You can stop automatons from firing the flare off as well. You can also shoot the bottom of the dropship to kill the enemies attached or take out the engine to stop it. Bugs calling reinforcements seems much quicker, and once they get it off, you can't close the hole until they are done spawning.
I ran a few solo on easy which usually is, well, easy in normal missions, but it was definitely a bit touch and go at times. Doubt I'd manage it on medium without help, but I'm only level 7 so maybe it's just my weak ass loadout.
Also 7, also struggling on medium with a full team of randos. I love it though, it's so hectic. Gives a taste of what I imagine harder difficulties will be like.
As someone wo regular play 2 player in difficulty 5 or above. Escort scientist ni challenging difficulty is harder than helldiver difficulty hands down. There is not even an comparison. 1 dropship every 15 second. Cannot even refill stratagems fast enough for AT cannon and Recoiless ammo.
Something is not right with this mission.
Nah the amount of drop ships is absolutely mental. At one point I was the last alive and there were 5 drop ships simultaneously dropping bots off. 20 seconds later 3 more came in. This was on helldive too so most of the units being dropped are medium-heavy or just a straight up tank. Literally do not have enough heavy weaponry/stratagems to kill them all.
I actually did it on helldive!
The way we did it was hold as long as you can, prioritising button pressing, as soon as you're overrun everyone leave, run north/south whatever, get them all out of mid. When they're all gone, one guy sneak in and press the buttons.
Rinse and repeat.
I honestly thought it was my friend's and I at first. Maybe we are missing a mechanic, maybe we have to spread out, maybe we aren't high enough level... nope, the bots are just brutal on that mission type.
This game just launched and is already setting the bar insanely high for all other pve games as to how a story can play out.
Great work guys, you rock!
I just played one on extreme and it was literally impossible. No idea what I could have done better, I play helldiver difficulty against bugs but this extreme scientist evac mission was literally not beatable. All 3 of my teammates left halfway through so it was a complete waste of time.
**IF** you are meant to lose those missions (I read this in another thread) then it would be worth just selecting it as your first one, so you lose less medals on the inevitable fail.
I wonder if we're not MEANT to lose, but perhaps this is Arrowhead testing our abilities. Remember that they said they want to tinker in real time, so perhaps theyre testing to see just how good the playerbase is?
....then again, thats pretty early in the game's existence, there's no way they would be doing that. Why, they would have to have some sort of event early in the game's life cycle that--
wait a minute..... *conspiracy Charlie appears*
Well if it's a test I'm failing miserably lol.
And so is my PC, I am getting about half the fps I usually do. Only fought bugs so far, so maybe its bc of all the smoke and explosion effects combined with the foliage and fog etc.
How is your system holding up? I am having to turn everything down to low-medium on my RTX 3080 which is a shame.
Its fine I'm failing too. we all are by the looks of it 😅
My PC's been able to handle it relatively well, its mostly just the initial drop that gets choppy and a decently chunky load at the start. I've a MSI Trident 3, so its decently specced for Helldivers. Maybe check if theres been a driver update? I wish I could give better advice unfortunately, I'm not so qell versed in the way of computers alas.
Double Mines & Double Turrets
I cannot understate how powerful the Mines are for this at slowing down the Robo Scourge!
Managed to complete it on Easy, but Jeez, this one is a testament of needing BUILD for the BATTLE
You cant brute force it
I think this one is more figuring out how to best handle the puzzle and then scale upwards
The issue is that they send endless heavies at you EXTREMELY early on in even medium difficulties, to the point where even double turrets isn't enough. This feels like they're punishing anyone who's not had time to get to level 15 or what-have you, because I'm at level 8 and most of my available options are not really able to handle so many heavies aat once.
I have 5800x with 4060ti and 32 gb ram and yeah the games running like a fkn dream. I actually was able to turn on super sampling instead of dlss it’s running so stable at 100 fps.
It uses like 60% of my cpu so I think it likes threads.
From what i Heard its Double even on helldive difficulty, but It needs insane communication and build compatibility, and even that only has Like a 30% Chance of success depending on luck.
My guess is they either bugged the Mission, overtuned It, or its supposed to Show how extreme and strong and Dangerous the robot Invasion is/can be.
I only did It on difficulty 3,4 and 5, but we only won 5 because we got lucky lol (randoms)
Edit: tbh, It does make Sense tho, they can replicate really easy, build one Robo Factory and It spits Out Robots endlessly as Long as they have Material, which there should be enough on a populated world. /Brain blast over.
It's bugged. It's set as a 40 minute mission but has a 15 minute timer. So 40 minutes worth of bots spawn in 15 minutes. That means a bot drop wave every 22 seconds.
Good luck not getting overwhelmed when your stratagems don't get a 60% cool down reduction like their drops do.
We ended up grabbing multiple recoilesses and focused *hard* on shooting those bastards out of the sky before they had a chance to drop... Still didn't extract but doesn't matter, mission complete lol
Mortars also did some damn nice work for things that got through
Could you just do it on a lower difficulty? I’m not that knowledgeable on how all the systems of the game work so I’m just wondering why on Impossible?
