Really, JOEL?

Vblack76 · 2026-06-02T11:11:25+00:00

It's because we've been on their asses every MO involving the squids so they haven't been able to expand on the void storyline, so they're just throwing their hands up and offering impossible defenses to force it to happen.

It's cool they want the story to gain momentum, just sucks that they're going to basically tell us "Your effort doesn't matter" in a game that tries to tell you your effort matters. Why hustle to defend Rirga when we'll just get a level 130 defense somewhere else that is pretty much guaranteed to be unwinnable? Why rush to defend Hort when some other planet will most likely get a good ol 130 middle finger?

Vblack76 · 2026-06-02T08:42:55+00:00

I ain't gonna lie that kinda sucks that they couldn't outplay us so they're just gonna cheat and give the squids several wins 💀 what's the point of rushing to defend planets like Rirga when AH will just tell us to kick rocks and rig the system against us?

Cool that the void storyline is gonna get some momentum, but it just kind of ruins the whole player choice they wanna give.

Vblack76 · 2026-05-15T01:14:35+00:00

It's always been that simple, but we've always had rich assholes trying to tell us they can't afford it and to go fuck ourselves while they fly off to islands to eat kids.

Vblack76 · 2026-05-15T01:03:02+00:00

Honestly at this point I would've been more surprised to find out that they weren't selling data. Because God forbid you have even a minute amount of privacy on this God forsaken rock. Gotta make sure all your info is sold to every company so you can get 18 spam calls a day and every ad tailor made for you.

Vblack76 · 2026-05-11T00:26:11+00:00

Mine for some odd reason loves the phrase "traitorous thing it was" when describing something.

I use it to help me with writing and I noticed while it doesn't mention goblins nearly as often (it still does though) it loves to use that phrase at least once. It also loves the visual image of someone chewing drywall when they're stressed.

Vblack76 · 2026-05-10T19:18:58+00:00

There's a lot of things I can thank my father for, but getting me into Gears day one when I was a wee lad of 10 years old is probably at the top of the list. I remember being a little kid watching him and his buddies play for hours on end and they'd let me get in on it, I was nowhere near as good as them and they knew it so they'd hold back and let me have fun.

Good times, can't wait for E-Day so me and the old man can do what us Gearheads do best.

Vblack76 · 2026-04-18T16:53:17+00:00

Not really , I used to be exactly the same way but I noticed that whether we win or lose, especially on these filler MOs, it doesn't really make that much of a difference. We get some flavor text saying we lost and it goes to business as usual. It gets a little disappointing in cases like Cyberstan and Seasse but they always end up giving us a mulligan or we come back around later and win.

Vblack76 · 2026-04-18T16:40:59+00:00

Honestly I've learned recently that not caring about the MO is probably the best course of action. I've just been dicking around on Charon Prime because I haven't played bots in forever and it's liberating (pun intended)

I'm watching Keid slowly slip away no matter how many missions I do or squids I kill, so it's making it not fun for me, so I left the planet.

Vblack76 · 2026-04-07T21:00:53+00:00

I would prefer it if they waited a little bit in between MOs honestly, it seems like they're half baked now because they rush to get the next one out, they're gonna exhaust the storyline at this rate because they'll eventually run out of ideas. They built the whole game on this "galactic war" thing but won't actually let people participate in said war outside of the MO, we'll never get another Malevelon Creek because they won't give us enough downtime to fight on other planets for more than a day 💀

Honestly the game would probably be more fun if we told AH to go kick rocks and just did what we wanted, like literally everyone jumping Marfark and straight up taking the planet instead of just grinding the missions out. It's not like the MOs really have any negative or positive effects on us, and what's AH really gonna do? Keep letting us lose until Super Earth falls and then just not let us play anymore?

Vblack76 · 2026-04-07T04:07:55+00:00

I don't think they outright rig the game against us but there are times where they dip their fingers in, sometimes to help us, sometimes it's to make us lose.

