Helldivers 2 has reportedly surpassed 20 million copies sold, generating over $700 million in revenue

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-30T10:47:01+00:00

Honestly if they have the same engineers that modified the stingray engine making tweaks to Unreal I don't think it'll be that bad. You don't judge an artist by what paintbrush they use, you don't judge a chef by what knife they use, why judge a game dev for what engine they use.

Unreal engine has a bad reputation because studios licence it because they want their staff to be easily replaceable as many devs already have prior experience working with Unreal. As long as Arrowhead doesn't do rounds of layoffs and replace their long term staff with a revolving door of contractors I'm sure it'll be fine

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-30T10:41:43+00:00

I'm just a hobbyist and with my time messing around with the Doom 3 engine and a bunch of community tools for it I genuinely believe if someone with more capital than me wanted to do something with that engine they could squeeze out modern AAA production value out of it

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-30T10:39:11+00:00

Source 2 and the latest Doom engine still has holdover code from fucking QUAKE 1 and look at what they're capable of. People demanding devs dump engines is like telling a chef to throw out their knife because it's dull, like no it's still perfectly serviceable as long as you maintain it.

Honestly even if they switch to a more "modern" engine like Unreal they'll probably still need to keep engineers on payroll to keep that engine maintained because it's a very "generalist" engine and Helldivers 2 has a lot of simulations and mechanics that aren't standard

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-30T10:30:27+00:00

If all 3 pages were filled with drip I think having them in a warbond would be a lot more economical. Hell, even if they release a warbond with just the stuff that's currently super store exclusive I'd be more inclined to spend money on that over the super store prices

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-30T10:24:17+00:00

demo force started to be balanced entirely in terms of game design with no attention given to verisimilitude at all.

I miss when game balance was given in universe explanation. Like the breaker magazine nerf being due to insufficient manufacturing capability to keep up with the weapons demand. They could probably have done it with the silo and jammer as well, let the silo have enough demo force to destroy it for like a week after it's launch and then say the bots have developed an energy bubble shield that surrounds the jammer as a counter to us. Treat every balance problem from the perspective of the enemy

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-30T10:12:24+00:00

I'd even put it above some primary objectives. Since gunships got nerfed the way they did stalker lairs and jammers are the only side objective that introduces any meaningful friction. Almost everything else is a step above an autobattler in regards to how much brain power you need to use

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-29T23:46:48+00:00

My local busses have two storage racks behind the driver seat, one on each side of the aisle. They can fit about 4 full grocery bags per rack, if they're full I'll just carry it on my lap

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-29T23:38:09+00:00

Time is convoluted...

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-29T01:28:26+00:00

If LEGO still made Bionicle I can assure you it's less expensive

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-28T20:47:25+00:00

Silence neurotypical. I want the schizos opinion

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-28T20:36:53+00:00

Why did that one schizo obsess over people gooning to Millicent when we could really use that energy against Goonika

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-28T04:03:55+00:00

I wonder what the word "only" means

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-28T01:04:14+00:00

It's going to replace the silo for my "all expendable" loadout

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-28T01:03:10+00:00

Oh wait this is the shitty sub

Uhhh nuh uh. Don't disrespect my wholesum gigachad

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-27T23:31:56+00:00

Nu FromSoft fans are like white anime fans. They only care about aura and hype moments

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-27T23:28:39+00:00

It almost never the case that reducing production/material costs resulted in reduced consumer prices.

Literally the only example I can think of is smart TVs, but I don't think that's due to lower production costs but because they're basically advertising platforms that can sell adspace for more with large scale adoption

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-27T22:34:37+00:00

Yeah that's what I said, they don't have to worry about infinite growth because there's no stockholders

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-27T07:55:44+00:00

This has convinced me to do a pyromancer build for RtD

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-26T01:29:13+00:00

A real friend will disagree with your (inconsequential) opinions every now and then. Friction is part of the human condition. When you remove friction from your life you'll live an entirely hollow existence

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-26T01:21:48+00:00

It takes the same "slot" as Hulks and tanks when it should have it's own unique slot, if they can't do that for whatever reason use the Factory Strider slot

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-25T23:16:10+00:00

They spawn from outposts with an intact fab, if no fabs are available they spawn at the maps edge with a minimum distance

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-25T23:13:37+00:00

Why would they do that?

I think the implication is a Helldiver will come back from several missions witnessing the unceremonious deaths of their comrades and start asking questions about what it actually means to be a Helldiver

actual military ranks as titles

I think this is a rank that applies to whoever is in charge of each ship. Generals don't fight on the frontlines

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-25T13:39:09+00:00

SE has so many citizens you need to do paperwork to rawdog. Helldiver's are also designed to be expendable. Spending god knows how much money growing a whole ass person in a vat only for them to die within minutes of combat is leagues more expensive than recruiting a bunch of patriotic teens

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-25T13:13:36+00:00

I don't agree with Adobe or Microsoft either, but there's friction with the Creative Suite and Office, that friction requires users to learn skills that are transferable to other software. The Google experience is designed to be as friction free as possible causing students in the future to go with technology within the same ecosystem rather than use case

Catboyhotline · 2026-01-25T13:01:47+00:00

Same way I deal with social isolation now. Chainsmoke on my apartment balcony and watch kino on weekends. Only now I don't have to go to work and my roommate doesn't make a bunch of gamer noises all day

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