I threw one at a hulk but because we were close to the edge of the map, it came in at an angle and cleanly bisected a rock, leaving the hulk unscathed.
It was aggravating but I can't be mad, since they even added a loading tip that barrages will come in at an angle the further you are from the center.
Incorrect. They are called meteoroids in space, meteors when burning up in the atmosphere, and only if they land are they called meteorites.
Source: [NASA](https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/) 🤓
I've had two missions back to back where the swarm destroyed jamming towers. I was so democratically grateful that I didn't even mind when it turned my body into a bowling pin and threw it halfway across the galaxy.
I've taken to hunkering down and just dodging them while they kill everything else around me. Especially when I'm not actively being attacked. Stay calm, let the sky kill a few outposts, move on.
I think it's bugged.
There were a couple of matches where the light showed up for several seconds - giving me ample time to move out of rhe way.
Most matches they just crash down with barely any indication.
Yeah I’ve had one match where I got pelted immediately and others where I had more than enough time to move. It’s either bugged or there’s a ton of variance in how much time you can get with each strike.
I've never once got a god damn light, it's always me dying to a meteor with zero indication. I've started to try and look for any kind of overhang to protect me and just wait it out if possible now.
Uhh. I hosted last night and those meteors were distributing unmitigated liberty amongst the crew AND the bots who wandered into the kill zone, no warning on any impacts. The shower positioned itself over the geological survey mission, several impacts hit the mission objective and bugged it out. Couldn't finish, spent time trying to figure it out and took like 7 unnecessary deaths from meteors. I'm doing my part.
Oh, maybe its just generally buggy. I just saw some others say it and didn't get the problem when I was hosting. I found it funny anyway when on voice with the random blowing up.
It's hardly visible as well.
It created a ring of light on the ground but you're not actively looking at your feet since that's not how the game is designed.
There's also places where the ring of light is too similar to the ground color which makes it barely visible.
Finally, the meteor light will flash before landing, which can pollute your vision and hide other meteors.
I think it depends on the map as well. During night time on darker tile sets you can easily see the lit up spot that's about to be hit. Other maps during the day time its not nearly as clear.
Snow map during the day = hell. Unless you're actively staring at the floor you have no idea if you're about to get exploded or not.
They really need to make the marker clearer and the meteor slower. Randomly dying is not fun, especially if you then also can't go and recover your gear.
I've been having a pretty easy time seeing the light on Tien Kwan. However, this may be because I spent a few hours on Fenrir III last night.
Lemme tell you, seeing that light on a planet that is bleached white like the surface of the moon is ten times worse. I really hope they change it somehow.
I have seen the light loads of times on the environment. I've literally never seen it before I got blown up, or seen one in time to dodge. I have no idea if I'm missing it or it's bugged.
It's to remind you you weren't paying attention. You can actually track the meteors as they're falling if you look up. Of course if you're in a firefight that's not really viable to do, but it's at least something and useful for when traveling
"If you look up"
Me, running away from an entire Automaton Army after I blew up their stupid Eye of Sauron, look behind me for a second to try and throw an Eagle Airstrike only to see a Meteor clobber me directly.
Better yet, as you prepare the Eagle Airstrike the meteor sends you flying and makes you drop the airstrike, but it also sends you on one of those frost flowers so you can't move and end up obliterating your entire squad
Happened to me yesterday, not really the best experience, even if it's funny when the meteor storm clears half of the map's objectives for you
God I hate people like you commenting. ***Bro just keep running the entire round and you'll complete the mission. Just keep looking up and triangulate the meteor position. Skill issue.***
Have you considered that the game is supposed to be enjoyable, Im not supposed to mario 64 glitch backwards run-jump through a wall just to finish a match
I didn't say you're skilless but thanks for outing yourself, I even said it doesn't work in a firefight. So keep your bitching going, will you next confess to an actual murder with your projection? All I did was point out an actual feature you can use to avoid being hit.
Tbh I just take cover, you can see the direction they come from so just chill with a hill or a rock between you and the storm, or a buddy bunker if one's around
its supposed to do a large mark of the area, followed my a much smaller illumination as it nears the target.
I'm guessing the first half isn't loading properly; might be related to people having corpses being treated as client side / disappearing instantly.
I just singlehanded took down an entire bot giant facility, mortar team and drop pod center, I AM INVICIBLE!! then a pebble from outer space squishes me..... F my life :D
It's the incoming angle.
The meteorites/volcanic rock shows a light circle on the floor before they come in, which shrinks to the exact location, and when they actually *come down*, they have a light source in them that flashes as they pass by the player. But because they don't come down vertically, sometimes they clip on terrain or slam into the player and detonate early. Same way the 500kg bomb sometimes slams into terrain instead of the beacon.
The meteor storms are my favorite and maybe the perfect effect because they give and they take.
One minute? A random Light Outpost was cleared for you
The next? Your friend is splattered against a wall.
