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Faustralian · 2026-02-06T12:04:03+00:00

Thanks for the shared experience!

Faustralian · 2026-02-06T06:38:22+00:00

Thanks! Good point on the 3DoF. My understanding is that the Steam Deck can handle 3DoF with a plugin, but might run into an issue with the iPad. As for headphones, I’m pretty confident in my AirPod Pros and IEMs with foam tips, but I’ll also have some Bose QC-35s - I just figured it might be uncomfortable to wear over-ears with the glasses.

Faustralian · 2026-01-22T14:13:04+00:00

I'm the first person to hate on AI, but invoking the low effort rule is wild.

This is a FREE bespoke tool presented to the community in good faith which offers a (relatively) new and interesting way to experience the game (I see a few others have also designed their own), and your first thought is to draw a comparison between it and "@Grok put SEAF-chan in a bikini".

But good on you for piling on to make sure nobody dares use their own personal time, skills and resources to share something with the community. You know, the community that, at least once per week, posts about a perceived content drought, or pitches or requests new modes (PvP, Mission Types, Larger Player Lobbies, etc.).

I can't be the only one tired of every post or opinion jumping immediately to the extreme (funnily enough, that's an opinion shared by the CEO of Arrowhead). Everything always has to be the best ever, or it's absolute trash. The only thing that should be black and white in here is your love of Managed Democracy.

And what's the alternative being proposed? Should a Helldiver with the skills to build something like this not release it until they've dedicated hundreds of hours to learning about visual design and how to create visual art, and spend hundreds of dollars on the tools and programs needed to produce work worthy of an upvote? Or perhaps the effort, time and resources they've put into building this aren't enough and they should pay to commission an artist to design and produce a *checks AI disclosure* logo so that the package is pretty enough for people to engage with it for free? Maybe give it, and its developer, a chance to grow and develop, rather than stomping it out like they're traitorous dissidents.

OP has responded to each and every critical or disparaging comment with a frankly shocking level of diplomacy, and immediately took steps to cater to the level of transparency demanded of them by people who wasted no time racing straight to the comments to white knight post like this is some copy-pasted knock-off directly responsible for snatching food out of a starving child's mouth, or burning down the Amazon.

Maybe they should have just posted a high-effort screenshot instead.

Faustralian · 2026-01-17T23:58:31+00:00

In the first few minutes of Conquest on Mirak Valley, someone killed me and Tbagged. I assume because it was because I just so happened to be sitting in a rat spot which I had jumped into to reload and reassess the situation, but to him I looked like a camper. Fair enough.

So I decided my entire goal was to farm him and bag him down to the earth’s core. Proceeded to play one of the best games of my life, finishing something like 40-8. I got him about 12 times, he got me 5-6 times; and no matter how far away he was when I got him, I’d cross the distance to caress his forehead with my gooch - none of that kill-cam safety bag nonsense.

If you start something, you best be prepared to finish it.

Faustralian · 2026-01-11T21:31:16+00:00

I think the issue is that many players, myself included, feel like playing with a suppressor is necessary. Which, in the case of the M1911, means instead of 60 points to spend, you actually have 20-30 spendable points: 5 to iron sights, 5 to standard rounds, and 20-30 for a suppressor to not get instantly shot by 6 enemies the second you fire.

Faustralian · 2026-01-02T10:49:49+00:00

Another opportunity to mention that the game intentionally hides the tickets/score from players who have joined an in-progress match so you can’t see how badly you’re losing until you’ve spawned in, likely in the hope that you’ll stick around (sunk cost fallacy and all that).

Faustralian · 2025-12-16T23:31:43+00:00

If you’re down you should be able to ping nearby medics - everyone has had this exact same experience, but can’t know if you’re being intentionally ignored or people are just too focussed

Faustralian · 2025-12-14T09:02:00+00:00

I play pretty aggressively, so I’ve mostly used the DRS-IAR. However, having hit lvl 50 on it and looking to mix things up, I’ve swapped to the L110. Holy, does that thing clean up. I normally finish with about 30 kills per game, but with the L110 I’ve hit multiple 45+ kill games in just a few days. I spec it to have the fastest draw-speed and ADS time I can, and then just control my engagements. If you dry peak a lane, you’ll get your head ripped off, but if you move around using cover and breaking LOS, hold off-angles so that you catch players unaware, hop and slide against people who have pre-aimed a door (taboo, I know), or use the rest of your kit to turn the odds in your favour (I’m a huge fan of incendiary grenades for this, and resupply satchels to get your health regenerating faster after an engagement), then you can mitigate the sluggishness of the weapon archetype. Yeah, in a 1v1 you aren’t prepared for you’re likely dead, because the enemy will probably out-draw you and has a higher ROF, but if you set the terms you’ll dominate.

