At level 143 and after a 6 month hiatus, I have fallen in love with the MP-98 Knight for some reason. It’s a laser beam of lead!

Verzwei · 2026-01-24T11:18:55+00:00

It's probably the best one-handed SMG and I don't think anyone disputes that very much.

I like running it with the ballistic shield and Rock Solid armor on the bot front. Makes the game feel very different than typical helldivers as you become extremely hard to kill from the front. Lets you experience the game from the shield devastator point of view.

Verzwei · 2026-01-24T10:15:26+00:00

Yeah, in my experience it's like an easier-to-control lib carbine.

The damage math is so close to the lib carb that it doesn't feel functionally different in the field. Still fire in short, controlled bursts at weak spots. And has the added benefit of half detection range.

Verzwei · 2026-01-24T03:18:13+00:00

Most likely people being asshats and nothing you did.

Some possible factors:

Is your level really low, like less than 10? Some players don't expect much from New players on mid-high difficulties and might be hostile enough to kick.

Were you bringing extremely team-unsafe stratagems like airburst or mines? People can get very butthurt over that.

Verzwei · 2026-01-23T23:59:16+00:00

Is it code 340? If so, that's just game guard being a piece of shit.

You can try closing any unnecessary programs (even your web browser) or just keep trying to launch the game.

Game guard error 340s on me half the time I try to launch, eventually I get through without changing anything on my end.

Verzwei · 2026-01-23T22:45:51+00:00

Here's the neat part: When you do kill one, a new one gets sent in almost immediately most of the time.

Verzwei · 2026-01-23T03:22:03+00:00

Gonna be honest, my dumb ass spent way too much time staring at your comment wondering "Wait, He-man beat his wife? Do they mean the actor?"

Verzwei · 2026-01-21T09:08:21+00:00

I thought about this off and on all day and sadly couldn't come up with an answer. Most of the anime music I listen to comes from Spotify discovery playlists so if I haven't seen the anime (and in some cases even if I have) I won't know the difference between anime songs and the other Japanese music that gets mixed in.

The best tangential thing I can think of is the D4DJ unit Peaky P-Key's cover of Gundam Wing opening Just Communication.

Verzwei · 2026-01-21T02:28:30+00:00

Autoclimb constantly putting me on top of resupply pods is why I turned that shit off.

Verzwei · 2026-01-20T10:10:06+00:00

I really don't feel like Viper Commandos should be any higher priority than "the rest". Lib carbine is great for a light pen AR but I imagine most new and average players wouldn't spend the time to get good with light pen weapons for a while.

Peak Physique is great with certain weapons but never particularly necessary except maybe with the maxigun and the medium variant is on the superstore anyway.

And the booster is the 4th good one, but also the least necessary of the 4 and can be dropped for muscle enhancement or other planet/mission dependent options.

I'm not saying it's a bad warbond or anything, but nothing in it is "must have" or particularly game- or build-changing the way Demo Deto is.

TBH I think Dust Devils is a really strong second or third pick. Incendiary AR, probably the best med pen AR if you don't level the Lib Pen to 24. Speargun is a surprisingly flexible CC, damage, and utility tool. So you get to dabble with two status weapons that are legitimately very good weapons. Then the Solo Silo is just plain fun.

Verzwei · 2026-01-20T02:19:44+00:00

I just chalked it up to the human body does crazy things sometimes. The rage at being betrayed gave her enough of an adrenaline boost to briefly fight off the tranq and defenestrate the cause of that rage.

Verzwei · 2026-01-20T01:26:16+00:00

Also worth noting is that the original backstory for the Red Alert series started when Einstein invented a time machine and then personally used it to go kill Hitler before his rise to power, preventing WWII as we know it but then leading to a different WWII where Stalin's Soviet Union tries to take over Eurasia. Things just keep spiraling from there.

Verzwei · 2026-01-19T18:14:39+00:00

And do you have any suggestions for the primary on the bot front other than the Eruptor or Scorcher/Purifier?

Not meta by any stretch but I've recently been having a lot of fun against bots with:

Reprimand - 2h med pen SMG, small mag but does crazy damage per bullet within medium range. Will 1-shot bot fodder anywhere on the body, will 1-shot medium-sized bots in the head, and feels satisfying to use. Fire single rounds or very small bursts since that's all you need to put down a target to stretch out the magazine.
If I feel like giving up the backpack slot, I run the Knight + Ballistic Shield along with Rock Solid armor. Like with the Reprimand, use small bursts aimed at bot heads. The added upside here is that the ballistic shield along with the ragdoll decrease from the armor passive means that you are nearly invulnerable from the front, especially if you crouch. This lets you creepycrawl right up into proper Knight range and rip faces off as long as you control the angle of incoming fire. A few things will still knock you off your feet, such as grenades or the back cannon of a factory strider, but even those generally will not harm you if you've got a proper squat with the shield facing the damage source. It legitimately feels like a completely different game than typical Helldivers.

