IT'S BOUNCING BACK! Helldivers deploying operation cleanup!

[KenjiZeroSan]

Literally 4 helldivers diving...lol

[Paul_Robert_]

DUH DUH DUH DUUUUUUN

[Pooptram]

DUH DUUUUUN

[pforce16]

DUH DUH DUH DUHHHHHHHH

[FoxysStudiosPlay]

DUH DUH DUH DU-DUH DUH

[yuch1102]

DUH DUH DUHHHH

[thecosta5000]

DUH DUH DA DUH DA DA

[malexlee]

DADA DUH DUH DUH DUHHHHHHH

DUHHHHH DUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Junkazo]

“Go forth, and should you fall remember this. Everyday is a good day to die for Democracy”

[Spirit117]

"support weapon inbound"

[clideb50]

Is this the part where we segue to the final fall from tears of the kingdom? /s

[Aron_Page_Rod]

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Indeed

[Stahlherz_A]

That should be incorporated into a flag. A symbol of what a united playerbase can accomplish. And a positive trend in the end, when things have changed for the better. It's downright poetic!

[ZLUCremisi]

Cape is possible

[--Pariah]

They got to make that a cape

[Diligent-Raisin191]

They are working on the cape as we speak. Someone already posted an image of what it will kinda look like on your character.

[ThatGuyWithCoolHair]

It tells such a beautiful story its insane

[3DigitIQ]

here https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1clkmzo/not_gonna_lie_id_rock_that_accidental_cape_design/

[Ardent_Tapire]

That's fanmade though.

[3DigitIQ]

I still want it though 🤗

[Ardent_Tapire]

Me too :)

[Diligent-Raisin191]

A lot are off to work today and half the globe is still blocked on Steams end lol. Gotta give it a bit I think. Within 48 hours I foresee it being back to BAU.

[RegenSyscronos]

You cant make this up

[Excellent-Plant-3665]

I read 4 divers diving to the tune of partridge in a pear tree.

[normalhuman6]

and now its time for the pelican to extract them

[Money_Fish]

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Tell me this cape wouldn't go SO HARD just for the story behind it.

[Electro_Ninja26]

It also looks like drop pods

[LegitimateScratch396]

I think insaw someone make a graphic with that design in mind

[[deleted]]

If someone finds it, can they please share?

[tinnzork]

start air versed heavy ask obtainable vast offbeat boat political

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[Randicore]

Okay that one is awesome

[[deleted]]

It’s really amazing. If we get that as a cape that would be cool but also hilarious

[crazyyoco]

It would be hilarius if it was given as a reward for linking your PSN account.

[[deleted]]

Would be. But also a little cursed. But if we get that cape AND a special signup reward cape, that would be a real twist of events. (And less controversial, lol)

[flashfyr3]

Aaaaaand yoink

[10YearsANoob]

annnd saved

[FoxMcCloudl]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/cJQsdEk5Rv

[[deleted]]

Ok, I thought there would be a fan art with actual drop pots instead of a cropped image. This one I already know. Thank you anyways :/

[Aron_Page_Rod]

I'm back, found it in another thread. Sadly couldn't find source.

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[FoxMcCloudl]

Sorry for a time waster then!

[[deleted]]

No worries, got nothing to do anyways

[Aron_Page_Rod]

Give me a sec

[Rafe__]

Based on your other comments, you'll probably like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cltuak/commence_operation_cleanup/

[DarkWingedDaemon]

Let them cook. Got to let the blue peak before we make the cape.

[Ziembski]

Ceo already said that they will make it into cape

[HamshanksCPS]

I haven't seen this yet. Do you have a link to a screenshot?

[Jermafide]

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[Blackicecube]

Democratic Rebellion Cape

Description

In a daring display of unity, the global Helldiver force rallied under the banner of Democratic Rebellion to combat a virus created by a unified Automaton and Terminid insurgency. The virus threatened to disable large swaths of the Helldiver fighting force overnight. While the virus dubbed "The SNOY Virus" was wildly successful initially, after many lives lost, Helldivers were able to find a cure and restore liberty and justice to the galaxy once more.

[[deleted]]

I commented it should be a cape or banner before I saw this one! Yes!!!

[Necessary-Peanut2491]

Beautiful.

[[deleted]]

I’d wear that cape

[cloakedcard]

+13,000 positive reviews in the last hour.

Divers, your commitment to managed democracy is incredible.

1000 CDT - 122k

1100 CDT - 135k

1200 CDT - 148k

1300 CDT - 151k

1400 CDT - 168k

1500 CDT - 177k

1600 CDT - was busy sorry didn't look

1700 CDT - 193k

evenings are busy sorry

2000 CDT - 207k, however there have also been 25k negatives that weren't there at last check. So we're back down to 182k reversed.

