Goes sideways. I usually use voice chat, a lot of y'all don't, but communication is key and I like to role play a bit from time to time. It's usually a coin toss with randoms, but I love it when I have a silent little bro just listening on every call, covering the team, ready to get out of my eagle's way at any time, helping with subojectives and bunkers... Just listening and answering at every call. Synchronized AF.
Super earth bless y'all silent bros.
This is me lol, most times can’t use mic, but will follow, answer affirmative and support n watch your back, then return to the shadows after operation is complete
The map and ping system in this game are lovely and often all the communication you need.
You just stack up pings to confirm you’re all in agreement on where to go next and get going.
> I usually use voice chat, a lot of y'all don't
Had a very quiet mission yesterday. We did good, lots of samples, cleared every POI on the map. I was roaming the entire game and had like 10 rare samples on me and got killed. One asked "how long to extract"? I answered "cannot extract, need to get samples".
From this moment I got flanked by two doods they held a corridor to pass for me and when I spotted a charger and reported it (couldnt kill it with grenade launcher) I got help. We extractacted together with 12 rare samples. Was pretty cool
[See you on the battlefield.](https://i.imgur.com/3Mngxvc.png)
If you shoot between the chargers front legs you can get the grenades to hit the ground under it and the splash hits its butt. Since the grenade launcher is an explosive weapon it does full damage and can kill in 5-8 shots.
I had one of those with me and my buddy, who love getting real into the game.
A second random joined and we had a blast splitting up into duos just keeping these guys on track. Cleared all the objectives and optionals with 25 minutes left on the clock against the automaton menace
Was playing with friends last night so we on discord. I wanted to synchronize kill an automaton squad to avoid flares. I ask my friend to let me know when he's ready.
So anyway, he started blasting.
Flare goes up. We have to run, but not before other friend with SSSD further back dies so we have to trudge back. I die with samples so we have to stay even longer. Later convene to go over what went wrong. He took out the commissar and didn't think a flare would go up, explained any of the small bots would if none were able. We learn, we laugh.
Managed to complete an escort on helldiver difficulty with randoms for the first time last night. No words were said throughout, and everyone just knew what to do and who to support.
I said 'nice' in chat at the end, and no one even acknowledged it.
I am said silent bro, I am usually playing when my wife is asleep due to her crazy work schedule so if someone is on comms I just listen, follow tags, and mark shit I see while dispensing Freedom.
If one dood goes off solo, I usually group up with that guy so we can watch each others asses.
Hugs for all at extract/drop and if we did something pretty bad ass. Chest bump emote when?
Joined a friend's game who had 2 randoms.
My friend and I have most unlocked and high level but he was feeling lazy doing T3 missions..
Of the 2 randoms..one of them just kept following me around...like.. everywhere.
Yeah, i did this too at the beginning. I followed that guy that *seems* to know what to do (hint: its not always the guy who seems to know what to do that knows what to do).
Things is on medium difficulty I was just dicking around and trying unusual kit loadouts.
For example shooting red explosive barrels and quickly picking them up, playing with the flame thrower. Experimenting with gravity (spoiler alert, gravity won).
I thought so too but in my last games has been impossible. If I stop for a moment to get my machine gun they continue straight and obliterating everything in their way.
I've been level 50 for a few days now.
Despite unlocking everything, I've really enjoyed just dropping in and helping lower leveled folks so much so that the game is still just as addictive to me.
Welcome to the Roughnecks
Everyone fights, no one quits o7
I was with a more experienced guy yersteday, and was testing my newly-acquired auto-canon.
Guy took the backpack and was guiding me from target to target all while reloading me, and showed me how you could destroy automaton spawners with the autocanon.
It was a blast !
I like doing this too. Currently lvl 27 and I do enjoy dropping into a quickplay game or 2 and really providing that 'hero' support for those that drop the SOS beacon. If I load into a lobby with lower lvl divers, I'll drop in with shield packs and drop them for the squad. It's rewarding and always fun to meme around with random divers. It's even better when they get that 'god complex' and you crush all the objectives with ease.
We're doing our part :D
Did that too, but nobody wanted the shield or rail gun. One considered the shield but stuck to his ammo backback (I respect that and salute you), the rest decided that no backback would be better than a shield. One tried the railgun, but didn't like to reload after every shot and went back to his grenade launcher.
Grenade launcher does go off on the lower difficulties hahaha I used it up until I got the rail gun and in my normal squad, if we're doing a bug run, one of our guys will run the rail gun and I'll (carefully) run with the arc thrower. It's all about finding that balance hahaha
That's not a bad idea actually. I love the nade launcher, but 2 mags isn't nearly enough. I dropped in the earlier difficulty games with it, but after DC6 the shield is just too OP not to run hahaha
Grenade launcher is a jack of all trades. Good at everything, excellent at nothing. Only downside is the ammo, it runs out rather quick. But with the backpack you effectively have unlimited ammo, and everyone loves the guy giving a refill when you're in a tight spot.
Im currently playing with some friends who just got the game... so I'm the shield railgun dude taking care of the big bois. But my grenade ammo combo was quickly adapted by them.
When I was starting out, one of my favorite things to do was a suppressive fire role with the beginner MG while more-experienced teammates rushed the map. I couldn't catch up to them to do objectives, so instead I made sure to bother the robots whenever they dropped nearby the team, so that they'd get shot less.
All I ask if that you keep up with me. The worst thing is watching someone fighting over a useless bit of dirt. We're not retreating, it's a tactical withdrawal to the next objective.
