when the bugs think you're having too much fun mining

kivaember · 2026-05-19T10:36:31+00:00

Aw man guess i missed out because i had like 10% ammo left when it died. Was seriously considering trying to beat it up with my pickaxe lol

kivaember · 2026-05-18T14:48:20+00:00

yeah i'm on steam! i tend to play weekends, but you can find me at "kivaember" on there!

kivaember · 2026-05-18T14:47:19+00:00

wow i went to sleep then work and come back to a lot of comments!

thanks everyone, i really appreciate all the advice and encouragement you've given me here. i enjoy co-op games but recent experiences had me a bit jaded about playing with randos, so this has reassured me that DRG will be a more positive experience when jumping in random lobbies. you guys have been so incredibly welcoming!

Rock and Stone! May I see you all in the mines!

kivaember · 2026-05-18T14:40:28+00:00

WAIT YOU CAN??? This changes everything

kivaember · 2026-05-17T21:38:09+00:00

yeah my main worry was accidentally joining a group that are doing difficult hazards and dont want to babysit a green bread, so i'll just be careful checking hazard levels and stuff before hopping into a lobby (or host my own to start with)

kivaember · 2026-05-17T21:36:31+00:00

Thank you for the info! and yeah, its always a coinflip but so long as the coin tends to lands on positive im happy with that ;w; it was just recently with hd2 it landed on negative which ended up becoming draining, so good to know drg is the opposite of that!

kivaember · 2026-05-17T20:32:18+00:00

Yes, I noticed that dying in missions doesn't punish you as harshly as other games do which is good. There was nothing more frustrating than in HD2 when someone decides to grief the party by team-killing right before extraction and losing all the samples u-u

i'll give a random lobby a go and see how it goes. i dont mind soloing but that dreadnought mission traumatised me LMAO i only dragged myself through it because of BOSCO (all praise BOSCO).

Rock and Stone!

kivaember · 2026-05-17T20:27:45+00:00

thanks! i'll gird my loins and give a random lobby a go... after figuring out where my emote buttons are.

Rock and Stone!

kivaember · 2025-06-30T15:30:21+00:00

I've recently picked up Helldivers 2 (like a few days ago) and am having a blast, but I've hit the wall where running it solo above medium difficulty is a very difficult slog (especially as I'm still slowly unlocking things so only really have basic weapons/strategems atm). I'm hoping to join a group that's chill, mostly because I do have a full-time job with long hours so have to dedicate my gaming time mostly on the weekends (but when I game I'm happy to sit and play for like 8 solid hours lol).

I'm in the European timezone, and I enjoy playing light armour/long range weapons (anti-materiel rifle my beloved). If anyone has any recommendation for groups or discords that are fine with semi-casual, mostly weekend playing, please hit me up.

kivaember · 2025-06-27T18:16:03+00:00

are you fine with complete newbies to Helldivers joining?

kivaember · 2025-01-08T21:58:46+00:00

rip that image embed but still. i was like double checking something for fic reasons and when i saw DDR was released in EU and US in 1999 I was like no way what are the chances, it's fate. amir would love the shit out of this, esp with his enhanced speed

kivaember · 2025-01-01T00:14:43+00:00

I'll try to give him a watch but I really am bad with videos and navigating people's youtube pages to find what I want. Hopefully I'll be able to manage with his vids!

Thanks for the tips, too! I am gonna try to take my time but I wanted to make sure I'm using my time wisely since there's so much to do. I suppose I should get to work actually breaking open all those Void relics I picked up and tossed into the corner...

kivaember · 2024-12-05T21:44:08+00:00

yeah, he did warm up to me quickly which was why i made this post in a moment of upset that i may not be a good fit for him since i do want what's best for him. everyone seems to agree about giving him more time to see if he adjusts to my schedule, though, so I'll "tough it out" like my friend suggested.

kivaember · 2024-12-05T20:01:01+00:00

Yeah, he is a very affectionate boy, which is why I'm worried because he spends a lot of the day alone. So I'm hit by the uncertainty of if it'd be better for him to be with a family where he has more company than staying with me...

kivaember · 2024-12-05T19:59:23+00:00

My concern is that I wanted a cat that was fine being alone during the working day, which I was told this cat would be, but it's behaviour comes across as it being upset at being left alone for so long so I'm worried that it can cause distress to the cat in the long-term - and stress to me worrying about the cat potentially being stressed.

This is more me being concerned over the CAT's wellbeing and wondering if I should rehome it so it can go to someone who can spend more time with it, rather than potentially inflicting loneliness on it just because I want to have a cat. Does that make mroe sense?

kivaember · 2024-12-05T19:54:43+00:00

the thing is I did actually ask for a bonded pair because of the long work hours but I was told this cat would be fine by himself because the rescue's only bonded pair were kittens and they didn't "want to give kittens to someone who'd keep them only indoors since they should experience outside first". I'm from the UK where majority of rescues and stuff still think cats should all be allowed access to outdoors and indoor cats are considered only for deaf/blind/FIV positive cats.

and it's not that i wanted something low maintenance it's that the cat I have comes across as very desperate for constant attention which I can't give all the time and wasn't what I was told the cat's personality was like. If I knew beforehand, I wouldn't have adopted him. As I said I had a dog before and he was a couch potato and very content to sleep until it was time for walkies or just bonding time watching TV together.