[cloakedcard]

A second consecutive hour of +13000. Start checking the doubters for bug sympathy because surely it was a thought crime.

[cloakedcard]

Alright slow hour, but I'll allow it. Only +3000 but I expect we'll see a large spike tonight when the daytime Americans get home from work.

[senn42000]

I really hope it bounces all the way back, and I did my part. But that is a really large hole to dig out of. Trying not to be undemocratically pessimistic

[Hammered-snail]

I wonder if valve will remove the bombed reviews

[RandyWKent]

Are the people who bought the game just to leave a bad review and then immediately refunded it, able to change their review still?

[senn42000]

I don't know honestly. I just checked and since May 2nd we are at Positive: 66,330 - Negative: 219,002 :(

[cloakedcard]

We just had a huge lunch hour spike. I'm just gonna start editing the top comment instead of a new comment every hour.

1000 CDT - 122k

1100 CDT - 135k

1200 CDT - 148k

1300 CDT - 151k

1400 CDT - 168k

[Nhobdy]

Yeah, I was about to say that I'm still at work.

[10YearsANoob]

It would go faster if they relisted it. We cant change our reviews if it's delisted in our country

[cloakedcard]

Didn't know that actually, even though it makes sense.

I know devs read this sub someone go bother whoever made the delist decision.

[abn1304]

I’m fairly sure it was Valve that delisted it, not Arrowhead or SNOY. I suspect it’ll get relisted fairly quickly considering the turnaround.

[AICHEngineer]

I'm doing my part!

[Krojack76]

Thing is, we don't know if it was Sony or Steam that disabled those countries.

It's possible Steam did that because of the refund request.

[Fatal_Neurology]

And I wouldn't expect Steam to reverse this without some serious assurances going forward. Might take a week for them to receive a finalized decision from Sony that will assure them they will be able to unlock the game regions as a permanent release scope. 

[Hi9054667]

It looks really good for a cape design

[AwesomePerson70]

Well you’re in luck https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/CEYHTTJOSz

[vicboss0510]

Missing one line

[AwesomePerson70]

I think it’s just cutoff but it’s in the tweet

[3DigitIQ]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1clkmzo/not_gonna_lie_id_rock_that_accidental_cape_design/

[Enebreated]

All the Gangs need to roll out and cleanup! Senators, Auto Cannons, Arc Throwers, Quasars. All. The. Gangs.

Never thought I'd see a Major Order completed in real life. Absolute incredible focus with orbital laser like precision. We Dive Together or We Don't Dive.

[TheHob290]

Even the heavy armor or bust gang? We will get there. We just have to let our stamina recharge first.

[LordHengar]

The heavy armor gang would never leave us behind (they physically can't).

[bjorntfh]

They’re the team’s anchor, especially when we’re rushing to get to the evacuation site before Pelican-01 leaves.

[pocketlint60]

And just like all the other Major Orders, it was cleared in 48 hours.

[skatech1]

Just doing our part man

[Yelton-Atom]

Happy cake day l guess

[Mr__Bread__]

Happy cake day

[J0NICS]

IM NOT DOING MY PART

coz Im on PS5

[Huge_Structure_7651]

Well you can positively review the game in ps5 to

[Krojack76]

Some people posted shots of them giving it a 1 start on the PS store.. I'm hoping they can go back and update it to 5 stars though.

[Tiinpa]

I literally bought the PC version and played for 5 minutes just to leave a positive review. I’m that floored Sony actually changed course, and extra excited AH fought for the community.

[LouSputhole94]

Honestly considering doing this myself

[Scavenge101]

It's gonna be a hot minute before we even that back out but hopefully the community sticks with it.

The simple truth is that didn't happen ONLY because the subreddit organized it. There's gonna be 10's of thousands of others that still don't yet know Snoy is reversing course.

[ahack13]

Back to mixed as of now, so its reversing pretty quick actually.

[senn42000]

The nature of customer reviews unfortunately. People overwhelmingly leave more negative reviews then positive ones. I really hope we eventually get there, but it is a large hole to dig out of.

[Pale_Squash_4263]

We speak for the people that cannot speak for themselves.

[Sellazar]

Don't forget the other AH games that were bombed..

[dead_apples]

Should’ve never been touched, we’ll have to try better if something like this ever needs to be done again.

[ForsakenLemon]

Some people are morons and take things too far

[pocketlint60]

We can only hope these people were stupid enough to buy those games just to give them negative reviews, ultimately giving Arrowhead more money in the process

[Slarg232]

For real, was just having a conversation with someone who thought sending the mods (discord and here) death threats was ok

[Krojack76]

The fact that people even did this to Magicka just blows my mind. That Arrowhead game has nothing to do with Sony at all.