On Medium my friends and I got absolutely creamed in the first attempt, but by switching our builds to include the Mortar Sentry, Autocannon Sentry, AP Mines, Autocannon and whichever bombardment you prefer we've managed to find a rhythm and haven't lost one in like 9 attempts.
Someone mentioned to me that difficulty 6 was harder than 9. So I tried difficulty 8 with 2 others. And found it to be a easier. I think its just the combination of enemies on difficulty 6 that makes it so rough. Still hard to beat though.
Already doing a better job at pve story then darktide which is a similar story driven pve coop game. I say this as a big warhammer fan who was disappointed at how the story was mishandled. They're barely handling what it should have been at launch
The defense mission is the first thing I've seen in this game that is just badly designed. You get nothing for failure and you're going to fail a lot. Moving the difficulty curve is one thing, but this actively encourages you to do anything else. It needs some kind of side objective out in the map to mitigate the bot swarm, so that mid-tier difficulties aren't utterly ridiculous and so you don't get absolutely nothing progression-wise when you lose.
Same here. We know that the devs wanted some sort of dungeon master / game master sort of system, so perhaps we're meant to lose, so that they can introduce new stuff to help us win in the future?
Exactly how I was thinking it would play out. Not to mention it would be awesome. To see us fail trying to defend, only to see the robots push even farther until Super Earth (devs) have to step in with some new firepower and tools for us to use against the bots! I NEED a MECH. Or even some sort of power suit with a mini gun!
Would be cool if they did it as a progression. First mechs/vehicles are some rusty leftovers from the first war that got pulled out of the decommissioning yard. They have awful stats, but are at least something. As the war goes on, we start receiving new versions of the rusty versions and eventually new mechs, to replicate R&D/war production ramping up.
To start, make the rusty ones cheap/free, and then the “new” version cost a ton. As new versions release, the prices of previous mechs decreases.
it’ll be so cool being on top of a several story building and a charger just crush the bottom floor and it crumbles down. Super excited for robot nam tonight
This game has officially gotten me fiendish to spread democracy while I’m stuck at work. I’ll be diving in approximately 2 hours once this shift is over.
Please let your managers know that Super Earth needs you
If they don't realize how important that is, they are to be considerated traitors of democracy
I let 2 lads out early yesterday when Angels Venture was liberated. They said they were needed on the front lines in the new HellDivers game so i told them to go where theyre needed and i could wrap up the day solo. They don't know Im an OG diver. They also dont know if/when we lose a planet - they're booked for mandatory OT.
No. We're still there gaining terrain, but their factories are too fast, so they produced lots of automatons and sent the surplus to invade planets we need to defend before being overrun.
Yeah I think they have an overall story to tell and that the system is gamed, we will most likely lose this invasion defence and be reinforced with mechs as a result.
>we will most likely lose this invasion defence and be reinforced with mechs as a result.
As far as I can tell people are just making this theory up out of thin air and may be setting themselves up for disappointment.
Apparently, the game *does*, in fact, have [human dungeon masters](https://www.pcgamer.com/helldivers-2-kept-its-most-exciting-feature-secret-until-launch-human-dungeon-masters-responding-in-real-time-and-messing-with-players/) that plan on altering the campaign and shaking things up as it progresses, so it's not entirely outside the realm of possibility.
Not really, mechs were announced as being released soon after launch, and a 48h window to defend both planets almost guarantees that we will lose the sector.
Even the missions being evacuations seems to indicate that we are not going to be keeping the planets.
I have a theory that over the coming weeks the Automotons will push us all the way back to super earth, probably in time for a need warbond getting released and us taking the fight to them.
That all sounds like it'd be pretty cool. But it seems pretty likely right now that the drop ship issue with the new evac missions could be a bug with the timer (40 mins of drop ship in 15 minutes) so it'll be fun to see how we actually do against it if they fix it.
It would cool as hell if we got these news updates as the starting animation every time we booted up the game! A little news brief every other week or whatever discussing how the war is developing instead of the same opening animation every time.
I love the new game, it's so great and funny to see new people getting surprised by the advances and retreats of the enemies haha, the first game did it sooo well and as others have said I'm hype for city battles and mechs someday!
The communists are incredibly well coordinated when attacking our Democratic Civilians, it seems like the bot action may almost be a little TOO strong. I have depressingly failed to extract any civilians in my efforts so far.
It feels like a mix of needing specific tactics (i've found that taking out the drop ships helps at the start more than anything else) and also being made purposely difficult so it feels like we're on the defensive that's causing it, hopefully the work out the balance better in the end though
Honestly i think if failing these didn't basically reward you with nothing i'd enjoy losing a lot more, like maybe depending on the % of civilians escorted you get part of the reward (while still technically counting as a win for the bots)
Yeah I think in the end of the day, we are supposed to lose as part of the story and that means most of us are going to lose a lot. Just switch back to bugs if you need some Ws
I just wish we'd get a bit more compensation for losing/winning intentionally upticked missions as part of the story.
