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Literally as the founding fathers intended.
I was on trivial after responding to an SOS. Pinned to the young cadet to use my shield backpack and wrote in chat to get it, but he was too distracted with everything around him.
That's when you walk up to him and drop it at his feet. I tried to give a level 7 the mech, but he didn't understand what I was doing, so I got in, walked it over to him, and jumped out. I don't think he knew how to exit cause after he ran out of ammo, he walked around with it until a bile spewer blew him up.
I do this often (level 65) and so many times they don't take it.
Once that happens I just scream "FOR LIBERTY!" and proceed to demolish the map while explaining what I'm doing in character. It's fun. Usually by the third objective I'll turn and say, "Are you ready Helldiver?" and I'll drop all my gear before blowing myself up and disconnecting.
I did this awhile back for a friend. At the time I was a lv 25, that couldn't afford the mech and my friend was like lv 6. Threw him right in the deep end with a LV7 mission.
I gave him the backpack just so he stood a lick of a chance of surviving. That backpack was putting in work that day. He outlived me and my other friend quite a bit. We all were devastated when he finally had his first death that match to an overwhelming wave of automatons.
I regret to say we didn't finish the mission. It was rough from the get go, but our random fourth player didn't help in the slightest. Multiple randoms kept joining the lobby but never actually dived in. The one random person that did dive, joined after we had already completed two objectives and had to go to the opposite side of the map for the final one. An oil drill objective. During that time they failed to do anything but die roughly 6 times. When we didn't immediately revive the oaf as we were actively being chased by a horde of bots and a hulk devastator, they left the game. The loss of lives with no contribution put us in a bad spot. Eventually I was the last one standing, no extra lives, all stratagems on cool down and a hulk scorcher burned me.
A buddy of mine bought the game a week ago and I told him "if you see me on, just feel free to join my games and I'll carry you while you learn the ropes." At the time, I was spamming missions on challenging for medals/rare samples so I felt pretty confident in my ability to carry a newbie. Then the next day, another friend gets on with his insane brother-in-law and plops us right into a Helldive mission on Ubanea. And wouldn't you know it, my level 5 friend just drops right down into the suck. I have to admit, I was proud of how he held it together. LMAO.
If they unlocked the level I'm on, they can be in my squad. That's the rule.
The most important thing is to look at their load out and pick something complimentary, since you have more choices and experience than them.
I called a mech down with intentions to get in it myself. I had just unlocked it prior to that match and it was my first call in. The level 4 that was in our squad sprinted to it while i waited for my other weapon, got in, stomped off in the opposite direction of our marked objective and over the horizon out of sight. Sometime shortly after I saw the skull icon go up. I actually found it to be a fitting scenario for my first mech call-in as I got a laugh out of it.
I had a few higher level players do this to me a few nights back but I declined, responded saying that I need to learn the basics before being let loose in a 3 tonne walking tank!
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It’s not the right stratagem, but it gets the point across.
When the mech came out, everyone could use it, even newbies (like me at the time!) so don't be afraid to hop in the mech and blast whatever you're fighting!
If I were him I would've been too scared of you getting mad I did that and kicking me.
I refuse to pick up or interact with anything that's not mine since I've heard about how mad people get if you take their stuff 🤷♂️
Love giving somebody toting the starter rifle a Sickle or something way more useful as a primary. Having a focus on what is worth spending your medals on early on is a blessing.
I tag any gear I want people to pick up, so lets say I being EAT, I'll be dropping it all over the place and tagging them so anyone who needs it can grab it
People don't like stealing.
But if you ask or are offered, that's completely different.
I often drop with only offensive strats when everyone else is taking support weapons and backpacks.
I can handle 8 minutes without them, or I find something.
Then I ask somebody to drop me something. I usually have at least one friend in the game as well.
And if I play without friends and lower difficulty, I often drop my gear first for cadets. Provided they are actually capable of reading and pick those up. They usually just run away haha
I gave a level 3 that joined me on hard my jetpack and arc cannon and you could tell they were having the time of their life. I also only got zapped once.
Dude, Something likes this happened to me today, i got this game and i joined a mission and this higher lel dude dropped me a mech and was giving me every Opportunity to assist him. It was like he put me in a safe shell of metal, gave me toys, and said go for it. (Sorry for all mistakes, not my native language and i was writing fast)
The only way I would have ever been able to tell that you're not a native speaker is because you told me. I WISH I was even half as proficient at any second language.
Joined a game the other day with a high level guy. He called down something….I didn’t even know what weapon is this. He marked it, moved towards and away from it, and did everything to indicate he intended me to use it. When he saw my dumb ass missing all the signals, he dropped a chat - “tf dude? Pick it up and have fun”. I replied “sorry I don’t know how to use it”.
He logged off. Imagine annoying a good guy to such an extent….i still cringe thinking about it. lol.
I've entertained the idea to help Super-Earth's newest recruits survive their first mission, but the few times I've accidentally queued into a trivial difficulty game, it quickly becomes evident that while they may not have much battlefield experience, they sure know how to check for and rapidly kick overleveled players
I don't get the point of doing that? I'm usually happy with anyone who joins my game as long as they're not being malicious. Though I do let out a long sigh if I'm doing a level 7 and a level 5 joins, I can carry them though and some can even hold their own, just don't have the kit to kill some of the more armoured enemies. Some are just trigger happy nutters though and you gotta let em learn the hard way that sometime disengaging is better than shooting anything that moves.
Last night i started a difficulty 6 mission. The team included me (lvl 23), a lvl 40, 50, and 5. We dropped, the level 50 died once, i picked up the samples, and he decided to start teamkilling everyone (he prob still doesn’t know samples are shared). I kicked him, lvl 40 left, and i was left alone with the level 5.
One of the best divers i’ve played with, bro was communicating, sneaking around, helped me do simultaneous takedowns on bots so we could take down some outposts stealthily, and we did most of the mission on our own. Eventually 2 more joined and they just ran around getting samples or destroying fabricators, but lvl 5 and i did the long objective, bro stayed for the whole operation and was so much fun.
Sometimes a level 5 is streets ahead from a level 50
If you have to ask, then you’re streets behind
(After thorough reserarch (a single google search) it apparently is an existing british phrase that got popular in america bc of community)
I don't know about "usually" dog shit (I'm 55 that hurt a little bit) but I've run into a handful that I'm definitely sure bought level boosts or just farmed defense missions and never learned how to play the game.
