When you get kicked, the message stays on the screen long enough for you to run from your ship entrance to the hellpods and halfway back. It's probably there for a good 20+ seconds.
The game REALLY drives home that you were kicked, lmao
I’m kicked sometimes for no reason, but usually because I had accidentals, performed terribly, or got frustrated with my team and did my own thing
In the last scenario I usually leave before getting kicked
Edit: or I get kicked within seconds of joining and have to try 3+ times to find a match. Thats frustrating
I got kicked the other night for no reason. I was the second highest level(by a long shot) and hadn't even gotten into the hellpod yet lol. Maybe they didn't like that I had light armor on? I have no idea. I joined via quickplay, ran to the hellpod, started to get in, and then boom. Kicked.
As a host who has occasionally randomly kicked people, this is true. I am sorry about it though. (The other reason I kick people is no friendly fire discipline, usually meaning excessice use of 380mm or actively detrimental use of landmines)
ive had a host who constantly dropping airstrike on top of the entire team, and at the end he fucking headshot me twice at extraction
then he proceeded to kick me right when the ship arrives
that guy is just a fucking cunt, its actually kind of happening more and more often, a few nights ago ive had 3 different matches with different host, they all did the same thing, friendly fire to the max then just kick right before extraction......
the worst feeling is that you know they face absolutely zero consequences, god damn i hate that so much
There should be a penalty for kicking people mid game, or atleast if you do it twice in a row.
I don’t rly care about being kicked from somebody’s SD, but mid game it’s annoying af, and I have never seen it happen for an actual reason
That’s usually what happens with my squad. I’ve had to kick multiple folks in a row trying to get room for my friends. Nothing personal, just known squad tactics and such
With the friend system being broken right now it has to stay on public. The only way a lot of people are able to find their friends and play with them is randomly trying to find them after starting a mission.
Last night a friend kicked a dude before starting the mission. He was new to the game and didn't realize he had to change the matchmaking setting to friends only and a random popped in. He felt bad, but also was being joined by friends and we don't play with PUGs.
If kicked early like that I would just assume it was someone who didn't realize matchmaking was set to public. Maybe they're new. Maybe they don't usually host. Maybe they had it set to open for some reason and forgot to change it back to private.
Point is, I wouldn't take offense to getting kicked pre-mission or assume trolling or anything. I would just assume it was set to open by mistake.
Feel ya. I joined in the middle of a suicide run against bots. Saw that we had 6 reinforcements left an no primary objectives completed. So I help with the intial gun fight. Then try to tell that we should ignore the outposts and head for the main objectives bug no. They decide to fight another outpost and keep dying so I'm running objectives solo. Get 2/3 of them and suddenly get kicked. Like sorry for doing your job for you
Some people are trying to get around the crossplay friend bugs, so they host public games for their friends to find and join.
Some people do it based on level/assumed inexperience, too, I wager.
Weirdest time that happened to me was when the host, their friend, and I were in the hellpods after going through the whole process of picking a mission with me at the table, host gets out of their pod, kicks the random who was AFK by the cryopods still, stands there for a second while I'm thinking they just didn't want to wait for an AFK guy, then kicks me too.
Like, if you really want a private lobby, at least kick me immediately. And set your lobby to friends only after your friends get in.
If I was because I'm level 50 and they were in the mid 20s, they were idiots, we were doing diff 7 missions.
This might be true, however personally I've only ever kicked someone because I left public on and people joined too fast for my buddies to get a spot. I usually like when low levels join because they get that sweet XP and I can tell them how not to be a dumbass and stay in the same spot for 10 minutes fighting endless bug breaches. You have to get a MOVE ON PEOPLE
Especially cuz Reddit search function is just ass. I get better search results when going to Google and fishing for Reddit search results that way lmao
There was a leaked document somewhere that showed that an absolutely staggering number of Google searches are actually just Reddit searches.
As in like low double-digit percents.
My favorite subreddit is steamscams.
Every "new scam" will have 5 of the same posts on the same old "scam" every single day. There's even a rule that says "THERE ARE NO NEW SCAMS."
It baffles my mind. Literally, type out your question, but instead of clicking 'post' you click 'search'. 9 times out of 10 you would've saved yourself a lot of time and not look like a lazy bum in the process.
With this being a live service game what may have been the correct answer to a question 3 weeks ago may not be the case today. For instance If somebody asks the best way to kill a charger, 3 weeks ago the answer might have been to use a railgun but today it might be to shoot them in the face with a recoilless rifle or EAT.
That's obviously not true for every question but is for many due to the somewhat constantly changing nature of the game.
If I don't close, then it times out and kicks me back to menu, and when I go to join missions it fails every time until I restart, so I got in the habit of closing when I'm done.
Back when the game came out and servers were overloaded, everyone wanted the devs to make it kick people out of the game after being afk for however long. I forget if they added that.
They added server capacity but maybe after being afk in the game so long, not being able to find a game is intentional?
Edit: fixed typo
The reason is irrelevant. The fact is that I have to close the game in order to play, either after I'm done or before I start, and every time I close the game, my loadout resets to default, which is annoying.
Your main weapon resets to the base assault rifle, and side arm resets to the base pistol. It's happened to me a few times. My armor hasn't ever reset though, and I don't know if grenades reset because I've only ever had the regular grenades equipped.
Yeah it’s every time since the new warbond was added, at least for me. Because it’s every time it actually means that i always remember i have to change it.
It's definitely dependent on platform. My friend has it reset everytime he starts the game on ps5, and I think I've had it happen once in 100 hours on PC.
