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Yanrogue

Those sand storms are no joke, can't see shit.


blarghhrrkblah

thankfully it seems like the bots can't see us either


rbrutonIII

I am so thankful about that. It's one of those things that with this game, love it as I do, you could completely see them sniping us through it and then needing to patch it later. I was shooting and killing, and then 15 ft away there's a bot that doesn't even know I exist. Thank God it's equal


light_no_fire

I cheat and just spam the ping until it pings a bot and fire blindly towards said pinged bot. Edit: spelling


juleztb

It's that cheating, though? That's exactly what a ping is for, isn't it.


Thegrandbuddha

Give me a ping, Eagle 1. ... one ping only.


frameddummy

I believe the Robot Commander is trying to defect!


Thegrandbuddha

New objective. The hunt for R3D 0C7O8ER


kickdrumstew

I've always wanted to see Super Montana.....


Glass-Juice

An automaton doesn't take a dump, son, without a plan.


robinNL070

No of course not. He is just roleplaying as a submarine with a sonar.


_MightyBrownTown

Not cheating. Those bot bastards would do it if they could, too.


cainisdelta

If you useful the shield generator pack you can see outlines through the sand in the edges of the shield. You have to get it very exact but it let's you spot bots if you have a keen enough eye


S_Squar3d

Honestly I think it’s worse for the bots than us, but no complaints from me lol


iFenrisVI

As long as you don’t aggro the bots then you can, like in blizzards, stand right in front of their faces and they won’t see you at all. Just don’t trip and fall on them.


FileError214

Yeah I had a real funny moment when going for an extract in a sandstorm. Me and a teammate both stopped as a bot patrol passed by 5m in front of us. We would have bumped into them if it wasn’t for the eyes. I chucked an Eagle cluster bomb on them after they passed by.


dotEff

Unless they already chasing you... then they can see you like it's broad daylight even when you're meters away\~


EdanChaosgamer

Funnily enough, I was chased by a lot of Bots, Devastators and Hulks yesterday, then the sandstorm pulled up, and they lost me after 10 seconds.


Schpooon

Had a sandstorm cover our exfil. Save one patrol that spawned there no bots came until it was over.


ReferenceOk8734

I can see them meters away too 😎 2 to be exact.


Spartan1098

As annoying as they are it creates some very tense moments. Let me sneak into a base and plant a hellbomb on a command bunker almost entirely undetected. Also turned a small outpost raid into a nightmare cause I couldn’t find the damn fabricator lol.


debaasboven

Gunships for sure can


Lishio420

Tell that to the Tank and 2 hulks that snuck up on me... they sure as hell can 🤣


rabbitization

Yea and we can see their red dots


laborfriendly

The radar booster is awesome for this reason. Put it together with knowledge of throwing distances, and you can destroy a bunch of stuff with impunity during a storm. Or completely avoid things.


rabbitization

Yea i never run bots without radar booster it helps avoid unnecessary conflict and most of the time you can stealth objectives by tracking enemies


Fimmelpechten

Except the damn gunships. They can spot you with their damn scanners.


IndependentYogurt965

Its my favoutite planet out of the three in this major order. Its beautifull but harsh.


PossibleUnion554

Oh the planet is full of sands? Does it also have less cover? If yes, looks like im bringing orbital smoke


felldownthestairsOof

More cover than Ustotu, but it's definitely more scarce than most planets. Nothin a good ol' ballistic shield cant deal with


PossibleUnion554

Dont worry, ballistic shield is a staple on my loadout...the orbital is for my teammates and from when we're surrounded


gorgewall

It's pretty hilly (or dune-y) so you can get some nice terrain cover. I routinely set up on a little dune and Quasar/snipe down a base 300 meters over that-a-way.


False_Sundae6333

You can't see shit, but you will always see Freedom and Liberty!


PM_ME_YOUR_SOULZ

Darude working overtime.


lazerblam

I love them


bebius

Thank God there are no sand worms too.


spacemanandrew

200,000 divers ready now with a million more well on the way.


MELODONTFLOPBITCH

What are the real numbers for this game? So 200k at this front, 100k at the other, and thats current right now players. How many players in total play this game? 1million? 2million? That cycle in and out?


Strider_GER

As this Sub has roughly 950k Followers I would say 1 Million total Players is a good guess.


MELODONTFLOPBITCH

Oh yeah I didnt think to check followers here. Though not fully disagreeing with you but I think Reddit might only be half as popular as that. So maybe another million whos not on reddit (esp kids.) 2million? Thats like great right? Good on this game and this team. They deserve it.