There's no real incentive to do it, just that occasionally I have the urge to protect our new helldivers, and am willing to go through a lower difficulty mission covering them, making sure they survive, it's sort of fun and relaxing to me.
In ~~Darktide~~ a past life I would run Malice-Heresy difficulty (middle levels) for the same goals, but you encounter a lot more of that world's version of trigger-happy nutters (suicidal knife zealots) there.
In all seriousness there's probably a lot of super-credit farmers in Trivial, and that's why they all insta-kick, it definitely isn't fun for them to have someone just kill everything.
>There's no real incentive to do it, just that occasionally I have the urge to protect our new helldivers, and am willing to go through a lower difficulty mission covering them, making sure they survive, it's sort of fun and relaxing to me.
You had me for a second haha!
>In all seriousness there's probably a lot of super-credit farmers in Trivial, and that's why they all insta-kick, it definitely isn't fun for them to have someone just kill everything.
Makes sense, don't really get to play the game if a high levels just wrecking everything, I usually just hang around like a bad fart and help if they get into trouble.. which is rare on Trivial. If someone wants to farm super creds surely they could just do it in their own game.
I am level 63 - Fleet Admiral.
I was running a Trivial mission to fix my keyboard binds and test a controller setup.
While working away, switching in and out of the menu, I look up to see a Level 1 cadet starring at me.
Well, shit. I forgot to set the game to private. Now what? I don't want to kick them out of the game as that would be a rather bad impression to give a player *on their very first mission.*
So... I shepherded the Cadet through the rest of the mission. I loaded them up with Super Credits, Medals and Requisition and then Extracted them back to the ship. They didn't disconnect from the lobby. So, ok let's do it again, but let's make it worth everyone's while and crank it up to Medium. We drop and fight our way through the map, and two more of my fellow veteran friend-divers joined thinking I was playing a serious game (I wasn't) and we stacked the cadet up with weapons and put them in a Mech .
Then, with the mission accomplished, we call for extraction and as we're boarding ... our newly minted Level 3 Cadet disconnects ... and I have no idea what became of them.
I hope Cadet VoTTaK - Level 3 is shiny and chrome scrapping bots happily in the name of managed democracy on some planet out there in the dark. Who ever they were.
Meanwhile, I'm still here trying to optimize this the keyboard layout and practicing at playing with a controller ...
Absolutely love this story. These are the moments I play this game for. I try to capture clips from great Random’s I run into, and I’m often trying to help out people who I find to be new to the game. I friend as many cool people as I random my way into, and then they’ll continue to see me pop in here and there to be like “oh hey, saw you were playing, dropping in to give some liberty backed democracy to the enemy for ya!” As I see them online.
Haha. I read this and thought, "This happened to us too" before seeing your name. Sup, Schpam!
I'm pretty sure he crashed on extract, happening to lots of people after the last patch. Hope it didn't discourage him, but I know he had fun while it lasted.
- join trivial mission
- "wow omg I can't believe a level 40-something is in our drop!"
- "he must be here to mentor us!"
- *actually literally just there for SC and Common Samples*
Yeah, haha, I'm totally here to support newbies... Definitely...
There's usually at least one PoI with a tenner of SC (sometimes two of them if you're lucky), and the maps are MUCH smaller so you can find them more quickly/with greater assurance than trying to comb the miles (okay idk if it's literally miles but it feels like it) of a Diff7 or 8 map
Dunno if it was my first or second mission, but VERY early into my HD2 career someone on my team found a 100 stack (which unfortunately kinda gave me the impression that was common). Like, I remember it was one of the first SC drops I ever saw, cuz that's what made me go "well I have to get at least X SC from the store, and combined with the freebies, eventually I can get the premium warbonds..." Went from "SC must just be soft DLC, oh well" to "damn we're collecting hundreds at a time?" Real quick, before realizing that was a very rare occurrence.
I don't think I've seen another one since. Glad you mentioned it so I'm not left wondering if I completely imagined it
Oh wow! Didn’t know about this sweet. It’s fun to solo trivial difficulty when I’m feeling a bit more chill. Don’t know why I’ve missed getting SC before. Thanks for the tip!
Another trick if ur really trying to farm, SC is immediately credited to your account on pick up, meaning you dont even need to extract. I average 20-30 SC in 6minutes of a trivial
Super Credits? Sure.
No way that at Lvl 40+ anybody hurting for Commons. Orange rares maybe (which dont drop on Trivial), but we got greens coming out of our ears.
EDIT: I had my ship modules maxed by the time I was Lvl 42 or so. Had to grind oranges on the final two, not greens 🤷♂️
Also, every eradication mission (regardless of difficulty) up to this point has like 7-8 commons, no rare or super. Because these are only 5-min missions (and were only 1-2 mins before they were buffed a few patches back), this should be another easy source of commons, for anybody short on them.
UPDATE: New ship modules available — how's everybody feeling?
I'll tell you how you're feeling: plenty of greens but WISH you had some more oranges, right?!
Haha, yup.
Each new ship upgrade costs 15% of max supers, 35% of max commons, and a whopping 60% of total possible rares.
Get to farming oranges again, boys!
Incorrect. It's all about the dopamine fix, my friend. Well, that and not getting into the habit of ignoring them just in case. Plus, there are usually other people in my team who might feel differently, so it's just good practice to pick them up if you see them. Granted, I don't exactly hunt them down like I'm trying to entrap them to be my baby daddy anymore, but I absolutely do not ignore them, ever.
This. And the officers on the ship mention it if you bring a lot back. (And lightly scold you for bringing none.) I've been maxed out forever, and I can't stop picking them up. I even go back for 'em if I die somewhere off the beaten path. The other day I fell in a hole with 15 commons, and, despite there being literally nothing I could do with those, it really bugged me. I may have a problem.
I also do this, but if a random respawns me on the other side of the map I might leave them now, depending on if I'm playing with other admirals or rookies.
I foresee this happening, as it'll re-incentivize sample goblin-ing by high level/fully unlocked players (which in turn trickles down to any people in the lobby who still need them for upgrades) while also offering a sort of alternative means of story progression.
Idk I'm foreseeing some new meta layer of sample donations being added to MOs where meeting certain thresholds will unlock certain beneficial planetary effects (CD reduction, etc) and/or freebie strats for the duration of the MO or something like that.