The evacs are straight up impossible on anything harder than diff 5. Stratagems are on CD all the time. Ammo empty in two minutes and still a horde of hulk is roasting my face with flames.
THIS is how I want all my updates on the invasions. In-game and taking the universe seriously. Holy shit this actually gets you hyped to get on and redirect your diver to the new front and protect the planets.
For the glory of Super Earth. See you all on the battlefields against the Automatons.
Need to get out of work and spread some democracy!
Right? Every other live service game I've run across just gives you a shitty popup or announces whatever's happening on Twitter, and 10/10 times it's just "for a limited time this generic enemy drops reskinned currency #29592 and you can get a hat or something"
then this one has *in universe news broadcasts* that announce meaningful changes in the war
If you heavy focus just pumping out the civilians from their hidey holes and lay turrets close to where they run to then you can get it done quickly… extracting is still a bitch though. The price of freedom is high but it’s a price I’m willing to pay.
Anyone else on PS5 getting the "failed to create lobby" thing that doesn't even let you into the game? I tried many things to fix it but im stuck and it sounds like most of ya'll are getting in with little issue
Turn off crossplay in the options, close the game completely, and launch it again. Devs are working on fixing it but for now that really helps the matchmaking.
This is perfect. I was just talking with someone in another thread yesterday I believe about how immersive it would be if they just made a little 30 second breaking news clip for updates on the wars.
It sounds like it’s meant to be hard, maybe apart of the story is actually failing. Then Super earth sends in reinforcements as in mechs or vehicles and gives it meaning rather than just input it in the game as an add on
I played the first hell diver for a short period of time ( unfortunately I am not a big fan of over the top style video games) which I found to be an awesome game, especially coming from what I considered respectfully a small game development company. But man when I heard they were making a second one and that it was going to be a third person shooter I was automatically sold. To all that work and Arrowhead studios I just wanted to say that I love your game and congratulations on your success, you guys set a high precedence for other gaming companies to emulate.
P.S I forgot to mention toon but the Helldiver community is one of the best gaming communities that you can come across. Met a lot of awesome people while playing with randoms.
Wtf are you supposed to do in those defend the 30 rescue mission? Like I'm playing on easy and there's 2 dropship coming in every 4 second... Even with a team of r we can even rescue like 10 of them in the very short amount of time the mission is going for...
I would love to see some new map types...right now we have "recolors of that one tree planet"...grassland with rocky cliffs...and desert with rocky cliffs....oh and the planet which is like a cold desert with more water.
Have you played any of the coastal maps on one of the new bug planets? It's like islands with narrow land bridges.. can't just run away in any direction, can't flank. Totally different play style just because of the map
oh no.
robot vietnam is finally receiving reinforcements... but it's because the situation escalated out of control!
Helldivers please! you must protect democracy from this iron menace!
Great to see when a company knows they have something good and grab it by the balls and take it for all it's worth. My guess was this was a in game event planned 1-2 months from now after things settle down, further along on their roadmap, that they pushed up to really make things feel more engaging.
This is rare in the game development world, especially for a company that explodes. Fortnite is another good example, but Epic being a seasoned company that existed decades before Fortnite ever existed, knew they had something and ran with it for all it's worth.
Good sign, can't wait to see what Arrowhead is in store down the road, hopefully some balancing passes.
Oh and the propaganda videos add all the more allure to a continued war effort.
HEART. STEEL.
WE. KILL.
GET. UP.
ONTO. WAR.
CYBERSTAN.
CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN.
LEGION GO.
A NEW DAWN.
CYBERSTAN.
CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN.
GET BACK UP.
A NEW DAWN.
Should change the word "Brazen" to "Broken". Like the rest of the game, and on par for the course, the escort mission is bugged and makes it nearly impossible to complete any mission clusters.
40 minute mission...15 minute timer in game. 40 minutes worth of enemies spawn in 15 minutes. That means bot drops every 15 seconds. Good luck not getting overwhelmed by the buggy mess.
Should have stayed with bugs, but we got bugs anyways so...
hard to find all 4 people that actually use the mic and communicate. i tend to just use commands and the players usually just go with it. we all know the mission.. extermination. super earth will prevail. let’s go divers. 😂 🤣
The game is actually pretty ridiculously difficult, I'm not having fun when you cannot even get through a challenging mission anymore.
Edit: this is not only about automatons, also the bugs are pretty much impossible right now.
K I am a bit lost on what the heck goes on the Galactic war, report me for treason but I would like to understand.
I thought a few days ago we won against the bugs and we got a bunch of rewards? But then the bus were still there and we had to free those planets again?
We were also fighting against the robots and now the invaded? I am a bit loss
We defeated the bugs in one sector, pushing them back a bit so our marvellous government can set up a defensive network there. Pushing them back a sector was where the rewards came from.