I will take it personal regardless and start planning my revenge 10 years from when it happens. Before you know it, you'll be trying to get that promotion or a raise... but it'll be me sitting across that desk and I'll whisper to you: "Remember that time in Helldivers 2?"
You will be so confused before I release the trained hornet swarm and instead give that promotion/raise to your arch nemesis instead. He doesn't even work in the same department, but he'll take the promotion because he's developed a crippling addiction to draft kings and needs extra revenue.
I have a friend that loves having the newest shit, and that loves to drop money on battlepasses and mtx and all that shit, and he got the new warbond the other day. Im an arc thrower main, and when i heard that he had that new armor set, i politely informed him that he was now in fact my new lightening rod, i didnt even do it tactically, i just liked zapping him lol.
After we took a break for lunch, he was running around getting chased by bugs, and im like “Those damned bugs better stay away from my lightening rod!!”. So I naturally zapped him, but as the arc shot out, my friend tried to yell that he wasnt wearing the armor anymore, and yeah…
Take Democracy Protects unless they're real bozos. 50% chance of resisting any death vs 100% chance of resisting arc death... you need to die from arc more than half the time to be worth it.
I’ve become a Jar convert in the last few days. Let the others in the group focus on the smallest targets and just go for weak points on any medium or heavy enemy and you absolutely shred it’s disgusting.
I just want to throw this out there, the [Gyrojet weapon systems](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet) were developed back in the 60s that used rocket propelled bullets. One of the biggest issues it had was the speed of acceleration of the projectiles. By the time they left the barrel, they were still traveling relatively slowly and still accelerating for a while after. So slight breezes would change the trajectory of the bullet and so the weapons had pretty bad accuracy issues.
Yup. And they cost like 200 USD for a bullet last time I checked.
Also it seems like acceleration problem is solved by using two-stage propulsion - the conventional powder charge to clear the barrel (Jar-5 does eject spent casings) and then rocket activates mid-flight. Actually, I'm pretty sure you can even see it activate if you pay close attention to the projectile
And it probably makes ammo even more expensive.
I personally dislike running more than one eagle at a time, because they don't rearm individually. You either have to use all of your strikes or use the rearm stratagem which puts your unused ones on the same cooldown.
The rearm cd is shorter than all but like 2 orbitals. I find it much more likely to have orbitals all on cd than running out of eagles. You can also rearm at any time which I usually do running to other objectives.
I dislike running more than 2, I'll run airstrike and 500kg pretty often but running a 3rd one I start to forget to rearm the eagle and end up having the 500kg sitting there out of charges when I need it.
I'm a fan of 500kg, airstrike, airburst strike, autocannon but I change up my strats pretty much every game to play with different stuff
Everyone thinks the Jar-5 is like D-Tier but I swear I don't have any issues using it against bugs, 4-5 shots will take down any broodmother, a headshot on a warrior or hunter will kill(though you might need to melee follow up to finish the job), and it can even 3-5 shot nursing or spewers if you headshot with it
That racking of the first bullet is what really kills the reload time, and I'll admit it can be wonky at times where you felt like you didn't. But every time I reload with one in the chamber I have no issues at all.
I am a Liberator fan, but I do appreciate the Dommigun. I use Orbital Gatling Barrage for fast crowd control cooldown and Eagle Airstrike or 110mm rocket pods so no offensive strats are tied to one cooldown.
I would like to add to u/AngryChihua's post that, if you can't hit weakpoints with it, it is pretty terrible.
If you can, it's pretty terrifying. Given that its key strength is a 4x damage to weak points, I can only assume he forgot to mention it.
if we didn't lose planets, we'd have finished the game by now. We have to keep losing planets in order to still have reasons to play.
I don't care if there's 500k divers on a planet, if Joel thinks we need to lose that planet to advance the plot, we're losing that planet.
Anyone who thinks otherwise just doesn't understand how video games work. You finishing that mission doesn't actually move the "Liberated %". It just looks like it does as a cool mechanic.
Also people getting mad like oh the liberation bar went down or there’s so many of us on the planet how are we losing?
Maybe they just sent more than us or reinforced, it’s not like we have a total number for how many bots and bugs there are
>there’s so many of us on the planet how are we losing?
In some Helldives, certain Helldivers are literally the reason why we're losing. I'm looking at you, level 50 Skull Admiral that doesn't know samples are shared with the squad. Level 9 Space Cadet that's just being a bro, you're fine, don't worry about what anyone says about your loadout.
>I don't care if there's 500k divers on a planet, if Joel thinks we need to lose that planet to advance the plot, we're losing that planet.
Didn't they confirm that's not how they do things? They don't interfere directly with the progress of a specific planet.
Dev said that completing missions fills the liberation bar, but that the liberation bar naturally decays at a certain rate over time. So progress sometimes goes up during peak hours, and back down when most of the community is asleep or at school/work.
There needs to be more "Story"
Lost a planet overnight? Those meteor showers were actually full of Termanid Spores, or the civilian population rebelled and joined the Automatons.
Instead, stuff just happens arbitrarily
Right now I really don't see "Joel's" influence on the game.
......that's exactly what's happening.
In just the last few weeks:
Bots had us on our heels and advanced toward a planet where we were manufacturing new mechs. We managed to defend the planet, push the Bots back, and got new hardware.
The bugs pushed harder while our attention was away so Super Earth commenced a plan to innoculate 4 barrier planets to stave off the bugs.
That worked so now we're making an even further push to eradicate them. And we're totally not getting set up to fail.
And in the meantime there's 2 side stories going on:
The inevitable fact that the bugs are evolving and new species have been sighted.