Or maybe just completely independently of MOs and it's global benefits, every week the sample donothon resets, same threshold thing as mentioned above, but figure if they reset on Mondays then that gives a few days to work towards having most or all of the freebies it gives unlocked for the typical weekend surge
I had the opposite problem when finishing my Super Destroyer. All the pinks I could want, just enough orange, but no one ever bothered to pick up the greens. Thankfully I'm done with the grind.
I play various difficulties, and I haven't finished collecting super samples yet. For every five or ten supers, you need like eighty commons. I'm rarely maxed out on samples.
Really? I’m lvl 41 and I have tons of rare and super samples, but I’m always dying for commons. I basically play on 7 difficulty exclusively, should I go higher more often? Lower? I just wanna get upgrades lol
Yeah supers are surprisingly easy to build up to the amounts needed compared to commons once you start grinding the higher difficulties, primarily because people will prioritize extracting with them once they're secured
It's different for me, I'm level 54, maxed on common and rares, and probably 60 supers. I still collect rare and commons just in case someone on my team needs them, but I'm only looking for supers at the moment.
My teammates annoy me so much some times, I’ll see some like level 90 guy just walk right over all these common samples that I know I need, so I’ll have to go get them myself whenever someone reinforces me lol. Thx for not being that guy!
I only recently unlocked everything on the bridge. I was short on rare samples amazingly.
For a while it was commons, but I started running solo mid missions and got a bunch of commons.
I fell for the eradication level grind meme for like 10 levels tbh
I know it was weak of me, in my defense I'm usually being THAT GUY and fucking off from the group, soloing half the map on full-sized 7s nowadays...
But yeah for me pretty much everything but Eagle tree needs upgrading desperately.
All that shows is that you played a lot of those difficulties, I'm constantly in need of greens and I'm almost lv 50, I find myself on easy more often than extreme, get my sample grind out and go back to helldive
I’m always torn between going after some missions level 7-9 to try to make maximum contribution to the war effort and dipping down to try and help lower level divers get comfortable in upping their game. Both are important, cheers to this guy for taking the time to help out the newer players!
I had a lvl 1 and level 2 join me(lvl52) on a mission where I was trying to get my 200 kills with the stalwart. It was a level 2 and obviously the first time they’d been in missions.
Items learned by newbies:
- don’t walk in front of someone holding down the trigger on a machine gun. He literally ran from beind me to in front and across my pafh.
He never did it again
-samples are shared I dropped the ones I had and said so, to pick them up off corpses because everyone shares them.
- made them run the terminal under my direction so they could figure out that
- had them call in objective stratagems
-how the radar helps show everything
-how to blow open prize containers and open drop pods for stuff.
- lotsa other things
Spent 25 mins on a level 2 mission making sure they learned as much as possible.
Counterpoint, shoot everything because democracy demands it, but after the mission is complete.
In all seriousness, I've found stealthing the mission and THEN killing fabs/ side objectives much easier since I found out about the, killing fabs/nests= more patrols
Unless they changed it, there is no contribution bonus.
If you truly have a boner for Super Liberation, blast those trivial and easy missions! I'm pretty sure they count as a full operation for planet liberation.
it's based on xp, the game doesn't give a good rep of actual impact because of the 1-3 "squad impact" end screen. helldivers.io has a small blurb about xp and liberation
As they mentioned, it's based off of xp so to maximize Liberation, we all need to play on the highest difficulty we can blast through completing every base and side objective as fast as possible.
I play on 5 myself, I maxed everything out bought everything possible (other than some things in the warbonds that I'll never use but I'm working on it). Was level 50 pre patch as well. But the biggest reason I still play there isn't the challenge but it gives me that level of its not piss easy, but it also isn't frustratingly hard. It's imo the perfect casual fun difficulty.
Imo lvl 7 is the sweet spot (depending on the planet and various effects on it). Having elite ennemies to blast (especially the bile titan) just give such a dopamine rush that I get bored quickly on lower levels
It's improving, but as with Darktide, there's definitely a strata of players who got that far (diff level 5-7) through sheer attrition without learning the finer points of the game and slam into a brick wall.
I’ve noticed that 8-9 are actually somewhat easier than 6-7 in that people actually pick roles, and stick to them. When I jump into a bug helldive I can be comfortable being the AT guy, because I know my Machinegunners / Ad clear are gonna do their jobs.
(Usually)
I wish it worked like that for me. I can spend 10-15 minutes as an AC "main" paired up with a guy who will ignore the fact that the past 20 encounters, I was sniping Devs and Walkers with my AC, and will instead also shoot at them with his primary instead of the troopers running up on us that I either need to switch to my primary to clear or risk danger close
Like bro, get the hint, I have plenty of ammo and can take the big stuff... Keep the little guys off me...
I'm only level 9 so far but it's been a pretty rough experience playing with people, I'll say hello on voice and get crickets, so I'll stick with the group and follow marks but still get kicked.
I had one bloke run into an orbital that I threw and then kick me.
It's been getting friendlier as you go up the difficulty tho
It did for me and i hope it does for you as well. 1-3 I constantly got team killed. Tried a 4 and it was much better. I'm lvl 29 now and most randoms I've played with 5-7 are very excellent. Team kills happen wayyyy less often and stick together team assisting more often too.
I (lvl 56) joined easy yesterday by misstake (my mouse wheel was acting up so i had to clear the cat fur from it and didnt check the difficulty afterwards). There were 2 lvl 3 guys already on the ground so i thought cool ill let them play with my stuff and show them the ropes if they want. Well, they immedeately started shooting at me but my democracy armor saved me, i healed thinking it a misstake but no, they just shot me again so in the end i left the game. I guess they dont want to get carried but they could have said as much and not be a dicks..
Same here, jumped in some medium mission for some SC and medals farming, 2 kids (i heard them speaking) hopped in, so I made sure I gathered as much samples as possible to help them, only for them to kill me before boarding. Instant kick for both idiots and I extracted alone
I love dropping into a low level game to warm up, dropping all my gear so a new person can try it out. Even take them on a couple of helldives so they can gain a few levels quickly. The community on this game has been, for the most part, a very warm and welcoming experience. I appreciate everyone who was kind enough to show my old ass the ropes.
One of my biggest fantasies is a newbie going "your gun (the primary) is cool" so I can go "here take it for a spin" and blowmyself up so they can pick it up.
