HELLDIVERS 2 - are you doing your part?

I thought this was sweet:

www.ign.com/articles/helldivers-2-community-rallies-behind-the-once-sad-player-dremskiy-who-now-has-plenty-of-frends

There's more than a modicum of toxicity to be found in this hobby of ours, so it's nice to be able to promote something wholesome once in a while.

Here's to you, frends!

Use the gas strike a bit more since they had it available for "free" for everyone and it's certainly working better than it did since DoT was fixed. Tested the claim about it taking out rogue research bases and it does but only if the gas canister directly hits the building, otherwise it's untouched but at least it's a quick way to do it if you're carrying it.

It is a weird one, you'd imagine the mechs should be tougher than they are. Would need to be careful, seems like wider perception of the game is that everyone's favourite weapons and strategems are getting nerfed and it's turning people away and getting widespread. I don't personally feel it and still having a good time.

They're basically meant to be player usable turrets more than anything else I think

You'd think the red line for eagle and orbital strikes would be a warning but apparently not at times.

New mission type on it too, absolutely brutal, got wiped. Wonder where this leads to. It's around that time leading up to game presentations where this could lead into announcing a sizeable update. Got the weekend to do it too.

Yep, it's coming.

The new patch notes are approximately the length of war and peace as there's a looooooooooooooot of changes, all seem to be for the better too and one thing I noticed is undocumented, the quasar seems to cooldown like it used to, unless it was the cold planet I was on but that never used to make a difference. Super samples on level 6 is a nice change, 6 can still feel incredibly difficult in comparison to 7 though which is still odd.

Probably just as well as gunships seems to be more common as just patrol units (apparently shrieker flocks patrol too) and you'll need something to shoot those buggers down.

Still early days with the changes and the new warbond (new AR felt very meh, shotgun sidearm is powerful) and the paint jobs look pretty nice, not got the mech one yet.

One thing that I don't think has changed but needs to, if Arrowhead are going to take more time on warbond content they really need to up the amount of medals you can store otherwise you could be doing missions and major orders and get absolutely nothing from it as a reward. Obviously the game is fun to do but seeing a major order "reward" pop up for 0 medals was a bit annoying as I was just about to burn through the 250 I had saved up with the new warbond.

You can see some of the UI changes, while watching me die stupidly, like the timer only being on screen as hit certain time points but it'll appear permanently when time is short. You can see it when you use the map any time and there's probably an option for it permanently being on but this works quite nicely.

"We're on an Escalation to Helldive, going down!"

blog.playstation.com/2024/07/23/helldivers-2s-biggest-update-yet-escalation-of-freedom-drops-august-6/

Impalers in 3D are going to be a fucking nightmare, they were bad enough in HD1.

Nothing too different in lower level difficulty missions against the bots but I think the overall difficulty may have been tweaked upwards or it just felt like it when one of the trio I was playing with kept dying as he usually does by wandering off and standing and fighting instead of running the fuck away. I continue to pretty much wear light scout armour all the time and legging it when trouble turns up and not dying much.

Didn't encounter the new tank, as I didn't do any automaton high level missions but did encounter the impaler several times, it's not quite as dangerous as it was in HD1 as you were limited to one screen in top down and they could take up a lot of space, dodging the tentacles was so much harder. They're not too difficult to kill but if you're already swarmed they're a bit of a nuisance. The new spore charger is an arse, the regular and behemoths were already but they didn't make it difficult to see everything. Imagine a mobile spore spewer that can kill you, ouch.

One annoyance, thought we'd do a super helldive to see how ridiculous they are, because they weren't in the game before it now requires a helldive to be completed first, well I've done a lot of those but presumably they were never recorded as they weren't needed to be so now you need to get one done again first.

The new anti-tank mines are pretty good, seem a lot more use against bugs than the other two varieties.

Liking the sound of all those buffs, anyone playing how is it at the moment?

Not touched this in 6 months but this might be the time to come back and see what's new