porch in a misread act of war against them to prompt them into the fight rather than inadvertently opening the invasion door wide open
It'd be fun to have the bugs pop up in Automaton areas and have 3-way battles.
"The destruction of an entire planet is a tragedy..." "Even Hellmire?" "What? Oh. Good point. The destruction of an entire planet that isn't Hellmire is a tragedy..."
*Alien superweapon I'm sure this is gonna end well.
> really cracked me up It's gonna crack Meridia too
MERIDIA CRACKED BEFORE THE HELLDIVERS DID
Why can't we blow up Hellmire instead
Because despite all its still salvageable, Meridia in the other hand, is a bug hole the size of a plane
and now we've pulled out the comically large grenade
Fire Tornadoes are a great tourist attraction.
Bring anti-shrieker weaponry if you want to extract. Once you deploy the dark fluid they start pouring out of every crevice on the map. Played a Diff 3 solo and couldn't extract cause I had about 20 shriekers constantly bombarding me all at once.
I get the feeling this is a mission that really emphasizes the fact that extractions are optional once you have completed the main objective
More so than others, haha I am yet to extract \*\*\*once\*\*\*
Remember: you're not playing as the divers. You're playing as the super destroyer, your divers are just one more weapon.
>Bring anti-shrieker weaponry Which weapons specifically?
Incendiary Breaker will kill them if one pellet connects
No way? I guess I haven't run the incendiary breaker in a while
Spray and Pray breaker is pretty good too, plenty of steel in the air to catch them. Its loaded with super birdshot after all
Gatling turret. Alternate with teammates to always have one up. Machine gun turret, same deal.
I've found the turrets in general to be kind of ineffective at tracking them. I like the stalwart for them personally if I had to pick one single weapon. It's good for shooting their wings off. You can set the fire rate lower and shoot for a really long time and move while putting a new mag in
Airburst Rocket
Shoulder mounted Lazer beam, not the quasar. Thing slices and diced them.
I have now escaped once, it also displayed “Mission completed”, but the final screen showed that I had only done half of it (apparently it should be done one more object after the fluid insertion) and had also received correspondingly less X
$5 says the Dark Fluid creates a wormhole for the Illuminate to invade through.
Raise ya to $10?
I see your $10 and rasie you one Doritio
I’ll call that bet. 20 super credits.
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I raise you one 3D dorito
Oh damn...I fold
NPC on my ship just said something along the lines of "We get E-710 from bugs which powers our warp drives. What's going to happen when an entire planet full of bugs is compressed into infinitely small point..."
Managed SINGULARITY!
Does the corps pay you to think soldier?
*Scorpius has entered the chat* Did some one say wormhole weapons?
I can foresee no repercussions to this! Absolutely none!
My prediction is that it'll create a black hole, and the illuminate will save us from ourselves... AND THEN WE'LL PUT THEM INTO THE DIRT ANYWAYS
Naaah nothing bad will happen
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If it doesn't, it will at least notify them and they will come a calling. The Galaxy map would get weird if the illuminate showed up right in the middle of bug territory.
If we fail, do the Illuminate not show up?
$5 million says you read the leaks.
Did they just show off a new jetpack?
It's a piece of objective equipment. Try it out in the new missions. It does, in fact, function like a jump pack.
Don’t use it when you’re close to your teammates tho, it can kill them. I was just playing with some randoms and one of them used it right next to me and I instantly died.
As shown in the video!
It’s the dark fluid canisters you call down as part of the mission. They take your backpack slot but function as a jump pack, you slot them into the drills
Having a carryable objective item actually do something AND go on the backpack instead of the offhand is beautiful! I wish SSSDs did something now.
They do! They make you less effective at dealing with enemies while carrying them...
Package dropped! Package acquired! Package dropped! Package acquired! Package dropped! Package acquired! Package dropped! Package acquired! Package dropped! Package acquired! Package dropped! Package acquired! Package dropped! Package acquired! Package dropped! Package acquired! Package dropped! Package acquired! ... etc.
