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Blake Dykstra
@VelocitySurge
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Canada Katılım Kasım 2014
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@ThiccFilA_ "They finally added a challenge" is just people poorly describing that they enjoyed having an enemy that they need to engage with.
Mind numbing W+M1 isnt fun and indiscriminate sentry use isnt either.
The word "challenge" isnt the operative thing they are getting at.
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People getting offended by this aren't reading the definition and missing the point entirely.
The people who fit under this definition don't understand nuance. You could've liked new hive guards because their backs were unarmored. But if your reason was "they finally added a challenge", that's what makes you a glazer.
Because they were not challenging, so clearly you don't even play the game long enough to have actual understanding and nuance on it, yet you're defending things anyway.
OhDough@OhDoughPlays
Glazediver is basically official, shoutout to @Claysthetics for the idea of putting it on urban dictionary and brainstorming the definition with me. urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter…
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@ThighNir Man, how do I say this
There is a sizable, vocal, group who are far too close to the game. It is possible, and is happening, for people to play a game *too much*.
The 1000hr guy is not the target audience, but they are the most vocal and prolific group which influences casuals
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The glazedivers don't play the game and that's why they like it. They don't run into the issues, they don't notice the patches. All they see is "Arrowhead funni dev sometimes"
Claysthetics@Claysthetics
"You are not the Target Audience for Helldivers 2" I wonder what it means when 71% of positive reviews are under 40 hours played and 84% of overwhelmingly negative reviews are more than 100 hours played. Can somebody tell me why that is? I also looked a little more into the actual reviews after seeing Thiccfila's post and after diving a little deeper a lot of positive reviews over 100 hours have less than 5 hours played in the last 2 weeks. I find it very interesting that the people telling everyone who actually cares about the game's future to "stop complaining or stop caring"... don't even play the game?
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@NithyGi @ARC3ArcThrower Medium pen also deals 100% instead of 65% damage to most torsos in the terminid line up. Overmatching is valuable and medium pen still has a place.
Medium pen having its "role" taken away is founded on the wrong argument as first principles.
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@ARC3ArcThrower Put it this way
Light pen = weakspots
Med pen = durable parts
Plasma and Exp = anywhere
But then
Light pen = weakspots
Med pen = weakspots
Plasma and exp = anywhere
And considering it was faster to kill, it just stripped med pen of its role while buffing meta (Plasma - Exp)
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Just gonna let it be known this all stems from a change for an enemy that not only made it easier to kill it made the enemy have a role in its faction as a defender
An enemy rework that didn't force metas but encouraged patience or just ignoring the enemy altogether lmfao
OhDough@OhDoughPlays
Glazediver is basically official, shoutout to @Claysthetics for the idea of putting it on urban dictionary and brainstorming the definition with me. urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter…
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@TheScaredClown @ARC3ArcThrower Its almost like the changes were influenced by the MG and Gatling sentry being in the top 5 stratagem picks for the front...
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@ARC3ArcThrower It broke the gatling turrets, making them useless as soon as it locked onto the hive guard. The gatling turrets would become useless and instead you'd have mortars taking their place. No one likes being hit by mortar turrets
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@SioBibble2 @ARC3ArcThrower The best thing they could've done to fix this is swap the cooldown on the MG and Gatling sentry and give the MG sentry a heavy armor pen round at a rate of 1:5 or 1:3.
This would better differentiate the two. Additionally, the HG change improved the value of the rocket sentry.
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@ARC3ArcThrower I think it is a reasonable complaint that heavy-armor *chaff* breaks the MG and Gatling sentries in a way that is objectively not fun (firing endlessly directly into the heavy armor that they can't damage), though I acknowledge that's not what this guy is emphasizing.
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Glazediver was invented so that people who can’t argue their points can just throw out an ad hominem when you actually take them to task on their incoherent fantasy about a hundred Swedish people psionically molesting them via asking you play this game instead of halo EDF
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@B_C444 @helldivers2 Terminid units have a substantial amount of AV 2. Medium pen is still massively valuable. Equating medium pen's value to purely the hive guard, like you have done, is disingenuous.
Also, ad populum.
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Attention, Helldivers.
A hotfix is planned for Wednesday, May 6. This will revert the Hive Guard and fix an issue introduced in Patch 6.2.1 where armor values were incorrectly swapped between the Legs and Claws.
Updated Hive Guard stats:
Main Body
- Armor increased from 1 → 2
- Health increased from 375 → 500
Head
- Armor decreased from 4 → 3
Front Legs
- Armor increased from 2 → 3
Claws
- Armor decreased from 3 → 1
We are reviewing player feedback, including durability damage, so next week we will also address some of these questions and others which our founder has received in various forums.
Thank you for the continued support and feedback.
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@AscendentBolt @Ishii12321 @Themyster1ous01 "Medium pen lost both selling points over Light in this, being better handling of the light armor AND the option to just mag dump if you needed it"
Medium is still better because HG arms/claws remained AV2
This note is incorrect
"armor on claws from Light to Unarmored (2 to 1)"
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@VelocitySurge @Ishii12321 @Themyster1ous01 This is actually part of what I said. Medium lost *both* edges it had over Light in regards to this matchup.
