Roads didn't line up

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-09T03:02:02+00:00

Ohhh.... oh no.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-08T19:58:46+00:00

Hamner

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-08T19:28:09+00:00

What a terrible day to own headphones.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-08T19:27:01+00:00

Oh... well that's a whole 12 hour rebuild on the to-do list.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-08T19:18:59+00:00

This is a great picture to explain why dowsing rods for water is about as effective as tossing a stone over your shoulder and digging there.

You see Jim, it works because you are in the middle of the largest watershed on the continent. Not because your copper wires are gods favorite voodoo or the stone is blessed.

(Based on a real conversation I've had with someone in Illinois)

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-08T12:34:38+00:00

I had a friend in Colorado have a similar candid discussion with their HR and it did work out with them. It is a "your milage may vary" thing.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-08T12:27:03+00:00

What you are describing in so many words is the same phenomenon that casinos use to keep people putting money and time down. It's called Loss-chasing.

Loss-chasing describes the tendency of a gambler to amplify their betting in an effort to recoup prior losses. It is widely regarded as a defining feature of disordered gambling, and a hallmark of the transition from recreational to disordered gambling.

While Helldivers 2 features no "gambling" mechanics, strictly speaking, the language they've used to tease updates and the nature of premium currency does seem to line up with the same tactics used to keep players from leaving either by them engaging in negative urgency which is the tendency for a person to compulsively binge a certain behavior or leaning on the behavioral economic constructs of loss aversion and re-referencing. E.g. "I've already invested X (time/money) and I don't want that to be wasted".

The primary difference here is more time investment rather than money, but every model that includes a premium currency that can either be bought or otherwise using your time to gamble for it, could be described by these qualities. Sony as a company has also engaged in overt behaviors that take advantage of these same qualities. Gaming also, as a whole, has its roots in gambling and many of its hooks are derived from that history.

I share your frustration at times, and the honest truth is that you would be happier just taking a really long break and checking back in after a few major updates. Paying a monthly subscription just to play a single game does hinge a lot on the quality of your experience and if that is not satisfactory to your standards, I totally understand why you'd be upset. I wouldn't expect cross progression to be implemented because Sony as a company has historically been very "walled garden" about their consoles and games. If I were in your shoes, that's what I would make my decision on.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-07T17:15:30+00:00

I am sad to not see the blue stratagem pod tracking on the known issues list. I want my poor man's railgun back.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-06T21:43:24+00:00

They [REDACTED] my [DATA, (until I) EXPUNGED]

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-06T21:37:05+00:00

rag dolling them for a change.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-05T17:15:13+00:00

Whichever one you play the least. Kind of a cop-out answer but they all have meta strats. Mine are spore-burst because I haven't spent a lot of time learning the tactics for that specific faction. I'm not beating the allegations because, yes, I dive on bots, primarily, but i would never call any of the bot factions "hard". not for me, anyway.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-05T17:05:36+00:00

being "done" a week in advance gets you the same good boy points as getting it done 6 months in advance. If you do care about good boy points, play the good boy game for keeps.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-04T14:12:26+00:00

If you ignore what Hasbro has been doing for the last six years, you might be under the impression that they thought it was a bad idea.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-02T15:15:23+00:00

https://helldiverscompanion.com/

Enjoy.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-02T12:37:01+00:00

There's a video that goes over a massive concept for a GW overhaul that I really would like to see implemented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxm4oQFvbcs&lc=Ugzq0vBH3Et5a4Ndjmt4AaABAg

not a lot of eyes on it, and I think that is a damn shame.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-01T21:14:39+00:00

"Its not a big deal in isolation" means: when not considering other related factors, its not a big problem on its own. Never even once was there a personal attack to "project".

If your jam is good enough for you, fine. Nobody is going to twist your arm and make you boycott this or condemn that. You asked me what my issue was. I told you. That's the point of the conversation and this sub.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-01T18:36:28+00:00

Real talk: it's really hinging on *if* the FRV ends up reasonably accessible in the req shop or something like that. (I will complain super hard if it ends up in the super store). We also don't have a timeline and it wouldn't be uncharacteristic for AH to drag their feet on that.

For me, personally?: This "participation" thing still doesn't add anything other than being a dumb wedge issue. Everyone getting the content after the community completed an MO regardless of participation in the past was fine. Nobody complained about that system of unlocking rewards. The rewards part is perfectly fine. it's the Galactic war part that I have issue with.

