Yes... this would make Helldivers 2 10x more strategic

[@muaxh03]

I know Helldivers only get one training, but I see this like a testing ground instead of training. Reasons to have this added, testing new gear sometimes you don't want to commit to a support weapon in a real match because you don't know how it will perform, and joining low difficulty missions to try it is a pain. We could have different targets like Bile Titans, Tanks, Harvesters, and Factory Striders to test these gears, maybe a console to spawn things? We can fit into the lore by saying these are captured enemy assets to run tests on (just like how there are bug holes in the tutorial). This is a small request/would be cool to have. I'm not forcing anyone to add this or anything like that. I also see a lot of reasons to not add this, but at the end of the day, it's up to the devs.

[@kerotan3582]

>. We could have different targets like Bile Titans, Tanks, Harvesters, and Factory Striders to test these gears, maybe a console to spawn things? How about cardboard/inflatable versions of it ;)

[@lisabrickert2820]

Cool idea!

[@slavcow]

Knowing arrowhead they would probably want a more immersive way of doing this instead of just a button in the menu. Maybe a planet that we capture and can hellpod down to once we've built the range? And maybe if your game was public you would be with a bunch of other helldivers in one lobby.

[@muaxh03]

Mars is great for it, it's the tutorial planet anyways. You can access the tutorial as a button in the menu so that's why I put it there.

[@slavcow]

@@muaxh03 true, I did forget you could go to the tutorial from the menu

[@Alex_Skayler]

Yeah, it's much better to try all weapon by yourself on battlefield, to find out with is better for different play style.

[@Hydro.131]

Man, a whole gun club type planet with like 10 people all testing guns would be so cool

[@disguisedskeleton7592]

I mean honestly with all the Illumina- I mean advanced Super Earth tech and the holograms we have access to, it would be nice to have a simulation mode based on all the enemy corpses the Ministry of Science has received from our work. It would let helldivers practice and perfect their craft in optimal conditions.

[@berserk06]

A practice range would also be an excuse to have more General Brasch commentary added to the game lol

[@vukodrakkanien8466]

You guys moan about 'Practice Range' while Super Earth is so cheap, that their practice range is a mission deployment and shooting the bugs.

[@muaxh03]

That's one of the reasons not to add, like I said this is just a thing that would be cool to have for gameplay and testing stuff, there are a lot of reasons to not add it. It's up to the devs.

[@scatterbrainart]

It's not very practical to do that, though. The only way to test things like heavy armor penetration is to do higher difficulty missions, and you're constantly getting mobbed while only being able to shoot at what randomly spawns. Can't change primary weapons, can't choose different stratagems while on a mission, which at difficulty 4+ can take 20-30 minutes to complete solo. So you either have to quit out of the mission or wait another 20 minutes to try new weapons.

[@Upstartfir]

Put on Mars as a place you select like a mission and you can bring your friends and fuck around with infinite reinforces in an open area

[@yokiaaidan_best_ever3438]

​@@scatterbrainartit may sound rude, but if you can't take on a 4+ mission and also be quick in the process, a high pen weapon probably can't help you much anyways.

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

@@yokiaaidan_best_ever3438 still not consistent enough to test out heavy weapons

[@unitmikey7]

honestly this is what the MARS node should be, it makes perfect sense to reuse it like that. of course, this does become an issue if our heroes fail and the enemies of democracy make it to super earth, but obviously they'd never let that happen :P

[@captaincritter6173]

Meanwhile at Arrowhead studios…… Dev: “Hey boss, check out this KZbinr.” Manager: “Not bad. Some good ideas here from some of his videos. Why aren’t you taking notes?”

[@BubingusCinemaHub]

So many things they could add! A firing range, even on the ship similar to space marine 2! Also a HUB/BAR area to hang out with other divers and form teams and show off DRIP.

[@ayushsharma2252]

best stuff we can ever ask for is the ship from deep rock galactic,football,kick the barrel,flappy birds,climb up stuff,and my favourite, A LITERAL BAR AND JUKEBOX SO YOU CAN DRINK AND DANCE IN GAME WITH BUDDIES.

