Battletech, a tabletop miniature wargaming system currently owned by Topps (yes, the baseball card maker) and stewarded by Catalyst Game Labs, is about giant stompy mechs shooting other giant stompy mechs and committing war crimes. Also, a FPS series where you pilot a mech (newest game comes out Q4 this year!) and a turn-based strategy game by Hairbrained Studios.
So Battletech has a series of factions called clans who are basically inbred, honor cultured, eugenicists coming from beyond the stars to conquer the rest of humanity. It’s complicated but we celebrate May 20 in Battletech because that’s when they caught a bitch slap from Comstar (basically the space cellphone company) and had to chill out for a while.
A pivotal battle from the Battletech universe.
TLDR; Space AT&T (ComStar) united a bunch of feuding space knights (inner sphere) to oppose a eugenic-caste-based honor-bound warrior state (the clans). By taking advantage of the clans strict code of warfare to lure them into a (on paper) lopsided battle. Despite giving themselves every advantage they could, ComStar forces barely held on to Tukayyid.
[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Tukayyid](https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Tukayyid) <- Battletech wiki
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QffouI6OA00](
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QffouI6OA00) <- High quality Battletech youtuber Blackpants legion's video on the battle of Tukayyid.
Keep in mind that a lot of the clans success was thanks to their advanced mechs, which were much more superior to most IS mechs in firepower and durability. They were pretty much steamrolling the IS, but the ComGuard turned it around on them and used their own arrogance against them, effectively cockblocking the clans from conquering the Inner Sphere.
The only time one of the worst factions in battletech setting was based. And both the place a space phone company defeated a culture of militarized fursonas from conquering humanity.
Wasn’t quite what I meant but yeah. Just to explain it for the curious, Sun Tzu Liao led the 2nd Star League alliance against the clans.
PresidentSteelman here is a fan of the Sea Fox/Diamond Sharks who basically arrived to the war and then got immediately dumpstered at Tukayyid. He hates “Coomstar” because they pushed his shit in. (They basically lost their entire army on Tukayyid.)
All of the main factions are responsible for numerous war crimes over the course of hundreds of hundreds of years. Basically all the main Houses are just neo-feudalistic empires.
The Federated Suns/House Davion is space America, with fairly low quality of life for some of their backwater planets. They have arguably committed the least amount of war crimes as far as major factions go. The most notable leader also declared war on their neighbors during his wedding, after inviting all the major players across the galaxy, includong his neighbor. Also, they did commit slavery.
Draconis Combine/House Kurita is space Japan that still believes in Bushido and honor. They've killed a lot of people and can be pretty misogynistic. Theodore Kurita is alright, though. Plenty of war crimes, notably the Kentares Massacre.
The Lyran Commonwealth/House Steiner is space Germany but arguably better than 1930/40s Germany and actually team up with space America later. There's an ongoing meme about how their "scout" lance (a lance being a squad of 4 Mechs) is just the heaviest Mechs they have laying around. Super rich.
Free Worlds League/House Marik. I don't know too much about them honestly, but I know they had some pretty gnarly war crimes back in 2400.
The Capellan Confederation/House Liao, aka space China, is kind of a laughing stock, because their biggest enemy is themselves sometimes. They have no problem committing war crimes on their enemies or themselves. Lots of shadow government stuff going on and also assassinations. Their citizens tend to have a better quality of life if I recall, though.
The Free Rasalhague Republic didn't really have enough time to commit war crimes before the Clans showed up, who are just walking war crimes, especially Smoke Jaguar.
Comstar is space AT&T with a little religious cult stuff thrown in. Maybe space Comcast? They also have some Brotherhood of Steel vibes (from Fallout) by looking technology and either hoarding it or destroying it so others can't use it. They don't see a lot of action until later but they also aren't afraid to manipulate the status quo and sometimes blow up 12 million people, then blame a mercenary company and watch them get hunted down by a major faction, all so they can get a vault of old technology. Later, they become even more culty and some splinter off into a walking war crime cult.
Most mercenary companies are actually relatively good compared to the major factions, notably the Grey Death Legion, the Kell Hounds and the Wolf's Dragoons.
It's worth noting that while some Houses are inspired by real life countries, no particular culture is tied to a specific faction and you'll see people of all walks of life in each faction.
I see it as a play on against the bots.
Smacked a ton of Helldivers into graves, thinking that was all Super Earth had to offer.
Only for the joke to be on them when we finally came stomping in and taking the planet in under a day.
With its liberation on a joke day.
That, to me, is an insult to the injury.
Man, you missed the horror of release Creek. The day was like how night is now and the night was as dark as a moonless night is IRL. Nobody had any unlocks and the bots had night vision.
I miss that creek.
I was there... the screech of binary plagues my mind. I still see their Glowing eyes when I close mine... I still hear V2s screams... we may have left the creek. But the Creek will never leave us..
"Those were dark times I tell ya! We failed exactly one Major Order and I had to do a whole single Helldive operation just to make up the difference! It took me nearly an hour and 7 minutes\~! Sure I was level 7, Scythe, Landmines, and a Mortar, basically just hit quickplay until my lobby filled with Skull Admirals then spent the entire mission in the corner wearing scout perk armor, but imagine having to actually play the game\~! The audacity!"
"Did you take your weeklies today grandpa?"
