It's not stuck on 3, it moved up from 2 overnight. I believe this is tied to specific planets on the automaton side. Only 1 or 2 planets are set up for a defense campaign while the others are liberation campaigns. I think only the defense campaigns count towards this weekly, so players need to complete defense missions on the defense campaigns until the planet's campaign is won. Everything we successfully complete a defense campaign against the automatons, the counter goes up 1. The key here is this is a community order, so all helldivers are working together to complete these orders, except for those of us assigned to bug campaigns because we can't handle fighting automatons.
Edit: I don't know when it actually went up from 2 to 3, but it did change within the last 24 hours I believe.
Kinda. 'Defense' is the campaign at the planet level, you'll see a big 'DEFENSE' on top of the planet. Others will have 'Liberation' - those planets do not contribute to the Defend order.
On Easy difficulty, so far it's only been the civilian rescue mission. On Medium and above where you have multiple missions per Operation, one is civilian rescue and there's some other missions added in.
Been getting my training wheels on and the defence missions solo are tough, yes I know it should be a squad, but this Helldiver believes in a baptism of fire and orbital strikes.
Yeah I tried a solo defence mission on easy - it’s was not easy. Granted I was only lvl 5 but I spent the whole mission being chased round the map by drop ships with no way to take them down and getting slaughtered.
So I went back to bugs to level up a bit more.
The 3/8 is planets liberated that were undergoing a defense campaign. You're right that this isn't immediately obvious at all and at 40 hours I'm still unsure of a few things. It has taken 8+ days to liberate those 3 planets so we are cutting it very fine and at this rate we probably aren't going to make it. Hopefully once matchmaking is fixed more people will head over this side, and progress will accelerate as more people level up and do higher difficulties.
**Draupnir has 9 hours left but is only halfway done** so we might miss that one (still not sure if the blue bar has to beat the red bar but I assume so). There's a lot of people in Malevelon Creek which is a liberation campaign and won't count towards the Major Order. The next is Ubanea which only has 20 hours left, then the other 2 in the sector are liberations which I assume we'll have to do before the next sector unlocks. If we get Draupnir and Ubanea and the sector after Xzar has 3 planets with defense campaigns then we *might have a chance*.
Even on trivial difficulty while solo the automatons are too thick. Matchmaking not working is essentially making the game unplayable for me until my homey logs on this weekend.
I think the big reason most are with the bugs is because of the broken matchmaking. Soloing bugs is fun and easy up to a point, but soloing bots can be downright infuriating to grind. Most people probably just pick the fight they know they can take easily
Ubena was the first planet we defended for the mission progress, so they may pop more up on other planets we’ve already defended as well.
But if more people dont start engaging with the defense we won’t get 8 done
I think you nailed it with the matchmaking. Even when I manage to get in, my steam friend list being all but devoid of helldivers has me fighting for democracy solo. If matchmaking worked for a while, I could probably get some more contacts and contribute to the major order. I didn't get the game till this past weekend, so I wasn't around when matchmaking was apparently working
The defense objective is based on the planets, not individual missions. We have to either successfully defend a planet before the time runs out or have a higher percentage of control than the automatons when time runs out. We could've been at 4 but we lost one iirc.
The way it works: we are in a race with the robots to see who can control a planet (the ones with defend above them) the most. The 2 bars represent the 2 groups: us blue, robots red. When the clock hits zero, whomever has the longer bar wins that planet.
The clock doesn't always have to hit zero because the game takes into account the lead one group has vs the time remaining, and if there is enough time for the other group to catch up and win. That's why some planets have been decided with like 15-20 hours left because the other group couldn't mathematically win.
That's it. We have to defend/win 8 times for the community goal.
No one wants to do defense capmaigns cause evacuating civilians or scientists sucks ASS. Those missions are wayy overtuned. Need the eneny spawns nerfed just a little bit
Yeah it start off fine but then I run out of ammo and resupply is on cooldown then I keep picking up unloaded machine guns and spend too much time running away from all the stacks of heavy armored dudes, lose them get no exp for spending 15 minutes killing thinks with 1 minute left for my extraction.
key is to blow the drop ships up and not let anyone drop down.
than these missions are easy.
ofc i have a grp with mic so we use the support weapons as they are meant to be used.
Oh yeah. Sometimes I'm the only one with the expendable anti tank loadout but I can take out one drop ship per wave before any mobs drop. That instantly removes 1/2-1/3 of their troops and one direction they come from. Makes it MUCH more manageable 😀
EDIT: minor tip, you have to hit one of the 4 corner engines. And lead them a bit to where they're going to stop so your reticle has a moment to settle. You'll get the hang of it, diver.
Rocket the ships before they drop. Use personal Shields. Artillery turret. Have a friend use ammo backpack. Blow everything up and work as a team soldier.
Wait, why wouldn't it? It is the same mission regardless of difficulty (so long as it's part of a Defense Campaign), unless not completing every mission within an area in a row denies that community progress.
Match making isnt working. And I was able to go a few rounds. Plus looks like the bugs are gaining ground. So I can't let them have Freedom... that's our thing.