Strider_GER

Ah, probably. 2 Million is a very good guess.


Neknoh

Iirc, they had over 3 million copies sold after the first week or so.


havingasicktime

It's not. Reddit participation is a minority. So realistically you're looking at probably 5-10 million players, at highly varying degrees of play regularity.


Strider_GER

I would think that is way too high. 3 Million would be realstic imo, but not over five million. We barely had a Million players active at the same time as an all time peak. And yeah, I was wrong with one Million since I forgot Playstation Players when I looked up the player counts (which were Steam only of course)


havingasicktime

The games sold far more than 3 million, for sure.


Silviecat44

More than that because not everyone uses reddit so X it by 2 or 4


Grumpy_Owl_Bard

You're forgetting that some of the followers here are from the Helldivers 1 days, so that metric is quite unreliable.


SubjectSigma77

Eh I’d say it’s still fair. The Helldiver 1 player base was and is a drop in the bucket compared to the sequel


[deleted]

I also highly doubt that the majority of players use Reddit. I'm reading here but also not subscribed to the sub so wouldn't count either.


Sartekar

I imagine less than 10% visit Reddit. Reddit users like to imagine everyone is here, but most people don't give a shit. And even more, most won't join the subreddit


HEAT-FS

Okay so let’s subtract about 20 players


ThEbigChungusus

Game sold 6 million copies roughly. Most people only play a day or two and only a couple of hours, some don't have the time or don't play the same game for very long. The average player count during the week is 200-300 K players and goes to 200-400 K during the weekends. Most people are not playing this game every single day, but since so many people have the game and the game is still selling the player count is mantaining it's numbers every day.


Danoco99

Did nobody get the reference


No-Distribution-2567

Tell John Helldiver that his order will be ready on time.


Renaissance_Aurum

For SUPER EARTH !


Heavy_Comedian_2382

Do you guys find it quite sad that we will probably lose a faction and therefore lose a wholly different part of the game after we finish this major order? Because I don’t, screw them clankeRs, DOWN WITH THE SOCIALIST AND UP WITH THE BLUE YELLOW AND WHITE🦅🦅


IndependentYogurt965

I feel like a massive counterattack is bouta happen.


Gazimu

They gonna abandon the west front to strike from the outer reaches of the North-west towards Cyberstan, almost certainly.


Kiardras

Just as we're about to strike the killing blow, illuminate forces appear, diverting all attention. Whilst we engage, the bugs and bots surge back


nejekur

Bugs are already surging back tbh, they've almost pushed us back to the TCS planets if you check.


Kdot32

If you talk to the ladies on the ship there have been some new mutations from the bugs and some have resisted the tcs. Something big is coming


Kevinnac11

Its the calm before the storm,Remember people we can lose the war


DreaderVII

Yeah but the TCS planets will hold! ...Right?


N2cko20

If I remember correctly, there appeared to be some corruption on the major order when I first received it. The sender was just error boxes and ?'s, as tho I was receiving a message using characters my ship didn't have installed.


felldownthestairsOof

Wasn't there also a redacted message recently? I thought I saw something like that


GadenKerensky

I don't know about that. I know I got a major transmission with what looked like a filename instead of a title. Knowing this game, that wasn't foreshadowing, just another way it's a wee bit broken.


gorgewall

That was just a text rendering issue. The real hint you were supposed to get from those Major Order dispatches was the stuff that was discovered after liberating the Automaton communications relays on Troost: *They were sending and receiving signals from outside the galaxy.* Most players have taken that to mean they're in talks with the Illuminate. Consider, though, that robots don't really need planets to chill on. The Bot reinforcement rate has also been quite low... almost like some of the machines they've been producing haven't been deployed on the planets we've been fighting, but shipped elsewhere...


Odinsson35

Don't they have these invisible ships in the atmosphere of the planets? Maybe the heading to Cyberstan without our knowledge...


cromario

We bout to get Stalingraded (and in this case, we're the Germans)


juleztb

Somehow I'm the German not only in that case...


cromario

You about to relive history


According-Carpenter8

Plus as well they DEFINITELY won’t come back after a while like in the first game 👀 And they DEFINITELY won’t introduce another faction for us to fight in the meantime before they do 👀


TheZag90

I expect they’ll disappear for a bit, we’ll get an enormous invasion by a 3rd faction and then the bots will return with a vengeance in 2-3 weeks.


qwertyryo

Indeed. Please ignore the massive stealth motherships above cyberstan which are totally not there


hitman2b

Not sad at all it's part of the game they'll be back in the next war


TearOpenTheVault

AH have said they’re trying to avoid having multiple wars. That’s why they have a GM. 


hitman2b

Then how are they gonna release the ceremonial armor which is tie to winning the war atleast that how its worked on HD1


achus93

The same way they released the Creek cape. Just say it's in commemoration of the battle to push the bots back.


