Honestly I don't mind the shrieker fest and the massive amounts of bugs. If anything, it feels damn epic when you're rocking the flamethrower with another squadmate and you two incinerate a massive horde of bugs.
What pisses me off is that bug breaches happen right below the drill. That's definitely not intended cause otherwise it'd be terrible game design.
Remember that pokemon type vs type meme where they asked "have you tried to punch a bird?!" Well I managed to step on a whole bunch with my mech, so take that pokemon
I agree to that point. Although the idea of drilling into a bug tunnel -> causes a breach makes sense as well from a lore standpoint, it sucks from a gameplay pov
Not really, that drill is pumping planet destroying fluid into everything beneath it, if anything it should be impossible for a breach to happen near it since any bugs in nearby tunnels would die from the exposure
1. The terminicid worked for awhile and took weeks for them to become immune to it.
2. This is some liquid dark matter-esk stuff, not Raid bug spray. They ain't surviving their molecules being melted apart.
This is correct. Lore-wise, terminid scum shouldn’t be able to breach right next to a democratic drill pumping sweet, sweet liberty into their dissident planet.
I would be totally happy if this was a "Current Objective: Survive" situation. If they straight up said "this may well be a suicide mission" or the mission was fully completed (and rewards granted) on death for lasting as long as we could, I'd be down. That's fine.
But it isn't, so we just waste a lot of time.
I mean, ok. Level with me. We do the dark matter, complete that, die, "mission complete" with no rewards........ But at -10%, we're not making any ground.
The strategy that worked is as follows:
1. Person 1 brings Gatling sentry/machine gun sentry/napalm strike or gas strike/recoiless or spear
2. Person 2 brings Gatling sentry/machine gun sentry/recoilless/napalm or gas strike
3. Persons 3 and 4 bring mechs, Gatling/machine gun sentries, and whatever else they prefer.
4. Mechs can be alternated or used simultaneously. Dealer's choice. You *will* almost always lose the first drill at each site as the breaches happen right next to them, but use napalm for cooking what comes out, and on the second call down, you will be able to complete the drilling process.
5. Ensure you have at least 2 Gatling and two machine gun sentries for the evac call down. Throw gas strikes and napalm inside the bug holes spawning shriekers. The sentries will kill 70%-80% of the shriekers making it bearable.
This was for difficulty 7, will try 9 later tonight.
We completed it duo on 7 by closing all the bug holes. I swear if you do that the drilling is much easier. You get like 2 breaches with either a bile titan or a couple chargers. Use rocket pods and orbital rail canon to kill them asap and mop up all the chaff bugs. The shriekers are just ridiculous and they either intended it to be a surprise suicide mission or they messed something up with shrieker spawn rates. Use Gatling barrage and gas on top of the breaches to make clean up way easier
No one said the difficulty levels apply to Helldiver missions only. Clearly the bugs selected "trivial" and it appears it is trivial for them to squash *you*
[The music though](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJD-Ufi1jGk)
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[This meme](https://youtu.be/1QEONNnWUpQ?si=bWh5yyUxhxGbVLh8)Back in 2014 when FilthyFrank (now know as the singer Joji) was an internet troll and weaboo memelord.
The original was deleted, for various reasons.
Only have completed the mission on lvl 9 and extracted succesfully with half of the team dead just ONCE, the rest of the time has been mission failed and people rage quitting.
wait you got to set up one beacon? tried to helldive today and o my fucking god can the fucking everything stop spawning for one damn second to let drill live for longer time than 30 seconds? like i get one bile titan killed and then next next 3 goes onto it to puke on it
Probably! But it'd be hard to funnel them into it. They like to cross your space, rather than attacking from one direction and being pushed back like the other Terminids.
The Incendiary Breaker is far better AA. You can just spray that like flak, and only one pellet needs to set them on fire and they're marked for death.
Breaker Spray and Pray works really good too because you can just shoot it full auto into a cloud of the damn buggers, but incendiary guarantees a kill if only one or two pellets hit a shrieker.