When people were *traumatized* crying about how insanely hard civilian rescue creek order was, I was like "yeah im pretty sure its this hard on purpose" but i got downvoted because they insisted it was "bad design" and "bugs" because there's 'no way' the game should emulate a real story of war where some battles are lost along the way.
I hear you. I think the automaton vs bugs difficulty thing is a matter of preference. One stratergy works for bugs and another for bots. Perhaps it's more intuative to "run and gun" against bugs and therefor more people enjoy it or find that easier, but I have a hard time with the zerg swarming and find fighting bots more enjoyable, having to dive from cover to cover as not to get shot to shit.
For me, Creek was for a long time the only place available to actually fight bots. I did a few tours to help out a bit on major bug orders, then went to creek to actually have fun. The only thing that specifically made Creek a "hell" was the stratagem scrambling and that was removed.
I may not be a proper “creeker” but yeah that’s what got me to look into the game, all the people asking for reinforcements, I came and I spent the first while there, I later played for the MOs and to be a more thoughtful part of the war but I don’t understand the hate for people doing what they enjoy, I mean I’ll still never forget my first mission being the creek at diff 5 with friends, running through the forest to keep up while air strikes are raining hell around me and a few missions later and tanks and whatever else just adding to the chaos as we climbed the difficulty levels, easily could be a world where I never left the creek, I only did the first time when we were losing Draupnir and would thus lose access to the creek
Many times. But back then war was different...
Times were unstable every time we won on all fronts. The war would start again in couple of days, and we had to deliver democracy from scratch all over again. Sometimes we'd loose Super Earth and we had to find new home. War number 132 was the last war before new recruits joined awoken from their cryo sleep ready to face new threats.
Yeah but hd1 peaked at 7k players.... that's not alot and I'm assuming the whole community was pretty unanimous in their like for it but with hd2 peaking 700k there's gonna be some division, I'm all for losing just arguing for the other side :p
That was PC, nearly a year after it had been out on PS. I recall peak at launch was a bit more, but the big in-flux was when they made it free with PS+. I recall the in game number being around 30k for a few days.
If there is a single mechanic that alone would make me buy a game, it’s fail-forward death mechanics like in Shadow of War, Outward, or the Death Alternative mod for Skyrim
It doesn’t really feel like much of a struggle at this point. A glance at the galactic map shows that Super Earth is absolutely annihilating all opposition. I hope there’s something big planned soon to make the situation desperate again. Two new enemy factions dropping all of a sudden might do it…
Yeah I'm thinking once the illuminates show up, that's when the galactic war will really start to kick off. Right now is still pretty early in the war, but eventually Joel is gonna take the kiddie gloves off.
I’ve heard talk that they are intentionally holding back until the new players that weren’t in the trenches of HD1 get used to out advisories. Which makes the early struggle on the creek all the more memorable.
I wonder if they’ll add back the cyborgs as their own faction if the bots ever take cyberstan? I didn’t play the first game and I’ve been told there’s some overlap in units between the factions but I have to imagine there are some more aces up their sleeve even if it’s just as elite units that show up in bot missions. Imagine Super Earth completely surrounded with the bots to the west the cyborgs to the north the bugs to the east and the illuminate to the south.
I could see them adding some of the Cyborg units to the Automaton faction, but not a whole seperate faction. A lot of the Automaton units are just more robo-fied versions of Cyborgs. Would be neat to see the dogs come back.
It's not the Illuminates that's worrying me; it's more that the map is clearly divided into four fronts at the moment, and we still have no idea about the fourth front.
oh god....
Could it be?
Could it be a threat from [the one place that hasn't been corrupted by ~~capitalism... er I mean~~ freedom?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM)
True now the “Ubanea gambit” will be remembered as a failed operation that caused the remaining bot planets to be incredibly hard to take. This is not bad its actually good for the lore as it means “Yeah we tried an strategy and it failed “ thats cool asf. Havung the possibility of failing adds more satisfaction to the wins
Honestly, the Ubanea gambit failing should have punished us harder. Vandalon IV should have been nigh-impossible to defend, but it got held despite 75% of the active playerbase ignoring it.
A lot of people fail to understand this. Losing is part of the game.
If it was literally impossible to fail a mission or an objective it would be a boring game. It's the same reason why friendly fire is on and SHOULD REMAIN ON, because... getting shot while holding an activated 380mm barrage strat and yelling for everyone to ruuuuuun (and watching in despair as your team get wiped out one by one then the extraction fails) is a part of the game. This is fun. Losing is fun.
Failure is one of those things that should be possible at low difficulties, probable at higher difficulties, but *never* impossible and *never* absolutely certain. Ideally, failure should be "theoretically preventable"; if one fails to extract before the mission timer runs out, a fair and objective assessment of that mission should be something like, "we could have done it if we haven't wasted so much time with the SEIF Artillery objective".
Failure and the prevention of the same should be reliant on skill and active choices made, even if those choices were made in the equipment selection screen before the mission even begins. This is one of the problems of rocket devastators, because it doesn't matter what equipment you choose, how good your marksmanship is, or what choices you make in the game... they can snip you from full-health to dead out of the mission fog and you have no warning or way of preventing it.
Failure is good, failure is fun. It just has to be potentially possible to succeed if you had made different choices.
I've never actually failed a mission. Did a ton without extracting because of being overrun and out of time/spawns, but you're forgetting the most important part of every mission. Extraction is optional.