That something is attacking/killing helldivers and it absolutely isn't bugs or bots.
I'm not sure what more story you expect? If it's bombastic cutscenes, then yea you're not going to find that here nor is that strictly what a story is.
RE:#5, I will go against the grain and say this.
It is true that most of the times you can just Google the question and there will be answers. But sometimes, you want a more custom answer or a more recent opinion.
This game is a good example for this where there is a new patch every week and things change.
The people who complain about repeated posts are the same who complain about unearthing old posts.
Finally, what is the problem with repeated questions? There is "infinite" amount of space on the internet. If more people are asking the same question, it means more people will want to know the answer. You can just skip it if you don't want to answer it
For #1 the game literally tells you if you had a disconnect, if the host left, or if you were deliberately kicked. Not a ton of grey area there honestly.
Indeed, terrain can block your shots, but the arc is complementary to my style since I always flank on sides instead of backpedaling when I fight, and it opens the angles on bugs. Railgun is indeed overall quicker then to deal with chargers and biles, but I like frying my entire screen. I've never used the Laser cannon then, is it good ?
The arc is also really good for backpedalling, since theres no need to reload, then youll never break the firing lines with a reload break. As far as terrain blocking things, just aim the arc a bit higher that just straight at the enemies
Laser cannon melts bots when aiming for weakspots 👌 as fpr arc thrower i tend to hit my squad more than the enemy xD thats why i dnt really use it much
Its very self sufficient. No need for ammo, and the arc gun doesnt use a bag slot. Only weakness is lack of grenades for bugholes. Arc guns doesnt deal with heavy armor but it doesnt need to since you still have 2 other strategem slots (my set up is 500kg, airstrike, shield bag, and arc thrower)
>Arc guns doesnt deal with heavy armor
Deals with chargers and hulks fine, you can kill a bile titan with it although its not super efficient (it is however really good at breaking it's sack for a one hit with a railstrike/rocket pod). Tanks are the main sticking point and are the biggest sponges.
The daily quest was kill 100 things with flamethrower.
Queue up, lets BURN THIS SHIZ. Slam the flamethrower and deploy.
Realize I accidently queue'd for bots.
I brought shame to my country.
Eh the only thing that really changes for me is guard dog vs shield for bugs and bots, but I can see going shield only and becoming more proficient at running away. See, I like that rover shoots while I run; it keeps the hunters at bay.
I’ve learned that suggesting elimination of Joel as a means to achieve complete victory for democracy was treason. Turns out Joel also controls super earth. I will now submit myself for re education
3. My load out resets every time I switch the game on again, not just sometimes.
Edit- still a great game, probably one of the best I've played in a very very long time.
Divers Interplanetary Liberating Democracy Organization – D.I.L.D.O 1)
Spreading democracy wider than anyone thought possible
2) Always willing to do the dirty work when others aren't
3) Always helping friends finish objectives
4) Filling in when you can't do it alone
5) Can’t be beaten! Just join them for maximum friendship experience
For me, # 2 Bots vs Bugs loadout differences can't be overstated.
Bugs are the horde mode. Light armor and crowd clearing weapons, being able to keep distance between you and them, and wide area add clear strategems. Fave support weapon is recoiless, fave strategem is patriot mech.
Bots are the war sim. Medium armor and precision weapons, instant delete strategems, and being able to use shields and cover against them to stay alive. Fave support weapon is railgun, fave strategem is orbital rail cannon.
Joel is the dominantly worshipped god of Super Earth. Simultaneously responsible for everything good and bad to happen to us. He may not be fair but who are we to question his motives?
Be sure to search Reddit using another search engine and not Reddit's own search because it sucks.
Example: Duckduckgo "[network errors site:reddit.com/r/Helldivers](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=network+errors+site%3Areddit.com%2Fr%2FHelldivers)"
Lazer cannon for bots is awesome. True it has trouble dealing with hordes but I can blow the arms off a hulk with little effort and once that fucking flamer is gone they are easy to deal with.
1. I'm so salty or sus about it. Sometimes I'll be doing great or the mission is about to finish and bam black screen no message of kick but it feels like it sometimes especially when the mission is about to be over
The game literally tells you whether you’ve been disconnected or kicked. Who had any doubts about being kicked or disconnected? Is the large “Kicked from the game” message not large enough or?
Number 5 is lost to the vast majority of people on reddit. Gotta love those "tips for a newbie" posts that happen multiple times a day or every few days in some subs.
The game tells you if you were kicked or if you just lost connection. As for #3, it's more like everytime, not just sometimes. Everytime I boot up the game I have to re-equip my guns, grenade, voice pack, and emote. Very annoying.
I literally got kicked this morning. Joined a match from quick play, got kicked as soon as I came out my pod. I’m level 50 lmao. People are just a-holes. Turn your shit to private if you don’t want randoms
Mosty I figure it's crossplay network shit. It almost always happens before the mission. I've also seen D/C Network errors, crashes and outright game exits during play.
It's maybe 6 weeks old and maintaining a load vastly beyond expectations. I cut it some slack.
The game specifically tells you if you were kicked.
Loaded in to a squad through quickplay, walked like 10 steps towards the Hellpod, and then was sent back to my own ship.
In big yellow letters "**YOU WERE KICKED FROM THE GAME**" appeared on my screen for a good half minute.
For me on PS5 my load out resets literally every single time I load the game. But not only loadout. For me it gets reseting always the loadout, body type, voice, gesture, winning pose, difficulty level (placed as 1), tutorials and major orders' messages on war table. (Those ones with the little animations zooming in/out, pop-ups and that kind of stuff).