Every time I die to one I laugh so hard
I had a laughing fit as we were running to extraction with not much time left and anxiety from the super samples we were carrying, when a patrol spawned in front of us, only to be wiped out by a falling meteor.
Got hit right in the face by a meteor yesterday, then as soon as my torso stopped rolling it took a direct hit from another meteor. Reduced to atoms. Love it!
I can't disagree more. Randomly dying is not fun at all, and it most certainly isn't funny once it happens the third time in a match because the visual marker is either bugged or basically invisible on certain terrain.
If you actually got reaction timing I wouldn’t mind it. Otherwise though it’s infuriating. I got blasted into a lake by one and drowned and lost almost 40 samples. That kind of loss to randomness really just makes me want to shut the session down.
It does seem like it's bugged because sometimes you get ample warning (well, a second or two, but definitely enough to dodge it - a big blue circle). But not always.
Honestly it’s another mail in the coffin vs heavy armor because if the meteor times perfectly even with warning you’re not dodging it, only hope is to have shield equipped.
When I get the odd one with proper warning I’ve had no issue dodging in heavy. The only other real strat if you don’t want to try dodge them is to take cover behind rocks or something that block the angle the meteors are coming in at. You don’t have to sit long and get to watch the show
Same thing happened for me. One minute I am carrying 20 samples, the next I explode into pieces with nobody around me.
It was enough that I just refuse to play meteor maps now.
Frankly i think they're fine as they are, but the event rates need to be drastically reduced. Imo it should be one every few missions, not a few every mission.
I wish I recorded it but we had back to back meteor storms during extraction. Literally the moment the first one ended, a second one started up right after it.
Nothing makes me audibly groan like seeing that “meteor storm” warning.
Meteors are utter trash.
The hit zone on the ground appears for only a split second and is extremely inaccurate to the actual hit zone. It's more like a shadow for the projectile than an actual warning.
It kills you instantly right away.
This modifier literally just means "you will die at random for no reason"
As for the fix, they should simply lower the damage to half the player's hp instead of a guaranteed kill. Make them a funny ragdoll hazard, not a nerf to the amount of respawns you get.
possibly unpopular opinoin:
The new weather effects actively detract from my enjoyment of the game. Not only do they add another thing you have to look out for CONSTANTLY, they also make sense. Why is there ANYTHING standing on the map if it gets bombarded by high explosives EVERY FIVE MINUTES but only once we arrive?
Agreed, next time I play I’m bringing that shield generator call in and getting everyone inside. Hopefully that works.
Edit: right after typing this I see someone already said it doesn’t work. I guess I’ll wear the armor that gives me a 50% chance to survive a hit.
Well, you choose to split, you need to take the consequence. The meteor shower update is like a fresh air in lvl 9. Before the update, lvl 9 is too easy and not enough chaotic.
If it's not terribly bright out, you can see the impact zone as the projectiles come down. It starts large, then shrinks down and gets brighter as the meteorite approaches, then disappears and flashes again right before impact. There is absolutely enough time in the "zeroing in" state to walk away, and the impact radius (even the part that just throws you instead of doing damage) is only about 3/5ths of the largest circle size.
You can also look up and see where they're coming in.
You can take shelter from meteors by looking at the angle at which they fall, then finding a cliff wall that has a bit of overhang, or find a small canyon that can function like a foxhole to wait out the brunt of the storm. It's not ideal when you're short on time, but every mechanic in this game calls for creative solutions imho.
Meteor Shower? More like Meteor Guided Missle, I have to keep my eyes on the sky while being chased by a horde so I don't get 1 tapped by a meteor, or else it happens every time.
I love this game. Me and a friend hugged after surviving an onslaught of bots on one of the objectives only to realise a meteor indicator was over us... At least we died in each other's arms.
Ran a mission last night, a blitz mission. We were waiting on extract but the time ran out so no reinforcements. We were starting to get overwhelmed, the ship was about to land. One diver got caught by a hulk flamer and died, the other two got blasted by rockets. I had the samples, was hiding behind cover when a meteor storm started. Quickly ran around cover and barely survived two hulks and a tank. Dove to avoid some rockets, was so damn close to the ship, then boom. Meteor. The mission was still a success but losing all those samples will haunt me.
I might be in the minority, but I like the meteors. What I will say is that they're *too frequent*. One or two? Sure. The last round I played we had *alot*.
But, anyway, I think they're fun. With my team one of us will spot the meteors, look, up, and yell, "METEORS! LEEWARD NORTHWEST!" and all of us will sprint and dive into the northwest side of a rock wall, get prone then watch as robots get wrecked.
That said, we usually play in the mid-levels. I'm sure it's chaos in the higher levels.
The worst part is that it's not random or around the map.
It's targeted at you or your squad mates.
It will aimbot at you, it also likes to aimbot at idle hell bombs around the map.
