Helldivers 2
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It’s been great fun, even with randoms. You can solo it, but it’s not half as fun.
Depends what you are into - there isn't much in the way of story, etc. at higher difficulties IMO more effort than it is worth to solo and the fun really is in playing with a team. You can actually chill out and play the easier difficulties solo though.
Soldato
Soldato
How do you access the OCUK Discord? I only half know how to use Discord as it is
See if this works: https://discord.gg/vU8txtFGQw
I'd love to play this. Bought it and too scared to even play it
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Soldato
Its cracker game mate so good with a couple of others.
Soldato
Yeah it’s an excellent arcadey shooter. This thread honestly isn’t reflective of how good the game is, lots of calling out every minor bug here which makes the game sound unplayable - it isn’t.
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Yeah, though I can understand and sympathise with the frustration for those who encounter repeated issues. Perhaps my friends and I have been fortunate but game breaking problems have been rare considering how much time we've put in, and the fun has far outweighed the occasional gnashing of teeth.
I've not played and enjoyed a game so much that wasn't on my radar at all in a very long time.
My current problem is the airburst rocket, played our first rounds with it yesterday and every single one of my destroyed themselves despite my warning after being first to do so, it's insanely powerful!
I'll go slightly against the grain by saying if you want to play purely solo then .... no. This game was designed to be played in co-op mode. You can solo some of the lower difficulties once you have accrued some gear, stratagems etc but the game plays significantly better as part of a group. Thankfully, playing with random people online is actually quite fun in this game ; yes, there are some idiots but the community by and large is friendly and helpful. If you have several friends in real life who are interested in playing then it's a must buy.
Depends what you are looking for from a game, it can ironically be quite chilled out playing some of the lower difficulties solo, and you run into far less of the game's issues doing that as the pace is rarely to the point of exposing them and/or they have less impact unless it involves the game crashing.
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They need to increase the arming time on that airburst rpg and reduce the reload time.
Only place I've seen it working good really so far is if you've got a swarm of bile spewers at medium distance - for most other situations I'd rather have a Gatling turret albeit that has far longer downtime if you are on the move.
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Logging in after being away for a few weeks and getting the medals from the weekly's is real nice. Small wee boost to keep people being able to unlock things if they're not able to play as often as the start. 
bear in mind they top out at 250, so make sure you don't leave it too long between logins/spending themLogging in after being away for a few weeks and getting the medals from the weekly's is real nice. Small wee boost to keep people being able to unlock things if they're not able to play as often as the start.
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Ah, that explains why the last couple rewards popped up as 0. I'll take less medals for a good holiday though
Patch came out this morning. Only change on airburst was it exploding if anything or anyone was in front of you including some shrubbery.
Some nice other fixes though, but some nerfs that are a bit annoying too.
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Some of those nerfs are going to annoy people, no idea why they do this in a PvE game so far down the line, it only annoys the community.
They have increased the recharge to the Quasar by 5 seconds.....
Patch notes below, quite the list
General
Patch notes below, quite the list
Overview
For this patch, we have made improvements and changes to the following areas:- Balance changes to weapons, stratagems, and enemies
- Change to the Spread Democracy mission
Balancing
General- Armors with armor rating above 100 now also reduce damage on headshots.
- Victory poses will now only play for the extracted. (No stolen valor on my ship.)
