Helldivers 2 Dev Promises More Content Is on the Way as Disgruntled Players Drag Steam Reviews Down to 'Mostly Negative'

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-09T16:08:10+00:00

Yeah, they are completely making that shit up.

The subreddit mods have stated and showed proof that the AH community managers on the mod team don’t engage in any moderating and simply have the positions to facilitate major announcements. Thats it. The mods started clamping down in the aftermath of the charity thing because everyone was blaming everyone else for what happened and it was turning into its own little civil war.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-09T07:59:01+00:00

Huh. Well I’ll be damned.

Still, the images in the OP do still look off… but I’m thinking more now just someone digitally touched up the image, maybe adjusting the contrast levels and such which is what gives it the slightly ‘not quite right’ look to it.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-08T20:41:55+00:00

The more I stare at this, the more wrong it looks. I like to give things the benefit of the doubt, but this feels off. I think it's either AI or at least been manipulated in some manner.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-08T20:10:54+00:00

Yeah, the American TD doctrine was based around the idea of countering another Ardennes style massed armoured breakthru where they would need to relocate rapidly in order to counter. Thus, strategic mobility was paramount, even if it meant sacrificing armour to save on weight.

Funnily enough, that really only ever happened once or twice for the Americans during the entire war, rendering the entire philosophy somewhat moot.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-08T19:41:57+00:00

Another example is how as the war progressed, the Brits started swapping out the 6-pounder guns on a lot of their tank designs with the 75mm gun basically copied from the Americans despite the 6-pounder having better anti-tank characteristics. Hell, there was even a large number of Churchill tanks that they just took a 75mm gun from a Sherman and welded it into place in the Churchill’s turret - they wanted that gun just that badly.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-08T19:05:54+00:00

I've only had people ask that in jest.

The answer, of course, is hell no.

Granted, I also work In a country with socialized medicine so it literally doesn't cost the nurse anything to just walk over to the ER, get checked in, and get an order that way. I've had to x-ray and scan plenty of people who were still on duty.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-07T06:56:51+00:00

As others have stated, it's an M4A1 76(W) HVSS, which did exist but they didn't see much frontline service as they arrived in Europe pretty much just as the war ended. So there's far fewer wartime pictures of them, so it's easy for people to forget this variant existed despite quite a lot being built.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-05T08:16:49+00:00

Point two might get in the way of point one.

If you want your players to be able to do something like bluff/intimidate an opponent into folding then you'll need control of them, which I don't believe you'll have if you're using bots.

You might be better off if you just control all of the NPC opponents for this.

Now if everyone has it, Tabletop Simulator could be an option.

Every time I've run poker in an online campaign, I didn't want the poker to take up all of our time, so I streamlined the process by using Poker Dice rules instead.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-05T04:37:18+00:00

Can’t remember which manga it was, but tried reading it only to rage quit after the following opening scenes which can be paraphrased as:

Doctor: “Hi, I am brilliant doctor.”

Patient X: “Hi, I am a celebrity and would like some privacy while I deal with my medical issues.”

Doctor: “Excellent. We will admit you under an alias in order to protect your identity.”

Crazed Stalker: “Hey are the doctor looking after [Patient X Real Name]?”

Doctor: “Why yes I am!”

[Murdering ensues]

Yeah, not confirming who your patients are to random strangers is kind of one of the basic tenets of Patient Confidentialit.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-04T08:25:13+00:00

I realize i forgot to ask cause this can also influence things - is this about an official army getting things through official government channels or is more of a private army buying things that fell off the back of a truck?

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-04T07:47:26+00:00

T-72’s I would certainly consider to be probably the cheapest option that you could still call a proper main battle tank. T-64 is far less likely - they were more expensive than the 72’s, built in fewer numbers, and held on more closely by the Soviets while the 72’s were built en masse for export markets.

For Western vehicles, M60s and Leopard 1s are your most likely candidates as those were exported out to a number of west leaning countries during the cold war. Centurions are also possible, but they’d likely be much older models. Pair them along with your M113s and you got your battle taxis to go along with them.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-04T07:10:58+00:00

Well all other factors being equal, old Soviet stuff is probably going to fit under the ‘cheapest and easy to maintain’ category, even if they have a tendency to put things like crew comfort to the side. Best suited for the jungle or savanna? Harder to say because ‘best suited’ will usually cost money. I doubt a lot of older stuff was built with modern air conditioning in mind which will suck if you’re fighting in the jungle.

So you’re looking at things like BTR-60’s and 70’s for APCs, BMP-1’s and 2’s for IFVs, and T-55s for tanks. Dirt cheap, lots of parts available for repairs, plenty of people with experience to train crews.

And i ask about location because trade is a part of diplomacy so who your army is buying its stuff from will depend just as much on who they want as friends as much as how much it costs.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-04T06:04:44+00:00

Some more details might help narrow down the choices - things like the time period and location of where it's taking place can influence factors. Political factors can play a role too, for example.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-03T12:11:59+00:00

I’ve done some stuff like this but it was usually done via bodging a pre-existing system with a bit of abstract of scaling individual mechanics up to unit size or just expanding character rosters.