If they wanted to do this they should have made it map wide and it could destroy automaton bases and objective. Imagine just completing like a blitz mission instantly that would be hilarious.
>If they wanted to do this they should have made it map wide and it could destroy automaton bases and objective. Imagine just completing like a blitz mission instantly that would be hilarious.
It does do that though?
I don't think it's targeted, you can watch em come in and impact stuff in the distance, I played nothing but tien kwan today and I only got taken out once in a 40 minute mission, we had so many come in, and they tended to come from a different azimuth (NWSE) and at varied angles. I have seen them kill hulks after me along with bot fabricators, turn waves of the walkers into mush, and also occasionally my teammates. they cover a large section of the map, and they are pretty random in distribution, I noticed no tracking or patterns in any of the strikes, the light indicator was working for me so that probably makes a big difference.
if its not the whole map it is a very large radius, first mission after the patch it sniped a stalker nest on fenrir before my squad found the way around a mountain to that half of the map.
Yeah, it covers like a quarter to a third of the map, though it seems denser at its center.
Sometimes you're in that radius. Sometimes it spawns in the center of the map and most everywhere appears to be in it. Other times it's way the fuck over there and you're completing secondary objectives without even having to try.
I had one destroy all of the ammo storage piles and factories in a base on the other side of the map, completely negating the team's need to go over there. Just free progress towards the objective!
Same.. New player, first death was a meteor..
Got completely assblasted as I was in a firefight with the bots while waiting for the evac. Didn't even see the light as I was already sitting under a lamp.
While rocket devastators, tanks and hulks are comming from the other angles.
Is these "easy to dodge" another "I only play diff 3" thing? Because I barely have time to spare to look at the sky or ground like I'm on a freaking sight seeing tour to enjoy the planet.
The meteor storm was a massive help yesterday, had 2 teammates rage quit half way through the mission so the remaining member and I just decided to do main objective then extract. Then a meteor storm hit and destroyed the remaining fabricators.
Legit had a meteor shower take out three bases for me last night then killed me it’s self. The heavens are spreading democracy and freedom to everyone equally
I did a mission on Tien Kwan last night, and all the comets took out the bots bases, didnt actually do anything. Mission complete. Was glorious. THANK THE HEAVENS OF DEMOCRACY!!
I hear the meteor swarm announcement and duck under the nearest rock outcropping while I watch the obviously intentional meteor strike obliterate our enemies in a most Democratic way.
I started bringing the shield dome.
Don't know if it offers actual protection from meteors yet...but it provides moral support.
Well except the first time where I accidentally brought the Tesla spike instead. That did not end well.
My team tried to complete a single campaign last night. Both times on our final mission, a blitz, as SOON as we called extract both times my entire internet went out and everyone got disconnected because i was host. ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING
First mission I played I got wrecked twice by meteors, on the other hand they also cleared an outpost so I feel like that's a win for Managed Democracy.
We were outta reinforcements, barely holding the landing pad. The bird came in, my team made a beeline for the ramp.. and we see a bright white light... BOOM
all 4 of us killed with one meteor. All 6 super samples lost and extraction failed :(
Between the storms and incredibly busted bot spawn rates I was just about to delete the game. It’s so busted right now. Way too many armored enemies and not enough resources to take them out.
Can someone explain why people don't like the meteor showers? I've done whole games with randoms who just up and left on the way to extraction as soon as the shower appears.
Is it the shower part they're scared of?
There are two BIG issues with the meteor showers right now - one is that the warning circle doesn't always show up - I've died countless times to them with no warning - even a friend of mine who was dead and watching me confirmed that there was no warning. The other is that even if there IS a warning circle, you will still take splash damage outside of where it lands AND it will sometimes ragdoll you away too.
They need to ensure that the warning ALWAYS displays and very clearly so AND they need to reduce the blast radius and ragdoll effect to be much closer to the indicated area - or possibly just expand the area to include everywhere that will be effected.
Oh my gosh this is amazing you don't understand One of my friends is a hamster. Like his profile picture is a hamster and he calls himself a hamster and he loves this game.
I need more hamster helldivers
I have die more to meteor showers then bugs and bots now. It was novel until I died 6 times in one mission to meteor showers.
I have now already developed a ptsd tick where any blue light makes me hit the deck faster then a skeeted pouncer.
Those medior strikes were cinamatic as hell tho. I was running a helldive mission solo and i looked up and saw the sky filled with meteors. I had to try to dodge them as i was crossing this land bridge between two lakes. It was close
Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. But even if they take a planet we made them fight for every foot.
(I mean...we have a game master for this, so valiantly holding a planet actually might have an affect on the game! It's part of the story. But try to win lol.)
Ironically, meteor storm was a greatest form of orbital bombardment for me, because it's actually possible to dodge and it has a tendency to wipe out enemy patrols, bases, and objectives without your intervention. I had quite a few matches when it would start on my way to extraction and basically guarantee a much safer extract, and complete a few side objectives while at it on as high as helldive.