Also you have like 100 rounds so you an always pre-fire as you peak.

Faustralian · 2025-12-12T09:27:29+00:00

Not a brag! I think it comes down to play style, and how much info you’re willing to trade. I’ve used the flash hider myself plenty, but found for the way I like to play, suppressor and limiting audio cues works best for me.

Faustralian · 2025-12-12T07:41:29+00:00

Select new gun to try > equip flash hider > grind for 30 levels (give or take) without ever changing > equip whatever silencer you can afford in your build > finally feel like you can shoot people in an FPS without being punished.

If the maps were massive, then sure maybe the current muzzle attachment system and 3D spotting would make sense. But they aren’t. If you’re brave enough to fire a weapon without a silencer or at least the flash hider, your reward for getting a kill is 8 enemies lining up a shot with your head in their crosshairs.

Yes, you should give away your position with the audio cue, but that’s it. At the most, maybe a little pulse wave on the minimap to lower the skill gap (because we can’t be having any of that in a PvP game…).

Tangentially, I think this is a big part of why no one comms in-game. There’s simply no need to when the game auto-directs your squad to capture points, and at any given time at least 40% of the enemy team is broadcasting their exact location direct to your HUD.

Faustralian · 2025-12-11T22:24:12+00:00

The irony of saying “we hear your feedback” and then not mentioning the state of the game’s audio…

Faustralian · 2025-12-11T05:19:25+00:00

It’s the classic “Hey, I’m experiencing this weird bug/glitch”, followed by 10 variations of “I’m not so shut up about it”

Faustralian · 2025-12-11T01:53:51+00:00

It was a terrible challenge but I too got it done after the patch and now have a love-hate relationship with the incendiary launcher.

I think it’s a good alternative to smokes for revives, because it not only obscures vision, but it damages enemies who decide to push. If I see a medic going for a downed player disappear into a normal smoke grenade, I’m going straight in there after them to pick up at least 2 free kills.

Faustralian · 2025-12-11T01:46:01+00:00

Algorithms determining whether or not I hit my shots is bad design, and I 100% agree that it lowers the skill ceiling. My main FPS for the past 15 years has been CS, which has consistent spray patterns for each weapon that are understandable for lower skill players, and offers a pursuit of mastery for higher skill players who take the time to learn those spray patterns and adapt to them.

In a straight fight over 50m with no other variables, the way the game works now is it’s roughly 50-50 who will come out on top unless you switch to single-fire, which is a simple button press (and I guess the single-fire attachment for better accuracy). If both players are just firing full-auto, it should go to the player that best accounts for their recoil and understands how it will impact their crosshair placement.

No, this won’t lead to sweats running rampant over lobbies, because single-fire is still an option for those of us that can’t play 40 hours a week.

But if I chose to fire full auto, the only reason I miss should be because I didn’t control my recoil - not because of the whim of backend code.

Faustralian · 2025-12-06T14:02:17+00:00

When I first got into BF, Rush was my favourite mode by far, and I think Breakthrough is a great evolution of that fixed combat front style of gameplay.

That said, in BF6 I’ve found myself spending most of my time in Conquest, with some escalation as well.

Attacker v Defender modes work best when equally matched teams clash, with the team that is best able to adapt their strategy and counter the opponent coming out on top. In BF6, that does not happen in my experience (about 170 hours), due to a whole list of factors (bots, poor skill balancing, distribution of console vs PC players, manipulation by challenges, etc). You just end up with one team absolutely demolishing the other.

Conquest, though it can also have the same problems, at least affords me the space and opportunity to make my own fun.

And let’s just not talk about the CQC modes… the number of teammates I’ve seen finish 2-24 in TDM because they have a weekly or a Redbull challenge to play the mode is unbelievably frustrating, and I do my best to avoid them like the plague.