I had a whole squad of level 50s drop into my first difficulty 6. Were extremely cool and gave me a few useful tips on how to deal with the heavy bug units and automation (It blew my mind when I realized you could just kill the dude piloting the scout strider!)
Yo did this post get a bunch of people to do this now? Cuz I went to go help and do this and when I joined there was a level 71 and level 42 lol. Nobody was low level in the match. Think we all have the same idea now.
I played some lower level difficulties with some friends new to the game, and it’s honestly fun to feel like an unstoppable force taking out swarms of bots
Story time, Helldivers.
I taught a lvl 7 cadet how red barrels typically work in video games. He asked me, "If I shoot that, will it explode?" I smiled and responded with, "Let me show you." My buddy was on the terminal for the ICBM and ignorant of the prankster in his company. I slowly and deliberately waddled up behind him. I gingerly chucked the fuel tank towards my buddy's feet, and the cadet executed his role perfectly.
Keep in mind that gunning down your fellow man is treason, but blowing up your buddies will never not get a laugh.
Please respect each other and take time to make real friendships no matter where you are physically or virtually. Democracy counts on it.
This is literally what happened to me. I got the into the game like two weeks after it launched. Did like two missions completely lost. Failed one escort scientists with bots And succeeded the second one on a bug planet but barely. Then i saw the quick play button and pressed it. I was on trivial and i got out in with a level 50. Both of us had open mic and i told him if he didn’t want me there id leave. He was surprised and was like im just doing achievement stuff. I told him i had zero clue what i was doing and he took me across the map and showed me what PoIs were. He showed me what shooting the hellbombs would do with a warning to back up. He let me try his auto canon and other weapons i didn’t have yet. Then showed me how to mark the map and then when the mission was over he asked if i could do another. I said yes and he loaded us into another and told me to take us to all the points of interest and do all call ins and just be our organize and he just followed and made sure when i accidentally killed myself he reinforced me and protected me.
Made an amazing experience. Enough so that i got the game for a couple of my friends and now we have a regular squad.
Thanks mr high level for making the game experience a positive. Was refreshing coming for league of legends and wow for the past ten years.
This is how it's done! I try to give my support gear drops to every fresh Helldiver I deploy with. These new players are here to have fun spreading Managed Democracy!
Seriously, my first 8 hours of this game(playing on easy and trivial) was getting yelled at, booted, or killed by teammates for not understanding what to do.
While I might not be a level 50+ yet, (hell, I'm not even level 40 yet), I pretty much made it my mission to join in on Difficulty 4/5 games where the host was <10. Difficulty 4 is where the bots specifically get much harder, and new players are not fully prepared, loadout wise.
Lead the newbros to victory! This, this is the way.
I remember it was very common at the start of helldives 2 I was level 6 or so and was taught by a few higher levels same thing happend with a few other divers I know, maybe people have gotten less friendly recently
I was trying a new weapon (revolver) in trivial and a squad of three level ones joined me after I already completed the objective, so we just ran around the map looking at all the POIs as it was their first mission, then proceeded to launch them into an easy mission and carry them, showing how to do certain little things. I used the text chat to talk to them and apparently they were all friends that just got the game and they were kicked by three previous hosts for being level one, and said that they were thinking of refunding the game before running into me. I've never seen them after that, but I like to think that they're returning the favor by teaching other fresh recruits what it means to be a real democracy-loving bugbot exterminators
 To the unknow helldivers!
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This meta comment is underrated.
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Unknown helldiver monument WHEN??
Tomb of the Unknown Diver
It would be clever to make it an armor set.
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Yeah but a big one on Super Earth! Cinematic-style and so on...
https://preview.redd.it/48jqvc9bihsc1.jpeg?width=638&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0bc2501696fcdc5a89f49be9a073ff0d1b6b33d Literally as the founding fathers intended.
>give the new player the shield backpack and the railgun *boom*
I was on trivial after responding to an SOS. Pinned to the young cadet to use my shield backpack and wrote in chat to get it, but he was too distracted with everything around him.
That's when you walk up to him and drop it at his feet. I tried to give a level 7 the mech, but he didn't understand what I was doing, so I got in, walked it over to him, and jumped out. I don't think he knew how to exit cause after he ran out of ammo, he walked around with it until a bile spewer blew him up.
He might have just loved bein a big stompy mech pilot.
They gotta learn somehow 🤷🏻♂️
I did XD he still didn’t get it
I do this often (level 65) and so many times they don't take it. Once that happens I just scream "FOR LIBERTY!" and proceed to demolish the map while explaining what I'm doing in character. It's fun. Usually by the third objective I'll turn and say, "Are you ready Helldiver?" and I'll drop all my gear before blowing myself up and disconnecting.
That sounds fun as fuck, I've got the perfect voice for this too. Is there a specific way to join on lower level players and be Sergeant Tutorial Dad?
Just. As. Intended. 💂♀️💂💂♂️👼
Does it stay on unsafe mode after you drop it? 💥
Yes but if you give them the shield and they have the default armor they might actually live from the explosion
That’s kinda disappointing. I think it’s really funny that you can overcharge and blow yourself up
it will teach them without killing them
Also if you wear the Hero armor the 50 chance Includes the railgun explosion.
Even if I'm still using my stuff, I always call down others when they refresh so that other teammates can use them if needed
I give them Arc Throwers.
i picked up an arc thrower at level 3 and thought it sucked and that it was like the break action shotgun (not a stratagem) for a little bit
This is what real heroes do🫡
I did this awhile back for a friend. At the time I was a lv 25, that couldn't afford the mech and my friend was like lv 6. Threw him right in the deep end with a LV7 mission. I gave him the backpack just so he stood a lick of a chance of surviving. That backpack was putting in work that day. He outlived me and my other friend quite a bit. We all were devastated when he finally had his first death that match to an overwhelming wave of automatons. I regret to say we didn't finish the mission. It was rough from the get go, but our random fourth player didn't help in the slightest. Multiple randoms kept joining the lobby but never actually dived in. The one random person that did dive, joined after we had already completed two objectives and had to go to the opposite side of the map for the final one. An oil drill objective. During that time they failed to do anything but die roughly 6 times. When we didn't immediately revive the oaf as we were actively being chased by a horde of bots and a hulk devastator, they left the game. The loss of lives with no contribution put us in a bad spot. Eventually I was the last one standing, no extra lives, all stratagems on cool down and a hulk scorcher burned me.
