Can't believe they made Helldivers 2 but with passion and love. Instead of Microtransactions, 18 hour SC grinding sessions, Warbonds that solve some issue nobody had, A good amount of features and systems which have been rotting away since their introduction, Extremely poor balancing choices, and no stupid doxing incident.

Edit: I have been rewarded through my knowledge of enemy constellations and decided to look at a steam guide on it. I actually had proper fun in this game for the first time in probably like 10 months. It's truly wild how I use my understanding of this game to avoid the poorly balanced content. Even then I still don't recommend HD2, this is not the game I paid 60 dollars for.

The game is completely unfun to play now. I watch auto reinforce send me far far away due to hellpods being incapable of landing anywhere, Orbitals end up completely missing targets due to projectiles having an incredibly shallow angle compared to how the ship would fire down onto the targeted area, Bad enemy design causing frustration or completely going against the entire factions design philosophy, Stratagem balls bouncing when you try to place turrets in good locations or get unlucky on a hill due to terrain generation, the constant up and down with game performance resulting in the game randomly locking up or the audio to start stuttering, the balancing decisions that keep getting worse and worse removing options from the player devolving into enforcing meta picks, enemies can sometimes phase through geometry such as rocks, buildings or objectives, and the absolutely insane bleed damage which allows you to die nearly instantly.

I can't find myself enjoying this game anymore, I want to enjoy this game but I just can't no matter the difficulty, no matter if I play with friends or if I play solo, and no matter the faction.
Sometimes the game even feels like it punishes me for having knowledge. I've learnt to not use weapons like Railgun or HMG due to the amounts of War Striders that spawn. I don't like using Anti Tank weapons against bots, the factions designed to make Anti Tank a quick unsustainable solution to a problem, with the only exception to that being Fabricators and maybe Factory Striders. I enjoyed these precise weapons due to how potent it was with skill and how it even made me take on objectives in completely different ways. the potential firepower of something like the HMG could allow you to lock down areas and defend against bot drops at the cost of it being unable to destroy fabricators and intense recoil. But these weapons still were on par with AT. Because anti tank could break Fabricators from long ranges potentially causing a bot drop which could make certain objectives easier. These weapons also counter Factory Striders as they can one shot them to the eye.

But why have fun and experiment with the tools provided when you can just forget all of the weakpoint knowledge you've acquired throughout your time playing the game and run the same old boring Recoilless Rifle, Rocket Sentry, Autocannon Sentry, Eagle Strafing Run, Siege Ready, Thermite loadout that trivialized multiple diff 10 runs for you. As the performance gets slower and slower each update.

Im not even mad anymore. Im just disappointed with how bad it feels to play. Especially with how good the idea of the game is. I just hope that the glaze divers and cry divers stop fighting each other and instead use their differing opinions to help Arrowhead balance the game and make it the best it could possibly be.

-joined a public server with 11 other people
-went through titans fire exit as a group of 3
-couldn't find the fire exit to get back out
-lost in titans vast layout
-found a jester and got mauled to death

perfect game
would die horribly again 10/10

i love the screams

you cannot play this actually good game without having one of your team members or you crash midway through a match or during pregame

every session leaves me with a hole in my wall and a bleeding hand