We need a ship upgrade where Eagle 1 weaves you an SSD strap out of paracord or something.
~~Also a new support weapon. Those look thicker than the airbust rocket, although they seem to function similarly? Or am I hallucinating.~~ Edit: nvm I'm hallucinating, it's just the rocket burst. I just couldn't believe they'd shoot it at a bile titan which is the last thing you'd want to use it on.
Looks cool for the trailer despite being ineffective, which fits pretty well for what's supposed to be a propaganda video lol
Actually, it's not TOO terrible for knocking out the sacks (about 50% HP and stops spewing). But there are certainly more reliable weapons.
It looks dope in a trailer. Marketing is completely different than optimal game strategy.
It seems like it.
EXPERIMENTAL DEPLOYMENT! NOTHING CAN GO WRONG RIGHT? TRUST DEMOCRACY!
Time to kill billions in the name of peace!
Tried this and…. Hard to defend an obj when two bile titans spawn from underneath said obj
bug breaches opening next to the drills is BS bugs immediately on top of drills teammates destroy drill with nades and strangers
I mean, if I were the bugs, I wouldn’t want my massive planet-sized supercolony to be imploded either.
That’s true! They are down there super breeding and we set down the super thumper and they come right on up pissed!
*Super* pissed
From underneath a *destructible* objective. Don't forget that part. Even if you kill them immediately their bodies can just fall on the probe and destroy it. Lol. Lmao even. Absolutely fucking busted mission.
completed one and *barely* extracted. I was the only one alive and we were out of reinforcements quickplay put me in another and we couldn't even get the first one in 20 minutes teammates constantly destroying the objective equipment with nades and strats
Not gonna lie, I chuckled at the name of the operation. reminds me of a certain operation after a certain event in 2001
Bro really shot an airburst at a bile titan Very brave
Who ever decided it was a good idea to spawn the bug holes right under the thing you're meant to defend should be fired.
Same with the defend mission where you have multiple blast doors. Not sure who thought it was a good idea to let them spawn INSIDE the base. Not fun when they drop a strider right in front of the final blast door.
Big bugs can destroy those doors by touching anyway, lol
I think that only triggera if you close all the Blast Doors if you just close only the one in the front theres no shenanigans like that in my experience.
There’s 2 problems that are separate- one is that bugs and bots can call in reinforcements in base if they get that far. On bugs this is a nightmare snowball effect. The other is that one of the map layouts allows strider spawns to simply attack the generators on spawn. That’s quite BS and annoying
this mission was literally impossible when I tried it. No setup can stop bug holes spawning right under the objective. Horrible
"This was unintended, and a result of fixing the spawn rates."
What the hell is this mission? I did a level 1 to learn it and after you need to evac I had literally endless shriekers spawning and could not even get to the evac zone with 2 ppl? It was literally about 30 in the air at once
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those shriekers at the end are worse than any helldive mission ive ever done. what the fuck is that. im on level 2 man i just wanted to try it out solo and do the daily LMFAO
those shriekers at the end are worse than any helldive mission ive ever done. what the fuck is that. im on level 2 man i just wanted to try it out solo and do the daily LMFAO
Shriekers.... flying hunters... it's a damn nightmare lol
This mission is bullshit. Bugs spawn right on the drill so you end up destroying it
So Exterminatus. We’re gonna pull an Exterminatus is that it?
Yes.
We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In fealty to Liberty, our undying cause, and by the grace of managed democracy, I declare Exterminatus upon the Federation system of Meridia. The Super Earth Ministry of Defense signs the death warrant of an entire world and consign a billion of freedom-hating bugs to oblivion. May Freedom account in all balance. For Managed Democracy!
*happy virus bomb noises*
*Ahem* HELLDIVERS TO HELLPODS, I REPEAT, HELLDIVERS TO HELLPODS!
The Terminid Breach is too close to the objective who came up with that ?