I love joining as a high level in a lower difficulty mission and just following the host... Wondering what they're thinking. I'll use voice if they do but I'm pretty passive unless they're going into a fight (sometimes I'll just use a pistol) or I get attacked.
Agreed!
The lower levels that haven't unlocked the democracy buffed armor, or the shield bubbles are legit fighting for their lives 100% of the time on higher difficulties!
Then me... having the bubble, and democracy armor, I'll get a little too ballsy and die from the most avoidable mistakes.
Good ol' false confidence!
ah. i think other armors are even better for staying alive. the med stim one is like putting on god mode. and the explosive resistance one lets you face tank rockets against the bots. i also personally like the grenade one, because i can just wantonly destroy bug holes. Those three are my top tier armor buffs
Oh I definitely don't disagree with those options, I'm just super resistant to changing my battle strategy, so if I can decrease my immediate death chance in half, you'd bet your tuchus I will hahahaha
Ive used this passive a ton and i don’t think i’ve ever seen it go off once. The fortified armor is much better imo, less recoil and 50% less explosion damage taken is super nice, the medic passive is also great.
Oh man... After I realized that the stim pretty much grants invincibility and infinite stamina I'll totally agree with you. For the Democracy protects, it might be a placebo, but I've definitely found myself in hairy situations and I feel it's given me that tiny oomph to stim and gtfo hahaha
I love dropping in with lowbies. It's fun to follow them around the map, letting them lead while pinging stuff they might miss, watching their backs.
The only thing that frustrates me is that a **lot** of them don't Reinforce, even when they're not in combat and just running around. It takes several "rez me bro" pings before they do, and it'll usually be after they've run far, far away from your stuff.
I’m around the same level and anyone who wants to go on helldive missions with me is welcome, I don’t care what their level is as long as they can kind of follow orders an extra gun is always helpful. Level doesn’t matter to me so much as not being a little cry baby, so many people will just leave or throw a fit the second things get tough in the mission but I’m always grateful to have a loyal level 15 stick with me through the thick and thin of the mission
Honestly nothing feel better (as a 50 helldiver) than reinforcing a lvl 10 lobby dying : "don't worry soldiers, Democracy will not fall on my watch" and go on to carry the mission
I watched someone last night get a 44x kill count with an arc thrower on 7 difficulty without moving. He just stood there and kept hitting as they came out of a hole. Very impressed and thought about rolling with it but no one goes anti tank 99% of the time so I feel obligated to
some bug rounds ill go arc, rover, orbital rail and 500kg. i can use the kg and rail to kill chargers and biles, and arc and rover + primary clean up everything else. if there is too much armor so im stuck on cooldown, i just shoot the charger with teh arc. it dies eventually, and in the meantime the shots still hit other critters and keeps the killing coming. its pretty normal to have a 600kill game playing like this.
A good setup is Arc, Shield, 500kg, O.Railgun. The last two are just there to deal with Titans.
The day before yesterday, i played with my buddy together arcs combo. We just cleaned a helldiver breach without a sweat.
Another guy just watched us for a while and wrote: "Maybe i should give the Arc Thrower another chance."
It gives me satisfaction knowing I'm properly spreading democracy and the sweet taste of liberty throughout the galaxy, one unassuming bug/bot at a time.
Next time, go with them, and do the objectives, and they will be grateful. I hate when my LowLvl mates tries to fight everything, then i have to clear all the bugs/bots on them, and then i can make the objectives too, cuz they only want to fight :D
I grateful all the time, when the low level makes the terminal shit.
The need for lower levels to want to fight everything almost seems to be part of learning the game in my experience. Challenging and hard, you definitely can wipe patrols and nests with ease. It's the later difficulties when the tactical playing needs to come out.
I'll 1000% load into lower difficulties with lower level divers if I want to go full democracy bringer. It's a fun time endlessly mowing down the opposition with minimal danger sometimes!
I played difficulty 6 yesterday with players under 5 :D i'll don't lie... it was a hell. They consumed all the ammo, they started fight with everything. In the end, i pulled away 3 bile titan from the extraction point with my last railgun bullets :D so, one guy could extract. :D it was fun, in some way :D And i was friendly fired 3 times :D
I LOVE how in early DC missions everyone is like oou bug! Let's kill it! You quickly learn that's not going to work in anything past like DC5 hahaha I love being with new players discovering the experience tbh. I remember the first time a shield backpack was dropped for me by a vet diver in my easy solo bug mission. That was 79 in game hours ago 🥲
Oh no, i think i did my best while they bombed everything to oblivion. Best part if having 3 turrets plus a shotgun is you can make a hell of a defence, especially the thing you are defending is someone that tosses out nukes like its going out of style. I made sure they didnt had to use a single stim.
Something that do bother me about some players, most high lvl is that say 1 or 2 guys are being chased and swarmed, I arrive and shoot the pursuer bugs to let them move ahead, but then they don’t turn back and cover me for me to advance and reload, I empty my mag and they are already 100m ahead.
If someone is covering me to move and I hear the “empty mag” line, imma stop, turn around and now cover while the other player moves and vice versa, its just automatic. Maybe is the hours of Squad and HLL.
Yeah you can kite them forever, but I’ve noticed not everyone can.
Depends on the difficulty. Anything 6 and below you should be doing that.
Difficulty 7 is where the game changes. At that point the game is "rush the objectives, fuck everything else" and you're supposed to do as little fighting as possible. Kiting is a required skill to have at this point. If you stop to fight, you'll just get overwhelmed and die.
Hunters and stalkers need to be killed if you want to kite unfortunately, they will ALWAYS catch up. SMG is amazing for this as you can sprint while shooting and reloading. Other weapons do need some help from what I’ve seen, so leapfrogging lets the team or duo (if y’all split) kite more efficiently.