- CB-9 Exploding Crossbow
- Slightly smaller explosion
- Increased stagger
- Decreased number of maximum mags from 12 to 8
- Increased number of magazines received from resupply from 6 to 8
- Slight reduction in ergonomics
- Muzzle velocity increased
- LAS-99 Quasar Cannon
- Increased recharge time by 5 seconds
- BR-14 Adjudicator
- Full auto is now the default fire mode
- Reduced recoil
- Increased maximum mags from 6 to 8
- Increased number of magazines received from resupply from 6 to 8
- Now placed amongst assault rifles
- Laser Cannon
- Slightly increased damage
- Slightly reduced damage versus large volume bodies
- SG-8P Punisher Plasma
- Decreased maximum mags from 12 to 8
- Increased amount of magazines received from resupply from 6 to 8
- Increased projectile speed, but will still keep a similar range
- Decreased damage falloff on the explosion
- Now placed in the energy weapons category
- ARC-12 Blitzer
- Increased shots per minute from 30 to 45
- Now placed in the energy weapons category
- R-36 Eruptor
- Decreased number of maximum mags from 12 to 6
- Explosion damage drops off slightly faster
- LAS-16 Sickle
- Decreased amount of magazines from 6 down to 3
- Scythe
- Increased damage from 300 to 350
- Decreased max number of mags from 6 down to 4
- Railgun
- Increased armor penetration in both safe mode and unsafe mode
- Stagger force slightly reduced
- MG-101 Heavy Machine Gun
- Third person crosshair enabled
- Diligence Counter Sniper
- Damage increased from 128 to 140
- Ergonomics improved
- Diligence
- Damage increased from 112 to 125
- P-19 Redeemer
- Slight increase in recoil
- Peacemaker
- Increased damage from 60 to 75
- Senator
- Increased damage from 150 to 175
- Speedloader added when reloading on an empty cylinder–speeds up reload on empty considerably
- Dagger
- Increased damage from 150 to 200
- Liberator
- Damage increased from 55 to 60
- Liberator Concussive
- Damage increased from 55 to 65
- Dominator
- Damage decreased from 300 to 275
- Guard Dog Rover
- Decreased damage by 30%
- Guard Dog
- Slight increase in damage
- Burning damage reduced by 15%
- Machinegun Sentry
- Increased health to match other Sentries
- Tesla Tower
- Increased health by 33%
- RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher
- Airburst Rocket Launcher will no longer detonate when shot near stratagems (HMG turret, Sentries, Resupplies) and other Helldivers.
- Reduced proximity radius
Enemies
Balancing adjustments have been made to:- Bile Spewer and Nursing Spewers movespeed slightly reduced
- Hulks: Force required for them to stagger slightly increased
- Hulk Scorcher direct flamethrower damage reduced by 20%
- Devastator fire rate slightly increased (only the standard devastator)
- Gunships sideways movement slightly increased
- Scout strider Riders now less vulnerable to explosions
- Fog Generators health and armor increased
- Gunship spawners now have a much lower cap on how many gunships they can have active at the same time.
- Balancing adjustment to patrol spawning.
- Patrol spawning has been increased when there are fewer than 4 players. The fewer the players the bigger the change. For 4 player missions there will be no change compared to before.The biggest noticeable change will be for solo players at higher difficulties.
Gameplay
- Made minor level generation improvements to how we distribute locations throughout the mission map. This should improve variation in distance between objectives, and objectives will likely not spawn as far away from each other as often as before.
- Added setting in the options menu gameplay section to disable automatic climbing and vaulting while sprinting.
- The Spread Democracy mission otherwise known as “raise the flag” can now be enjoyed on higher difficulties for maximum freedom spreading.
- When readying up, Helldivers now salute to ensure maximum democratic readiness.
- Added ambience to the Tremor planetary hazard to underline the severity so Helldivers can react accordingly
- Shots that ricochet from heavy armored enemies will now properly hit the Helldiver who fired them. Trigger discipline is highly recommended.
Fixes
- Crash fixes
- Fixed crash that could occur when host abandoned mission with squad.
- Fixed crash that could occur if a player tried to enter an occupied EXO-45 Patriot Suit.
- Fixed crash that could occur for all players after or during mission results screen.
- Fixed crash that could occur after shooting from the EXO-45 Patriot Suit’s rocket launcher.
- Fixed crash that could occur for all players apart from the one that rejoined the ongoing mission with different armor and got reinforced.
- Fixed Superior Packing Methodology ship module not working properly.
- Fixed Blast Absorption ship module so that it correctly increases sentries’ resistance to explosions.
- Fixed issue where players could not navigate to the search results in the Social Menu.
- Fixed some issues where items equipped in a Warbond were not actually equipped.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed overly eager Helldivers to use grenades excessively.
- Fixed issue where kills from orbital barrage did not progress Indirect Fire Exercise order.
- Fixed issue that allowed traitors to try to sabotage the extraction shuttle by deploying sentry stratagems below it.