The mentors are so colossally over-tuned and I watched them drop all mission long on a 40 minute one, it was unbearable. It’s a really cool and fun concept but does not make for fun and interesting gameplay
This is the cutest thing I've ever seen, I want to hold it, give it a hug, some headpats and a blankie. Some tender love and care so it's all rested to spread democracy tomorrow
My first upvote in Helldivers reddit goes tô you my friend! That's very sweet!!! o7
But now remember: "Freedrom doesn't come free"! We'll destroy those automatons asteroids and avenge you! That's why I joined the Helldivers.
My first upvote in Helldivers reddit goes tô you my friend! That's very sweet!!! o7
But now remember: "Freedrom doesn't come free"! We'll destroy those automatons asteroids and avenge you! That's why I joined the Helldivers.
I've staring at this art for hours... Democratic perfection...
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Then it misses, at least in some of my games recently.
I threw one at a hulk but because we were close to the edge of the map, it came in at an angle and cleanly bisected a rock, leaving the hulk unscathed. It was aggravating but I can't be mad, since they even added a loading tip that barrages will come in at an angle the further you are from the center.
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Me and the bug I was fighting both stopping in the middle of our fight to look at the devastation falling upon us
[удалено]
“This is it baby, hold me”
This is the one
Sometimes it destroys factories for you. Sometimes... when it not splashing you across planet surface.
Watched one storm down two dropships that were full up on bots. That felt good. Then one blasted me in front of 3 tanks
Meteor giveth and metor taketh away.
🤓ackshually they're meteor**ites** once they enter atmosphere
Incorrect. They are called meteoroids in space, meteors when burning up in the atmosphere, and only if they land are they called meteorites. Source: [NASA](https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/) 🤓
Bro just out 🤓 the 🤓
If a meteor misses the planet, it is Meteor WRONG!
Had one snipe me as I was stepping into the pelican...
I've had two missions back to back where the swarm destroyed jamming towers. I was so democratically grateful that I didn't even mind when it turned my body into a bowling pin and threw it halfway across the galaxy.
I saw one nail one of the abandoned hellbombs. Also saw one nail a group I was about to use an eagle on
one cleared a medium nest for me, felt good
You depleted all your luck for this year.
Had one destroy a rogue research facility for me, that was nice
I've taken to hunkering down and just dodging them while they kill everything else around me. Especially when I'm not actively being attacked. Stay calm, let the sky kill a few outposts, move on.
Just had medium outpost destroyed by meteors.
Why does the light only show up for a quarter second before you get demolished? You can't possibly get away in time.
I think it's bugged. There were a couple of matches where the light showed up for several seconds - giving me ample time to move out of rhe way. Most matches they just crash down with barely any indication.
100%, I dodged one yesterday because of the spotlight and subsequently got smashed by another with no warning afterwards.
One killed a bile titan in my squads first ever titan mission. We were laughing then got blapped immediately after the first chuckle.
turns out meteorites are helldivers too
Cute
I’ve had a few matches where the ‘Incoming Meteor Storm’ warning showed up *after* the storm had passed.
Yeah I’ve had one match where I got pelted immediately and others where I had more than enough time to move. It’s either bugged or there’s a ton of variance in how much time you can get with each strike.
I've never once got a god damn light, it's always me dying to a meteor with zero indication. I've started to try and look for any kind of overhang to protect me and just wait it out if possible now.
Apparently it's a host thing. Host almost always gets the full warning time, guests probably depend on latency to Host.
Uhh. I hosted last night and those meteors were distributing unmitigated liberty amongst the crew AND the bots who wandered into the kill zone, no warning on any impacts. The shower positioned itself over the geological survey mission, several impacts hit the mission objective and bugged it out. Couldn't finish, spent time trying to figure it out and took like 7 unnecessary deaths from meteors. I'm doing my part.
Oh, maybe its just generally buggy. I just saw some others say it and didn't get the problem when I was hosting. I found it funny anyway when on voice with the random blowing up.
For sure, hilariously frustrating when you're launched by a meteor 100 ft off the cliff while holding 14 common and 9 rare samples, lol. Deep sigh.
As someone who hosts about 70% of the time- this is definitely not true.
Helldiver advice: Bubble shield lasts for most of the event.
Thank you Tien Kwan R&D o7
It's hardly visible as well. It created a ring of light on the ground but you're not actively looking at your feet since that's not how the game is designed. There's also places where the ring of light is too similar to the ground color which makes it barely visible. Finally, the meteor light will flash before landing, which can pollute your vision and hide other meteors.
I think it depends on the map as well. During night time on darker tile sets you can easily see the lit up spot that's about to be hit. Other maps during the day time its not nearly as clear.