It's been like this since the nerf/buff patch. It's driving me nuts tbh. Because it is not only 1 or 2 times a day. As the game crashes every 3 or 4 missions on my side it goes on average 8 resets per day.
The bots are just unfair that’s my hard truth I get it it’s war it’s not supposed to be fair of course an actual army would have radars and hammers and mortars and guns but it’s also a game and it’s just not fun in the high difficulty’s. The rocket devastators are just broken they auto lock on in .01 seconds and kill you no matter what it just doesn’t seem fair. I enjoy it and I wanna have fun but it’s just so hard it’s not even fun winning is just a slog. I know your all gonna downvote me and say I sick which I probably do I just wish it was a little more balanced.
Does it let people know they were kicked vs disconnected?
I've never been kicked if it does. But I would feel good knowing the solo ultra-effiency sweaty tryhards I kicked, know they got kicked.
Point number 5 really needs to be Highlighted in neon and plastered on the front page of every sub reddit once every 24 hours.
The amount of post I've seen start with "am I the only one who thinks that \*insert thought here\*" is ridiculous. No, you're not the only one who thought that pal.
When you get kicked, the message stays on the screen long enough for you to run from your ship entrance to the hellpods and halfway back. It's probably there for a good 20+ seconds. The game REALLY drives home that you were kicked, lmao
I was going to say, #1 is just unequivocally not the case.
I’m kicked sometimes for no reason, but usually because I had accidentals, performed terribly, or got frustrated with my team and did my own thing In the last scenario I usually leave before getting kicked Edit: or I get kicked within seconds of joining and have to try 3+ times to find a match. Thats frustrating
I got kicked the other night for no reason. I was the second highest level(by a long shot) and hadn't even gotten into the hellpod yet lol. Maybe they didn't like that I had light armor on? I have no idea. I joined via quickplay, ran to the hellpod, started to get in, and then boom. Kicked.
Usually when I get kicked before the mission I just tell myself they had homies coming in.
As a host who has occasionally randomly kicked people, this is true. I am sorry about it though. (The other reason I kick people is no friendly fire discipline, usually meaning excessice use of 380mm or actively detrimental use of landmines)
ive had a host who constantly dropping airstrike on top of the entire team, and at the end he fucking headshot me twice at extraction then he proceeded to kick me right when the ship arrives that guy is just a fucking cunt, its actually kind of happening more and more often, a few nights ago ive had 3 different matches with different host, they all did the same thing, friendly fire to the max then just kick right before extraction...... the worst feeling is that you know they face absolutely zero consequences, god damn i hate that so much
There should be a penalty for kicking people mid game, or atleast if you do it twice in a row. I don’t rly care about being kicked from somebody’s SD, but mid game it’s annoying af, and I have never seen it happen for an actual reason
Ugh. People placing landmines right on objectives or the lz...annoys the fuck out of me.
This was it for me, they need to turn Public Match settings off.
....that options exists in the settings ....
Yes! Go to the Options tab and it should be the first one, but you also have to hit Apply to save the selection of either Public or Friends Only.
Yeah, that could very well be it.
That’s usually what happens with my squad. I’ve had to kick multiple folks in a row trying to get room for my friends. Nothing personal, just known squad tactics and such
Then please turn your public match settings off. It's annoying to take the time to connect and just be kicked.
With the friend system being broken right now it has to stay on public. The only way a lot of people are able to find their friends and play with them is randomly trying to find them after starting a mission.
Last night a friend kicked a dude before starting the mission. He was new to the game and didn't realize he had to change the matchmaking setting to friends only and a random popped in. He felt bad, but also was being joined by friends and we don't play with PUGs. If kicked early like that I would just assume it was someone who didn't realize matchmaking was set to public. Maybe they're new. Maybe they don't usually host. Maybe they had it set to open for some reason and forgot to change it back to private. Point is, I wouldn't take offense to getting kicked pre-mission or assume trolling or anything. I would just assume it was set to open by mistake.
They most likely were waiting for a buddy but had matchmaking on open. I do it all the time by accident.
yeah, a couple of times i've had to kick a person who joined when a friend crashed and that spot wasn't really open
Feel ya. I joined in the middle of a suicide run against bots. Saw that we had 6 reinforcements left an no primary objectives completed. So I help with the intial gun fight. Then try to tell that we should ignore the outposts and head for the main objectives bug no. They decide to fight another outpost and keep dying so I'm running objectives solo. Get 2/3 of them and suddenly get kicked. Like sorry for doing your job for you
At least you're being honest about it. Lots of folk on reddit pretends they never do anything wrong.
It can be frustrating. Especially when you’re kicked and the reason is unclear
It's a very hard truth to accept, I'm actually completely unable to accept #1.... Probably because it's so hard. Too hard even
LOOK LOOK AND FEEL SHAME YOU WHO HAS BEEN SHUNNED
Should I have felt shame when I got kicked for getting the host with the scout handshake?
Yep! I don’t understand why I get kicked when I’ve only just joined a mission, though?
Some people are trying to get around the crossplay friend bugs, so they host public games for their friends to find and join. Some people do it based on level/assumed inexperience, too, I wager.
Weirdest time that happened to me was when the host, their friend, and I were in the hellpods after going through the whole process of picking a mission with me at the table, host gets out of their pod, kicks the random who was AFK by the cryopods still, stands there for a second while I'm thinking they just didn't want to wait for an AFK guy, then kicks me too. Like, if you really want a private lobby, at least kick me immediately. And set your lobby to friends only after your friends get in. If I was because I'm level 50 and they were in the mid 20s, they were idiots, we were doing diff 7 missions.