- Fixed issue where ion storms incorrectly prevented extraction beacon from deploying.
- Fixed some stratagem beams using incorrect color-coding.
- Fixed issue where the left stick on a controller could not be used to navigate the Social menu.
- Fixed some issues where various UI elements were cut off, off-centered or too close to the edge of the screen on ultrawide displays.
- Fixed Anti-Materiel Rifle facing away from the Helldiver after deploying it.
- Fixed bug where player could duplicate rounds by canceling the reload of Anti-Materiel Rifle at a specific time.
- Fixed bug where Anti-Materiel Rifle would consume an extra magazine after a canceled reload.
- Fixed bug where Recoilless Rifle would consume an extra shell from the backpack if the reload was canceled just after a shell was inserted, but before the reload was completed.
- Fixed issue where the Sickle and Quasar Cannon could not shoot through foliage.
- Fixed several issues where weapon thumbnails would disappear when scrolling through Armory.
- Fixed issues where Automaton Gunships sometimes could not see the player.
- Fixed incorrect collision being left over after destroying Automaton bunkers or detector towers with hellbombs.
- Fixed issue where Hellbombs would not deploy on certain missions
- Fixed certain issues that resulted in Helldivers drowning in deep water upon landing.
- Fixed issue where Hellpod Space Optimization made ammo go above capacity.
- Fixed issue where Stalkers became very visible in fog
- Mines are now pingable for better coordination with your team.
- Receiving friend requests now gives the player a pop up.
- Improved readability of prompts and hints displayed in the tutorial and onboarding.
- Total experience is now visible in the career tab.
- Added better support for ultrawide monitors by fixing the aspect ratio of menus to 16:9 and adding a setting to control the width of the HUD.
- Keybinds bound to numpad will no longer reset upon restart.
- Fixed inconsistent audio when headphones are plugged into the Dual Sense controller while playing on PC.
- Playing Rock, Paper, Scissors in front of the ship no longer causes player to fall out into space.
- APW-1 Anti-Material Rifle and MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun now trigger hitmarkers while scoped in.
- Secondary weapon no longer remains in the Ballistic Shield ADS position after using a stim with the Ballistic Shield Backpack equipped.
- "Open Text Chat" is now rebindable.
- Explosive weapons such as R-36 Eruptor, CB-9 Exploding Crossbow. GP-31 Grenade Pistol no longer pulls players inward from the blast.
- Disabled the squad invites during the tutorial which caused an overlap in the UI.
- Fixed Primary and Secondary weapons overlapping on the character model in the armory.
- Fixed UI elements during first boot are cut off on a 21:9 aspect ratio monitor.
- Report and block player is now visible in the squad menu.
- Dead Scavengers now stop screaming for help if killed while calling in reinforcements.
- Fixed Anti Air cannons showing up as "Stratagem Scramblers" in danger warnings.
- Added reload stage for the Spear reload after the spent missile had been discarded.
Known Issues
These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.- Damage-over-time effects may only apply when dealt by the host. We expect to have this fixed in the next patch.
- Reinforcement may not be available for some players who join a game in progress.
- Helldiver may be unable to stand up from crouching when surrounded by enemies.
- Game may crash if the host leaves while dead and rejoins the same play session.
- Game may crash if the player changes the text language while on a mission.
- Various issues involving friend invites and cross-play:
- Friend Request cannot be accepted when the requesting player changed their username before the request was accepted.
- Cross-platform friend invites might not show up in the Friend Requests tab.
- Players cannot unfriend players befriended via friend code.
- Players cannot unblock players that were not in their Friends list beforehand.
- Players may experience delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts.
- Enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions.
- Scopes on some weapons such as the Anti-Materiel Rifle are slightly misaligned.
- Arc weapons sometimes behave inconsistently and sometimes misfire.
- Spear’s targeting is inconsistent, making it hard to lock-on to larger enemies.
- Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location.
- Explosions do not break your limbs (except for when you fly into a rock).
- Area around Automaton Detector Tower makes blue stratagems such as the Hellbomb bounce and be repelled when trying to call them down close to the tower.
- Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission.
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They have also reduced the amount of clips you can carry for a number of weapons
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