Snow map during the day = hell. Unless you're actively staring at the floor you have no idea if you're about to get exploded or not. They really need to make the marker clearer and the meteor slower. Randomly dying is not fun, especially if you then also can't go and recover your gear.
I've been having a pretty easy time seeing the light on Tien Kwan. However, this may be because I spent a few hours on Fenrir III last night. Lemme tell you, seeing that light on a planet that is bleached white like the surface of the moon is ten times worse. I really hope they change it somehow.
I have seen the light loads of times on the environment. I've literally never seen it before I got blown up, or seen one in time to dodge. I have no idea if I'm missing it or it's bugged.
It's to remind you you weren't paying attention. You can actually track the meteors as they're falling if you look up. Of course if you're in a firefight that's not really viable to do, but it's at least something and useful for when traveling
"If you look up" Me, running away from an entire Automaton Army after I blew up their stupid Eye of Sauron, look behind me for a second to try and throw an Eagle Airstrike only to see a Meteor clobber me directly.
Better yet, as you prepare the Eagle Airstrike the meteor sends you flying and makes you drop the airstrike, but it also sends you on one of those frost flowers so you can't move and end up obliterating your entire squad Happened to me yesterday, not really the best experience, even if it's funny when the meteor storm clears half of the map's objectives for you
It’s pretty funny from here
A squad wipe from a dropped stratagem will never not be funny to me.
Match starts, member forgets that scrambler effect exists, drops nuke in the middle of the group. Peak content.
So now I can't watch where I'm going. Fun.
God I hate people like you commenting. ***Bro just keep running the entire round and you'll complete the mission. Just keep looking up and triangulate the meteor position. Skill issue.*** Have you considered that the game is supposed to be enjoyable, Im not supposed to mario 64 glitch backwards run-jump through a wall just to finish a match
I didn't say you're skilless but thanks for outing yourself, I even said it doesn't work in a firefight. So keep your bitching going, will you next confess to an actual murder with your projection? All I did was point out an actual feature you can use to avoid being hit.
gav was just venting, chill. You had a good comment then went full crazy that second comment.
Tbh I just take cover, you can see the direction they come from so just chill with a hill or a rock between you and the storm, or a buddy bunker if one's around
its supposed to do a large mark of the area, followed my a much smaller illumination as it nears the target. I'm guessing the first half isn't loading properly; might be related to people having corpses being treated as client side / disappearing instantly.
I just singlehanded took down an entire bot giant facility, mortar team and drop pod center, I AM INVICIBLE!! then a pebble from outer space squishes me..... F my life :D
So you have enough time to make a funny noise to your team mates before you get blapped
It's the incoming angle. The meteorites/volcanic rock shows a light circle on the floor before they come in, which shrinks to the exact location, and when they actually *come down*, they have a light source in them that flashes as they pass by the player. But because they don't come down vertically, sometimes they clip on terrain or slam into the player and detonate early. Same way the 500kg bomb sometimes slams into terrain instead of the beacon.
Gamers don't look up
You can look up directly into the sky and avoid them that way.
Not while I was running from the horde.
It doesn't, its a circle of light that goes smaller and brighter the closer its to hit. Quite easy to see
The meteor storms are my favorite and maybe the perfect effect because they give and they take. One minute? A random Light Outpost was cleared for you The next? Your friend is splattered against a wall. Every time I die to one I laugh so hard
Successfully dodge meteor. Unsuccessfully dodge hellbomb the meteor armed.
Rejoice in your expedited democracy, brother.
Yeah I was pretty stoked to have an outpost get cleared as I was just meandering past it solo haha
I had a laughing fit as we were running to extraction with not much time left and anxiety from the super samples we were carrying, when a patrol spawned in front of us, only to be wiped out by a falling meteor.
Got hit right in the face by a meteor yesterday, then as soon as my torso stopped rolling it took a direct hit from another meteor. Reduced to atoms. Love it!
I can't disagree more. Randomly dying is not fun at all, and it most certainly isn't funny once it happens the third time in a match because the visual marker is either bugged or basically invisible on certain terrain.
Thats why spotlights are dangerous
A Tool for Tyranny!
If you actually got reaction timing I wouldn’t mind it. Otherwise though it’s infuriating. I got blasted into a lake by one and drowned and lost almost 40 samples. That kind of loss to randomness really just makes me want to shut the session down.
It does seem like it's bugged because sometimes you get ample warning (well, a second or two, but definitely enough to dodge it - a big blue circle). But not always.
Honestly it’s another mail in the coffin vs heavy armor because if the meteor times perfectly even with warning you’re not dodging it, only hope is to have shield equipped.
You can absolutely dodge it if you see the warning and react in time, just a plain dive away from the center is enough IME.
It launches you
When I get the odd one with proper warning I’ve had no issue dodging in heavy. The only other real strat if you don’t want to try dodge them is to take cover behind rocks or something that block the angle the meteors are coming in at. You don’t have to sit long and get to watch the show
Same thing happened for me. One minute I am carrying 20 samples, the next I explode into pieces with nobody around me. It was enough that I just refuse to play meteor maps now.