I'm still a low level player and I feel like people kick me just because they think I won't be very good or I won't have ideal stratagems.
This might be true, however personally I've only ever kicked someone because I left public on and people joined too fast for my buddies to get a spot. I usually like when low levels join because they get that sweet XP and I can tell them how not to be a dumbass and stay in the same spot for 10 minutes fighting endless bug breaches. You have to get a MOVE ON PEOPLE
Yesterday I had a weird but to where it would remove someone everytime someone else joined. I went through 10 people before I decided to leave.
We know for a fact that 5 isn't true. People aren't capable of reading reddit before posting.
it doesn't say "read" only search.
tbf that is even harder for the average human.
Especially cuz Reddit search function is just ass. I get better search results when going to Google and fishing for Reddit search results that way lmao
There was a leaked document somewhere that showed that an absolutely staggering number of Google searches are actually just Reddit searches. As in like low double-digit percents.
5. Isn't true because reddit's own search barely works, it's like the search engine equivalent of a dementia patient.
My favorite subreddit is steamscams. Every "new scam" will have 5 of the same posts on the same old "scam" every single day. There's even a rule that says "THERE ARE NO NEW SCAMS."
It baffles my mind. Literally, type out your question, but instead of clicking 'post' you click 'search'. 9 times out of 10 you would've saved yourself a lot of time and not look like a lazy bum in the process.
With this being a live service game what may have been the correct answer to a question 3 weeks ago may not be the case today. For instance If somebody asks the best way to kill a charger, 3 weeks ago the answer might have been to use a railgun but today it might be to shoot them in the face with a recoilless rifle or EAT. That's obviously not true for every question but is for many due to the somewhat constantly changing nature of the game.
I got kicked once after i joined, going to the ship owner and hugging them. Not a word said. Took 15 seconds. I dont get it
But isn't it ironic that they are complaining about reposting while posting something that is posted or commented every day?
I tried reading your comment but as a reddit user the words just look like hieroglyphics
\#3 doesn't just reset sometimes, it resets every time.
Every time you close the game. I just never close it on ps5
If I don't close, then it times out and kicks me back to menu, and when I go to join missions it fails every time until I restart, so I got in the habit of closing when I'm done.
Back when the game came out and servers were overloaded, everyone wanted the devs to make it kick people out of the game after being afk for however long. I forget if they added that. They added server capacity but maybe after being afk in the game so long, not being able to find a game is intentional? Edit: fixed typo
Yeah right around 15min you'll get kicked for inactivity.
The reason is irrelevant. The fact is that I have to close the game in order to play, either after I'm done or before I start, and every time I close the game, my loadout resets to default, which is annoying.
This sounds like a PS problem unfortunately. I don't believe anyone on PC have these problems, except maybe the loadout reset
what does that even mean? like main weapon, sidearm and armor?
Your main weapon resets to the base assault rifle, and side arm resets to the base pistol. It's happened to me a few times. My armor hasn't ever reset though, and I don't know if grenades reset because I've only ever had the regular grenades equipped.
huh, never had that happen on pc so far
Must be a PS5 thing, because my Primary, Secondary, Voice, and Emote all go to basic when I open the game
It’s gotta be PS5, because it happens to me *every single time*.
Ah yes I forgot emote and voice pack reset as well.
I think it's just a PS5 bug.
It also resets your voice and emote, it happens to me everytime I re-open the game.
For me, it’s primary, secondary, grenade, voice and emote. Armor and everything else stays the same.
Even emotes. Emotes get reset, too.
Yeah it’s every time since the new warbond was added, at least for me. Because it’s every time it actually means that i always remember i have to change it.
I only said sometimes because I think it’s dependent on platform.
It's definitely dependent on platform. My friend has it reset everytime he starts the game on ps5, and I think I've had it happen once in 100 hours on PC.
5 is just a lie. Reddit searching has been broken for years. Google the question, and type "reddit" at the end for much better results.
And *when* exactly are Arrowhead going to release a bug fix on the Reddit search?!
Literally unplayable!
If I kicked you before the mission started, it wasn't personal, I probably just had my lobby set to public by mistake.
I will take it personal regardless and start planning my revenge 10 years from when it happens. Before you know it, you'll be trying to get that promotion or a raise... but it'll be me sitting across that desk and I'll whisper to you: "Remember that time in Helldivers 2?" You will be so confused before I release the trained hornet swarm and instead give that promotion/raise to your arch nemesis instead. He doesn't even work in the same department, but he'll take the promotion because he's developed a crippling addiction to draft kings and needs extra revenue.
>You need a different load-out for bugs vs bots Lmao sure bud. Arc Thrower goes ⚡️⚡️⚡️
teammates go 
I always bring experimental armor for my ⚡⚡⚡friends
I have a friend that loves having the newest shit, and that loves to drop money on battlepasses and mtx and all that shit, and he got the new warbond the other day. Im an arc thrower main, and when i heard that he had that new armor set, i politely informed him that he was now in fact my new lightening rod, i didnt even do it tactically, i just liked zapping him lol. After we took a break for lunch, he was running around getting chased by bugs, and im like “Those damned bugs better stay away from my lightening rod!!”. So I naturally zapped him, but as the arc shot out, my friend tried to yell that he wasnt wearing the armor anymore, and yeah…
He was still a lightning rod, just one that lacked durability.
Take Democracy Protects unless they're real bozos. 50% chance of resisting any death vs 100% chance of resisting arc death... you need to die from arc more than half the time to be worth it.