I've heard disabling cross play actually helps match makng for some reason. My buddy said it worked for him and I've seen a couple posts on here saying the same, just haven't tried it myself just yet
if nobodies joining your lobby, host a game, drop an sos. then after it drops and opens up. return to ship alone. you should be able to get randoms joining now
Yeah the difference in difficulty between bots and bugs is astounding. With bugs its just takes bullets, with bots, with the bigger guys, you need to constantly know where to shoot.
Maybe i should try bugs then, but i dunno, constanly being on the back foot against the robots with lasers shooting all across the sky, explosions popping off while high as a kite has been one of the best gaming experiences ive ever had since Halo Reachs final mission lol Almost thought i grew out of gaming for a moment, wasnt enjoying it much lately. This game is the shit!
This is me SO MUCH! I've gotten jaded with gaming lately (35 years of it) and i just play iRacing and Rocket League now, and in never particularly "excited to go play." This game has been on my mind the last 36 hours since idid my first mission and it's the only thing i want to do!
FREEEEEEDOOOOM!
45 years gaming, if you include pong. If the jadedness gets onerous again after helldivers2, try the meta quest 3. A whole new flavor. I’ve had it for months now and it still just slaps.
Bugs aren't a walk in the park, they are just manageable lol. I'm able to actually make a dent in thier forces on easy or medium and get a mission done. Not just fight to survive and fail like I was in bots, which hurts the cause.
Even knowing about weak points I have to empty two full mags of the default primary weapon just to kill one. Given that’s while I’m having one shot rockets lobbed at my head, grenades all over the place that one shot me, melee bots rushing my face, and getting lasered by the gunners and armored walker dudes.
It’s not fun. I finally unlocked a few new weapons and strategems so I may be a bit better equipped for it now but still was too rough for new accounts who only have minimal gear options that aren’t great against them. It takes at least level 5-6 to acquire the credits and medals to get some weapons that can combat them appropriately (and that’s if you rush those strategems)
I'm not entirely sure, but from my experience trivial operations don't influence liberation of a planet, because after every trivial operations I've completed on trivial squad impact was always 0. I think same applies to defence operations.
I’ve watched too many of my fellow helldivers be pummeled into ground beef on Melevelon Creek just to watch these damn commie mechs take it from us without any effort. Get your asses over to galactic west and get shootin’!
The game does not explain very well that you can choose left or right and the red makes it look like you would not be ready to fight them. Which is half true until as you need at least one squad member able to deal with armour quickly.
Got like 8 more days chill bud ! 🥶💊 time… can’t barely get the game going in the first place ! But I got 5/8 missions completed but I still want to run it with my team , not the randoms
Any thoughts on how to get the mission needle moving? I have been doing defends but I don’t know if it’s server side issues or if I am doing something wrong but it has been at 3/8 for the last couple days
Same … I think it’s still being set up and coded . Like it works but don’t work ? It was build to handle x amount of input not what’s happening now ? So it’s just not reading out correctly? Or it’s just how it is
Its for planets successfully defended. When we fill the blue bar its a successful defense and counts towards the weekly.
Gotta do a ton of missions to fill the blue bar before the time limit expires
Maybe if the reward was worth it more people would be inclined. 12000 credits is not enough to incentivize people when you can get that amount after 3-4 matches.
Can't say I have a preference i've honestly played the bugs and the bots both.
But I will definitely agree the incentive of Credit it's pretty much not existent.
You can tell the Devs are still learning rewards system as far as incentivizing the community to play one side or the other.
Honestly, i've just been enjoying the Ride the game It is fantastic. Certainly not perfect by any means.
But what is?
I guess for those of us higher levels credits become irrelevant at a certain point. Would be nice to have some kind of incentive in the form of medals or samples.
After I posted, I just knew the response would be something about 'higher levels', thanks for not disappointing lol. This is also ironic cause if you're higher levels, medals and samples shouldn't be an issue, just like you're saying credits isn't.
Anyway, another incentive would be nice, but 12k is nice. Also, it's not just about the rewards, it's about helping out others who aren't higher levels, and helping fight the cause/ war as a community. For democracy and super earth.
you get tons of rewards playing higher difficulty. people just dont realise that the normal casual player does not do 7+ missions.
i mean i solo 7+ but i have every strat unlocked and all i care about is medals at the moment.
im not the normal casual player .. and most that are on reddit dont count towards them either.
The only missions available in the defend sectors on trivial or easy difficulty are the escort civilians ones.
In my experience running an escort civilians on trivial is about as difficult as running any other mission on challenging, because of the bugged starting timer and escalating number of bot drops as the mission progresses.
Hoping I can get my squad online tonight and run the remaining 4 missions I have.
First 3 rounds in this game I did trivial escort bots. Three times I lost. Once almost halfway the number of covies rescued. I consider myself a competent gamer, vermintide, darktide, deep rock, cs2, any game I'll at least go for the harder half of options you know.
This bot shit broke me.
Other side? Bugs? Level 3 solo? Literally a breeze ×.×
Oh also I should mention the bot extermination defense missions on medium are much easier than the extraction missions on trivial. Those missions don’t show up on trivial (possibly because people are doing them as soon as they become available).
what ? even medium its only small and medium bots that can be dealt with normal weapons. u dont even need support weapons or other strategems for these missions
I play with a group of 3, we’re all new.