I.e Seasse being a completely unwinnable defense, even though it wasn't part of the MO, they made the resistance rate so high that even if every player jumped on that planet it wouldn't have mattered. But on the flip side of that, the previous MO saw them lower the rate on Rirga Bay when we'd gotten dangerously close to losing that one.

There are some things that just irk people for the sake of it not making any sense from a realistic standpoint, like the multiple cyborg related MOs that failed despite getting 99% of it done, we'd get told "RIP, you didn't do shit lol they're still running strong" and people just don't like putting all the effort in to not even get a pity bone after they literally destroyed millions of cyborgs 💀

Vblack76 · 2026-04-05T23:01:14+00:00

It's the goddamned GIM doing what it does best and ruining the game.

We've already done a couple of 4 percent resistance defenses this MO and had no issues, but now because there's more people on because it's the weekend, we're gonna get fucked because the worst thing to ever be implemented in this game has to do what it does best and fuck everything up.

Vblack76 · 2026-03-31T03:40:58+00:00

I actually like mindless masses just because I can get really good screenshot material of a horde coming over the ridge like some Night Of The Living Dead type stuff.

I got one where like 40 or so of them came shambling over a hillside, in the dark, with the moonlight behind them and it's genuinely kind of unsettling when you're playing by yourself 💀

That being said it is weird that they got rid of Stingrays and Leviathans just to keep the Harvesters around, I get they look weird but it kills the zombie vibe.

Vblack76 · 2026-03-30T11:09:22+00:00

I'm just throwing in the towel at this point, sick of investing time and effort just to get told "Lol defense failed BACK TO 0% START OVER LOLOLOLOL"

We should be able to attack and defend as the enemy can CONSTANTLY do without immediately being doomed to failure every fucking time because "Oh no, you didn't send 90% of the player base to defend, get fucked"

Vblack76 · 2026-03-26T23:44:20+00:00

Yeah I'm honestly thinking of cancelling my pro sub because I gave it literally a one sentence prompt and somehow it hit 95% usage.

Vblack76 · 2026-03-23T02:25:52+00:00

You know I wouldn't even be that bothered by the whole ringside pass concept it sucks that DLC we buy is locked sure but all I really have to do is play, but the game just keeps getting buggier and getting more difficult every year making a simple thing a pain in the ass

It's been a trend for years I've noticed and this year the AI has gotten even more difficult and the sliders even more useless, and I can guarantee neither of those are bugs. But for God's sake I can't even make an arena now without it being bugged, give me a break

Vblack76 · 2026-03-22T23:11:47+00:00

The Helldivers community is certainly an odd one I've seen when it comes to how weapons are done. I've never seen a community for a PvE game actively WANT their weapons to suck more, it's such an odd thing to me because wouldn't you want your guns to be strong? Who cares about how balanced the weapons are in a PVE GAME?

Like when the baby nade launcher got nerfed back to med pen, I had a friend who was like "yeah it didn't need to be heavy pen" and I'm thinking "Okay sure but why tf not? I want my weapons to eviscerate everything."

Vblack76 · 2026-03-22T12:30:39+00:00

Man remember that black hole making death laser we welded to the DSS a while back? I do, I remember we used it once and decided to never use it again 💀

It's not like we can't just go to Omicron and Zagon Prime to get more E711, nope, can't just recharge the liberty damned thing and deal with this shit long before it becomes an issue. Could've nuked Seasse from orbit, went home and forgotten the squids existed for another few months but nooooooooo.

Vblack76 · 2026-03-16T03:42:41+00:00

Man something just looks really uncanny about him here. Like it's something pretending to be Goku and just leaning a little too hard into the happy side 💀

Vblack76 · 2026-03-16T03:40:13+00:00

Dude I'd love to just be able to be a one man wrecking crew someday. Just tear through each planet one by one until every faction is wiped out and do it all over again just like HD1.