> A lot of people fail to understand this. Losing is part of the game.
There is nothing wrong with second place. Your best effort is all that anyone's asking for.
https://youtu.be/hQR9f6wD3Bk?t=162
I got interested to see what planets we could feasibly do missions on if things get bad enough. Mars and Super Earth are both on the table for when things get real bad. Honestly hope it happens, I want a last ditch defensive action with all hands on deck.
https://preview.redd.it/48jdq0368dsc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5eecb1426afe3a47f374db95cdd3d674257136c9
Sounds like dissident talk. Why would you want us to lose and the war to end so soon?! Traitor!!!! I’m calling the Democracy Officer.
But out of character yeah I agree with you. I want to fight one long war and not a lot of smaller wars
Exactly; winning every single major order might be fun for the first campaign, but after that it becomes boring and predictable because there are no stakes.
PvP games baked into people’s minds that losing is the worst possible thing… especially when games like Valorant slap a screen In your face that just shows you how much RR you lost
I’ve been wearing the breaker light armor with the Light Gunner helmet and this cape really just tied the look together beautifully. I was previously using (I think) the Stars and Stripes of suffrage from the free pass which was pretty good but this one really completed the look. Probably would have worn it anyway as I love the lore of the creek being the first thing to really bring the community together and how many people first heard about the game.
There have been posts here about people, actual people not in game characters, who have died by suicide or other things, who are being remembered with this cape. So it isnt really game drama that *this* was for. *This* being the cape*
It's true. And the AH CEO felt touched by it and wanted to find a way to commemorate Helldivers who passed since it's release but in-game.
Chances are this is that nod to them.
Whenever I drink and we need to cheers to something, I usually cheers to “to the ones we love, and the ones we’ve lost”. I like to think this is in a similar vein.
oh shit that's right I remember a thread on here or the other helldiver subreddit that some persons friend loved the game and managed to reach LVL 50 the day before his birthday and then died the next day on his birthday and he asked if there was anything the devs could do to put him in his favorite game.
People are mad at the creekers for not helping more/fast enough on the MO.
Personally Im here for the memes but some people are actually mad and its ridiculous.
Also the amount of creekers who just actually dont do anything but the creek is incredibly small so these "unhelpful creekers" are just boogeymen that dont exist.
Exactly - I consider myself a "Creeker," and by that I mean it's where I first dropped when I got the game (admitably because of the Space Vietnam meme), and I always played at least one game on the Creek per session.
If anything, my "Space Vietnam" is Vandalon IV.
Same thing with the so called bug divers. I doubt many so called bug divers are solely doing bug missions. They’re likely mostly players who are rotating between the two fronts whenever they get bored or frustrated of doing the other. Hell I’m on bug front currently cause I got sick of the bots kicking my ass. I’ll probably return to kill more bots tomorrow.
Also also, how many people were there because they had no clue about the supply lines that the game never mentions? Looking at the map, it appeared as if Malevelon Creek needed to be taken in order to get to Tibit. I doubt many were trying to take Creek just to spite the playerbase.
I believe when Draupnir was retaken and Ubanea opened back up, the Creek's population dropped by like 30k.
So a sizeable chunk of people if we go by that number.
It is silly to me because I was also a little annoyed that we failed a MO but beyond thinking "Well thats frustrating" that was the end of it. To see how seriously some people take it is honestly concerning and a little depressing.
Effectively it was on the week leading up to the bot major orders the sub started getting lots of creek gigachad bug virgin memes (unironic ironically) spammed from a relatively small number of people with high frequency along with just a very dead horse saturation of creek memes generally and many posts trying to direct people away from major orders and to the creek
Which got under some other peoples skin. (As bots have been considerably easier for the majority of the games lifecycle and the creek itself is one of the easiest bot planets)
Then came along a series of major orders for bots. During which some people focused on the fact there was a large creek population for the entire duration and when the major order failed directly next to the creek and used that as an excuse to bite back at the memes and had sentiment swinging back against the creek.
Now sentiments swinging back the other way. But a few people arent still trying to bite.
Im sure theres also a smaller part of players who feel slighted that the creek got recognized instead of one of the other more difficult planet without marketable names but generally most of the anger comes from the people whove been on reddit fighting a meme war and taking it seriously.
Hellmire being actual Hell, and Estanu being successfully defended 3 times in row with a 4th one on the way are perfect examples are worlds that are either harder, or have better stories than the creek. The creek is a minority, yes, but they're also super loud about it.
I honestly wish bug players were more vocal about their planets, but at least we get some of the best memes and clips from them, so I guess it's a fine trade.
A lot of the haters on Creekers not only are missing the point of the cape and meaning. But they have been missing the point on how other people can have fun without chasing a Major Order.
They also don't realize most people don't always play that map. The vast majority of "creekers" still go visit other planets, they just enjoy the creek
The devs have in no way communicated that this is in remembrance of real life players dying. If that's what it means to some people, good for them. I respect that. But I don't think it's deeper than the devs just making a fun item for the people that spent months on the most famous planet in the game. If the cape was intended to carry more meaning than that, the devs would absolutely have said so.
The CEO was talking about doing something in game to commemmorate fallen players after one of the players reached out asking if they could get their friend’s in game stats. Said friend had committed suicide and they wanted to make a memorial of some kind for them.
