Verecocha wrote:

Says a lot that I’ve only played with randoms so far and always just using quick play and it’s still been a blast.

Yeah, done rando matches and it can be good. 

Did a longish session with Shabby and Nina, then Blue and Pie. Fun times, lots of democracy spread, couple of missions descended into absolute chaos but was still a complete blast. Game of the Year for me, so far.

Here's my new code #1376-6589

Gonna get an hour in before footy.

More games with randoms today, one guy got 11 samples in my last game. Only at the end of play did I notice the armour etc isn’t just for show…so I’ll look at that tomorrow. Need to work on my accuracy though…



How the fuck did that guy get off more shots than the rest of us combined?!

Yeah, samples aren’t too bad to get in a group, if you’re doing a whole map, doing side objectives, checking locations - can regularly get ok numbers for samples collected. Slightly harder to coordinate in a random group though, and it’s worth going back to pick them up after death as well, if possible.

Gonna be about for a short bit if anyone is available to jump on. Happy to chill on medium / challenging / hard.

Chazmano wrote:

I have never wanted a game to come to Xbox this much

Honestly, if PS we’re gonna go full multi plat this is the game - it’s absolutely the more the merrier and thrives on a big player base. Hopefully it makes the jump.

I can never seem to see any of you on my in Game friends list, but il be on soonish.
Just watching starship troopers first to get in the mood!

Syph79 wrote:

Cupatay wrote:

I've added you guys on the PS5 friend's list. Comical games last night, at one point I threw down some mines which you might say were slightly to close to us. Although you can't hear Syph, I can say I was just following orders at every point. You can actually see me "drop the ball" that finished us all off.

This was classic, but I'm going to call out Cuppa for running for at least 4-5 seconds before announcing the impending airstrike. ;-p

Yep, that did happen. Erm......sorry?

Minor Patch 01.000.100
Fresh new patch notes Helldivers!

Major Updates
Planetary Hazards active
Many planets now have additional environmental challenges that will appear at random while you are deployed, from fire tornadoes to meteor showers and many more.


Balancing

Eradicate Missions
Eradicate missions now require more kills and enemies spawn more often. The time to complete the mission was previously shorter than intended and should now usually take twice as long to complete.


Primary, Secondary, & Support Weapons

Breaker: Decreased magazine capacity from 16 to 13, increased recoil from 30 to 55
Railgun - Decreased armor penetration in Safe Mode, decreased damage against durable enemy parts
Flamethrower: Increased damage per second by 50%
Laser Cannon: Increased damage against durable enemy parts, increased armor penetration, improved ergonomics
Punisher: Increased total ammo capacity from 40 to 60, increased stagger force, increased damage from 40 per bullet to 45 per bullet
Breaker Spray & Pray: Increased armor penetration, increased fire rate from 300 to 330, increased number of pellets from 12 to 16 per shot, decreased magazine size from to 32 to 26


Stratagems
Energy Shield Backpack: Increased delay before recharging
380mm and 120mm Orbital Barrages: Increased duration of the bombardment, decreased spread


Fixes
Fixed armor rating values not reducing damage as intended.
Fixed certain Bug Holes (including Stalker Nests) that were unnecessarily hard to destroy.
Fixed anti-aliasing toggle not working on PS5.
Balanced lighting across all planets to solve cases where the game was too dark.
Improved flashlight efficacy.
Increased visibility during “sand rain” weather on Erata Prime.
Updated tutorial materials and lighting.
Improved cases where some materials could look blurry if "Lighting" graphic setting was set to "Low".
Fixed timing issues that could occur in the “Extract E-710” primary objective.
Changed button interaction behavior for buttons in bunker POIs. Helldivers will now let go of the button after holding it for a few seconds.
Fixed some cases of large assets floating if the ground beneath them was blown up.
Helldivers standing next to ICBMs during launch will get properly toasty with a chance of not-so-spontaneous combustion.
Fixed unthrowable snowballs after ragdolling.
Fixed being able to use grenades after drowning.
Camera no longer locked on the player's own corpse and blocking spectator mode.
Helldivers now take damage from fire, gas etc. generated by other players.
Armor no longer stretches when dismembered.


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.
Game may crash after dropping several high power stratagems in succession.
Picking up items from caches may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time.
Picking up items from bunkers and caches in quick succession may render one of the items unpickable.
Players cannot unfriend other players befriended via friend code.
Players may be unable to select loadout or return to ship when joining a multiplayer game session via PS5 Activity Card.
Mission objective HUD displays different numbers for client and host during some missions.
Default armor is always shown while viewing the warbond, regardless of the armor that player has equipped.
Text chat box display is obstructed by the cinematic letterboxing during extraction.
Some text in the HUD/UI is missing or not displaying correctly.
Players may experience issues when many players attempt to login and/or play at the same time:
Login rate limiting
Players may become disconnected during play
Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers
Some games may not be joinable by others for a short period of time

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/4113546867235200192?l=english

The meteor showers are a fun addition, looking forward to getting killed by the other environmental hazards.

New update again but now everytime I extract I'm stuck on an infinite loading screen and have to relaunch the game!

Also there's missions now to say the mech factory's are in danger and if we don't liberate them then they will be decayed.

Some good Helldiving with Drew - bug missions were tight but successful. A robot mission to just kill and defend a tiny area was an absolute bloodbath.

Great game.

I've always thought we should have a thread for joining each other online. A thread where you just post what you're playing right now with the idea being you just join the game. I'm online, don't ask, just join me or something along those lines.

Might encourage more to jump into the multiplayer that way.

digi wrote:

I'm never sure if people want me to join so I think it's a great idea.

Exactly how I think sometimes so I'm sure we're not the only ones.

Also, it'd be a one stop shop for all games rather than posting in specific game thread's people may not read till later. Kind of like a twist on those discord LFG threads.

Post your tag, game and platform. If people join great, if they don't then no harm done. More chance of badger team mates than randos is always a bonus.

I can do one if people think it's worth doing.