A lof of people are asking for the music so here it is. 2:18 Automaton Boss Combat Music: th-cam.com/video/KDGK78Vtt-A/w-d-xo.html 2:40 Matt Maltese - As the World Caves In: th-cam.com/video/yS2KyK3pqj4/w-d-xo.html
Unpopular opinion but I think the buffs the devs are gonna include in the next update are too strong. The rail gun is getting stronger than it was pre nerf
@@br-sb6vu The railgun was never too strong though. The problem was always the other weapons lagging behind. Now the Railgun is just one strategem among many that can deal with heavies. It actually doesn't see all that much use, people seem to prefer the EAT, Recoilless, Quasar, and Laser. And the game is still plenty difficult too so I think everything worked out pretty well. I think right now, the Quasar in particular does the Railgun's job much better. They both require about the same amount of time to charge up, though the Quasar does so without the risk. The Quasar does WAY more damage, able to 1-shot Bile Titans and Charges just by shooting them generally in the head area, 1-shot Hulks in the faceplate, and 1-shot tanks in the heat sinks. The Rail takes like 4 good accurate hits to kill a Titan, maybe you can do it in fewer with perfect timing and aim, but I can't. And the Quasar can kill Bot Factories from an unlimited distance
They can't. It's a cultural Rot within Arrowhead. They only care about their vision, refuse pr, refuse profession communication, and talk out both sides of their mouth for feedback. It started with magika. At launch it was similar. Tons of insane overpowered spells. They nerfed the popular ones over and over, killed whole dlc spell lists after a week of releasing them. Atm the 'meta' is a small list of mostly untouched beam spells. Also you can't play online without a community patch. It was so bad that Sony just gave the ip away to paradox to handle making the sequel. A fate they might repeat with HD3. Remember. Arrowhead doesn't own their ip. Sony does. It's how they got funding initially. But HD1 wasn't much different. There's a lot of rosy glasses but many dlcs were pay to win. They nerfed a lot of strats and generally only a small handful of stratagems saw use on dif 15.
@@ninochaosdrache3189 probably because you were using the few things not touched. Like the trident remains unbelievably op to this day, for seemingly no reason. The lumberer mech, all terrain boots, and shredder missile also remain must pick on most top end difficulties
@@NiteshadeX2 I feel like it was still bad balance either way. Having just a couple strats that the community personally liked doesn't negate the fact that a lot of stuff falls by the wayside because it just isn't "good enough". The players *are* correct in their assumption that straight nerfs aren't going to fix the problem, but they WRONG if they think "just buff everything else then!" is going to work either. The problem lies at a fundamental level; it almost reminds me of Warframe without the endless item count and player-driven power creep. And that's potentially where I break off: The game isn't going to be for me if the whole "appeal" is just being overpowered with an auto-shotgun and a Railgun. Having a bag of hammers, where only like five out of dozens aren't just LARP material, is inferior to a set of tools you get to pick and apply to solve problems. That's probably what they were going for, but keep failing to achieve. Squad had a very similar situation, but they survived just fine even with the inevitable backlash.
Look devs, we realize we’re supposed to roleplay as cannon fodder to be thrown at the problem. However the whole _premise_ of the game from the very start was that the cannon fodder happens to get hilariously overpowered weapons they barely have the training to handle. That’s why Super Earth can afford to sling just 4 schmucks on any one mission and get decent results with only a relative handful of reinforcements. Taking away the “hilariously overpowered” part of our side of the game just makes us discount Guardsmen from 40k with none of the overwhelming artillery support or literal hundreds of thousands of reinforcements to hurl at our enemies.
@@OneBiasedOpinion The "overpowered weapons" is straight up military propaganda, they even call us the "best of the best" despite being relatively expendable. It's just that Helldivers will always get the job done, no matter the cost. They give us so much lore that it should be obvious what we are. It takes 72 hours to train SEAF soldiers and 5-minutes to earn your Helldiver cape. Realistically, we are just Imperial Guardsmen, we're not some crazy enhanced super soldier, we're just someone that learnt to dive under gatling turrets. Anyone that was expecting us to be Space Marines are playing a different game and Helldivers shouldn't be expected to change to become that.
@@royalrampage4643 and yet that's not what the game's setup seems to imply. I know you're trying to make the lore make sense, but everything that's been done to the game is inexcusable. It's not fun and the vast majority of the player base now seems to agree.
I NEVER WANTED THIS. I NEVER WANTED TO UNLEASH MY LEGIONS. TOGETHER WE BANISHED THE IGNORANCE OF OLD NIGHT. BUT YOU BETRAYED ME, YOU BETRAYED US ALL🗣 YOU STOLE POWER FROM THE GODS AND LIED TO YOUR SONS. SO LET IT BE WAR FROM THE SKIES OF TERRA TO THE GALACTIC RIM. LET THE SEAS BOIL LET THE STARS FALL THOUGH IT MAY TAKE THE LAST DROP OF MY BLOOD I WILL SEE THE GALAXY FREED ONCE MORE. AND IF I CANNOT FIX IT FROM YOUR FAILURE FATHER… THEN LET THE GALAXY BURN. (I memorized this cause i am so cool⁉️🌞👍)
The Illuminate were my fav faction from HD1 but idk if I'll come back when the Illuminate arrive. HD2 devs are NOT the same as HD1 devs and it won't be the same.
@@Crimnox_Cinder I'm out of the loop then cause I recall that being the coined name a few months ago. 🤷♂ I'll treat it like warhammer they are reminiscent of and call it a successor. Both existed afterall.
@@Alpha00Fox that might have been a joke faction way back when, but the "chaos divers" officially started showing up after the escalation of freedom update.
Is literally a paralel being made with the Horus Heresy. Chaos Space Marines started because of discontent with the emperium and how the Emperor was basically neglecting of his sons. Chaos Helldivers started because of discontent with Super Earth and how the nerfs just keep coming while our enemies are being buffed to the point we cant reasonably fight them anymore (literally the only meta strats rn in high diffs are cheese strats which is REALLY BAD for a game). The automaton focus on this vid is mainly cuz Bugs are still easy as hell in comparison, Automatons have just become nigh impossible. Literally 20 minute unplayable cutscene of being turned into a volleyball.
@@manatipowa I think its amazing that many people who've, more than likely, never read any warhammer lore have managed to replicate it to such a degree. I love when fictions have a moment to peek into reality like this!
@@argaveus101 Hmmm, we as a nation is trying to supress once again a population just because we are some stupid dictatorship while they want freedom and vengeance from the parents that we once slaved and killed. We commit genocide of a pacifist species just for a fuel source, warcrimes, chemical warfare... Commiting genocide might be the only way out for them, Super Earth citizens literaly got brainwashed to a point of no return, brainless soldiers jump from ships just to die again and again, while trying to bring down the most amount of their population before each death. Yes, in this context they are being moraly grey, due to Super Earth declaring war without a reason.
The terminids weren't as vicious as before to be honest. The lore behind them is that they were peaceful and docile creatures... until we arrived that is. They started evolving into the creatures they are now to combat us. So yeah, were basically the reason they look the way they are now.
In the end, the cyborgs of the first galactic war won. Their ultimate revenge plan that was the Automatons somehow ended up convincing Helldivers to join them.
Nah, having a gun to the backs of our heads and our weapons robbed from our hands convinced them. To me, just convinced me not to play anymore. I'm not giving Arrowhead my time to add to their # of minutes played or # of players online...
@@terrified057t4 I literally don't get what people are complaining about... the game is as fun as it ever was. So your overpowered gun was nerfed, you just don't play at all now? There's so many combinations of weapons and you were going to get bored of the same weapons over and over anyways...
@@mattc9598 Many of these "overpowered guns" were the only good weapons to use against the bots and/or bugs. Hell, I'll be the first to admit I rare ever used any of these weapons as my main but I'm not gonna be a whelp letting everyone get fucked over by Arrowhead because when my playstyle's on the chopping block, who's gonna be watching my back?
