re: Helldivers 2 - Playstation Breaks Its PC Launch Record

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When you join a rando game with people either already in their pods or already in a mission, is there a way to figure out what mission it is and what the difficulty is?

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I don't recall seeing a difficulty listing for them, it may be that their search feature only shows active campaigns at whatever difficulty level you already have set.

As for the type of mission, I think it gives you just the generic verbiage (Defend liberty for planting flags or powering up a base, for example).

Sidenote: Started guiding my reinforcement pod to high points and using my shotgun to snipe the shite out of things. If it's defensible enough I'll even call down a resupply. It's a lot of fun to hear your teammates bitching about you right up until they see that you're single-handedly holding the aggro of a dozen+ bugs off of them. Their "holy shite" moments were gold.

I'm just glad they told me in chat they were calling in an orbital so I could jump down the back side of the rocks before hell was unleashed in the name of liberty.

If you quick match, it matches based on the difficulty you have selected when you start the search.

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Sidenote: Hit Level 17 last night. The slow climb to Level 20 to unlock the Railgun and backpack shield continues tonight!

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time to start grinding those super samples for your final ship upgrades

challenging isn't too bad still.

suicide also not overly difficult if your team has half a brain. it can go into "this is a shite show" mode real fast though.

Those damn patrols. Went to hit an outpost last night with 3 others. 2 of us wanted to let a patrol go by. The other 2 went at them anyways. Next thing you know we had two more patrols plus the outpost on us. Then we were running trying to reinforce only to run into more patrols. I cursed those two out the whole time

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2 of us wanted to let a patrol go by.

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That isn’t very spreading managed democracy of you.

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Your life will change when you unlock the SG-225 Breaker. It's just insane.

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It's a nice uppgrade from the Breaker, that's for certain.

Has anyone else encountered trolls who purposely kill you?

I got into a map about 30 seconds before completion (raising the flag). Took that time to take up position in case we get attacked and the prick killed me then didn't reinforce.

I guess the next step is for them to kill you then reinforce you back in, kill you the moment you spawn, rinse and repeat until you just leave the mission?

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I had that situation, but acted like I didn't notice the first game. Then killed him on the commencement of the next mission, respawned him and did it over again until my game crashed. Very satisfying

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Gaining that sort of retribution is the dream.

From a Discord I am in:

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Did a quickplay, everyone was working fine in the mission. Went to extract, dude dropped a huge bomb on us, killing us all. Wouldn't reinforce until the shuttle was almost leaving. He left, by the time we loaded in couldn't get any of the samples and in to the ship.

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And now we know why there is a Block feature.

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Challenging isn't too bad if you have at least one gamer carrying the team. The other three can be scrubs like me and you still do fine.

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i might be that guy

i find myself running off to clear objective by myself while the other 3....well...do whatever they are doing. distracting bugs?

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The game isn't really intuitive for all that goes into the missions, I think it takes a lot of reps to even start to figure out how to tackle all objectives.

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This is why a large chunk of my 14 levels have been from soloing Trivial level missions. Not having anyone else to depend on forces me to learn more and I can take time in doing so (like learning the jetpack). Outside of grouping with friends I know I'll probably stick to doing solo trivials until I can just about do stratagems without having to verify each key push.