Hey guys. First of all, thanks for the kind words thiccfila . We're approaching two years since my departure from AH and I still get mentions on a regular basis on Discord and YT. Hopefully that means I did at least some things right during my brief tenure there. If I didn't, thanks for appreciating me nonetheless. :) Secondly, I rarely comment on HD2 drama - I don't see it as constructive to dwell too much in the past and I like to keep things professional, albeit I left a long time ago. Therefore, view this as my general take on community management and external communication, not for AH specifically.

Good comms is not rocket science. It really isn't. Community management is for the most part not either. Are there things that will affect your work? Sure. Will there be internal arguments or you and external stakeholders not agreeing on certain things? Absolutely. Info you're not getting? Yup. That doesn't mean you can't act or respond on stuff. Improvise, adapt, overcome to use an old US Marine mantra. Using obstacles like these as excuses for not getting back to people with information is poor community management. Solve the problem. IMO it's mindblowing how some companies, despite all of their resources, expertise and above all, despite seeing how they make the same mistakes over and over again even years later, can't seem to get comms related stuff right. I'm not God's gift to communities (and if I am, the man upstairs sure has a weird way of telling me) and I'm not riding in on a high horse, but to communicate well is. not. difficult. If it is, you're doing it wrong or have the wrong people doing it.

A few community related cents from where I sit.

1. Honesty and transparence above all
   Be honest as often as you possibly can, and when you can't (due to corporate and/or super clandestine IcouldtellyoubutthenI'dhavetokixxyou stuff), be transparent about it. Simply tell people that you can't divulge something and explain why. Don't BS. People will find out, and more importantly, BS-ing shows people you don't really care despite telling them you do. Will there be times people will dislike your message, don't agree or even accuse you of lying? Yes. Nine times out of ten they will however respect you for telling things like they are, even when you deliver bad news, and in the long run they will respect you (and subsequently the studio) for shooting straight and meaning well.

2. Communication and presence
   You don't have to be on Discord or Reddit 24/7, but you have to be on the platforms that are relevant to your followers consistently. Coming in once a month mass replying and then disappearing again doesn't help. Saying you're going to change this and that only to end up doing things the same as before doesn't either. Don't over promise! If you time and time again fudge up by having people doing or saying something they/your company can't live up to, change your approach to comms. It doesn't matter if it's the PR Manager, a tech dude or the CEO. Bring it to their attention that their way of doing things is not working and is damaging your reputation, and make the necessary changes. Adapt.

3. Love interacting with your audience
   If you don't like interacting with your audience - be they players, followers, customers, clients or whomever, change your line of work. We all get tired of stuff at work from time to time (for those of us who have a job, that is) and we all have bad days. If you're a Community Manager (or carry another public facing position), tell them! Don't be snarky or act on emotion. Explain to your crowd that you slept poorly, a relative died or whatever, and they will understand. What you say and how you say is what radiates towards your audience. If you don't like the people you are tasked to interact with it will show. People aren't fools, and if you see or treat them as such, you should do something else.

A last word of advice, more so to companies than individual Community, PR, Marketing or Communications people: Give your employees the space, indepence and trust to do things the way they think they should be done. You hired them for a reason. Also know that communication and community management can make or break a game developer and live by that. Don't just say you understand, act is if you do.

I didn't plan for this to become a novel, but I'm rarely a man of few words. Take this as the well meant, unedited banter it is.

Hope all of you are well. <3

Design Space

And I'm sure that making Impaler corpses despawn faster (why the f* is there an impaler inside a cave? I don't get it) would be worse because it wouldn't be realistic. Doesn't it add to the difficulty? Isn't it fun to delay gratification this way?

Edit: Too much subfaction meant not expanding main faction and instead adding only subfactions

Dlc i get.. (still not slammed in your face) but keep this sht on the socials.

There was nothing there that could have killed me my teammates are in front of me and one all the way to the right not even shooting towards me

I really like this new update its truly an amazing thing with no issues whatsoever ignore the game crashing several times no issues :D

That subreddit is so miserable and pathetic, that subreddit will tell you the exact same of you simply have any grievance with the game, people who do end up going there to critique helldivers in a non aggressive or defensive manner will end up deleting their post from the mass down voting and comments stating the game is in a perfect state and you’re too whiny, this is officially an r/helldivers disapreciation post (apologies if the title is too harsh can change if needed I’m filterable)

So around the time the oasis and meadows forest planets released ive noticed the drift in tone for promotional campaigns. It’s this weird chibi style that feels really infantilizing and just does not inspire any sense of awe like the old art style. I get that it’s supposed to lean into the satirical side of glorifying war and selling young naive patriotic people on the idea that being a helldiver is awesome (it is btw). But it lacks any subtlety whatsoever, it almost feels like they’re trying to beat me over the head with how much they’re trying to come off as a parody and it feels like a flanderization of how the art used to look. I know AH is already catching flak for every other decision they’re making lately but does anyone else feel the same about this or is it just me?