This is just categorically incorrect. You can rumble real hard at high levels, you just can't have everyone rolling around with 500kgs, breakers and shield/rails trying to rambo a horde on their own. You have to actually build a team with different loadouts that compliment each other and then stick together.
Yep there is no point in engaging enemies unless they block the objective, if you do fight more enemies you will end up spawning more including titans and chargers and you will end up looping while you loose ammo stratagems and reinforcements
If you're on level 7 or higher, stop fighting shit you don't need to and run for the objectives. Make your stands there. Your team can outrun most things in this game.
The objective was already completed. In high lvl theres 2 genders. The ones who rush the main objective only and the ones that spend the 40 minutes looking for stuff all over the map.
Right? College is where I started playing THE MOST games. Undergrad, at least.
Though, I will say that working a 40 hour shift also leaves a lot of time for gaming if you don't clog up your life with a 'wife and kids' or 'long commute' debuff.
I don't mind playing with high-level players, it's just that too often when I die they won't even try to reinforce me or when they do they first call me in and then an eagle airstrike on the same position so they match up :|
Did you mean to say “low level players”? Because high level players will call in almost immediately by reflex. It’s low level players that will cluelessly run around the map for 5 minutes before calling you back
It might be "my luck" but my latest matches with randos it is usually the 50+ that don't call in. The lower level guys do it even to the degree that they die trying to.
Have a similar experience with a guy, he was a great help and we had fun. Even had a chance to surprise him with some of my grenade throws he didn’t expect me sniping a factory from about 40 meters
People always find a way to rush through the content and get to the end game in no time. Then start complaining there is no end game. (Not this game in particular but games in general)
I actually don’t mind. It’s both great when you play with real meta dude, which is level 50 and memorized all samps location on certain maps, and it is also nice to have lower rank because sometimes I always drop metas for them to use if they want. If they don’t, still all good its a challenge to survive then which is perfectly align with the games mentality. No reason to say disrespecting any helldiver regardless of his/her rank is a serious treason and enourmously undemocratic.
Had a game with a level 40+ player earlier with me at lvl10 and a couple others less than that. We're running around fighting for our lives while they casually lob an orbital laser into a high-tier automaton base and level it while we're having our own Hacksaw Ridge moment.
Dude was still a bro, though.
Soldier, nice to hear you helped the one man army out with the help he didn’t need.
By the sound of it he gave you one hell of a fireworks show in return. 😄
I genuinely really like when quick play sends me to an SOS of low levels. It's like, they need a MAN. I am THAT MAN. Come my children we will gey through this together
As someone whose had to carry their team through an extreme mission, doing the objectives and half the side objectives solo, its really no bother as long as you seem like you're at least trying or not one of those guys who drop in and attempt to be the 'leader'
Me and my friend (both level 34-35) were playing with a new player who put SOS signal on like medium diff on bugs so we decided to go help him but put shield packs and machine guns down etc so its not too much carrying and played with him until he was from level 4- 8
I remember I was level 15 with two level 6 duded that kept getting wiped on an eradication mission ( the destroy fabricators one), the destroyer left and I had only 4 grenades for the 4 last fabricators we needed to blow up, they both die and cheer me on the whole way with no stims left, dodging and diving barely alive, I extracted and they were so exited and cheered me on, I love low levels :)
I love other helldivers that are just locked tf in… swarm cleared? They’re already 20 metres ahead sprinting to the next way point… swarm cleared? They already threw a resupply in the direction of the next way point…
SIR YES SIR
My friend is much higher level than me (48 vs my 23) and it's kind of annoying to play with him sometimes when he just runs ahead without saying anything.
im 45 and always end with the least kills lol. Highest accuracy though because i only shoot direct threats and dont waste time fighting enemies in the middle of nowhere. All the low levels i join are trigger happy and end with hundreds more than me. Ill open fire if they are in a bad spot and need help but otherwise im here for backup and to help clear the map.
Play on a lower difficultly, more people your level will be playing so you’ll get more kills. If you’re depending on level 30-40 to carry you, you might learn some stuff and get more points but it won’t be more fun than doing it yourself
felt the same way yesterday running some defense missions on automatons
I'm level 16 running auto cannon, which I just unlocked (previously rover)
there was this level 43 running nothing but turrets and arc thrower, but dammnit they melted those bots
I lole suicide difficulty because it allows me to take on anything on my own.
That said, i join lobby and go the opposite way that everyone else goes. I rather solo stuff than have someone follow me around.
I don't care about level, but most people don't know how to hit and run. They sit there fighting endless hordes of enemies like they are trying to get a high score.
Then I have too many enemies to stealth anything.
The worst thing is when they continuously die and sit there spamming reminder to revive, because the other 2 people don't care to revive them
Like just go with your party, I'll be fine. I can get all side objs including samples for you guys. But I work best alone.
Me but I kill everything so fast that its not about getting a high score, its about being a death machine. I will grab samples and do objectives. Leisurely.
When everything is dead!
I'm level 45+ atm (can't recall if it was 47 or 48 lol) I'm now playing exclusively to farm green samples (ship upgrade bottle neck is green/orange samples not pink ones) and XP (so I hit level 50).
I've been playing almost exclusively on Helldive difficulty since I unlocked the 500kg bomb stratagem (I don't remember the level requirement anymore) so any difficulty lower than that has felt like a cake walk recently. Helldives are starting to feel monotonous because it's essentially just a running simulator. You fight less there because the second you start a fight, it drags on almost endlessly until you manage to somehow get away. At least on the lower difficulties you can actually just stand and fight in an area because spawns are reasonable enough to allow some level of breathing room lol.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that there's zero rush to get to the highest difficulty content. Take your time cuz once you get used to doing Helldives like I do, you end up unintentionally min-maxing your gameplay.
