Helldivers II

I havn't moved past the ice planet, some variety would be good. Lv 8 and clearing hard now. Saw a few unlocks were either patched in or at higher levels are revealed even though they are not available for a long time? Progress slower than HD 1 at least, by now I'd have been able to be playing around in a mech.

Havn't tried stuff like Recoiless yet because I don't trust the few pubs I'm in with loading. Laser launcher thing seems ass, same as the railgun and possibly the arc. Liking the sniper, now that yes, silly enough the most armored looking part on the bile bugs was indeed the head, and now I'm just one shotting those.

Starting rifle just drives me nuts on the reload animation because if completely empty, there's just an extra racking of a handle that's just so god damned slow and for whatever reason I keep thinking it's done and I'll try to do something else and cancel my reload. About to unlock the armor penetrating shotgun I hope is nice.


Fighters say only 2-3 uses but seems like they just recharge after a while? Been kinda paralyzed on what else to unlock w/ req. Had a few stinkers. Mainly want good call ins for mega armored bugs, since hordes etc are easy enough to handle yourself.


How is the best way to add folks to the ingame friends? IE can you import em from steam or just need their PSN name?

Sludig said:

I havn't moved past the ice planet, some variety would be good. Lv 8 and clearing hard now. Saw a few unlocks were either patched in or at higher levels are revealed even though they are not available for a long time? Progress slower than HD 1 at least, by now I'd have been able to be playing around in a mech.

Havn't tried stuff like Recoiless yet because I don't trust the few pubs I'm in with loading. Laser launcher thing seems ass, same as the railgun and possibly the arc. Liking the sniper, now that yes, silly enough the most armored looking part on the bile bugs was indeed the head, and now I'm just one shotting those.

Starting rifle just drives me nuts on the reload animation because if completely empty, there's just an extra racking of a handle that's just so god damned slow and for whatever reason I keep thinking it's done and I'll try to do something else and cancel my reload. About to unlock the armor penetrating shotgun I hope is nice.


Fighters say only 2-3 uses but seems like they just recharge after a while? Been kinda paralyzed on what else to unlock w/ req. Had a few stinkers. Mainly want good call ins for mega armored bugs, since hordes etc are easy enough to handle yourself.


How is the best way to add folks to the ingame friends? IE can you import em from steam or just need their PSN name?

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Pick up the recoiless backpack AND the weapon you can reload yourself it just takes half a day.

"failed to join lobby"

"failed to join lobby"

"failed to join lobby"

ok, quickplay,

"Failed to join lobby"

Start a fresh mission, a few join me before launching.

Endless landing pod scene.

Sludig said:

"failed to join lobby"

"failed to join lobby"

"failed to join lobby"

ok, quickplay,

"Failed to join lobby"

Start a fresh mission, a few join me before launching.

Endless landing pod scene.

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Yeah. That happened to me. Had to restart game.

Used RR> yeap teamates too retarded and loads too slow. Seems retarded if it can't one shot a spitter in the ass, so still gotta get a headshot. Maybe the ultralisks it's better since i Know sniper can't pen it, but still seems to take several hits, havn't found a weak point and was a bit rough since my last teamates on hard couldn't even keep normal bitch bugs off us while I try to deal w/ it.

Is this a game that will be significantly worse without buddies to play?

Hekotat said:

Fighters get mutliple uses then have to go back and re-arm. You can send them back to re-arm at any time if you know a big fight is coming up and there is a lull in the fighting. The cooldown between uses is like 16 seconds but the re-arm time is like 1.5 mins or something. The number next to the strategem is how many uses it has before it goes back to re-arm automatically.

Armor is the biggest hurdle in the game other than teamwork. Get an autocannon/Recoiless ASAP. As Hatorade said you can reload them yourself, if you have a teammate to do it for you it's much faster but it takes them out of the fight so it's not worth it with less than a full group.

Things such as the auto-turrets have such a long cooldown that they are tough to use in harder engagements. 3 mins is a long time if you don't have anything else to help defend yourselves with. You have to be conscious of what the rest of your team is doing and stagger strategems based on their selections and uses. To me the Eagle/Strafing runs and orbital strikes are the best bang for your buck based on cooldowns.

Basic loadout for me is typically (HE Turret, Autocannon, Cluster Bomb, Creeping Barrage). Play what's fun for you though, there is plenty of variety and options.

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Got the RR over the HE turret but it was next on my list, looking forward to trying autocannon but might also be painful solo basically in pugs.

Hekotat said:

Matchmaking still has kinks, on their discord they say the best thing to do is find an open party on the planet and join to avoid this issue. The map will show icons with radar like icons pulsing that show open parties. But the radar/radio wave like effect only shows up if they drop an SOS beacon.

Known issue: Matchmaking still not working after patch​

• While we have improved matchmaking in this patch and are continuing to work on it, players may still experience some instability while matchmaking. It may work better if you attempt to join an active lobby on a planet.

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I've seen open parties, none with pulsing anything. My worst success rate getting in a game is actually clickong on 1/2/3 of 4 lobbies

Never bought railgun but now is always available to me as a strategem despite not selecting it pre mission?

Been crashing to desktop all day, like 4 seperate games now, and 3 of the 4 were 15-20 minutes into the mission when we were almost done.

I used to think the railgun was shit then I started soloing chargers with it. Thing is awesome.

It looks really interesting but I never manage to hook up with the FOH groups on coop games and it sounds like pubbing in this game is a hell no.

Gavinmad said:

It looks really interesting but I never manage to hook up with the FOH groups on coop games and it sounds like pubbing in this game is a hell no.

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It's not bad if people have mics and talk. Simple shit like letting people know you need to reload soon is a big plus (so they can watch your back). Along with throwing a nuke that may get too close. The games go smooth if communication is there.

Aaaaand in reality. BillyBob_01 throws a nuke on top of the group.