@@terrified057t4 I've played since launch and never, ever noticed a nerf. The people overreacting are just looking for something to be upset about. The game is too easy lately, because they're not nerfing enough imo. Helldives shouldn't feel like easy mode.
@@mattc9598 When did I say wanted Helldivers to be easy? Sounds like you're pretty ignorant if you never noticed any nerf. I want Helldivers to be fun, as you should as well if I've read you correctly. Bots need to stay tactical, while the bug front needs to stay casual. Both of those are fun, but if all the best methods to deal with them are ruined, guess what happens... NO ONE HAS FUN. Even you have a meta I bet.
In the beginning I loved how they didn't follow the standard model of monetize everything and you could earn the premium currency, even to the point where I was just gonna buy it unlike any other game, then the turn happened, I have not touched it since the psn fiasco
A nice detail would have been to have the flamethrower be totally unable to burn the Super Earth flag. Nice animation though, perfectly encapsulates the state of the game or rather the constant state of the game since the first "balance" patch.
@@ItsMadLadSir it is far from Op, the current Flamethrower has been found to even struggle with certain bug type hordes in higher diffs, and considering its entire purpose is to deal with such hordes.... yeah...
@@ItsMadLadSir absolutely not. It bounces off of ALL armor back at the user now, and doesn't pen enemies so your only hurting the first one in the hoard until they get past it's corpse. This is made even worse when you realize that it's basically a short range machine gun with WILDLY higher FF rates and NO capacity to deal with even the weakest of armors. So why use it when the MG exists
How dare you make me tear up a little at 1:50 thinking about the past like that! Great "animation" and honestly with how many frames it has I'd say it deserves the title despite missing a few. I've seen many flip book levels of animatics and this feels in league of its own.
What about you realizing it's really hard to ship new content and features, especially if the player base has op weapona and nothing feels fun anymore cause the existing content has no challenge?
@@riveteye93I quit around the time that the rail gun was nerfed. Even with it I could barely clear difficulty 7. I don't think the game lacked difficulty.
@@riveteye93 you dont have to nerf old content to make new content fun just shove it in there and people will find a use, like walkers they honostly needed a bit of a buff I wanted to feel powerful in them
The nerfs got so bad to the point where the pump action shotguns are the only guns left in the game that UNDERSTAND the assignment. The breakers used to help you deal with hordes, or counter-suppression now they do little more than hurt their feelings... And the fact that Alexus kravchenko (formerly known as the killer of 'hello neighbor') see's nothing wrong with this proves he needs to be fired, and recommended a new path in life, because he SUCKS as a balance dev, I can't even recommend him for a manager/supervisor position because he lacks EVERY fundamental skill needed for those jobs including his current role as a lead balance dev.
Omg thats the guy? If thats true, then no wonder its turning out the way it is. Hello Neighbor had true promise that it never discovered because it went the wrong direction. Repeatedly. I remember that vividly.
@@thatguy5 Indeed. He's the only developer I know who has screwed up so consistently that it motivated me enough to dig into his background to see how far the rabbit hole goes. So far through his time as a game dev he: -doesn't listen to feedback -ignores fair criticism of his work/choices -doesn't communicate well with others both internally & externally (company and community) -his idea of "fun" is to make something SO tedious that it drives people away -keeps communities in the dark consistently especially when said communities are losing faith in him. -says he will work to improve something when all he really has to do is learn the power of the "undo" button (jk, but seriously, just reverse the changes), but instead will keep trying to "fix" it without understanding what was wrong from the players POV. For instance he approved most of the nerfs to "balance" the charger....a low level miniboss... The armored spots feels like they extend with every update to the point where fire support becomes MANDATORY. Primaries? More useless than a broken gun Secondaries? Even with the flame pistol, useless. Strategems? Unless your calling in air support/orbitals, don't bother with any anti-tank beyond the EAT because the commercial pause known as "cooldowns" you have to endure for the other anti-tank weapons far outweigh their utility The 500kg bomb is another....fleekazoid put it best in his first HD2 vid "THIS NUKE HAS FAILED DEMOCRACY SO MANY TIMES IT SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON!!!", they decrease the damage radius to the point I've seen the baby bugs survive the EPICENTER of the explosion, and the wait often times will cause you to get killed before Eagle-1 even comes into the map...if you're gonna make us wait for the boom, AT LEAST MAKE THE EXPLOSION RADIUS JUSTIFY THE WAIT, not to mention if you're on certain forest maps, forget airstrikes because you will learn real fast how terrible eagle-1's aim is. She is so dead-set on coming up from behind where the strategems were thrown that she always ends up either killing the player, or the terrain FAR OFF from the target.... It's a giant red laser, HOW DOES AN EXPERT PILOT MISS THAT MARK SO CONSISTENTLY!?!? That aside, the only use the 500kg bomb has known since the escalation update is science facilities and making a Hollywood getaway at extract because even using them on chargers is a 50/50 chance of needing 2 of more to go down.... In other words he is a man who upon catching lightning in a bottle will then proceed to waste his time trying to reinvent the wheel, and everybody suffers for it.
I realized the Devs were incompetent the moment they nerfed flamethrowers the day before releasing the new warbond entirely themed around flamethrowers. Basically charging us money to have less fun.
It felt like such a betrayal after being one of the defenders saying that the devs knew what they were doing. In my defense, the previous patch was PERFECT, every thing felt great for a little while. Still, this was the final nail in the coffin for me, I just can't do it anymore, and I loved this game the most.
You don't need to spend money to buy the warbond? I don't disagree with the point but I have all the warbonds and have spent zero dollars in game in about 170 hours
@@TacticalFlukie For many players, especially newer ones, there is a incentive to buy the Warbonds rather than grind them out. I have 200+ hours, but my GF and buddy who don't play as much as me both bought the Warbond. The very fact that it is content that has a paywall of some kind is why it's a problem. If it was just weapons/gear they dropped on us for 100% free and every player could either access it immediately or start unlocking stuff with no tied "premium" currency to it. Then it likely wouldn't have made people as mad overall.
@@hurricanegriz8011If you’re really fighting for your “managed” democracy. Even with a toothpick and a watergun YOU WILL HOLD THE LINE TO YOUR LAST BREATH -this guardsman
The theme that starts playing at 2:18 is an unused Automaton Boss theme, couple that theme with the scene at 2:32 with the introduction of the "Chaos Divers" bearing the Automaton Insignia, and that whole scene goes INCREADBLY hard. I can see it now; a massive group of Chaos Divers and Automaton units marching down the streets of super earth with that theme blaring on loud speakers attached to the backs of Hulks and Factory Striders, the Chaos Divers are blowing up building after building, and then you can see the camera pan past ones helmet visor, and all you see is a burning hatred in their eyes, the buildup of untold amounts of frustration and agony put upon them by each Ministry. how the once proud Divers longed for more, yet all were denied.
God damn, it was just a "shit on helldivers" vid the first half, and then right in the feels the rest of the vid, did not see that coming, that diver reminiscing about the HD1 days got me for real. Never forget HD1 sickle, best gun ever made
There has been vastly more buffs than nerfs. Spare the handful of crutches people hyper-fixate on, virtually every weapon in the game has been buffed compared to it's release state.
@@redcrown5154 Yes... ¬_¬ Of the 51 total weapons, including all primaries, secondaries and support weapons, 35 of them have been buffed since launch, many of them multiple times and quite dramatically. Only thirteen have been nerfed, and of those weapons only five are actually weaker than how they released, the rest have still been buffed more than nerfed and are stronger than how they first appeared in the game.
I can actually believe the nerfs make sense in an in-universe viewpoint. The older guns were extremely effective but very expensive, so some suits at Super Earth started arranging for some "cost saving" measures (and probably pocketed the difference), all while honest Helldivers were fighting and dying for their people. So bureaucracy and corruption just completely undid much of what Super-Earth's finest were fighting hard to achieve. From a player perspective, though they're absolute bull. And I say that as someone who never played the game (and never will, because my country doesn't have Sony subscription plans).