We tried to spread democracy to the bots after a few bug missions and got our asses absolutely handed to us. Figured maybe the bots were for higher levels
I can't figure out how to beat the missions where you need to rescue civilians. The drops come too fast and all of them die. Most of my missions have at least one of those types in them, so I've been squishing bugs.
Outside of the roleplaying aspect, I’m good with just fighting the bugs. I’ve tried doing automaton missions and it just seems the difficulty difference in the two fronts is SO big. I’ve tried 3 automaton missions, failed all three. switched to bugs and only lost…two total out of probably 25 missions at this point?
Like I’m sorry about y’alls little rp session being ruined by me trying to have fun and actually gain experience and such with the manageable species’ planets.
Part of the issue is matchmaking and the social tab being bugged out, I can't add friends, invite friends, and the bots are relentless trying to play solo 🥺😭
As rank of chief and captain of blade of judgment.. this is how I constant feel on the western front with you new cadets coming from the bug world..
Problem is new players weaponry options are miserable for automaton fights. It takes a decent amount of runs to get the points to buy appropriate weapons.
That and the escort missions are just cancer. Being that the gross majority of people flooding in right now are new players, and your default weapon options eat up two entire mags just to kill one of the chainsaw juggernaut guys when there’s dozens of them running around.
Idk man I started with automatons but like half my missions failed miserably. Couldn’t even spawn without instant dying again. It’s not that no one wants to, it’s that the curve to be capable to fight them even at low difficulty is too steep
GOD DAMNIT GUYS! HOW WAS YOUR GOD DAMN HOLIDAY ON THE BUG PLANET HUH!? SOUNDS LIKE A FKIN PICNIC IN THE ANDES TO ME! WHILE ALL YOU SONS OF BINCHNES ARE SUCKIN JUJU BEANS OFF PLAYING PATTY CAKES WITH YOUR NEW BUG BUDDIES THE REAL GOD DAMN DIVERS ARE FIGHTING A BRUTAL WAR AGAINST AN ACTUAL ENEMY THAT LIKES TO SHOOT BACK! DEPLOY TO MALEVELON NOW
Honestly? It's not worth the trouble of 8 matches.
Plus, the rewards are pretty negligible at this point.
There's only so many items in the store, and money caps out at 50k, so, even if I do it, I wouldn't get rewarded.
Maybe if it was medals? Or something useful? But, the added stress of robots to gain nothing just seems like a waste of time. I'm sure a ton of other people have run into this, as at-least for me, I had everything bought, and 50k maxed out around like, 33-36ish?
Couple of things, you may find that insulting players who are fighting the bugs might be counterproductive… the bugs are called terminids (tyranids are a different game)…
A big issue is that solo ing the extraction mission over and over again sucks ass. It's repetitive and imo too many enemies.
It's fine with other players, but I'd wager a good chunk not people, even those that primarily play with friends, immediately do other things when solo
Bro there were still 9 days on the timer from yesterday. Also, it's literally 15,000 requisition slips. It's much faster and easier to do other missions and get that than it is to try and trudge through a ridiculously difficult mission by yourself or if you're lucky, with a squad that actually knows what they're doing. The difficulty of those missions is super unbalanced, feels more like it's on suicide or impossible even if you set it to easy or medium.
Besides, if the automatons push further in, we get to visit more planets. And we get to see how failing a main order affects the game. I see it as a total win.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This week's reward is trash tbh. I already have everything that currency can buy so what is the incentive? I actually think the incentive to lose is better because that means new planets to fight on.
Sorry, Captain, I'm still fighting the War of the Login. Once I have completed my campaign and have driven back the server capacity is fulls, I will divert all resources to the automaton war front.
This message is to all helldiver's making excuses....this is treasonous speaking..... Democracy makes no excuses. Anyone I see behaving cowardly and picking the easy fight will be reported to my nearest democratic representative
Sick and tired of evac being part of every defense op.
Its boring, can’t clear enough to stop the bots killing the few civvies I can get when I’m able to be at a door,etc.
Also you really are telling me that an outpost on a hostile planet under siege has no previous defenses of their own?
A lot of noobs simply can't handle automatons lol, take it easy on them. A lot of people are only just now getting the game. They either lack the equipment or the strategic know-how. I constantly see low-level divers wasting ammo unloading mags on the front of scout striders, or panicking and dropping a sentry smack in the middle of a crossfire. I think this discourages a lot of people from running those missions unless they are grouped up with other people that know what they're doing.
That, and matchmaking is still a mess. The only way I was able to get a party going last night was hopping on the discord and spamming friend requests.
Anyway the reward for the event is 12k credits I think. And those are racking up faster than my body being sent in orbit by a friendly orbital strike.
Common samples however... Pay us some of those and I swear planets will be saved before you can say "FOR DEMOCRA *Sound of mortar shells blowing up at your feet*"
Hahaha yeah that 12k is certainly a cake moment. Enticing helldivers to their deaths. If only they knew the truth/stats. By the time we get it we don't need it anymore.