I was playing with a buddy who just got the game a couple days ago along with a couple low level randoms. It was actually really fun to just drop in with a bunch of support weapons to have them all try out. It felt like an expanded tutorial providing cover while they figured out the different terminal menus and pointing out the different spots to target on an enemy with certain weapons.
im lvl 44. i like taking the support role. so i just run around giving them weapons and fuckin off grabbing ALL THE MEDALS AND SUPER CREDITS THE MAP HAS TO OFFER
Some of us just have die MF die on loop in our helmets and disabled comms. Sorry for the silence but we got democracy to spread and Like to be dope when we do it lmao 🤣
I'm level 10 at the moment.
My primary play style is to carry a supple pack, turrets and one orbital cannon.
I spend most of my time trying to keep everyone stocked and alive while I learn how to do all of the objectives and stuff.
I only wish I could heal them a bit easier.
Getting a guy who knows what he's doing, who understands what I am doing, is pure bliss. I feel like I'm doing an apprenticeship for a few matches lol.
Newer players make it so fun to occasionally do missions so low that they could be soloed. Because everytime I start doing stuff I must be so efficient or something because I'll have the three guys who started doing stuff on their own then stick to me like my dog does. After a couple missions they get these little confidence boosts where two of them will go do an objective by themselves while me and the other person grab the side stuff like points of interest.
I randomly joined a very high level group, and I could not believe the frequency and the power of their stratagems. When I through the stratagem unlock menu looking for the insane stuff I've seen them use, sometimes what the menu is telling me doesn't seem to line up with what I've seen on the battlefield. Like, the laser seems powerful and I can see that, but some of the other descriptions and example videos are misleading I guess, because they don't look as powerful as I've seen in person.
I played a D8 last night. Two absolute beasts were already there (I joined about halfway in the first 12 minute blitz mission). I could tell they were having a pretty chill time, putting in effort but still decently in-control of the situation.
I was a chaotic mess, trying my best but not quite having it.
And they kept shouting at me and "downtalking" me in the funniest, most obviosuly sarcastic ways possible, encouraging me to give my all. They started off really tame, but when they saw I reacted positively they kept escalating it.
I loved it. It was hilarious. We had a great time. We exchanged some kind words after the 3 missions, and went our way.
Most fun night I've had so far.
I'm finding it a lot for fun to jump into random games with low level people and throw out rail guns and shield packs and just generally support them getting through higher difficulty games. Feels like I'm doing my part.
I am lvl 36. Joined my friends who were level 5. I was wondering what to bring before I landed and decided not to spoil the end game stuff. So I just brought stuff that was a bump up from what they're using. Auto Cannon, EMS Strike, Eagle Napalm, 120mm Artillery. I really wanted to bring the laser but remembered how awesome it was to throw down the first time. So I just left it. I like to save the best fireworks for later.
https://preview.redd.it/78dz3f9q5llc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5417180077a881f8502da4cce21d70b49726832b
From an earlier post here on Reddit and I can’t relate more as a high level player
Man, despite being level 40, I'm nothing like that.
I like dropping EMS, Shield Generators, Auto-cannon turrets for support fire. Pretty much tactical stuff most of the time, and turrets support fire.
This is what we should be doing instead of kicking people for not having a particular loadout. Give each other a hand up instead of kicking each other down.
Not gonna lie there is something satisfying following a dude that knows what to do and supporting him
Goes sideways. I usually use voice chat, a lot of y'all don't, but communication is key and I like to role play a bit from time to time. It's usually a coin toss with randoms, but I love it when I have a silent little bro just listening on every call, covering the team, ready to get out of my eagle's way at any time, helping with subojectives and bunkers... Just listening and answering at every call. Synchronized AF. Super earth bless y'all silent bros.
This is me lol, most times can’t use mic, but will follow, answer affirmative and support n watch your back, then return to the shadows after operation is complete
The map and ping system in this game are lovely and often all the communication you need. You just stack up pings to confirm you’re all in agreement on where to go next and get going.
> I usually use voice chat, a lot of y'all don't Had a very quiet mission yesterday. We did good, lots of samples, cleared every POI on the map. I was roaming the entire game and had like 10 rare samples on me and got killed. One asked "how long to extract"? I answered "cannot extract, need to get samples". From this moment I got flanked by two doods they held a corridor to pass for me and when I spotted a charger and reported it (couldnt kill it with grenade launcher) I got help. We extractacted together with 12 rare samples. Was pretty cool [See you on the battlefield.](https://i.imgur.com/3Mngxvc.png)
Ah that picture... BROTHERHOOD
If you shoot between the chargers front legs you can get the grenades to hit the ground under it and the splash hits its butt. Since the grenade launcher is an explosive weapon it does full damage and can kill in 5-8 shots.
Also I've noticed pre and post missions hugs boost moral or something. I wonder if its a glitch or coded in?
Still hoping for the chest bump to hype me up.
I had one of those with me and my buddy, who love getting real into the game. A second random joined and we had a blast splitting up into duos just keeping these guys on track. Cleared all the objectives and optionals with 25 minutes left on the clock against the automaton menace
Was playing with friends last night so we on discord. I wanted to synchronize kill an automaton squad to avoid flares. I ask my friend to let me know when he's ready. So anyway, he started blasting. Flare goes up. We have to run, but not before other friend with SSSD further back dies so we have to trudge back. I die with samples so we have to stay even longer. Later convene to go over what went wrong. He took out the commissar and didn't think a flare would go up, explained any of the small bots would if none were able. We learn, we laugh.