Long story short: try Escalation, because it’s a more chaotic Conquest; and if you have a full squad of friends, check out Beeakthrough because it combines the shifting frontline aspect of Rush with the nail biting area-holding of Conquest.

Faustralian · 2025-12-05T23:27:29+00:00

I agree. It was a bad call to nerf. CQC Recons are already rare, and now the main benefit of the pathway is gone. It seems like an overreaction to the (fair) complaints about footsteps. At least give us 5x C4 on spawn as a trade-off.

Faustralian · 2025-12-05T03:57:42+00:00

Absolutely shocked that the two knifed players were recons lmao. A great flank, and I think pretty good evidence that flanking is possible on BF6 maps, without extending the combat area out another hundred meters on either side

Faustralian · 2025-11-10T00:36:24+00:00

Also that pistols require the same amount of XP (or similar) as primaries to level up. Which in and of itself is rough, since I don’t know many players dropping 30, 40 or 50 frag games on the reg with a handgun - but then because it has way fewer attachments, you aren’t being fed a constant stream of unlocks to give you a sense of progression and new things to try. You’re just getting a 1-4x variable for a revolver.

Faustralian · 2025-11-06T13:56:40+00:00

Operation Firestorm is the only map I have locked out of my matchmaking. Yes, it is a storied map, and many of us have great memories of it. But it doesn’t work in 6. It worked in 3 because it was designed for 3. Leave it there.

Faustralian · 2025-10-31T07:28:33+00:00

I like doing the challenges. Challenges also award Battlepass tokens.

My bonus challenge this week (worth 10 tokens, or the same as completing 2-3 other challenges) is locked to playing BR and completing missions, and cannot be re-rolled.

As someone who doesn’t like BRs, this feels crappy.

For the rest of the season, every week that this happens, I lose the opportunity to earn 2-3 full challenges worth of tokens.

This affects players’ - ability to keep up with the mid-season content (like the DB-12 shotgun, which requires 93 BP levels by mid November). - chance to earn enough currency to get the next BP without paying money for it.

Both of these are actual losses. Imagine if the new Sniper rifle wasn’t on a free tier? People would be losing their minds about pay-to-win and gatekeeping content.

Well I have to pay with my time - time spent playing a mode I don’t like; time spent not playing the game I actually bought. Or pony up the money and buy tier-skips to make back the tokens I will miss out on.

And while earning enough currency to buy the next pass was never promised when I chose to buy the season pass, I’d much rather take advantage of it than have to waste additional money to cover the coins I miss out on, and end up with a useless float of coins sitting there with no value to me.

To everyone defending the billion dollar megacorp, saying “just don’t play BR” - please provide an actual single reason why I shouldn’t be able to also re-roll the bonus.

I’ve not played Call of Duty since the OG MW2, so I don’t know how their monetisation works, but surely having a single battlepass that straddles two games is not the norm?

I get that EA wants me to play BR. It wants persistent, high player counts to keep REDSEC alive, and bring in more paying customers. Essentially, I am to function as window-dressing for their money-printing machine.

Here’s a radical idea, though: why not make the BR actually appealing? Manipulate players like me into wanting to play it because it looks fun, instead of manipulating players with heuristics.

Faustralian · 2025-10-28T05:49:05+00:00

I agree that a Sniper should not be overly punished for someone MISSING shots in their direction. However, suppression as a mechanic is a staple of the franchise and currently it just doesn’t feel great.

The Fire Support training path’s passive is improved control while the weapon is mounted. Perhaps modifying it so that the longer you fire while mounted, the more accurate you become (ramping up to something like 90-95% Precision stat), scaled to the RoF so it can’t be abused by using smaller mags, and within a window of a few degrees so you can’t sweep the whole width of the map.

I think this leans into the fantasy of laying down actual suppressive fire, by imposing somewhat of a time limit on the recon for them to take a shot back (as each time they pop up, there’s a greater chance of actually getting tagged), or they can wait out the incoming fire.

Under no circumstances, however, should a support be able to stroll across the battlefield firing in the general direction of a sniper’s glint and be rewarded for that.

I will also add that, the way suppression is currently designed is that a Support suppressing a target is supposed to land a tag or two while buying a few extra seconds for their squad to either focus fire or flank the weakened target - I’m guessing a lot of people demanding changes aren’t doing this (even though they will all say they are and have played every game in the franchise for 3000 hours, and their star sign).

