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@Ragnar1128 @iPostGameClips @muaxh03 That's the devs problem when they make things harder without input from the community or having a public test server to gauge how the community react to upcoming changes

@EmperorCokeLord @iPostGameClips @muaxh03 Also. You think anything but bullets is ‘not fun’? Ngl, sounds like a you problem.

I’m genuinely emotional right now. Arrowhead actually listened to me and made Hive Guard armor heavy. This is everything I’ve ever wanted. I reported this everyday since launch. Pure gameplay perfection. A historic update. Thank you for making my dream come true.

@Ragnar1128 @iPostGameClips @muaxh03 Again, not fun and it arguably makes explosive more meta. But with the backlash, AH is reverting it back to where it was before the buff

@EmperorCokeLord @iPostGameClips @muaxh03 Have you heard of…… flame weapons? Or electricity? Or gas? Or explosive?

@AlecWolfNomad @MadAlienArt @muaxh03 When it have buddies that can tear you from limb to limb. Why did AH thought that giving chaff unit heavy armor is a good idea?

@EmperorCokeLord @MadAlienArt @muaxh03 Hear me out, lets rub more then just one brain cell okay? Ya see how the little trash mob is hunkered down under suppressing fire. If you strafe left or right about 5m, you'll get a nice wide picture of its armor level 0, 350hp body. Very simple, very simple, i use it in D10 alot

@yukkayuriy @caretojoin @garret_cain @muaxh03 Because I haven't brought it up. Speaking of meta, guess what it is now that boolets are obsolete thanks to AH forbidding fun? Hint: it's not flame, gas or electric

@EmperorCokeLord @caretojoin @garret_cain @muaxh03 >Meta weapon >Look inside >Literally any gun shooting weakpoint, or a grenade

@AmuroRay97 @tau_5samsara Would be nice if the bugs don't close the distance, which happens often and their buffs mean that the turrets may as well be tp

@tau_5samsara @EmperorCokeLord I thought it was the opposite. Back then the Rover seemed to have trouble against shield Devastators because it aimed for the shield but the OG dog could hit the head. Either way, the Hive Guard will now soak up turret bullets. So hit them first. Or bring a rocket turret.

Lmao invincible shield gone, rip bozo

@iPostGameClips @muaxh03 I know, but it's tiring to see that AH is doing the same thing again, expecting different result every time. It's hard having fun when they have undocumented changes

I think you should disengage with the community and have fun. This is like the first time I've engaged with any part of it (Steam Forums, Discord, here on X) in ages just because I fancied to do so today. I never got the hate and thinking the game wasn't fun to begin with, but once I disengaged from the community and just played, it's an extremely fun game. Randoms are usually chill because they're playing instead of... typing. At least on Diff8. I've goofed around with Martyr armor, blowing up teammates by accident and most just laugh or don't care. I stopped bringing the Eagle500kg cuz I kept hitting trees and started using OPS to 50/50 great success or great failure. Arrowhead's done net good with the game, far more than bad. Even if something truly sucks for awhile, I doubt it will stay that way forever. There are plenty of viable off-meta distractions to have fun with. Just go have fun and play with people already playing, queue with randoms and don't let yourself get frustrated.

@iPostGameClips @muaxh03 I like the bugs when AH didn't fuck up with balancing. Back when they were the fill the air enough that they can smell bullets before AH did AH things and made the maxigun, guard dogs, and MG/Gatling sentries useless. I'm tired boss.

It just sounds like you might prefer bots, there's nothing wrong with that. Being straight and not sarcastic with you, I personally think the new Hive Guards fit the overall flow of combat better. Their armor is tougher, but their healthpool is weaker. Prior to this update, especially when playing the upper tier difficulties, I found they were a bit of a chore to chew on in the middle of a fight. Even if I could penetrate their armor, their health was just a bit high enough to be a nuisance, enough so that I would take something specifically to deal with them. Now they go down easily, so long as you can aim, grenades even work better on them now because they have less health. Light pen weapons (which I love) tend to have significantly higher DPS than med and heav pen weapons, so if you hit the elbow joint (which has always been exposed since release) they go down rapidly. Hive Guards also exhibit a behavior where if you damage them a little, they lock down in place, so you can move to another angle, prioritize another target, etc. Them having more health before just made them an annoying sponge that interrupted the flow of the roster Terminids provide. Terminids previously had too many sponges in their trash with the frequency of Hive Guards, Alphas, Bile Spewers, Stalkers (sort of), etc.

