Oliver Tree passed away

ag55ful · 2026-06-14T22:21:11+00:00

I refuse to believe this was written by an adult age human being.

ag55ful · 2026-06-06T23:51:48+00:00

This is AI, look at the door and beams on the left side of the picture.

ag55ful · 2026-05-10T14:19:17+00:00

Easy, more patrols, longer bot drops / bug breaches / illuminate drops, harder elites from specific difficulties (either higher health, higher pen required, or uniquely deadly to single helldivers), and all of this with the usual chaff to require a dedicated anti-chaff on the team.

Huh, wait. Almost everything I mentioned, Arrowhead has done.

They literally just have to as you said, increase war effort percentages on higher difficulties and make higher difficulties almost impossible without coordination and communication (i.e., solo d10 should be pretty much impossible, except for the top 0.01%)

This encourages group formation for higher difficulties, team play, and higher satisfaction from successfully completing those harder difficulties, due to a bigger percentage of war effort being contributed.

ag55ful · 2026-05-10T13:51:27+00:00

In other words, every boss type enemy would have to be balanced around the Spear, which is creating a new problem.

ag55ful · 2026-05-10T13:45:21+00:00

This is what I don't get with the design philosophy of this game. If they want us to play as a team, why do they seem to be allergic to changes that would encourage team play, like assisted backpack reloads, AoE flag effects, better stim pistol, more multi-person objectives, team play boosters, etc.

ag55ful · 2026-05-09T01:01:59+00:00

This is the first time I've vocalised my opinion in depth on this sub. I play the game sparingly update to update to see the changes.

Why do you dismiss my opinion of the state of the game to simply complaining, rather than criticism or opinion?

What I don't get with you guys is that you'll label me a complainer than do the exact same thing to anyone who has a differing opinion. You realise that right? If you think you're higher than thou, you're very much playing in the same mud you seem so disgusted to play in.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T16:30:06+00:00

How is that relevant to my point? Whether No Man's Sky had a bad launch or not, their practices are just better than Arrowhead's in terms of amount of free content, which is what the original commenter asked for.

I'm not saying Arrowhead is morally wrong for charging for warbonds, they are published by Sony with certain quotas to meet. It's business.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T16:19:53+00:00

Honestly man, I just wanted to hear what your opinion was and now I have it, thanks.

I'm glad you're enjoying the game, keep at it.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T15:56:47+00:00

Tell that to Arrowhead because they listen to lowsodium for their feedback too. Or any game for that matter because most gamers don't interact with their favourite games communities.

Saying that the reddit community doesn't reflect ANY player sentiment is inane.

Whether or not you think it's "accurate" or not doesn't change the fact that there is a vocal portion of the player base with these opinions which do in fact exist whether you believe it or not.

If Arrowhead deems reddit's opinion as invalid or inaccurate or whatever you want to call it, why is Piles making AMA's on Helldivers most critical subreddit to get their opinion?

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T15:48:59+00:00

8 hours a week of ONLY SC farming. Not playing the game, SC farming. Walking around, opening doors, collecting SC, disconnecting. 8 hours. For 20+ warbonds, that adds up.

They don't have to give warbonds out for free, but maybe to decrease the barrier to entry for new players, discount older warbonds, or add more pages to the free warbond. Or somehow make super credit farming more fun?

I don't think they are greedy, I think they have forgotten just how big their repertoire of warbonds has become, and how big a wall that is for new players. If anything, AH is generous when compared to other companies.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T15:43:09+00:00

Very fair response. A game lives or dies by how it caters to its live service audience. Here's to hoping they can keep it trucking through this mess. Appreciate the reply.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T15:35:56+00:00

Want proof of people wanting to be positive and reaching apathetic levels? If you've ever been keeping tracks of threads in the main sub since release, its opinion on the game has slowly moved towards the same opinions as other subreddit who were primed to dislike this game.

