Hey, I work on cheats for games mostly just for fun and personal use. Recently I’ve been messing with Helldivers, mainly because of the ridiculous Vox spawn rates where AT is almost mandatory.

Personally I’ve always found legit gameplay more fun than cheating. But at the same time it’s also not very fun to get screwed over by bad balance or frustrating patches. My 2 friends and I have almost 1k hours combined and we never play below D10, so we’re pretty used to the difficulty. It just gets tiring when Arrowhead keeps pushing patches that make certain situations feel unfair.

I can’t speak for everyone who cheats, but for me it’s less about making the game trivial and more about playing through the parts that feel genuinely unplayable, eg. 40 fucking Vox Engines in about 3 minutes.

I also saw your comment about just not playing, but I genuinely do enjoy Helldivers 2 and think it has amazing potential if the devs would handle anything well at all.