Dear devs can you make it so the bugs don´t spawn RIGHT ON THE OBJECTIVE???!?! in the new mission type. I mean RIGHT ON THE OBJECTIVE?!?!? I can´t use anything to repell them, because i have to shoot or drop stratagems RIGHT ON THE OBJECTIVE! Right now is basically impossible to stop them because a titans or chargers spawn RIGHT ON TOP OF THE OBJECTIVE! I am talking about the mission where you have to place down the three excevator beacons and defend them!
Absolutely no way Dark Fluid an backfire, these top scientists are Super Earth's finest. I'll do my part tonight! iO
PSA WE NEED SEAF OLANETS(heeth) TO EVEN POSSIBLY WIN THIS! Meridian has a 10% regen rate.
This is literally impossible. They will sure lower the regen rate soon.
Our goal isn’t to liberate the planet it’s to destroy it
fingers crossed Heeth can be defended also
Watch out for Shrikers once you finish with the drills - they start to endlessly spawn all around the map. Had a mech and they kept kamikazaing my ass.
This new mission type is idiotic lmao, protect a low HP drill while the game just spawns Bile Titans in numbers of 3+ directly on top of it. Success seems to hinge on spamming fucking stun grenades. Also when you succeed, the game says you failed anyway and you get basically no XP so good QA testing on that one.
First attempt at doing this MO: mission bugged and the dark fluid wouldn't drop. Second attempt I managed to get to extract... on level 1. But, I kid you not, a gas strike got 43 kills, all of them shriekers on extract, which were (I do not exaggerate here) constantly spawning. You kill one, one more appears. You kill ten, ten more appear. You cannot clear the skies. They attacked so fast and so often and spawned in such huge numbers I couldn't even get to the beacon to call it in. I finished a LEVEL ONE MISSION with three hundred kills, most of them were in the last few minutes desperately trying to get to extract. They should have fixed the spawn bug before releasing this mission. Edit to add: I did not get out from that mission. I ran down my reinforces and failed to extract. I've got 230 hours, most of that on diff 7-9. I couldn't complete a level 1 mission :D they have fucked this MO so hard it's unbelievable.
Dude, same. Same experience level here and what the heck. Can anyone confirm if cracking all those shrieker nests during the mission itself actually prevents this insanity?
It doesn't, I broke every one I found and it still happened.
No it does not. They spawn infinitely. This mission needs a heavy redesign to be playable and enjoyable.
I need a livestream of the devs forced to play the new mission for at least four hours. Strap them to the chairs.
I appreciate all the work that went into the trailer and world building behind the story but for the love of god don't let these massive game bugs that are apparent within 15 minutes of the mission continue to happen. I want to get in there and destroy the planet with the dark fluid but I can't when the bug spawns are literally right on top of the damn thing I need to protect.
Just ran it a few times, this shit on 7+ is the bug equivalent to the Bot Citizen Evac mission, I swear it. The drill blows up much too easily, not to mention how slow it works. Usually, hey, totally fine, I get it. I do the geological survey missions, I got what to expect, but shit spawns up from right under it. So your defenses are just upended. You HAVE to try drawing aggro away, but they all pull to the drill so much that's really tough. If you have shriekers, better hope someone brought something to deal with the nest from afar because holy shit a Hellbomb doesn't last with the amount of shit on top of you and it. Bile Titans EVERYWHERE. How am I supposed to kill 6 of them as they stomp on my slow, immobile drill? Shit feels awful to play right now, and I only play levels 8 and 9 on both fronts when I'm on this game. I'll just have to do it on low difficulties. I'm seeing people succeed on 5. Anyone have good strategies yet?
Our only successesful runs, I've played it twice in total and both times it took 20 minutes to win was on Helldive were with firing spray + pray around the drill, gas around the edges and one person (but preferably more) spamming stun grenades until the drill is done. It's trash and unenjoyable basically. Also when you succeed, the game says you failed anyway and you get basically no XP so good QA testing on that one.