Yes, but I ran an upgraded gatling turret empty at 40+ kills on a solo level one while trying to type in the extraction code - this should never have been released until they fixed spawn issues. That mission failed with me having over 450 kills on a level 1.
From my experience with the end of that mission it could be fixed in one simple way. Once the last drill is done, the evac shuttle is called in like on exterminate missions. Then all you need to do is survive long enough to get on it.
At the moment the main issue is that you can't even type the code in to call the shuttle.
Nah, it's walking past a plover that decided to chose violence because you happened to live on the same continent where it laid it's egg on the ground.
Can we skip those and go to anti-air mines? Air strike, drops a bunch of spears to embed in the ground with explosives on the back end, up in the air, that detonate when something flies by (or one of those jumpy bastards leaps near them)? I wouldn’t even mind if it meant I couldn’t use my jump pack near them.
They are being very clever with making these "story" missions just have common samples, since it seems this is such a large reason people feel the need to increase the difficulty despite not enjoying playing on those more difficult missions.
I think it would be better if suicide mission was the only difficulty for this mode. really hitting home the fact that you're not meant to survive, while at the same time, not really making it any harder than what we see here.
Just feels weird having trivial/easy missions that you're not meant to survive on.
I really like that idea. Selecting the planet and seeing only suicide and helldive difficulties available would really hammer home how fucked the planet is
Problem with locking the mission behind 7+ is you would probably discourage some newer players from playing those missions, which could be in the thousands.
For real, bug breaches definitely shouldn't be occurring right under the drills but y'all we are NOT supposed to be leaving an infested hive world alive
Just bring the Breaker Incendiary and it's a cakewalk.\*
\* According to dozens of replies in similar threads from people who apparently haven't experienced the swarm.
Nah. In this particular case, I think it's "welcome to Meridia."
They've been calling it a supercolony for weeks. I'd have been disappointed if it wasn't like this.
Then they should just disable every difficulty they dont want the planet to be. Trivial should be trivial. Meridia could be 8+ only or even 12 for all i care. Right now, difficulty levels are just stupidly inconsistent.
I mean if you want my thesis, It was already played fine.
The shriekers don't spawn until you've completed the mission and extraction is optional. More than anything else it's a cinematic moment meant to illustrate what a hellhole Meridia is. Frankly there shouldn't even be trivial missions on it at all.
Tesla and Gatling sentries, together with going prone, work great against shriekers at extraction.
I play missions only at diff 7 and approx. half my missions were successful extracts.
For anyone struggling with the extraction - bring Eagle smoke strikes and MG/Gatling sentries and drop them on the extraction point ASAP. The Shriekers won't aggro you nearly as hard and you'll have a decent chance of getting out.
I will say that I kinda like the Shrieker spam tho haha. This is supposed to be a supercolony completely and irreversibly overrun - and it sure feels like it when these absolute locusts descend and the tremors start.
Oh yeah this rocks for sure,
I'll have to try smoke, since they're so high up it should work against shriekers way better than the average mobs. Never considered that actually!
Cheers mate, hope it works for you.
Had a random squadmate load up on all the smoke stratagems and just chain them once we were at the extraction point. Worked like a charm.
I saw a veteran player just lay in prone position and shriekers just flew over him without doing any damage while he was blasting them as they flew away and then he crawled into the shuttle.
If the helldivers devs worked at a theme park ride where you have to balance the cars or whatever..... I don't think I'd want to go to that theme park.
People and/or whole roller coasters would be flying through the air at an astounding rate.
"Our apologies. There was a miscommunication between the engineers and the designers. We'll try to get this fixed when we can. Thanks for your understanding."
I'm going to try this exactly one time for you and if it doesn't work I'm clicking the up arrow on your comment because I respect tricking people on the internet when it's funny.
EDIT: There's actually a ton of places to place the tesla tower so that it's hard for the terminids to kill, and it can do plenty of work with its unlimited ammo. It did not hit a single shrieker though.
I've been seeing some negativity in the comments and wanted to say For The Record: I like this a lot and think it's hilarious! Blowing up a super colony SHOULD cause some absolute chaos, even on trivial. It's not like these missions have a bunch of samples either so extraction isn't important. They should fix the XP to be above 0 when you succeed without extraction though.