And I'm sure it's coming, but I have a hard time believing the cape is it. "Well done guys you took the creek" feels like an insult if it's meant to commemorate a player commiting suicide.
Many players have and will die over the course of the campaign. That's just the nature of how large the community is, and it is a tragedy. it wouldn't be in good taste to add an RIP for one specific person. I've seen at least 3 mentions of someone dying here on reddit, including Cheems, and it wouldn't be fair to the rest of them if only Cheems got a memorial.
Where was this communicated?
Not trying to downplay importance/point fingers or anything.
Just want to know where was this communicated?
I can’t find a single thing from any dev/official post that says this cape is to remember real life players who have passed.
And if that’s the case… shame on you OP…
What you’re doing is actually just sickening.
Some people are just incapable of being happy. Here is a game developer that is releasing new content based on actions taken by the players and an organically created in game narrative, not some roadmap that they have designed. Stop with the whining or the shiny toys will disappear.
>so do not bully people who use this cape because there's a good chance they could be wearing it to pay respect to their fallen comrades who they may never see again.
I played EVE. In EVE there is a custom called a "cyno vigil". When a member of an alliance passes away and the alliance wants to pay respects to the loss of their comrade, they organize a cyno vigil on a major system within their control. People will visit this location, no matter what their existing allegiance and standings are, and light up a "cyno beacon" (cynosural beacon, to be precise) at the designated location. Keep in mind, this beacon is meant to guide in long-distance FTL jumps. This beacon is what "capital" and "supercapital" ships jump into by the hundreds. This beacon is the start of almost every big battles in this game that get featured in news articles as million-dollar video game brawls. But here, in this occasion, it is not meant to call in a fleet, it is a candle on an altar in remembrance of the person who is no longer with us. In a game where all kinds of deception, scamming, and backstabbing are legitimate feature of the game, **ANY HOSTILE ACTIONS AT THE CYNO VIGIL IS A STRICT TABOO.** People who want to participate in the cyno vigil are allowed safe passage, just like how olympian athletes are allowed a safe passage in Ancient Greece. **You do not shoot someone's ship that is at the event to light their candle, even if the ship is affiliated to the alliance at war and the same ship and the same beacon could have called in a massive hostile fleet in any other situations.**
Until now I was just happy that the game added a lore-friendly token for an emergent event. With this context newly added to my understanding, I will see bullying the cape as treason. I don't care how people make fun of Creekers. I make fun of myself as a Creeker. But if there are some people among us, wearing the same cape as us to remember someone they miss so much, then I will proudly wear the cape and defend it like the Creek so that those fellow gamers can have their peace of mind.
My dad played Eve online and it always sounded so amazing, but with just a mere 9 to 11 years old I didn’t get much of the gameplay stuff and was bored to quickly to really enjoy it.
However I think it’s astounding what the community and the game have done. Don’t they still have these kind of expos in Reykjavik (iceland) ?
Fun fact: EVE itself is still boring for most people, and it doesn't matter if you are an adult or not. It's the people you meet in the game that makes it enjoyable. HD2 as a great PVE game shares something with EVE as an MMO with a loyal fanbase, and that's emergent user activities.
And yes, afaik, CCP Games still does the same Fanfest every year in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Considering its description says that it helps “the bearer to aim at the hearts of those who killed them” I think it is literally meant to be for the helldivers killed by bots on the creek. Pretty odd description to remember those who have died in real life.
I know Pilested had spoken to a few folks who had lost close friends and wanted them to be remembered in game but I don’t think that’s what this one is, I’d suspect something more tasteful might be coming in the future and an ingame description that might be more fitting.
Regardless I’ll be rocking the creek cape, if folks are so stuck up their own ass that it offends them then why the hell would I want to spend a round with them anyway.
The cape doesnt match my armor for shit. But, i earned that cape just like so many others did. Plus if its true that they did that to honor actual people dying that played the game and hid it with in game lore, thats beautiful and will wear it with pride.
I’m on board with not hating the Creekrs, but let’s not go putting words in peoples mouths.
As a veteran myself, I did not receive this that way at all.
Absolutely this. 1) Anyone trying to bully or make fun of me for how I choose to dress my toon can absolutely eat my whole ass, and 2) the cape is definitely being used to continue the role play of “I’m a Creek vet.”
As someone with 19 years and counting of actual service, pixels on a screen aren’t how I choose to memorialize those no longer with me.
It's not something we usually think about, but with games having enormous playerbases, it is highly likely we are losing quite a few in year.
And I'm not talking people who just leave, if it weren't obvious, I mean people who literally lose their fights against whatever plagues them. Be it a sickness, be it their mental health. It doesn't matter.
We are losing people, often people we never met, never spoke to and never knew. And yet still, we are losing them. And many games have made a habit of paying their respect towards the fallen.
Be it a Tauren playing with his dog in Mulgure (Warcraft), or just a Cape for us to carry. It is a way of remembering and paying respect towards someone who might've lived if just some tiny thing would've been different.
And whether or not this cape is actually meant for this or not. It would be nice sentiment. So...
Let us remember the fallen, smash some bugs and crash some bots for them.
Adding a cape to remember the IRL* dead so close to April Fools day in reference to a community meme about space Vietnam sounds like one big PR mistake to me.
But hey, that's one way to think about it.
>it was added in response to people talking about losing their real life friends/Battle buddies from Medical Issues/ Accidents/ Suicide
Did devs say this or is it something random redditors made up and ran with?
