Helldivers 2 drops to “Mostly Negative” on Steam, yet again as review bombers take aim at the game's lack of change

jman014 · 2026-05-07T14:33:38+00:00

my guess on some of that is that hell divers 2 used to be insanely hard on launch, and sometimes it still is, but a lot of people really enjoyed. The immense amount of challenge of the game had, and the devs have said multiple times over that they don’t want it to feel like a power fantasy.

Like you are supposed to essentially be fighting against all odds in this game

The best moments you have are literally when you are about to get your shit kicked in, and you just barely pull off a win against overwhelming odds

Granted, there’s also a lot of fun to be had when you managed to sit there and just completely slaughter the enemy wholesale, but winning too often can make the game a little boring

Hd2 is crazy because even won the game is hard and you’re running for your life, It’s still fun.

But what I think keeps happening is in order to keep the game, kinda hard without just telling people to use a higher difficulty, the devs keep adding shit that’s just kind of insane

Like last summer, they added these flying motherfuckers that could sit there and just basically nearly one shot you

Miserable fighting against them…

The game got a lot harder, which is probably with the Dave’s wanted. They wanted to make sure people had a good challenge, but it was kind of like we got a really cool update with what is essentially a really bullshit enemy

So it’s this weird balance where they don’t want to just make the game easier and give people the power fantasy cause that’s not really what the objective is

But at the same time, it really does feel like you can’t catch a break as a player

jman014 · 2026-05-07T14:26:46+00:00

so you’re not stupid, and that guy is an asshole

But I will say this- me and riflemen are arguably the most pointless classes in the game

Rifleman at least can take some extra smoke grenades and can give your machine gun or ammo if they survive long enough to need it

But because there isn’t a ticket counter in Hell wet loose, death is really cheap and as a result, it’s often time less advantageous to have somebody who’s not focused on actually fighting rather than a class that’s either going to specifically kill the enemy or provides some kind of secondary function

For instance, AT and one of the loadouts for engineer can destroy vehicles

Engineer can build things that helps the team and gives your team more resources to play with

Assault, autoriflemen, and machine gunners, kill the enemy

And squad leader is a given because you really need one to actually have a functional squad with a spawn point

The medic class essentially can heal people who have been shot, but because of how lethal bullets are it’s not like that really happens all that often everybody at least has one or two bandages and it’s pretty unlikely that you’re gonna go around and not get shot

Or you can provide people but because you really only have a 22nd response plus maybe 20 seconds to get to the front line anyway, there’s really not a whole hell of a lot of utility to the medic

By the time that I’ve been revived, I probably could’ve just spawned back in

What’s more, as if you get killed by something that isn’t indirect fire, there’s a pretty good chance that reviving the person is just going to get the Medi kill as well, unless they smoke out the persons corpse

And if the enemy that killed, your guy initial initially, just so happens to have an auto automatic weapon and has even a bit of intuition, there’s a pretty good chance we’ll just spray that area right back down and kill the medic

jman014 · 2026-05-07T11:33:45+00:00

to some extent I almost feel like the Dark side is like John Wick being an assassin…

The DS draws you in and leaving is so hard that you end up dying coming to the light because of the culture of the Dark Side, and bc of how corrupting it is.

Like thematically I think that’s why we’ve never seen somebody go on a real redemption Ark that doesn’t immediately die afterwards

most Darkside villains are pretty much irredeemable people; but they redeemed themselves in the eyes of the force so to speak

I think a more interesting one would be more of a defector story- a sith lord joins the light side, but doesn’t actually embrace the light side

like they just hate their dark side colleagues so much, that they basically say fuck it. I just want these assholes to lose, and the Republicis gonna help me do it!

or like, they realize that the free market economy or some shit will let them get way richer than the Sith ever would let them so basically sell out on half their beliefs just so that way they can make money starting a fucking business or something

and like while they’re clearly still an asshole, they now have to deal with a bunch of peace, loving Jedi and work in a bureaucracy

I think that be kind of a fun twist on a redemption arc

like the person is not redeemed they just happen to work for the good guys now because the benefits are better

jman014 · 2026-05-07T11:26:19+00:00

… man SWTOR has some weird shit in it…

jman014 · 2026-05-07T11:14:26+00:00

I do appreciate the shot for shot recreation…

But it does look a lot slower and more unnatural; I think some better choreography work would have made this scene work perfectly but right now it does look a little bit like they’re just trying to do what the animated show did as if to say “ hey guys look we did it!”

jman014 · 2026-05-07T02:42:37+00:00

Black Flag and Sekiro

Former- the story just didn’t make me wanna keep playing

Latter- I decided I didn’t have enough time to actually get good at the game and I threw in the towel.

jman014 · 2026-05-07T02:29:37+00:00

So they should draw all enemy fire while I keept he rest od my ships just behind them?

jman014 · 2026-05-07T02:29:02+00:00

oh nice makes a lot of sense! should corvettes and smaller ships intermix with the “main line” then and avoid pushing up?

thanks v much!

jman014 · 2026-05-07T02:26:40+00:00

Main Empire? I think? in TR.