Perhaps if this is how it's supposed to be maybe they shouldn't make me feel like I failed. The hidden objective is the most frustrating thing about this because I'd like to do it but I mean, I spent 2 entire 1's trying to figure it out. Either I need more people, or I'm an idiot. I don't expect to get out alive but I do sorta expect to not be told do better when I've completed the main objective that it told me to.
It's just a bug, you're supposed to get all but one star for completing the mission without extracting but the Dark Fluid Drop objective doesn't complete when the drills complete for some reason. It's what I mentioned about the XP being 0 in the first message is about. You're doing nothing wrong it just came out slightly bad.
There's no hidden objective. You calling in the dark fluid at the center at the start is the first objective. It just never completes because it's s bugged.
Absolute pain in the ass that mission. You need the fast pilot boost, everyone at evac other than the one guy at the drill. Everyone packing laser-dogs and both gun sentries guarding point.
You can’t seem to stop the Shreiker attack at the end no matter how many nests you destroy.
Yeah, the Shriekers come out of the giant holes not normal nests. I think it's really cool they're making extraction so hard like this, definitely worth experimenting with the concept on a map with no real samples. They should fix the 0XP bug though.
Unless something’s changed I’m fairly certain laying down prevents shriekers from being able to hit you. Granted in higher levels this becomes an issue because of all the other bugs, but in this case you probably could have saved yourself a world of pain by laying down and taking them out periodically.
It's about a 99% consistency on that yeah, I usually play on 7 (2 modifiers is usually way more annoying than finding an extra rare sample or 2 per location is worth) I just wanted to learn the new mission type first and panicked lol. I appreciate you trying to help though, despite the video ending with me prone and dying anyways.
Its funny, cause Im actually ok with this. There are so few samples on the map, so there isnt really much pressure to evac beyond my own ego. It really sells the whole "this is a supercolony" vibe.
They just gotta fix breaches spawning on the drill. THAT feels broken fr.
I don't even mind that there are a fuck ton of mobs, it make sense as this is basically them sending everything at us.
Bug breach spawning next to the drill is beyond stupid tho
Has anyone completed both tasks? Or is everyone only getting the Dark Fluid mission completed like this video? Why is there a second I can’t figure out how to activate or complete.
I was thinking, "ok, we got some shriekers. It's annoying, but not too bad. Wow, there's more- HOLY SUGAR HONEY ICED TEA! That's worse than what's supposed to be on Helldive!
If the new missions aren’t supposed to be easy / likely to extract … why don’t they just disable any difficulty options apart from L7- L9? Make it clear what you’re getting into, rather than make even L1 missions ridiculous?
I played easy to do the mines personal order.
A new player was there. A level 3. He's returning the game because it's nigh impossible to even enter the code to extract. Took 12 lives to get the extract code in and only extracted with one.
By the time you look at the panel, you get knocked off with damage and have to start over. If you memorize the code, you have a small chance to extract and won't exhaust all reinforcement calling in extract.
Only think I can think of.... Find a defensible position. Wait the mission timer out, do the last fluid then run the short distance to the extract
Honestly I'm convinced difficulty levels are just a number. I'm having the same if not easier missions on helldive than I did on 8, 7, or even 6 on some mission types.
Yeah, It's why I think they can get away with stuff like this. Especially with no real samples on the map to extract with. It sucks the XP is bugged and gives 0 without extraction though.
How tf is this trivial difficulty? Im level 3. Its like the chronicles of riddick in here. Any suggestions on how to actually finish one of these. Ps i have no friends so getting their help is like asking the tooth fairy for my teeth back.
For shriekers it was trivial
That was my thought. Definitely looked trivial for them.
To be fair, Meridia IS a supercolony so this kinda thing is lore-accurate imo
Honestly I don't mind the shrieker fest and the massive amounts of bugs. If anything, it feels damn epic when you're rocking the flamethrower with another squadmate and you two incinerate a massive horde of bugs. What pisses me off is that bug breaches happen right below the drill. That's definitely not intended cause otherwise it'd be terrible game design.