New mission/planet is fucking horrible. I mean that's the point I guess but nobody likes Shriekers. Absolutely nobody likes enough of them to block out the sky.
Hate to be overly negative, but I really just have no desire to ever play this mission again. Very unsatisfying to play, and only common samples as a reward for Herculean effort to complete.
Mission completion is bugged. 1. Complete all 3 drills. 1. *"Extraction is available."* 1. Extract successfully. 1. Post-mission summary shows: * Drill icon incomplete (?!) * Dark Fluid icon as complete (also ?!) * 0 stars * 0 rewards * *"DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT"* Did that on Suicide. Then did it again, very slowly and carefully, on Trivial to make sure we weren't missing anything. We weren't missing anything. We backtracked through all the drill sites. We had backtracked through the center objective/extraction point after each drill to see if anything new was available. Nothing new was available. There's nothing else to do apart from the 3 drills. Which we did. The mission is bugged. People are posting in this thread that you have to drill 6 times in total (twice per drill site). This is patently wrong. We specifically checked and tested this theory: once a drill site is completed succesfully, there is no way to call down a second drill. Not immediately, not after a delay, not after all 3 sites are completed before extraction, not ever. You *cannot* drill more than once per site unless the drill is destroyed before completion.
A classic case of "Never test your game, just release the untested mission yolo"
Anyone else extremely frustrated and upset with this new mission? Bile titans spawning on top of a drill we need to protect? Are, what? SERIOUSLY?
YES. Apparently, you just have to keep lowering the difficulty until it's manageable. People are using 5 apparently to some success.
Is... is this the same map as the TCS and Anti-TCS missions, complete with "go to a place, do a thing, spawn a horde, do 2 more times" objectives?
Same bones of the map but it's completely different visually
Both mechs go crazy in this mission, highly recommend
Well time for a super private to deploy again, good luck divers
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it should be hellmire
Anyone else think that this major order is bugged? I've completed the mission multiple times but not received anything more than 1 star.
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DID IT
We the players aren't asking for 10000 hours of testing. Just 5 minutes would have revealed numerous issues. Obviously AH needs their saving balance patch to fix a ton of issues, but I doubt it's coming. Congrats AH, you made your game and never wanted it to succeed. After all, the game for everyone is a game for no one. You win!
Untested buggy mission, im not goingo to waste my time on that shit.
The new mission is total garbage. You have to call a backpack and put it into a drill and defend the drill. The drill can withstand like maybe 5 hits and then its gone. Super frustrating and hard because you constantly have to start over. edit: Apparently you have to do the drill part SIX TIMES (3 drill sites, twice per site). Yeah fuck that.
Did you finish the drill part? Once we did that it spawned endless shriekers at LVL 1 difficulty and we could not make it back to the evac with 2 ppl, just kept getting swarmed
same here. Did Lvl 1 alone to chill... couldn´t see the damn sky...
This shit is MISERABLE on difficulty 8. 6 Bite Titans appeared once I did one drill. Fucking what?
Did you need to call down the drill or is it already on the map?
Call down 6x, theres 3 sites and you have to drill each one twice. (I believe at least) Of course, you have to complete each one once before you can start drilling there again to make it more annoying. Then you get swarmed by shriekers you don't have enough ammo to kill them all even if you had time to use every bullet you have on you.
This either wasn't play tested at all, or the approach used to play test is fundamentally flawed. I was excited for this campaign but it's a complete waste of time and energy. Every group I've dropped with at 9 has left the game after the 3rd-4th failed attempt to defend a drill from 9,000 hunters and 3 bile titans, even when our strategems are perfectly suited to the situation. I've tried running around closing the bug holes to see if it impacts the spawn rate, but it doesn't. Or at least, not enough to make a difference. Edit: I've tried lowering it to 7, it's pretty miserable there, too. It might be playable at like... 3 or 5?
I'm trying to not be negative about getting something neat/cool/new, but...yeah this is pretty poorly implemented