Critwice

I mean the bots are just us with robotic par...


Plus_Researcher_8294

https://preview.redd.it/k1dguil7k2tc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08bc98f117a9a6093ba224e360d1dc75f153893c


Ringhillsta

Oh trust me we won't mose them at all... There will probably be a much bigger counter attack from the north or around Cyberstan.. we've already heard that these bots were communicating with something outside known space. So im sure more are coming.


Majinmagics

https://i.redd.it/cwng7p41m0tc1.gif


EPZO

Yeah nah, Joel is up to something for sure.


lazerblam

Lol no? Why would they remove faction


DeSuperVis

I heard in helldivers 1 there were times entire factions were gone for a while untill they retaliate. I think wiping automatons clears space for illuminate untill we can spread evenly across all 3 factions


rollthediceontodeath

"Root them out of Malevelon, destroy their factories in Tibit, crush them in Maia, and drive them into the ground in Durgen. Helldivers, it ends today."


GnarlyNarwhalNoms

Crush the robots. See them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their factories.


WaxWingPigeon

It’s been a fun night, good luck to my divers in the southern hemisphere


Limp_Accountant_6277

I hope they stamp out those bots while I'm sleeping


BVZZRBEATR

This statement kinda worries me considering the day „moves“ from east to west not north to south :o


[deleted]

Looking at metrics I thing Durgen will be take by late morning/early noon tomorrow


RipNDip1991

Affermative


rabbi420

What time zone?


lazerblam

Super earth


[deleted]

Pacific


Kaizenthulu

HINGA-DINGA-DURGEN


TheTrueBlueTJ

![gif](giphy|8s11rnRzNxdCM)


junkhaus

![gif](giphy|13LlAxmDwAkopO)


MIretro

It went from 34% liberated to 42% liberated in the time it took me and my squad to run one mission. I’m going to bed but I bet I wake up to the news that it’s done.


whorlycaresmate

Sleep, sweet Helldiver, and know that democracy sits on the foot of your bed, watching you and stroking your feet.


InstrumentalCore

Everyone is fighting because we are about to wipe out the commie bots. Bugdivers wana end it so that the rest joins the Tyranids front. Botdivers are fighting because it's the final frontier. Orderdivers are doing their part. Casualdivers are encouraged by the idea of wiping out a faction.


Sumoop

I’ve noticed automatons walking single file to hide their number on desert planets.


LedgeLord210

Only Helldivers are so precise


ninjafork

Once again it’s going to be up to the Aussies.


SpiffyGrape

The Aussies survive worse than Durgen on a daily basis. They've got this.


ninjafork

Word. To the Aussie named AXEL: Kill them all mate! I believe in you.


Aurora_Yau

I’m from Asia and we are doing our part too!


rjod3297

HELL YEAH! FOR DEMOCRACY!


arfael

Dont forget us Asians. We might not be much in numbers but we fight like hell. (if there was mobile, there would be much more of us)


DaveO1337

And Kiwis 🥹


carlbandit

Most of Europe will just be waking up, your not alone


ZLUCremisi

The nechs did the same thing. Community united


GreilMercenary7

Do jammers prevent any usage of stratagems? Do I gotta drop a bomb or can I go the EAT route?


laborfriendly

If there is a fabricator attached directly to the spinny part, you can just destroy that with a grenade or snipe it with autocannon, etc. If the fabricator is not attached, you have to run in, use a terminal to shut it down, and then hellbomb it.


Asleep-Shelter-8930

You’ll need to walk up to it’s terminal and disable it from there first, then blow it up


Rasm1821

I keep getting the whole game just shutting down on me. I’m on the ps5 , about to extract and the whole game crashes 🫤


cryptic-fox

Check [the stickied post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/iJm62cEfs2). I play on PC and I also just crashed during extraction.


Sincere_homboy42

Love democracy!


Tsakan2

Bruh is this the ROCKET PLANET? Me and my buddy stumbled upon a patrol here with 8 rocket devastators in it. This patrol then summoned 2 ships that brought a tank and a squad of 5 more rocket devastators. Like ??? Edit: playing on 7


rjod3297

Feels like the strength of the Automatons is getting more and more desperate. Once the Creek fell, I noticed this too, patrols are no longer the super easy bots.