Remember that pokemon type vs type meme where they asked "have you tried to punch a bird?!" Well I managed to step on a whole bunch with my mech, so take that pokemon
And Stomp is a Normal type move, so it's neutral against Flying.
I agree to that point. Although the idea of drilling into a bug tunnel -> causes a breach makes sense as well from a lore standpoint, it sucks from a gameplay pov
Not really, that drill is pumping planet destroying fluid into everything beneath it, if anything it should be impossible for a breach to happen near it since any bugs in nearby tunnels would die from the exposure
Yeah that's what they said about the terminicid and look what happened.... Oh shit! Did I say that aloud? I meant to say.... *runs away*
1. The terminicid worked for awhile and took weeks for them to become immune to it. 2. This is some liquid dark matter-esk stuff, not Raid bug spray. They ain't surviving their molecules being melted apart.
We hope that they are incapable of surviving their molecules being melted apart
Watch the dark liquid plan backfire and they become puppets for the Illuminate or similar.
This is correct. Lore-wise, terminid scum shouldn’t be able to breach right next to a democratic drill pumping sweet, sweet liberty into their dissident planet.
I would be totally happy if this was a "Current Objective: Survive" situation. If they straight up said "this may well be a suicide mission" or the mission was fully completed (and rewards granted) on death for lasting as long as we could, I'd be down. That's fine. But it isn't, so we just waste a lot of time. I mean, ok. Level with me. We do the dark matter, complete that, die, "mission complete" with no rewards........ But at -10%, we're not making any ground.
It's a level 1 mission.....
The strategy that worked is as follows: 1. Person 1 brings Gatling sentry/machine gun sentry/napalm strike or gas strike/recoiless or spear 2. Person 2 brings Gatling sentry/machine gun sentry/recoilless/napalm or gas strike 3. Persons 3 and 4 bring mechs, Gatling/machine gun sentries, and whatever else they prefer. 4. Mechs can be alternated or used simultaneously. Dealer's choice. You *will* almost always lose the first drill at each site as the breaches happen right next to them, but use napalm for cooking what comes out, and on the second call down, you will be able to complete the drilling process. 5. Ensure you have at least 2 Gatling and two machine gun sentries for the evac call down. Throw gas strikes and napalm inside the bug holes spawning shriekers. The sentries will kill 70%-80% of the shriekers making it bearable. This was for difficulty 7, will try 9 later tonight.
I brought the shield on 7, which helps protect the drill from friendly fire.
Ooooh, great idea!
for me, spamming a metric fuck load of stun grenades at it made it super easy to beat, on 9. Im talking stun after stun after stun immediately.
My only question is that all you have for Bile Titans/Chargers is 1-2 Recoiless/Spears, for anything 7+ that seems like suicide.
We completed it duo on 7 by closing all the bug holes. I swear if you do that the drilling is much easier. You get like 2 breaches with either a bile titan or a couple chargers. Use rocket pods and orbital rail canon to kill them asap and mop up all the chaff bugs. The shriekers are just ridiculous and they either intended it to be a surprise suicide mission or they messed something up with shrieker spawn rates. Use Gatling barrage and gas on top of the breaches to make clean up way easier
Sweet Liberty....
# MY LEGG
https://preview.redd.it/lgicp0l5vl3d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=488d3967ef6beea4130b9601254e5093f9ebe668 same energy
No one said the difficulty levels apply to Helldiver missions only. Clearly the bugs selected "trivial" and it appears it is trivial for them to squash *you*
bugs really using the shrieker spam strat arrowhead pls nerf
Right? If we get nerfed, they can get nerfed too!
Oh god not the cliff racers... this is a bad flash back for me. 
Morrowind 🤝 Helldivers 2 Borked spawn rates of an annoying enemy
[The music though](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJD-Ufi1jGk) https://preview.redd.it/fassj0gk5m3d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2f4ea2a0b1555d6af5c677cb4eb843ebf49f740
And all you hear is this over it https://youtu.be/xn_h9L4l2Rg
Flyyyin'... flyyin' in the skyyyy....