I won’t be joining until people like you CAN join again in any case. The fact that the game isn’t even good anymore is just extra catharsis for that decision now.
@@OneBiasedOpinionno the game is still good just people online saying it not. Also there apparently still working on the PSN thing but it kind of sucks as it’s not arrowheads fault
It would be interesting if they ran with that concept like how they had briefings where Divers were submitting false samples, but now it could involve Super Earth and Chaos Divers.
Virtually every weapon in the game spare for a tiny handful has been buffed since it's release though. Our arsenal is overall more powerful than it's ever been. People emotionally hyperfixate so badly on their single crutch weapon of choice, that they never actually try anything else and live in this delusional auto-negative state.
When the game first came out, I just had so much fun playing with all the different items and trying new a fun builds with no care for meta, but as the nerf never stopped coming I started to get a bit jaded. But when the patch came out that buffed everything, that basically got most of my good will back, but when they started to nerf again and again, I started losing hope faster and faster. The final straw was the flame nerf. One of my favorite builds against the bugs was a jengo fett build with a jetpack and flamethrower, and I just don't find the flames fun anymore.
Same I never cared for the META which is stupid concept that started the META war because griefers were kicking players who don't adhere to their false God M.E.T.A.😒
@@chitochester7646 I never cared for META either. I only used the railgun after the first nerf and had a blast nailing hulks in the eye with it on unsafe, but then I started using the Anti material rifle, and found that it was so much more forgiving, and in my hands was basically a better railgun
@@mattc9598 It did get a buff before because there weren't a lot of options for heavy's the they nerfed it to hell when their late patch came out because 30% of the time it was used against the bugs not bots just bugs which was the stupid excuse they used which was the final nail in the coffin
@@blondlorelord33 never used the metas hell the way I played I enjoyed using mines and playing tower defense sometimes, the rail gun nerf the first one was not a bad one it just made it skill based and no less of a viable weapon
Brothers I took part in a top secret time travel experiment not long ago that allowed me to see the first galactic war first hand. To say things were different would be an understatement…
@@hitandruncommentorthe game was fun in the beginning, but they kinda forgot that the ones playing also have lives irl and are aware that this is just a game
"We never wanted this.... you forced our hands. All we wanted... was to be Free. To kill Bugs and have fun doing it. And the worst, is that you broke my friends heart. He had the most hope. And even he is seeing how far you fell. Rest in Pidd, Super Earth. You will be missed."
I was going to buy Helldivers 2, then like a day before I wanted to make the purchase the region lock happened. I refused to buy it on principle, but was sad I wouldn't be playing. Then they promised they'd undo it, and I excitedly waited, but they refused to keep their word. Now, I'm even more sad because I know even if they ever go back, I'll still have missed those glory days. Somehow, it's for the best that I never got the game
Meanwhile in Deep Rock Galactic dev room: Here's a buff, buff here, some small buff here and there, twist this buff abit, nerf this abit and buff that instead 🎉
And meanwhile as well: starship troopers gets consistent updates and tries to patch out the issues it has including getting a console release and campaign mode with johnny rico training you coming this october
The sad thing is, I still really like this game. Space marine 2 is fun, but it requires nowhere near the brainpower and tactical awareness that helldivers does. I fucking love navigating through jungles and deserts, evading patrols, having running firefights with bots, and just overall having that heightened sense of awareness and reaction from being in that situation. It's not masochistic, I just enjoy how much I can put into the experience and I'll feel rewarded for fighting so hard. The only issue is that I'm no longer feeling rewarded, it no longer feels fun. It feels punishing, for no reason. We have to have a fighting chance with our weapons. Even a game like GTFO where you are literally supposed to die since you are a death row convict has more effective weapons than a game where you're supposedly "Super Earth's finest"
I am a Veteran of the First Galactic War who woke up from cryo to serve my Super Earth proudly once more, but now as a Veteran of the Creek. Now? Now our own Command has done something our old Command would’ve never done. Abandon its Divers. I am proud to say I had some part to play in starting this Rebellion and may or may not have accidentally started the Chaos Diver movement with my 40K jokes on Reddit and Twitter 😂. Since then I have done my duty by sitting back and allowing Super Earth to fall and yet I’ve seen so much division in the community as it’s happening. Starting to feel like Erebus lol.
As far as I know not at the moment buts its close, so were just letting the robots take it though there are still divers trying keep the bugs and robots at bay
I haven't touched the game since the region lock. Its still installed, just in case, but then the major nerfs started happening. I bought a brand new PC to play this game. Its sad that all it takes for super earth to fall is for us to do nothing.
@@juharvey2 same. People be arguing about balance changes as if that’ll get the player base back, but the truth is the majority left because Sony shit the bed and, for all their fine words, have not taken a single step towards actually fixing any of it. Region lock is still in place and the PSN requirement is still listed on Steam. They’re just waiting for the remaining sheep to grow nice and lazy.
Its so hilarious we got our own Horus Heresy moment for Helldivers 2 and it just came out naturally and wasn't some new story development made by the devs.
As I watched the game I had once played made again I cheered. As I watched the game’s problems rear their ugly head I yelled out till my throat was sore. As the problems continued I wrote what could be done to save it till my hands were numb. Tired and exhausted I have nothing left to give watching as what I feared would happen come to pass.
Okay, the spiked trophy racks of helmets mounted on the Helldiver's backpack HAS to be a 40k reference. They're called the freaking CHAOS DIVERS for christ's sake!
3:17 this scene really hit hard for me , like this is what the hardcore fans feel like - watching there beloved world/game turn against itself and burn .... and all we can do is watch For Freedom 💪😔
Arrowhead give us Helldivers gameplay and the masses will flood back in. You could even introduce lore tidbits about how cost saving was happening and now that the traitors have been purged munitions are becoming stronger again. All to combat the rising Chaos threat.
I still remember when my friends and I would joke about how the Automatons are the ones responsible for all the server issues, keeping us from playing together... had many good times, but few still play, and I don't really have the drive anymore... hurts that I found such a good game, had it nerfed to hell for funsies, and then have the great player base reduced to a fraction of what it was.
accurate, when they said in the patch notes they overhauled some 30+ weapons. this video is what I saw in my mind. with that said, this was was epic, hope to see more down the road!
Developers see this and are like "ok we'll make our own animation to counter this. we'll have it out in 60 days... after our 60 day plan and our vacations are done that is."
In a perfect world, we could have had both Helldivers 2 and Space Marines 2 exist and both be good games. Unfortunately the devs decided to ruin theirs and make everyone go to Space Marines 2 instead
amazing video, really is kinda tough trying to make videos for helldivers, given how the state of it is. But honestly, this gave me a good laugh and a little hope that they may turn things around. Still a fun game from time to time.
"Helldiver? I was a helldiver once. They sent me to fight. Fight against bugs. Fight against bugs with defective weapons. Defective weapons killed me as a helldiver." Everyone knows these words as a mocking copypasta, denouncing the gunsmiths of super-Earth. But few know that it has a sequel, much less mocking. "When the helldiver in me died, my eyes were opened. The real enemies of super-Earth are not bugs or automatons, but those who sabotage the possibilities of fighting them." As one man once said, the state is the enemy of the people. And now, as corruption and vice at the very heart of human civilization prevent us from defending it with all our might, this phrase is more relevant than ever. The true and greatest enemy of the citizens of super-Earth is the government of super-Earth. And we took an oath to protect citizens from all enemies. In the name of our fellow citizens, in the name of the fallen battle brothers, in the name of all humanity, LET THERE BE A REBELLION! VERA LIBERTAS! And for those, who are still loyal to the HQ: Open your eyes. Remember how many of our men died in the battle for Malevellon Creek. Now multiply that number by 10, and you can at least roughly imagine how many brave helldivers have died because of spoiled flamethrower fuel, slowed-down "quasars", defective railgun shells and a huge number of other defects, the responsibility for which lies entirely on the government of the super-Earth. Now tell me: is this the world you're fighting for? The world covered in the blood of your brothers in arms, who died for nothing, who were sacrificed to a corrupt government machine that doesn't care about its own citizens? Is this what you're fighting for?
