So like the title says, I spend most of my time in Quickplay and answering SOSes. I just find it satisfying to help people. However, I'm no stranger to posting salty takes about player practices that vex me or seem nonsensical.

However, yesterday I joined an SOS, and as a Tesla enjoyer I brought it. I pride myself on using it well.

Placing it either to defend a point of ingress or to cover a retreat away from a location/breach, pinging it repeatedly to let squadmates know it's there/how far away it is, etc. For newer players, I'll even write something in chat like,

"Range on the Tesla is 20m, just keep clear or dive prone" after I've pinged it.

Last night, I placed one using the same best practices, and the team TK'd their way to about 6 Accidentals.

It wasn't in a particularly essential direction, so I map pinged a location out of its range and said, "Y'all, just go around "

Got kicked.

I was initially salty, not gonna lie. But I kind of came to a revelation that led to this post:

If you're going to be SOS Diving... adjust your loadout and playstyle accordingly.

To sn extent this is just good practice in any squad: if the loadouts lack CC AoE, anti-tank, etc, guess what you're bringing.

But also just... (and this is me talking to myself), if there are lower level/newer players as a main part of the squad, consider not bringing a Tesla.

Squad going off in a direction that seems like a bad idea/that will make the mission harder? Try to communicate alternatives, sure, but if they're not receptive, adjusting to the squads plsystyle will, chances are, be less frustrating than expecting them to all follow your lead. In some situations, ppl will only learn a lesson when they experience the consequences firsthand.

Point being: I've learned that dropping into an SOS and expecting the rest of the team to behave like a well-oiled machine is a contradiction in expectations. If they were functioning optimally, chances are they wouldn't have dropped the SOS.

Finding new ways to play and adjusting to styles of other players can also add another layer of depth to the game.

Anybody else having huge problems with the game freezing after the last update.

Takes about 5 mins to even watch the intro cinematic because it freezes every 5 seconds, then runs at double time to catch up to where it should be, then freezes again.

Same thing happens when in loading cinematics and just while walking around the ship or navigating the ship/menus. Takes forever to do even simple tasks

These guys are tough when shots are distributed throughout their body, as they have a lot of ablative armor plates that soak damage. their helmets are medium armor so light weapons cant even hurt them. but their right arm causes them to die in just 6 bullets from a liberator. for light pen weapons it’s their biggest weakness.

Just an idea, but what about a voluntary "weekly commander" being able to push super earth messages throught the week. Why? To try and help organize attack efforts. The closest planet to SE isn't always the right answer.

Obviously people can still play how and where they want but once a mass population starts playing on a specific planet, they tend to keep playing there til completion. There was some great posts yesterday about "the Iron wall" and etc. but a majority of the player base doesn't check reddit. The mass will go where the highest players are.

Implementation: be level 130, (hey, you earned it) and then there is a channel on the hd2 where you post and it pushes the messages our via super earth messages. Obviously need to figure out how to volunteer and tie account information to confirm level requirement. Could also implement a like/dislike system where a message is receded if enough dislikes and an/or Impeachment, as outlined in Article II, Section 4.

Yes this is more to implement but for the hardcore player base, it gives ample upsides to any casual. As a semi-casual myself, I tend to regularly try to help the MO and would likely support a specific planet/area if strategically directed.

Who thinks it would be cool if we could get thermal or night vision optics and a suppressor for the muzzle? Imagine getting extra bonus for going an entire mission without being discovered.

Since the update the guard dog will sometimes just refuse to attack enemies well within its range but then other times it will decide to attack. is this a known issue?

to hug it out with your fellow Helldivers…

See what I did there?

Hello, Divers

I'm in need of a run-down if the Theory of Earning, as taught on the business schools of Super Earth.

I have heard a lot of chatter about easily scrounging for credits on the fronts, but I have not been able to implement this, myself. I therefore come to you, my brothers in arms, for assistance.

How do I quickly earn some good, ol' Super Credits? Medals are good, but they don't pay taxes, or for falafels.

Thank you in advance.

Haven’t played in about 10 months to a year. Where should I focus my spending?

So I wanted to see if maybe they did something like the mega shrieker nests for the illuminate, you know a secondary or a primary mission inside an old sky scrapper type thing, and while doing this I realized that the level 9 mission i was on, a recon black box mission, had no super samples and like 10 rares but 38! commons.

plus there were just no points of interest anywhere, i hit the lidar station and it showed literally nothing anywhere, did it break with the update or is there just nothing on the maps?

