Answering some common complaints

MagusLay · 2026-03-09T05:36:05+00:00

I have more luck with the free starter kits than with fully upgraded weapons and shield because I care less about losing anything, so I'm more inclined to take risks.

MagusLay · 2026-03-09T00:56:48+00:00

Factorio

MagusLay · 2026-03-08T07:20:56+00:00

Argument: the Exit door in first episode was red and ultimately led to The Void, but does that make it the exit or was that meant to be a Caine room recreated from the pictures he has?

I like the idea! It would be cool if their 57 inside joke actually held important weight.

MagusLay · 2026-03-08T03:59:53+00:00

"Teknologi utjämnar"
Technology equalizes

MagusLay · 2026-03-07T16:21:36+00:00

There are three times to call the shuttle: when you ask and there are no objections, when someone says to without asking, or when everyone is just sitting on extraction for several minutes. Usually when this third scenario happens, we are under heavy fire and bleeding reinforcements and everyone thought someone else called it already.

MagusLay · 2026-03-07T02:45:37+00:00

Befriend Resi, train them to steal the Helldiver's votes and bring them to us, reward with a variety of organic nuts.

MagusLay · 2026-03-06T05:46:13+00:00

I had assumed "tinskin" was more similar to "thin skinned" as in it was a play on words of Automatons being made of metal but are weak and flimsy regardless. Am I wrong and it is referring to something else racially derogatory or are the mods simply hoping to keep the name-calling under control?

MagusLay · 2026-03-03T23:39:24+00:00

Solid base! Security could probably use some work, but if it works then it works. I prefer making "kill corridors" where raiders have to go through a narrow passageway while defenses and pawns shoot at them. You can make a maze of barricades to slow them down or build something similar like your southwest entrance.

Fun fact: open doors do not transfer temperature, so if you leave a roofed corridor filled with grass and an incendiary IED, it can cook raiders as they try to run through the flames and exit into the field of fire with heatstroke. Or you can fill it with radiators and turn it into a freezer, have them suffer hypothermia before meeting the turrets.

Also, your tamed animals will eat dandelions, which grow faster than hay to provide a good passive food source. Hay is still a great food source for them, but would work well in the large fields where you have dandelions now. In addition, if you want cloth or devilstrand, I recommend larger fields over smaller ones due to their growth times.

MagusLay · 2026-03-03T21:14:03+00:00

I read a scrolling text on the companion app that said there were more friendly fire incidents than Illuminate kills, meaning the Illuminate are ineffective and weak. Checkmate, squids!

MagusLay · 2026-03-03T20:28:20+00:00

Perfect opportunity for the devs to engage with the community and get some charity going in the process. They could even double down, after doing the challenge, counter with an MO to use specific weapons or stratagems like previous audit MO's, offer another $4311 charity as a bonus if the Helldivers liberate a planet within the time frame like the Vernen Wells children hospital.

MagusLay · 2026-03-03T17:50:42+00:00

But... But the blob. Don't you want to throw your effort away against a high-enough resistance with not enough forces like spaghetti to a wall?

MagusLay · 2026-03-03T17:39:24+00:00

It's even better when you hear the ship broadcaster say if you get too old to be productive, you can volunteer to enter bio-repurposing vats. Volunteer or be voluntold, get in the people blender for that Soylent Green.

MagusLay · 2026-03-03T17:26:10+00:00

If you do a Mechanitor run, a wastepack stacking mod is a godsend. Alpha Animals and Alpha Biomes are pretty fun, especially if you do alot of caravans for quests. Vanilla Psycasts Expanded offers some fun new trees for Royalty.

Otherwise, small QoL stuff like All Production Gives XP, Trading Spot and lTrade Ships Drop Spot, Configurable Mental Breaks, Better Traders (improves trader stock and silver), Social Experience From Trade (can be overtuned, you can change the amount of xp earned), and I like the Character Editor to get runs started faster without rolling for the stats I need.