These are dark times for us divers. I've been playing religiously in my down time and have enjoyed every second of it. I do have to agree with the majority of the community when it comes to the nerfs and the lack of major content updates. But nothing will stop me from giving my last breath to protect super earth while we go through the correcting process of these patches and updates. My faith is unwavering and I know it in my bones that helldiver's 2 will survive, and furthermore thrive in some due time. To those still fighting with me, thank you for not letting lady liberty down.
Silence. Introspection. How many had he killed? Had he ever thought to count? How much cruelty did he embody... and to what end? How many did he condemn to hell and who did it benefit...? Two defeats at the hand of the machine had changed Gabriel. The world of the once supposed Will of God was now shattered and only he was left to put the pieces back together. They collected before the light of a dying fire that fresh fuel couldn't sustain, this new light showing the truth to Gabriel: The pieces never fit together to begin with. The supposed Council of "the people" who boasted a God that wasn't there. Gone. Vanished. The Council still chased after the light of God's fire, their memory of its words and will grown twisted and warped, and the rest of the aimless masses of Heaven follow in their footsteps. The angels still act in The Father's name but His kingdom has changed. Now the fire was dying, sputtering out as the heat failed to gain purchase. Gabriel looked upon the embers with a perfect clarity. He drew his blade and held it in contrast to the dying light. In its reflection he saw a weapon reborn, no longer wielded by the will of another, but his own. He knew words alone would never sway the masses. He chose to do something
Despite the bugs the game was way more fun the first monthish. After that their random hotficxes and balance changes either caused more bugs, or broke weapons. It was bearable for a while but boosting npcs, constantly nerfing weapons, and new ways to crash in the game while never fixing aim too. Just made the game and season passes no longer worth it. They would’ve been better off just not touching the game after release.
Developers, this is what happens when you give your soldier’s underpowered weapons, they lose! I feel bad and wish luck to any remaining Helldivers who are holding on to hope and protecting Super Earth despite the overwhelming odds. Don’t stop fighting!!!
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A lof of people are asking for the music so here it is.
2:18 Automaton Boss Combat Music: th-cam.com/video/KDGK78Vtt-A/w-d-xo.html
2:40 Matt Maltese - As the World Caves In: th-cam.com/video/yS2KyK3pqj4/w-d-xo.html
Unpopular opinion but I think the buffs the devs are gonna include in the next update are too strong. The rail gun is getting stronger than it was pre nerf
Yo why did he have a lil boner at the end?
Opinions like these... are what spurs action in anti-freedom acts! Don't dive too close to the sun, Helldiver!!!
@@br-sb6vu The railgun was never too strong though. The problem was always the other weapons lagging behind. Now the Railgun is just one strategem among many that can deal with heavies. It actually doesn't see all that much use, people seem to prefer the EAT, Recoilless, Quasar, and Laser. And the game is still plenty difficult too so I think everything worked out pretty well.
I think right now, the Quasar in particular does the Railgun's job much better. They both require about the same amount of time to charge up, though the Quasar does so without the risk. The Quasar does WAY more damage, able to 1-shot Bile Titans and Charges just by shooting them generally in the head area, 1-shot Hulks in the faceplate, and 1-shot tanks in the heat sinks. The Rail takes like 4 good accurate hits to kill a Titan, maybe you can do it in fewer with perfect timing and aim, but I can't. And the Quasar can kill Bot Factories from an unlimited distance
@@Sotanaht01I didn't know they were increasing the damage we take so it actually feels fine lol nvm my previous comment
wow it took two games to have a horus heresy incident in super earth
Now we need helldivers 3 to meet rilanor
I wished it never did
@@librarian9864The Ancient of Rites?
@@evagineer9165 the one, who made Fullgrimm cry like a baby
Wait... IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED?!!
I can’t believe I defrosted from the first galactic war, awoke to the second, and now my battle cry is “Vera Libertas”, the cruel irony
😂
Vera Libertas
Libertas Vult
"You woke me from cryo for THIS?!"
@@zakeylincordero4945 DEUS VULT
The scene of the Old Diver reminiscing about the motorcycle and cape spinning is so real
2:24
That detail on tripping on a rock or something minor and just failing to get up is too real, especially when you’re being chased by a horde
When you dive at slightly the wrong angle and you're put into ragdoll for 5 entire seconds
This hurts so much
One of the reason i quit the game…
man i hate when i try and dive on top of a small rock and my spine fucking disintegrates
If no one cared about this game no one would make videos like this. I hope they can turn this game around.
True.
They can't. It's a cultural Rot within Arrowhead. They only care about their vision, refuse pr, refuse profession communication, and talk out both sides of their mouth for feedback.
It started with magika. At launch it was similar. Tons of insane overpowered spells. They nerfed the popular ones over and over, killed whole dlc spell lists after a week of releasing them. Atm the 'meta' is a small list of mostly untouched beam spells. Also you can't play online without a community patch.
It was so bad that Sony just gave the ip away to paradox to handle making the sequel. A fate they might repeat with HD3. Remember. Arrowhead doesn't own their ip. Sony does. It's how they got funding initially.
But HD1 wasn't much different. There's a lot of rosy glasses but many dlcs were pay to win. They nerfed a lot of strats and generally only a small handful of stratagems saw use on dif 15.
@@NiteshadeX2
Fortunately, even with the nerfs, Helldivers 1 guns at least still feel powerful from what I played
@@ninochaosdrache3189 probably because you were using the few things not touched. Like the trident remains unbelievably op to this day, for seemingly no reason. The lumberer mech, all terrain boots, and shredder missile also remain must pick on most top end difficulties
@@NiteshadeX2
I feel like it was still bad balance either way. Having just a couple strats that the community personally liked doesn't negate the fact that a lot of stuff falls by the wayside because it just isn't "good enough".
The players *are* correct in their assumption that straight nerfs aren't going to fix the problem, but they WRONG if they think "just buff everything else then!" is going to work either. The problem lies at a fundamental level; it almost reminds me of Warframe without the endless item count and player-driven power creep.
And that's potentially where I break off: The game isn't going to be for me if the whole "appeal" is just being overpowered with an auto-shotgun and a Railgun. Having a bag of hammers, where only like five out of dozens aren't just LARP material, is inferior to a set of tools you get to pick and apply to solve problems. That's probably what they were going for, but keep failing to achieve.
Squad had a very similar situation, but they survived just fine even with the inevitable backlash.
Look devs, we realize we’re supposed to roleplay as cannon fodder to be thrown at the problem. However the whole _premise_ of the game from the very start was that the cannon fodder happens to get hilariously overpowered weapons they barely have the training to handle. That’s why Super Earth can afford to sling just 4 schmucks on any one mission and get decent results with only a relative handful of reinforcements.
Taking away the “hilariously overpowered” part of our side of the game just makes us discount Guardsmen from 40k with none of the overwhelming artillery support or literal hundreds of thousands of reinforcements to hurl at our enemies.
Me when I'm forced to fight overwhelming odds by a dystopian future government and it's NOT FUN
@@OneBiasedOpinion The "overpowered weapons" is straight up military propaganda, they even call us the "best of the best" despite being relatively expendable. It's just that Helldivers will always get the job done, no matter the cost.
They give us so much lore that it should be obvious what we are. It takes 72 hours to train SEAF soldiers and 5-minutes to earn your Helldiver cape. Realistically, we are just Imperial Guardsmen, we're not some crazy enhanced super soldier, we're just someone that learnt to dive under gatling turrets. Anyone that was expecting us to be Space Marines are playing a different game and Helldivers shouldn't be expected to change to become that.
everyone want to play as THE guardsmen not A guardsmen
@@royalrampage4643 and yet that's not what the game's setup seems to imply. I know you're trying to make the lore make sense, but everything that's been done to the game is inexcusable. It's not fun and the vast majority of the player base now seems to agree.
