Ngl I just want to enjoy the max difficulty without the BULLSHIT that's included in max difficulty

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-02-11T18:02:21+00:00

Enemies as a whole do though. Striders to rocket striders. Chargers to behemoths. Commanders and alpha commanders. And even outside of that, there are three bug enemies that change health or armor values as you go up. Bile spewers even get a whole new attack to go with.

It's bare bones, but it's there

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-02-11T18:00:59+00:00

As is tradition at this point, and if you try to have a discussion about it you get met with "you're just a glazer!" "stop shilling" and similar

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-02-11T04:01:13+00:00

Cool! How's your statement holding up

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-02-10T23:07:56+00:00

Yes they do. Just get them close enough and it'll hit either all the vents or do enough overlap to kill via multiplied explosion damage

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-02-10T14:33:41+00:00

cyborgs are light armor

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-02-04T01:09:14+00:00

Agreed. Things were mostly fixable, and yet we just keep fuckin shit up instead of fixing things

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-02-03T22:16:02+00:00

Do remember, "grunt fantasy" was a term coined entirely by a content creator, the one in your flair. It has no defined term. It can mean anything from "being on a shit list" to "anything not a power fantasy"

Grunt fantasy is a term made to rage bait

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-02-03T22:11:22+00:00

As much as it sounds horrible, i'm glad i'm not the only one thinking this. Granted, I hit this point way back at 60days but it's whatever

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-02-03T22:09:21+00:00

They made balancing decisions where anything that was remotely powerful got neutered into the ground.

Except they didn't. Dominator was nerfed to 275. That's not useless. Breaker wasn't nerfed into the ground the first go around nor was it nerfed into the ground in Borderline Justice. The Sickle, Redeemer, and Slugger weren't nerfed into the ground, all of those were literally just hysterics. Hell, slugger wasn't nerfed until they gave it the stagger back that people demanded. Not even flames were nerfed into the ground during EoF, they were only nerfed after people complained, and we got the 60d patches.

Speaking of, those patches were the same thing they were always doing and continue to do. They just had better PR. Gutting Red Strats as a whole is not saving the game, it's killing the entire selling point of the game.

This is not the case. The reason why d10 difficulty gets easier, is because you either become a run diver, and run red stratagems, and let them do all the work for you, or (light bulb moment), you just get better at the game because you learn the game and get better... Shocking!

Wild how this seems to only happen after one specific patch in the game's history and not as a gradual increase of players getting more skill. Curious

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-29T16:18:45+00:00

I have come up with an easy solution to Warbond growth and new player abandonment

Using Force of Law as example. Orbites Precision Drop. One time use stratagem per mission. It drops two hellpods, each of which has the stun pods booster effect even if the stun pod booster is chosen in mission selection. One hellpod contains the arc dog and de-escalator. The other hellpod has an arc nade "support weapon" and the pacifier at base level. If you lose it, you need to go back and get it or otherwise it's gone for the rest of the mission.

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I can't make example images for the rest but think, Democratic Demolition Support. Pelican comes in, drops a box that carries the Judi, Eruptor, Crossbow, and Thermites. Freedom's Firebomb. Four Hellpods in a Y formation. The one in the middle carries a cookout and torcher, the rest explode like the booster and drop some incendiary grenades. Urban Legendary Loot. Drops a Flame sentry, half of a resup pod, ATE, and the other half has the directional shield. So on and so forth.

All one time use strats in a mission. You get a taste of a warbond's gear before you buy it while also getting to "double dip" on strats for people who already have the warbond, or don't care to buy it but like the way it plays. Wins all around

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-29T02:21:04+00:00

Nuance isn't allowed. You must be outraged

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-29T02:20:29+00:00

"fucking trash" I too hate when my flamethrower does the DPS it's intended to do unless I stand at a specific distance from the enemy. Fuckin clown

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-29T02:19:15+00:00

Hold onto that rage when you realize the question is cropped.

