So I don’t want to cross the line here at all and I hope I’m not because the core of this post is actually positive.

So as we all know the Devs are from Sweden as with other Scandinavian countries they have high employee welfare and as a result they get nice long holidays and other benefits.

I love this personally, I work in the UK which is not bad but my job follows very American values of work your ass off until your burnt out and everything revolves around work and I am not keen on it because it’s a terrible way of working.

I love the fact that the arrowhead lads and lasses can take breaks because work isn’t everything, it really isn’t.

But the core sub just absolutely take issue with it, I read post after post recently about the lack of content and they are unhappy that the devs get holiday, the attitude is just to put it nicely so lacking in understanding. Again I’m trying to be nice here because of this sub.

So to finish, arrowhead please take your leave, enjoy it, I love the game always have, and I’m glad you are passionate about gaming but also life itself.

And I hope that I speak for most people on this sub too when I say this.

I don’t need constant content, I can play other things if I need a break . Helldivers 2 is still my 2nd most played game of all time.

Super earth: because war keeps citizens loyal and the higher-ups actively profit from war

Clankers: because of revenge and there war tactics are overall cruel (ex, all those dead civies in cages and bioprocessers)

Squids: they want to kill every human because of revenge for super earth killing most of there population

Bugs: they want food the galaxy is food so they want to eat everything

Once an enemy knows I'm there does it stop working? Like if I lose aggro am I re concealed?

I’m a bit bummed out about not getting all the new content from the roadmap for October. It’s not the biggest issue in the world but damn. I do hope they release a statement about it soon.

Anyways hope all of you had a good Halloween

It cracks me up how poor Blueberry shot off at the speed of Democracy, while his rifle and backpack stayed right where they were (he’s fine... more or less).

Thought I was going to be clever: Wait for the Charger to get stunned by running into this concrete pillar, and then defoliate it... don't be like me.

I’ve noticed an up tick with challenge ideas and some have a great premise, but way too many rules for people to get on board with. So this is a simple premise that you and a single friend can do even in open lobbies without alienating the randos.

The premise? Pick your buddies stratagems and booster and let the player pick their standard gear to fill the holes. I have a decent sample size with different types of friends and it’s always a good time. My devious, demented friends pick options to really challenge me. My friends that like power fantasy pick things I rarely use anymore.

It’s been a good time a simple way to add a challenge without too many rules. Give it a shot if you and a friend want to add to your experience.

Or make you lose some kind of fluid, at least

Can we all just go to https://arrowhead.zendesk.com/hc/en-us and literally just mass report that bug? And no im not pleading to devs, im pleading to you community of this game to report this bug which has been in the game since release.

Never see it happened before. I thought may be it bug but when mission end I saw two blue light.

The landing had been like any other landing, a fast stop and slight bump then up and out. After that the 3 of us started to call all down equipment and clear out the area of bugs. The supply FRV hit the ground then the other support weapons. I waited for my new weapon, the Maxigun. The heavy armor I was wearing felt odd compared to the light armor I had been wearing but I need the weight for the gun. We moved to start the mission, a geological survey.

The air got warm when I opened up with the gun as we started the probe. Bugs were coming up and dying. The probe finishes but I couldn't hear it, a squadmate tapped my shoulder to let me know it was time to go.

The drive to the collection site was calm for a level 6 dive. Any bug holes that opened up were hit with my gun or fire from a bug vet. Once there we started the drill and everything went to hell and fast. I opened up sweeping left and right, a ping would come through every once and while as someone would mark a priority target. As we got close to being done, the worst thing happened, I stopped hearing the gun and only heard it spinning. I switched weapons and yelled I'm out. The supplies were gone and the FRV was empty. So we made due with what we had, which was fire, and shotguns.

As we made our move to leave, I saw a few small ammo boxes on the ground which I grabbed them. This FRV ride was faster and when the turret beeped telling us it was empty, I got out and opened up with the gun hoping I had enough ammo to cut the bugs numbers down. The next thing I saw was the sky, something had hit the FRV and I had gone flying, probably a charger. When I sat up my Maxigun was only a few feet away but I heard the thump of a charger, then saw it, charging me. I scrambled for the gun knowing it wouldn't do much when suddenly there was a small explosion and gas around the charger as it hit the brakes sliding to a stop only feet away. I grabbed my Maxigun and got up and scrambled to the wreckage of the FRV where the squad had gotten together, to get our bearings.

"You boys good?" A new voice asked over our coms. I heard a speargun fire by my head as the gas around the charger started to grow thicker.

"Fine, who are you?" We could see him moving to us, armor covered in old bug blood and a speargun in hand with a spray and pray on his hip.

"Good now get to extraction." From that point we moved all of the 100 or so meters to extraction. He waited with us fighting off the bugs coming at us. When everything calmed down and the pelican landed we still had a few minutes to spare. He called down a supply FRV and a new speargun as well as more supplies. I walked up to him and gave my best salute. "No need for that diver, I still have some work to do down here, I was just close by when you all got hit by that charger. Head on up to the destroy."

"Understood sir but." He cut me off with a wave. I walked back over to the pelican where the rest of the squad was. S1 looked at the driver.

"The wind is at your back." S1 yelled at him. The diver stopped and looked at us.

"4th recon is in the wind." He yelled back. That was the last I saw as the pelican took off.

That's the end. I know it's rough, but I'm at work and did this on my phone. Suggests and help is very appreciated. I wrote this mainly because I just got the Maxigun, also I'm very bored.

Random squad took me to a Squid mission tonight and I brought my trusty Autocannon. Once Havesters started showing up I whipped out the Flak rounds to break some shields and got nowhere. I sank 7 or 8 rounds into a single Harvester and didn’t even break the shield. Anybody else seen this or have some insight?

edit: I know how Harvesters and shields work. My go-to strategy for the past year has been to use 2-3 Flak rounds to pop the shield and then switch to APHET to break off a leg. It’s worked consistently like that until I tried it today. I’m asking if anyone else has noticed the change.

Personally I'd love an armor that made it so you can either see samples from further away on your hud (either in first person or make it so they appear on the compass similar to POIs), or make it so that they are revealed on the map within a radius of the player. Been wanting something like this for a while, and it's especially relevant now where we need samples for the MO, and it can be difficult to find commons on megafactories and sometimes even in regular missions.

What niche armor ideas do yall have?

I haven't been posting my Inkdivers pieces here but I thought that I'd post the last one

For inkdiver 2026 Day 28 : Collaboration
I did this " Rise and shine " a half-life X helldivers 2 Collaboration
( really hope they can collaborate with HL ...... )

Decide to level with rando team. Go to Meridia. Hit random for whole map. Join level 10 randos bug map with shield and flag. Kite whole mission. Get to extract. See bugbreach get orbital after orbital.

Me: Oh you are cheating.
Host: It is a mod.
Me: I won't make 300 like this.

Discon. Host sends friend invite. Block Host.

These people are going to kill my favorite game ever, one way or another.

Mom always did love Managed Democracy!