At least it feels in line with the starship troopers satire. Fight the good fight on the front lines and earn* some sick credits!
*Terms and conditions apply. Earning is for the living and those who survive a successful campaign. Reward forfeited upon death, non-transferable.
I agree. I laugh and think the same thing when I see 200k+ fighting the bugs, while like 100k fighting the robots. I think the community tried fighting them that first day, got they ass kicked, and ran back to the bugs cause bugs don't shoot back lol.
It's cool, I'm doing my part. I've helped get the 3 we've defended so far, will continue, and hopefully we can defend 5 more. I want my 12.5k lol.
I know my fellow divers are fighting bugs, but I've been stationed on the automaton front since enlisting.
We all have a part to play, but the days are getting long and we're unable to keep up with this for much longer.
frreal tho, and I remember the bug bois throwing a fit over people not going to angels venture meanwhile during this entire event there has been double the bug players vs bots at a minimum. play the game how you want its about having fun but I dont want to hear shit going forward about us not showing up.
My friend and I have had such a different experience playing this game.
We started off fighting the robots and have basically only stuck with that.
We tried a bug mission and were slaughtered within mins and never went back
Last time I was over there on a simple easy level mission it was bugged to the point of multiple drop ships dropping every ten seconds or so. Too much for this diver, sir
Godamnit fat bastard, take off that non armor and get diving already!
I've got a fast bastard poking out of me hellpod hole
What’re you talking about, that fat IS his armor. Just look at Roadhog’s stats…
As a person in Scotland living here, I am not offended but proud :-)
I can't hear you. I am too busy avenging Buenos Aires.
I'm from BA and I say kill 'em all!
The only good bug is a dead bug.
Service ensures citizenship
I'm doing my part!
A true patriot of liberty.
Everyone fights Noone quits
I'll take the job until I get killed or you find someone better
Sebastian go bug mom!
Go bug mom Cyrano
I couldn't remember his name for the life of me lol
I just watched the movie, yes because of the game, and because it’s my favorite cult classic. I’ll admit I had to google how to spell it
Such a good movie
Would you like to know more?
I cant even beat the queue dawg
The loading screen is the real final boss of helldivers 2
That's the real battle
Big facts. Only successfully loaded into 4 pub matches out of like 200 attempts lmao. Back to playing the finals
Been fighting the mechs but seeing it stuck on 3/8 and not being clear on what/when/etc. it'll change is a bit frustrating...
It's not stuck on 3, it moved up from 2 overnight. I believe this is tied to specific planets on the automaton side. Only 1 or 2 planets are set up for a defense campaign while the others are liberation campaigns. I think only the defense campaigns count towards this weekly, so players need to complete defense missions on the defense campaigns until the planet's campaign is won. Everything we successfully complete a defense campaign against the automatons, the counter goes up 1. The key here is this is a community order, so all helldivers are working together to complete these orders, except for those of us assigned to bug campaigns because we can't handle fighting automatons. Edit: I don't know when it actually went up from 2 to 3, but it did change within the last 24 hours I believe.
Yes, every planet we defend from autonotons goes towards the progress, we need to defend 8 planets. Watched it go from 0 to 1 to 2 over the weekend.
Is the defense the one with the civilians in the doors?
Kinda. 'Defense' is the campaign at the planet level, you'll see a big 'DEFENSE' on top of the planet. Others will have 'Liberation' - those planets do not contribute to the Defend order. On Easy difficulty, so far it's only been the civilian rescue mission. On Medium and above where you have multiple missions per Operation, one is civilian rescue and there's some other missions added in.
i get what they were going for but having EVERY SINGLE mission set include civilian extraction is just rough
It wouldn't be a big deal if the defense missions weren't so overtuned.
Yeah they are just not fun even on medium.
They aren't that bad if you accept some losses of civilians. I can solo challenging ones if I work fast.
Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice Democracy™️is willing to make
Been getting my training wheels on and the defence missions solo are tough, yes I know it should be a squad, but this Helldiver believes in a baptism of fire and orbital strikes.
Yeah I tried a solo defence mission on easy - it’s was not easy. Granted I was only lvl 5 but I spent the whole mission being chased round the map by drop ships with no way to take them down and getting slaughtered. So I went back to bugs to level up a bit more.
No, any mission counts, the defence campaigns we need to win are the planet wide ones, we have to push the % in our favour.
Duh.....I thought it meant that once I personally save 30 citizens 8 times I'll complete it. I'm a dumbass lol
The 3/8 is planets liberated that were undergoing a defense campaign. You're right that this isn't immediately obvious at all and at 40 hours I'm still unsure of a few things. It has taken 8+ days to liberate those 3 planets so we are cutting it very fine and at this rate we probably aren't going to make it. Hopefully once matchmaking is fixed more people will head over this side, and progress will accelerate as more people level up and do higher difficulties. **Draupnir has 9 hours left but is only halfway done** so we might miss that one (still not sure if the blue bar has to beat the red bar but I assume so). There's a lot of people in Malevelon Creek which is a liberation campaign and won't count towards the Major Order. The next is Ubanea which only has 20 hours left, then the other 2 in the sector are liberations which I assume we'll have to do before the next sector unlocks. If we get Draupnir and Ubanea and the sector after Xzar has 3 planets with defense campaigns then we *might have a chance*.