[@0V3RLO0K]

Back in Helldivers 1 there as a feature called proving grounds, it was set on Super Earth that can be played anytime despite the war's progress. It would be set on an exclusive part of Super Earth, where Illuminates, Bugs(now Terminids), Cyborgs(replaced by automatons now) can be chosen to fight with. Most of the difficulties in the proving grounds missions are high and it also has modifiers that affect the field or sometimes from what I watched or would give Helldivers specific stratagems and weapons that can't be changed. I never played the proving grounds myself because I mostly played the real field operations, so I don't know the specifics

[@Shephard99]

Don't know why but I instantly thought of *Patriotic Range* instead.

[@intoxicanyx4687]

It would be way better if the target practice were *chained up enemies*

[@bar20800]

this is so needed since we don't know what each new item in the warbond will actually do

[@SergioSergio12345]

I think this would mainly be useful if it let you try out weapons you do not have. Warbond weapons don't give any practical info on what they actually do, so it'd be very useful to get an idea.

[@ayushsharma2252]

yes please,just make a visitable arewa to practice stuff like artilery,guns etc.people from same platoon can come together here,and short challenges like fast area clear,FRV racing,team drills,fun side activities etc can be added here.maybe something too much too ask for,but a bar like deeprock galatic where we can celebrate our victory would be amazing too.

[@vladimirpain3942]

Obviously I am far from being only one who had this thought. I mean, you can always start easy mission, but there is time limit, objectives that you must complete (because good soldier obeys orders) and such. And having open map so you can just have some fun with FRV would be nice. Maybe even therapeutic.

[@j.e.clockwork3058]

An interactable proving ground would be a great, immersive place to test out stratagems and loadouts with out throwing the mission for everyone else or waste time abandoning missions to switch things out; but I also know what Command's response to any kind of training ground suggestions is going to be: "I believe in learning on the job,"

[@CoconutGorrila]

this would be more like a sandbox mode

[@telapoopy]

Or a virtual practice range from the comfort of your own ship

[@livetonfnv3176]

Absolutely, especially if I can bring my friends.

[@ZZZano718]

I would love this cause then I get to see how weapons work before testing them on the front. and just drive the car around for awhile

[@MiniWhiteDragon]

I would love this. My two big games this year were Helldivers and Darktide, and I really miss Darktide’s testing area when playing Helldivers.

[@robertgl9079]

The beauty of this game is that it gives you all this weapons and lets you practice and get to know them in game no baby holding, you unlock a new gun/ stratagem go ahead and see how it blows democracy enemies mid battle or in trivial if you want a more relaxed environment

[@sumerian88]

Absolutely required.

[@stevenjackson9028]

Give me paddocks with each enemy type standing there, where we can walk around and shoot at various body parts so we can more easily figure out the different breakpoints with different guns.

[@kouta360TB]

i wish they made 5 different loadouts that you can customize and swap between mid game on death respawn.

[@para0076]

Honestly would be a great idea to test weapons and see how effective they can be

[@manaus1775]

LOVE the halo music on the background!

[@keckyoin6057]

supporting main seaf forces would be insane

[@michaellabonte6390]

Nah test them on the battle field soldier. You had 5 whole minutes to train on mars. 5 WHOLE MINUTES! Thats more time than we got to ourselves on liberty day soldier. Get ur cape on, and get in your HELLPOD!

[@ObsidianG]

When I need to test a new gun I do a trivial mission on bugs

[@unholyrevenger72]

And the planet should be named... Arrive.

[@DaxterSnickers]

Helldivers test in production.

[@danielbrown5682]

This is a great idea and very well executed in your video! I end using the same old faithful equipment (Autocannon) every time as I can't be sure what each weapon is going to be like and if it is useful or not. Would love to be able to test some new combinations in a not so serious environment. Maybe you would have to spend slips to do it, so you don't just end up spending your whole time messing around?

[@eizen3810]

combat is your practice young helldiver.

[@Romelus3d]

you got it backward we are the targets 😂

[@trevorlebert1929]

there was a time when games had silly mini games or alt modes that became more fun than the actual game at times. sometimes it was a secret level. When i was 6 i couldnt play mario 64 very well but i did play the crap out of the penguin race game on the first snow level.

[@VHG.entertainment]

The only practice a real helldiver needs is the one that is given in the completly infalible 5 minute training course.