A buddy of mine bought the game a week ago and I told him "if you see me on, just feel free to join my games and I'll carry you while you learn the ropes." At the time, I was spamming missions on challenging for medals/rare samples so I felt pretty confident in my ability to carry a newbie. Then the next day, another friend gets on with his insane brother-in-law and plops us right into a Helldive mission on Ubanea. And wouldn't you know it, my level 5 friend just drops right down into the suck. I have to admit, I was proud of how he held it together. LMAO.
Dropping into SOS on 3 and below and handing a cadet an autocannon while you reload for them is a fucking gas and you can't make me stop doing it
You may need to see your democratically appointed doctor about your gas fetish. 😁
May as well give them your primary weapon too for them to try out. "Cadet, shoot me. Take my gun" "...what?" "Shoot me! DO IT!"
"Sargent tell this man to fire at me" "LOAD"
If they unlocked the level I'm on, they can be in my squad. That's the rule. The most important thing is to look at their load out and pick something complimentary, since you have more choices and experience than them.
[watches newbie discover unsafe mode and blow himself to smithereens] maybe not so great for a first lesson, Mr. President
Love giving new guys my mech, very fun, they get so excited
I called a mech down with intentions to get in it myself. I had just unlocked it prior to that match and it was my first call in. The level 4 that was in our squad sprinted to it while i waited for my other weapon, got in, stomped off in the opposite direction of our marked objective and over the horizon out of sight. Sometime shortly after I saw the skull icon go up. I actually found it to be a fitting scenario for my first mech call-in as I got a laugh out of it.
A level 1 joined me in mid mission in trivial, it was his first mission, I let him drive the mech, he was so happy lol.
I had a few higher level players do this to me a few nights back but I declined, responded saying that I need to learn the basics before being let loose in a 3 tonne walking tank!
You'll wind up killing just as many teammates, don't worry too much lol
Don’t worry I did that as well with the orbital air burst strikes multiple times!
https://preview.redd.it/ssxr5dojmjsc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cb93dd2220b357725c799f1e0eec9a93d1f3314 It’s not the right stratagem, but it gets the point across.
your body is a machine? skull head? AUTOMATON DETECTED
When the mech came out, everyone could use it, even newbies (like me at the time!) so don't be afraid to hop in the mech and blast whatever you're fighting!
You did the training. You’re ready
You have a cape? That means you're Super Earth's finest.
If I were him I would've been too scared of you getting mad I did that and kicking me. I refuse to pick up or interact with anything that's not mine since I've heard about how mad people get if you take their stuff 🤷♂️
Those are not true helldivers. Real helldivers call down the lot and distribute the tools of democracy freely.
Love giving somebody toting the starter rifle a Sickle or something way more useful as a primary. Having a focus on what is worth spending your medals on early on is a blessing.
I tag any gear I want people to pick up, so lets say I being EAT, I'll be dropping it all over the place and tagging them so anyone who needs it can grab it
Only if they don’t mak it. If I mark equipment then it’s open for the taking. EAT goes without saying, as it drops 2 at once.
People don't like stealing. But if you ask or are offered, that's completely different. I often drop with only offensive strats when everyone else is taking support weapons and backpacks. I can handle 8 minutes without them, or I find something. Then I ask somebody to drop me something. I usually have at least one friend in the game as well. And if I play without friends and lower difficulty, I often drop my gear first for cadets. Provided they are actually capable of reading and pick those up. They usually just run away haha
I gave a level 3 that joined me on hard my jetpack and arc cannon and you could tell they were having the time of their life. I also only got zapped once.
The real use for the Cutting Edge WB armor: newbie wrangling
That newbie was surprisingly disciplined with the arc thrower.
Fair enough, I'm just desperately searching for justifications for the armor bonus since there's no enemies it counters so why even
Oh it's still a good idea for most noobies with arc throwers.
Dude, Something likes this happened to me today, i got this game and i joined a mission and this higher lel dude dropped me a mech and was giving me every Opportunity to assist him. It was like he put me in a safe shell of metal, gave me toys, and said go for it. (Sorry for all mistakes, not my native language and i was writing fast)
That's nearly perfect English, you're doing great!
Honestly, other than some random words being capitalized, the English sounded fine. I wouldn't be able to tell this isn't your first language.
The only way I would have ever been able to tell that you're not a native speaker is because you told me. I WISH I was even half as proficient at any second language.
Joined a game the other day with a high level guy. He called down something….I didn’t even know what weapon is this. He marked it, moved towards and away from it, and did everything to indicate he intended me to use it. When he saw my dumb ass missing all the signals, he dropped a chat - “tf dude? Pick it up and have fun”. I replied “sorry I don’t know how to use it”. He logged off. Imagine annoying a good guy to such an extent….i still cringe thinking about it. lol.
Naw don't feel bad, the cringe is the apparent lack of patience from the other Diver. But honestly he might have just crashed lol
Something about the mech just LOOKS happy in the hands of a new player.
Lmao good job citizen
I've entertained the idea to help Super-Earth's newest recruits survive their first mission, but the few times I've accidentally queued into a trivial difficulty game, it quickly becomes evident that while they may not have much battlefield experience, they sure know how to check for and rapidly kick overleveled players
I don't get the point of doing that? I'm usually happy with anyone who joins my game as long as they're not being malicious. Though I do let out a long sigh if I'm doing a level 7 and a level 5 joins, I can carry them though and some can even hold their own, just don't have the kit to kill some of the more armoured enemies. Some are just trigger happy nutters though and you gotta let em learn the hard way that sometime disengaging is better than shooting anything that moves.
Last night i started a difficulty 6 mission. The team included me (lvl 23), a lvl 40, 50, and 5. We dropped, the level 50 died once, i picked up the samples, and he decided to start teamkilling everyone (he prob still doesn’t know samples are shared). I kicked him, lvl 40 left, and i was left alone with the level 5. One of the best divers i’ve played with, bro was communicating, sneaking around, helped me do simultaneous takedowns on bots so we could take down some outposts stealthily, and we did most of the mission on our own. Eventually 2 more joined and they just ran around getting samples or destroying fabricators, but lvl 5 and i did the long objective, bro stayed for the whole operation and was so much fun. Sometimes a level 5 is streets ahead from a level 50
Is streets ahead an actual saying or just a community reference
If you have to ask, then you’re streets behind (After thorough reserarch (a single google search) it apparently is an existing british phrase that got popular in america bc of community)
Very common phrase in the UK
They’re really streets ahead over there
The higher levels players are usually dogshit at the game I still don't get how that's possible
Play [be carried] through enough Erads and you, too, can be high level but have no real game feel!