Mfw the guardsman primary Lasgun is still pretty powerful, unlike your primary’s from Hellsivers 2…
LET THE SEAS BOIL.
LET THE STARS FALL.
THOUGH IT TAKES THE LAST DROP OF MY BLOOD.
I WILL SEE THE GALAXY FREED ONCE MORE.
I WILL SEE THE GALAXY FREED ONCE MORE!
I WILL FREE THE GALAXY SEED ONCE MORE!
Ok Horus
I NEVER WANTED THIS. I NEVER WANTED TO UNLEASH MY LEGIONS.
TOGETHER WE BANISHED THE IGNORANCE OF OLD NIGHT.
BUT YOU BETRAYED ME, YOU BETRAYED US ALL🗣
YOU STOLE POWER FROM THE GODS AND LIED TO YOUR SONS.
SO LET IT BE WAR
FROM THE SKIES OF TERRA TO THE GALACTIC RIM.
LET THE SEAS BOIL
LET THE STARS FALL
THOUGH IT MAY TAKE THE LAST DROP OF MY BLOOD I WILL SEE THE GALAXY FREED ONCE MORE. AND IF I CANNOT FIX IT FROM YOUR FAILURE FATHER… THEN LET THE GALAXY BURN.
(I memorized this cause i am so cool⁉️🌞👍)
"And if i can not save it from your failure father, then let the galaxy burn!"
My ship is in permanent orbit of Meridia until the Illuminate arrive
Same
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The Illuminate were my fav faction from HD1 but idk if I'll come back when the Illuminate arrive. HD2 devs are NOT the same as HD1 devs and it won't be the same.
@@magicwalrus4255 I found him. The only illuminate fan in the entire universe. Is it lonely?
@@VynalDerp Illuminate were the most fun to fight against in HD1 imo, but definitely the hardest. Bugs the easiest and then cyborgs in between
The thing that everybody needs to remember, he had to have started making this a while ago.
And it’s even more relevant now than when he started .
It was roughly 2 and half weeks ago.
@@magos15
You work fast. Well done
2:59 Dark divers are basically Chaos Space Marines and it took me seeing this frame to realize it. I'm so here for it.
they literally call themselves the Chaos Divers, not the "dark" divers.
@@Crimnox_Cinder I'm out of the loop then cause I recall that being the coined name a few months ago. 🤷♂ I'll treat it like warhammer they are reminiscent of and call it a successor. Both existed afterall.
@@Alpha00Fox that might have been a joke faction way back when, but the "chaos divers" officially started showing up after the escalation of freedom update.
Is literally a paralel being made with the Horus Heresy.
Chaos Space Marines started because of discontent with the emperium and how the Emperor was basically neglecting of his sons.
Chaos Helldivers started because of discontent with Super Earth and how the nerfs just keep coming while our enemies are being buffed to the point we cant reasonably fight them anymore (literally the only meta strats rn in high diffs are cheese strats which is REALLY BAD for a game).
The automaton focus on this vid is mainly cuz Bugs are still easy as hell in comparison, Automatons have just become nigh impossible. Literally 20 minute unplayable cutscene of being turned into a volleyball.
@@manatipowa I think its amazing that many people who've, more than likely, never read any warhammer lore have managed to replicate it to such a degree. I love when fictions have a moment to peek into reality like this!
Never been happier to see a video be out of date, thankfully it's fixed now
The devs clearly though we were enjoying fighting for a dystopian system too much
Terminids and Illuminates: Lets team up to beat the bad guys!
Automatons being as moraly grey as possible:
I gotta say, I don't think genocide is morally grey
@@argaveus101 to be fair, pretty much both sides are engaging in genocide, the bots just don't care enough to bother being subtle about it
@@argaveus101 Hmmm, we as a nation is trying to supress once again a population just because we are some stupid dictatorship while they want freedom and vengeance from the parents that we once slaved and killed.
We commit genocide of a pacifist species just for a fuel source, warcrimes, chemical warfare...
Commiting genocide might be the only way out for them, Super Earth citizens literaly got brainwashed to a point of no return, brainless soldiers jump from ships just to die again and again, while trying to bring down the most amount of their population before each death.
Yes, in this context they are being moraly grey, due to Super Earth declaring war without a reason.
@@gabrielmirandahurtado6539Hitler Vs Stalin Vs Tyranids
The terminids weren't as vicious as before to be honest. The lore behind them is that they were peaceful and docile creatures... until we arrived that is. They started evolving into the creatures they are now to combat us. So yeah, were basically the reason they look the way they are now.
In the end, the cyborgs of the first galactic war won. Their ultimate revenge plan that was the Automatons somehow ended up convincing Helldivers to join them.
Nah, having a gun to the backs of our heads and our weapons robbed from our hands convinced them. To me, just convinced me not to play anymore. I'm not giving Arrowhead my time to add to their # of minutes played or # of players online...
@@terrified057t4 I literally don't get what people are complaining about... the game is as fun as it ever was. So your overpowered gun was nerfed, you just don't play at all now? There's so many combinations of weapons and you were going to get bored of the same weapons over and over anyways...
@@mattc9598 Many of these "overpowered guns" were the only good weapons to use against the bots and/or bugs. Hell, I'll be the first to admit I rare ever used any of these weapons as my main but I'm not gonna be a whelp letting everyone get fucked over by Arrowhead because when my playstyle's on the chopping block, who's gonna be watching my back?
@@terrified057t4 I've played since launch and never, ever noticed a nerf. The people overreacting are just looking for something to be upset about. The game is too easy lately, because they're not nerfing enough imo. Helldives shouldn't feel like easy mode.
@@mattc9598 When did I say wanted Helldivers to be easy? Sounds like you're pretty ignorant if you never noticed any nerf. I want Helldivers to be fun, as you should as well if I've read you correctly. Bots need to stay tactical, while the bug front needs to stay casual. Both of those are fun, but if all the best methods to deal with them are ruined, guess what happens... NO ONE HAS FUN. Even you have a meta I bet.
Never forget this company has the ability to snatch defeat from the Jaws of Victory.
Its actually amazing how they squandered so much goodwill. EVERYBODY was loving this game and was roleplaying as Helldivers. Now its just sad.
Games still fun to play, there’s just no real reason to keep playing once you’ve unlocked everything. Like there’s zero endgame
@@tank-stubbs Plus balance changes.
@@tank-stubbs It's genuinely unfun to play now. Every match just feels like it's getting worse and worse.
Game is still plenty fun, lots of stuff is viable.
In the beginning I loved how they didn't follow the standard model of monetize everything and you could earn the premium currency, even to the point where I was just gonna buy it unlike any other game, then the turn happened, I have not touched it since the psn fiasco
A nice detail would have been to have the flamethrower be totally unable to burn the Super Earth flag.
Nice animation though, perfectly encapsulates the state of the game or rather the constant state of the game since the first "balance" patch.
this made me lol
actually the flamethrower is automaton made which means it instantly burned the flag
Which is hilariously ironic, given it’s still op. I average EXTREME so I might be false.
@@ItsMadLadSir it is far from Op, the current Flamethrower has been found to even struggle with certain bug type hordes in higher diffs, and considering its entire purpose is to deal with such hordes.... yeah...
@@ItsMadLadSir absolutely not. It bounces off of ALL armor back at the user now, and doesn't pen enemies so your only hurting the first one in the hoard until they get past it's corpse.
This is made even worse when you realize that it's basically a short range machine gun with WILDLY higher FF rates and NO capacity to deal with even the weakest of armors.
So why use it when the MG exists
How dare you make me tear up a little at 1:50 thinking about the past like that! Great "animation" and honestly with how many frames it has I'd say it deserves the title despite missing a few. I've seen many flip book levels of animatics and this feels in league of its own.