[@ianchoi7142]

Make Super Earth accessible just for us to go back home and visit or the place to go for weapon testing. The safest planet in the universe where all our destructive, liberating weaponry originate from.

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

Would help get a better feel for the weapon veofre taking it to the field, heck it wouldn't be weird for a super destroyer to have its own shooting range. But you really gotta test how a weapon performs in an active combat zone

[@5mowFa11]

The best part about not having a testing ground is for Helldivers to f around and find out. Especially when there's -lab rats- teammates.

[@24nero24]

I would love this to test weapons before spending 1k super credits and hating the weapons I can get

[@Justanotherpyromain]

Your practice is rhe missions

[@tatooinestar]

I pinged AH many times since the early days about getting some sort of range or test area, like the training grounds on Mars, or something on the ship. Every time the response from both AH and the community was simply "Do a level 1 mission to test stuff!", so I don't expect this to ever come to the game. Shame.

[@Verminator4]

While I definitely got the appeal I think a lot of HD2's fun comes from the chaos and unexpected interactions between elements of its sandbox, and I think being able to practice with the gear outside of missions would actually take away from it a little.

[@muaxh03]

I agree, there are good reasons to have this but there are also a lot of reasons not to have this. It would be cool to have but it's up to the devs of course, maybe you can only test the stuff you already unlocked?

[@Nerf_Craft]

@@muaxh03 Agreed. You should at least need to unlock it first, but then you can find its best use-case scenarios without jeopardizing a mission by bringing a weapon you've never used.

[@carloschaparro07]

That would be awesome!

[@CyranofromBergerac]

Ye, I got the plasma shotgun and it took me a second to realize the round drops fast. Almost like a grenade launcher. There's a few weapons I could have used some practice with but in all honesty I adapt pretty quick. I say go to an easy difficulty to get training.

[@sickvidsful]

they should just have a range on the ship. they should make a new enemy that relies on sound and can only see up close. could have new style of weapons like sound lures and vibration detection maybe they dont register on radar or a sound gun to keep them at bay while try to do objectives. could see if alien versus predator mode could work. someone should make a broforce cross over bring all the characters from that game to fight for liberty lmfao would be sweet for more weapons melees too. they can make underground levels with holes in the above to call your calls through maybe able to break some too.

[@172satoshi]

This would be great but narrative wise, we need this equipment in the frontlines for our brave helldivers sacrificing their lives for democracy

[@GeritzMusic]

This is quite democracy of you

[@Snake-d6i]

a hologram combat simulator kinda like from mass effect would be cool too

[@bbubbletea_6]

There's no time to be loligagging, helldiver, get your ass on planet and squish some bugs

[@HoundNL]

Love the Halo OST Which song is that exactly?

[@the_usual_please1533]

So is it just cannon now to have Halo music in the background of Helldivers vids? 😃

[@archsmith8490]

what tyranny park should have been

[@ShorttEclipse]

I'd prefer this over a player hub on the DSS

[@mistermagister1693]

I consider missions a firing range

[@Huwbacca]

It's unthematic that helldivers get to practice with their weapons prior to deployment. I think it's genuinely more on brand to take a weapon into a deployment with no idea how it will perform and learning on the fly lol.

[@chengdong4124]

you could test it on the field, it's fun of the game xD

[@T3DNR3D]

I feel like the idea of a practice range is kind antithetical to the lore they're buildings.

[@stevetheveteran]

We just need a PvP arena (for training purposes only of course).

[@VoltageCowboy]

game is too easy for all of this but driving the vehicle, now that I need assistance with 💀

[@greenlion1089]

Maybe one day...

[@YagizC-b6b]

would be really cool

[@Hexagon666]

Yeah, INSAAANE!!

[@mcoolguy-ok2wn]

Why have a practice range when you can practice in BATTLE! FOR SUPER EARTH!!!

[@voin5371]

What's the music that you used in the video?

[@telapoopy]

Impart from Halo 2 Anniversary

[@voin5371]

@@telapoopy Cheers!

[@pagey-zk1pi]

How to try this mod bro?

[@thirteen8582]

I like the idea 👍

[@metalm6455]

Why does half your videos start with “ Yes… “ 😂

[@palasta]

Just go trivial and practice driving. What i did.

