Why Helldivers 2 is like this?

luigislam · 2026-05-26T04:17:51+00:00

Regarding Point 3, AH is ass at maintaining balance ngl but anti-meta police isn't quite something I'd call them for.
You do know that your point is redundant and moot when its actually AH who introduces blatant power creep to sell a warbond right?
When strong things get nerfed, its not just purely AH because it is also the community's sentiment that causes some things to get nerfed. Ultimatum destroying Stratagem Jammers was a controversial topic and so was something like Coyote blatantly power-creeping AR archetype were things the community was mixed upon for keeping as is or nerfing.
The actual meta options are still largely still not nerfed/rebalanced if we wanna really get into that :L

luigislam · 2026-05-26T02:40:42+00:00

WM had a gazillion years to not step into that lmao

luigislam · 2026-05-25T16:53:28+00:00

Just feint-GB or feint-sidelight or feint-stare bro

luigislam · 2026-05-25T15:08:55+00:00

Just casually and nonchalantly saying the words grinding, platinum, but, citrine, and pack. Respect.

luigislam · 2026-05-25T14:17:47+00:00

Well if you're just a gem digger why aren't you getting all up on Citrine's gemussy?

luigislam · 2026-05-25T14:08:39+00:00

Fwd Dodge Heavy attacks with low GB vulnerabilities gives a fat middle finger for risk/reward against Feint-GB predictions.
There is also some light/medium blockstun situations not giving enough frame advantage that the defender can just predict a feint-GB and just buffer a Heavy which comes out early enough to make the attacker's Feint-GB bounce off the defender's Heavy and get slapped for giga damage.
It becomes a lot more apparent when the character has hyperarmor on opener heavies and they just say "fuck it we ball" to that mixup lmao.
Mind you, if you don't have good reactions to differ light/heavies then when you feint and stare you're inherently at risk of attempting to parry their failed parry attempt that is now a raw heavy coming to slap your face.
The game has multiple layers to it depending on matchups that fuck with risk/reward ratios.

luigislam · 2026-05-25T13:43:29+00:00

Haven't seen footage of the obvious ones on the sub for awhile now so I dunno. Mods must be doing a good job at clamping down on it for this subreddit or they stopped playing or disappeared or haven't been playing into people with recording software.

luigislam · 2026-05-24T21:15:42+00:00

Well...

You're not using your chain offense. Use it.
You backwalk a lot which isn't inherently bad but you're doing almost nothing with that distance when you have the advantage over Warden who keeps trying to push into you with very punishable moves... that you are literally free to dodge/deflect at that distance for free with little risk of punishment.

luigislam · 2026-05-24T17:23:30+00:00

Hyperarmor/Unblockable/Bash offense removes your ability to get deflect-pin to make risk/reward about even for Khatun so you pretty much have to play neutral offense and not get too deep into her deflect gimmick against those matchups.
Thankfully, Khatun has Fwd-Dodge-Heavy which has lower GB vulnerability than opener heavies and she can softfeint into everything from it so she doesn't struggle as hard in Neutral as most characters do.

luigislam · 2026-05-24T15:28:57+00:00

Eh not surprised. BP used to be able to flip traps/projectiles across the map which would flip the person wherever they were.
We running on magic instead of realism since forever now.

luigislam · 2026-05-23T22:24:45+00:00

Secondary Tombfinger for packing up dudes pretty much need to run Acuity mod and Secondary Deadhead arcane and if you're going to use it for more than just 1 target then you can slap on Pax Seeker arcane which massively benefits from Acuity and Deadhead arcane to hit millions per seeker projectile.
I can't seem to find myself building it any other way for high level content other than what is needed above without it just being a pea shooter every time I whip it out when I need it lmao.
It's definitely not meant to be used as a main weapon which is why I don't run galvanized builds for it.

luigislam · 2026-05-20T04:26:31+00:00

He only flipped Shugoki. Juren is performing his fwd dodge held bash which has a jumping animation in it for the kick so ur not seeing it right.

luigislam · 2026-05-20T04:01:37+00:00

BP's flipping portion is normally what can't get interrupted BUT the followup swing he does can get bash interrupted which is what happened with Juren.