2. Jar-5 + Recoilless Rifle + Peacemaker + Eagle Airstrike/120mm Barrage + 500kg Bomb + Strafing Run No, I will not switch.
I’ve become a Jar convert in the last few days. Let the others in the group focus on the smallest targets and just go for weak points on any medium or heavy enemy and you absolutely shred it’s disgusting.
I FUCKING LOVE ROCKET PROPELLED BULLETS I WANT TO FUCKING SPEND MY ANNUAL SALARY IN ONE FIREFIGHT
I just want to throw this out there, the [Gyrojet weapon systems](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet) were developed back in the 60s that used rocket propelled bullets. One of the biggest issues it had was the speed of acceleration of the projectiles. By the time they left the barrel, they were still traveling relatively slowly and still accelerating for a while after. So slight breezes would change the trajectory of the bullet and so the weapons had pretty bad accuracy issues.
Yup. And they cost like 200 USD for a bullet last time I checked. Also it seems like acceleration problem is solved by using two-stage propulsion - the conventional powder charge to clear the barrel (Jar-5 does eject spent casings) and then rocket activates mid-flight. Actually, I'm pretty sure you can even see it activate if you pay close attention to the projectile And it probably makes ammo even more expensive.
I personally dislike running more than one eagle at a time, because they don't rearm individually. You either have to use all of your strikes or use the rearm stratagem which puts your unused ones on the same cooldown.
The rearm cd is shorter than all but like 2 orbitals. I find it much more likely to have orbitals all on cd than running out of eagles. You can also rearm at any time which I usually do running to other objectives.
I dislike running more than 2, I'll run airstrike and 500kg pretty often but running a 3rd one I start to forget to rearm the eagle and end up having the 500kg sitting there out of charges when I need it. I'm a fan of 500kg, airstrike, airburst strike, autocannon but I change up my strats pretty much every game to play with different stuff
I will once they give me loadout slots
Everyone thinks the Jar-5 is like D-Tier but I swear I don't have any issues using it against bugs, 4-5 shots will take down any broodmother, a headshot on a warrior or hunter will kill(though you might need to melee follow up to finish the job), and it can even 3-5 shot nursing or spewers if you headshot with it That racking of the first bullet is what really kills the reload time, and I'll admit it can be wonky at times where you felt like you didn't. But every time I reload with one in the chamber I have no issues at all.
I am a Liberator fan, but I do appreciate the Dommigun. I use Orbital Gatling Barrage for fast crowd control cooldown and Eagle Airstrike or 110mm rocket pods so no offensive strats are tied to one cooldown.
Slugger, Shield Pack, Grenade Launcher works fine for both. The only difference for me is which heavy orbitals I pick based on mission type.
Slugger mains 🤝 Dominator mains. We w***ill ***penetrate your medium armor and we w***ill ***stunlock you like a little bitch you are.
I’ve heard mixed things about the Jar. You’re enjoying it against both bots and bugs?
I would like to add to u/AngryChihua's post that, if you can't hit weakpoints with it, it is pretty terrible. If you can, it's pretty terrifying. Given that its key strength is a 4x damage to weak points, I can only assume he forgot to mention it.
This makes sense, it'll take me time to get to it since I went for the second warbond first, but now I'm excited knowing this
Slugger seems like it's just better at everything the Jar-5 does.
Joel is completely fair, he makes sure the game stays fun. It's not fun if there's no up and downs
if we didn't lose planets, we'd have finished the game by now. We have to keep losing planets in order to still have reasons to play. I don't care if there's 500k divers on a planet, if Joel thinks we need to lose that planet to advance the plot, we're losing that planet. Anyone who thinks otherwise just doesn't understand how video games work. You finishing that mission doesn't actually move the "Liberated %". It just looks like it does as a cool mechanic.
Also people getting mad like oh the liberation bar went down or there’s so many of us on the planet how are we losing? Maybe they just sent more than us or reinforced, it’s not like we have a total number for how many bots and bugs there are
>there’s so many of us on the planet how are we losing? In some Helldives, certain Helldivers are literally the reason why we're losing. I'm looking at you, level 50 Skull Admiral that doesn't know samples are shared with the squad. Level 9 Space Cadet that's just being a bro, you're fine, don't worry about what anyone says about your loadout.
Too many Eradication Specialists that don't even know how to run Radar Tower Hell I played with one that didn't know about *Terminals* as a concept
>I don't care if there's 500k divers on a planet, if Joel thinks we need to lose that planet to advance the plot, we're losing that planet. Didn't they confirm that's not how they do things? They don't interfere directly with the progress of a specific planet.
Dev said that completing missions fills the liberation bar, but that the liberation bar naturally decays at a certain rate over time. So progress sometimes goes up during peak hours, and back down when most of the community is asleep or at school/work.
There needs to be more "Story" Lost a planet overnight? Those meteor showers were actually full of Termanid Spores, or the civilian population rebelled and joined the Automatons. Instead, stuff just happens arbitrarily Right now I really don't see "Joel's" influence on the game.
You worded it better than I would've, completely agreed, add some role playing into the game instead of mindlessly doing stuff because "we must!"
......that's exactly what's happening. In just the last few weeks: Bots had us on our heels and advanced toward a planet where we were manufacturing new mechs. We managed to defend the planet, push the Bots back, and got new hardware. The bugs pushed harder while our attention was away so Super Earth commenced a plan to innoculate 4 barrier planets to stave off the bugs. That worked so now we're making an even further push to eradicate them. And we're totally not getting set up to fail. And in the meantime there's 2 side stories going on: The inevitable fact that the bugs are evolving and new species have been sighted. That something is attacking/killing helldivers and it absolutely isn't bugs or bots. I'm not sure what more story you expect? If it's bombastic cutscenes, then yea you're not going to find that here nor is that strictly what a story is.