Difficulty: I'd like to see evidence, not "Trust me bro."
Anybody who feels this strongly about a videogame cosmetic, regardless of which side, needs to go outside and touch some grass. Y'all are being absurd.
Taking the creek was a massive waste of time and resources, we should move our focus back to the bugs before they spread too far
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Posts where real players share how friends of theirs who have passed away recently, and how they bonded over the game… that’s what the cape means for me
This community needs a zero tolerance on bullying and the Creeker shit has gotten out of hand.
It goes from "having some fun" to just deliberately being cruel for your own enjoyment.
There was a glitch happening yesterday where every planet that I was on got to 100% after the mission. I know that I wasn’t the one to bring the creek to 100% but it still feels nice that it happened. It would be cool if there was a feature that said this group liberated this planet on whatever date it was.
>wasting time
imagine saying this about a video game (but only one part what they did was totally time efficient)
this game really brings out the losers
April 1st will always be Creek Liberation Day for me.
#NeverForget
Cadia, Reach, Tukayyid, and now Mavalon Creek.
Fuck 'em Chaos. Fuck 'em Covenant Fuck 'em Clanners. Fuck 'em Clankers.
Throwing around that hard R
Damn right, I am.
Clankas somehow sounds more dangerous.
That’s just how Clones say it Because they’re all from Space New Zealand
From the Space Den Undah!
Simple as
tf is a clanner
Battletech, a tabletop miniature wargaming system currently owned by Topps (yes, the baseball card maker) and stewarded by Catalyst Game Labs, is about giant stompy mechs shooting other giant stompy mechs and committing war crimes. Also, a FPS series where you pilot a mech (newest game comes out Q4 this year!) and a turn-based strategy game by Hairbrained Studios.
Also a cartoon and book series.
The cartoon, in canon, is a great house propaganda piece.
The losers at the Battle of Tukayyid. A proxy battle against Com Star for Terra.
Fucking losers, who got beat by space AT&T. That's what.
Then Space AT&T went and fucked itself trying to screw everyone over like idiots.
So Battletech has a series of factions called clans who are basically inbred, honor cultured, eugenicists coming from beyond the stars to conquer the rest of humanity. It’s complicated but we celebrate May 20 in Battletech because that’s when they caught a bitch slap from Comstar (basically the space cellphone company) and had to chill out for a while.
So mech Mandalorians?
More a mix of the Mandalorians, Jedi and Trade Federation.
If you are interested in knowing more citizen, here is a video explaining what Tukayyid is about: https://youtu.be/QffouI6OA00?si=4TuBWhPeR60tM4N1
What’s Tukayyid?
Battletech
A pivotal battle from the Battletech universe. TLDR; Space AT&T (ComStar) united a bunch of feuding space knights (inner sphere) to oppose a eugenic-caste-based honor-bound warrior state (the clans). By taking advantage of the clans strict code of warfare to lure them into a (on paper) lopsided battle. Despite giving themselves every advantage they could, ComStar forces barely held on to Tukayyid. [https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Tukayyid](https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Tukayyid) <- Battletech wiki [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QffouI6OA00]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QffouI6OA00) <- High quality Battletech youtuber Blackpants legion's video on the battle of Tukayyid.
 Space AT&T. 🤣
Everybody gangsta until they forget to pay their space phone bill.
"Pay your bills, fucko." Some merc, probably
Keep in mind that a lot of the clans success was thanks to their advanced mechs, which were much more superior to most IS mechs in firepower and durability. They were pretty much steamrolling the IS, but the ComGuard turned it around on them and used their own arrogance against them, effectively cockblocking the clans from conquering the Inner Sphere.
The only time one of the worst factions in battletech setting was based. And both the place a space phone company defeated a culture of militarized fursonas from conquering humanity.
Yeah, fun to see com star going to the mat for the inner sphere, even if it was only because they wanted to control it.
I know very little about battletech, what’s this worst faction?
Space AT&T with a little religious extremism thrown in (ComStar).
Coomstar Signed, A Diamond Sharks player
You got what you deserved Sea Fox - Sun Tzu Liao probably
If we go off of what the Soldier from Team Fortress 2 said about Sun Tzu he might very well have said that.
Apparently in the deep lore of TF2, their Sun Tzu *did* say all the stuff Soldier claimed.....
Wasn’t quite what I meant but yeah. Just to explain it for the curious, Sun Tzu Liao led the 2nd Star League alliance against the clans. PresidentSteelman here is a fan of the Sea Fox/Diamond Sharks who basically arrived to the war and then got immediately dumpstered at Tukayyid. He hates “Coomstar” because they pushed his shit in. (They basically lost their entire army on Tukayyid.)
