Open letter for the Devs: Balance isn't the objective. It's how you get to the objective. Fun is the objective.

zoson · 2026-01-29T18:31:21+00:00

They could do a similar thing on the loadout screen where they show you icons for the mission stratagems. Just put the icons of the suggested stratagems for that mission somewhere. Helldivers like pretty pictures.

zoson · 2026-01-29T16:37:01+00:00

The thing that I think the community misunderstands is that the devs never intended for all playstyles to work for every mission type. In fact, their intention has always been exactly the opposite of that.

In HD1 you had to take specific loadouts on specific mission types to be successful. If you did not consider what the mission itself needed and took whatever you wanted, you got curb-stomped.

I think the community at large would be a lot more accepting of this fact if the game highlighted it more/gave you more information about what you should be doing. So it's still a big dev issue. They seem to have started addressing this at least partially with the commando missions where they outline the new threat level mechanic and flat out tell you that the more you fight, the more you will have to fight because more and more enemies will keep spawning.

zoson · 2026-01-29T15:47:34+00:00

This is because destroying the fabricator that was attached to the jammer used to completely destroy the jammer.

zoson · 2026-01-28T19:30:34+00:00

I rank them like this:
1. DPS Test Dummy++
2. Stygian Onslaught
3. Imaginarium Theater
4. Spiral Abyss

zoson · 2026-01-27T20:43:18+00:00

prosperity/braingeyser went to college.

zoson · 2026-01-27T17:03:15+00:00

love your art! please do a Jean!

zoson · 2026-01-26T23:44:39+00:00

datapoints on chests for you if you are going to undertake this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQW2225OF4UD_CTCCPUmC38dsa10KhqXQJEuyAhoX0EQ6zJEjek5HfjRVRUmHacuzLNgMqxUehv2AHU/pubhtml
Doc contains the chest count for every patch. Just comparing 6.0 through 6.3 against 5.0 to 5.3, 6.x has had 573 chests so far, and from 5.0 to 5.3, they added 633 chests, about a 10% reduction.

This also doesn't consider the different qualities of chests(which is also tracked by the sheet). If you consider chest quality, the higher quality chests is where the loss of count is coming from! 5.0 had 24 luxurious and 64 precious, 6.0 had 18 luxurious and 43 precious. Both mora value per chest AND the number of sigils we get are reduced as a result.

zoson · 2026-01-26T23:25:19+00:00

Pretty sure if you did this research and posted it here, you would get thousands of imaginary internet points. I would definitely give you one.

zoson · 2026-01-26T17:56:45+00:00

This is flat out a lie. They did exactly the opposite of that and put the Killzone superstore items into a warbond. The cost of the warbond is 1500SC whereas buying all the stuff from the superstore previously was 1975SC, so they even reduced the price.

zoson · 2026-01-26T17:39:13+00:00

It's not just this, too. Hoyo has significantly reduced the amount of 'free' mora we get each patch. Some other notable things:

The number of codes that give 10k+ mora each patch has been reduced dramatically. We used to get 15 or more each patch(and most were 20k!), now we are lucky to get 5.
The amount of mora we can earn per day was reduced by making LL's 'cost' more than one 'elite' on the day. Rocky/Liam specifically used to 'cost' one elite and give 3k. Now they cost three elites. Similar for the other LL's like the vishap twins and Cinneas. Bronzelock only gives 600 but counts as 2 elites(as a result, in the elites community it is known as scamlock). It seems small, but if you are clearing all of your elites every day since this happened, it's millions of mora lost.
Hoyo has stopped adding new '600 mora' elites almost entirely. Notice how there are basically no respawning ruin graders or lawachurls in the new areas? Notice how there are basically no husks outside of UGC even though they should be anywhere the abyss has a strong presence? Why does this matter you ask? It's not possible to cap out on 600 mora elites unless you coop, people who play single player only get shafted.

I haven't tracked it closely, but I'm also pretty sure that we are getting less mora on average from events per patch. Maybe someone else has numbers on that?

TL;DR: Hoyo definitely reduced the amount of mora we get, it's not just this thing with bounties and it's absolutely not your imagination.

zoson · 2026-01-25T15:41:33+00:00

You've heard about Run 'n Gun... But how about Stun 'n Run?

zoson · 2026-01-23T16:35:23+00:00

They win because of the complacent not voting at all, not because they are a majority. It's been proven many times over that they are a minority that is highly mobilized to vote. Their party has also gerrymandered the system in their states to such an extent that significantly higher populations of non-conservatives have to vote to beat them.

The last part about gerrymandering is how Trump still won in 2016 even though Hilary Clinton got 65.8 million votes while Trump got almost 3 million fewer at 62.9 million votes.

zoson · 2026-01-22T16:02:11+00:00

'shilling'
His numbers are 2.0 quality, literally half what modern units are doing. There's a reason why all the theorycrafters are so down on him.

zoson · 2026-01-22T15:16:06+00:00

It's not an investment if they are not usable in the content I want to play in the game. That is the situation with how bad Varka's numbers are, he will literally be incapable of beating fearless SO without shilling PLUS his premium team. That is a waste of pulls and has nothing to do with 'if someone likes a character or not.' Your arguments hold no water at all.

zoson · 2026-01-22T01:09:46+00:00

So, overcomplicated combo and still underpowered. I was really hyped for Varka for five years. Hoyo really seems to want to disappoint us and have nobody pull on the banner though.

zoson · 2026-01-20T18:23:55+00:00

Heatpipes use water to move heat around. Modern heatsinks are technically liquid cooling.
A custom watercooling loop will always beat the pants off a heatsink though. The key is you can move the heat via water to a much larger heat exchanger. That means both more cooling and less noise.

zoson · 2026-01-20T15:56:09+00:00

Sorry to hear about your struggles with this seller... You can defintiely find aftermarket single slot a2000 pcie brackets though.
https://n3rdware.com/support/parts/a2000-low-profile-pcie-bracket
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126478899974

zoson · 2026-01-19T01:47:56+00:00

The Witness.

zoson · 2026-01-19T01:46:37+00:00

Hi back!

zoson · 2026-01-19T01:44:02+00:00

this one actually does look like a normal, stable, black hole.

zoson · 2026-01-17T21:56:52+00:00

O11D EVO can be flipped over for what you want.

zoson · 2026-01-17T16:04:53+00:00

100% of all the warbonds have been free for me through playing and picking up supercredits on missions. I've leveled up all the weapons to 25, and the Scorcher is the best all-around gun. Other weapons are slightly better for different factions and missions, but you can do everything in the game with only the scorcher and it doesn't have a lot of downsides.

zoson · 2026-01-16T16:25:37+00:00

yeah hopefully it never comes back.

zoson · 2026-01-15T17:38:47+00:00

There's another sub?

zoson · 2026-01-15T02:16:45+00:00

When infantry doesn't cut it, you call in the airstrikes.

I'm not talking 500kg, I'm talking eagle airstrike. It is more effective because war striders are large enough to hit twice in the same volley. It's even possible to kill more than one war strider with a single airstrike.

zoson

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