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Hot take: increasing the Hive Guard's armor to heavy and making them softer was honestly pretty fun and interesting. They were easier to kill with most weapons if you could aim.
They should add a Hive Guard variant with their 6.2.2 properties for difficulty 7+.
HELLDIVERS™ 2@helldivers2
Attention, Helldivers. A hotfix is planned for Wednesday, May 6. This will revert the Hive Guard and fix an issue introduced in Patch 6.2.1 where armor values were incorrectly swapped between the Legs and Claws. Updated Hive Guard stats: Main Body - Armor increased from 1 → 2 - Health increased from 375 → 500 Head - Armor decreased from 4 → 3 Front Legs - Armor increased from 2 → 3 Claws - Armor decreased from 3 → 1 We are reviewing player feedback, including durability damage, so next week we will also address some of these questions and others which our founder has received in various forums. Thank you for the continued support and feedback.
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@B_C444 @SpartanX92 @helldivers2 @Helldivers_NOW x.com/i/status/20498…
Its going back in 5 days.
Spartan asked why one would bring medium pen on bugs after the recent change.
Bugs still field a bunch of units with AV2 where AP3 is still better.
One unit does not dictate negate the massive value of bringing AP3.
HELLDIVERS™ 2@helldivers2
Attention, Helldivers. A hotfix is planned for Wednesday, May 6. This will revert the Hive Guard and fix an issue introduced in Patch 6.2.1 where armor values were incorrectly swapped between the Legs and Claws. Updated Hive Guard stats: Main Body - Armor increased from 1 → 2 - Health increased from 375 → 500 Head - Armor decreased from 4 → 3 Front Legs - Armor increased from 2 → 3 Claws - Armor decreased from 3 → 1 We are reviewing player feedback, including durability damage, so next week we will also address some of these questions and others which our founder has received in various forums. Thank you for the continued support and feedback.
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@VelocitySurge @SpartanX92 @helldivers2 @Helldivers_NOW Their flesh isnt ap 2 anymore its ap1/ un armored
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@AzureusBlaze @Greed46861985 It's very similar to the initial reception of how the rail gun and sheild pack era came to an end.
The turret argument just shows that people cannot fathom the fact that they need to support their automated stratagems to be effective instead of them being a better red stratagem
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@Greed46861985 I get it. The bugsdivers piss and shit themselves the second theyre meta is questioned
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Insane he calls the "glaze divers" the incompetent ones when this revert was done because the bugdivers couldnt be fucked with aiming lol
OhDough@OhDoughPlays
The devs need to understand their game & stop relying on the incompetent and incapable players they call "their core audience" that are just a bunch of glazedivers who excuse any bad choices made by arrowhead. the constellations for hive guards haven't changed. lvl 5 btw
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@Claysthetics This:
"You can literally walk at them and they can't even attack you"
Is a separate issue from the armor discussion.
This:
"this enemy needs a total rework"
Is true of many terminid units and their variations.
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"Heavy Pen Hiveguard added a challenge"
You can literally walk at them and they can't even attack you. Adding heavy pen didn't make them more interesting or challenging, this enemy needs a total rework.
All it was, was an indirect nerf to sentries. The people that are advocating for these kind of changes have a limited understanding of the game.
Please try to understand that for the game to grow, improve and get better we need to work together and not advocate for changes like this that don't promote meaningful gameplay interactions.
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@Kindmiquellattv Lib Carbine/DBF
Stun baton/Senator
Experimental stim
E.Strafing run
120mm/W.Barrage/E.Strike/flexible red option
support weapon of the day
Backpack/R or MG sentry/ or 3rd red strat
One game at D7 or D8 to warm up, then D10. I often find however D10 is easier than my first match
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i wanna see something helldivers 2 players who think this fine gentlemen should have heavy pen chrome dome what are your loadouts and what difficulty do you vs them on
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@AscendentBolt @Ishii12321 @Themyster1ous01 Your assessment of light vs medium here is missing the fact that you need to overmatch armor values to do 100% damage. Medium penetration is still better than light as there is no "cost" to take it over light.
There are plenty of Av2 units that AP3 is better against than AP2
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@VelocitySurge @Ishii12321 @Themyster1ous01 what was already the best solution more while reducing other options, and heavily punishing all medium pen support weapons, turrets, mech weapons, the guard dog...all while making the best tools as is better.
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@B_C444 @helldivers2 @Helldivers_NOW The expectation of our armor vs enemy armor does need to be delineated from the same scale, yes.
But it appears like you misunderstood the Pen vs Dmg equation.
Ap 2 vs Av 2 = 65%
Ap 3 vs Av 2 = 100%
Medium pen does more damage to light armored targets than light pen does.
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@SpartanX92 @B_C444 @helldivers2 @Helldivers_NOW Because medium pen does 100% damage vs AV 2 instead of 65%.
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@Ishii12321 @Themyster1ous01 🤷♂️ Good thing you get multiple charges. Though its a moot point now because we can W+M1 to our hearts content now
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@VelocitySurge @Themyster1ous01 That takes care of first 15, yes.
But what about *second* 15?
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@Ishii12321 @Themyster1ous01 A wave of 15 AP 4 targets with soft bodies? Sounds like a prime target for an air strike
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@Themyster1ous01 If they don't spawn in waves of 15 every encounter then sure
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