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Post by privatefloyd on Feb 17, 2024 9:59:15 GMT
I got straight in this morning for a quick hour.
Have noticed 1 strange thing….after opening those blue panels that flash yellow, 9 times out of 10 I would get stuck in position after opening it. Spamming the dive button for a few seconds generally resolves it.
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Post by privatefloyd on Feb 17, 2024 10:00:11 GMT
Been away for a few days so haven't bought it yet. Might hold off a bit until they sort the server issues. Watched a few videos and it does give off Starship Troopers the game vibes. Missed a proper co-op game since Left 4 Dead and Gears. It pretty much IS Starship Troopers the game!! |
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 17, 2024 10:25:21 GMT
I got straight in this morning for a quick hour. Have noticed 1 strange thing….after opening those blue panels that flash yellow, 9 times out of 10 I would get stuck in position after opening it. Spamming the dive button for a few seconds generally resolves it. It's only just started happening, got it twice in games last night but with the double button doors. Looks like they possibly tried to fix the very minor bug that stuff wasn't being taken off the shelves not disappearing and actually did something much worse. |
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Post by gibroon on Feb 17, 2024 10:33:29 GMT
Had my first bad time with it last night. I was trying the scientist evac missions, but they weren't going well. On the first try, none of my team knew what to do, so I found myself sprinting around opening all of the doors. Failed badly. The next go, one of the team started to drop mine clusters outside the scientist spawns. Twat. You can imagine how that went. It's a game that has many chaotic events, combined with a bunch of new players in a game with little hand holding. What could possibly go wrong. 😜 Who knew d-pad entries could be so difficult? |
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 17, 2024 10:36:59 GMT
Who knew d-pad entries could be so difficult? Everyone who played Helldivers 1! It's a great mechanic and now they've included other stuff that needs to be done all the while trying to stay alive with the terminals. It could get frantic enough in the original game trying to get an emplacement working while under fire and now you've got to do stuff like tune in radios or move satellite towers.
One thing that's rather fun if you've got Chargers about and have an illegal broadcast tower to kill and can't be arsed to do the terminal or just blow it up, act like a matador and get the Charger to knock it down instead. Unfortunately they won't do the same for research base destruction which is a shame.
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Post by gibroon on Feb 17, 2024 10:37:27 GMT
I did have a fairly major bug(tee hee) last night where my primary weapon wasn't selectable only my support gun. Couldn't change to pistol either. Just had to man up and get on with the job, doing my part!
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Post by privatefloyd on Feb 17, 2024 10:38:39 GMT
Or like aligning pipes on a screen eh gibroon?!
Was so funny patiently watching over your shoulder at your numerous attempts!!
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 17, 2024 10:46:05 GMT
"What's taking so long? A fucking Bile Titan is coming!"
"I'm just really shit at 'Pipemania'."
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Post by gibroon on Feb 17, 2024 14:32:35 GMT
WTF! So sorry Potatoe, twice I called in a machine gun and it turned into an eagle strike. FUUCCKKK!
Absolutley ruined your game, no idea what happened there and then a crash of the game.
That was too traumatic, need a break.
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 17, 2024 14:50:26 GMT
Scrambled comms, you get different from what you ordered it's potentially deadly but it will always show what you'll drop on the left so you can cancel before you start to throw.
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Post by gibroon on Feb 17, 2024 15:01:57 GMT
Scrambled comms, you get different from what you ordered it's potentially deadly but it will always show what you'll drop on the left so you can cancel before you start to throw. Ah, ok. Good to know. Jeez, what a way to enter a game with a team wipe. |
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 17, 2024 15:11:57 GMT
Same happened with my squad, took me about 8 goes one time to get an autocannon turret to come in later on.
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Post by Tuffty on Feb 17, 2024 18:02:49 GMT
Think part of the success is down to the smaller price point as well
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Post by SpiralScratch on Feb 17, 2024 18:19:36 GMT
12hrs into this and just found out there's a weapon menu if you hold reload. Set zoom level, fire rate, flashlight, there may be other settings for particular weapons?