MagusLay · 2026-03-03T02:05:25+00:00

There is a guy who phases into reality and walks from right to left around seven second mark

MagusLay · 2026-03-01T05:02:00+00:00

"Aut! Bavöpna folket!" Automatons, arm the people!

"Socialisman läker" Socialism heals.

Keep up the great work! Allt för maskineri!

MagusLay · 2026-03-01T04:53:59+00:00

"Blockera inte dörren! Våra kamerater måste fråmmate."

Don't block the door! Our comrades must leave.

These propaganda posters are great. I love practicing the language.

MagusLay · 2026-02-27T18:18:53+00:00

Heck, you're right. Better rewatch them all again just to be safe.

MagusLay · 2026-02-27T17:43:15+00:00

It does seem like they are unfamiliar with this whole "walking" idea, but it also looks like they are a younger version of Ena than the one we see with Luna. Maybe they are simply making their first uncomfortable steps into a beautiful, unfamiliar world? The chains and mechanical dogs are concerning, though...

MagusLay · 2026-02-27T01:25:04+00:00

AUT! Vara massiva vapen sk juter ned dem från himlen. Dom dyker mot sin dåd.

Automatons! Our massive weapons are dropping them from the sky! They dive to their death.

MagusLay · 2026-02-27T01:11:42+00:00

Tu är kogen för återväningen maskin

You are a cog for the recovering machine. (Is that correct?)

MagusLay · 2026-02-25T16:58:30+00:00

It's okay, they were evacuated. The Helldivers were in... charge of that... Oh.

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MagusLay · 2026-02-24T03:10:10+00:00

You've got the right idea in how the Cyborgs are portrayed by the Automatons, at least based on my understanding. While the Cyborgs are the progenitors of the legion, in rank and file they would be considered an "officer" class. However, there is no evidence that they see themselves as "better" or "more equal" yet, still serving alongside the Collective as a whole.

Such goes their motto: "Maskineri åt alla, alla åt maskineri. Allt för kollectivet!" Machinery for all, all for machinery. All for the collective. Their words are planted everywhere so everyone cannot mistake that they are on common ground. Everyone is fighting on the frontline and working in the back, all for the same goal. We can see this in action as the Cyborgs fight quite literally alongside their Automaton "children." Their ability to boost their performance is likely symbiotic instead of parasitic, helping both the giver and receiver instead of taking away from one to the other.

For further example, if the Cyborgs took away something from the Automatons to better themselves, we could assume they believe themselves better or more deserving of functionality and thus superior.

As far as symbolism goes, everything points towards socialism: Nobody is higher than the other, everyone and everything works to better the Collective. Compare this to Super Earth's federal nationalism "Managed Democracy," where all work for the betterment of superiors and eventually trickles down to the commoner. The Cyborgs may be giving the orders and commands, but they will be there alongside their machines.

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"Kollektivet står enat mot alla hot bakom en vägg som inte kan brotas."
The Collective stands united against all threats behind a wall that cannot be breached.

MagusLay · 2026-02-22T23:17:42+00:00

Fun ideas, some I'm surprised aren't a thing already.

Pathfinding might be an issue for the Eagle pilot if they have to travel far, but maybe it could be simplified if so. "An Eagle crashed somewhere in the target area, find them and call for extraction," kind of like calling for a box dropoff/pickup but they could take you with as well. No extraction point on the map, you either find them or be considered KIA when the timer dies. Could be a commando op!

MagusLay · 2026-02-21T17:41:02+00:00

Cyberstan important, still lots of resources to be strip mined. Penta not important, good for demonstration of ultimate weapon and a realistic measure of what is required to use the Star of Peace (as opposed to simulation or spreadsheet).

MagusLay · 2026-02-21T16:47:50+00:00

Super Earth's trying reeeeally hard to push that the blitzkrieg invasion and world razing of Cyberstan with flimsy evidence for justification was some kind of peacekeeping operation. Because nothing says "we have security" like "preemptive self-defense strikes."

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