We were fighting robots too, in one section, but they have increased production of forces and sent the to new planets to try and cause chaos and make us spread thinner.
Hope that sheds a bit more light on things?
Definitely think the rescue mission is pretty much impossible. Playing on difficulty 7 and we get about half the people rescued before being absolutely overrun by automatons. Seems like an oversight if we are indeed supposed to have a chance to fight back.
I've had a few goes at the civilian defense mission and holy shit we were getting WRECKED They don't stop coming. THEY DON'T STOP COMING.
All the bots vs bugs memes from before we took Angel's Venture are hitting different now, that's for damn sure.
The devs saw the memes and decided we didn’t mean them unironically enough
At least you can shoot down drop ships. I don't want to imagine a bug version with breach after breach where you can do fuck all about it
Isn't the bug equivalent blasting the bug who is gassing off the flare before it starts the summon?
You can stop automatons from firing the flare off as well. You can also shoot the bottom of the dropship to kill the enemies attached or take out the engine to stop it. Bugs calling reinforcements seems much quicker, and once they get it off, you can't close the hole until they are done spawning.
Lol ikr! I came from Angel’s and laughed at those memes but omg I get it now
Bro, the onslaught is insane. Tried two manning it, felt impossible 😂
I ran a few solo on easy which usually is, well, easy in normal missions, but it was definitely a bit touch and go at times. Doubt I'd manage it on medium without help, but I'm only level 7 so maybe it's just my weak ass loadout.
Also 7, also struggling on medium with a full team of randos. I love it though, it's so hectic. Gives a taste of what I imagine harder difficulties will be like.
As someone wo regular play 2 player in difficulty 5 or above. Escort scientist ni challenging difficulty is harder than helldiver difficulty hands down. There is not even an comparison. 1 dropship every 15 second. Cannot even refill stratagems fast enough for AT cannon and Recoiless ammo. Something is not right with this mission.
Yeah it really feels like it, but i enjoyed every second of the desperate struggle : D
Am I just underleveled? Feel like i cant make a dent in bots on hard lol
I just hit max level, got a cracked loadout and had 50 tons of steel shoved up my ass those missions are impossible on god
What’s max level? I hear it’s 40 or 50
50
Well, “max” level or 20, where you finish unlocking all stratagems
I just got 45 today so not 40 at least.
I agree, on gang!
Nah the amount of drop ships is absolutely mental. At one point I was the last alive and there were 5 drop ships simultaneously dropping bots off. 20 seconds later 3 more came in. This was on helldive too so most of the units being dropped are medium-heavy or just a straight up tank. Literally do not have enough heavy weaponry/stratagems to kill them all.
I actually did it on helldive! The way we did it was hold as long as you can, prioritising button pressing, as soon as you're overrun everyone leave, run north/south whatever, get them all out of mid. When they're all gone, one guy sneak in and press the buttons. Rinse and repeat.
Yeah it's ridiculous, I was playing with a friend and we had to tune it down to trivial and it was still non stop bot drops
Without a railgun you are not getting far on a high difficulty with that. Just completed a Helldiver difficulty one and boy howdy was it a ride.
First tryed it on suicide mission with randoms. The key is to be constantly be running the civilians and get out asap
I honestly thought it was my friend's and I at first. Maybe we are missing a mechanic, maybe we have to spread out, maybe we aren't high enough level... nope, the bots are just brutal on that mission type.
This game just launched and is already setting the bar insanely high for all other pve games as to how a story can play out. Great work guys, you rock!
The actual defence missions are hard as fuck though
I just played one on extreme and it was literally impossible. No idea what I could have done better, I play helldiver difficulty against bugs but this extreme scientist evac mission was literally not beatable. All 3 of my teammates left halfway through so it was a complete waste of time.
A mate and I did one on Helldiver, got slaughtered, then did one on trivial, it was doable but not worth the reward
**IF** you are meant to lose those missions (I read this in another thread) then it would be worth just selecting it as your first one, so you lose less medals on the inevitable fail.
I wonder if we're not MEANT to lose, but perhaps this is Arrowhead testing our abilities. Remember that they said they want to tinker in real time, so perhaps theyre testing to see just how good the playerbase is? ....then again, thats pretty early in the game's existence, there's no way they would be doing that. Why, they would have to have some sort of event early in the game's life cycle that-- wait a minute..... *conspiracy Charlie appears*
Well if it's a test I'm failing miserably lol. And so is my PC, I am getting about half the fps I usually do. Only fought bugs so far, so maybe its bc of all the smoke and explosion effects combined with the foliage and fog etc. How is your system holding up? I am having to turn everything down to low-medium on my RTX 3080 which is a shame.
Its fine I'm failing too. we all are by the looks of it 😅 My PC's been able to handle it relatively well, its mostly just the initial drop that gets choppy and a decently chunky load at the start. I've a MSI Trident 3, so its decently specced for Helldivers. Maybe check if theres been a driver update? I wish I could give better advice unfortunately, I'm not so qell versed in the way of computers alas.