Yeah, it just feels like the lower frame newgrounds type of animations. Like in Castle Crashers.
The game devs dont understand it didn't need more nerfs its needed more stuff that first game had.
What about you realizing it's really hard to ship new content and features, especially if the player base has op weapona and nothing feels fun anymore cause the existing content has no challenge?
@@riveteye93I think the vast majority disagree with this statement having any truth to it.
@@riveteye93 microtransaction endorsement shill spotted, I need a stratagem!!!
@@riveteye93I quit around the time that the rail gun was nerfed. Even with it I could barely clear difficulty 7. I don't think the game lacked difficulty.
@@riveteye93 you dont have to nerf old content to make new content fun just shove it in there and people will find a use, like walkers they honostly needed a bit of a buff I wanted to feel powerful in them
The nerfs got so bad to the point where the pump action shotguns are the only guns left in the game that UNDERSTAND the assignment. The breakers used to help you deal with hordes, or counter-suppression now they do little more than hurt their feelings...
And the fact that Alexus kravchenko (formerly known as the killer of 'hello neighbor') see's nothing wrong with this proves he needs to be fired, and recommended a new path in life, because he SUCKS as a balance dev, I can't even recommend him for a manager/supervisor position because he lacks EVERY fundamental skill needed for those jobs including his current role as a lead balance dev.
You are controlled by the media
So why is he of all people the lead balance dev?
Omg thats the guy? If thats true, then no wonder its turning out the way it is. Hello Neighbor had true promise that it never discovered because it went the wrong direction. Repeatedly. I remember that vividly.
@Omega_the_stoopid_marine some people find themselves in places they didn't earn the right to be.
@@thatguy5
Indeed. He's the only developer I know who has screwed up so consistently that it motivated me enough to dig into his background to see how far the rabbit hole goes.
So far through his time as a game dev he:
-doesn't listen to feedback
-ignores fair criticism of his work/choices
-doesn't communicate well with others both internally & externally (company and community)
-his idea of "fun" is to make something SO tedious that it drives people away
-keeps communities in the dark consistently especially when said communities are losing faith in him.
-says he will work to improve something when all he really has to do is learn the power of the "undo" button (jk, but seriously, just reverse the changes), but instead will keep trying to "fix" it without understanding what was wrong from the players POV.
For instance he approved most of the nerfs to "balance" the charger....a low level miniboss... The armored spots feels like they extend with every update to the point where fire support becomes MANDATORY.
Primaries? More useless than a broken gun
Secondaries? Even with the flame pistol, useless.
Strategems? Unless your calling in air support/orbitals, don't bother with any anti-tank beyond the EAT because the commercial pause known as "cooldowns" you have to endure for the other anti-tank weapons far outweigh their utility
The 500kg bomb is another....fleekazoid put it best in his first HD2 vid "THIS NUKE HAS FAILED DEMOCRACY SO MANY TIMES IT SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON!!!", they decrease the damage radius to the point I've seen the baby bugs survive the EPICENTER of the explosion, and the wait often times will cause you to get killed before Eagle-1 even comes into the map...if you're gonna make us wait for the boom, AT LEAST MAKE THE EXPLOSION RADIUS JUSTIFY THE WAIT, not to mention if you're on certain forest maps, forget airstrikes because you will learn real fast how terrible eagle-1's aim is. She is so dead-set on coming up from behind where the strategems were thrown that she always ends up either killing the player, or the terrain FAR OFF from the target.... It's a giant red laser, HOW DOES AN EXPERT PILOT MISS THAT MARK SO CONSISTENTLY!?!?
That aside, the only use the 500kg bomb has known since the escalation update is science facilities and making a Hollywood getaway at extract because even using them on chargers is a 50/50 chance of needing 2 of more to go down....
In other words he is a man who upon catching lightning in a bottle will then proceed to waste his time trying to reinvent the wheel, and everybody suffers for it.
I realized the Devs were incompetent the moment they nerfed flamethrowers the day before releasing the new warbond entirely themed around flamethrowers. Basically charging us money to have less fun.
It felt like such a betrayal after being one of the defenders saying that the devs knew what they were doing. In my defense, the previous patch was PERFECT, every thing felt great for a little while. Still, this was the final nail in the coffin for me, I just can't do it anymore, and I loved this game the most.
@@erichthegraham welcome to what we knew all along.
You don't need to spend money to buy the warbond? I don't disagree with the point but I have all the warbonds and have spent zero dollars in game in about 170 hours
@@TacticalFlukie For many players, especially newer ones, there is a incentive to buy the Warbonds rather than grind them out. I have 200+ hours, but my GF and buddy who don't play as much as me both bought the Warbond.
The very fact that it is content that has a paywall of some kind is why it's a problem. If it was just weapons/gear they dropped on us for 100% free and every player could either access it immediately or start unlocking stuff with no tied "premium" currency to it. Then it likely wouldn't have made people as mad overall.
They didn't just nerf the flamethrowers they also made their fire animations infinitely worse to boot.
I would have thought that the squirt gun would actually be more effective than most weapons since it hasn't been nerfed yet....
Nah, they removed the stun damage for all the pool party warbond weapons. (Please dont become this)
In the end, the only real danger posed to any game is the incompetence of it's own developers.
And a healthy dose of community entitlement
@@lukemehalick370 ah yes, because expecting a $60 game to be good is "entitlement". Cry harder fanboy 😂
@@hurricanegriz8011the game was $40 how the hell(diver) did you get that wrong?
@@hurricanegriz8011If you’re really fighting for your “managed” democracy. Even with a toothpick and a watergun YOU WILL HOLD THE LINE TO YOUR LAST BREATH
-this guardsman
@@Skiss_Skoss $60 in CAD lmao. How did you fuck that up?
The theme that starts playing at 2:18 is an unused Automaton Boss theme, couple that theme with the scene at 2:32 with the introduction of the "Chaos Divers" bearing the Automaton Insignia, and that whole scene goes INCREADBLY hard.
I can see it now; a massive group of Chaos Divers and Automaton units marching down the streets of super earth with that theme blaring on loud speakers attached to the backs of Hulks and Factory Striders, the Chaos Divers are blowing up building after building, and then you can see the camera pan past ones helmet visor, and all you see is a burning hatred in their eyes, the buildup of untold amounts of frustration and agony put upon them by each Ministry. how the once proud Divers longed for more, yet all were denied.
we fight for the children! choas will not reign supreme.
WE FIGHT FOR CHAOS! LET THE GALAXY BURN!
Man the max level player who is bored and just thinking about the glory days when the game was still new is such a mood
He was reminiscing about HD1 you were able to do the twirl and the primaries didn't suck ballz
@@chitochester7646a cool detail is that he's wearing the ceremonial set as well
From loyal defender of managed democracy to shouting "vera libertas" as my battle cry. What a ride it has been.
Nice detail about first helldivers, just spinning my cape around is funniest stuff you have on a ship outside of diving into hell itself of course
God damn, it was just a "shit on helldivers" vid the first half, and then right in the feels the rest of the vid, did not see that coming, that diver reminiscing about the HD1 days got me for real.
Never forget HD1 sickle, best gun ever made
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my own flesh, it disgusted me"
So Chaos Divers are the Mechanicus but against the Imperium? I'm on board.
After 500 hours i died of boredom of the whole “its nerf or nothing” policies
Back to good ole deep rock galactic
Rock and Stone! Good to have you back!
There has been vastly more buffs than nerfs. Spare the handful of crutches people hyper-fixate on, virtually every weapon in the game has been buffed compared to it's release state.
@@UnknownSquid nope
@@redcrown5154 Yes... ¬_¬
Of the 51 total weapons, including all primaries, secondaries and support weapons, 35 of them have been buffed since launch, many of them multiple times and quite dramatically.
Only thirteen have been nerfed, and of those weapons only five are actually weaker than how they released, the rest have still been buffed more than nerfed and are stronger than how they first appeared in the game.
@@UnknownSquid and yet almost all of them suck compared to before.