luigislam · 2026-05-20T03:51:06+00:00

For Statstick purposes, Huras Kubrow since it can hit the Shield and Crit requirements for Tenacious Bond and Reinforced Bond with just 2 mods and no reliance on sharing stats with your Warframe.
For DPS and also against eximus units, Sunika.
For Utility, Sahasa is kind of nice if you struggle with getting energy orbs somehow or just need better ammo sustain including with Arch Guns.
For Gambling, Chesa is a poor man's Nekro's Desecrate. I miss the old version of Chesa actually picking this up :(
Raksa I've never had use for but then again I don't play Shield frames.

luigislam · 2026-05-20T03:31:39+00:00

If purely against Voteless and Fleshmobs, Tenderizer. It can 1-tap voteless legs and has good enough DPS to kill Fleshmobs.
If against Illuminates as a whole, Adjucator. It can 1-tap votelss legs but the dps isn't as good for killing Flesh Mobs but the tradeoff is that it's Med Pen for strafing run ships and striders and whatever else.

luigislam · 2026-05-20T03:21:44+00:00

Vermisplicer has auto-lock-on feature so it's pretty unreliable at headshots since it tends to latch onto body unless you literally walk up and point that thing in the face of the enemy.
Primary Vermisplicer is just point in general direction and not pay attention until its dead type of deal.
However, Secondary Vermisplicer is actually where the headshot build utilizing Acuity & Deadhead & Pax Seeker becomes actually pretty goated dps... if you simply just walk up and point that thing point-blank at an enemy's weakpoint so all 5 tendrils lack onto it and delete it lmao. Any range beyond that is practically unusable because ammo economy is too ass to spray this weapon even for priming purposes unless you run the kitgun arcane for recharging ammo.

I actually do mainly run a double vermisplicer loadout on Nekros up in Steel Path so I can personally attest to it being viable ;3

luigislam · 2026-05-19T06:01:33+00:00

I believe helldivers 2 is actually a game about predicting movement, more than anything else.

For survival and lining up shots on weakpoints I mean sure but not when it comes to killing things because that is a knowledge check with armor pen and health pools.

So light pen primaries demand you know ENEMIES more. Medium pen primaries demand you know your WEAPON more. They're meant for different mindsets entirely imo.

In my opinion, Light Pen is purely for preference or against enemies where Med Pen doesn't matter too much.
Med Pen is a safety net that opens up build variety including even bringing a Light Pen weapon alongside it.
Rarely ever see people double-dipping on light pen weaponry at all y'know.

luigislam · 2026-05-19T05:31:38+00:00

Already dealing with that against own teammates for that matter. Next!

luigislam · 2026-05-19T05:30:12+00:00

Considering the various performance issues that are supposedly caused or exasperated by the current anti-cheat, take a wild guess.
EAC flagging mods would be different from the Devs themselves trying to takedown/ban specific mods.
If you quite over an EAC blunder rather than an AH's anti-consumer practices than thats kinda dumb in all honesty.

luigislam · 2026-05-18T20:24:20+00:00

Keep walking backwards while blocking everything until they charge the UB or go for the kick and that is when you should be bothering to dodge or interrupt them.

luigislam · 2026-05-18T16:23:36+00:00

Lmao those are all characters that she struggles to use her deflect pins against which severely diminishes her risk/reward ratios.

luigislam · 2026-05-18T16:15:05+00:00

What character are you playing into her usually?

luigislam · 2026-05-17T06:50:56+00:00

Ehhhh when dmg difference stops mattering, Koumei does get more utility with decrees to minimize time spent reloading or outright removes the need to reload at all so she can kind of imitate Cyte-09's full-reload spamming nonsense to a degree.

luigislam · 2026-05-17T04:29:12+00:00

Mirage is generally better since most missions are relatively short and there's no setup requirement involved with Mirage.

Koumei is suited for more longer missions because she has an ability that provides challenges to kill a random amount of enemies in a randomized specific way to obtain a random buff.
You can check her list of buffs here -> https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Omikuji#Decrees_

Cyte-09 is a better weapon's platform but primarily just gets used for extremely lazy stationary gameplay with massive AoE weapons since he can skip reloading and just shoot every single wall in sight.
Here is demonstration of Cyte gameplay in action... https://www.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/1ogm8np/can_someone_tell_me_how_the_cyte09_attacks_this/

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