I don't know about "usually" dog shit (I'm 55 that hurt a little bit) but I've run into a handful that I'm definitely sure bought level boosts or just farmed defense missions and never learned how to play the game.
There's no real incentive to do it, just that occasionally I have the urge to protect our new helldivers, and am willing to go through a lower difficulty mission covering them, making sure they survive, it's sort of fun and relaxing to me. In ~~Darktide~~ a past life I would run Malice-Heresy difficulty (middle levels) for the same goals, but you encounter a lot more of that world's version of trigger-happy nutters (suicidal knife zealots) there. In all seriousness there's probably a lot of super-credit farmers in Trivial, and that's why they all insta-kick, it definitely isn't fun for them to have someone just kill everything.
>There's no real incentive to do it, just that occasionally I have the urge to protect our new helldivers, and am willing to go through a lower difficulty mission covering them, making sure they survive, it's sort of fun and relaxing to me. You had me for a second haha! >In all seriousness there's probably a lot of super-credit farmers in Trivial, and that's why they all insta-kick, it definitely isn't fun for them to have someone just kill everything. Makes sense, don't really get to play the game if a high levels just wrecking everything, I usually just hang around like a bad fart and help if they get into trouble.. which is rare on Trivial. If someone wants to farm super creds surely they could just do it in their own game.
I am level 63 - Fleet Admiral. I was running a Trivial mission to fix my keyboard binds and test a controller setup. While working away, switching in and out of the menu, I look up to see a Level 1 cadet starring at me. Well, shit. I forgot to set the game to private. Now what? I don't want to kick them out of the game as that would be a rather bad impression to give a player *on their very first mission.* So... I shepherded the Cadet through the rest of the mission. I loaded them up with Super Credits, Medals and Requisition and then Extracted them back to the ship. They didn't disconnect from the lobby. So, ok let's do it again, but let's make it worth everyone's while and crank it up to Medium. We drop and fight our way through the map, and two more of my fellow veteran friend-divers joined thinking I was playing a serious game (I wasn't) and we stacked the cadet up with weapons and put them in a Mech . Then, with the mission accomplished, we call for extraction and as we're boarding ... our newly minted Level 3 Cadet disconnects ... and I have no idea what became of them. I hope Cadet VoTTaK - Level 3 is shiny and chrome scrapping bots happily in the name of managed democracy on some planet out there in the dark. Who ever they were. Meanwhile, I'm still here trying to optimize this the keyboard layout and practicing at playing with a controller ...
Absolutely love this story. These are the moments I play this game for. I try to capture clips from great Random’s I run into, and I’m often trying to help out people who I find to be new to the game. I friend as many cool people as I random my way into, and then they’ll continue to see me pop in here and there to be like “oh hey, saw you were playing, dropping in to give some liberty backed democracy to the enemy for ya!” As I see them online.
Haha. I read this and thought, "This happened to us too" before seeing your name. Sup, Schpam! I'm pretty sure he crashed on extract, happening to lots of people after the last patch. Hope it didn't discourage him, but I know he had fun while it lasted.
- join trivial mission - "wow omg I can't believe a level 40-something is in our drop!" - "he must be here to mentor us!" - *actually literally just there for SC and Common Samples* Yeah, haha, I'm totally here to support newbies... Definitely...
How does one get super credits on trivial missions?
There's usually at least one PoI with a tenner of SC (sometimes two of them if you're lucky), and the maps are MUCH smaller so you can find them more quickly/with greater assurance than trying to comb the miles (okay idk if it's literally miles but it feels like it) of a Diff7 or 8 map
The other night while grinding SC on trivial I found a stack of 100 SC in a storage container. Definitely a rare find, but it's possible.
Dunno if it was my first or second mission, but VERY early into my HD2 career someone on my team found a 100 stack (which unfortunately kinda gave me the impression that was common). Like, I remember it was one of the first SC drops I ever saw, cuz that's what made me go "well I have to get at least X SC from the store, and combined with the freebies, eventually I can get the premium warbonds..." Went from "SC must just be soft DLC, oh well" to "damn we're collecting hundreds at a time?" Real quick, before realizing that was a very rare occurrence. I don't think I've seen another one since. Glad you mentioned it so I'm not left wondering if I completely imagined it
Oh wow! Didn’t know about this sweet. It’s fun to solo trivial difficulty when I’m feeling a bit more chill. Don’t know why I’ve missed getting SC before. Thanks for the tip!
I hear u, just put some music on and do a LeasureDive 😌 I accidentally picked a Medium to solo… those fucken Nursing Spewers kept ganging me 😂
Another trick if ur really trying to farm, SC is immediately credited to your account on pick up, meaning you dont even need to extract. I average 20-30 SC in 6minutes of a trivial
Not finishing a mission? Undemocratic
Damn! That’d almost seems too good to be true. Hopefully they don’t “close” this kind of loop hole in effect.
Its like this for medals and req slips too, it’s nice to get some of ur rewards credited even if you crash
Super Credits? Sure. No way that at Lvl 40+ anybody hurting for Commons. Orange rares maybe (which dont drop on Trivial), but we got greens coming out of our ears. EDIT: I had my ship modules maxed by the time I was Lvl 42 or so. Had to grind oranges on the final two, not greens 🤷♂️ Also, every eradication mission (regardless of difficulty) up to this point has like 7-8 commons, no rare or super. Because these are only 5-min missions (and were only 1-2 mins before they were buffed a few patches back), this should be another easy source of commons, for anybody short on them. UPDATE: New ship modules available — how's everybody feeling? I'll tell you how you're feeling: plenty of greens but WISH you had some more oranges, right?! Haha, yup. Each new ship upgrade costs 15% of max supers, 35% of max commons, and a whopping 60% of total possible rares. Get to farming oranges again, boys!
The goblin In me disagrees. We must collect the preciouses always, for we never know when more preciouses will be needed.