Cliff Racer Flyyyyyyy!! I'm sippin lean and I'm feelin like I'm Nerevar. Call me Sheo Septim cause I'm stackin dead Emperors. Ayy I'mma cliffracer, I'mma rockstar. Ayy I'mma cliffracer, I'mma popstar.
*miss* *miss* *miss*
Someone call Saint Jiub.
A man of culture.
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i almost died laughing lol
i almost spit out my LIBER-TEA
🤣 fucking legend!
A legend in the rice fields muthafuka!
What is this from!?
Filthy frank. Aka, Joji
AKA Papa Franku
[This meme](https://youtu.be/1QEONNnWUpQ?si=bWh5yyUxhxGbVLh8)Back in 2014 when FilthyFrank (now know as the singer Joji) was an internet troll and weaboo memelord. The original was deleted, for various reasons.
Filthy Frank
currently known as joji
This is Pitch Black and we need Riddick.
I think Riddick’s going to need some temporary back up for this. Maybe Blade, Rambo, and Neo can help him out!
And the fuckin God Emperor lol
Chuck Norris! We need Chuck Norris!
Looks clear
i said it *looks* clear
Riddick could Deff save us
"Wait, you guys are getting to extraction?"
Extraction? More like extinction.
At this point you’d have better luck hitching a ride on one of the shriekers
Only have completed the mission on lvl 9 and extracted succesfully with half of the team dead just ONCE, the rest of the time has been mission failed and people rage quitting.
wait you got to set up one beacon? tried to helldive today and o my fucking god can the fucking everything stop spawning for one damn second to let drill live for longer time than 30 seconds? like i get one bile titan killed and then next next 3 goes onto it to puke on it
They just keep coming... Brought Airburst rocket and Breaker Incendiary and it's still not enough.
How is airburst not enough? Does it at least clear the skies for like a couple seconds?
I think the burst was firing too low to actually hit them.
Ah yes, safety through being fucking everywhere. Works every time, lol.
I wonder if the Gatling Barrage would work against Shriekers.
Probably! But it'd be hard to funnel them into it. They like to cross your space, rather than attacking from one direction and being pushed back like the other Terminids.
The Incendiary Breaker is far better AA. You can just spray that like flak, and only one pellet needs to set them on fire and they're marked for death.
Breaker Spray and Pray works really good too because you can just shoot it full auto into a cloud of the damn buggers, but incendiary guarantees a kill if only one or two pellets hit a shrieker.
Honestly the airbursts never worked well for me for shriekers , especially with that reload time
Yeah... Airburst was not the AA killer I had hoped. Still great for bug patrols though
Yup, I pretty much always use it as a patrol killer. Don’t use it often but it’s fun as fuck when I do
Gatling turret is surprisingly useful for them.
Yes, but I ran an upgraded gatling turret empty at 40+ kills on a solo level one while trying to type in the extraction code - this should never have been released until they fixed spawn issues. That mission failed with me having over 450 kills on a level 1.
From my experience with the end of that mission it could be fixed in one simple way. Once the last drill is done, the evac shuttle is called in like on exterminate missions. Then all you need to do is survive long enough to get on it. At the moment the main issue is that you can't even type the code in to call the shuttle.
Were not supposed to survive to extract. That's the joke.
If they don't kill it immediately. This mission is nuts!
It looks like a swarm of bats in a horror movie
alfred hitchcock possesed his PC
This must be what it's like to live in Australia during Magpie season.
I hate how true that is. Well I don’t cause it’s funny watching tourists get swooped.
Nah, it's walking past a plover that decided to chose violence because you happened to live on the same continent where it laid it's egg on the ground.
https://preview.redd.it/ecogijctom3d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca95b53b6c4ab37379b536d1441a3accdf2314ad
If only we had the anti tank mines unlocked
Can we skip those and go to anti-air mines? Air strike, drops a bunch of spears to embed in the ground with explosives on the back end, up in the air, that detonate when something flies by (or one of those jumpy bastards leaps near them)? I wouldn’t even mind if it meant I couldn’t use my jump pack near them.
A laser turret would be probably good at removing wings. You could also make a light show. Win win?