@AmuroRay97 @tau_5samsara I'm afraid that GD and MG/Gatling sentries focus on center mass than hit the weakspot

@EmperorCokeLord @tau_5samsara The only thing I got out of this is that the Guard Dogs are smarter than whoever is driving the mech.

@iPostGameClips @muaxh03 But that takes the fun out of dealing with them in the first place. If I wanted to take aim, then I go to the bot front and aim at the clanker's head

Literally watch past 3 seconds in the clip I posted and you'll see me sweep and clear 4 hive guards in the fight, minimal aiming required. But if you are literally unable to aim, you have my condolences and there are lower difficulties to suit people who want to relax, have poor eye-hand coordination, or bad eyesight. I myself enjoy a solid Diff8 nowadays instead of always jumping to Diff10. I'm not sure when Hive Guards start spawning but there should be very few if you go low enough.

@tau_5samsara @AmuroRay97 @Helldivers_NOW Right...

@AmuroRay97 @Helldivers_NOW Just take the guard dog rover, it already aims for their weak spot, with their reduced armor level and healthpool plus its infinite ammo, it'll shred through groups of them.

@obermier_cloud @Gonzolok @muaxh03 With how AH is handling the game? Easy to do

@Gonzolok @muaxh03 But you wont...

@HansOktane @OhDoughPlays @FrostBiten Congratulations, Glazie. Here's a cookie for you

@EmperorCokeLord @OhDoughPlays @FrostBiten Oh no need to spam post, I smelled the retardation in the first one.

Helldivers 2 is a game where it's players are the unpaid PR team tasked with convincing you that some of the most abysmal nonsense is actually the greatest gift bestowed upon super earth. opinions are 1 thing but it's turned into delusion. "heavy armor hive guards are good" :)

@iPostGameClips @muaxh03 If I want to take aim, I go to bots. Bugs are the last thing I want to take aim

@EmperorCokeLord @muaxh03 Given the information present on screen, looks like gas grenades? One will take care of the entire swarm. Also their fleshy weakspot is turned towards you currently so you could mow down a few and then focus other targets since they're slow. Can't tell what stratagems you have.

@Letterj33 @muaxh03 Not gonna use explosive meta against them. If I wanted to aim, I go play the bots. Is this you btw?

@EmperorCokeLord @muaxh03 Me wen da bugs overwhelm me

@HansOktane @OhDoughPlays @FrostBiten

@EmperorCokeLord @OhDoughPlays @FrostBiten Because the enemies have to keep the same loadouts and weapons. Helldivers have the ability to change their loadouts and weapons between missions and even during. Do you understand this dynamic from a game design standpoint?

@MadAlienArt @muaxh03 With a sentry and Maxigun or mech?

@muaxh03 There's a gap in the armor right between the head armor and the claw armor in these triangles right here

@yanyanyan654321 @Long_shankers @muaxh03 It's a chaff unit. Chaff units don't need heavy armor

@Long_shankers @muaxh03 AR melts these guys even harder now... Now the claws are 0 armor rating, with smaller health pool. Do the math…

@HansOktane @OhDoughPlays @FrostBiten I'll let you figure it out why having a chaff unit heavy armor is one of the dumbest idea and counters the fun that is the BRRRT

@EmperorCokeLord @OhDoughPlays @FrostBiten They’re literally one of the lowest hp bug enemies and aren’t even remotely a deciding factor. I have such a hard time believing anyone with this silly argument actually plays the game.

@Letterj33 @muaxh03 Then I go for bots. Aimed shots aren't a specialty in the bug front

@muaxh03 Ha ha me wen I shoot da bug in da heavy armour face with my light armour pen bullets instead of aiming at da weak spot a lil down and to the right ha ha Guys look at me ha ha I’m so funny dis game is so silly guys ha ha look at da bullets bounce off ha ha

@caretojoin @garret_cain @muaxh03 Because I like to go BRRT, not pling pling you're not using the meta weapon

@garret_cain @muaxh03 Except when you play the game you kill over 30 terminids with 1 mech and if you find a hive guard you kill him in 1 or 2 seconds