Cool til it comes of as more of the same excuses and lil references for 6 more months. Knowing the issues and Fixing as fast as you can is fine. But we need MORE Preventing future issues BEFORE releasing new missions and weapons. In the meantime RUN UP THAT MONEY WITH COSMETICS AND NEW PASSIVES

It’s more just the same state as most live service games. They get a huge boost of numbers at the beginning, it will go down eventually since those numbers can’t be maintained, and you will have a pretty steady plateau unless there is a big event that happens. And that’s what happened with Helldivers. Happened with Palworld too. It’s more to be expected. Now if we have numbers to compare them to other live service games then we can talk since we have real numbers to compare with.

Stopped playing after the last warbond update. Haven’t thought about going back. I called this player loss and it appears I was correct Edit: incompetency, I’ve lost hope in the dev team. Will prob come back and try it out again when the illuminate come out. Hopefully they’ll have their stuff together by then but I won’t be holding my breath

For me it’s the only being able to finish ops at a 33% rate due to glitches crashes etc…makes me not wanna play

For me, I'm getting burnt out on feeling like we are barely making progress in the overall campaign. We capture some planets, and a few days later the planets are back under enemy control. We just liberated 5 planets from the bugs, and will be losing one of them tomorrow. Too many defense missions, lack of variety on planet modifiers, it goes on.

Adult rifles are still trash, even after the patch I’m running with the same thing pre patch. I know a bunch of stuff has “changed” but I just don’t feel like it has. Just about everything seems under powered.

I’m like 105 but I haven’t played in a few weeks due to the state of the games bugs and crashes I personally won’t put time into something if I have to constantly restart it.

They don’t know how to properly balance a game with weapons and stratagems being overpowered and un-fun to use other the big explosion and bright lights

Have you noticed that most of the time someone or you die out of nowhere in extraction? I was playing and I died, out of nowhere, then I saw the extraction and a friend got on the ship and a bullet from him came and my direction killing me again is this just a coincidence, or did it happen to some of you?

They sold us a powertrip, and then took the power away.

Got other games to play, so I just do a mission set on 7 per day then go play BAR, elden ring dlc, hunt showdown, Apex legends, age of empires 2, or a bit of no mans sky. I plan to cycle deep rock galactic back into my rotation however.

I put about 10 hours in when a new warbond comes out. I really like the game. But im not gunna play over and over for nothing.

I'm on and off playing right now. Getting back into playing modded Skyrim while occasionally playing the elden ring DLC. had to step back from it due to rage.

I main and have mained the legionnaire light armor since I got it months ago. Servo assisted and has the higher speed/ stamina and lower armor. Now with the boosted stim, it is so speedy and quiet. You can run in, throw your airstrike or orbital laser at a base and run away before getting close enough to be detected and out of range by the time the missiles drop.

The sickle makes a purring sound if you charge it but then stop before firing. I find it weirdly satisfying

when you crash every other drop, get drops where you cant reinforce, and have to pick loadouts around what crashes you or dosent work, the game is just too frustrating to play. todays patch helped but didnt fix enough, i only get about 20mins of enjoyable playtime out of each hour im on right now.

All right, I’m finally gonna join the discord tonight. With the caveat of my remembering that is. On my lunch break I left. I want to say between 12 and 15 servers that I wasn’t active in anymore.

level 107 dive daily,

So, I feel the game is lacking in progression. Add a proficiency system to weapon to level them up, so then can upgrade damage or reload time or mag size… stuff like that. Would incentivize using different load out. But it needs something to work towards in my opinion. Don’t know if a skill tree would work but something to beef yourself up. And more shop upgrades. Even cosmetic. The gameplay itself is top shelf. Just needs something besides major orders to work towards. The MO story telling is fine. But character progression is something that keeps me engaged and wanting to keep going. After level 25 XP is pretty much useless. Samples is a good system. Maybe add planet/biome specific resources as well for other types of upgrades. Deep Rock Galactic’s progression system is a good example of what I’d love to see come to Helldivers in the future. Thank guys. Love the pod. Keep it up.

the game maxes out too fast. its too easy to get all the ship mods, weapons, strategems, armors, etc; there's nothing to strive for.

