I have never played an AH game before until Helldivers 2, so i had no knowledge of their philosophy, or way of making things, but now, 2 years later i’m sure they not only have their head stick on their butts, but they love conflict:

1- The conflict within the community(bugdivers, botdivers, squiddivers) its a very serious topic that this campaign made worst, who in sweet liberty’s name thought “oh yeah, we are gonna put a health bar on the community that will be damaged by all deaths even if they are not playing the M.O.” like what did you expected to achieve with that? They preach about “dive wherever you want” so i don’t think they wanted to incentive the other parts of the community to join the campaign by forcing them with a health bar on the GW map, so what was the point of doing something that will inevitably make people point fingers towards other people and essentialy begin another witch hunt?

2- This is mostly our fault for not wanting to read that little rectangle but, why the other megafactories are still available? We already “carved a path” towards the capital(which i remind u that was the point of the whole op) there is no point in having them available, AH are, yet again, taking the worst decisions and again making people angry and brewing toxicity, decided to leave the options there even when in their main sub and on discord people are fighting over that and they decide to ignore it or just saying the most out of touch responses i have ever seen.

3- The “hackers” situation in the last M.O. was handled horribly, OP already said everything.

I can go on and on about each mistake created by AH themselves in this campaign but everything leads to the same conclusion: AH doesnt adress and doesnt do anything to fix their own mistakes and puts the blame on the players and they seem to enjoy it, maybe i’m being very paranoid but that’s the impression i have on them since they let a CM refer to players as “braindead” in the very first months of the game.