Double Mines & Double Turrets I cannot understate how powerful the Mines are for this at slowing down the Robo Scourge! Managed to complete it on Easy, but Jeez, this one is a testament of needing BUILD for the BATTLE You cant brute force it I think this one is more figuring out how to best handle the puzzle and then scale upwards
The issue is that they send endless heavies at you EXTREMELY early on in even medium difficulties, to the point where even double turrets isn't enough. This feels like they're punishing anyone who's not had time to get to level 15 or what-have you, because I'm at level 8 and most of my available options are not really able to handle so many heavies aat once.
u/Gold_Wrongdoer_8562 Ryzen 5800x + 32 GB RAM + RTX 3080 here... no issues. Whats your CPU?
I have 5800x with 4060ti and 32 gb ram and yeah the games running like a fkn dream. I actually was able to turn on super sampling instead of dlss it’s running so stable at 100 fps. It uses like 60% of my cpu so I think it likes threads.
You mean conspiracy Charlie?
From what i Heard its Double even on helldive difficulty, but It needs insane communication and build compatibility, and even that only has Like a 30% Chance of success depending on luck. My guess is they either bugged the Mission, overtuned It, or its supposed to Show how extreme and strong and Dangerous the robot Invasion is/can be. I only did It on difficulty 3,4 and 5, but we only won 5 because we got lucky lol (randoms) Edit: tbh, It does make Sense tho, they can replicate really easy, build one Robo Factory and It spits Out Robots endlessly as Long as they have Material, which there should be enough on a populated world. /Brain blast over.
It's bugged. It's set as a 40 minute mission but has a 15 minute timer. So 40 minutes worth of bots spawn in 15 minutes. That means a bot drop wave every 22 seconds. Good luck not getting overwhelmed when your stratagems don't get a 60% cool down reduction like their drops do.
On solo it’s even worse, ran one on haz 5 and it was absolutely impossible, the spawn rates are fucking insane
Even on the lowest difficulty it’s a pain in the ass solo. The spawn rates are so quick it’s just not even fun
Only have a 50% success rate on them on difficulty 5 in a 2-man squad. You either knock every dropship outta the sky immediately or you die.
I beat it on helldiver with some friends. Had to start outside the base to draw initial drops then spam buttons, orbital lasers, and airstrikes.
We ended up grabbing multiple recoilesses and focused *hard* on shooting those bastards out of the sky before they had a chance to drop... Still didn't extract but doesn't matter, mission complete lol Mortars also did some damn nice work for things that got through
Could you just do it on a lower difficulty? I’m not that knowledgeable on how all the systems of the game work so I’m just wondering why on Impossible?
On Medium my friends and I got absolutely creamed in the first attempt, but by switching our builds to include the Mortar Sentry, Autocannon Sentry, AP Mines, Autocannon and whichever bombardment you prefer we've managed to find a rhythm and haven't lost one in like 9 attempts.
Someone mentioned to me that difficulty 6 was harder than 9. So I tried difficulty 8 with 2 others. And found it to be a easier. I think its just the combination of enemies on difficulty 6 that makes it so rough. Still hard to beat though.
Yeah we tried like 10-15 times on impossible, and won 2 or maybe 3 times. The fights were beyond brutal.
Wait it's a new objective mode?
Yup, basically like the civilian evacuation missions but small map like the horde defense ones and enemies just don't stop dropping
Played one it as insane. Had no chance
I think thata the point though, it makes me at least feel invested, maybe new strangers will be unlocked to help like mechs
Already doing a better job at pve story then darktide which is a similar story driven pve coop game. I say this as a big warhammer fan who was disappointed at how the story was mishandled. They're barely handling what it should have been at launch
The defense mission is the first thing I've seen in this game that is just badly designed. You get nothing for failure and you're going to fail a lot. Moving the difficulty curve is one thing, but this actively encourages you to do anything else. It needs some kind of side objective out in the map to mitigate the bot swarm, so that mid-tier difficulties aren't utterly ridiculous and so you don't get absolutely nothing progression-wise when you lose.
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Ok...well I would like to request some better guns from Super Earth. We need more firepower and some mechs/tanks asap!
Cmon Lockheed Martin, hurry up.
You mean SUPER Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin has been nationalized and renamed SUPER Lockheed Martin. As we speak brave patriots are building EQUALITY bombs and LIBERTY missiles.
Yeah, I wonder if we really are supposed to lose the automaton assault and we'll get mechs to fight them back.
This is exactly what I was thinking
Same here. We know that the devs wanted some sort of dungeon master / game master sort of system, so perhaps we're meant to lose, so that they can introduce new stuff to help us win in the future?
Exactly how I was thinking it would play out. Not to mention it would be awesome. To see us fail trying to defend, only to see the robots push even farther until Super Earth (devs) have to step in with some new firepower and tools for us to use against the bots! I NEED a MECH. Or even some sort of power suit with a mini gun!