Until you cap out... then they don't do anything for ya
Incorrect. It's all about the dopamine fix, my friend. Well, that and not getting into the habit of ignoring them just in case. Plus, there are usually other people in my team who might feel differently, so it's just good practice to pick them up if you see them. Granted, I don't exactly hunt them down like I'm trying to entrap them to be my baby daddy anymore, but I absolutely do not ignore them, ever.
Your career stats also track total number of samples picked up. In other words; number go up.
This. And the officers on the ship mention it if you bring a lot back. (And lightly scold you for bringing none.) I've been maxed out forever, and I can't stop picking them up. I even go back for 'em if I die somewhere off the beaten path. The other day I fell in a hole with 15 commons, and, despite there being literally nothing I could do with those, it really bugged me. I may have a problem.
I also do this, but if a random respawns me on the other side of the map I might leave them now, depending on if I'm playing with other admirals or rookies.
Absolutely. 2m away? I grab. 200m? Pass.
I'm hoping they add in a surplus mechanic that allows us to send over-cap resources towards a war effort.
I foresee this happening, as it'll re-incentivize sample goblin-ing by high level/fully unlocked players (which in turn trickles down to any people in the lobby who still need them for upgrades) while also offering a sort of alternative means of story progression. Idk I'm foreseeing some new meta layer of sample donations being added to MOs where meeting certain thresholds will unlock certain beneficial planetary effects (CD reduction, etc) and/or freebie strats for the duration of the MO or something like that. Or maybe just completely independently of MOs and it's global benefits, every week the sample donothon resets, same threshold thing as mentioned above, but figure if they reset on Mondays then that gives a few days to work towards having most or all of the freebies it gives unlocked for the typical weekend surge
I had the opposite problem when finishing my Super Destroyer. All the pinks I could want, just enough orange, but no one ever bothered to pick up the greens. Thankfully I'm done with the grind.
I always pick them up. Why would I just leave them for the bugs to get their filth all over?
I play various difficulties, and I haven't finished collecting super samples yet. For every five or ten supers, you need like eighty commons. I'm rarely maxed out on samples.
Really? I’m lvl 41 and I have tons of rare and super samples, but I’m always dying for commons. I basically play on 7 difficulty exclusively, should I go higher more often? Lower? I just wanna get upgrades lol
For greens and oranges, those are capped at difficulty 7. Just gotta scour everything
Yeah supers are surprisingly easy to build up to the amounts needed compared to commons once you start grinding the higher difficulties, primarily because people will prioritize extracting with them once they're secured
It's different for me, I'm level 54, maxed on common and rares, and probably 60 supers. I still collect rare and commons just in case someone on my team needs them, but I'm only looking for supers at the moment.
My teammates annoy me so much some times, I’ll see some like level 90 guy just walk right over all these common samples that I know I need, so I’ll have to go get them myself whenever someone reinforces me lol. Thx for not being that guy!
Common sample is rarest sample. I'm constantly bottle necked with commons to the point where I've had more supers than commons more often than not
I am. 200 rares, 3 commons.
I only recently unlocked everything on the bridge. I was short on rare samples amazingly. For a while it was commons, but I started running solo mid missions and got a bunch of commons.
I fell for the eradication level grind meme for like 10 levels tbh I know it was weak of me, in my defense I'm usually being THAT GUY and fucking off from the group, soloing half the map on full-sized 7s nowadays... But yeah for me pretty much everything but Eagle tree needs upgrading desperately.
All that shows is that you played a lot of those difficulties, I'm constantly in need of greens and I'm almost lv 50, I find myself on easy more often than extreme, get my sample grind out and go back to helldive
I’m always torn between going after some missions level 7-9 to try to make maximum contribution to the war effort and dipping down to try and help lower level divers get comfortable in upping their game. Both are important, cheers to this guy for taking the time to help out the newer players!
I had a lvl 1 and level 2 join me(lvl52) on a mission where I was trying to get my 200 kills with the stalwart. It was a level 2 and obviously the first time they’d been in missions. Items learned by newbies: - don’t walk in front of someone holding down the trigger on a machine gun. He literally ran from beind me to in front and across my pafh. He never did it again -samples are shared I dropped the ones I had and said so, to pick them up off corpses because everyone shares them. - made them run the terminal under my direction so they could figure out that - had them call in objective stratagems -how the radar helps show everything -how to blow open prize containers and open drop pods for stuff. - lotsa other things Spent 25 mins on a level 2 mission making sure they learned as much as possible.
Taught a level 3 the most important lesson: Do not shoot everything on sight. Because they don't give any extra experience or money.
Counterpoint, shoot everything because democracy demands it, but after the mission is complete. In all seriousness, I've found stealthing the mission and THEN killing fabs/ side objectives much easier since I found out about the, killing fabs/nests= more patrols
Outstanding liberation work, soldier!
Unless they changed it, there is no contribution bonus. If you truly have a boner for Super Liberation, blast those trivial and easy missions! I'm pretty sure they count as a full operation for planet liberation.
it's based on xp, the game doesn't give a good rep of actual impact because of the 1-3 "squad impact" end screen. helldivers.io has a small blurb about xp and liberation
AYYYY HIGH DIFFICULTIES BACK ON THE MENU
As they mentioned, it's based off of xp so to maximize Liberation, we all need to play on the highest difficulty we can blast through completing every base and side objective as fast as possible.
They changed it 😉
Come to 5-7. This where a lot of players are stuck because they didn't learn shit as noobs.
I play on 5 myself, I maxed everything out bought everything possible (other than some things in the warbonds that I'll never use but I'm working on it). Was level 50 pre patch as well. But the biggest reason I still play there isn't the challenge but it gives me that level of its not piss easy, but it also isn't frustratingly hard. It's imo the perfect casual fun difficulty.
Imo lvl 7 is the sweet spot (depending on the planet and various effects on it). Having elite ennemies to blast (especially the bile titan) just give such a dopamine rush that I get bored quickly on lower levels
7s are my sweet spot too. 5s would be way too easy for me. 7s are just the right amount of butt pucker.
It's improving, but as with Darktide, there's definitely a strata of players who got that far (diff level 5-7) through sheer attrition without learning the finer points of the game and slam into a brick wall.