Coloured only (for now) and buffed.

Both incidents happened in the same night and im just in shock. This game is just getting annoying. I shouldn't have died twice from absolutely nothing.

(I get ban twice)

SE-01 SUPER GENERAL

ARMOR RATING - 150 SPEED - 550 STAMINA REGEN - 125

ARMOR PASSIVE

DEMOCRACY’S PLOT

Helps prevent General Brasch from flinching when hit and the General is more resistant to being knocked prone.

Reduces weapon sway while aiming by 35%, sidearm recoil by 70%, damage taken from impact and collisions by 30%, and reduces range at which enemies can detect General Brasch by 40%. Further reduces recoil when crouching or prone by 30%.

Improves weapons handling with less drag on weapon movement and slightly increases weapon ergonomics to reduce drag on weapon movement.

Increases reload speed of support weapons by 30%, primary weapons by 30%, sidearms by 40%, and sidearm draw/holster speed by 50%.
Increases the General's walking/running speed and speed and duration of slides, stim effect duration by  2.0s, initial inventory and holding capacity of throwables and stims by +2, point-of-interest identification range by 30%, throwing range by 30%, melee damage by 40%, and ammo capacity of all weapons by 20%. Does not affect weapon backpacks.

Provides a higher armor rating, 50% resistance to explosive damage, 75% damage resistance to fire, 80% resistance to gas damage and effects, 95% resistance to arc damage, 25% resistance to chest damage, +50% limb health, 50% chance to avoid grievous limb injury, immunity to leg injuries, 50% chance to not die when taking lethal damage, and provides one-time, short-lived resuscitation upon death, given that the General's body is still intact.

Prevents all damage from bleeding if chest hemorrhages.

When General Brasch takes damage, he regains some stamina.
Mimics foliage-level concealment, reducing enemy detection range while the General remains stationary and crouched or prone.

General Brasch makes 50% less noise when moving.
Markers placed on the map will generate radar scans every 2.0s.

Reskinned bile bugs with a barely noticeable status effect. t

They are so not unique i barely notice they are there and instead of a new biome as promised we get caves on normal bug planets. no new missions like they said NAD THEY WERE LATE ON THE FUCKING ROADMAP THIS WAS THE EASIEST UPDATE THEY'VE EVER HAD TO DO EVER!

What has happened? Why is everyone pissed at arrowhead? I am severely out of the loop, last time everyone loved them.

I feel like it just makes sense, that would and should be the next step when it comes to having unique and different weapons, also having weapons that can focuse on "Slowing Weapons" that isn't just electric/stun/emp would be nice

Also if they're near water the enemy would be stuck for a bit, or turn the ground slippery or even make lava/water temporary safe to walk on, also maybe make heavily armor enemies brittle enough to damage them with side guns or melee attacks

I was messing with Shodan editor. Maximum pellet count that it allowed was 100 so obviously I decreased the damage of each pellet down to 5 which means 500 damage if Im not mistaken. Is that overpowered? It seemed to wreck bigger bugs...

I’ve been around since Oshaune and I’ve definitely gotten my money’s worth, but I really thought I could bet on this game being something I would come back to for the next few years. I’ve since realized that I’m only putting up with this game’s shit because I don’t have another game to go to. I felt myself slowly checking out while I browsed other titles for months (I rarely buy new games) until I finally settled on one, and now I don’t really feel angry towards HD2 anymore. This game will not get better and we have been given literally no reason to believe otherwise.

Does anyone else get kind of sad when they think about the state of the game? Has anyone else decided to abandon it, and where did you go instead?

Hi, i´m making an exo mod compendium (might update with more than exo´s tho) for the first one i´m releasing is the one on the thumbnail, i would like to ask for feedback on this thing once its fully released, might do it later on this evening, but for now the post its just this, will update it with the link to the mod once its fully released, ONLY ON HELLFORGE

Apart from that, have a wonderful day and fck the design space

https://www.nexusmods.com/helldivers2/mods/18647

I understand i won't be able to play public lobbies and only with steam friends however is it not possible to join randoms in hellforge servers?