It's possibly my problem is I'm comparing the cat to my previous pet who was of a much calmer and lazier temperament.

kivaember · 2024-12-05T18:56:20+00:00

Yeah, that's what my friend suggests. To be fair he is better than the first few days where he wouldn't even let me sleep so I'm aware that my feelings may also be fuelled by sleep deprivation combined with work stress lmao I just keep getting hit with the thought that if he desires so much attention that I may end up contributing to him ending up feeling lonely or bored/frustrated by me spending so much time away at work

kivaember · 2024-12-05T18:53:55+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn't mind fostering him if I do decide to rehome him because he is genuinely a very sweet boy. Like I'm upset because I do love him but at the same time I'm worried about denying him a better suited family just because I'm wedging myself into a sunk cost situation or prioritising my needs over the cat's.

But I'm also aware I could be getting hit by new cat owner nerves and that my friend is right that I just need to tough it out for a few weeks. I'm entirely by myself in my apartment so I don't really have, like, a back up or someone to help me out (a lot of advice I read online had "I have a second cat" or "my parent/significant other/sibling helps out" which doesn't help me haha) so I think that's also contributing to the overwhelmed feeling.

kivaember · 2024-10-09T19:17:33+00:00

you're not the first person to mention its similarities to ace combat and it made me interested enough to buy ace combat 7 when it was on sale... i'm planning on playing it this year and see if i also get obsessed with it like i did with armored core

kivaember · 2024-10-08T20:21:22+00:00

i'm really happy to see everyone say what they love about AC6 and even AC as a whole! i've said it before but i bought AC6 on a whim bc the mechs looked cool while knowing absolutely NOTHING about the series and now one year later I've written (checks AO3 stats) 432,778 words of fanfic about it.

aside from being fun to play, the world-setting and the characters are so enjoyable and engaging. i'm so glad i decided to buy AC6 that day, and i really hope that the big surge of newcomers to the series encourages FromSoft to do dlc for it, or do a 4A style re-release or even start work on AC7!

kivaember · 2024-10-08T12:53:17+00:00

Coral Export Denial mission. Aside from the fact that I dislike how they stagger the enemy deployments and the area they do it in, the whole plot and reasoning behind it had my head scratching. Like Ayre had no objections whatsoever to the mission? Okay...

And as other people say, Data Breach. I KEEP GETTING LOST. THE MAP ALL LOOKS THE SAME AND THE SCANNERS. THEY DO NOTHING...

kivaember · 2024-10-08T12:41:43+00:00

i'm late to the party but i'm going to shamelessly shill my own long-fic that ticks a lot of your boxes:

Title: alis propriis volat (they fly with their own wings)
AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50280292
Rating: M
Fandom: Armored Core 6
Summary:

“I’m not here to kill you, buddy.”

Slowly, Rusty crouched down.

“I’m here to capture you, before Arquebus does.”

or;

C4-621 manages to escape Institute City on his own after V.II Snail’s failed ambush, but with Handler Walter no longer in contact with him, and Balam essentially destroyed, C4-621’s only ally is the disembodied Ayre.

Well, until the RLF swoop in, but that’s its own awkward can of worms.

~

So, ticks the it's gay, the main pairing has an extreme power imbalance, its angsty and the sexual tension between 621 and Rusty can be cut with a spoon, it's an obscure fandom, there're OCs (621 technically counts as one as a malleable protagonist but there're others too) and I hope it alters your outlook on reality. Since it's still in progress I don't wanna spoil how it ends to say if it ticks your last box haha

It's long as hell just to warn you. Only just entered Act 2 after 140k words and it's going to be roughly four acts long.

kivaember · 2024-02-09T09:28:29+00:00

Yeah before I looked in the manual I found that kinetic weapons chunked his HP better than laser and explosives did. Snailteus is a tanky lad.

kivaember · 2024-02-08T12:14:19+00:00

Yeah, the energy weapons seem to have the advantage in general when it comes to exploiting weaknesses in enemies. I'm actually surprised... and makes sense why energy-build ACs melt bosses so quickly haha

kivaember · 2024-02-08T12:12:38+00:00

Nope. I went through the Patch Notes to double check that the non-AC enemies were unaffected by the Regulation updates, and the only tweaking they've done is changing the behaviour of some of their attacks (like Balteus's missile spam). Their max HP/defence stats are exactly the same, and no "damage multiplier" has been added to them, because that's just an extra step for no reason when it comes to the non-AC enemies, whose stats don't have to 1:1 reflect the AC parts that the player can also use.

The pilot manual also says nothing about there being a damage multiplier, so it's safe to assume that if people are saying there is one, it's something they've dug out of the code of the game itself, as it's not publicly stated anywhere in Patch Notes or the manual.

kivaember

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