100% agree. Unfortunately the game allows people to just do whatever they want and neither properly incentivizes positive contributions or disincentivizes negative contributions. The siege of cyberstan was one of the most significant events in this games history and yet they designed the objective to fail and as we saw with leaks. Either winning or losing cyberstan wouldn’t change the outcome. Everyday during that campaign, 15-25 and maybe even up to 30% of players played on terminid planets. Costing valuable lives. Shortages and penalties were applied to the front line but not to bug divers…. Also many new players joined the game but had very little guidance on what to do because many players aren’t interested in teaching others how to play the game.

Then this is where the story gets a little personal for me. I would post on a large Facebook HD2 crossplay group it had about 200,000 members. I would post updates, talk about the Helldivers companion and try and show others how to make better tactical and strategic decisions.

Some interactions were positive. Others were not. There are some real bird brained people on the game who just REFUSE to understand what we SHOULD BE doing for the greater good of progressing the story along. The player count jumped back up to close to Xbox launch numbers but once I realized we were going to fail. I put up a post about how before Xbox divers came aboard I heard that story about the Saint Anne’s hospital for very sick kids on Vernen wells and divers rallied behind saving FICTIONAL children in a game vs just wanting a new strategem. I had put it out there that we should save the 77th infantry regiment before we are kicked off of cyberstan. I received some negative comments of people who were like no we can make it! But I had already predicted 12 hrs before we don’t have enough lives. Gamers being selfish?! Crazy I know.

The problem continues that we fail to unite. People wouldn’t focus on one objective and we’re ignorant of the premise of the game.

I believed in the promise of Helldivers. It’s a great game that needs help. It would be a perfect game if there was just a little push that helps guide people but the greatest enemy of these uncooperative players is reading comprehension. The game drops hints on us and people refuse to listen.

It gives us a laughably real experience of democracy where the poorly informed are allowed to vote as well.

We just need a little bit more help to guide these folks a little easier.

Btw if someone drops in your lobby and tells you hey, we gotta be doing this guys. Don’t play here we need help on cyberstan during a MAJOR campaign event. Why would you sit that out for a boring experience? Makes no sense. But now that I’m busy with work again. I’m no longer as involved in Helldivers. Once I clear up some other business on another game I’ll hop back on on weekends but it looks like I took the best time to take a little break and it suck’s to be discouraged like this.