People dont use the shield much anymore partly because they nerfed it too much (15 second cooldown before it restores), it keeps having issues with the Plasma Punisher (this is now the second time its broken like this for the Plasma Punisher) and bot accuracy is so good that it instantly peels the shield and you just die 1 second slower. missile barrages and gatling lasers mowing you down and ragdolling everywhere. its just not competitive with other backpack options like the autocannon, spear, recoilless or supply packs. A shield doesnt matter if you run out of ammo or dont have anything for tanks and gunships. Now that Peak Physique is fully working now, heavy and slow weapons like Eruptor, HMG, Autocannon, Dominator, even the Flamethrower feel amazing. You can effectively use the HMG as a primary weapon now thats how amazing it is now. Player numbers will increase when they fix Social issues, finally start adding new stratagems to the game, add new ship upgrades and continue buffing weapons and stratagems so they are fun again. making the game fun and giving us something to spend capped resources on so players arent just sitting on mountains of samples and medals will get people to play. there isnt any sense of progression after you unlock every stratagem, every warbond and every ship upgrade. we are still fighting on the same planets we were fighting on 5 months ago. we wiped the bots off the map only for 2 days later they came back and took over a massive part of the galaxy. a lot of players and people I talked to felt really cheated of that victory over the bots that they were back immediately after the hard fought campaign.

Elden ring Dlc, and tomarrow Palworlds first big update ....then I'll be back

A lot of people like to rotate games, or hop on during large content drops. Helldivers is no different. Besides, it doesnt help with all the people locked out in other countries...

Why is Helldivers losing players? Because the vibe keeps getting killed, wether its from Sony or the Arrowhead community managers (except Twinbeard. He's still cool)

I'm a level 113 and I'm still having a blast.

Forgot to add my default armor: Trench Paramedic. Light armor with +2 stims and 2.0 second increased duration for stim effects. God Tier when paired with the Viper Commandos' fentanyl stim booster.

I left because I'm starved for something more polished. It's exhausting having to deal with broken and bugged shit all the time. They literally released a new armor passive that didn't work for 2 weeks. The superior packaging upgrade is still scuffed. Crashes. Infinite loading screen. On and on.

People are dropping because of recent game releases (those 400k+ people on Elden Ring this week came from somewhere) and because Arrowhead's pivot to a slower cadence hasn't been adding any content. People get the warbond complete in a week, cap medals again, and start to drift away. If the illuminates showed up I would guess that things will change. You also absolutely can have a final win. It happened all the time in HD1. Either Super Earth cleared the board or got wiped out and the game just starts over.

It isn’t

Use the deployable bubble shield to cover your rocket and autocannon sentry on bots 🔥 thank me later

Love the helmet made me wanna dive and call the general for some insurance to save some time

Salt Divers reporting in! This is now my most anticipated Podcast every week (almost neck and neck with Salty Saturdays). Keep up the great work.

I've been 150 for weeks and I still dive every day and I'm not gonna stop.

All they had to do was let people have the toys they enjoyed playing with and their game would have topped every chart imaginable. Instead they made fun illegal and now I, and many others, haven't logged on in almost three weeks except to test post-patch changes, crash, be disappointed, and go back to monster hunter world.

I want to see the Illuminate take Super Earth right out the gate, and we have to fight our way back from the outer rims of both Bug and Bot systems to reclaim our blue marble!

It’s the only game I like playing but yeah I’m not playing as much it’s getting boring

I wish these lasted longer

Why couldn't have the giant question mark have been PP rock!?!

The thing I always wondered was the shiled bubble cooldown is like 80 seconds and yet the ship upgrade also says it reduces the cool down of lots of things by 80 seconds so that would have made the bubble amazing but it doesnt seem effect it.

For me some of the community has become mad elitist.. I had a couple of bad matches wherei died 4-5 times just dumb luck kinda shit and i got kicked before the match ended. People out theretraining for the Helldiver olympics apparently

Dutch gonna look like Hound from Transformers

I love helldivers 2 but I'm currently busy in the lands between with the new DLC. Once I'm done with it I'll be back but for now that's taking up all my gaming time

Epic lol!

Let's GOOO!! Lmao the helmet 🤣

GG lads! Thank you Dutch, Salty, and Keg for allowing me to be amongst legends.