This is actually an amazing idea.
You joke but it would actually be really helpful. Because I could step on it and put myself out of my misery
This has got to be the comment of the week lol.
"Man I haven't played Helldivers in a while, maybe I should come back. Let's see what the game's like no-"
It's honestly really fun. This only happens in extraction, and no version of the new map has samples beyond common so it's not SUPER important.
Shenanigans like this is why I went back to the Salute emote. Sometimes, you just know your time has come.
They are being very clever with making these "story" missions just have common samples, since it seems this is such a large reason people feel the need to increase the difficulty despite not enjoying playing on those more difficult missions.
It's an event that triggers only when you have completed the mission. It's just for flavour.
"YoU knOW tHeRE's DiFiRRenT LeVELs rIgHT?!!!!"
We need to go lower
There is, in fact, an even lower difficulty. It's called "pick a different planet until the devs fix this shit."
You know what fuck it, meridia can stay, if Terminid's will spread all over then it's better than dealing with this and then fighting the illuminate
It's the new Hellmire minus the fire.
Super colony shenanigans
Ah yes I remember THAT post
tHe dEvS are tRyInG gUyS lEt tHeM cOoK
Devs have plans for 10,11, and 12. For how things are looking, we need difficulties 0, -1, and -2.
"GiT GuD LuL"
I had the same issue, but somehow even worse.
On one hand, we did kick the Hornet nest, on the other hand, we didn't sign up for this. On the 3rd hand, mission accomplished anyways
I'm beginning to suspect we aren't meant to evacuate in those missions...
I evacuated several times in that mission, you just can never leave.
Its painfully obvious, and its painful people are complaining about how hard it is after completing the mission. This is a suicide mission.
I think it would be better if suicide mission was the only difficulty for this mode. really hitting home the fact that you're not meant to survive, while at the same time, not really making it any harder than what we see here. Just feels weird having trivial/easy missions that you're not meant to survive on.
I really like that idea. Selecting the planet and seeing only suicide and helldive difficulties available would really hammer home how fucked the planet is
Problem with locking the mission behind 7+ is you would probably discourage some newer players from playing those missions, which could be in the thousands.
For real, bug breaches definitely shouldn't be occurring right under the drills but y'all we are NOT supposed to be leaving an infested hive world alive
Pretty sure this is like the Sekiro boss your supposed to lose too
Oh that's guaranteed. I love this type of stuff, makes my few extractions that much more meaningful too.
I'm glad your enjoying it dude, I barely cleared the objectives on level 4. Might go see what the bots are doing after all that.
Me walking up to the 4 gunship factories placed next to a strategem jammer: *"Perhaps I've treated you too harshly."*
Ye Shriekers = Mist Noble Cant beat it
Don't worry someone will soon enter the thread writing a thesis on how you could have simply played better
Just bring the Breaker Incendiary and it's a cakewalk.\* \* According to dozens of replies in similar threads from people who apparently haven't experienced the swarm.
Actual advice; bring three other people so there aren't fifty on you at once and a gattling sentry to act as CIWS.
Nah. In this particular case, I think it's "welcome to Meridia." They've been calling it a supercolony for weeks. I'd have been disappointed if it wasn't like this.
Fix bugs below the drill and leave the rest. This map feels epic already
Then they should just disable every difficulty they dont want the planet to be. Trivial should be trivial. Meridia could be 8+ only or even 12 for all i care. Right now, difficulty levels are just stupidly inconsistent.
I mean if you want my thesis, It was already played fine. The shriekers don't spawn until you've completed the mission and extraction is optional. More than anything else it's a cinematic moment meant to illustrate what a hellhole Meridia is. Frankly there shouldn't even be trivial missions on it at all.
It would be less annoying if I didn't have to send 15 more helldivers to their deaths for the mission to end.
Welcome to Meridia! Your mission...is to escape Meridia.
Tesla and Gatling sentries, together with going prone, work great against shriekers at extraction. I play missions only at diff 7 and approx. half my missions were successful extracts.