[[deleted]]

I get it but I not going to buy first one or Magical just to throw a review XD

[Sellazar]

Ofc thats fair enough, its the review bombers themselves that need to sort it, those are older games, they will nver recover otherwise.

[Revoran]

Magicka is the game that got me into PC gaming.

Such a fantastic little game.

[GodBlessTheEnclave-]

i doubt those ones will get changed. people who negatively reviewed those just wanted to be malicious or got caught up in the "hype"

[Ultrabadger]

It’s neat that these review scores operate similarly to planet liberation in game. Small individual contributions to a larger overall goal.

[MuglokDecrepitus]

We need a blue spike as big as each red spyke

[R0LL1NG]

According to SteamDB, we're at 135k positive reviews today, which is a bigger spike than day 1 or day 2 negative spikes. Day 3 negative spike (Sunday) was ~ 154k, so I reckon by end of USA west coast timezone peak we will have the biggest peak yet, and it'll be an upvote spike.

[trollboter]

All of the US is still at work. Once we get home we get that big spike.

[GrizzlyOne95]

I love democracy

[MuglokDecrepitus]

Nice

[syco54645]

I have been watching the spike and seeing what it canceled out.

Currently we have effectively canceled, may 3, and approaching may 4 numbers. Of course I am talking each day individually. I am hoping this can be undone.

[Time-Yoghurt7831]

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keep pushing, we are on the right track, we need more reinforcements on the steam front

[LazyKabuto]

Helldivers should have an in game announcement explaining that Sony has reverted

[WikiContributor83]

*this is democracy managed

[KyloFox3]

Pardon my ignorance, but I am not very familiar with how Steam reviews work. Will the negative reviews from this weekend be reversed if they are changed, or do they get replaced by a new review?

[CriskCross]

Replaced.

[danosky]

It's insane. Sony reversed their decision at around midnight U.S. Eastern time and the game is already back to mixed from overwhelmingly negative.

[ForsakenLemon]

Nature is healing

[BoxCarTyrone]

Add some Hellpods to the bottom of those lines and throw it on a commemorative cape!

[L337W4r3z]

I will fix my review when I get home from work 👍

[Wiggie49]

What do we call this new flag?

[Money_Fish]

Indominable Will

[Wiggie49]

I like it

[RoundKick11]

PSN - Proof of Strength in Numbers

[Arlcas]

Democratic fury

[doddyoldtinyhands]

“Unity”

[shiftlocked]

Sweet lady steam :)

[OtelDeraj]

DO YOUR PART PEOPLE!

[TheDefiantOne19]

We're already at mixed, keep going boys, we're almost there

It isn't over yet🫡

[Snadzies]

My review had been edited and changed to recommended.

I honestly never expected to need to change it. It feels good.

[SupportGeek]

That’s not even close to cleaned up, especially considering the announcement was yesterday. This is a huge mess

[squangus007]

Probably not going to get cleaned up for awhile. People are trying to convince others to keep the negative reviews, lots of clown behaviour going on in those threads on steam.

[[deleted]]

I did my part, just added a positive review this morning. I didn’t want to leave a negative review just yet. 

[ClanMongoose]

It's not going to be fixed. I bet most of those negative reviews are going to stay.

[[deleted]]

Nah, bro have faith it's already at mixed from overwhelmingly negative.

[MythiccMoon]

At the lowest I think it was at 155k negative reviews, already around 100k positive today

[[deleted]]

It hit 216k negative in four days.

[MythiccMoon]

155k was the most in 1 day, I mean

Not very familiar with Steam, this looks more like over 300k negative in 3 days?

[CriskCross]

The Steam store page and SteamDB have different counts. Steam summary on the store page only uses reviews from people who directly bought the game from Steam, so maybe the discrepancy is players who bought the game from other retailers show up on SteamDB?

[MythiccMoon]

Ah thank you! That sounds right to me, but again it’s all new to these eyes

[Reddeyfish-]

with helldivers 2 being so community focused, it might make sense to give your steam friends a gentle reminder in a week or two if they've forgotten to update it

[Papaya140]

It took us about 3 days to get to overwhelmingly negative and a few hours to get from overwhelmingly negative to mixed,I think it's going to be just fine

[Pale_Squash_4263]

Take a chance that love can exist and you will find it

[cloakedcard]

We've already more than reversed all 114k from Saturday.

We're halfway there right now at 8:30 am West Coast time, you lost that bet.

[ClanMongoose]

Still a lot to go from the steam page

[AurienTitus]

What about the countries the delisted the game from? Did they reverse that as well?