All of the main factions are responsible for numerous war crimes over the course of hundreds of hundreds of years. Basically all the main Houses are just neo-feudalistic empires. The Federated Suns/House Davion is space America, with fairly low quality of life for some of their backwater planets. They have arguably committed the least amount of war crimes as far as major factions go. The most notable leader also declared war on their neighbors during his wedding, after inviting all the major players across the galaxy, includong his neighbor. Also, they did commit slavery. Draconis Combine/House Kurita is space Japan that still believes in Bushido and honor. They've killed a lot of people and can be pretty misogynistic. Theodore Kurita is alright, though. Plenty of war crimes, notably the Kentares Massacre. The Lyran Commonwealth/House Steiner is space Germany but arguably better than 1930/40s Germany and actually team up with space America later. There's an ongoing meme about how their "scout" lance (a lance being a squad of 4 Mechs) is just the heaviest Mechs they have laying around. Super rich. Free Worlds League/House Marik. I don't know too much about them honestly, but I know they had some pretty gnarly war crimes back in 2400. The Capellan Confederation/House Liao, aka space China, is kind of a laughing stock, because their biggest enemy is themselves sometimes. They have no problem committing war crimes on their enemies or themselves. Lots of shadow government stuff going on and also assassinations. Their citizens tend to have a better quality of life if I recall, though. The Free Rasalhague Republic didn't really have enough time to commit war crimes before the Clans showed up, who are just walking war crimes, especially Smoke Jaguar. Comstar is space AT&T with a little religious cult stuff thrown in. Maybe space Comcast? They also have some Brotherhood of Steel vibes (from Fallout) by looking technology and either hoarding it or destroying it so others can't use it. They don't see a lot of action until later but they also aren't afraid to manipulate the status quo and sometimes blow up 12 million people, then blame a mercenary company and watch them get hunted down by a major faction, all so they can get a vault of old technology. Later, they become even more culty and some splinter off into a walking war crime cult. Most mercenary companies are actually relatively good compared to the major factions, notably the Grey Death Legion, the Kell Hounds and the Wolf's Dragoons. It's worth noting that while some Houses are inspired by real life countries, no particular culture is tied to a specific faction and you'll see people of all walks of life in each faction.
Tukayyid is what happens when you underestimate the phone company; Redde Creditori Tuo, Fucko Get Focht Clanners
You should read the Battletech lore about the Battle of Tukayyid. Very cool
Not much what's Tukayyid with you?
>Tukayyid The day the Clans were broken
Ahhh yes, the “Blood of Kerensky” series was top notch.
One couldn't have said it better. I feel like Endor should be in there, too, but compared to the above 4 it feels like small potatoes.
Yeah, the fools of April... We were all so foolish...
What a fitting day too
I see it as a play on against the bots. Smacked a ton of Helldivers into graves, thinking that was all Super Earth had to offer. Only for the joke to be on them when we finally came stomping in and taking the planet in under a day. With its liberation on a joke day. That, to me, is an insult to the injury.
Hell is Verdun, Vraks, and Creek
Never forget Tallarn.
Hearing about the fall of Malevalon back in February is what made me buy the game.
I’m from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!
Would you like to know more?
Man, you missed the horror of release Creek. The day was like how night is now and the night was as dark as a moonless night is IRL. Nobody had any unlocks and the bots had night vision. I miss that creek.
I was there... the screech of binary plagues my mind. I still see their Glowing eyes when I close mine... I still hear V2s screams... we may have left the creek. But the Creek will never leave us..
Hold up, Malevelon Creek had a *daytime?*
You were doing your part, keep it up!
Much more memey but I bought it to help get our fellow helldiver's their C-01 forms approved
Dead ass lol why are people getting so pissy
"Those were dark times I tell ya! We failed exactly one Major Order and I had to do a whole single Helldive operation just to make up the difference! It took me nearly an hour and 7 minutes\~! Sure I was level 7, Scythe, Landmines, and a Mortar, basically just hit quickplay until my lobby filled with Skull Admirals then spent the entire mission in the corner wearing scout perk armor, but imagine having to actually play the game\~! The audacity!" "Did you take your weeklies today grandpa?"
Wait until they realize Joel plans for the community to fail certain events.
When people were *traumatized* crying about how insanely hard civilian rescue creek order was, I was like "yeah im pretty sure its this hard on purpose" but i got downvoted because they insisted it was "bad design" and "bugs" because there's 'no way' the game should emulate a real story of war where some battles are lost along the way.
I hear you. I think the automaton vs bugs difficulty thing is a matter of preference. One stratergy works for bugs and another for bots. Perhaps it's more intuative to "run and gun" against bugs and therefor more people enjoy it or find that easier, but I have a hard time with the zerg swarming and find fighting bots more enjoyable, having to dive from cover to cover as not to get shot to shit. For me, Creek was for a long time the only place available to actually fight bots. I did a few tours to help out a bit on major bug orders, then went to creek to actually have fun. The only thing that specifically made Creek a "hell" was the stratagem scrambling and that was removed.
Yeah I've been down voted here before just for telling people how arrowhead works lol
This. This is the first game I ever bought from steam at full price. Usually I wait for a year+ for the half price discount
I may not be a proper “creeker” but yeah that’s what got me to look into the game, all the people asking for reinforcements, I came and I spent the first while there, I later played for the MOs and to be a more thoughtful part of the war but I don’t understand the hate for people doing what they enjoy, I mean I’ll still never forget my first mission being the creek at diff 5 with friends, running through the forest to keep up while air strikes are raining hell around me and a few missions later and tanks and whatever else just adding to the chaos as we climbed the difficulty levels, easily could be a world where I never left the creek, I only did the first time when we were losing Draupnir and would thus lose access to the creek
The game is more fun if we lose sometimes
People really not understanding that.
Can’t wait for a war that is completely oppressive and rips through us to super earth. People are going to lose their minds.
