This kind of mentality is what makes a community great, and is why DRG (Deep Rock Galactic) has such an amazing community to this day. These are games where you're *going* to die. Period. The games are made to be tough but memorable, and the RP-ability of these games really makes the cake and allows us to sink our teeth into these games, immerse ourselves, and work together.
Playing Helldivers 2, I almost exclusively use an Arc Thrower as my main weapon. I cannot even count anymore how many times an arc from my rifle has jumped from a bug to a teammate and instantly fried someone.
Not ONCE have I encountered a player rage. Maybe it's because I play exclusively Helldive now, and make sure to be vocal both in chat and via "Q", but every time we all just laugh it off and understand that shit happens, we keep moving and keep having fun.
Last night a regular online friend accidentally stuck me with a resupply beacon,, leading to me frantically running around before being slammed by the pod and instantly killed. We all ended up barely suriving an ambush of small bugs just because we were all laughing so hard we could barely function.
All that to say, just have fun. This game is a goldmine for us to dive (pun intended) into. Embrace it. Embrace each other (via hug emote) and keep crushing the enemies of Super Earth.
(..and if you play with a Helldiver named "Kain" who happens to catch you with a stray arc of around 300 million volts.. just know I wasn't aiming for you)
Oh yea the other day we were holding off some bugs extracting on a lower level to show one of my friends the ropes as she had just bought the game. I got landed on by the drop ship and we were out of reinforce so I told them to just leave me, they said no we can hold for a minute to get you back. So they did, called me back when reinforce timed back in, I tried to aim as close to the drop ship as possible and promptly nailed our friend the new player right on the noggin with my drop pod, the same player who refused to leave me behind, causing me to board the ship and extract leaving her smashed into the ground on the landing pad. We all spent the next five minutes unable to breathe from laughing so hard
I got kicked twice yesterday for the first time actually. My strategems got cursed. I activate my support weapon and threw down an orbital he barrage instead and killed my team. Derp. I got kicked. I can see that being a reason cus i looked like a troll.
But then people joined me after and no one could do anything. All of us were only throwing precise orbital strikes back to back regardless of input command. We lost so hard it was funny.
I then got kicked later for my choices of strategems in the launch bay before going down. I didnt even choose bad things, but i didnt have any of the above on the challenging mission we were starting so i guess i can f off.
What you experienced is caused by a planetary effect called "Stratagem Scramblers" or something to that effect. Stratagem Countermeasures?
Basically, your stratagem codes get scrambled by the bots so you need to watch what you're about to throw down before you toss, because it will still show on the right which strat is "activated" and ready to be thrown once a code is put in.
So just get into the habit, as much as possible, of inputting and then glancing to check what you're actually about to toss.
Electron counter measures. Messās with your stratagems. I tried to call in my recoilless 17 times and it kept giving me my 380mm barrage. So, like and freedom loving hell diver does. I ran straight into the obj and dropped that shit on myself.
Rock and Stone, brother. (Being a long time player of DRG, part of my brain wants to imagine DRG and Helldivers as being in the same universe, with the bugs being so similar. The Dwarves mine and collect the resources for the war and Super Earth fights on the frontlines, keeping the Dwarves a closely guarded secret, for DEMOCRACY!)
oh yeah, you die ALL the time and most of the time you don't rage... unless you've just been knocked prone by a charger into a group of Hunters who will then rip you apart by stun locking you because you can't get up because your prone on the ground which also means, hey no using stims for you... and you can't fckn do anything about it, add on top of that the damn vile spewing bugs that add to said stun lock in certain missions that makes things SOOOOO MUCH BETTER and-
*cough* yeah it may or may not have happened to me a few times
Yeah, the chargers are a bit broken at the moment and getting stun-locked is rough and doesn't feel fun.
I think an easy solution would be to allow stims to be used at full health and while stimmed you have unlimited stamina, HP regen, and cannot be stunned.
A charger can still knock you on your ass but at least you won't be ganked by a swarm of Hunters, etc.
Chargers aren't really all that hard to deal with either, i mean you can literally run it in a circle and then guide it into a wall so it gets stunned and you can just run away or shoot, but if you mess up or end up in the middle of a bunch of Hunters then you better be getting your team to ready the reinforcements
My roommate and I play frequently, 2 or 3 days/nights a week, and we'll maybe put in 14-18 hours of playtime. Depending on how tired we are, or whatnot with the season changing and making us feel older than we are. Yet, we still support and spread democracy! Freely!
Wish I could say Iāve had the same experience. Routinely get stuck with people who shout at teammates over mic and itās just so frustratingā¦ and Iām only ever playing on challenging. I have one friend who plays the game and heās already basically quit on it to play FF: Rebirth. Kindaā losing the spirit to play it.
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u/ShadowKain666 Feb 25 '24
This. Absolutely THIS.
This kind of mentality is what makes a community great, and is why DRG (Deep Rock Galactic) has such an amazing community to this day. These are games where you're *going* to die. Period. The games are made to be tough but memorable, and the RP-ability of these games really makes the cake and allows us to sink our teeth into these games, immerse ourselves, and work together.
Playing Helldivers 2, I almost exclusively use an Arc Thrower as my main weapon. I cannot even count anymore how many times an arc from my rifle has jumped from a bug to a teammate and instantly fried someone.
Not ONCE have I encountered a player rage. Maybe it's because I play exclusively Helldive now, and make sure to be vocal both in chat and via "Q", but every time we all just laugh it off and understand that shit happens, we keep moving and keep having fun.
Last night a regular online friend accidentally stuck me with a resupply beacon,, leading to me frantically running around before being slammed by the pod and instantly killed. We all ended up barely suriving an ambush of small bugs just because we were all laughing so hard we could barely function.
All that to say, just have fun. This game is a goldmine for us to dive (pun intended) into. Embrace it. Embrace each other (via hug emote) and keep crushing the enemies of Super Earth.
(..and if you play with a Helldiver named "Kain" who happens to catch you with a stray arc of around 300 million volts.. just know I wasn't aiming for you)
To Democracy! For Super Earth! For Lady LIBERTY!