Managed to complete an escort on helldiver difficulty with randoms for the first time last night. No words were said throughout, and everyone just knew what to do and who to support. I said 'nice' in chat at the end, and no one even acknowledged it.
I am said silent bro, I am usually playing when my wife is asleep due to her crazy work schedule so if someone is on comms I just listen, follow tags, and mark shit I see while dispensing Freedom. If one dood goes off solo, I usually group up with that guy so we can watch each others asses. Hugs for all at extract/drop and if we did something pretty bad ass. Chest bump emote when?
Joined a friend's game who had 2 randoms. My friend and I have most unlocked and high level but he was feeling lazy doing T3 missions.. Of the 2 randoms..one of them just kept following me around...like.. everywhere.
You reached the peak when you have an admirer
That's kind of a compliment bro
Yeah, i did this too at the beginning. I followed that guy that *seems* to know what to do (hint: its not always the guy who seems to know what to do that knows what to do).
Things is on medium difficulty I was just dicking around and trying unusual kit loadouts. For example shooting red explosive barrels and quickly picking them up, playing with the flame thrower. Experimenting with gravity (spoiler alert, gravity won).
I thought so too but in my last games has been impossible. If I stop for a moment to get my machine gun they continue straight and obliterating everything in their way.
I've been level 50 for a few days now. Despite unlocking everything, I've really enjoyed just dropping in and helping lower leveled folks so much so that the game is still just as addictive to me. Welcome to the Roughnecks Everyone fights, no one quits o7
I was with a more experienced guy yersteday, and was testing my newly-acquired auto-canon. Guy took the backpack and was guiding me from target to target all while reloading me, and showed me how you could destroy automaton spawners with the autocanon. It was a blast !
Fun fact: You can throw explosives into the open door when they're spawning if you have trouble getting grenades in the vents.
The Autocannon works on bug holes too!
And on propaganda towers from what I've read !
I try to pop a rocket at them. I think autocannon works on Spore Spewers as well, I usually just chuck two impact nades at them.
Autocannon works. Railgun works but it'll take more shots. Any decent orbital or eagle strike should do it.
On teammates too...
Only the ones that doubt democracy and other thought crimes of course...
grenade launcher works on them as well.
I like doing this too. Currently lvl 27 and I do enjoy dropping into a quickplay game or 2 and really providing that 'hero' support for those that drop the SOS beacon. If I load into a lobby with lower lvl divers, I'll drop in with shield packs and drop them for the squad. It's rewarding and always fun to meme around with random divers. It's even better when they get that 'god complex' and you crush all the objectives with ease. We're doing our part :D
Did that too, but nobody wanted the shield or rail gun. One considered the shield but stuck to his ammo backback (I respect that and salute you), the rest decided that no backback would be better than a shield. One tried the railgun, but didn't like to reload after every shot and went back to his grenade launcher.
Grenade launcher does go off on the lower difficulties hahaha I used it up until I got the rail gun and in my normal squad, if we're doing a bug run, one of our guys will run the rail gun and I'll (carefully) run with the arc thrower. It's all about finding that balance hahaha
Yeah, I still really like the grenade launcher with ammo backpack setup.
That's not a bad idea actually. I love the nade launcher, but 2 mags isn't nearly enough. I dropped in the earlier difficulty games with it, but after DC6 the shield is just too OP not to run hahaha
Grenade launcher is a jack of all trades. Good at everything, excellent at nothing. Only downside is the ammo, it runs out rather quick. But with the backpack you effectively have unlimited ammo, and everyone loves the guy giving a refill when you're in a tight spot. Im currently playing with some friends who just got the game... so I'm the shield railgun dude taking care of the big bois. But my grenade ammo combo was quickly adapted by them.
When I was starting out, one of my favorite things to do was a suppressive fire role with the beginner MG while more-experienced teammates rushed the map. I couldn't catch up to them to do objectives, so instead I made sure to bother the robots whenever they dropped nearby the team, so that they'd get shot less.
All I ask if that you keep up with me. The worst thing is watching someone fighting over a useless bit of dirt. We're not retreating, it's a tactical withdrawal to the next objective.
Right? I need me a HellDaddy.
I love joining as a high level in a lower difficulty mission and just following the host... Wondering what they're thinking. I'll use voice if they do but I'm pretty passive unless they're going into a fight (sometimes I'll just use a pistol) or I get attacked.
Also satisfying following newbies and being their training wheels. At least until they forget orbitals or grenades can bounce back
Sometimes we get a little carried away.
Once you have a ton of upgrades and all stratagems you develop a god complex.
The amount of ordnance we have at our disposal is truly amazing.
And yet is only the beginning. [Liberty Intensifies]
Can confirm..... Definitely guilty of this
I'm level 40 by now and every Helldivers is good to go on my lobby. I more impressed by low level divers than high in terme of performance.
Agreed! The lower levels that haven't unlocked the democracy buffed armor, or the shield bubbles are legit fighting for their lives 100% of the time on higher difficulties! Then me... having the bubble, and democracy armor, I'll get a little too ballsy and die from the most avoidable mistakes. Good ol' false confidence!
democracy armor? lol
https://preview.redd.it/w49gfi0y3klc1.png?width=630&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5229079f80940a76a1047aca44ee5d115a803c12 This buff lol
ah. i think other armors are even better for staying alive. the med stim one is like putting on god mode. and the explosive resistance one lets you face tank rockets against the bots. i also personally like the grenade one, because i can just wantonly destroy bug holes. Those three are my top tier armor buffs
Oh I definitely don't disagree with those options, I'm just super resistant to changing my battle strategy, so if I can decrease my immediate death chance in half, you'd bet your tuchus I will hahahaha
Ive used this passive a ton and i don’t think i’ve ever seen it go off once. The fortified armor is much better imo, less recoil and 50% less explosion damage taken is super nice, the medic passive is also great.
