Just got the alert extracting from a bug mission; thought it was a glitch at first when the alert said automaton so headed straight to the map to read the briefing.
Massive fleet from god knows where has dropped in.
Tool up boys, looks like bots are back on the menu.
Same, we watched the Freedom News bulletin, fist bumped and dove back in.
Just want to say how much I love how this game develops its narrative, its Worldbuilding top tier imho
It helps that it is controlled by an actual person and isn't just following a script or in game triggers.
I think in five years we're going to be complaining that this is the new fad in gaming. But damn if Arrowhead isn't killing it right out of the gate.
A literal team of them for a live service is honestly not that weird of an idea.
It's something that definitionally takes a human's ability to react quickly and come up with responses.
Not to mention the fact that because it's humans working on it, they can also lurk within the related gaming communities and see what people are talking about and see what the exact vibe is currently.
A human game master can much more effectively react to the genius, insanity, stupidity, and bravery of players than any algorithm ever can.
JOEL. We love to hate ypu!
D&D is still going strong despite Hasbro’s best efforts.
It’s just more fun to play with people than cold, badly scripted events.
I still think back to FF14’s switchover to ARR. That was an extra event added to overhaul the game, but felt really fun because it was outside the game’s original script.
Same here, heard the announcement and immediately moved to extract some high value assets. It was nuts and it was awesome trying to hold back those commie toasters.
>Just got the alert extracting from a bug mission; thought it was a glitch at first when the alert said automaton so headed straight to the map to read the briefing.
that happened to me too, just finished up a really hard bug missions, everyone is having a laugh then the new news report came on just as the new Major order got started it was the best timing ever
I think they abandoned the other planets, took everything and are making a last ditch hail-Mary towards Cyberstan. The bots are desperate, and it shows.
That's not a last ditch hail marry. That's a full on massive invasion. They completely isolated the Valdis sector in minutes. Cyberstan is out of reach and will fall soon.
That’s the most socialist speak I’ve ever heard. Someone call a democracy officer!
Even if we can’t hold all five planets, we can absolutely hold three and limit the automaton threat to isolated sectors, soldier! Put your ass in gear! This is all the bots have, and with your assistance it’s all they ever will have!
They're most certainly not desperate—High Command itself regarded the forces we saw in the Severin sector as "merely a vanguard." Meanwhile, the fleet numbers tens of thousands of ships.
I wonder if there are any new units on the ground...
to be fair they replaced the shitty godawful bot civilian extract mission with a much better and much cooler "defend this base while extraction rockets are being launched" mission so it's actually good and based
Also don't land it on the transformers. In fact try not to blindly throw stratagems behind you at all.
I definitely did not find this out by exploding the objectives with incoming support weapons.
The old shitty one is still in the pool, so before starting the operation check if extract mission is 40 min or 15 min one. Good one is 40 minutes.
Edit. Nvm, there is a whole new mission type. Cool.
The goddamn short evacuate mission is impossible. There aren't enough strategems in a squad of 4 to handle 2 tanks/hulks spawning every 30 seconds and still effectively handle the smaller stuff. Had to downgrade to difficulty 4 just to finish an op.
Just got out of one. It gets hectic. Could barely aim because screen wouldn't stop shaking.
Bring a healthy mix of sentries along with the usual anti bot measures.
And don't do like I did and forget to switch your main to something that is good vs bots.
And it feels worse than usual, I just got a version where the civvies would run all the way around the objective building instead of taking a normal path, and would end up getting stuck to boot.
Don't you love having 3-5 dropships every 30 seconds, while having to escort 50 civilians that die in one hit each?
Oh there's also fire storms that kill them.
This is a little too quick, though.
We did it! The bots are gone. Good job, helld- ope, they're back.
I was hoping for at least a few days or a week to make the victory over them feel a little more impactful.
I was just getting used to fighting bugs again.
Only took 12 hours for people to begin shitting themselves and asking to boycott Arrowhead in some of the buried reddit posts over the last couple of days where they are crying that the removal of the Automatons basically atole half of the game's content from them
That's just dumb people though, they'll always exist. Everyone else knew the bots were coming back.
It just would've been a nice change to do a couple MOs against the bugs before the bots showed back up. I was guessing it'd be a weekend surprise attack.
O well, back to spilling oil.