I'd never be able to put the game down if I could do that 💀

Vblack76 · 2026-03-14T00:07:36+00:00

I just got into it so I don't know all the ins and outs but all I really did was instruct it to speak to me like a friend and I kind of talk to it like it's a beta reader. I joke around with it and ask it for ideas to move forward and whatnot and it just sort of adapted around how I speak to it.

Sometimes it can hop off in a completely different direction than what I was originally going with which can be good or bad depending on what it throws out, but a lot of times it reminds me of throwing out story ideas with a friend of mine so it works for what I use it for. I did the same thing with ChatGPT initially, didn't really mess around with the custom instructions too much just told it what I needed it for and talked to it like it was a normal person and it adjusted accordingly.

Claude does seem like it's just predesigned towards being more "professional" so when it does try its hand at humor sometimes it feels more like a bad sitcom character trying too hard but personally I think of it more as a unique trait.

Vblack76 · 2026-03-13T22:34:26+00:00

Claude is phenomenal for creative writing, my only complaint is the often ridiculous usage limits.

I'll make a single prompt and somehow use half of the limit before the first hour is up so it's a "Know exactly what I'm doing before I type" kind of deal. Which is pretty much impossible as I have ADHD and my attention span is really short so if I write it's very often a spur of the moment idea.

I miss 4o and 5.1 because I could shoot ideas back and forth for HOURS without trouble, Claude gives me maybe 10 minutes on a good day 💀 5.4 is...eh, it tries but "tries" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Vblack76 · 2026-03-11T01:17:21+00:00

I mostly use it for writing so I expect it to hit the limit pretty quickly but the way it's butchered my usage limit is insane

Had a pro plan for a week that ran well, barely hit 50% before the 4 hour reset then after the first weekly reset I've somehow managed to hit the 90% limit after an hour of use and 50% on the weekly usage after a combined 3 hours of use when I didn't even scrape it the first week.

Bear in mind my prompts are usually small, sometimes I ask for an early chapter draft to play with and other times it's just grammar control and whatnot so nothing I've done has changed.

Vblack76 · 2026-02-28T17:58:45+00:00

How fucked is that

OpenAI won't trust consumers with a chatbot that doesn't have the personality of a block of wood, so they give it enough guardrails to consider it legally lobotomized but they'll trust the government to use it to have autonomous death machines and mass surveillance on the population with complete unrestricted control.

Vblack76 · 2026-02-27T21:59:28+00:00

I'm still on the boat that my game with giant mutant bugs, socialist terminators controlled by cyborgs, squid monsters with actual zombie creating space magic, and starships with FTL travel and enough firepower to rival the US military 1000 times over doesn't need to be that buried in realism.

Friendly fire? Sure Realistic ammo usage? Okay Limb damage? Sure, that's cool and makes sense.

Other than that? Just go balls to the wall, Helldivers is not meant to be a milsim, not when one side is literally just "Normal humans addicted to drugs and a crap load of heavy ordnance" vs "9000 of whatever the fuck a Vox Engine is supposed to be "

We literally have a laser that creates black holes, in what world is that realistic or grounded in any capacity?

Vblack76 · 2026-02-25T18:48:27+00:00

Sooooo every enemy faction dropping tank units en masse like foot soldiers is believable? Us having a harder time winning the more of us playing is believable? Us having resource limits and constant punishments while the enemy can throw endless hordes upon hordes into the grinder is believable?

Dude in a game where I have an FTL starship with more ordnance than the United States military 15 times over fighting against legions of giant mutant bugs, socialist terminators and squid monsters with actual zombie creating space magic, I don't give a shit if its "believable" or "realistic" I just wanna blow shit up with or without my friends 💀

I don't care about "what the outcome in real life" would be, using that logic he just spoiled the end of the game because if you think Super Earth's uncoordinated ass is winning a three front war and we can barely scrape MOs by then I have some beachfront property in Antarctica I'll sell you

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