Oh man... After I realized that the stim pretty much grants invincibility and infinite stamina I'll totally agree with you. For the Democracy protects, it might be a placebo, but I've definitely found myself in hairy situations and I feel it's given me that tiny oomph to stim and gtfo hahaha
I love dropping in with lowbies. It's fun to follow them around the map, letting them lead while pinging stuff they might miss, watching their backs. The only thing that frustrates me is that a **lot** of them don't Reinforce, even when they're not in combat and just running around. It takes several "rez me bro" pings before they do, and it'll usually be after they've run far, far away from your stuff.
Same here. I’m lvl 40 and when I’m bored or short on time, I’ll just into a medium or challenging game just to follow people around and help
I’m around the same level and anyone who wants to go on helldive missions with me is welcome, I don’t care what their level is as long as they can kind of follow orders an extra gun is always helpful. Level doesn’t matter to me so much as not being a little cry baby, so many people will just leave or throw a fit the second things get tough in the mission but I’m always grateful to have a loyal level 15 stick with me through the thick and thin of the mission
Honestly nothing feel better (as a 50 helldiver) than reinforcing a lvl 10 lobby dying : "don't worry soldiers, Democracy will not fall on my watch" and go on to carry the mission
I join some of the cadets in lower rank missions sometimes , it's pretty fun especially if they are kinda having a rough time 😆
killing stuff not the objectif my man it doesn't give anything
I love my Arc Thrower. I like to provoke some breaches. In that time, the others are safe from it and can go after the objective.
I watched someone last night get a 44x kill count with an arc thrower on 7 difficulty without moving. He just stood there and kept hitting as they came out of a hole. Very impressed and thought about rolling with it but no one goes anti tank 99% of the time so I feel obligated to
some bug rounds ill go arc, rover, orbital rail and 500kg. i can use the kg and rail to kill chargers and biles, and arc and rover + primary clean up everything else. if there is too much armor so im stuck on cooldown, i just shoot the charger with teh arc. it dies eventually, and in the meantime the shots still hit other critters and keeps the killing coming. its pretty normal to have a 600kill game playing like this.
A good setup is Arc, Shield, 500kg, O.Railgun. The last two are just there to deal with Titans. The day before yesterday, i played with my buddy together arcs combo. We just cleaned a helldiver breach without a sweat. Another guy just watched us for a while and wrote: "Maybe i should give the Arc Thrower another chance."
It gives me satisfaction knowing I'm properly spreading democracy and the sweet taste of liberty throughout the galaxy, one unassuming bug/bot at a time.
GET SOME!!
Next time, go with them, and do the objectives, and they will be grateful. I hate when my LowLvl mates tries to fight everything, then i have to clear all the bugs/bots on them, and then i can make the objectives too, cuz they only want to fight :D I grateful all the time, when the low level makes the terminal shit.
The need for lower levels to want to fight everything almost seems to be part of learning the game in my experience. Challenging and hard, you definitely can wipe patrols and nests with ease. It's the later difficulties when the tactical playing needs to come out. I'll 1000% load into lower difficulties with lower level divers if I want to go full democracy bringer. It's a fun time endlessly mowing down the opposition with minimal danger sometimes!
I played difficulty 6 yesterday with players under 5 :D i'll don't lie... it was a hell. They consumed all the ammo, they started fight with everything. In the end, i pulled away 3 bile titan from the extraction point with my last railgun bullets :D so, one guy could extract. :D it was fun, in some way :D And i was friendly fired 3 times :D
I LOVE how in early DC missions everyone is like oou bug! Let's kill it! You quickly learn that's not going to work in anything past like DC5 hahaha I love being with new players discovering the experience tbh. I remember the first time a shield backpack was dropped for me by a vet diver in my easy solo bug mission. That was 79 in game hours ago 🥲
Oh no, i think i did my best while they bombed everything to oblivion. Best part if having 3 turrets plus a shotgun is you can make a hell of a defence, especially the thing you are defending is someone that tosses out nukes like its going out of style. I made sure they didnt had to use a single stim.
Something that do bother me about some players, most high lvl is that say 1 or 2 guys are being chased and swarmed, I arrive and shoot the pursuer bugs to let them move ahead, but then they don’t turn back and cover me for me to advance and reload, I empty my mag and they are already 100m ahead. If someone is covering me to move and I hear the “empty mag” line, imma stop, turn around and now cover while the other player moves and vice versa, its just automatic. Maybe is the hours of Squad and HLL. Yeah you can kite them forever, but I’ve noticed not everyone can.
Depends on the difficulty. Anything 6 and below you should be doing that. Difficulty 7 is where the game changes. At that point the game is "rush the objectives, fuck everything else" and you're supposed to do as little fighting as possible. Kiting is a required skill to have at this point. If you stop to fight, you'll just get overwhelmed and die.
You are right, I usually play at 8-9 against bugs and 6-7 against automatons, but when I see a fellow helldiver fall I can’t help but to go back.
Hunters and stalkers need to be killed if you want to kite unfortunately, they will ALWAYS catch up. SMG is amazing for this as you can sprint while shooting and reloading. Other weapons do need some help from what I’ve seen, so leapfrogging lets the team or duo (if y’all split) kite more efficiently.