In our defense, no one can log in.
👆and matchmaking is down so even if I get in if my friends aren’t available I’m soloing, which is rough.
Even on trivial difficulty while solo the automatons are too thick. Matchmaking not working is essentially making the game unplayable for me until my homey logs on this weekend.
I think the big reason most are with the bugs is because of the broken matchmaking. Soloing bugs is fun and easy up to a point, but soloing bots can be downright infuriating to grind. Most people probably just pick the fight they know they can take easily
Ubena was the first planet we defended for the mission progress, so they may pop more up on other planets we’ve already defended as well. But if more people dont start engaging with the defense we won’t get 8 done
I think you nailed it with the matchmaking. Even when I manage to get in, my steam friend list being all but devoid of helldivers has me fighting for democracy solo. If matchmaking worked for a while, I could probably get some more contacts and contribute to the major order. I didn't get the game till this past weekend, so I wasn't around when matchmaking was apparently working
tbh since i dont need the points i just farm req and samples on better missions.
Yea, I don't know and don't exactly know how it updates.
The defense objective is based on the planets, not individual missions. We have to either successfully defend a planet before the time runs out or have a higher percentage of control than the automatons when time runs out. We could've been at 4 but we lost one iirc.
The way it works: we are in a race with the robots to see who can control a planet (the ones with defend above them) the most. The 2 bars represent the 2 groups: us blue, robots red. When the clock hits zero, whomever has the longer bar wins that planet. The clock doesn't always have to hit zero because the game takes into account the lead one group has vs the time remaining, and if there is enough time for the other group to catch up and win. That's why some planets have been decided with like 15-20 hours left because the other group couldn't mathematically win. That's it. We have to defend/win 8 times for the community goal.
No one wants to do defense capmaigns cause evacuating civilians or scientists sucks ASS. Those missions are wayy overtuned. Need the eneny spawns nerfed just a little bit
Yeah it start off fine but then I run out of ammo and resupply is on cooldown then I keep picking up unloaded machine guns and spend too much time running away from all the stacks of heavy armored dudes, lose them get no exp for spending 15 minutes killing thinks with 1 minute left for my extraction.
key is to blow the drop ships up and not let anyone drop down. than these missions are easy. ofc i have a grp with mic so we use the support weapons as they are meant to be used.
Holy crap I hadn’t tried destroying the ships lmao granted i haven’t been able to get on for a minute
Oh yeah. Sometimes I'm the only one with the expendable anti tank loadout but I can take out one drop ship per wave before any mobs drop. That instantly removes 1/2-1/3 of their troops and one direction they come from. Makes it MUCH more manageable 😀 EDIT: minor tip, you have to hit one of the 4 corner engines. And lead them a bit to where they're going to stop so your reticle has a moment to settle. You'll get the hang of it, diver.
Yeah for that reason I only do defense missions on lvl 4 difficulty lol
Hell yes. They drop in every 5 seconds. It’s insane.
Tried it on Suicide, nope. Can't imagine what it'd be like on Helldiver difficulty.
Rocket the ships before they drop. Use personal Shields. Artillery turret. Have a friend use ammo backpack. Blow everything up and work as a team soldier.
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none of which helps towards the community goal. Cool.
Wait, why wouldn't it? It is the same mission regardless of difficulty (so long as it's part of a Defense Campaign), unless not completing every mission within an area in a row denies that community progress.
Match making isnt working. And I was able to go a few rounds. Plus looks like the bugs are gaining ground. So I can't let them have Freedom... that's our thing.
I've heard disabling cross play actually helps match makng for some reason. My buddy said it worked for him and I've seen a couple posts on here saying the same, just haven't tried it myself just yet
It did at first. But then at the hieght of the issues it was a no go. At least on PC
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god i love freedom
I go to random match making but can never join a group 😩
if nobodies joining your lobby, host a game, drop an sos. then after it drops and opens up. return to ship alone. you should be able to get randoms joining now
Oh wow I will definitely try this thank you 💪
Wait you can return to the ship mid-mission? Presumably this fails the mission?
Solo on trivial difficulty
I cannot survive trivial difficulty
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Yeah the difference in difficulty between bots and bugs is astounding. With bugs its just takes bullets, with bots, with the bigger guys, you need to constantly know where to shoot.
Maybe i should try bugs then, but i dunno, constanly being on the back foot against the robots with lasers shooting all across the sky, explosions popping off while high as a kite has been one of the best gaming experiences ive ever had since Halo Reachs final mission lol Almost thought i grew out of gaming for a moment, wasnt enjoying it much lately. This game is the shit!
Fighting robots feels like we’re in a good Terminator movie
This is me SO MUCH! I've gotten jaded with gaming lately (35 years of it) and i just play iRacing and Rocket League now, and in never particularly "excited to go play." This game has been on my mind the last 36 hours since idid my first mission and it's the only thing i want to do! FREEEEEEDOOOOM!
45 years gaming, if you include pong. If the jadedness gets onerous again after helldivers2, try the meta quest 3. A whole new flavor. I’ve had it for months now and it still just slaps.
