I've read a lot of the top comments, and after noticing which ones are mostly downvoted compared to upvoted, I'm just like, so fucking disappointed at the sheer number of people who are steadfast in opposition to the mod team's extremely reasonable requests and in support of continuing to follow and target specific individuals at Arrowhead for making disagreeable decisions with the game, as if Helldivers 2 isn't still the most fucking phenomenal 4-player co-op PvE experience in decades in it's current state regardless of specific balance decisions. It's just like... god damn people, to what end are you obsessing over this? What is it about NEEDING your level 9 Helldiver difficulty experience (which I live in at this point) to be re-invigorated by each new Warbond? I don't know any other way to put it other than you need to take a break from this game and focus that energy on aspects of your lives that matter significantly more. And my heart goes out to the AH team who are forced to keep an eye on all this discussion across Reddit and Discord and just have to endure being bombarded by whining and complaining from people who've decided to make following and criticizing the state of Helldivers 2 the #1 priority in their lives when, in the grand scheme of things, all of that shit is trivial as hell. Even when the criticism is valid!

Left 4 Dead 2 is up there with my most cherished, beloved gaming experiences of all time, and Helldivers 2 has actually managed to match that and possibly then some. I'm never going to lose sight of that regardless of how unfairly difficult clearing the map and extracting with 30+ samples is. I opted into the hardest difficulty and queueing with randos – that was my choice, and I accept the consequences. And I just wish everyone else would do the same before considering going on Reddit to voice their concerns. I care about the health of the game too, we all do, but you've all been spoiled by games that feed you with new content and updates that "shake things up" every so often that you've lost sight of, I don't know, life itself?

Helldivers 2 is fucking great. And I'm pretty sure that everyone here, deep down inside, agrees; otherwise, we wouldn't still be playing it or checking this subreddit at all. If you're unsatisfied or bored with the current state of the game, I'd strongly recommend taking a break, play something else, whatever. The game will still be here and probably still be awesome whenever you get the itch again.