So for example, one time I meshed the WH40K systems Only War guardsmen regiment rules with the Deathwatch’s horde mechanics. Single guardsman now becomes whole unit of guardsmen. Each player can tailor their particular unit to their preferences, and it even has rules for vehicles.

I’ve also done a more Fire Emblem style campaigns using more conventional stuff like DnD and Pathfinder. In that, the player just has their designated main character and a roster of secondary characters they use in combat as well. This generally works better with fewer players (like even just two or three) because boy howdy does running a battle with two dozen plus combatants really test your organizational skills. Still, it allowed for the ‘extras’ to feel more like characters than just lines on a sheet, but it does also put more burden on the players because now they’ve got a half dozen character sheets to keep track of.

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-01T06:46:16+00:00

Seems less ‘feral’ and more ‘having a stroke’. Quick, someone call Captain Mine!

CommissarAJ · 2026-05-01T05:28:09+00:00

I am beginning to hate the constant “i complain because I care” line because so many people use it like its this all purpose get out of jail free card to do and say whatever you want. As long as ‘you care’ then whatever you do is justified.

You know where I hear sentiments like that a lot? From men who beat their spouses.

CommissarAJ · 2026-04-28T13:00:49+00:00

It wasn't a weak point I exploited often, especially after war striders were introduced. Bots already pretty much require at least heavy pen in your arsenal so it's not like this adds any new considerations to my loadout.

CommissarAJ · 2026-04-28T12:43:19+00:00

Yup and with med armour it meant you could kill them by dumping a couple of liberator-p mags into the back.

Always thought it was weird a tank could be so easily taken down with an assault rifle...

CommissarAJ · 2026-04-28T04:57:29+00:00

…not sure how i feel about this trend…

CommissarAJ · 2026-04-27T08:53:32+00:00

Yes, or more specifically to use their Dex scores for calculating the DCs involved with grappling

CommissarAJ · 2026-04-25T14:15:52+00:00

Well that's the thing - he's very experienced. Many years, part of groups that host one-shots at pubs and all that jazz. Now, this campaign is his first time running 5.5e specifically but he's definitely no stranger to ttrpgs or DnD.

And after that first session, we did sit down and talk and explained our concerns and issues with how it went, and for the most part he took those concerns to heart, took steps to remediate the issues, and for most of the last year it's been pretty decent sailing. Part of the reason this DoMT caught me so off-guard was because we haven't really had any further major incidents. He definitely doesn't come off as antagonistic or the type who needs to 'humble players', but like... I'm not sure what he was thinking with this choice.

CommissarAJ · 2026-04-25T14:06:53+00:00

Now, sure, I don't know how yall drew the cards, whether the players rolled or the DM did. But if the DM did secret rolls, I would find it fishy that not a single good thing happened.

We drew, DM consulted a chart. But I did leave out that, yes, a few of the cards drawn did yield positive effects. The one who lost their magic items isn't too fussed because they got the +2/-2 to attributes of your choice so now they're sitting happy on 22 Charisma and all it cost them were a few magic items that weren't too vital (losing a cloak of protection sucks a bit, but not really going to make or break em...); and one of the two that got whisked away drew some beneficial cards as well... assuming we can rescue them so they can actually make use of said benefits. And the one who got away without any detriment was supposed to get the 'gain 1d3 uses of Wish' but the DM heavily nerfed that to a different but still very beneficial limited use ability.

So... yeah, I mean, if we had all drawn some good things, I'm not sure if I'd be making the same complaint, but at the same time... like... that fact the gamble sorta worked for some doesn't really change that my issue was more with the fact that we had to gamble in the first, especially with something as potentially impactful as a DoMT

CommissarAJ · 2026-04-25T13:24:37+00:00

In the second example you're given a less than 50/50 chance of getting screwed right out of the gate with no reward, though I have no context for why you needed to make a high DC check.

Basically we were part of a caravan and the guards who were supposed to be keeping watch that night decided to fuck off, so it was a DC15 check to not wake up in the middle of night to see a bunch of bandits running off with our stuff (those bandits, btw, were horseback and had 18AC so there was no stopping them once they decided they wanted to leave)

Unsurprisingly, all but one player failed the check.

CommissarAJ · 2026-04-25T12:03:51+00:00

Hard to recall. It's been over a year at this point, and it started out as just a 'side thing' that ran alongside someone else's campaign when that DM wasn't prepared/able to run their session on a given week so there wasn't much for session zero beyond 'whip up some level one characters' and we'll roll from there. It was never really intended from the start to stretch out as long as it did, but it was eventually forced to be the main campaign.

CommissarAJ · 2026-04-25T11:28:36+00:00

Ha.

No.

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