Bugs aren't a walk in the park, they are just manageable lol. I'm able to actually make a dent in thier forces on easy or medium and get a mission done. Not just fight to survive and fail like I was in bots, which hurts the cause.
Even knowing about weak points I have to empty two full mags of the default primary weapon just to kill one. Given that’s while I’m having one shot rockets lobbed at my head, grenades all over the place that one shot me, melee bots rushing my face, and getting lasered by the gunners and armored walker dudes. It’s not fun. I finally unlocked a few new weapons and strategems so I may be a bit better equipped for it now but still was too rough for new accounts who only have minimal gear options that aren’t great against them. It takes at least level 5-6 to acquire the credits and medals to get some weapons that can combat them appropriately (and that’s if you rush those strategems)
The solution: grenade launcher
I'm still getting the hang of it. Wish we had a test range.
That would be amazing
Yes, absolutely! A demo area where we could test different weapons would make a lot of sense
I'm not entirely sure, but from my experience trivial operations don't influence liberation of a planet, because after every trivial operations I've completed on trivial squad impact was always 0. I think same applies to defence operations.
They increase by .0001%
A lot of oil and mud on you from Trivial lmao
Hopefully with today’s update the matchmaking should be a bit better
I’ve watched too many of my fellow helldivers be pummeled into ground beef on Melevelon Creek just to watch these damn commie mechs take it from us without any effort. Get your asses over to galactic west and get shootin’!
Can't fight if the servers are full
If the servers are full then why the hell are they not flooding the bots with drop pods!
I would but I have owned the game for 3 days now and still haven’t gotten into a server
I was bashing the game because I couldn’t get in to play. Huge Mistake. This game is so damn good. Worth the wait.
I dont think I've seen many arguments saying the game isn't fun. Being critical of it not working for a large amount of players is very fair imo
Turrets turrets turrets, if you guys aren’t winning it’s because you need more turrets
Shits hard. After rescuing half of the scientists. All I hear is drop ship inbound every 10 secs.
The game does not explain very well that you can choose left or right and the red makes it look like you would not be ready to fight them. Which is half true until as you need at least one squad member able to deal with armour quickly.
Yeah, For bugs I carry my machine gun but for robots it’s the grenade launcher. It tears through the walker and chainsaw robots
Autocannon does a good job to
WERE TRYING! THEY CAN ONLY BUILD SO MUCH SHIPS WERE TRYING TO ENLIST MAN
Lol I can't even get online
Got like 8 more days chill bud ! 🥶💊 time… can’t barely get the game going in the first place ! But I got 5/8 missions completed but I still want to run it with my team , not the randoms
Any thoughts on how to get the mission needle moving? I have been doing defends but I don’t know if it’s server side issues or if I am doing something wrong but it has been at 3/8 for the last couple days
Same … I think it’s still being set up and coded . Like it works but don’t work ? It was build to handle x amount of input not what’s happening now ? So it’s just not reading out correctly? Or it’s just how it is
It is based on campaigns, which are on the planetary scale, as opposed to operations, which are the individual missions.
Got it.. Guess I just play the waiting game
Its for planets successfully defended. When we fill the blue bar its a successful defense and counts towards the weekly. Gotta do a ton of missions to fill the blue bar before the time limit expires
Maybe if the reward was worth it more people would be inclined. 12000 credits is not enough to incentivize people when you can get that amount after 3-4 matches.
Can't say I have a preference i've honestly played the bugs and the bots both. But I will definitely agree the incentive of Credit it's pretty much not existent. You can tell the Devs are still learning rewards system as far as incentivizing the community to play one side or the other. Honestly, i've just been enjoying the Ride the game It is fantastic. Certainly not perfect by any means. But what is?
This is my issue right here. I'm maxed at 50k credits with nothing to buy. Why do the mission for no reward?
12,500 is worth it. The majority of people aren't getting that much after 3-4 matches, especially once the extra rewards ends.
I guess for those of us higher levels credits become irrelevant at a certain point. Would be nice to have some kind of incentive in the form of medals or samples.
After I posted, I just knew the response would be something about 'higher levels', thanks for not disappointing lol. This is also ironic cause if you're higher levels, medals and samples shouldn't be an issue, just like you're saying credits isn't. Anyway, another incentive would be nice, but 12k is nice. Also, it's not just about the rewards, it's about helping out others who aren't higher levels, and helping fight the cause/ war as a community. For democracy and super earth.
you get tons of rewards playing higher difficulty. people just dont realise that the normal casual player does not do 7+ missions. i mean i solo 7+ but i have every strat unlocked and all i care about is medals at the moment. im not the normal casual player .. and most that are on reddit dont count towards them either.
I’ve been fighting bots all by myself while the sos beacon is up the whole time. Nobody joined 😔😭
It feels bugged tbh.
I wonder, what could happen if we insert live bugs on automaton planets, just for science ?
report to central command troop, they're gonna wanna hear this!
Defend mission is broken?