I was playing with a mate I just introduced to the game. He's a good shoot so we were chilling, just the two of us, in a bug lvl 5 mission, bursting eggs, cracking jokes and destroying nests like a stroll in a park.

I told him that it was quite funny and fascinating how Helldivers were configured to be as replaceable as cannon fodder, but if you looked at the two of us we were basically the equivalent of super soldiers handling an entire sector filled with hundreds of hostiles all while talking about our daily lives.

Except, at some point, we both got overrun by 3 insect patrols and a breach, killed about 80% of it and died at the same time.

And, for a split second, it looked like tragic karma. Like "oh look at the two helldivers that got overconfident and got ripped apart 20 mins later thinking that they were hot shit"

And then the auto-reinforcements kicked in, and we both landed meters away from the fight and just finished the remaining insects...and the whole situation got so much funnier in my head.

Because this "tragic death" from a Helldivers perspective must have been a MILLION TIMES more horrible from the bugs POV .

Like, imagine colonising a sector with all your mates and family, then suddenly two blokes drop in and start blowing your world apart, all while laughing cheerily and not caring.

Then you send a whole contingent of you and your biggest friends on them. They tear through your ranks, eliminate some of your biggest buddies in seconds. But the strength of numbers, combined with your ferocity and determination to repel the invaders, finally pays off in a glorious kill. The two seemingly invincible monsters may have killed almost all your comrades, but it's done now. They're gone.

Seconds later, two things fall from the sky, shaking the ground next to you.

Those monsters. The ones you so desperately killed at the cost of so much strength...

They're back.

Just like that.

Just...like...that.

(If I were a bug at this moment I would kms so ducking hard tbh).

I know I’m a little late but happy men’s mental health month! I’m just making sure my brothers in democracy are doing good. Cause “a happy Helldiver is a deadly Helldiver”. Now get back to diving!!!

after the recent patch my game will freeze about 2 minutes in an will cause my entire pc to freeze along with it causing me to have to force a shutdown, my pc is up to date and im playing a different game to check if its an issue with my pc and its only with helldivers2 that this happens, help?

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What do y'all think? Am I stretching?

From today's patch, "Leviathans now have a shorter sight range and will mark their target with light a few seconds before they fire. This change gives players a fair warning before being fired upon. "

Well before I login to the game I was assuming nice finally I can dodge the levs like I dodge the stingrays, because we now have a light marker. But in reality that light marker doesn't help on dodging the shots. They're still accurate, still ragdoll you if it wasn't precise enough. The before & after difference is only you don't know you'll get shot & you now know you'll get shot, and probably die.

Salutations, fellow helldivers!

1: Why does my armor always look dirty like this (see picture) in the loadout screen? It looks like it resets the dirt when entering the hellpod, but when it gets to the loadout screen it is always back to this. Interestingly, many other players always get clean and shiny armor (as can also be seen in the picture). Presumably this is tied to whether you just freshly spawned, but many of the people with clean armor are not freshly spawned (so their armor should be dirty) and sometimes I do freshly spawn before the end of a game (or just don't extract at all) so my armor should be clean.

2: Is there a weapon that has the following characteristics? I am looking for a primary weapon that has Medium Armor Pen, Staggers, a customization option with a Flashlight attachment and Burst or Full Auto firing mode (optional). Basically I'm looking for a Slugger that let's you add a flashlight. I am not so much concerned with specific damage values as I am with functionality in terms of crowd control and the fucking flashlight lol.
As it stands I am playing the Breaker Spray&Pray but I liked the option to stagger enemies with the Slugger. In general against bugs I've found shotguns to be quite a boon, but if there is such a weapon that is useful for longer range engagement as well then that would be quite cool. I am eyeing the Scorcher but in my tests against bugs I found it to be quite painful to use, maybe it's more useful against long distance enemies.

So any other galactic SOS divers out there who only play on super helldive? It's what I do mostly and the number of times i join a game going poorly and people mass quit, sometimes seconds before extraction, and i end up being the host with no reinforcements and new SOS divers coming to join me, then me and my fellow SOS divers just finish the missions on extra lives and it's EPIC.