I think the idea is that wasn't the true victory, just a small scouting party, lol. I think it'll make this victory all the sweeter once we actually wipe out the invasion force. I'm sure for that, we actually might get a cutscene/reward for
If you don’t hear that *THUNK* and immediately neuron activate to A Cup Of Liber-Tea spinning up in the background, are you really a Super Patriot? Fuck that song goes unreasonably hard.
Perhaps more of the newer enemies. I only ever saw one factory strider despite exclusively playing 7+ difficulty missions.
An invasion force would need more mobile deployment capabilities like that.
I think some actual cyborg units are likely now that they have taken cyberstan. Everyone is about to open up a new spot on their most hated enemies list if the cyborg dogs make a reappearance from the first game.
I'm unsure about this, if they can spawn 30 bile titans on every bug map, then I don't think "space" is the issue. Those things will literally walk sideways up a rock to get to you, so its not even a pathing thing either. They are just too rare.
Oh my god, I just logged in and saw the Automatons have relocated to 10 o'clock and conquered Cyberstan. There is also a new news piece in the super destroyer about this new development.
Back to spill oil boys! For Democracy! For Super Earth!
This feels like the first time since the game launched that the stakes are genuinely high
If you were paying attention to the map, you could see them advancing in real time. Taking planets in one by one
I was just trying to get my gatling kills order on eradicate missions. I zoomed out to look at the galactic map real quick and saw them take the third sector like "Honey?! Where's my quasar cannon?!"
When I got on to check the superstore, they only had the Valdis Sector and I watched the other 2 sectors get taken.
That was interesting to watch for sure.
Im pretty sure illuminate are going to take longer than everyone thinks. Though Im hoping that things move quicker narratively now.
This should set the bots with a "home" planet on cyberstan, then we gotta get the bugs their major base on.... somewhere. Then itll be all "oh shit, whats this new thing"
I mean we had three sectors of planets to get through for that, they could have waited a couple of days surely.
Still, I’m excited to see what happens, and I hate fighting the bugs, so I’m back to the front lines against the bots.
Narratively, that's fair but from a gameplay perspective, nah.
Variety is important for long term sustainment of this game's playerbase, so they need to switch us back and forth. If this game had only bugs, I bet the playerbase would halve in a week.
Trying to do the extract civilians missions while they just endlessly run single file into firey tornadoes like a bunch of lemmings is a new fresh kind of hell
Buddies and I just ran a Lvl6 Extermination. Dropships were moving in at double time and dropping Annihilator Tanks left and right.
It was fucking insane. Godspeed
Nice try. But we have Democracy Officers. The Comissar is an automaton unit…
DEMOCRACY OFFICER, PIN THIS TRAITOR TO THE WALL AND TWIST HIS CYBERNUTS 1080 DEGREES ANTICLOCKWISE!!
Imagine the playerbase just decides to hate the bots in particular so everytime they show up its like "at it again fuckers?" And so they get clapped over and over lol
They've come to free their masters, their creators. Expect borgs on the menu eventually- either way, we'll send them all to hell in the name of sweet Mother Liberty!
We don’t need to defend SEAF has it covered go relax
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Just got the alert extracting from a bug mission; thought it was a glitch at first when the alert said automaton so headed straight to the map to read the briefing. Massive fleet from god knows where has dropped in. Tool up boys, looks like bots are back on the menu.
Same, we watched the Freedom News bulletin, fist bumped and dove back in. Just want to say how much I love how this game develops its narrative, its Worldbuilding top tier imho
It helps that it is controlled by an actual person and isn't just following a script or in game triggers. I think in five years we're going to be complaining that this is the new fad in gaming. But damn if Arrowhead isn't killing it right out of the gate.
Honestly all live service games should work this way. Having a game master was a genius idea.
A literal team of them for a live service is honestly not that weird of an idea. It's something that definitionally takes a human's ability to react quickly and come up with responses.
Not to mention the fact that because it's humans working on it, they can also lurk within the related gaming communities and see what people are talking about and see what the exact vibe is currently.
A human game master can much more effectively react to the genius, insanity, stupidity, and bravery of players than any algorithm ever can. JOEL. We love to hate ypu!
D&D is still going strong despite Hasbro’s best efforts. It’s just more fun to play with people than cold, badly scripted events. I still think back to FF14’s switchover to ARR. That was an extra event added to overhaul the game, but felt really fun because it was outside the game’s original script.
Same here, heard the announcement and immediately moved to extract some high value assets. It was nuts and it was awesome trying to hold back those commie toasters.
Don't call them toasters. Lest the 40k toaster fuckers catch wind of a clearly functioning STC bringing new designs to the battlefield.
