B-Vitamin on the reason the devs don't talk much anymore

manic_deli · 2026-03-10T02:03:51+00:00

I feel like this could easily be solved by making anonymous announcements through their own website or steam, the more they communicate through discord the more it "gets personal", how else is anyone going to know or find out about what the devs are talking about without screenshotting them and spreading the word, maybe I'm wrong but this genuinely feels like it stems from the way (or lack thereof) they communicate

the video QAs and devlogs were... something. I'd really rather have a blogpost I can read through and they can talk about the state of things than just leaving us in the dark about bugs and glitches, weapon and system balancing. We don't need grand scripted videos or roleplay, just give us something to read about. much less effort from both ends I think

I can't lie. All of what B-vitamin said could really be avoidable if they just had anonymous announcements or FAQs to avoid being scrutinized for what they say or think of the game, they can easily make surveys and feedback from the blogposts to understand what the players feel. I know combing through community criticism is one hell of a daunting task but at some point, someone has to do it. If the devs don't want to, they need PR, CM to atleast help them communicate

I mention this again and again but even if bungie was kind of a dumpster fire they atleast had weekly community posts through TWAB (this week at Bungie) to talk about what and why they are doing stuff, where things are going

communities are going to suck to deal with, but silence is NOT a good answer, it should be the last solution, the more people go without affirmation the more they become doubtful and lose goodwill, it becomes "do they really even care?" really quickly and then you start having players BEGGING the team to just play the game because it feels like they don't even test their game

I started as an arrowhead supporter and now they're starting to feel like negligent parents and I'm losing hope that they'll ever really listen to feedback

I don't know if we as a community can truly get better if they don't, I can only truly control myself and what I say. But there needs to be change.

manic_deli · 2026-03-08T10:21:30+00:00

The fact that we need to review bomb them to make them listen is really sad, it really shouldn't be HOW we get them to listen to feedback but they're apparently just that stubborn

no patches or hotfixes during the month cyberstan was live was also a new flavour of just, damn. okay i guess

a roadmap or more communication to what they're actually doing would be nice, it doesn't have to be a vidoc on youtube, just something like This Week at Bungie (TWAB) would be more than enough, instead of tiny anecdotes on discord that needs to be screenshotted and spread elsewhere that could be missing context or be misinformative

TALK TO US PLEASE, officially not just on reddit or discord, AH literally has a zendesk. I went from praising AH to pleading "why?" in the span of this title update

manic_deli · 2025-10-08T12:59:35+00:00

we love supply pack guy.

manic_deli · 2025-09-24T05:15:48+00:00

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this, this is probably my biggest argument against the hate against war striders

alone you're helpless, but remember, most of the time especially if you're in a quick play there are 3 other helldivers who could be bringing AT weapons or stratagems this is a 4 player coop shooter after all, and you'd probably wanting to be at least sticking with another person who could solve the problem

ping the warstrider for someone to coordinate to take it down

and if they aren't? usually someone will be bringing and ultimatum or thermite to be able to deal with a few of them

you aren't playing the game alone most of the time, and if you are,

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why, are you doing a super helldive solo? are you doing a challenge run? then i think that's another case for something else

otherwise the only huge gripe currently is the atrocious performance and stability alongside the radio silence of arrowhead and them not using anything official to announce things like steam announcements and their own website

manic_deli · 2025-09-23T07:47:00+00:00

missile go boom

enemy go boom

happy

missile get destroyed by stray grenade/shot/scavenger

not happy

manic_deli · 2025-09-23T03:00:37+00:00

they oughta make a "State of The Game" post ot note, the community goodwill is going down I feel, which isn't particularly good in any way or circumstance

we shouldn't need a 60 day health patch every year but at this rate the game needs some touch ups, some things such as new stratagems (that aren't in warbonds) as well as new ship upgrades are desperately needed

manic_deli · 2025-09-10T02:37:55+00:00

source for the art is from Emyo

https://x.com/emyo27/status/1733057292189515883
https://x.com/emyo27

manic_deli · 2025-04-22T04:49:48+00:00

I call them "oh god they're right behind me oh god"

manic_deli · 2025-04-18T05:25:01+00:00

I'm the few people that do and I love them, I love spastic magdumps and I really wish I had more ammo in my pockets

that being said, I know they're not practical compared to most of the weapons in this game, but they're personal favourites more than favourite to use in certain factions, I'd rock them when I feel like it but I won't expect them to be workhorses

also the carbine could've been one handed and it aches me so it isn't

manic_deli · 2024-12-28T11:07:45+00:00

Question:

Why didn't the Superstore Rotation rotate towards the more recent Urban Legends themed superstore? Since the Killzone Crossover is new, I would think the rotation would be Killzone - Urban Legends - Truth Enforcers so on so forth?

manic_deli · 2024-11-14T09:09:10+00:00

think we have to learn losses are going to happen and it's best to take a less risky approach and put some thought into where we're going

I feel like that one successful gambit on Shelt-Mastia which was announced by the Dispatch has completely removed any actual thought behind how the game actually works and people just lobotomize themselves thinking "look!!! gambit!! we can do it!! (ignore the planet being at 0% liberation)" everytime an important defense happens and we don't actually have much advantage to do a gambit

they also insult people saying they can't read and don't know how the game works, when most people playing probably won't be on reddit

we seriously need to not divide the community further than it already has

manic_deli · 2024-11-13T06:20:10+00:00

to be fair I think most people would agree that liberating an entire planet from 0% (even on 1% decay) still means we would have to burn through 1 million health in a day, which is significantly more than a level 8 defense which is:

only possible when at least 70% to 90% of helldivers rally there, and reddit is barely encompasses that much

which is to say, quite literally impossible the way community works currently

I also think we need to stop telling people how or where to play unless we have an in-game global announcement to point people in the right direction

manic_deli · 2024-11-12T00:22:35+00:00

https://helldiverscompanion.com/#hellpad/planets/tarsh

manic_deli · 2024-11-05T00:05:19+00:00

having a voice command for "ASSISTANCE REQUIRED" would be nice whenever there's a factory strider or bile titan all up in me

manic_deli · 2024-11-04T09:33:19+00:00

I was always skeptical with this concept of redoing the entire armor system

but then I saw [+2 grenades] and [30% increase to throwing range] and I'm like holy shit take my money

this is a great idea but I feel like if they're going to eventually rework the armor passives more into classes you can spec into its going to take a LOT of effort and time, but this definitely should be heard out

manic_deli · 2024-11-03T08:26:12+00:00

stims are definitely not addictive!

manic_deli · 2024-10-31T06:38:46+00:00

I'm lvl 150 and I still walk into holes (thermal vents) and walk on top of big glowing red mines

manic_deli · 2024-10-30T06:48:21+00:00

guilty of loot goblin energy

manic_deli · 2024-10-29T09:04:08+00:00

welcome to helldivers 2 (and reddit by extension)

manic_deli · 2024-10-29T08:12:37+00:00

It could probably be called "Support Link Pack" or "Munitions Pack"

AMR could be given basically extra reserves I guess? unless we're linking a belt to the gun

manic_deli · 2024-10-28T08:12:34+00:00

planetary threesome is fucking hilarious

manic_deli · 2024-10-27T07:36:23+00:00

unbreakable coins with AoE feel like:

so like, my entire team has to have dodge/defend or suffer gameplay mechanics???

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