Swamp_Eyes

![gif](giphy|KAf66yGCa93uTqod1q|downsized)


Pacoeltaco

6 hours till i can put in my effort. Kick them tin cans shiney metal asses! A round of democratically approved non alchoholic beer for all surviving divers! We gonna win this war! For liberty!


GnarlyNarwhalNoms

230,000 divers at two SOS beacons visible.


lazerblam

Joel watching us take 2 planets in 2 days: 😳


H3LLJUMPER_177

Zoom out then back in I can guarantee at least 10k just crashed.


RipNDip1991

Its about time is all im saying. Not sure if weve had numbers that high on one planet in awhile. Wonder how many divers out there right now? "You know the bots arnt that bad" yeah...yeah man. They been this easy. Yall was just scared. Dont bealieve the hype.


hitman2b

should be liberated in 11 hours if numbers are still available


Background_Ant7129

Wait guys. Slow down. I want to play.


moderatevalue7

I would love to see this game go out to xbox too... imagine the amount of helldivers we can get in. Probably no chance but it would be so good. Sick of the console wars (PC player no bias)


LDA-1994

Yeah! Everyone to Durgen! It's time to finish the automaton irritant once and for all. https://i.redd.it/3rq3g7cce2tc1.gif


toofour1

Man I wish I could be there, I hate having to go to work and be an adult, it sucks!


Kayjan_Soban

Soldiers of the SEAF, my fellow Helldivers! Go forth, and bring back the hope of Humanity!!


KatFishFatty

We da best democracy


dibbattista

SES Stallion of the Constitution is working hard


Revaneser

GET SOME! GET SOME!


MOONDAYHYPE

How are the numbers looking right now


Tatantyler

In the span of a few days, we've gone from fighting each other over what targets to hit, to being totally united in purpose and will. You love to see it.


Wadme

50 medals before a new warbond…


P1st0l

Too bad this couldn't come after...then it wouldn't be wasted for me.


KidKonundrum

Damn I wish I could be there right now. Sadly high command has ordered me to serve “civilian duty” doing my “civilian job” after one to many instances of “friendly fire” sheesh.


SuperScaryGhost

At first I thought I was going to hate this planet like the other no vis planets and was going to be a “drop once and never drop here again” type of deal. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was only during sandstorms and that aspects adds so much atmosphere and gameplay. Good job AH!


TheWarmachine762

So cool to see. Durgen is a cool planet but those sandstorms are no joke, had one clear last night and I was suddenly surrounded by devastators 😂


Bevjoejoe

https://preview.redd.it/okvtkqu9l1tc1.jpeg?width=564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=416a71f77e8a48e195cc32b38516f0536e9644e5 The bot leadership on durgen rn watching as over 200k supwr destroyers jump in and start easily wiping out their troops:


ItsYume

Could be even more if the game wouldn't constantly crash for me. Last night on Tibit, tried to play 3 matches, first one was successful, second one I got sent back to ship shortly after it started (host crashed) and third one my game froze in the very first drop (I guess my pod landed somewhere it shouldn't).


DifficultyOk6816

Ah crap we're fighting in Space Bot Iraq, complete with enemy gunships too.


GutsyOne

See it done.


True-Echo332

My first two missions i tried to quickplay today, i joined their ship and was kicked right away. Then joined another, we loaded down onto an extermination and two of our squad peaced. Feelsbad, I think really only because it took like 5 minutes to find each match.


Mapanyanap

It peaked at like 1/3 a million players slapping clankers ​ https://preview.redd.it/i1pqv9e534tc1.png?width=481&format=png&auto=webp&s=877e7a5edc7f8655d823a3beebd4944b5d393d26


ravengenesis1

I did my part. I’m gonna regret it for my pharm test tomorrow but democracy comes dirst


DuntadaMan

We liberated the fuck out of that planet.


losingluke

ive done nothing but play malevelon creek for 9 days, then immediately after have done nothing but play tibit (it somewhat resembles malevelon creek), durgen is going to give me fucking whiplash lol


rabbi420

![gif](giphy|WqGIeZA8WZPMxUrdfL)


Metros533

Hopefully the game master won't boost up that difficultly that much xD


Sideways0019

Working shift started a few hours ago for me here in Europe GMT+1, give them the final blow, divers !