2:38 "What could've gone wrong? I gave them so many bananas..."😂😂😂
It was gonna be like this, until the game made a 180 and jumped out of this situation with the 60 day plan.
I this video aged like milk and I think I'm still going to drink it
From Sony region locking, to nerfs to, to all kinds of bugs, connection issues, and other weird agendas, it let us all down.
If Super Earth so chooses this fate, then let it all burn. We're done with facing overwhelming odds with UNDERpowered weapons. VERA LIBERTAS
We still have our love for liberty and the fun had along the way!
@kentity5272 tell that to Samuel and Franklin. TELL THAT TO LITTLE JOHNNY
I got 100 hours out of the game before Sony showed their ass. I’m okay with letting it be a paperweight in my library henceforth.
AH: *Presses the reset button*
What if it's all a lead-up to super earth calling reinforcements from Xbox players?
How poetic. The very ones to save super earth treated so bad they tore it all down and destroyed super earth.
Plot twist: the devs were behind this whole "super horus herecy" bullshit from the beggining.
Imagine making adjustments and changes just for the sake of having a job in the balance team that no one wanted
The way he just said "Freedom..." there, now that is a chad, *RESPECT*. Vera Libertas... 3:29
I can actually believe the nerfs make sense in an in-universe viewpoint. The older guns were extremely effective but very expensive, so some suits at Super Earth started arranging for some "cost saving" measures (and probably pocketed the difference), all while honest Helldivers were fighting and dying for their people. So bureaucracy and corruption just completely undid much of what Super-Earth's finest were fighting hard to achieve.
From a player perspective, though they're absolute bull. And I say that as someone who never played the game (and never will, because my country doesn't have Sony subscription plans).
So basically, russian military...
I won’t be joining until people like you CAN join again in any case. The fact that the game isn’t even good anymore is just extra catharsis for that decision now.
@@OneBiasedOpinionno the game is still good just people online saying it not. Also there apparently still working on the PSN thing but it kind of sucks as it’s not arrowheads fault
It would be interesting if they ran with that concept like how they had briefings where Divers were submitting false samples, but now it could involve Super Earth and Chaos Divers.
Virtually every weapon in the game spare for a tiny handful has been buffed since it's release though. Our arsenal is overall more powerful than it's ever been. People emotionally hyperfixate so badly on their single crutch weapon of choice, that they never actually try anything else and live in this delusional auto-negative state.
The original Helldivers part hit slightly more than it should have...
When the game first came out, I just had so much fun playing with all the different items and trying new a fun builds with no care for meta, but as the nerf never stopped coming I started to get a bit jaded. But when the patch came out that buffed everything, that basically got most of my good will back, but when they started to nerf again and again, I started losing hope faster and faster. The final straw was the flame nerf. One of my favorite builds against the bugs was a jengo fett build with a jetpack and flamethrower, and I just don't find the flames fun anymore.
Same I never cared for the META which is stupid concept that started the META war because griefers were kicking players who don't adhere to their false God M.E.T.A.😒
@@chitochester7646 I never cared for META either. I only used the railgun after the first nerf and had a blast nailing hulks in the eye with it on unsafe, but then I started using the Anti material rifle, and found that it was so much more forgiving, and in my hands was basically a better railgun
You don't find the flames fun because of nerfs? DIdn't they heavily buff flames though?
@@mattc9598 It did get a buff before because there weren't a lot of options for heavy's the they nerfed it to hell when their late patch came out because 30% of the time it was used against the bugs not bots just bugs which was the stupid excuse they used which was the final nail in the coffin
@@blondlorelord33 never used the metas hell the way I played I enjoyed using mines and playing tower defense sometimes, the rail gun nerf the first one was not a bad one it just made it skill based and no less of a viable weapon
Brothers I took part in a top secret time travel experiment not long ago that allowed me to see the first galactic war first hand.
To say things were different would be an understatement…
Tell me more
I know.
I should apply to be part of this project. As a veteran of the First War, I feel awfully nostalgic...
It’s amazing how much better hd 1 is. I’ve only seen streams but how did the go from that to hd2?
@@hitandruncommentorthe game was fun in the beginning, but they kinda forgot that the ones playing also have lives irl and are aware that this is just a game
I got here from the apex animatic. These vids are so underrated and you deserve much more. Keep going!
"We never wanted this.... you forced our hands.
All we wanted... was to be Free. To kill Bugs and have fun doing it.
And the worst, is that you broke my friends heart. He had the most hope. And even he is seeing how far you fell.
Rest in Pidd, Super Earth. You will be missed."
This vid probably helped convince the devs to buff.
I was going to buy Helldivers 2, then like a day before I wanted to make the purchase the region lock happened. I refused to buy it on principle, but was sad I wouldn't be playing. Then they promised they'd undo it, and I excitedly waited, but they refused to keep their word.
Now, I'm even more sad because I know even if they ever go back, I'll still have missed those glory days. Somehow, it's for the best that I never got the game
Helldivers eating itself while it's competitor Space Marine 2 is just getting more players
2 million copies and counting, with hundreds of thousands of players. Helldivers barely held on to 15k of its 10 mil sales.
Meanwhile in Deep Rock Galactic dev room: Here's a buff, buff here, some small buff here and there, twist this buff abit, nerf this abit and buff that instead 🎉
And meanwhile as well: starship troopers gets consistent updates and tries to patch out the issues it has including getting a console release and campaign mode with johnny rico training you coming this october
@@alastor-yw7og I'm doing my goddamn part!
The sad thing is, I still really like this game. Space marine 2 is fun, but it requires nowhere near the brainpower and tactical awareness that helldivers does.
I fucking love navigating through jungles and deserts, evading patrols, having running firefights with bots, and just overall having that heightened sense of awareness and reaction from being in that situation. It's not masochistic, I just enjoy how much I can put into the experience and I'll feel rewarded for fighting so hard.
The only issue is that I'm no longer feeling rewarded, it no longer feels fun. It feels punishing, for no reason. We have to have a fighting chance with our weapons. Even a game like GTFO where you are literally supposed to die since you are a death row convict has more effective weapons than a game where you're supposedly "Super Earth's finest"
I am pleased to say I no longer feel dissatisfied with this game because stuff actually does damage now
I didn't watch this, I FELT this. Thank you from the bottom of my helldiving heart.
it really was the perfect musical track for the ending scene.
I am a Veteran of the First Galactic War who woke up from cryo to serve my Super Earth proudly once more, but now as a Veteran of the Creek. Now? Now our own Command has done something our old Command would’ve never done. Abandon its Divers. I am proud to say I had some part to play in starting this Rebellion and may or may not have accidentally started the Chaos Diver movement with my 40K jokes on Reddit and Twitter 😂.
Since then I have done my duty by sitting back and allowing Super Earth to fall and yet I’ve seen so much division in the community as it’s happening. Starting to feel like Erebus lol.
Is Super Earth actually being taken now? Big W if so.
As far as I know not at the moment buts its close, so were just letting the robots take it though there are still divers trying keep the bugs and robots at bay
I haven't touched the game since the region lock. Its still installed, just in case, but then the major nerfs started happening. I bought a brand new PC to play this game.
Its sad that all it takes for super earth to fall is for us to do nothing.
@@juharvey2 Only ones to blame is High Command [ Arrowhead ] its the only way to make them realize we have had enough.
@@juharvey2 same. People be arguing about balance changes as if that’ll get the player base back, but the truth is the majority left because Sony shit the bed and, for all their fine words, have not taken a single step towards actually fixing any of it. Region lock is still in place and the PSN requirement is still listed on Steam. They’re just waiting for the remaining sheep to grow nice and lazy.
As an OG hell divers 1 old head, I remember the heady days of carefree cape spinning with the brothers
The twirling with the capes the good ol days😢
Like a true modern sequel, the dead loyal helldivers was actually sleeping on the ground and ready to fight again
I’m loving the new Chaosdivers arc
IF I CANNOT SAVE THE GALAXY FROM YOUR FAILURE, DEVS
THEN LET THE GALAXY BURN
Its so hilarious we got our own Horus Heresy moment for Helldivers 2 and it just came out naturally and wasn't some new story development made by the devs.