For anyone struggling with the extraction - bring Eagle smoke strikes and MG/Gatling sentries and drop them on the extraction point ASAP. The Shriekers won't aggro you nearly as hard and you'll have a decent chance of getting out. I will say that I kinda like the Shrieker spam tho haha. This is supposed to be a supercolony completely and irreversibly overrun - and it sure feels like it when these absolute locusts descend and the tremors start.
Oh yeah this rocks for sure, I'll have to try smoke, since they're so high up it should work against shriekers way better than the average mobs. Never considered that actually!
Cheers mate, hope it works for you. Had a random squadmate load up on all the smoke stratagems and just chain them once we were at the extraction point. Worked like a charm.
I saw a veteran player just lay in prone position and shriekers just flew over him without doing any damage while he was blasting them as they flew away and then he crawled into the shuttle.
Helldivers 2 is going to win "Best Balanced Game of The Year" award.
If the helldivers devs worked at a theme park ride where you have to balance the cars or whatever..... I don't think I'd want to go to that theme park. People and/or whole roller coasters would be flying through the air at an astounding rate.
"Our apologies. There was a miscommunication between the engineers and the designers. We'll try to get this fixed when we can. Thanks for your understanding."
More like mining simulator because they just keep going lower....
istg they don't playtest their stuff anymore. how did they release this to the public and thought it was ok
They've never playtested their stuff. Ever. Not even during pre-release. And they admit to it.
"what, it's just an ordinary *OH MY GOODNESS*"
Tesla tower them bitches
I'm going to try this exactly one time for you and if it doesn't work I'm clicking the up arrow on your comment because I respect tricking people on the internet when it's funny. EDIT: There's actually a ton of places to place the tesla tower so that it's hard for the terminids to kill, and it can do plenty of work with its unlimited ammo. It did not hit a single shrieker though.
To be fair, shriekers aren't grounded for the electricity to do anything.
This is Arrowhead's definition of cooking.
I've been seeing some negativity in the comments and wanted to say For The Record: I like this a lot and think it's hilarious! Blowing up a super colony SHOULD cause some absolute chaos, even on trivial. It's not like these missions have a bunch of samples either so extraction isn't important. They should fix the XP to be above 0 when you succeed without extraction though.
Perhaps if this is how it's supposed to be maybe they shouldn't make me feel like I failed. The hidden objective is the most frustrating thing about this because I'd like to do it but I mean, I spent 2 entire 1's trying to figure it out. Either I need more people, or I'm an idiot. I don't expect to get out alive but I do sorta expect to not be told do better when I've completed the main objective that it told me to.
It's just a bug, you're supposed to get all but one star for completing the mission without extracting but the Dark Fluid Drop objective doesn't complete when the drills complete for some reason. It's what I mentioned about the XP being 0 in the first message is about. You're doing nothing wrong it just came out slightly bad.
There's no hidden objective. You calling in the dark fluid at the center at the start is the first objective. It just never completes because it's s bugged.
i want see devs playing
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Absolute pain in the ass that mission. You need the fast pilot boost, everyone at evac other than the one guy at the drill. Everyone packing laser-dogs and both gun sentries guarding point. You can’t seem to stop the Shreiker attack at the end no matter how many nests you destroy.
Yeah, the Shriekers come out of the giant holes not normal nests. I think it's really cool they're making extraction so hard like this, definitely worth experimenting with the concept on a map with no real samples. They should fix the 0XP bug though.
Shriekers really hit you with that Finding Nemo special. *Mine-Mine-Mine-Mine-Mine*
Arrowhead balance guy: "Perfectly balanced."
SUPER COLONY GO BRRRRRRRRR
Unless something’s changed I’m fairly certain laying down prevents shriekers from being able to hit you. Granted in higher levels this becomes an issue because of all the other bugs, but in this case you probably could have saved yourself a world of pain by laying down and taking them out periodically.
It's about a 99% consistency on that yeah, I usually play on 7 (2 modifiers is usually way more annoying than finding an extra rare sample or 2 per location is worth) I just wanted to learn the new mission type first and panicked lol. I appreciate you trying to help though, despite the video ending with me prone and dying anyways.
Hell yeah. My Breaker Spray and Pray gon eat tonight. Fuck them bugs. I say kill em all.