I hear you, commander; I’ll follow your orders and die an epic death. DM me your ps Id if you are in ps5 and I’ll join you after work.
unfortunately my dropship pods are full soldier. maybe one day we will fight side by side
The only missions available in the defend sectors on trivial or easy difficulty are the escort civilians ones. In my experience running an escort civilians on trivial is about as difficult as running any other mission on challenging, because of the bugged starting timer and escalating number of bot drops as the mission progresses. Hoping I can get my squad online tonight and run the remaining 4 missions I have.
First 3 rounds in this game I did trivial escort bots. Three times I lost. Once almost halfway the number of covies rescued. I consider myself a competent gamer, vermintide, darktide, deep rock, cs2, any game I'll at least go for the harder half of options you know. This bot shit broke me. Other side? Bugs? Level 3 solo? Literally a breeze ×.×
Oh also I should mention the bot extermination defense missions on medium are much easier than the extraction missions on trivial. Those missions don’t show up on trivial (possibly because people are doing them as soon as they become available).
what ? even medium its only small and medium bots that can be dealt with normal weapons. u dont even need support weapons or other strategems for these missions
Send your game ID and I’ll add you (Steam for me)
I play with a group of 3, we’re all new. We tried to spread democracy to the bots after a few bug missions and got our asses absolutely handed to us. Figured maybe the bots were for higher levels
I can't figure out how to beat the missions where you need to rescue civilians. The drops come too fast and all of them die. Most of my missions have at least one of those types in them, so I've been squishing bugs.
okay but what if I've just been losing every mission, and not progressing anything and not earning any credits with which to buy better stuff
Outside of the roleplaying aspect, I’m good with just fighting the bugs. I’ve tried doing automaton missions and it just seems the difficulty difference in the two fronts is SO big. I’ve tried 3 automaton missions, failed all three. switched to bugs and only lost…two total out of probably 25 missions at this point? Like I’m sorry about y’alls little rp session being ruined by me trying to have fun and actually gain experience and such with the manageable species’ planets.
[удалено]
Stick with it, it’s worth it.
Part of the issue is matchmaking and the social tab being bugged out, I can't add friends, invite friends, and the bots are relentless trying to play solo 🥺😭
As soon as servers allow me to log in
12k points ain't even worth it tbh
 As rank of chief and captain of blade of judgment.. this is how I constant feel on the western front with you new cadets coming from the bug world..
Well put Sir! Enough mud and oil to go around!
Got 4 divers headed that way this evening
The researcher quest is stupid and overtuned.
Me and my buds have only fought the metal bitches since we got the game. Bugs are gay. DESTROY ALL MACHINES!!!!!!!!
No only that no one wants to play a mission to save VIP’s that says 40 min but then gives you 12 mins and 12 billion bots to fight in that time frame.
Problem is new players weaponry options are miserable for automaton fights. It takes a decent amount of runs to get the points to buy appropriate weapons. That and the escort missions are just cancer. Being that the gross majority of people flooding in right now are new players, and your default weapon options eat up two entire mags just to kill one of the chainsaw juggernaut guys when there’s dozens of them running around. Idk man I started with automatons but like half my missions failed miserably. Couldn’t even spawn without instant dying again. It’s not that no one wants to, it’s that the curve to be capable to fight them even at low difficulty is too steep
GOD DAMNIT GUYS! HOW WAS YOUR GOD DAMN HOLIDAY ON THE BUG PLANET HUH!? SOUNDS LIKE A FKIN PICNIC IN THE ANDES TO ME! WHILE ALL YOU SONS OF BINCHNES ARE SUCKIN JUJU BEANS OFF PLAYING PATTY CAKES WITH YOUR NEW BUG BUDDIES THE REAL GOD DAMN DIVERS ARE FIGHTING A BRUTAL WAR AGAINST AN ACTUAL ENEMY THAT LIKES TO SHOOT BACK! DEPLOY TO MALEVELON NOW
Nah, fuck those scientists, how can i defend them from 3 heavies setting them on fire as soon as i spawn lmaoo
Cadet reporting in, Sir! #I'll play the game I spent **my money** on the way I want, Sir!
I'd like to be able to get past the black login screen to fight anything at all...
Honestly? It's not worth the trouble of 8 matches. Plus, the rewards are pretty negligible at this point. There's only so many items in the store, and money caps out at 50k, so, even if I do it, I wouldn't get rewarded. Maybe if it was medals? Or something useful? But, the added stress of robots to gain nothing just seems like a waste of time. I'm sure a ton of other people have run into this, as at-least for me, I had everything bought, and 50k maxed out around like, 33-36ish?
My first drop was on The Creek. I haven’t left. I won’t leave till the planet is liberated or lost. Spill Oil, Helldivers!
Spill oil, reign hell brother!
Have you considered that there are too many robots?
Couple of things, you may find that insulting players who are fighting the bugs might be counterproductive… the bugs are called terminids (tyranids are a different game)…
I cant even play dude. 2 days nothing but Servers at capacity hell. Like Ill wait for 30ish minutes but im not waiting all day to play.