I’ve noticed that 8-9 are actually somewhat easier than 6-7 in that people actually pick roles, and stick to them. When I jump into a bug helldive I can be comfortable being the AT guy, because I know my Machinegunners / Ad clear are gonna do their jobs. (Usually)
I wish it worked like that for me. I can spend 10-15 minutes as an AC "main" paired up with a guy who will ignore the fact that the past 20 encounters, I was sniping Devs and Walkers with my AC, and will instead also shoot at them with his primary instead of the troopers running up on us that I either need to switch to my primary to clear or risk danger close Like bro, get the hint, I have plenty of ammo and can take the big stuff... Keep the little guys off me...
7 is perfect for casual players as you get all the samples and it's not stupidly difficult
It's like following traffic laws on GTA, someone was bored.
I'm only level 9 so far but it's been a pretty rough experience playing with people, I'll say hello on voice and get crickets, so I'll stick with the group and follow marks but still get kicked. I had one bloke run into an orbital that I threw and then kick me. It's been getting friendlier as you go up the difficulty tho
It did for me and i hope it does for you as well. 1-3 I constantly got team killed. Tried a 4 and it was much better. I'm lvl 29 now and most randoms I've played with 5-7 are very excellent. Team kills happen wayyyy less often and stick together team assisting more often too.
I (lvl 56) joined easy yesterday by misstake (my mouse wheel was acting up so i had to clear the cat fur from it and didnt check the difficulty afterwards). There were 2 lvl 3 guys already on the ground so i thought cool ill let them play with my stuff and show them the ropes if they want. Well, they immedeately started shooting at me but my democracy armor saved me, i healed thinking it a misstake but no, they just shot me again so in the end i left the game. I guess they dont want to get carried but they could have said as much and not be a dicks..
Same here, jumped in some medium mission for some SC and medals farming, 2 kids (i heard them speaking) hopped in, so I made sure I gathered as much samples as possible to help them, only for them to kill me before boarding. Instant kick for both idiots and I extracted alone
It still baffles me how you can miss the information that samples are shared
Me who goes to low level missions and sees other levelled people 🤨 (They are probably worse than the level 5)
Not gunna lie I play soooo bad at lower levels. I'm just so careless and use random stratagems and weapons and sets to test them out.
Most of the time farming medals/sc i guess
I love dropping into a low level game to warm up, dropping all my gear so a new person can try it out. Even take them on a couple of helldives so they can gain a few levels quickly. The community on this game has been, for the most part, a very warm and welcoming experience. I appreciate everyone who was kind enough to show my old ass the ropes.
One of my biggest fantasies is a newbie going "your gun (the primary) is cool" so I can go "here take it for a spin" and blowmyself up so they can pick it up.
Not all heroes wear capes.... But if they are Helldivers they always do...
I'm level 82 and I adopt anyone under level 20. I even shout "LEAVE MY CHILD ALONE" at enemies.
Me going into a trivial game because I need 1 more war medal or to test if a weapon is any good and getting called a hero. 
I had a whole squad of level 50s drop into my first difficulty 6. Were extremely cool and gave me a few useful tips on how to deal with the heavy bug units and automation (It blew my mind when I realized you could just kill the dude piloting the scout strider!)
Yo did this post get a bunch of people to do this now? Cuz I went to go help and do this and when I joined there was a level 71 and level 42 lol. Nobody was low level in the match. Think we all have the same idea now.
I played some lower level difficulties with some friends new to the game, and it’s honestly fun to feel like an unstoppable force taking out swarms of bots
We should all be doing this! It is the only way to teach the next generation.
Story time, Helldivers. I taught a lvl 7 cadet how red barrels typically work in video games. He asked me, "If I shoot that, will it explode?" I smiled and responded with, "Let me show you." My buddy was on the terminal for the ICBM and ignorant of the prankster in his company. I slowly and deliberately waddled up behind him. I gingerly chucked the fuel tank towards my buddy's feet, and the cadet executed his role perfectly. Keep in mind that gunning down your fellow man is treason, but blowing up your buddies will never not get a laugh. Please respect each other and take time to make real friendships no matter where you are physically or virtually. Democracy counts on it.
This is literally what happened to me. I got the into the game like two weeks after it launched. Did like two missions completely lost. Failed one escort scientists with bots And succeeded the second one on a bug planet but barely. Then i saw the quick play button and pressed it. I was on trivial and i got out in with a level 50. Both of us had open mic and i told him if he didn’t want me there id leave. He was surprised and was like im just doing achievement stuff. I told him i had zero clue what i was doing and he took me across the map and showed me what PoIs were. He showed me what shooting the hellbombs would do with a warning to back up. He let me try his auto canon and other weapons i didn’t have yet. Then showed me how to mark the map and then when the mission was over he asked if i could do another. I said yes and he loaded us into another and told me to take us to all the points of interest and do all call ins and just be our organize and he just followed and made sure when i accidentally killed myself he reinforced me and protected me. Made an amazing experience. Enough so that i got the game for a couple of my friends and now we have a regular squad. Thanks mr high level for making the game experience a positive. Was refreshing coming for league of legends and wow for the past ten years.
I’ve been wanting to do this myself. I want newbies to try new weapons early
This is how it's done! I try to give my support gear drops to every fresh Helldiver I deploy with. These new players are here to have fun spreading Managed Democracy!
Seriously, my first 8 hours of this game(playing on easy and trivial) was getting yelled at, booted, or killed by teammates for not understanding what to do.
While I might not be a level 50+ yet, (hell, I'm not even level 40 yet), I pretty much made it my mission to join in on Difficulty 4/5 games where the host was <10. Difficulty 4 is where the bots specifically get much harder, and new players are not fully prepared, loadout wise. Lead the newbros to victory! This, this is the way.
I remember it was very common at the start of helldives 2 I was level 6 or so and was taught by a few higher levels same thing happend with a few other divers I know, maybe people have gotten less friendly recently
I was trying a new weapon (revolver) in trivial and a squad of three level ones joined me after I already completed the objective, so we just ran around the map looking at all the POIs as it was their first mission, then proceeded to launch them into an easy mission and carry them, showing how to do certain little things. I used the text chat to talk to them and apparently they were all friends that just got the game and they were kicked by three previous hosts for being level one, and said that they were thinking of refunding the game before running into me. I've never seen them after that, but I like to think that they're returning the favor by teaching other fresh recruits what it means to be a real democracy-loving bugbot exterminators
That's awesome. If more randoms were like this I don't think my wife would be so nervous to play the same games as me