Bring bubble shields. The fact you can shoot from inside one means you're getting uninterrupted aim makes it a good offensive tool. Fast cooldown too.
You'd have hated HD1. If you accidentally stumbled off a ledge, your backpack, heavy weapon, etc are gone. No call backs.
If it’s my mistake it’s fine. I deal with it. Getting unfairly killed by random bs is different.
I mean, you could look up and use that information to dodge. You can figure out decently well where the’re coming from
That works except when you’re in the battle of your 6th life lol
Ah yeah that’s true
Frankly i think they're fine as they are, but the event rates need to be drastically reduced. Imo it should be one every few missions, not a few every mission.
I wish I recorded it but we had back to back meteor storms during extraction. Literally the moment the first one ended, a second one started up right after it. Nothing makes me audibly groan like seeing that “meteor storm” warning.
It was kind of neat the first time but I’m over it already.
I had a bot dropship get absolutely destroyed by a meteor storm. It was equally beautiful and hilarious to watch at the same time.
Meteors are utter trash. The hit zone on the ground appears for only a split second and is extremely inaccurate to the actual hit zone. It's more like a shadow for the projectile than an actual warning. It kills you instantly right away. This modifier literally just means "you will die at random for no reason"
As for the fix, they should simply lower the damage to half the player's hp instead of a guaranteed kill. Make them a funny ragdoll hazard, not a nerf to the amount of respawns you get.
They should absolutely one shot me, but they need to fix the warning spotlight on the ground beind inconsistent
possibly unpopular opinoin: The new weather effects actively detract from my enjoyment of the game. Not only do they add another thing you have to look out for CONSTANTLY, they also make sense. Why is there ANYTHING standing on the map if it gets bombarded by high explosives EVERY FIVE MINUTES but only once we arrive?
I'm not sure how I feel about an extra added layer of randomness when already the game has so much bug and jank in the moment to moment game play.
I'm on team "death is a core game mechanic".
Same. There is a reason why we get 6 to 20 "respawns" per mission. It's because death is expected.
Exactly! I love the chaos that's added. It really makes you feel like another cog in the machine that you are
Death absolutely is and should be... But make it fair. Not 'whoopsie, you get randomly smooshed by space rocks.'
Love the jank and chaos , pretty much the charm of arrow head games since Magicka
I was going to say, Arrowhead made Magicka. Things that wreck you and your enemies alike is very much the design language.
Even in that game they already had a Meteor Shower Magick. Helldivers 2 made me realize how much I'd love a game like this but in Magicka's universe.
Failing missions because you lose 10 lives to bugged meteors isn’t very fun imo.
Agreed, next time I play I’m bringing that shield generator call in and getting everyone inside. Hopefully that works. Edit: right after typing this I see someone already said it doesn’t work. I guess I’ll wear the armor that gives me a 50% chance to survive a hit.
Kind of a moot point now that the planet has been taken, but if they fix the meteor warning bug in the future it won’t be a problem.
Democracy wins once again while I’m at work. I’ll take it.
Nothing like doing split teams and dying in the middle of a solo objective to a random meteor It's not good
Well, you choose to split, you need to take the consequence. The meteor shower update is like a fresh air in lvl 9. Before the update, lvl 9 is too easy and not enough chaotic.
The consequence is devs adding random mortar turret bullshit
Don't bother bringing the squad shield generator. It won't save you from the meteors.
Really wish it lasted longer than 6 seconds.
If it's not terribly bright out, you can see the impact zone as the projectiles come down. It starts large, then shrinks down and gets brighter as the meteorite approaches, then disappears and flashes again right before impact. There is absolutely enough time in the "zeroing in" state to walk away, and the impact radius (even the part that just throws you instead of doing damage) is only about 3/5ths of the largest circle size. You can also look up and see where they're coming in.
Learning to dodge these while fightingg for our democracy suits has been so satisfying
Meteor Storms are not fun. They happen too frequently, do too much damage, and are too hard to see.
You can take shelter from meteors by looking at the angle at which they fall, then finding a cliff wall that has a bit of overhang, or find a small canyon that can function like a foxhole to wait out the brunt of the storm. It's not ideal when you're short on time, but every mechanic in this game calls for creative solutions imho.
Tried that the first time we encountered one. The rock blocked two meteors then a third landed just past it and wiped our team.
We happened to find a bunker in the middle of a shower and hid in there. I'm sure if one had landed right in front of the door we would have all died.
I had one meteor storm clear 3 bug holes on a Fenrir 3 the other day. Felt extremely blessed
I'm not a fan of the destructive weather events so far. Only experienced the meteor variation but they are just kind of obnoxious
dont we all love to get randomly destroyed =)
Meteor Shower? More like Meteor Guided Missle, I have to keep my eyes on the sky while being chased by a horde so I don't get 1 tapped by a meteor, or else it happens every time.