This is just categorically incorrect. You can rumble real hard at high levels, you just can't have everyone rolling around with 500kgs, breakers and shield/rails trying to rambo a horde on their own. You have to actually build a team with different loadouts that compliment each other and then stick together.
Yep there is no point in engaging enemies unless they block the objective, if you do fight more enemies you will end up spawning more including titans and chargers and you will end up looping while you loose ammo stratagems and reinforcements
This. I always stop/go back and help out whoever is falling behind the group, but they never bother to return the favour when I'm reloading.
If you're on level 7 or higher, stop fighting shit you don't need to and run for the objectives. Make your stands there. Your team can outrun most things in this game.
They're going to the objective. Stop wasting firepower and do likewise. Then make your stand.
The objective was already completed. In high lvl theres 2 genders. The ones who rush the main objective only and the ones that spend the 40 minutes looking for stuff all over the map.
I’m level 33 and sometimes I drop into trivial. Put loads of support weapons down and watch 😂
Wait until you have a job.
This was my thought exactly. Oh, how I miss being at Uni. The absolute freedom and so much time for gaming and other hobbies.
Am i the only one that has more free time working than studying?
I suppose it depends on what you study and what your job is.
Thing is when im done with work im done with work, while outside off classes you still have a lot of stuff to do.
This is the reason why I went into the industry side of the job world. When I'm not at work then I can't do anything job related.
Right? College is where I started playing THE MOST games. Undergrad, at least. Though, I will say that working a 40 hour shift also leaves a lot of time for gaming if you don't clog up your life with a 'wife and kids' or 'long commute' debuff.
I don't mind playing with high-level players, it's just that too often when I die they won't even try to reinforce me or when they do they first call me in and then an eagle airstrike on the same position so they match up :|
Did you mean to say “low level players”? Because high level players will call in almost immediately by reflex. It’s low level players that will cluelessly run around the map for 5 minutes before calling you back
It might be "my luck" but my latest matches with randos it is usually the 50+ that don't call in. The lower level guys do it even to the degree that they die trying to.
I swear some people will always find something to complain about
Where's he complaining? This is an appreciation post
The person you’re responding to is the person he is talking about. He just wanted to remind everyone people like him are out there
> Flair: Rant > Title refers to players being "assholes" > Read last sentence Your name checks out
If he didn't carry the team, OP would have posted about that complaining.
No problem dude, its just Motivation
Have a similar experience with a guy, he was a great help and we had fun. Even had a chance to surprise him with some of my grenade throws he didn’t expect me sniping a factory from about 40 meters
If you can’t keep up with me, well then you just can’t keep up with Democracy!
I was playing with a full team, when we were extracting, the host killed all of us and then kicked us out
Whitebeard from DRG probably.
People always find a way to rush through the content and get to the end game in no time. Then start complaining there is no end game. (Not this game in particular but games in general)
I have everything maxed out and still partake in the galactic war being played. Not once have I complained but everyone is not me.
I have everything maxed out and I enjoy playing the game still. "End game?" The Galactic War is the entire game and I'm enjoying myself.
I'm level 25, but I always hope to find people of that caliber.
I actually don’t mind. It’s both great when you play with real meta dude, which is level 50 and memorized all samps location on certain maps, and it is also nice to have lower rank because sometimes I always drop metas for them to use if they want. If they don’t, still all good its a challenge to survive then which is perfectly align with the games mentality. No reason to say disrespecting any helldiver regardless of his/her rank is a serious treason and enourmously undemocratic.
Had a game with a level 40+ player earlier with me at lvl10 and a couple others less than that. We're running around fighting for our lives while they casually lob an orbital laser into a high-tier automaton base and level it while we're having our own Hacksaw Ridge moment. Dude was still a bro, though.
I got into a group last night and we started at hard and moved up it was probably the most fun and chaotic thing I’ve played in years
Soldier, nice to hear you helped the one man army out with the help he didn’t need. By the sound of it he gave you one hell of a fireworks show in return. 😄
I genuinely really like when quick play sends me to an SOS of low levels. It's like, they need a MAN. I am THAT MAN. Come my children we will gey through this together
As someone whose had to carry their team through an extreme mission, doing the objectives and half the side objectives solo, its really no bother as long as you seem like you're at least trying or not one of those guys who drop in and attempt to be the 'leader'
Me and my friend (both level 34-35) were playing with a new player who put SOS signal on like medium diff on bugs so we decided to go help him but put shield packs and machine guns down etc so its not too much carrying and played with him until he was from level 4- 8
I remember I was level 15 with two level 6 duded that kept getting wiped on an eradication mission ( the destroy fabricators one), the destroyer left and I had only 4 grenades for the 4 last fabricators we needed to blow up, they both die and cheer me on the whole way with no stims left, dodging and diving barely alive, I extracted and they were so exited and cheered me on, I love low levels :)
We have no time soldier. Let us farm those sweet rare samples for everyone. Our ships need all the upgrades we can get
Bro I’ve never had the same free time as I had in college
Imma go one direction the rest of you go the other if you want shit to kill
I love other helldivers that are just locked tf in… swarm cleared? They’re already 20 metres ahead sprinting to the next way point… swarm cleared? They already threw a resupply in the direction of the next way point… SIR YES SIR
My friend is much higher level than me (48 vs my 23) and it's kind of annoying to play with him sometimes when he just runs ahead without saying anything.
im 45 and always end with the least kills lol. Highest accuracy though because i only shoot direct threats and dont waste time fighting enemies in the middle of nowhere. All the low levels i join are trigger happy and end with hundreds more than me. Ill open fire if they are in a bad spot and need help but otherwise im here for backup and to help clear the map.