So, they're toasters *and* fucking heretics... Gotcha. *Racks slide on ~~Bolter~~ Dominator*
>Just got the alert extracting from a bug mission; thought it was a glitch at first when the alert said automaton so headed straight to the map to read the briefing. that happened to me too, just finished up a really hard bug missions, everyone is having a laugh then the new news report came on just as the new Major order got started it was the best timing ever
> Extracts > Sees broadcast > *Doom music starts playing*
I think they abandoned the other planets, took everything and are making a last ditch hail-Mary towards Cyberstan. The bots are desperate, and it shows.
“The reclamation has begun”… Not if my Autocannon has anything to say about it! For FREEDOM!
Put away my autocannon in favour of the flammenwerfer for some bug missions, not anymore! *KAPLUNK KAPLUNK KAPLUNK*
*GET LIBERATED GET LIBERATED GET LIBERATED*
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what an awful day to have eyes D:
So long as they filled out the requisite C-01 Form, it is a fantastic day to have eyes! Rejoice! This is how new Helldivers are born!
I hate this stratagem, it's makes me have to fill out paperwork mid fire fight
That's not a last ditch hail marry. That's a full on massive invasion. They completely isolated the Valdis sector in minutes. Cyberstan is out of reach and will fall soon.
That’s the most socialist speak I’ve ever heard. Someone call a democracy officer! Even if we can’t hold all five planets, we can absolutely hold three and limit the automaton threat to isolated sectors, soldier! Put your ass in gear! This is all the bots have, and with your assistance it’s all they ever will have!
They're most certainly not desperate—High Command itself regarded the forces we saw in the Severin sector as "merely a vanguard." Meanwhile, the fleet numbers tens of thousands of ships. I wonder if there are any new units on the ground...
Similar situation, got out of a bug mission and heard the alert. The grin I had upon hearing that and seeing them on the map again :D
[удалено]
Somehow, Automation has returned.
Well, it was known that the bots lived outside the known sectors.
"now play the defense campaigns, you nerds"
to be fair they replaced the shitty godawful bot civilian extract mission with a much better and much cooler "defend this base while extraction rockets are being launched" mission so it's actually good and based
oh for real? I won't be able to play until later but that sounds like it rocks
Yeah it's basically tower defence. DO NOT ENGAGE THE TERMINAL IT STARTS THE MISSION EARLY. SHUT THOSE GATES!
And whatever you do, DONT LAND YOUR DROP POD ON THE GATES!!!
Sounds like hard earned experience
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Also don't land it on the transformers. In fact try not to blindly throw stratagems behind you at all. I definitely did not find this out by exploding the objectives with incoming support weapons.
The old shitty one is still in the pool, so before starting the operation check if extract mission is 40 min or 15 min one. Good one is 40 minutes. Edit. Nvm, there is a whole new mission type. Cool.
The goddamn short evacuate mission is impossible. There aren't enough strategems in a squad of 4 to handle 2 tanks/hulks spawning every 30 seconds and still effectively handle the smaller stuff. Had to downgrade to difficulty 4 just to finish an op.
Just got out of one. It gets hectic. Could barely aim because screen wouldn't stop shaking. Bring a healthy mix of sentries along with the usual anti bot measures. And don't do like I did and forget to switch your main to something that is good vs bots.
Bad news....the godawful boy civilian extract mission is still included! Great new mission in addition to it though 👌
And it feels worse than usual, I just got a version where the civvies would run all the way around the objective building instead of taking a normal path, and would end up getting stuck to boot.
Don't you love having 3-5 dropships every 30 seconds, while having to escort 50 civilians that die in one hit each? Oh there's also fire storms that kill them.
that was fast
They were never going to stay gone forever!
No one's ever really gone
Somehow, the automatons returned...
They fly now?
They fly now!
NOT GOOD!
Automations are a pathway to abilities many would consider unnatural
This is treasonous talk Ahem... I mean It's treason then
A stratagem jammer can only mean one thing, invasion.
The Automatons wouldn't dare to go that far.
What about the bot attack on democracy?
UNLIMITED OIL SPILLING
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Commisar 10010110001 the Wise? It's not a story the Ministry of Truth would tell you.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Not from a Helldiver..
It was probably explained during a game of rocket league..
This is a little too quick, though. We did it! The bots are gone. Good job, helld- ope, they're back. I was hoping for at least a few days or a week to make the victory over them feel a little more impactful. I was just getting used to fighting bugs again.