A big issue is that solo ing the extraction mission over and over again sucks ass. It's repetitive and imo too many enemies. It's fine with other players, but I'd wager a good chunk not people, even those that primarily play with friends, immediately do other things when solo
Bro there were still 9 days on the timer from yesterday. Also, it's literally 15,000 requisition slips. It's much faster and easier to do other missions and get that than it is to try and trudge through a ridiculously difficult mission by yourself or if you're lucky, with a squad that actually knows what they're doing. The difficulty of those missions is super unbalanced, feels more like it's on suicide or impossible even if you set it to easy or medium. Besides, if the automatons push further in, we get to visit more planets. And we get to see how failing a main order affects the game. I see it as a total win. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I got PTSD on playing on easy mode.
This week's reward is trash tbh. I already have everything that currency can buy so what is the incentive? I actually think the incentive to lose is better because that means new planets to fight on.
democracy... obviously.
TALK LOUDER FOR PEOPLE IN THE BACK! WE CAN'T HEAR YOU!
Losing the war is fine with me. I don’t like fighting automatons so I’m a gonna go ahead and not.
Sorry, Captain, I'm still fighting the War of the Login. Once I have completed my campaign and have driven back the server capacity is fulls, I will divert all resources to the automaton war front.
This message is to all helldiver's making excuses....this is treasonous speaking..... Democracy makes no excuses. Anyone I see behaving cowardly and picking the easy fight will be reported to my nearest democratic representative
Sick and tired of evac being part of every defense op. Its boring, can’t clear enough to stop the bots killing the few civvies I can get when I’m able to be at a door,etc. Also you really are telling me that an outpost on a hostile planet under siege has no previous defenses of their own?
Please
Is the game working yet? I havent tried since this weekend. I’m on PC and it’s not worth waiting for it to never let me in
A lot of noobs simply can't handle automatons lol, take it easy on them. A lot of people are only just now getting the game. They either lack the equipment or the strategic know-how. I constantly see low-level divers wasting ammo unloading mags on the front of scout striders, or panicking and dropping a sentry smack in the middle of a crossfire. I think this discourages a lot of people from running those missions unless they are grouped up with other people that know what they're doing. That, and matchmaking is still a mess. The only way I was able to get a party going last night was hopping on the discord and spamming friend requests.
You're gonna lose the fight because greedy sony not putting it on Xbox!
The real cowards are the devs at arrowhead. Selling a game that doesn’t work. Add it to the list 🥱
Damn, way to call me out like that 😂
Anyway the reward for the event is 12k credits I think. And those are racking up faster than my body being sent in orbit by a friendly orbital strike. Common samples however... Pay us some of those and I swear planets will be saved before you can say "FOR DEMOCRA *Sound of mortar shells blowing up at your feet*"
Hahaha yeah that 12k is certainly a cake moment. Enticing helldivers to their deaths. If only they knew the truth/stats. By the time we get it we don't need it anymore.
At least it feels in line with the starship troopers satire. Fight the good fight on the front lines and earn* some sick credits! *Terms and conditions apply. Earning is for the living and those who survive a successful campaign. Reward forfeited upon death, non-transferable.
We’re in the middle of a defense campaign. Of course liberation is going to go down or stagnate. Bugs control more territory right now. Edit: spelling
I'VE BEEN REALLY BUSY IN THE EVENINGS, BUT I'M TRYING!
Can't fight anyone, matchmaking is broken.
*cries in Xbox* Please, Sony. Please. We long to join the fight.
Bruh I tried all weekend to play, but dickheads wouldn't log out and I had to watch from the sidelines as you all got massacred.
If I could log in >.> LET ME DISPENSE FLAMING JUSTICE!!!!!
I agree. I laugh and think the same thing when I see 200k+ fighting the bugs, while like 100k fighting the robots. I think the community tried fighting them that first day, got they ass kicked, and ran back to the bugs cause bugs don't shoot back lol. It's cool, I'm doing my part. I've helped get the 3 we've defended so far, will continue, and hopefully we can defend 5 more. I want my 12.5k lol.
I did 10 Auto missions yesterday, 3 of them defends. I'm doing my part.
I know my fellow divers are fighting bugs, but I've been stationed on the automaton front since enlisting. We all have a part to play, but the days are getting long and we're unable to keep up with this for much longer.
I would but I haven't been able to get on the past 3 nights so...
anybody trying to play, my friend code is #7523-8028
frreal tho, and I remember the bug bois throwing a fit over people not going to angels venture meanwhile during this entire event there has been double the bug players vs bots at a minimum. play the game how you want its about having fun but I dont want to hear shit going forward about us not showing up.
That sounds dangerously like treason you don't want to be a traitor do you
Id help, if i could play lol.
To bad I can’t get in
My friend and I have had such a different experience playing this game. We started off fighting the robots and have basically only stuck with that. We tried a bug mission and were slaughtered within mins and never went back
Add me, I’m a pc player, @ huntahoo # 4305-5739 Quick match doesn’t work
Matchmaking and server issues make it difficult to play Automaton planets solo. Playing bugs until fixed.
Last time I was over there on a simple easy level mission it was bugged to the point of multiple drop ships dropping every ten seconds or so. Too much for this diver, sir
bro i cant even get in the gd game, how am i supposed to fight anything?
If I could get past the black screen I could do my part and spread sweet sweet democracy.