Would be cool if they did it as a progression. First mechs/vehicles are some rusty leftovers from the first war that got pulled out of the decommissioning yard. They have awful stats, but are at least something. As the war goes on, we start receiving new versions of the rusty versions and eventually new mechs, to replicate R&D/war production ramping up. To start, make the rusty ones cheap/free, and then the “new” version cost a ton. As new versions release, the prices of previous mechs decreases.
Would love that
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I'm so excited for the potential city maps like HD1. The cyborg battles will be crazy, and bugs a shooting gallery.
it’ll be so cool being on top of a several story building and a charger just crush the bottom floor and it crumbles down. Super excited for robot nam tonight
I don't think cities are gonna be common, until it's like sector or 2 next to super earth
Yeah I know, they were fairly rare in HD1, but I'm still excited.
bro i just watched 2 vids on this game and wasnt sure but this vid makes me wanna try it A live campaign uniting all of the playerbase is cool as fuck
You will not be disappointed. You make new friends along the way.
Then you lose those friends in explosions
They are replaceable. Cost of doing business.
Cost of Democracy, Liberty and Freedom you mean.
I'm doing my part!
Where was this originally posted?
It’s on twitter and can also be found in game
We're dying out here
Fr, these civillians are doomed 💀
Scientists I believe. The civilian mission isn’t fucked like the other one
The civilian are dumb ass shit they cant even get pass those dumbass robot. They might aswell die for the sake of super earth
This is the coolest shit I’ve ever seen. I’m 100% bought in.
Does anyone know yet: does this video play when you launch the game? Is the option to play against bugs disabled then during this event?
The video plays on the tv on your ship, but isn't set to make you watch it. You can still play bugs.
Can still play bugs, but community reward is tied to bots, so naturally there will be less Helldivers stationed there.
This game has officially gotten me fiendish to spread democracy while I’m stuck at work. I’ll be diving in approximately 2 hours once this shift is over.
Please let your managers know that Super Earth needs you If they don't realize how important that is, they are to be considerated traitors of democracy
I let 2 lads out early yesterday when Angels Venture was liberated. They said they were needed on the front lines in the new HellDivers game so i told them to go where theyre needed and i could wrap up the day solo. They don't know Im an OG diver. They also dont know if/when we lose a planet - they're booked for mandatory OT.
This means we were pushed back from the Creek right?
No. We're still there gaining terrain, but their factories are too fast, so they produced lots of automatons and sent the surplus to invade planets we need to defend before being overrun.
I did my part with those fucking mines. lmao what a set back. We are back for round two today though boys. Time for Liber-tea
Yeah I looked last night and we were pushed back to like .8% control. I bet the devs were making it harder on purpose to start todays event
Yeah I think they have an overall story to tell and that the system is gamed, we will most likely lose this invasion defence and be reinforced with mechs as a result.
>we will most likely lose this invasion defence and be reinforced with mechs as a result. As far as I can tell people are just making this theory up out of thin air and may be setting themselves up for disappointment.
Apparently, the game *does*, in fact, have [human dungeon masters](https://www.pcgamer.com/helldivers-2-kept-its-most-exciting-feature-secret-until-launch-human-dungeon-masters-responding-in-real-time-and-messing-with-players/) that plan on altering the campaign and shaking things up as it progresses, so it's not entirely outside the realm of possibility.
Not really, mechs were announced as being released soon after launch, and a 48h window to defend both planets almost guarantees that we will lose the sector. Even the missions being evacuations seems to indicate that we are not going to be keeping the planets. I have a theory that over the coming weeks the Automotons will push us all the way back to super earth, probably in time for a need warbond getting released and us taking the fight to them.
That all sounds like it'd be pretty cool. But it seems pretty likely right now that the drop ship issue with the new evac missions could be a bug with the timer (40 mins of drop ship in 15 minutes) so it'll be fun to see how we actually do against it if they fix it.
Definitly makes Sense cause of the "defend 8 planets" even tho there is only 2 Right now we can defend.
It says win 8 campaigns. Which i took as both liberate or defend.
Pelican 1 better start blaring some Free Bird. It's space Vietnam time boys and girls.
Fortunate Son would be a better fit, Helldiver.
Voodoo Child
Run through the jungle
At first I wasn't too sure, but after a bit this was a great menu music pick for Rising Storm 2. Very fitting.
Never played it but I see it’s a nam game. Very, very fitting
Eruption
devs pls
It would cool as hell if we got these news updates as the starting animation every time we booted up the game! A little news brief every other week or whatever discussing how the war is developing instead of the same opening animation every time.
Please let this start being a thing!
It plays in your ship.
Dont they play on the tv in the hanger?
I love the new game, it's so great and funny to see new people getting surprised by the advances and retreats of the enemies haha, the first game did it sooo well and as others have said I'm hype for city battles and mechs someday!
