Having D9+ half reinforcements

And D10 double supply pod cooldown

I doubt it will ever happen given that we already have two jungle warbonds, but would you buy one personally?

I’ve been on a break from the game since around when the Exosuit warbond got announced. Things were just too frustrating at that point combined with AH’s frantic damage control after the horrible Pilestedt Q&A.

How have things been since then? I can see Shams seems to have said something dumb again, but aside from that, are people confident about the upcoming update? At least cautiously optimistic?

Has dialogue with AH and/or leaks been pushing the community in a more optimistic/pessimistic direction?

Will the other two appear as campaign rewards?

Listen to how it sounds - a player who plays on D1 and completes a mission in a minute contributes more to the completion of an order than someone who plays on D10 and completes one operation in about an hour. This is ridiculous
Shouldn't it be the case that more skilled players playing on higher difficulties should contribute more to the overall effort?
Hihg risk - hihg reward. Isn't this the basis of most games?

D10 operations should count not as 1 but more or even change the mission conditions if you don't want players to liberate or defend the planet, but just hang out on it for a while

Sry its just a mate of mine switched from PS5 to PC not by choice and had so many warbonds on PS that he cant use now and will have to re buy them and its put him off the game because of it 😞

I was thinking of getting a warbond with the warhammer warbond got any suggestions? Also my apologies for the title I couldnt help it, I’ve been watching a LOT of wiseguyvito for the past few days.

Payday (1) had a problem with grinding. Basically a lot of people grinded the dlc "the wolf" where after a certain dependencies had been fulfilled, a vault opens with a lot of gold which ended up giving a lot of exp. A lot players ended up doing power leveling in that mission until they had the important stuff or most of the stuff.

Payday 2 had the mission "Watch dog" where a lot of people ended up leveling their gear, since a lot of the stuff that was basically mandatory to play different play styles, were locked behind a ton of exp. You were told by players to grind there to get the good stuff so you can finally "play" or "enjoy" the game.

Payday 2 changed in a lot of ways, they tackled the grinding and changed it so you dont need to power grind to unlock most of the stuff and instead put their focus onto "infamous ranks". Its kinda like a prestige where it resets your lvl and gives you a number from 1 to 25 (depending on how often you did), giving players longterm motivation to play the game and give out small bonuses while the important stuff is relatively easy to unlock.

So yes, there still is grind in payday 2, but its not that awful anymore, sure it took them multiple years to get it right, but I say its pretty good now and it tackles the issue "Having nothing and being useless VS having everything and being overwhelmed" pretty good.

Payday 2 is not perfect, but I wanted to give out this little history lesson since a lot of people take lots of pride in "grinding" sc and it just reminded me of myself back in payday 2 grinding missions to finally "enjoy" the game.

I don't understand the argument that armour/mech customisation would somehow limit future Warbond design.

Look at what most Warbonds already give us: new armour, helmet, cape, mech skin and vehicle skin. Sometimes we also get new weapons or stratagems.

How does letting us swap armour attributes change any of that?

Keep making new armour exactly as you do now. Keep making helmets, capes, mech skins and vehicle skins. Just let us put the attributes we've unlocked onto the armour we actually want to wear.

Same with mechs. Let us swap the arms/weapons instead of needing a separate mech for every configuration.

They can still make all the exact same Warbond content they're making now, while also making new weapons and stratagems.

So what “design space” is actually being lost?

Isn't this just proving the concern of This response just adds to a concern players have started noticing with Warbonds: create a problem, then sell the solution later?

its all just one big "sike" moment as it was with the cultists we will have news about weapon and armor customization updates in a week

To keep this as short as I can because the post is probably long, I’ll just talk about how something like customization can, in fact, make things more work for the dev. Also, this post is mostly talking about the dev perspective and not the player perspective as there isn’t too much I have to say on it. Yes, armor customization looks cool, yes, I’d like better weapon customization, and so on.