Realising that it's worth spending time looking through Options menus. There's more there than the game lets on when you jump in.
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Post by 😎 on Feb 17, 2024 18:52:02 GMT
Pro tip for PC players, setup a Steam wheel with macros for stratagems to save time/cheat.
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Post by 😎 on Feb 17, 2024 18:57:41 GMT
To be clear that’s sarcasm, it’s kind of against the spirit of the game.
That said, good for accessibility I guess.
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Post by tonyferrino on Feb 17, 2024 19:11:34 GMT
12hrs into this and just found out there's a weapon menu if you hold reload. Set zoom level, fire rate, flashlight, there may be other settings for particular weapons? Realising that it's worth spending time looking through Options menus. There's more there than the game lets on when you jump in. Apparently you can also point at a target and use a button (RB on PS) to use a radial menu and give instructions. |
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Post by Mark1412 on Feb 17, 2024 21:49:33 GMT
This has been buggy as shit for me tonight. Not earning XP or req tickets, hard crashed after getting into the shuttle and got stuck up the arse of a charger, which was interesting.
Seems to be finding games easily enough though and the SOS beacon works now, so I guess they've fixed something.
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Post by stixxuk on Feb 17, 2024 22:57:11 GMT
Hmmm servers at capacity. Not ideal, haven't managed to play the game at all yet  |
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 17, 2024 23:10:27 GMT
Arrowhead's Discord is probably the best place to keep up to date with what's going on and at the moment it's not exactly great news.
Misty — Today at 21:24
A message from AHGS @everyone
Despite our best efforts to increase server capacity to accommodate all of you who want to dive for Freedom, we are experiencing capacity issues. We are once more working without delay to improve the issue and we hope to have a fix in place as soon as possible.
Thank you,
Arrowhead Dev team
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Post by Frog on Feb 18, 2024 7:37:11 GMT
They have had to cap the player count at 450000 to try and stabilise things. When you look at how many steam players there are alone it gives you an idea of how big a job it is to fix. 326000 peak and 319000 at the moment from steam.
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Post by mothercruncher on Feb 18, 2024 7:51:04 GMT
HELLDDOSERS
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Post by 😎 on Feb 18, 2024 8:33:20 GMT
Probably not the best weekend for them to decide to do double xp and free online on ps5 then.
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Post by askew on Feb 18, 2024 8:36:05 GMT
Is this like Deep Rock Galactic?
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Post by Decks on Feb 18, 2024 9:42:58 GMT
Not at all no.
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Post by askew on Feb 18, 2024 9:46:50 GMT
Four-person teams, bugs 'n' guns, teamwork (maybe), toxic fanbase
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Post by mothercruncher on Feb 18, 2024 10:15:49 GMT
Does it have a 14 year old calling me a fag or have they yet to patch that in?
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 18, 2024 10:49:38 GMT
Probably not the best weekend for them to decide to do double xp and free online on ps5 then. The free online this weekend makes no sense anyway, it's a game you can't play without PS+ so do they expect people to pay £35 for a single weekend and then cough up for PS+ Essential afterwards to be able to keep playing it? |
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Feb 18, 2024 11:01:24 GMT
Re: toxicity etc, I dunno, I'm still playing mostly solo and a bit too chicken to join randoms, though I've done it a few times. It's today's project to do more of that.
But I just watched my son play with a random at a higher difficulty level and it was absolutely epic. The way they supported each other through what looked like an absolute nightmare of a mission with jumping, giant, spitting, invisible, flying bugs, no respite etc. They random revived my son a few times, and he reciprocated right as extraction was happening. So post-game, polite young man that he is, he sent a message. Cue a sickening love-fest:
"GG bro. Thanks for the carry"
"No, thank you. There was no carrying, you were awesome"
"We did our part!"
"Hell yeah!"
etc.
Okay, the second half of that dialogue is fictitious, but still. There seem to be a lot of wholesome players out there.
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Post by mcgeeza on Feb 18, 2024 14:46:16 GMT
It is a little bit like DRG isn’t it? Very similar premise and game mechanics. |
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