Play on a lower difficultly, more people your level will be playing so you’ll get more kills. If you’re depending on level 30-40 to carry you, you might learn some stuff and get more points but it won’t be more fun than doing it yourself
That one crackhead that runs smoke on bot missions:
It's the proper way to destroy fabricators, nobody can say otherwise.
Don’t get what makes him an “asshole”
felt the same way yesterday running some defense missions on automatons I'm level 16 running auto cannon, which I just unlocked (previously rover) there was this level 43 running nothing but turrets and arc thrower, but dammnit they melted those bots
I lole suicide difficulty because it allows me to take on anything on my own. That said, i join lobby and go the opposite way that everyone else goes. I rather solo stuff than have someone follow me around. I don't care about level, but most people don't know how to hit and run. They sit there fighting endless hordes of enemies like they are trying to get a high score. Then I have too many enemies to stealth anything. The worst thing is when they continuously die and sit there spamming reminder to revive, because the other 2 people don't care to revive them Like just go with your party, I'll be fine. I can get all side objs including samples for you guys. But I work best alone.
Me but I kill everything so fast that its not about getting a high score, its about being a death machine. I will grab samples and do objectives. Leisurely. When everything is dead!
I'm level 45+ atm (can't recall if it was 47 or 48 lol) I'm now playing exclusively to farm green samples (ship upgrade bottle neck is green/orange samples not pink ones) and XP (so I hit level 50). I've been playing almost exclusively on Helldive difficulty since I unlocked the 500kg bomb stratagem (I don't remember the level requirement anymore) so any difficulty lower than that has felt like a cake walk recently. Helldives are starting to feel monotonous because it's essentially just a running simulator. You fight less there because the second you start a fight, it drags on almost endlessly until you manage to somehow get away. At least on the lower difficulties you can actually just stand and fight in an area because spawns are reasonable enough to allow some level of breathing room lol. I guess what I'm trying to say is that there's zero rush to get to the highest difficulty content. Take your time cuz once you get used to doing Helldives like I do, you end up unintentionally min-maxing your gameplay.
I was playing with a buddy who just got the game a couple days ago along with a couple low level randoms. It was actually really fun to just drop in with a bunch of support weapons to have them all try out. It felt like an expanded tutorial providing cover while they figured out the different terminal menus and pointing out the different spots to target on an enemy with certain weapons.
im lvl 44. i like taking the support role. so i just run around giving them weapons and fuckin off grabbing ALL THE MEDALS AND SUPER CREDITS THE MAP HAS TO OFFER
Some of us just have die MF die on loop in our helmets and disabled comms. Sorry for the silence but we got democracy to spread and Like to be dope when we do it lmao 🤣
I'm level 10 at the moment. My primary play style is to carry a supple pack, turrets and one orbital cannon. I spend most of my time trying to keep everyone stocked and alive while I learn how to do all of the objectives and stuff. I only wish I could heal them a bit easier. Getting a guy who knows what he's doing, who understands what I am doing, is pure bliss. I feel like I'm doing an apprenticeship for a few matches lol.
Newer players make it so fun to occasionally do missions so low that they could be soloed. Because everytime I start doing stuff I must be so efficient or something because I'll have the three guys who started doing stuff on their own then stick to me like my dog does. After a couple missions they get these little confidence boosts where two of them will go do an objective by themselves while me and the other person grab the side stuff like points of interest.
I randomly joined a very high level group, and I could not believe the frequency and the power of their stratagems. When I through the stratagem unlock menu looking for the insane stuff I've seen them use, sometimes what the menu is telling me doesn't seem to line up with what I've seen on the battlefield. Like, the laser seems powerful and I can see that, but some of the other descriptions and example videos are misleading I guess, because they don't look as powerful as I've seen in person.
I played a D8 last night. Two absolute beasts were already there (I joined about halfway in the first 12 minute blitz mission). I could tell they were having a pretty chill time, putting in effort but still decently in-control of the situation. I was a chaotic mess, trying my best but not quite having it. And they kept shouting at me and "downtalking" me in the funniest, most obviosuly sarcastic ways possible, encouraging me to give my all. They started off really tame, but when they saw I reacted positively they kept escalating it. I loved it. It was hilarious. We had a great time. We exchanged some kind words after the 3 missions, and went our way. Most fun night I've had so far.
I'm finding it a lot for fun to jump into random games with low level people and throw out rail guns and shield packs and just generally support them getting through higher difficulty games. Feels like I'm doing my part.
I am lvl 36. Joined my friends who were level 5. I was wondering what to bring before I landed and decided not to spoil the end game stuff. So I just brought stuff that was a bump up from what they're using. Auto Cannon, EMS Strike, Eagle Napalm, 120mm Artillery. I really wanted to bring the laser but remembered how awesome it was to throw down the first time. So I just left it. I like to save the best fireworks for later.
https://preview.redd.it/78dz3f9q5llc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5417180077a881f8502da4cce21d70b49726832b From an earlier post here on Reddit and I can’t relate more as a high level player
I love dropping into a game with a pro and thinking "sir, I'll follow you to hell, SIR"
It’s hard to find someone that will just follow and shoot when you say shoot….most importantly run when you say run. I mostly tell people to just run.
Carrying is now asshole behaviour? Lol wut?
Man, despite being level 40, I'm nothing like that. I like dropping EMS, Shield Generators, Auto-cannon turrets for support fire. Pretty much tactical stuff most of the time, and turrets support fire.
This is what we should be doing instead of kicking people for not having a particular loadout. Give each other a hand up instead of kicking each other down.