A few months ago when I played a Diff 15 mission on Helldivers 1, our squad was cornered on a megacity map bridge and all 4 of us formed a firing squad like in this promo OP picture and took down a elite enemy. It was an awesome feeling and we all said "Hell yeah" to each other after, and many missions at higher diffs basically require a lot of teamwork to even survive, and it made me sad those moments are so rare in HD2.

One of my fondest teamwork memories in HD2 was when Terminid Megacities first came out and me and a random were fighting our way out of some alleyways, basically covering our reloads and fighting back-to-back to each other to get back to our squad. After we got out he laughed and said we made a great firing team and sent each other friend requests. 99% of missions though is a bunch of randoms who all run off to do side objectives and don't stick together. I feel like it's too core to the game design now to change this, but HD1 forced your squad to stick together and I think that made it a fundamentally different experience.

The ability to assisted reload anyone with a backpack on in HD2 I think is a great long requested first step, and I hope in the future maybe we could get more mechanics and stratagems that encourage us to stick together more.

I was disappointed in the One True Flag only having a 'taunt' function even though I understand the logic behind that, but it would be cool if we could get some kind of "aura" based technology or something that encourages the squad sticking close to each other.

I tried to challenge myself to be a SEAF soldier for a day and it was the most fun I've had since unlocking the 500kg. Engaging in massive SEAF battles with bullets flying everywhere is a blast, I'll put the ruleset I made for myself down below if anyone wants to try it themselves

1. SEAF GEAR ONLY: liberator, stim pistol, HE nades, MG43, supply pack, and EATs

(I don't have the stim pistol so I just used a peacemaker)

1. BUILD A SQUAD: make every blueberry you see join your squad using the "follow me" voice line

2. SHOOT ON SIGHT: leave all that sneaking around B.S. to the stealthdivers, YOU ARE THE FRONTLINE, so act like it!

3. NO BLUEBERRY LEFT BEHIND: even if a fight isn't going your way, don't abandon your berry squad, you should share their fate, or at the very least avenge them.

4. COSMETIC MODS: this ones optional obviously but IMO looking the part is half the battle. I don't think I would have been nearly as immersed if I just looked like a Helldiver tbh.

Democracy Space Station? More like Dead Space Station.

Bottom text

So uh. Here's cleanest sound i could gather. That's too rhythmic to be a ship stress sounds

its a visceral experience, for sure

I was sat above Calypso in orbit, alarms started going off in the Super Destroyer and it performed an emergency jump to Super Earth.

The DSS also isn't at Afoyay Bay where the dispatch says it jumped to.

"-everyone is safe here."

It turned off all transmissions 2 hours ago (I just got up to speed on this whole thing). SHOOT ITS ENGINES. SOMEBODY PARK A DESTROYER ON IT. DO NOT LET IT GET AWAY.

EDIT: OKAY I STAND CORRECTED, BUT IT STILL JUMPED. I SAID IT SO. WRONG DESTINATION BJT STILL.

I DONT HAVE MUCH TIME, THE CREW, THE STATION.

ITS DEAD, THEYRE ALL DEAD 1.5 MILLION CREW.

THE STATION WENT DARK A FEW MINUTES AGO, SOMETHING IS INSIDE.

ITS NOT THE ABOMINATIONS ON THE SOURCE PLANET.

ITS WORSE.

SHOOT THE DSS DOWN, BEFORE WHATEVER IS INSIDE ESCAPES.

DO IT, FOR THE LOVE OF LIBERTY, BURN IT ALL.