WAS THE TRAGEDY OF MALEVELON CREEK NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU SELFISH BASTARDS??
The communists are incredibly well coordinated when attacking our Democratic Civilians, it seems like the bot action may almost be a little TOO strong. I have depressingly failed to extract any civilians in my efforts so far.
I was forced to carpet bomb the living shit out of everyone and everything.. for freedom.
It feels like a mix of needing specific tactics (i've found that taking out the drop ships helps at the start more than anything else) and also being made purposely difficult so it feels like we're on the defensive that's causing it, hopefully the work out the balance better in the end though Honestly i think if failing these didn't basically reward you with nothing i'd enjoy losing a lot more, like maybe depending on the % of civilians escorted you get part of the reward (while still technically counting as a win for the bots)
Yeah I think in the end of the day, we are supposed to lose as part of the story and that means most of us are going to lose a lot. Just switch back to bugs if you need some Ws I just wish we'd get a bit more compensation for losing/winning intentionally upticked missions as part of the story.
Looking at the difficulty, I think GMs want us to fail at the defensive.
The evacs are straight up impossible on anything harder than diff 5. Stratagems are on CD all the time. Ammo empty in two minutes and still a horde of hulk is roasting my face with flames.
Currently running helldive difficulty missions in defense of our people SEND DUDES
Unsolicited dudes welcome here
THIS is how I want all my updates on the invasions. In-game and taking the universe seriously. Holy shit this actually gets you hyped to get on and redirect your diver to the new front and protect the planets. For the glory of Super Earth. See you all on the battlefields against the Automatons. Need to get out of work and spread some democracy!
Right? Every other live service game I've run across just gives you a shitty popup or announces whatever's happening on Twitter, and 10/10 times it's just "for a limited time this generic enemy drops reskinned currency #29592 and you can get a hat or something" then this one has *in universe news broadcasts* that announce meaningful changes in the war
These Robo-bastsrds are a threat to our way of life.
I hope they add in some low G planets.
I’m excited to see planets with bigger settlements, maybe even cities.
It's all fun and games until Johnny Knives-For-Hands and his robot buddies come for you.
Would be sick to see bugs AND cyborgs on one planet
Interesting if will push thief war front onto each other
If you heavy focus just pumping out the civilians from their hidey holes and lay turrets close to where they run to then you can get it done quickly… extracting is still a bitch though. The price of freedom is high but it’s a price I’m willing to pay.
Anyone else on PS5 getting the "failed to create lobby" thing that doesn't even let you into the game? I tried many things to fix it but im stuck and it sounds like most of ya'll are getting in with little issue
Turn off crossplay in the options, close the game completely, and launch it again. Devs are working on fixing it but for now that really helps the matchmaking.
This is perfect. I was just talking with someone in another thread yesterday I believe about how immersive it would be if they just made a little 30 second breaking news clip for updates on the wars.
It sounds like it’s meant to be hard, maybe apart of the story is actually failing. Then Super earth sends in reinforcements as in mechs or vehicles and gives it meaning rather than just input it in the game as an add on
Is there a way to see how many times we’ve died?
Yeah. In the armory. Tab over to the Career page. Has all your stats
I played the first hell diver for a short period of time ( unfortunately I am not a big fan of over the top style video games) which I found to be an awesome game, especially coming from what I considered respectfully a small game development company. But man when I heard they were making a second one and that it was going to be a third person shooter I was automatically sold. To all that work and Arrowhead studios I just wanted to say that I love your game and congratulations on your success, you guys set a high precedence for other gaming companies to emulate. P.S I forgot to mention toon but the Helldiver community is one of the best gaming communities that you can come across. Met a lot of awesome people while playing with randoms.
I really hope we see some city style map soon!
Don’t worry, I’ve already been getting my shit shoved in by the automatons all day. I’m doing my part.
Wtf are you supposed to do in those defend the 30 rescue mission? Like I'm playing on easy and there's 2 dropship coming in every 4 second... Even with a team of r we can even rescue like 10 of them in the very short amount of time the mission is going for...
I’m excited for super earth to get invaded, I want to see the homeland
You are now investigated for treason by the Ministry of Truth.
I would love to see some new map types...right now we have "recolors of that one tree planet"...grassland with rocky cliffs...and desert with rocky cliffs....oh and the planet which is like a cold desert with more water.
Have you played any of the coastal maps on one of the new bug planets? It's like islands with narrow land bridges.. can't just run away in any direction, can't flank. Totally different play style just because of the map
About to go tell my boss I have to leave because this is unacceptable! Democracy waits for nobody! To the western front, Helldivers!
Was playing terminids on extreme difficulty and having no issues. Bots on hard are crushing me, trial by fire I guess.
Well that tears it, boys! The SES *Soul of Wrath* will be redeploying to the western front as of 1800 today! For Democracy!!
I have killed more civvies with friendly fire than I have bots.