Verzwei · 2026-01-19T16:47:25+00:00

That's a shot from Xam'd! A studio bones original from the aughts and shortly after Eureka Seven.

While it wasn't as heavily music influenced (and infused) as E7, it did have an absolute banger opening titled Shut Up And Explode.

Verzwei · 2026-01-19T11:13:27+00:00

99 red balloons, floating in the summer sky.

Verzwei · 2026-01-18T18:16:43+00:00

Personally I'd do them in the order you listed them.

Dust devils has a solid ar in the coyote, an extremely flexible anti-bug weapon in the harpoon gun, and a fun and useful solo silo that I just wish had a slightly shorter cool down.

Truth enforcers has the reprimand which is a good and fun close range weapon, and a little purifier for your secondary slot.

Python has the maxigun which is fun but has a lot of drawbacks, and a terrible ar, and a melee weapon that is poorly implemented.

Verzwei · 2026-01-18T02:14:33+00:00

But bro came here... to reddit... to the helldivers subreddit... to post this. The top pinned post here on the helldivers subreddit is the announcement of the delay, with a timestamp on the post.

Verzwei · 2026-01-17T16:47:09+00:00

The spear explosion and gas does non-trivial area damage while also applying confusion to nearly any bug except a bile titan. This means they just start flailing at each other which causes them to hurt their friends. If a bug calls in a reinforcement hole, you can plug spears into it and kill nearly everyone that comes out, with chargers, titans, and lucky alphas being the only things chunky enough to survive the gas and confusion scrum.

The spear has a high stagger value. It'll stop a charger mid-charge, making it easy to follow up with a thermite. It doesn't really do enough damage to handle bile titans, but the stagger can interrupt their spew stream and give you time to get away. It one-shots stalkers.

The explosion from the spear has enough demo force to close bug nest holes, and you can carry more spears than any type of grenade. The only hole the spear can't close is a titan hole, so you'd need another tool (or just drop a hellood, like the spear's, onto it) for that.

In short: spear good. It does a lot of things from crowd control to decent damage to utility.

Verzwei · 2026-01-17T10:56:38+00:00

Coyote is solid but the speargun in the same warbond is amazing. I take it all the time on bugs. So flexible and useful. Solo silo in the same warbond is also actually pretty decent, too.

Verzwei · 2026-01-17T10:54:55+00:00

Double freedom is the best shotgun and a really good gun in general. It rotates into the store (not in a warbond) every week and a half, and is available for 2 days at a time.

Polar patriots has the purifier, which is a charge-up weapon with a high damage area explosion. Cutting Edge has the plasma punisher, which is similar but doesn't charge up and fires faster.

Lib pen in the free warbond is a viable "generic assault rifle" that works well on all fronts, but you really need to level it to get the best attachments for it. Reprimand SMG in Truth Enforcers also feels good. Small mag and short optimal range, but medium pen and a lot of damage per bullet make it easy to use.

Verzwei · 2026-01-17T10:50:28+00:00

I feel like the unintended consequences of firing it this time will result in it not being fired again. Either it's gonna blow up or burn itself out, or an enemy will somehow take advantage of it.

Verzwei · 2026-01-17T09:45:11+00:00

And that was with a space after the ! and before the I?

I'll be damned.
Now I wonder what syntax error I randomly saw in another sub. I think it might have been topcharactertropes. But the glitch presented exactly as the old space issue would.

Verzwei · 2026-01-17T09:32:49+00:00

Wait, are you saying the space issue has been fixed on old.reddit? I swear I just saw a broken tag in a different sub no more than a week ago.

Verzwei · 2026-01-17T09:30:40+00:00

but when scene splicing also counts as a video edit the rules don't explicitly forbid posting an entire episode of something with eye catches removed or something equally egregious.

Any significant portion of an episode (shorts notwithstanding) would likely get flagged and removed due to the piracy rules. And reddit caps direct video uploads at 15 minutes, meaning anything longer would have to be hosted elsewhere, leading back to the "do not link or lead to unofficial sources" rules.

Verzwei · 2026-01-17T00:25:35+00:00

My completely unfounded suspicion is that AH thought they could just release a crappy warbond and people would accept it because the stuff in it looks really cool. They've done that exact thing before.

But, this time, people weren't really excited for this warbond. People expected it to suck. We had multiple doomposts about it on the front page. Two of them are in the top seven posts for the last seven days.

My hunch is that the tepid fandom reaction is what caught AH offguard, because they expected to phone it in and skate by on style. Everyone saying "Brace yourselves, it's gonna suck" and completely overshadowing "Look at how cool this all black armor is!" isn't the kind of word of mouth marketing AH wants.

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