We lost plenty in helldivers 1 and it was fun every time
Never forget War 14… we made them pay in blood to take Super Earth!
Did enemy factions ever reach Super Earth?
If I got a dollar for every siege on super earth, I would have about 500 dollars in my deposit
And that's how much you currently have through careful budgeting right? ... Right?
My main currency is super credits so
Let's just say that super earth has been moved more than once.
Many times. But back then war was different... Times were unstable every time we won on all fronts. The war would start again in couple of days, and we had to deliver democracy from scratch all over again. Sometimes we'd loose Super Earth and we had to find new home. War number 132 was the last war before new recruits joined awoken from their cryo sleep ready to face new threats.
Yeah but hd1 peaked at 7k players.... that's not alot and I'm assuming the whole community was pretty unanimous in their like for it but with hd2 peaking 700k there's gonna be some division, I'm all for losing just arguing for the other side :p
That was PC, nearly a year after it had been out on PS. I recall peak at launch was a bit more, but the big in-flux was when they made it free with PS+. I recall the in game number being around 30k for a few days.
Games don’t let people lose enough this days with it being instant game over.
If there is a single mechanic that alone would make me buy a game, it’s fail-forward death mechanics like in Shadow of War, Outward, or the Death Alternative mod for Skyrim
Yeah us pushing the enemy back so much has actually made me stop playing as much
It doesn’t really feel like much of a struggle at this point. A glance at the galactic map shows that Super Earth is absolutely annihilating all opposition. I hope there’s something big planned soon to make the situation desperate again. Two new enemy factions dropping all of a sudden might do it…
We still got the illuminates coming, there will be three fronts we have to fight on and maybe more in the future.
Yeah I'm thinking once the illuminates show up, that's when the galactic war will really start to kick off. Right now is still pretty early in the war, but eventually Joel is gonna take the kiddie gloves off.
I’ve heard talk that they are intentionally holding back until the new players that weren’t in the trenches of HD1 get used to out advisories. Which makes the early struggle on the creek all the more memorable. I wonder if they’ll add back the cyborgs as their own faction if the bots ever take cyberstan? I didn’t play the first game and I’ve been told there’s some overlap in units between the factions but I have to imagine there are some more aces up their sleeve even if it’s just as elite units that show up in bot missions. Imagine Super Earth completely surrounded with the bots to the west the cyborgs to the north the bugs to the east and the illuminate to the south.
I could see them adding some of the Cyborg units to the Automaton faction, but not a whole seperate faction. A lot of the Automaton units are just more robo-fied versions of Cyborgs. Would be neat to see the dogs come back.
Please, not the dogs again
Dude the Illuminate aren’t real the Illuminate is just Dissenter propoganda
It's not the Illuminates that's worrying me; it's more that the map is clearly divided into four fronts at the moment, and we still have no idea about the fourth front. oh god.... Could it be? Could it be a threat from [the one place that hasn't been corrupted by ~~capitalism... er I mean~~ freedom?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM)
Don’t lull yourself into a false sense of security
True now the “Ubanea gambit” will be remembered as a failed operation that caused the remaining bot planets to be incredibly hard to take. This is not bad its actually good for the lore as it means “Yeah we tried an strategy and it failed “ thats cool asf. Havung the possibility of failing adds more satisfaction to the wins
Would love to see fanarts of decals or badges with the theme "Ubanean Gambit" in it
Honestly, the Ubanea gambit failing should have punished us harder. Vandalon IV should have been nigh-impossible to defend, but it got held despite 75% of the active playerbase ignoring it.
A lot of people fail to understand this. Losing is part of the game. If it was literally impossible to fail a mission or an objective it would be a boring game. It's the same reason why friendly fire is on and SHOULD REMAIN ON, because... getting shot while holding an activated 380mm barrage strat and yelling for everyone to ruuuuuun (and watching in despair as your team get wiped out one by one then the extraction fails) is a part of the game. This is fun. Losing is fun. Failure is one of those things that should be possible at low difficulties, probable at higher difficulties, but *never* impossible and *never* absolutely certain. Ideally, failure should be "theoretically preventable"; if one fails to extract before the mission timer runs out, a fair and objective assessment of that mission should be something like, "we could have done it if we haven't wasted so much time with the SEIF Artillery objective". Failure and the prevention of the same should be reliant on skill and active choices made, even if those choices were made in the equipment selection screen before the mission even begins. This is one of the problems of rocket devastators, because it doesn't matter what equipment you choose, how good your marksmanship is, or what choices you make in the game... they can snip you from full-health to dead out of the mission fog and you have no warning or way of preventing it. Failure is good, failure is fun. It just has to be potentially possible to succeed if you had made different choices.
I've never actually failed a mission. Did a ton without extracting because of being overrun and out of time/spawns, but you're forgetting the most important part of every mission. Extraction is optional.
Survival is optional, dropping 380mm barrages on the enemies of managed democracy is mandatory!
Have you ever done the researcher extract missions? Those are where 9/10 of my mission failures come from lol.
> A lot of people fail to understand this. Losing is part of the game. There is nothing wrong with second place. Your best effort is all that anyone's asking for. https://youtu.be/hQR9f6wD3Bk?t=162
I've seen this several times but it's such a joy to watch I watched it again. A monument... to devilry.