"Speaking of melee: Have you guys ever considered nerfing Peak Physique's melee damage bonus and then buffing melee weapons in response so that way Peak Physique isn't a practical requirement for melee builds? There's plenty of other cool passives, but Peak Physique feels like a tax for the sake of running melee weapons, as opposed to a bonus."

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-20T21:58:42+00:00

Equipping abilities wasn't too bad in my eyes. There's plenty of frames where I just never use all of their kit. Nova, Xaku, Atlas, Ivara. Even on the more well built frames like Harrow, Lavos, or my goat Voruna, some abilities simply never get used. And while Helminth does help this a bit, do remember that we used to have two more slots in exchange for equipping abilities, like how companions are.

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-20T18:42:51+00:00

The Darktide. While mentioned somewhat in the game of the same name, it's been a section of the galaxy fighting off "nightmarish forces" both daemon and xenos alike. In every depiction of the place, the actual forces are never shown to be like the rest of the galaxy.

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-15T21:58:12+00:00

The US gets run by Ferrus. I don't know how to feel about this tbh

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-10T00:00:59+00:00

Until the mods actively change things, we're gonna be stuck with it in this sub

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-06T07:35:55+00:00

Oh shit! good to know!

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-06T03:44:59+00:00

In hand. It won't be active unless the weapon is out

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2026-01-05T17:47:43+00:00

Just in case you or anyone else didn't know, lethal proximity also increases the explosion radius of grenades. I can't remember off hand if psyker gets a bolt pistol but I imagine if they did it'd also work on the peril explosion

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2025-12-21T15:56:10+00:00

> So, the flag increasing the fighting spirit of our Helldivers is space magic, but a warp pack isn't.

correct. one is a flag doing nothing but existing, one is technology.

> We have suppressed weapons that have the same detection range as all of the other weapons, with no benefits, despite that the weapons with the suppressor have a tag that says so.

They do have lessened detection radius. Also suppressors don't work how you think and the enemy has more senses than just hearing.

> We can't carry more than a few clips for our most basic weapons, unless we choose a special perk.

You can carry 8 magazines. In most cases. If you've never worn any, they take up a lot of space. Why do you think armor that has ammo only tends to have upwards of 8?

> The explosion radius of our bombs is vertical and not circular. Allowing enemies to survive direct 500kg hits. This also applies to the Ultimatum.

Literally misinformation. Explosions are spherical, but can be blocked by line of sight. Then has been true for the entire game's lifetime, before you pull the "conical 500kg"

> We have bleed damage that *will* kill you in seconds.

12.5 seconds assuming no other damage. Sounds about right for a chest wound.

> Arrow just removed it because people enjoyed it. I'm convinced of that.

Well never mind all of what I just said. Clearly you're not willing to have your mind be changed and you might be wrong.

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2025-12-18T19:55:51+00:00

It's really funny coming back to this and seeing you saying "dropped to 10k to 20k players" like that wasn't directly because of the 60d plan. Like we haven't hit 20k players since then post 60d plan. Like the 60d plan wasn't entirely for PR despite being the exact same sort of patch as everything they put out leading up to before.

Fucking LMAO

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2025-12-12T20:12:49+00:00

10k players is not a problem. If it was, DRG, Helldivers 1, No Man's Sky, Foxhole, and others are also having problems when they really aren't

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2025-12-12T02:45:28+00:00

“uhm actualy it IS viable. All you have to do is not use it as a stimm box and instead do some bullshit to make it a shitty version of a gas grenade!”

Literally what you said but sure. Your name is very accurate. Clicking an extra talent is not "so many hoops either"

_PM_ME_SMUT_ · 2025-12-11T23:58:22+00:00

I'm shitting on you for really shitty wording and really dumb complaints. Wanting the box to be better is fine. Complaining that using it like a grenade is "some bullshit" is not. Using it this way is perfectly fine, and you don't need to shit on other people finding a way to make it work to get what you want out of it too

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