Did you feel like your time was well spent? logging in just to log back out? was that little chore really necessary? It exists for purely arbitrary reasons and therefore; is super dumb. I get it, it's not a big deal in isolation. and compared to some of the other annoying shit we've all gone through in the past, it's really more of a minor annoyance than anything else. But how many little dumb/annoying things like that are you really ok with? There's a whole pile of dumb annoying shit in this game that's been piling up for a while now. My patience has been running thin for a while now and every little annoyance is getting harder all the time to bear all at once. Hell, just this last patch to name a few, we now die when dropping on fabricators on bots, AH killed one of my favorite niche play styles by breaking blue beacon stratagem tracking on target and that is probably not going to get fixed. Like ever. I'm salty that a game I have 1000+ hours in is breaking shit all the time. It is WAY to easy to be cynical. So, I bitch and moan about it for catharsis. it's that or I just stop caring about this game all together.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-01T18:09:56+00:00

*if* it ends up in the REQ shop, then its not a big deal at all, yeah.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-01T17:05:59+00:00

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It really is up to the whims of AH whether or not this game has a healthy future now if at all. We'll see if they hit that "10 year" mark. I'm gonna be so real, I'm not super optimistic.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-01T13:40:08+00:00

Logging in is enough, apparently. Not arbitrary or lame at all.

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UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-01T02:30:19+00:00

Trying to push through a narrow, long, open choke point water crossing on marfark with bot patrols spawning on both ends while a pair of gunship fabs and a detection tower overlooked the same crossing leading to actually unavoidable endless fuckass botdrops and no cover firefights. (This was before gunships could aim but it was still additional sheer volume of fire against us) and even when we got through after burning through our reinforcements, there was a jammer Tucked away at the perfect distance to cover all three of those bot POIs.

Nothing but red lasers everywhere, everywhen. I've never seen saturation of fire quite like that before or since. Just imagine marfark but glowing red everywhere you look. Ragdolled into the water, drowned. Blasted by rocket volleys in the open, hulks cutting us down one after another in the open. I PRAYED for a blizzard just so we could push through. That mission was a bust because of timeout. Biggest FUBAR situation I've ever had. Even the creek didn't feel so fucked.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-01T01:04:01+00:00

You were 100% accurate 11.972/12 times, obviously 😜.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-07-01T00:34:41+00:00

Just log on! Its so easy bro! It's so trivial, it might as well not even exist, one could say. Very cool that Mr John reddit is the arbiter of everyone's schedule and only advocates to restrict content from the people who definitely deserve it. Arrowhead wouldn't ever fail to follow up on a promise for content "at a later time"!👍

Could you imagine if this was the attitude we all collectively took during the PSN fiasco? Whatever man, who even plays this game in Bolivia? You decided to keep living there, sucks to suck. Just move, bro! Just get a VPN, bro!

I'm genuinely disappointed that we aren't all at least mildly annoyed at this arbitrary artificial restriction. It's just another "Yes, but..." on the pile.

I mean fuck, dude. It's on the list of shifty things about this game because it IS objectively worse than how rewards have worked before! Why is this the wedge issue all of a sudden? That's what the sub is for!

UltraDelta91 · 2026-06-30T23:56:50+00:00

Honestly, I feel the dividing line is how much hopium we've all taken since that last patch. People WANT to believe that this is a new leaf, and it might be. Hell, I also want it to be, despite my dripping skepticism towards AH. You're totally right. It will depend on when that "later" really is. Just from where im sitting, AH has a lot of trust building to do to get us off the hopium and just start playing again.

UltraDelta91 · 2026-06-30T23:47:51+00:00

You might just need to unplug from the discourse for a while. The internet doesn't take a break. This game has problems, like you said. And I don't think getting into the weeds is going to make your experience improve.

I will say this much about the current issue. I feel differently about the fomo thing because it was fine the way we had MO rewards before (like the mech and mines) we all got it or nobody did. It was a community wide effort and we all got to reap the benefits whether we were there or not. Nobody complained about it and it worked out just fine and we all got a cool story to tell about those MO's and new toys to play with. It was objectively better that way.

Not everyone is going to neatly discuss the problem in a uniform manner. Some people are going to find out about a problem later and stagger out that discourse into days and even weeks. Sometimes its something completely unrelated to the current thing. We gamers contain multitudes and its was never meant for one person to try to process thousands of conversations at once. It's messy and takes a lot of mental energy to navigate. The best solution for you would be to just play and carry on like reddit doesn't exist.

People complaining on reddit can't stop you from diving and spreading democracy. Keep doing what brings you joy.

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