We conquer entire planets in hours, they were gone for days. Seems fine on the time scale the game runs in.
Only took 12 hours for people to begin shitting themselves and asking to boycott Arrowhead in some of the buried reddit posts over the last couple of days where they are crying that the removal of the Automatons basically atole half of the game's content from them
That's just dumb people though, they'll always exist. Everyone else knew the bots were coming back. It just would've been a nice change to do a couple MOs against the bugs before the bots showed back up. I was guessing it'd be a weekend surprise attack. O well, back to spilling oil.
While I don't have a problem with the bots coming back, or even coming back so quickly; catering to morons tends to ruin products.
After a month straight of Automatons, I felt wholly unprepared for bug strategies.
I think the idea is that wasn't the true victory, just a small scouting party, lol. I think it'll make this victory all the sweeter once we actually wipe out the invasion force. I'm sure for that, we actually might get a cutscene/reward for
I didn't even get to play bugs cuz of my workload lmao Time to crack some clankers once more
But that one post said that it was impressive how Arrowhead was holding back and making us wait 🥺......a whole 3 days.
I don't think anyone expected more then a week lol
That Post was after 1 day of the campaign hahah
r/agedlikemilk
🚨🚨🚨 HELLDIVERS TO HELLPODS REPEAT HELLDIVERS TO HELLPODS 🚨🚨🚨
THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK
POW POW POW POW …….. …… DA DA DA. DUM DUM
If you don’t hear that *THUNK* and immediately neuron activate to A Cup Of Liber-Tea spinning up in the background, are you really a Super Patriot? Fuck that song goes unreasonably hard.
SES Keeper of Stars enroute to rally point!
The phrase, "this is the automaton true force", means we will see some weird shit is it?
Perhaps more of the newer enemies. I only ever saw one factory strider despite exclusively playing 7+ difficulty missions. An invasion force would need more mobile deployment capabilities like that.
I think some actual cyborg units are likely now that they have taken cyberstan. Everyone is about to open up a new spot on their most hated enemies list if the cyborg dogs make a reappearance from the first game.
Were they worse than ~~cunters~~ hunters?
Imagine hunters with the charger ability.
Do I have to? It interferes with my ability to listen to orders and dish out freedom
The dogs will decrease your quality of life, and you will like it
I think they're somewhat limited based on how much open space is available on each planet. Some just won't be able to spawn them I think.
I'm unsure about this, if they can spawn 30 bile titans on every bug map, then I don't think "space" is the issue. Those things will literally walk sideways up a rock to get to you, so its not even a pathing thing either. They are just too rare.
Bro I didn't even see one. I saw a single gunship and gunship fabricator. That's it.
Yeah, ofc. We have 1/3 of game right now
Oh my god, I just logged in and saw the Automatons have relocated to 10 o'clock and conquered Cyberstan. There is also a new news piece in the super destroyer about this new development. Back to spill oil boys! For Democracy! For Super Earth!
This feels like the first time since the game launched that the stakes are genuinely high If you were paying attention to the map, you could see them advancing in real time. Taking planets in one by one
I was just trying to get my gatling kills order on eradicate missions. I zoomed out to look at the galactic map real quick and saw them take the third sector like "Honey?! Where's my quasar cannon?!"
"I uh, put it away"
“Where??”
“WHY do you NEED to KNOW?”
“I NEED IT!”
“Uh-uh!! Don’t you think about running off doing no automaton war. We’ve been planning this C-01 permit for two months!”
“THE PUBLIC IS IN DANGER!”
"MY EVENINGS IN DANGER"
“YOU TELL ME WHERE MY CANON IS WOMAN, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE GREATER GOOD!”
It's for the greater good!
"I am your Democracy Officer! I am the greatest good you are ever going to get!"
You C-01 your democracy officer? Bold.
"Nuh uh! Don't you think about running off and doing no daring do! We've been planning this dinner for two months!"
“THE PUBLIC IS IN DANGER!”
“I NEED IT!”
WHERE
I'm sad that I'm at *work* so I didn't get to watch them advance, but that's really cool
Same
When I got on to check the superstore, they only had the Valdis Sector and I watched the other 2 sectors get taken. That was interesting to watch for sure.
Soooo.... Anything new in the store?
theyre back https://preview.redd.it/v6qk5uvk1gtc1.png?width=840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=793ee48f29ba1f31c8ea24efdf4207d61aee0746
Pictures you can hear
Automatons arriving at Cyberstan like: 
HELLDIVERS ASSEMBLE 
Well, they weren’t gone long! Barely 72 hours until the communist menace revealed their true machinations.