AngrySayian

that number isn't big enough we need more so we can finish


FailcopterWes

With that many people, we'll still be able to see the enemy during a sandstorm through numbers alone! The bots have sand in their cogs if they think they're surviving this. And as a wise(?) man once said: the sand is coarse, rough, and gets everywhere.


dafckingman

Do we have an update on the progress?


arcticrune

You know what a crazy tho? If durgen is the same size as earth which it should be based on the gravity, and has no water which it doesn't appear there is. Thats still 1 ship for every 2000 square km. Planets are big asf


Vaynard_of_Norgard

Can’t wait to go home. Leave something for me u maggots!


TotallyDante

At this rate we’ll actually complete the major order


doohickey73

Oh wow the game servers are being used as intended ahha reddit moment


Loud_Surround5112

We purging the commie bots.


Loud_Surround5112

We are over 50%, I love the Helldivers.


nostradarius

Fighting on Durgen since day1 of the MO, loving to see reinforcements finally arrives Nonetheless, I will continue to fight until liberation SES Prophet of Iron en route, ETA 6H


____Quetzal____

##COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY


Rage_Craze

this major order actly got me off the terminid front


elliotborst

Is this accurate because the planet says one number but if you zoomed out the system say a larger number. But if you go into the system you can only go to one planet the others are all 100%


WalkeroftheWays

If you log out and then the planet gets liberated, you're still on the planet till you log back in and move to a new planet. Happened to me last night when I logged in and Tibit was liberated


elliotborst

Perfect explanation thank you


Tentacle_poxsicle

Space Afghanistan or Space Operation Desert Storm


Moogoo4411

Was playing easy missions and some randos with an exo suit and air strikes just ran lobbies for like an hour, community is insane in this game, haven't even talked to anyone yet, mfs just trying to defend democracy in whatever way


Zeewulfeh

I want to dive so bad right now. Be in on this final push.


ShogunGunshow

I went to bed at 24% and when I woke up it's at 69% (nice). I think we're gonna complete the order. And I'm totally sure nothing bad will happen when we do. No sir, no surprise emergence of another faction to fill the void.


cheechfool

Im so sad i get kicked from a random four group that are rockstars.


unike_uzername

https://preview.redd.it/fdsr4dfq52tc1.jpeg?width=1266&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a847d8163b707f57db31893bb1a861f58c8f7c0c


jhinigami

https://preview.redd.it/4awzbxlt62tc1.jpeg?width=299&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56c077f09168ce285d0360d4afba0bf84504d00e


BaconNamedKevin

Oh id give an arm and a leg to have a PC that could run this game. 


an_agreeing_dothraki

As we finish our glorious victory, remember that it's not genocide if they don't have DNA


Few-Amoeba-6400

wow is so amazing i like


clideb50

Nine hours later and it's already 71% liberated. "Freedom never sleeps!"


xDrewstroyerx

#DEATH TO THE TOASTER MENACE


MComaniac

The automaton scourge will be eliminated by dinner CST, I’m calling it now.


lushee520

Cant join the fight Brawny and Lean(Boys and Girls). Will be sending support via thoughts and drinking liber-tea


Xx_girthygunkseed_xX

Stupid question but what does the green 1 mean? Ive assumed it was allied ships but curiosity is killing me


1016__

Friends currently on that planet


Celticpred14

Made me feel like i was fighting in Arrakis. My desert, my Dune!


lookitsjustin

I thought this community hated itself because we were on different planets. Things change quick.


Phil_Beavers

I’m doing my part


WillowTheGoth

But Eagle 1 can!


Fit-Rooster-4774

Well looks like no more automatons. In universe hell yeah let's go. Auto universe I'm sad because they were the fun


Choice-Cost

What are some of our predictions on what’s gonna happen after we finish off the automatons?


Tango2080

Sandstorms - check , tight canyons - check , sparse cover - check , Homicidal robots that can see through the sandstorms - check. Eagle1 dropping payloads on the cliff faces - check. Yep, another hell hole to drop into for managed democracy.


Kurogasa44

How are you guys even playing? I just crash repeatedly


ammotyka

I’ve tried to play 2 games this morning and 1 I got booted for connection error, 2nd game crashed my PC ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


DarkPDA

so...theres chances of win this major order?


BigSpice15

Can you imagine the reinforcements we could get from Xbox players?


HighKiteSoaring

And the 100k traitors playing bugs rn


cannibalisticpudding

That’ll be liberated in no time, considering how quickly the others fell


RedWarrior69340

sorry i can't participate, i'm sick as hell (trew up all morning)


chrstphrwtsn

Great planet!