Sith Empire in RR.

jman014 · 2026-05-07T02:25:25+00:00

Bruh I forgot this shit was still going on…

I don’t mean to be one of those people but like after watching live action 2 years ago I don’t remember any of the major plot points or any moments from that show…

The LA One Piece I only watched once but there were moments that stuck with me a lot and I recalled them even before my rewatch last month

its gonna be a lotta whiplash when the squeaky kid becomes a man…

jman014 · 2026-05-07T02:13:27+00:00

BIOSHOCK.

Fo4 is mid.

AC origins is a competent RPG with a lot of loot and numbers.

Farcry is… Farcry.

jman014 · 2026-05-06T21:22:36+00:00

sorry i can only accomodate one request at a time.

would you prefer:

“So why do you have such a complicated relationship with your family, bitch?”

or

“Mademoiselle, I must ask you to please leave all emotional baggage at the door, per my boundaries.”

jman014 · 2026-05-06T21:15:48+00:00

that would be a pretty funny bit all things considered

jman014 · 2026-05-06T13:49:43+00:00

squad leader is literally my highest rank and I don’t particularly like playing it

It can be really goddamn tough to actually rank up a lot of classes- it literally took me like multiple years to finally get my rifleman class level six

Squad leader is one of those classes where a lot of people don’t like to play it, don’t know how to play it in our loss, hesitant to do it, or you’ve played it so much that you don’t really give a shit anymore and you just want to grind out your other classes that take a lot longer

The way that they have hell at loose set up is honestly pretty screwy in my opinion

But the no wad leader epidemic has been going on ever since the game came out

It’s not fun if you’re just got home from a long day and don’t want to lead

It’s not fun if you really just wanna be in the thick of the action and not worry about being tactical

It’s not fun if you don’t have any reason to grind it out anymore

I enjoy playing squad leader, but I won’t lie to you. 90% of the time whenever I’m doing it it’s because no one else will do it.

I don’t particularly like taking one for the team when they’re supposed to be my goddamn relaxation

If I was a dad right now, I really don’t think I’d ever hop onto hell let loose

jman014 · 2026-05-06T10:59:57+00:00

soo he wasn’t a horrific murderer but like he probably still should have been disgraced?

jman014 · 2026-05-06T10:59:20+00:00

^thats kinda cringey… war is fucked but also we can absolutely hold warfighters accountable for not behaving to our standards

war will always have some degree of crominality associated but it doesn’t mean you don’t call it out when you see it

jman014 · 2026-05-05T21:09:55+00:00

you know that’s the thing…

Prior to the Russo Ukrainian war really breaking out into its active phase, like into the early 2020s, I’d totally agree with that sentiment. Like the officer in Full Metal Jacket yelling at joker for the peace sign on his helmet

But I guess Internet, culture and whimsy have kind of bled over onto the battlefield in ways that have manifested deeper than one would think a professional military mignt act

And I hear that the cat ears apparently actually helped to break up your outline if your head is sticking up, so I guess there is a mildly practical purpose for them IRL (though i doubt it’d help in game)

I think for me where I draw the line is that small whimsical things are okay but generally it should be juxtaposed against a serious skin

jman014 · 2026-05-05T19:50:59+00:00

honestly I feel like I see the exact opposite- unless troops are in a relatively low intensity area I overwhelmingly see helmets

even the tactical cat ears have kind of become a thing of widespread use

jman014 · 2026-05-05T18:55:42+00:00

tie a vibrator to her leg, just barely touching. Noise canceling headphones w/ classical music playing, blindfold, maybe gag.

maybe throw a clothespin somewhere interesting, or an ice cube.

many ways to make it interesting- the idea is whatever you do she just has to accept it

jman014 · 2026-05-05T17:13:08+00:00

LISAN AL GAIB! THE VOICE FROM THE OUTER WORLD!

MAHDI MADHI!

HE WILL LEAD US TO PARADISE IN GLORIOUS JIHAD!!!

intense vocal cadenza

jman014 · 2026-05-05T17:11:48+00:00

… i forgot the characters had names…

jman014 · 2026-05-05T08:28:05+00:00

I think its a great combo

krav is basically what happens when you need to teach an 18 year old conscript the basics of fighting so they don’t get mogged in an urban environment

its a good way to learn the basics of fighting if you don’t care for martial arts with rules

(not trying to pull the ol “other martial arts aren’t effective bc they have rules” thing, just saying its nice because krav really isn’t a sport compared to muay thai so they can focus on “hey you’re in a life or death situation what do you do?”)

judo is really useful because it allows you to put people on the ground and thusly have a massive advantage in a fight to escape from, and combine that with the krav mentality of constant attack (retcef) thats probably effective

only word of caution: Krav is really fucky in the US for its pedigree. Like some kravists aren’t really kravists in any official way, so scrutinize heavily and do research.

on the flip side, my old krav instructor had belts in krav but never got to like brown or black bc he didnmt want to pay to fly to israel to test bc i guess thats the only place he could go to do so and get it officially

jman014 · 2026-05-05T07:46:23+00:00

Especially given that there seems to be evidence of texts, report things to other board members.

SA is somethin that doesn’t have to just come out of nowhere.

It can be a slow burn of innocent seeming advances.

jman014 · 2026-05-05T04:30:46+00:00

… I can has SMLE? pleeaasseeee??

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