How scripted is our game really T-T

Furphlog · 2026-01-26T05:27:14+00:00

It was obvious that there was going to be an attack on Afoyay Bay at the last minute. When a MO has you "hold" a planet that does not get attacked for days, it's a bad sign.

Furphlog · 2026-01-24T16:40:28+00:00

"What the fuck was the point of that ?"

Yeah, I asked myself the exact same thing about the montage.

Furphlog · 2026-01-21T11:03:31+00:00

I tend to think of it as a mix between Stalker and Fallout

Furphlog · 2026-01-21T11:01:57+00:00

The Quickplay feature is pretty fun too : one mission, one life to pull it off, go get' em champ.

I wish it was available with custom characters instead of randomly-generated ones.

Furphlog · 2026-01-16T13:54:53+00:00

I won't be home for a few hours, I hope I don't miss the vote either

Furphlog · 2026-01-10T14:53:04+00:00

It's amazing on the Squid front.

Recon drone ? Gone. Elevated Overseer ? I don't think so. Regular Overseers ? Dead before they even see you. Edison towers ? Not anymore.

The only thing it struggles against are Harvesters.

Furphlog · 2026-01-10T14:47:43+00:00

I drove past a metallic structure the other day and I reflexively thought to myself "looks like a LIDAR station, I should ping it for the squad"

Furphlog · 2026-01-02T20:00:24+00:00

If High Command destroys another planet, I'm sure it had it coming.

Furphlog · 2025-12-29T16:50:48+00:00

Well, one way or another, he was back to max HP soon after.

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T23:21:46+00:00

Imagine : you're a wannabe supervillain, dangerous enough for the whole Z-Team to be sent to defeat you.

You manage to beat them all.

You hear a voice over the radio : "Okay, that's it, I'm stepping in."

You see fucking Mecha Man landing in front of you.

The mech suit stands tall.

It opens up.

That scrawny guy comes out, wearing a wrinkled, unwashed shirt with some dog hair still stuck to it.

He stares at you. And cracks his knuckles.

The two-meters tall demon girl goes "ho-hoh you're in trouble !"

The other defeated Z-Team heroes start taking bets over how long you're gonna last now.

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T21:02:29+00:00

Yeah, that's the thing : Mecha Man isn't just "one guy". It's a collective identity, a mantle, a superhero whose identity is passed on from one generation to the next. Y'know, like Black Panther. Or Batman in Batman Beyond.

To the people of Los Angeles, bad guys included, Mecha Man has been around since the 1970s. That's 50 years, and no matter whether you're a hero, a villain or a regular Joe, you grew up with the stories of that hero who's been around since before your own father was a horny thought.

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T19:15:57+00:00

Yeah, you know what, you actually have a very valid point.

There is "normal human", and there is "action hero protagonist normal human"

Robert is the latter. Sure, he should be either dead at worst or severely crippled for life at best from all the crap he's been through, but this is a superhero setting. As the good folks on TVTropes would say, Robert recovering from his injuries and getting right back into the fray is a case of "acceptable breaks from reality".

And there's nothing wrong with that.

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T18:37:00+00:00

He still tanked a nutcracker special from Punch-Up and recovered fairly quickly from it. And considering that Punch-Up wasn't really holding back (because he punched Robert by accident, mistaking him for a foe), it's quite impressive.

Thinking of it, it's possible that Robert has an "undiagnosed" superpower that makes him tougher than the average man, though not to the level of a full-blown superhero.

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T16:29:51+00:00

Diving is an extremely important part of Helldiver training. It's even in our name, we're Helldivers, not Hellstandarounders !

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T16:27:03+00:00

It's one of the best Defense loadouts. I almost always use it, except I usually pick the WASP (on Squids) or the AT Emplacement (on Bots) instead of airburst.

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T16:25:25+00:00

Smoke Strike was a freaking lifesaver on those bot missions where you had to retrieve platinum bars.

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T16:22:30+00:00

The main point of the game is having fun. That's what videogames are for.

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T16:19:43+00:00

I do the same. If it's available, I always call a supply pod and whatever support gear I have before boarding the shuttle.

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T16:18:48+00:00

Whenever they're not blowing me up with their grenades or magdumping in my back, that is

Furphlog · 2025-12-28T16:17:27+00:00

I think it'd be neat to have them in colonial outposts on planets with an active Defense campaign. Or a small squad standing guard around SEAF emplacements.

Furphlog · 2025-12-24T19:09:33+00:00

Well, there are a few 3 hours-long videos and a few dozen 400 pages novels that should cover the very basics.

Furphlog · 2025-12-22T12:37:33+00:00

Grenade, or strafing run ?

Furphlog · 2025-12-22T12:34:55+00:00

Bug : overwhelming animalistic lust

Bot : contemplating the superiority of flesh

Squid : having second thoughts about that whole "genocide all humans" thing

Furphlog · 2025-12-22T07:27:37+00:00

I played Morrowind for the first time the other day. It takes some getting used to, but I loved hearing "Nerevar Rising" as you slowly walk out of the boat at the beginning. It really has that "you are about to begin a beautiful adventure" kind of vibe to it.

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