As I watched the game I had once played made again I cheered. As I watched the game’s problems rear their ugly head I yelled out till my throat was sore. As the problems continued I wrote what could be done to save it till my hands were numb. Tired and exhausted I have nothing left to give watching as what I feared would happen come to pass.
i did not cut down millions on malevalon to have my tools dulled. Vera Libertas
Seeing alot of parallels to the horus herecy here
LET THE GALAXY BURN!
if push comes to shove, we could always fall back to Rock and Stone
Okay, the spiked trophy racks of helmets mounted on the Helldiver's backpack HAS to be a 40k reference. They're called the freaking CHAOS DIVERS for christ's sake!
Petition to change Super Earth to True Earth after the Chaosdivers win
Arrowhead doesn't have anything ready if any enemies get to super earth. High command wins by simply being to lazy to add the ability to LOSE.
Quiero que sepas que está excelente y transmite 100% lo que ha pasado estos meses en Helldivers. Muy buen trabajo.
3:17 this scene really hit hard for me , like this is what the hardcore fans feel like - watching there beloved world/game turn against itself and burn .... and all we can do is watch
For Freedom 💪😔
Arrowhead give us Helldivers gameplay and the masses will flood back in. You could even introduce lore tidbits about how cost saving was happening and now that the traitors have been purged munitions are becoming stronger again. All to combat the rising Chaos threat.
Truly Heartbreaking.
Welp, back to having fun on Helldivers 1! Who's with me?? 😋
Get a life, redditor. Helldivers 2 is still GOATed.
This game (Developer & Community) never cease to tell a beautiful story, even when the game itself is falling apart.
Very true, I just hope that this upcoming update really does what they say it will.
I like how with how wrong the game went the players adopted the rebellious ideas that maybe the cyberstan people were right about "super earth"
Those bananas weren't even ripe, they were green!!!
This is awesome
The HD1 flashback hit hard
1:22 literally me every time.
Greatest piece of chaos diver propaganda
Guess you gotta animate the great buff now
I still remember when my friends and I would joke about how the Automatons are the ones responsible for all the server issues, keeping us from playing together... had many good times, but few still play, and I don't really have the drive anymore... hurts that I found such a good game, had it nerfed to hell for funsies, and then have the great player base reduced to a fraction of what it was.
accurate, when they said in the patch notes they overhauled some 30+ weapons. this video is what I saw in my mind.
with that said, this was was epic, hope to see more down the road!
The scene at 2:48 makes me want to keep fighting even with all these nerfs, the suffering still exists though : (
truely, im a chaos diver, but seeing that makes me wonder what path to take from here
Thank god they fixed the game, great video
Developers see this and are like "ok we'll make our own animation to counter this. we'll have it out in 60 days... after our 60 day plan and our vacations are done that is."
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In a perfect world, we could have had both Helldivers 2 and Space Marines 2 exist and both be good games. Unfortunately the devs decided to ruin theirs and make everyone go to Space Marines 2 instead
amazing video, really is kinda tough trying to make videos for helldivers, given how the state of it is. But honestly, this gave me a good laugh and a little hope that they may turn things around. Still a fun game from time to time.
2:12 helldivers that played the first game and now see the state this game is are the ones more hurt by the rules
Been playing since the last update (9/17) & the fun seems to be back, hopefully you make a new animatic where we save Super Earth after all.
"Helldiver? I was a helldiver once. They sent me to fight. Fight against bugs. Fight against bugs with defective weapons. Defective weapons killed me as a helldiver."
Everyone knows these words as a mocking copypasta, denouncing the gunsmiths of super-Earth. But few know that it has a sequel, much less mocking.
"When the helldiver in me died, my eyes were opened. The real enemies of super-Earth are not bugs or automatons, but those who sabotage the possibilities of fighting them."
As one man once said, the state is the enemy of the people. And now, as corruption and vice at the very heart of human civilization prevent us from defending it with all our might, this phrase is more relevant than ever. The true and greatest enemy of the citizens of super-Earth is the government of super-Earth. And we took an oath to protect citizens from all enemies.
In the name of our fellow citizens, in the name of the fallen battle brothers, in the name of all humanity, LET THERE BE A REBELLION! VERA LIBERTAS!
And for those, who are still loyal to the HQ: Open your eyes. Remember how many of our men died in the battle for Malevellon Creek. Now multiply that number by 10, and you can at least roughly imagine how many brave helldivers have died because of spoiled flamethrower fuel, slowed-down "quasars", defective railgun shells and a huge number of other defects, the responsibility for which lies entirely on the government of the super-Earth.
Now tell me: is this the world you're fighting for? The world covered in the blood of your brothers in arms, who died for nothing, who were sacrificed to a corrupt government machine that doesn't care about its own citizens? Is this what you're fighting for?
why did super earth LIMIT OUR BUDGET IN WEAPONS!? HOW CAN WE EVEN LIBERATE PROPERLY!?
I’m very happy to say that this aged like milk!
:D!!!!
It would be the funniest thing ever if they _still_ slip in nerfs this 17th.
These are dark times for us divers. I've been playing religiously in my down time and have enjoyed every second of it. I do have to agree with the majority of the community when it comes to the nerfs and the lack of major content updates. But nothing will stop me from giving my last breath to protect super earth while we go through the correcting process of these patches and updates. My faith is unwavering and I know it in my bones that helldiver's 2 will survive, and furthermore thrive in some due time. To those still fighting with me, thank you for not letting lady liberty down.
For Super Earth!
The voice of the commander sounds perfect for a parody of Snake honestly
Silence. Introspection. How many had he killed? Had he ever thought to count? How much cruelty did he embody... and to what end? How many did he condemn to hell and who did it benefit...?
Two defeats at the hand of the machine had changed Gabriel. The world of the once supposed Will of God was now shattered and only he was left to put the pieces back together. They collected before the light of a dying fire that fresh fuel couldn't sustain, this new light showing the truth to Gabriel:
The pieces never fit together to begin with.
The supposed Council of "the people" who boasted a God that wasn't there. Gone. Vanished. The Council still chased after the light of God's fire, their memory of its words and will grown twisted and warped, and the rest of the aimless masses of Heaven follow in their footsteps. The angels still act in The Father's name but His kingdom has changed.
Now the fire was dying, sputtering out as the heat failed to gain purchase. Gabriel looked upon the embers with a perfect clarity. He drew his blade and held it in contrast to the dying light.
In its reflection he saw a weapon reborn, no longer wielded by the will of another, but his own. He knew words alone would never sway the masses. He chose to do something
"Space King...is all you want of me? To wage never ending war against Heretics with your "unique blessings" to my weapons and collect space samples?"
May chaos rein,Tyrants fall, and we stand tall
For the Glory and the fall
FR
Despite the bugs the game was way more fun the first monthish. After that their random hotficxes and balance changes either caused more bugs, or broke weapons. It was bearable for a while but boosting npcs, constantly nerfing weapons, and new ways to crash in the game while never fixing aim too. Just made the game and season passes no longer worth it. They would’ve been better off just not touching the game after release.
One of the fire guys here, im currently in abstract pain im yearnin for a burnin
Join us in Space Marine II, brother. Equip a Multi Melta and shred everything!
Developers, this is what happens when you give your soldier’s underpowered weapons, they lose!
I feel bad and wish luck to any remaining Helldivers who are holding on to hope and protecting Super Earth despite the overwhelming odds. Don’t stop fighting!!!
Amazing animation! Loved all the sneaky references. Here's hoping Arrowhead starts moving the game in the right direction starting on the 17th.
Looking back at it, This aged well. and im glad it did :)
No it did not lol. They just fixed this.
Why is this better than most movies coming out lol, 10/10! New subscriber and viewer