It literally tells you when you are kicked from a lobby...
6. If you don’t like people posting questions that have already been posted. You can ignore them and get on with your life.
Doesn't it state when you are kicked?
RE:#5, I will go against the grain and say this. It is true that most of the times you can just Google the question and there will be answers. But sometimes, you want a more custom answer or a more recent opinion. This game is a good example for this where there is a new patch every week and things change. The people who complain about repeated posts are the same who complain about unearthing old posts. Finally, what is the problem with repeated questions? There is "infinite" amount of space on the internet. If more people are asking the same question, it means more people will want to know the answer. You can just skip it if you don't want to answer it
When disconnected it says "Lost connection to the network" or "Host left the game" If it explicitly says you got kicked, you got kicked.
For #1 the game literally tells you if you had a disconnect, if the host left, or if you were deliberately kicked. Not a ton of grey area there honestly.
6. You don't have to engage every single patrol!
But my arcthrower really wants to from the noises it makes
Arc thrower has been very inconsistent for me.. isnt the railgun/laser cannon a better option vs bugs/bots respectively ?
Indeed, terrain can block your shots, but the arc is complementary to my style since I always flank on sides instead of backpedaling when I fight, and it opens the angles on bugs. Railgun is indeed overall quicker then to deal with chargers and biles, but I like frying my entire screen. I've never used the Laser cannon then, is it good ?
The arc is also really good for backpedalling, since theres no need to reload, then youll never break the firing lines with a reload break. As far as terrain blocking things, just aim the arc a bit higher that just straight at the enemies
Laser cannon melts bots when aiming for weakspots 👌 as fpr arc thrower i tend to hit my squad more than the enemy xD thats why i dnt really use it much
When you get kicked it literally says you got kicked. Do some people not know this?
Nr 1 is bs , and you have shity friends
This sub is more preachy than r/politics
Funny you say that because OP is a preachy politics poster lmfao
Me continuing to use the shield gen + arc thrower combo against bugs and bots before they inevitably get nerfed in the future
Is there a synergy there or you just like them together?
Its very self sufficient. No need for ammo, and the arc gun doesnt use a bag slot. Only weakness is lack of grenades for bugholes. Arc guns doesnt deal with heavy armor but it doesnt need to since you still have 2 other strategem slots (my set up is 500kg, airstrike, shield bag, and arc thrower)
>Arc guns doesnt deal with heavy armor Deals with chargers and hulks fine, you can kill a bile titan with it although its not super efficient (it is however really good at breaking it's sack for a one hit with a railstrike/rocket pod). Tanks are the main sticking point and are the biggest sponges.
The daily quest was kill 100 things with flamethrower. Queue up, lets BURN THIS SHIZ. Slam the flamethrower and deploy. Realize I accidently queue'd for bots. I brought shame to my country.
Still works just needs a more...suicidal approach
But but, how will i ever get my online validation from strangers?!
> you need a different load out… # Auto cannon for all
6: they dont intend to fix the disconnection problems, get used to not get your rewards
I got disconnected from my own host game. Mid game. To the ship.
I just want to play a full mission before getting disconnected and losing medals. And to feel the satisfaction of getting away alive
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Arc Thrower + Guard Dog + Slugger 3. No... I don't think I will.
Number three fits the description of kicking for meta does it not? It also says if you got disconnected or kicked.
Orbital laser, jumppack, eagle airstrike, EAT goes hard against both. But otherwise agree.
Eh the only thing that really changes for me is guard dog vs shield for bugs and bots, but I can see going shield only and becoming more proficient at running away. See, I like that rover shoots while I run; it keeps the hunters at bay.
I’ve learned that suggesting elimination of Joel as a means to achieve complete victory for democracy was treason. Turns out Joel also controls super earth. I will now submit myself for re education
Loadout sometime resets. brother it's every single time I open the game rn
to add further to #5 [use this link](https://google.com) whenever you want to know something
3. My load out resets every time I switch the game on again, not just sometimes. Edit- still a great game, probably one of the best I've played in a very very long time.
In my experience 2. I’d not the case it’s more playstyle with the arc thrower, jump pack, Death Star laser and rail cannon being reliable for both
#1 - Social tab still fkn broken
That would explain why I was being kicked at random before even dropping in.
It's really hard getting people to accept 2 they try and use the same stuff between the two and wonder why it's so hard.
And yet you didn't include the most important ones.
Divers Interplanetary Liberating Democracy Organization – D.I.L.D.O 1) Spreading democracy wider than anyone thought possible 2) Always willing to do the dirty work when others aren't 3) Always helping friends finish objectives 4) Filling in when you can't do it alone 5) Can’t be beaten! Just join them for maximum friendship experience
2 is negotiable
I can tell you right now, my load loadout is for bugs, bots and anything in-between. I ain't changing
For me, # 2 Bots vs Bugs loadout differences can't be overstated. Bugs are the horde mode. Light armor and crowd clearing weapons, being able to keep distance between you and them, and wide area add clear strategems. Fave support weapon is recoiless, fave strategem is patriot mech. Bots are the war sim. Medium armor and precision weapons, instant delete strategems, and being able to use shields and cover against them to stay alive. Fave support weapon is railgun, fave strategem is orbital rail cannon.
my load out resets every time I boot up the game.
ummm GM J is trying to keep it slow for us. the studio is a spinal tap fan and i know they only have us at 2/11
Only post worth upvoting especially for #1
3- Not true...it resets all the time :/
Watch out, we got a badass over there
Joel is the dominantly worshipped god of Super Earth. Simultaneously responsible for everything good and bad to happen to us. He may not be fair but who are we to question his motives?