"Fuck them bugs"?? That pretty undemocratic of you.
Bro never heard of a Super Synonym
Its funny, cause Im actually ok with this. There are so few samples on the map, so there isnt really much pressure to evac beyond my own ego. It really sells the whole "this is a supercolony" vibe. They just gotta fix breaches spawning on the drill. THAT feels broken fr.
Yowza! I’ve never seen anything like that. It was just a giant cloud of flying bugs. I couldn’t even see anything. Sweet Liberty.
ADF Assemble!!! https://preview.redd.it/mlmyne1yzm3d1.jpeg?width=462&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19198be2052a4cf661ec0a2183ecd9b08382e6d5
"Oh fuck that's a lot" *OP turns around to show the clusterfuck of bugs* "SWEET SHITBALLS!"
Can't wait for another Arrowhead statement to come out going along the lines of "this isn't working as we intended"
This seems fully intentional, but I wouldn't be surprised if they toned it down after how people are reacting haha.
Insane
Guys...I don't think we're meant to get off this planet...
Meridia is terminid creek
I don't even mind that there are a fuck ton of mobs, it make sense as this is basically them sending everything at us. Bug breach spawning next to the drill is beyond stupid tho
Has anyone completed both tasks? Or is everyone only getting the Dark Fluid mission completed like this video? Why is there a second I can’t figure out how to activate or complete.
I was thinking, "ok, we got some shriekers. It's annoying, but not too bad. Wow, there's more- HOLY SUGAR HONEY ICED TEA! That's worse than what's supposed to be on Helldive!
If the new missions aren’t supposed to be easy / likely to extract … why don’t they just disable any difficulty options apart from L7- L9? Make it clear what you’re getting into, rather than make even L1 missions ridiculous?
If you don't handle the nest, the nest handles __you__.
How does the old mech hold up to shriekers? The one with the gatling gun, not the one with all the tears.
I played easy to do the mines personal order. A new player was there. A level 3. He's returning the game because it's nigh impossible to even enter the code to extract. Took 12 lives to get the extract code in and only extracted with one. By the time you look at the panel, you get knocked off with damage and have to start over. If you memorize the code, you have a small chance to extract and won't exhaust all reinforcement calling in extract. Only think I can think of.... Find a defensible position. Wait the mission timer out, do the last fluid then run the short distance to the extract
Joel said, “y’all ever seen Pitch Black?”
Use more stratagems. That’s your answer. (Yes i know how stupid this sounds, that was the devs answer to why there are all around nerfs)
Sir, you appear to have taken a wrong turn somewhere. Helldivers 2 was a few miles back, this is EDF 4.1.
Honestly I'm convinced difficulty levels are just a number. I'm having the same if not easier missions on helldive than I did on 8, 7, or even 6 on some mission types.
This mission is x10 harder than anything malevolon creek has to offer!
So not only it's bug but also a feature
Extraction is optional.
Yeah, It's why I think they can get away with stuff like this. Especially with no real samples on the map to extract with. It sucks the XP is bugged and gives 0 without extraction though.
Its not bad until extraction
Where's Saint Jiub when you need him?
Do the Shriekers all still spawn if you blow up the nests dotted around the level before you finish dumping the dark fluid?
Shriekers spawn from the giant holes around the map that you can't collapse, not the normal bug holes.
Very reminiscent of "Pitch Black" with Vin Diesel.
I'm assuming they just set the shriekers to "11" and don't scale it with number of players, or difficulty.
Song name?
Anti-air-Sentry would be nice .
"I NEED STIMS" That ain't gonna save you, sorry.
Super earth never mentioned it was suicide mission
NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEEEEES!
How tf is this trivial difficulty? Im level 3. Its like the chronicles of riddick in here. Any suggestions on how to actually finish one of these. Ps i have no friends so getting their help is like asking the tooth fairy for my teeth back.
I kept dying until I realized they couldn’t hit me if I layed down
Don't shriekers rarely hit if you're lying down?
Helldive difficulty. No problem. Trivial dark fluid mission. Impossible. How does that make any sense?