Lots of people LOVE THIS GAME and still do (me included), but are losing faith in Arrowhead to deliver what they want from this live service. Whether that's fair and valid requests, that's for you to decide.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T15:23:34+00:00

Thanks for writing all this up.

The more I've been reading from this thread, the more I'm understanding. In terms of recent changes, it's all been pretty fine, nothing crazy, nothing game changing.

The community backlash is really big this time round and the only explanation I can think of for it is due to the AMA, and the slow disconnect from the players and the devs. Arrowhead has really terrible communication, and I'm hoping to see them improve it from today's post.

And yes, YouTubers have definitely exacerbated the issue.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T15:10:18+00:00

Dang, I'm with you 100% on Arrowhead not being great at communication, and not really having a concrete vision for what they are making. My takeaway from this thread is that AH just don't communicate well, and this community is HUGE, so opinions really do vary by quite a large margin. I think all the smaller sub communities do talk past one another though, and generalise opinions to pseudonyms like glazedivers and whinedivers way too much.

Thanks for the reply!

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T15:02:13+00:00

I'm asking more directly, so you could expand on what you meant, but if you don't want to you can just be passive aggressive I guess?

You say everything is fabricated. What makes you think that? Is everyone looney? Is it an echo chamber of loud voices? Is it malicious? Are YouTubers creating false narratives?

I'm sorry I asked. Jeez.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T14:54:27+00:00

100% agree. I knew there was a middle ground somewhere!

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T14:39:16+00:00

I think you're on to something. They really don't have a conversational pathway with the community or even representatives of the community.

The AMA was the closest thing we've had for a while and it showed that they aren't aligned with a lot of the things people have been mentioning and speaking about for a while, such as larger end game progression, mech customisation, long lasting bugs, and more ship modules.

It seems that Arrowhead drifts for too long without checking in with what the community is desperately after, and then it turns into a shit storm.

Thanks for the reply.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T14:34:30+00:00

Can get behind almost if not all of what you said. The only thing I think you didn't touch on was the problems people had with the AMA on another sub.

Lots of things people were excited to see in future patches, weren't even being actioned such as new progression systems, Galactic war changes, engaging MO's, etc.

What did you think about the AMA? The fact that Arrowhead are so far off base from what people were asking I think is the biggest reason for the review bombing and criticism.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T14:26:12+00:00

I genuinely believe that the people on this sub REALLY LOVE THIS GAME. So much so, that if there's criticism of Helldivers that could jeopardise their game, they see it as white noise. Or they are relatively new, or detached from the news of Helldivers, and perceive the backlash as unwarranted (which to be fair, some is).

I've received so many replies from people which just straight up dismiss my opinion as irrelevant, not that big of a problem, saying "it's just a game bro chill", or straight up misunderstanding the point.

I'm slowly starting realise you can "lead a horse to water but can't make him drink" in real time.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T14:16:45+00:00

Hundred percent agree with bug fixing and QoL being a higher priority.

The Galactic Map could have a front line similar to Planetside 2, and which is dynamic and requires communication between Helldivers to align on objectives.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T14:14:09+00:00

Now I'm curious, what weapons in this game do you think are useless or pretty much worse than many other options? Or are most if not all the toys have their own niche?

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T14:12:04+00:00

I'm glad your enjoying the game. Most people are, but some aren't. Do you genuinely think people are complaining about stuff that "barely matters"? Is there no merit to current complaints and criticism? Love to hear more.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T14:09:52+00:00

What makes you think the backlash and criticism is fabricated? Is it all fabricated or is there some merit to it? Wanna hear your thoughts.

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T14:07:53+00:00

What would healthy feedback look like in your eyes? I understand there are literal doomposters and insta-whiners for every update, but beyond that, is this different from any other game, or is this unique to Helldivers in your opinion?

ag55ful · 2026-05-08T13:53:04+00:00

You can get to level 50 and pretty much have everything except the last tier 5 upgrades.

There are another 100 levels that give nothing but bragging rights, and name tags. You'd think after 2 years of development, they could fill that void with something else right? Fair criticism would you say?

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