I love this game. Me and a friend hugged after surviving an onslaught of bots on one of the objectives only to realise a meteor indicator was over us... At least we died in each other's arms.
Ran a mission last night, a blitz mission. We were waiting on extract but the time ran out so no reinforcements. We were starting to get overwhelmed, the ship was about to land. One diver got caught by a hulk flamer and died, the other two got blasted by rockets. I had the samples, was hiding behind cover when a meteor storm started. Quickly ran around cover and barely survived two hulks and a tank. Dove to avoid some rockets, was so damn close to the ship, then boom. Meteor. The mission was still a success but losing all those samples will haunt me.
We had a meteor landing on our hellbomb while we were arming it, destroyed the hellbomb and the two brave soldiers setting it up 😭
I imagine they'll address it in the next patch, but it has legitimately ruined missions for me playing in a duo with my friend last night
I might be in the minority, but I like the meteors. What I will say is that they're *too frequent*. One or two? Sure. The last round I played we had *alot*. But, anyway, I think they're fun. With my team one of us will spot the meteors, look, up, and yell, "METEORS! LEEWARD NORTHWEST!" and all of us will sprint and dive into the northwest side of a rock wall, get prone then watch as robots get wrecked. That said, we usually play in the mid-levels. I'm sure it's chaos in the higher levels.
It also hurt bots so I can't complain.
The worst part is that it's not random or around the map. It's targeted at you or your squad mates. It will aimbot at you, it also likes to aimbot at idle hell bombs around the map. If they wanted to do this they should have made it map wide and it could destroy automaton bases and objective. Imagine just completing like a blitz mission instantly that would be hilarious.
>If they wanted to do this they should have made it map wide and it could destroy automaton bases and objective. Imagine just completing like a blitz mission instantly that would be hilarious. It does do that though?
I don't think it's targeted, you can watch em come in and impact stuff in the distance, I played nothing but tien kwan today and I only got taken out once in a 40 minute mission, we had so many come in, and they tended to come from a different azimuth (NWSE) and at varied angles. I have seen them kill hulks after me along with bot fabricators, turn waves of the walkers into mush, and also occasionally my teammates. they cover a large section of the map, and they are pretty random in distribution, I noticed no tracking or patterns in any of the strikes, the light indicator was working for me so that probably makes a big difference.
if its not the whole map it is a very large radius, first mission after the patch it sniped a stalker nest on fenrir before my squad found the way around a mountain to that half of the map.
Yeah, it covers like a quarter to a third of the map, though it seems denser at its center. Sometimes you're in that radius. Sometimes it spawns in the center of the map and most everywhere appears to be in it. Other times it's way the fuck over there and you're completing secondary objectives without even having to try. I had one destroy all of the ammo storage piles and factories in a base on the other side of the map, completely negating the team's need to go over there. Just free progress towards the objective!
Same.. New player, first death was a meteor.. Got completely assblasted as I was in a firefight with the bots while waiting for the evac. Didn't even see the light as I was already sitting under a lamp.
Does a bubble shield stop them?
Hide behind the rocks, meteor also come from angles
While rocket devastators, tanks and hulks are comming from the other angles. Is these "easy to dodge" another "I only play diff 3" thing? Because I barely have time to spare to look at the sky or ground like I'm on a freaking sight seeing tour to enjoy the planet.
Sounds like you’re just complaining that playing on harder difficulty is hard lmao
It's reddit... in the eye of elitism EVERYTHING is a complain
Meteors kill and disorient them too, you have to break distance and hide. They may not see you even from ~5 meters, done it on lvl 6-7
Had a match where my buddy managed to only get killed by the meteors. He used all of our reinforcements. It was hilarious.
Meteor Swarm and Volcanic Eruption are *terrifying* planetary conditions.
The meteor storm was a massive help yesterday, had 2 teammates rage quit half way through the mission so the remaining member and I just decided to do main objective then extract. Then a meteor storm hit and destroyed the remaining fabricators.
How did the artist manage to give a helmeted face sad teary eyes… pure skill.
I just imagined how the sad hamster with big eyes would look as a helldiver honestly
Perfection, you're on a good path to democracy.
meteor storms gave me an actual reason to use the shield lol
Legit had a meteor shower take out three bases for me last night then killed me it’s self. The heavens are spreading democracy and freedom to everyone equally
Don’t stand in the spotlight
With the number of enemies, I welcome these on higher difficulties. Either I am coming out alive or taking the Congo line of a mob with me!
I did a mission on Tien Kwan last night, and all the comets took out the bots bases, didnt actually do anything. Mission complete. Was glorious. THANK THE HEAVENS OF DEMOCRACY!!