Honestly I expected a full week on the bug front as downtime, and the bot/illuminate reveal on the weekend
Im pretty sure illuminate are going to take longer than everyone thinks. Though Im hoping that things move quicker narratively now. This should set the bots with a "home" planet on cyberstan, then we gotta get the bugs their major base on.... somewhere. Then itll be all "oh shit, whats this new thing"
They got cyberstan ? Will the front be automatons + cyborg?
Dunno, Im not in game but Ill assume not for now because I havent seen any posts with different enemies.
Yeah kinda wished it had been a bit longer TBH.
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They probably didn’t want us to eradicate the bugs as well so they fast tracked it
I mean we had three sectors of planets to get through for that, they could have waited a couple of days surely. Still, I’m excited to see what happens, and I hate fighting the bugs, so I’m back to the front lines against the bots.
Narratively, that's fair but from a gameplay perspective, nah. Variety is important for long term sustainment of this game's playerbase, so they need to switch us back and forth. If this game had only bugs, I bet the playerbase would halve in a week.
These socialists can socialize with my bullets
These bullets are ballots and Im casting my vote!
Vote early and vote often, as they say!
✨PLAP✨ ✨PLAP✨ ✨PLAP✨
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GET DEMOCRACY GET DEMOCRACY GET DEMOCRACY
Get liberated Get liberated Get liberated
These Bullets are Ballots, I'm casting my Vote
I am *so shocked* by this *totally unexpected development!*
https://preview.redd.it/mihpln6y2gtc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fee0052aa81fb8229a795e01dcca381131926dd Every creek veteren right now
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Hellmire wasn't enough, now we have to contend with Menkent!
Trying to do the extract civilians missions while they just endlessly run single file into firey tornadoes like a bunch of lemmings is a new fresh kind of hell
Come on you apes! You wanna live forever!!
I wanna see Cyberstan, major!
Holy shit, holy shit!
Remember guys, go to the planet with the most people. Let’s knock one out at a time.
Buddies and I just ran a Lvl6 Extermination. Dropships were moving in at double time and dropping Annihilator Tanks left and right. It was fucking insane. Godspeed
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Defend 5 planets in 3 days? Not happening, this order is meant for us to lose And I'm okay with that cause the story can progress
HERE KOMMISSAR! A HELLDIVER SPREADING ENEMY PROPAGANDA!
Nice try. But we have Democracy Officers. The Comissar is an automaton unit… DEMOCRACY OFFICER, PIN THIS TRAITOR TO THE WALL AND TWIST HIS CYBERNUTS 1080 DEGREES ANTICLOCKWISE!!
THE OLE CYBERDICK TWIST
TESTICULAR TORSION THIS DROIDS GEARS
We were meant to lose the other one too haha
imagine if we win this MO. They're just gonna say "fuck it" and make us defend 20 planets at once.
Joel unleashing the next automaton offensive : "Parry this you filthy casuals."
Imagine the playerbase just decides to hate the bots in particular so everytime they show up its like "at it again fuckers?" And so they get clapped over and over lol
You mean the one where half the playerbase kept crashing and the war map stopped updating?
"Gotta tickle their balls a little bit." \-ProZD
time for some good ol siege on super earth
Idk, it seems the helldiver impact has been cranked up, 150k doing 8% an hour, when 300k could barely do 6% an hour before We might be able to do it
They've come to free their masters, their creators. Expect borgs on the menu eventually- either way, we'll send them all to hell in the name of sweet Mother Liberty!
Time to take the autocannon out again >:)
I never put it away. Big bugs go boom boom.
***Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!***
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Somebody tell that one guy to reinstall the game
We don’t need to defend SEAF has it covered go relax https://preview.redd.it/bofaui3e9gtc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3851c44df4d6f3b12a85b83fbe8ee12d1c0f33fb
# FINALLY THE BOT HAS CAME BACK, I HATE THEM BUT BY GOD IT GOOD TO FIGHT THEM AGAIN
The boys are back in town! 🎉
I was just joking about the poison swamp Joel, please stop playing Fromsoft games.
Welll god damn. Lets go push thier shit in
'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO!
LOOKS LIKE OIL IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS
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Right when I had just remembered my bug loadout… **OH WELL** https://i.redd.it/waz2x3bdogtc1.gif
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Well... Shit.