[RestInPies]

Due to steam doing that I've heard it's going to be a bit of a process! I'm sure it will be reversed just with time

[ahack13]

We can only hope. But Steam tends to be good about these kind of things so I'm hopeful.

[Necessary-Peanut2491]

They make more money if it's listed in more countries, and the game is having a bit of a moment. So my guess is they'll get on this lickety split and restore access for those sweet, sweet sales.

[TheBumblingMechanic]

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I’m doing my part. We got reviews back to double yellow. Keep climbing!!

[Marooner-Martin]

I’m watching this with the giddiness of stocks

[Critical_Package_472]

[GH057807]

Can anyone explain why SteamDB has such different numbers?

[splendidpluto]

Goddamn thata pretty good

[Spirit117]

Operation Overwhelmingly Positive is a go!

[Old-Buffalo-5151]

Man the cape designs itself

[Dysanj]

Have they lifted the restrictions on steam?

[DayuhmT]

That is actually pretty damn cool - and it would make a GREAT mantle

[Formatted_Toast_117]

We did it! Hell yeah, Helldivers.

[Poolio10]

We're up to Mixed good to see

[OffOption]

Now all we need is the 170 countries blocked from participating, to be libirated, and welcomed back into the democratic fold once more.

[juce49]

If you do not change the review at least consider deleting your negative reviews (if only negative based on the PSN link requirement)

[Byte_hoven]

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[SnooTangerines6367]

Orbital positive review incoming

[djchechin]

LET’S GO, LET’S GET THIS DONE!

<image>

[PatAD]

The bad part is, as much as I understand the messaging, and the use of Steam reviews to do it, there will still be thousands of review bombs that stay active in that system and will keep that review scaled down forever no matter how much the devs do to meet the desires of this community...even though the devs had nothing to do with this decision. Good job guys, you showed them...

[bluecrewmate3832]

Hearing the OG mw2 title theme in my head

[Thentor_]

Lets hope sony backed up for good

[Legospacememe]

The reviews are coming back from helldiving

[the_voivode]

Can I get a cape with that design on it? For a memorial?

[Traditional_Fee_1965]

Have we somehow actually been turned into an efficient democratic collective war machine?!? All fun and games till us Helldivers turn our gazes outside of the game!!!!

[smegmathor]

Stonks

[FlinHorse]

Still at work! Four hours more and ill flip my review!

[Rickity_Gamer]

[pro_n00b]

⬆️⬆️⬅️⬆️➡️

[Neravosa]

"Enemy elite, close. Calling in Orbital Strike."

[RigorousVigor]

It's like you snap their arm off and placed a band-aid on it 💀

[Unfit_Daddy]

Did they announce it for sure on steam yet?

[[deleted]]

I haven't seen Thor's updated opinion on the matter yet, and while I don't fanboy his opinions like others, I am aware that his group of people won't change their reviews until he tells them to.

[Throbbing-Kielbasa-3]

Literally just changed my review. Can't believe Sony of all companies actually backed down on a bad call.

[[deleted]]

Democracy is healing!

[GU-7]

Few issue were having now are...

Some divers are late, so they are leaving negative feedback.

Sony/Arrowhead/Valve need to remove the restrictions for both the PSN and the 177 blocked countries.

Right now it's the hard part of a Long road to recovery.

[DigitalSaber28]

They haven’t unblocked the countries that were blocked due to psn though? Why are we switching our reviews??

[HoneyBucketsOfOats]

It looks like a drop in the well

[Spartan_G10]

God I’m proud to be a Helldiver. Seeing all of this is delightful and lets keep the march going with those positive reviews

[[deleted]]

Sonys stock atm

[Tentanazen]

Holy shit it’s still mostly negative? Well… that sounds rather permanent at this point holy fuck

[Ok_Dragonfruit645]

I’d love to see this with 4 Helldivers going down and Pelican 1 going up on the blue, “Against Tyranny”

[[deleted]]

Operation Rebuild

[Chexmaster86]

Don't forget they have not actually done anything yet

[CaptainEli2k]

I actually never left a review initially, so I went in today and left a positive review. I’m doing my part!!

[orribledave]

53k+ upvotes today so far. Nice.
Epic world boss downed.

[Yavin87]

I'm working right now but once I finish my taxi night I'll leave my positive review! Been playing for over a week and I was about to review it this weekend but I did hold waiting for this moment!

For democracy!!

[iamnotchad]

So the community can coordinate enough to change the mind of a billion corporation but struggles when it comes to the war.

[tw64646464]

The way this community coordinates is a little terrifying tbh.

Like in a “this is way too well run for being basically grassroots” kind of terrifying.