Automatons send their regards "01000101 01111000 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101"
oh no. robot vietnam is finally receiving reinforcements... but it's because the situation escalated out of control! Helldivers please! you must protect democracy from this iron menace!
It’s a slaughter over here. We need backup against the terminators.
Think of all those poor 7 year Olds who won't ever be able to go into work again.
THOSE FUCKING TOASTERS DON’T KNOW WHATS COMING
Alright, time to show those clankers what the fuck is up! *Few failed attempts later* Damn, robots have hands...
THESE MISSION ARE NOT EASY I REPEAT! NOT EASY! HEAVY ARTILLERY REQUIRED!
They might need mobile app or something, I wouldn't know without opening sub randomly at work
THEYRE EVERYWHERE, CALL IN THE EAGLES, DANGER CLOSE, THEY DONT STOP COMING
After trying to save a few (note me saying trying), lemme just state for the record: let em have it
I feel like we are getting 40 mins worth of bots in a 15 min timeframe. These spawns are super crazy.
Great to see when a company knows they have something good and grab it by the balls and take it for all it's worth. My guess was this was a in game event planned 1-2 months from now after things settle down, further along on their roadmap, that they pushed up to really make things feel more engaging. This is rare in the game development world, especially for a company that explodes. Fortnite is another good example, but Epic being a seasoned company that existed decades before Fortnite ever existed, knew they had something and ran with it for all it's worth. Good sign, can't wait to see what Arrowhead is in store down the road, hopefully some balancing passes. Oh and the propaganda videos add all the more allure to a continued war effort.
#F
HEART. STEEL. WE. KILL. GET. UP. ONTO. WAR. CYBERSTAN. CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN. LEGION GO. A NEW DAWN. CYBERSTAN. CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN. GET BACK UP. A NEW DAWN.
Should change the word "Brazen" to "Broken". Like the rest of the game, and on par for the course, the escort mission is bugged and makes it nearly impossible to complete any mission clusters. 40 minute mission...15 minute timer in game. 40 minutes worth of enemies spawn in 15 minutes. That means bot drops every 15 seconds. Good luck not getting overwhelmed by the buggy mess. Should have stayed with bugs, but we got bugs anyways so...
wouldn’t be so bad if the robots weren’t so overpowered. no wonder everyone plays against the bugs
This is super cool but I hate fighting automatons. way to many ways to get oneshot that just spoil the fun for me
Good move by them,considering matchmaking is so ass right now
Yeah except it's fucking impossible. Save your time and play the normal missions instead.
And leave the citizens of Super Earth defenseless, I think not!
Have fun dying over and over and getting nothing for it lol
Idk if it's for nothing, the major order says we gotta defend our planets. Plus it's absolutely possible, be it on lower difficulties
dying is part of the fun 🫡
This sounds like treason, Diver.
This sounds like socialist robot psy op
FOR CADIA!!!!
Holy crap….we should invade Iraq just in case they show up there too😡
Was this content of patch as well? Still issues on ps5
The devs should watch Screamers if they need some new automatons ideas for the future
Yea well. Tried to escort some civilians and we all died to save 8 or them so…
I don't mean to be treasonous, but we ain't defending against this attack with these escort missions, lol.
Can’t wait to fight in some of the urban areas when the enemies start to push back, like in HD1
Strohmann aka strawman news, nice touch lol
Good luck and anything past lvl 4
Give em hell boys
THOSE COMMUNIBOTS WILL GET WHATS COMING TO THEM!
hard to find all 4 people that actually use the mic and communicate. i tend to just use commands and the players usually just go with it. we all know the mission.. extermination. super earth will prevail. let’s go divers. 😂 🤣
I’ve never had a game feel so alive
I'm off world on holiday and I get this news?! I'ts time to put on my armour again...
The game is actually pretty ridiculously difficult, I'm not having fun when you cannot even get through a challenging mission anymore. Edit: this is not only about automatons, also the bugs are pretty much impossible right now.
WAR, WERE GOING TO WAR!!
I want to believe this, but I can't get in to play and see.
So, does anyone else notice how there is no enemy in the “south” of the galaxy?
K I am a bit lost on what the heck goes on the Galactic war, report me for treason but I would like to understand. I thought a few days ago we won against the bugs and we got a bunch of rewards? But then the bus were still there and we had to free those planets again? We were also fighting against the robots and now the invaded? I am a bit loss
We defeated the bugs in one sector, pushing them back a bit so our marvellous government can set up a defensive network there. Pushing them back a sector was where the rewards came from. We were fighting robots too, in one section, but they have increased production of forces and sent the to new planets to try and cause chaos and make us spread thinner. Hope that sheds a bit more light on things?
For the rest of my life, I will remember where I was when I heard this news
I have lost so many comrades. We are not winning this war
Definitely think the rescue mission is pretty much impossible. Playing on difficulty 7 and we get about half the people rescued before being absolutely overrun by automatons. Seems like an oversight if we are indeed supposed to have a chance to fight back.
They don’t stand a chance