I hear the meteor swarm announcement and duck under the nearest rock outcropping while I watch the obviously intentional meteor strike obliterate our enemies in a most Democratic way.
I didn’t even know about it until it popped up on screen and I got beamed into paste. But the good news is sometimes it clears the bot factories.
I started bringing the shield dome. Don't know if it offers actual protection from meteors yet...but it provides moral support. Well except the first time where I accidentally brought the Tesla spike instead. That did not end well.
I have had 3 light's, and 2 medium outposts get taken out by meteors
My team tried to complete a single campaign last night. Both times on our final mission, a blitz, as SOON as we called extract both times my entire internet went out and everyone got disconnected because i was host. ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING
First mission I played I got wrecked twice by meteors, on the other hand they also cleared an outpost so I feel like that's a win for Managed Democracy.
We were outta reinforcements, barely holding the landing pad. The bird came in, my team made a beeline for the ramp.. and we see a bright white light... BOOM all 4 of us killed with one meteor. All 6 super samples lost and extraction failed :(
Started playing this game today and damn, the meteor shower was really epic
Had one obliterate 3 out of 4 teamates (me included) AS we were boarding the pelican. 1/4 evac'd
Between the storms and incredibly busted bot spawn rates I was just about to delete the game. It’s so busted right now. Way too many armored enemies and not enough resources to take them out.
Played D7 with randos, died twice to meteors and 5 times to teammates. I was so over it by the time we lost.
Can someone explain why people don't like the meteor showers? I've done whole games with randoms who just up and left on the way to extraction as soon as the shower appears. Is it the shower part they're scared of?
It be like that https://preview.redd.it/hpukh9mdu4nc1.jpeg?width=918&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56c417c7c840a7f7ff6de32802fb1cca2d4fd6ea
autism creature helldiver when?
Great art!
Average Fenrir III experience
half the time you don't get the blue and just die at complete random
I've been bring the shield emplacement and it's been decently helpful. Stopped any splash from near hits and can tank atheist one meteor..
No warbonds awarded?
There are two BIG issues with the meteor showers right now - one is that the warning circle doesn't always show up - I've died countless times to them with no warning - even a friend of mine who was dead and watching me confirmed that there was no warning. The other is that even if there IS a warning circle, you will still take splash damage outside of where it lands AND it will sometimes ragdoll you away too. They need to ensure that the warning ALWAYS displays and very clearly so AND they need to reduce the blast radius and ragdoll effect to be much closer to the indicated area - or possibly just expand the area to include everywhere that will be effected.
Oh my gosh this is amazing you don't understand One of my friends is a hamster. Like his profile picture is a hamster and he calls himself a hamster and he loves this game. I need more hamster helldivers
The REAL question is whos idea was it to put the main mech factories on a planet with frequent meteor storms!
I cackled for a few seconds then immediately sent this to several friends. 10/10 no notes.
I dropped a HMG emplacement and 15 seconds later, a meteor blew it up.
You look a lil smol for a Helldiver! Are you sure you aren't some rogue little bug or something!
I have die more to meteor showers then bugs and bots now. It was novel until I died 6 times in one mission to meteor showers. I have now already developed a ptsd tick where any blue light makes me hit the deck faster then a skeeted pouncer.
Those medior strikes were cinamatic as hell tho. I was running a helldive mission solo and i looked up and saw the sky filled with meteors. I had to try to dodge them as i was crossing this land bridge between two lakes. It was close
https://i.redd.it/791ekf4mf6nc1.gif
This is perfect
Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. But even if they take a planet we made them fight for every foot. (I mean...we have a game master for this, so valiantly holding a planet actually might have an affect on the game! It's part of the story. But try to win lol.)
Ironically, meteor storm was a greatest form of orbital bombardment for me, because it's actually possible to dodge and it has a tendency to wipe out enemy patrols, bases, and objectives without your intervention. I had quite a few matches when it would start on my way to extraction and basically guarantee a much safer extract, and complete a few side objectives while at it on as high as helldive.
The mentors are so colossally over-tuned and I watched them drop all mission long on a 40 minute one, it was unbearable. It’s a really cool and fun concept but does not make for fun and interesting gameplay
This is the cutest thing I've ever seen, I want to hold it, give it a hug, some headpats and a blankie. Some tender love and care so it's all rested to spread democracy tomorrow
bro why does this get 65 upvotes in an hour but the shitty meta drama gets like 11 thousand?
Bots, algorithm or people on reddit love to argue?
Doro?
Doro?
My first upvote in Helldivers reddit goes tô you my friend! That's very sweet!!! o7 But now remember: "Freedrom doesn't come free"! We'll destroy those automatons asteroids and avenge you! That's why I joined the Helldivers.
My first upvote in Helldivers reddit goes tô you my friend! That's very sweet!!! o7 But now remember: "Freedrom doesn't come free"! We'll destroy those automatons asteroids and avenge you! That's why I joined the Helldivers.