[@dam78]

0:02

[@rodrigoreis4763]

Aren't the Trivial difficulty missions the testing range?

[@wasdwazd]

If I see more Helldivers video title starting with 'Yes...' I'm going to end it all

[@samspeed6271]

The problem is how far do you go before it's just another mission? We could have a basic range with static or moving silhouettes and damage counters to show number of hits or the damage points done. Next level up would be accounting for armour on the targets. But you've got to realise, in a real mission you can't take your time to nail a headshot, that Hulk is returning fire. So do you add in live return fire? Wait, this looks like a normal mission now, just with the ability to call in all the strategems you want. I would like a test range to practice. Sometimes my mates will be in a mission and I'm waiting to join in and I have too much time to kill but not enough to do a mission of my own. A shooting range to kill some time would be nice. Also, superb music choice. Halo 2 Impart

[@Arkay24]

I usually scale back to difficulty 1-3 missions when I want to test a new loadout and fish for trouble by ignoring patrols.

[@boritroll6423]

I honestly dislike this idea cause people will use it to hyper test stuff and will post 10x more tierlists, make optimal builds and further ruin fun for them and people around.

[@Cloudaddy220]

How does posting tier lists ruin the game for others?

[@boritroll6423]

@@Cloudaddy220 tryhards on diff 8+ that doesnt start a game if you dont pick "meta" stuff or killing you and not respawning is a problem in some regions rn

[@Cloudaddy220]

@@boritroll6423 idk pal I only run lvl 10, always 9 before that as soon as I unlocked it, only with randos, and I personally have never seen someone kick someone else for their build after 800 hours. Not many people take winning or losing that seriously anymore

[@apdragon321]

No, I have to spend literal time and money to get equipment. The least they could do is make it so I don't have to watch those videos to see what the stuff looks like in action

[@solyom8034]

its called trivial missions.

[@ethansilva9562]

Why not just try it in game lol

[@craig361]

i understand why people want a practice range but I don't think its fits the theme of the game at all like if you want to try a stratagem just load into a lower diff mission. We are helldivers we are expendable

[@oKeNSchWarZo]

Don't hold your breath, Honestly people expect WAY too much for their own good.

[@Alex_Skayler]

Why do you even need a shooting range, if you can join to 1-4 difficulties and shooting practice, this aims also marked! Like A1 N2 etc.

[@Vespyr_]

You dont need a practice range in this game ffs... The enemy is right there.

[@sarkham92]

Sure, but why waste development and player time for something you already have in game. Like... there is no fee or any payment to trying out new things in combat and leaving or losing the mission, You can just jump in, test things, have some fun and jump out and all you lose is time, just like in the shooting range

[@Z7Sakari]

Why would you ask for this when you already have it? Just deploy on a Trivial mission and practice things to your heart’s content.

[@jinxclaessen1544]

so difficulty 1-4 missions.....

[@riadbenkhelil8627]

Human practice dummy? This truly sounds undermocratic of you.

[@cropathfinder]

test/practice range goes against the spirit of the game. You are supposed to learn and practice as you go.

[@RazorPhoenix7]

nice to have but a waste of dev resources, id just drop into a low difficulty mission, rather have the devs make other content, like more mission types, enemies, biomes, weapons, stratagems, etc.

[@benjamin1720]

Nah. Waste of dev time. Just go on super helldive as usual, blind & beautiful

[@draconismagnus]

Nice idea but it's useless to be honest. Why bother, just do an actual mission to "practice". Even during the actual tutorial you can die and get injured. Just play a mission on lower difficulty if you want to practice.

[@Lagia98]

Unnecessary. Helldivers already are an Elite force. No need for practice. Also you know how much super earth pays to freeze helldivers so they can be fresh to fight for super earth?!?!

[@dapapeyu1]

can't have a shooting range because the larp

[@kevinrasmussen1748]

we do need that. And make it accessible at level 80 plus only. As a way to encourage people to get battle field earlier first.

[@QuasarSolarStorm]

As someone who isn't 80, yeah this would be sick! Definitely inspiration for my grinding if added

[@thepheeesh]

Bro practice ranges already exist it's call levels 1-3. Now get your asses on the ground and start liberating already!