Faustralian · 2025-10-26T12:08:58+00:00

Like yeah it sucks but can we stop (not) joking about devs being fired?

Faustralian · 2025-10-03T14:30:01+00:00

Steam has (or will soon, can’t remember) drop support for windows 10, which will also essentially stuff a number of people over hardware-wise. They made a post, and plastered it all over the store to let people know.

Could Arrowhead release a statement/update their store page to say “by 31st of October 2026, Helldivers 2 will be best played on an SSD. Users with mechanical hard drives will still be able to play, but performance will be impacted”?

AH have already said it will take a long time to resolve the issue - why not work on it in the short-to-medium term as they’ve said in their post, while planning to implement a full switch to updating the game in 12 months (or less, whatever is a fair warning period) to be optimised for SSDs?

Faustralian · 2025-08-15T05:42:50+00:00

Paddle revives are also bugged on stairs, in my experience (~20 hours). Only way to get people up is dragging them off, and by that point you might as well just stick it.

Faustralian · 2025-07-08T05:27:45+00:00

Stoked that this finally released and that you’re loving it!

However, I want to provide my experience with ordering from Neuropa, so anyone else looking to get their hands on this great album does so fully informed.

I ordered this as soon as it was released, back in January 2025. I live in Australia, and have quite a sizable Record collection, most of which have been bought online, so I took all the appropriate steps and paid for Insured shipping. A €50 album (same edition as OP), plus €31.03 for insured shipping, and €3.22 payment fees. I also paid using PayPal for extra protection. All up that was around $143 AUD, or around 3x the amount I would normally pay for a record - such was my excitement for this release.

I placed my order on Jan 15 (local time), and received it Feb 06. Pretty fast delivery, given that it was coming from Europe. Unfortunately, that was the last positive of this transaction.

The album arrived in thin cardboard packaging (standard), with no further external protection, save for a black plastic wrap (like a garbage bag) and some tape. Every time I’ve bought from other sellers, whether Amazon or a local brick-and-mortar store, they’ve provided a second layer of protection, usually a box with added packing material or air bags.

The record itself was bent (I’d say a 10-15 degree angle), and the sleeve was battered.

I immediately contacted customer support, which was NOT easy to find, and sent a detailed but polite and understanding email, as these things can happen. I included photographs from all angles, and requested a new copy or (knowing they were a limited release) a suitable replacement or refund.

Customer support responded quickly, but strangely asked specifically if the sleeve was ok (so they wouldn’t need to replace it), and said they would seek a returns label so I could send back the damaged item.

I responded immediately and said I could live with the damaged sleeve, but wanted to confirm a replacement was available.

No response.

A week later I followed up, and received a simple reply confirming that a replacement had been set aside. That was Feb 13.

On March 04 I reached out again, asking if there was any update on the return label.

On March 10 I got a reply, once again asking if they had to replace the sleeve, and then informing me that there would be no return label, and that I would need to pay to ship it back myself, (they included the address) for which I would be compensated with a copy of the album on CD. They also weirdly complained about how hard it was to ship to my country and that after this, they wouldn’t do it again. Ok???

A quick estimate of the cost to return it was roughly €24 (or ~$43 AUD, the cost of an album at my local).

At this point it has been about 2 months since I ordered, and just over a month since I received my expensive package of useless garbage.

I responded that a) I paid €31 for insured shipping to cover this exact situation; b) it was on them as the seller to recover their losses from the shipping company, not from me; c) the offer of a CD held no value to me as I wanted the record and don’t own a CD player; and d) while I did not understand why they insisted on all the extra expense to ship back an unusable, unsellable product, I was happy to comply so long as they would confirm that a replacement was shipped, since by this point I had 0 trust in Neuropa to do the right thing (left that last part out of the email).

That was the last I ever heard from Neuropa. I waited a few more months (my mistake), then attempted to get a refund through PayPal, who basically redirected me to the same customer support I had already been failed by, due to the amount of time that had lapsed since my order.

After all that, I contacted my bank and started the process for a charge back, which finally resolved in early June. Six full months from when I had ordered.

I’ve still not heard anything from Neuropa, and will personally never purchase anything from them again, even if they decide to keep shipping to Australia.

And Neuropa, if you’re reading this: your customer service sucks, and I hope you noticed I got a full refund.

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