HELLDIVERS 2 - are you doing your part?

If only it were still April 1st, they could've pushed out a "Thank you for all your help maintaining democracy, Helldivers! Stay tuned for Helldivers 3" message

This is the definitive go to co-op game at the moment with the boy. We love it. He's a bit gutted the automatons got pushed back as he prefers fighting them but had a great few missions against the bugs last night. It's always amusing how quickly things can escalate when we think we are doing okay. We always seem to push our luck and then it's a mad scramble to try and get the hell out of there.

It's so, so good.

Very easy, although at 13 going on 14 my son is a far better gamer than I am. If anything it's me that struggles. He continually has more kills, and dies less. He just leads the way and I blindly follow, sporadically killing myself with my own mines or an airstrike. My useless fingers keep fucking up the stratagems under pressure as well (the way they do these is such an awesome idea, making it easy to fuck up under pressure).

Rather like the new VIP evacuation mission, my group didn't realise there were even more doors so only closed the two inner ones (when I realised there was a door just outside it had started to get a bit busy so hadn't noticed the others.

Bring mortars, lots of mortars of both kinds and your life will be a lot easier.

It's nice that Super Earth makes massive defensive structures for their VIPs while scientists and civilians get a single shuttle and one squad of Helldivers while the VIPs have a fortress with SAM sites. Not that the SAM sites actually shot anything down but I guess that's the reason the dropships won't drop into the base itself.

www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1c1ak8b/the_new_premium_warbond_democratic_detonation_is/

Good thread. Some tweaks and new ship mods.

So far the g123 thermite is a bit disappointing, as is the BR14 adjudicator but the R36 eruptor on the 2nd page of the new warbonds is excellent. Like an explosive sniper rifle.

Me and the boy did one of those "Kill X amount of bots" missions last night on challenging.

It was absolute carnage. Bot deaths up to 91% and I died again, leaving us with no reinforcements. He someone managed to find a safe spot until the cooldown finished and he could call me in. Through sheer luck we killed enough to call the evac and then it was a mad scramble to get the hell out of there. Laser fire absolutely everywhere. Even now I have no idea how we managed it. Complete chaos. Three stars. At one point we were both holding out against a wall and he got blasted to bits right beside me. I thought I was dead as well so just stood there in shock, chunks of helldiver all over the place and bots from every angle. He starts shouting at me to get moving and I dived over the wall down a small cliffside, throwing my 130HE orbital barrage back up and over the wall. I then cowered in fear as everything exploded above me.

This game is nuts.

It's just so much fun, even when you get battered or fuck up it just stays fun.

I played this hard until I got to about lvl 42 and haven’t touched it since. Amazing game and I’ve been keeping an eye on all the decent updates they are doing but there is just zero desire to boot it up again. Strange.
Before I binned it I was having to do random crap load outs to keep it interesting and then that got old.

They definitely need to balance the primary weapons as there are only maybe 3 decent ones on the final difficulties.

Have they buffed the two liberators? In their old state they could only take out maybe one mid enemy per clip. I really thought the penetrator was going to be good vs bots but if you have more than one mid enemy rushing you it was like shooting a spud gun where the base shotgun or the breaker would melt everything charging you.

Think my mate at work would like to join me in a game with one or two of you on here rather than complete randoms. I've no idea if he'd join the forum. Anyone ok with that? Neither of us know anyone personally that play it.

Edit: ofc just kick him out for an EG/FG member obviously!

I've heard middling reports on the new one. The sickle is worth getting for bots and bugs really. The incendiary shotgun is pretty decent as well. Both on different warbonds though.

Try not to be like Dak when you fight one.