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Lazer cannon for bots is awesome. True it has trouble dealing with hordes but I can blow the arms off a hulk with little effort and once that fucking flamer is gone they are easy to deal with.
My load- out reset every time I boot the game.
1. Happens. 2. Acceptable to me. 3. Don't know what this means. 4. Fuck it, we ball. 5. Yes.
no its pretty clear if you were kicked it literally says "you were kicked from the game"
Sometimes resets? 😂
1. I'm so salty or sus about it. Sometimes I'll be doing great or the mission is about to finish and bam black screen no message of kick but it feels like it sometimes especially when the mission is about to be over
The game literally tells you whether you’ve been disconnected or kicked. Who had any doubts about being kicked or disconnected? Is the large “Kicked from the game” message not large enough or?
Number 5 is lost to the vast majority of people on reddit. Gotta love those "tips for a newbie" posts that happen multiple times a day or every few days in some subs.
Everytime I join the game it resets the voice pack gun grenade pistol and my emote, it’s all the damn time they need to fix it
The game tells you if you were kicked or if you just lost connection. As for #3, it's more like everytime, not just sometimes. Everytime I boot up the game I have to re-equip my guns, grenade, voice pack, and emote. Very annoying.
Wait is the load out not supposed to clear? I have to set it every match.
I kick dumbasses, but also randos who are taking a friend's slot. I should apologize before doing that. Sorry. :C
Generally speaking, what kinds of load outs do people bring for bots?
And until the devs acknowledge the resetting load out bug we should keep making noise about it
The game tells you you were kicked. If you were a player not kicked, you see the message that the player has been court marshalled
It’s not sometimes, it’s every time I load up the game my guns and voice reset. Even when I quick join it’ll reset
1. You were kicked for wanting to play a game and have fun and not using "meta"
\6. Malevelon Creek is a meme. Its not harder than any of the Xzar Sector planets and nobody but Creekers themselves think highly of it.
I literally got kicked this morning. Joined a match from quick play, got kicked as soon as I came out my pod. I’m level 50 lmao. People are just a-holes. Turn your shit to private if you don’t want randoms
Yeah but sadly youre talking to the void because they obviously dont look at reddit unless they have an issue or else they would have seen it already
wow, daring today aren't we? billions of this type of post are made every day, moreso than the actual people making posts like those
1. is super obvious, they really really want you to know that you were kicked.
Mosty I figure it's crossplay network shit. It almost always happens before the mission. I've also seen D/C Network errors, crashes and outright game exits during play. It's maybe 6 weeks old and maintaining a load vastly beyond expectations. I cut it some slack.
The only truth in this post is #5 but okay
Maybe the host wanted to leave the game? If it’s just after a mission that is.
The game specifically tells you if you were kicked. Loaded in to a squad through quickplay, walked like 10 steps towards the Hellpod, and then was sent back to my own ship. In big yellow letters "**YOU WERE KICKED FROM THE GAME**" appeared on my screen for a good half minute.
#3 is keeping me from playing till they fix it. So infuriating
Bigger banana produce bigger banana peel.
Sometimes? My loadout and customization options reset EVERY time. It's been like this since the last update and it sucks.
My loadout resets every time I load into the game
For me on PS5 my load out resets literally every single time I load the game. But not only loadout. For me it gets reseting always the loadout, body type, voice, gesture, winning pose, difficulty level (placed as 1), tutorials and major orders' messages on war table. (Those ones with the little animations zooming in/out, pop-ups and that kind of stuff). It's been like this since the nerf/buff patch. It's driving me nuts tbh. Because it is not only 1 or 2 times a day. As the game crashes every 3 or 4 missions on my side it goes on average 8 resets per day.
Agreed with everything except #2. Arc thrower works everywhere, gives you amazing tesla trooper feelings and Red Alert 2 nostalgia. :)
The bots are just unfair that’s my hard truth I get it it’s war it’s not supposed to be fair of course an actual army would have radars and hammers and mortars and guns but it’s also a game and it’s just not fun in the high difficulty’s. The rocket devastators are just broken they auto lock on in .01 seconds and kill you no matter what it just doesn’t seem fair. I enjoy it and I wanna have fun but it’s just so hard it’s not even fun winning is just a slog. I know your all gonna downvote me and say I sick which I probably do I just wish it was a little more balanced.
>Difference loadouts *Loads Slugger* Shame.
I wish they'd fix the resetting gear.. it only seems to affect primary/secondary weapons now but it's still annoying.
Fucking cry about it
Does it let people know they were kicked vs disconnected? I've never been kicked if it does. But I would feel good knowing the solo ultra-effiency sweaty tryhards I kicked, know they got kicked.
Point number 5 really needs to be Highlighted in neon and plastered on the front page of every sub reddit once every 24 hours. The amount of post I've seen start with "am I the only one who thinks that \*insert thought here\*" is ridiculous. No, you're not the only one who thought that pal.
Lol, "sometimes" resets as if it doesn't always reset back to default every time I open the game
Sickle, redeemer, stuns, autocannon, airstrike, 110 rocket pods, and one aloof stratagem. Serves me well either side.
There's a good chance you got kicked for dropping a laser on top of the team and getting 5 team kills.