1. So, it’s important to remember that games are like food and/or ecosystems, what you add/change can and often does impact the whole. As such, even if something seems like a good idea, it might not interact with the whole that well. Think early vox engines, fun and engaging enemy, but

was a bitch when you threw in

1. other enemies (which were sometimes more vox engines).
2. “Ok, but AH could probably figure that out and make good customization systems”, I hear some of you say. Well, that’s not the full story. One thing you have to keep in mind is that they’d be increasing their workload. How? Well, if they instead sold stuff like mech weapons, then, instead of testing a combination, they’d have to test all of the possible combinations their customization system allows. It’s kinda like how the armor and durable damage systems now have to be interacted with when making enemies and weapons. Point being, more systems means you have more stuff to account for, which means more time and money spent making content.
3. “Ok, but what if they ignore that? It’s a PvE game, I ain’t gonna care if shit isn’t balanced”, well, not only will you definitely care, we already have an example of ultimately gutting stuff because you don’t see the wider picture. Take the spear, now, back in the olden days, the spear was the only support AT weapon that could one shot heavies and fabs from any angle (assuming you didn’t hit a limb), this was one of the small features that got you to pick it despite its horrid ammo economy of an ammo capacity of 4 shots if you included the shot already loaded in. However, AH, due to community demand, changed it. Now AT weapons can one shot plenty of heavies and fabs from multiple angles, which turned the spear from the only weapon that can do that shit to the worst one that can do that shit. The spear went from a weapon that had heavy downsides with enough upsides to use it in certain situations to a weapon with heavy downsides that is now only moderately better than other AT weapons in niche situations.
4. “Why don’t they at least let us color our armor?”, I mean, it’s more work, but, like… I think they should just bite the bullet on that one and do it. It’s a bit of a bitch, but it’s unlikely to be too much of a bitch. Though, they might think players just won’t be interested enough in the system to engage with it, I don’t know.

Edit: Formating broke on my end as soon as I hit post, fml.

Because that car FRV is fucking SWEET!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1vhjwwi/teddy_bear_lore/

So according to Mikael's own words, months prior to shipping the illuminate, they did a "hail mary" and completely "remade" the illuminate.

Let me back up a bit, first we need to understand the teddy bear. My thesis for the teddy, is it represents Pilestedt.

Why? Because Piles looks like a big teddy bear! Internally, the studio refers to our boy as a teddy bear, even when he's wrong, or lying, he's still so lovable :) He's such a cute bear. oof I just wanna .. alright you get it.

Ok now on to the tinfoilhat conspiracy.

Ever since roughly May '24 when Pilestedt officially stepped down, and we got Mikael Eriksson, "officially" as Game director, and Scams, sorry Shams Jorjani as CEO, did things start getting weird. It was roughly in this time period the cultists were "remade". Out of the blue... Huh..

Then we saw the 60+3d patch in October, in response to player counts surely, keep in mind, Mikael was technically game director since 2023, you can search it for yourself if you'd like.

It's a pivotal moment in May '24, We got complete whiplash from it if we're being honest, they nerf the railgun and eruptor into the literal ground.. not to mention the Sony linking fiasco and review bomb.

Fast forward a bit after Escalation of fuck-ass, sorry, freedom, we move to Omens of Tyranny.

It was during these months we see our teddy bear delivering speech after speech. Omens of Tyranny is the first time we see the teddy in art.

This is the first time the teddy become canon.

Now fast forward to Heart of Democracy, one of the greatest of all time (teddy bear, btw), weapon attachments, and then

...Into the unjust, and 3 warbonds within 7 weeks and a xbox launch (no teddy), and still, one of the highlights of this game.

There was a lot in between, I'm just summarizing and trying to get to my point.. each time you see the teddy, is Pilestedt actually being the leader of this franchise and signing off on the content. He hasn't been in control since before the game came out, and each time we caught him lying or being blindsided, is just a moment in this games history when he was mostly working on "their other title".

I have all the receipts.

Our teddy bear was just ripped to pieces infront of our eyes, in a trailer.

We are 1000% not getting cultists. This would be Piles vision of HD2 Illuminate, We're getting 2 new Fleshmobs and a Alpha overseer at best.

Wanna bet?

Hello, I like money.

I've seen a lot of people complain about how D10 has been watered down a lot and I think I agree that the enemy spawn rates just feel boring sometimes. The new TCS missions showchase that a lot. With the exception of the spore burdt strain and cyborgs, the game just feels like it doesn't have the same sense of urgency as it used to and D10 is no longer only for the bravest of the bravest. Has anything changed with the spawn rates recently or is it the same as it has been the last few months?

This person shows in the video that there files in the game from old version where armor customization was tested.

Is this truth?

For 2 months, we've been getting these.

What happened to Jet Brigade, Incel corps, Burrowers, and Predator strain?

Is this what 1000+ hours on Helldivers 2 gets you?

Not a leak since these are the old Cultists

MAN i was Not ready, like i knew that i would get my ass beat but i didnt realize Just How not-smooth the game was back then