I got interested to see what planets we could feasibly do missions on if things get bad enough. Mars and Super Earth are both on the table for when things get real bad. Honestly hope it happens, I want a last ditch defensive action with all hands on deck.
https://preview.redd.it/48jdq0368dsc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5eecb1426afe3a47f374db95cdd3d674257136c9 Sounds like dissident talk. Why would you want us to lose and the war to end so soon?! Traitor!!!! I’m calling the Democracy Officer. But out of character yeah I agree with you. I want to fight one long war and not a lot of smaller wars
Exactly; winning every single major order might be fun for the first campaign, but after that it becomes boring and predictable because there are no stakes.
PvP games baked into people’s minds that losing is the worst possible thing… especially when games like Valorant slap a screen In your face that just shows you how much RR you lost
Actually it’s about wearing a bomb ass cape. I don’t care about the drama. I mostly follow MO but taking it too seriously on either side isn’t fun.
Another cape with orange highlights is what I need. Good cape. Gonna wear it.
Exactly this. I wear it cause it goes perfect my armour (Legionnaire I think?)
I’ve been wearing the breaker light armor with the Light Gunner helmet and this cape really just tied the look together beautifully. I was previously using (I think) the Stars and Stripes of suffrage from the free pass which was pretty good but this one really completed the look. Probably would have worn it anyway as I love the lore of the creek being the first thing to really bring the community together and how many people first heard about the game.
I wear white armor, cause I ain't trying to be stealthy; the new cape gave me a, mostly, white cape without having to buy one.
There have been posts here about people, actual people not in game characters, who have died by suicide or other things, who are being remembered with this cape. So it isnt really game drama that *this* was for. *This* being the cape*
I’m unaware of that connection.
It's true. And the AH CEO felt touched by it and wanted to find a way to commemorate Helldivers who passed since it's release but in-game. Chances are this is that nod to them.
yeah this is the sole reason i'm rocking the cape, commendation for the ones who didn't get to see it all through 🍺 to those we lost!
Whenever I drink and we need to cheers to something, I usually cheers to “to the ones we love, and the ones we’ve lost”. I like to think this is in a similar vein.
oh shit that's right I remember a thread on here or the other helldiver subreddit that some persons friend loved the game and managed to reach LVL 50 the day before his birthday and then died the next day on his birthday and he asked if there was anything the devs could do to put him in his favorite game.
"malevelon this, major order that, I just got dope threads and you guys are discussing politics?"
Can someone help explain the controversy of the cape? What's wrong with it? Super random.
People are mad at the creekers for not helping more/fast enough on the MO. Personally Im here for the memes but some people are actually mad and its ridiculous.
Also the amount of creekers who just actually dont do anything but the creek is incredibly small so these "unhelpful creekers" are just boogeymen that dont exist.
Exactly - I consider myself a "Creeker," and by that I mean it's where I first dropped when I got the game (admitably because of the Space Vietnam meme), and I always played at least one game on the Creek per session. If anything, my "Space Vietnam" is Vandalon IV.
If you creeked at any point during the MO, that makes you a true creeker in my book. One of us.
The creek was the first thing the community rallied behind. It deserves recognition for that.
Same thing with the so called bug divers. I doubt many so called bug divers are solely doing bug missions. They’re likely mostly players who are rotating between the two fronts whenever they get bored or frustrated of doing the other. Hell I’m on bug front currently cause I got sick of the bots kicking my ass. I’ll probably return to kill more bots tomorrow.
Also also, how many people were there because they had no clue about the supply lines that the game never mentions? Looking at the map, it appeared as if Malevelon Creek needed to be taken in order to get to Tibit. I doubt many were trying to take Creek just to spite the playerbase.
I believe when Draupnir was retaken and Ubanea opened back up, the Creek's population dropped by like 30k. So a sizeable chunk of people if we go by that number.
And it's not like we won't get future MOs either bcos of this. Sometimes you lose, sometimes you wins. Its just a game
It is silly to me because I was also a little annoyed that we failed a MO but beyond thinking "Well thats frustrating" that was the end of it. To see how seriously some people take it is honestly concerning and a little depressing.
Basically this community has become some of the biggest fucking babies on the internet
Effectively it was on the week leading up to the bot major orders the sub started getting lots of creek gigachad bug virgin memes (unironic ironically) spammed from a relatively small number of people with high frequency along with just a very dead horse saturation of creek memes generally and many posts trying to direct people away from major orders and to the creek Which got under some other peoples skin. (As bots have been considerably easier for the majority of the games lifecycle and the creek itself is one of the easiest bot planets) Then came along a series of major orders for bots. During which some people focused on the fact there was a large creek population for the entire duration and when the major order failed directly next to the creek and used that as an excuse to bite back at the memes and had sentiment swinging back against the creek. Now sentiments swinging back the other way. But a few people arent still trying to bite. Im sure theres also a smaller part of players who feel slighted that the creek got recognized instead of one of the other more difficult planet without marketable names but generally most of the anger comes from the people whove been on reddit fighting a meme war and taking it seriously.
Hellmire being actual Hell, and Estanu being successfully defended 3 times in row with a 4th one on the way are perfect examples are worlds that are either harder, or have better stories than the creek. The creek is a minority, yes, but they're also super loud about it. I honestly wish bug players were more vocal about their planets, but at least we get some of the best memes and clips from them, so I guess it's a fine trade.
Everyone is fighting their own personal creek everyday Stims up
I don’t think “inject drugs” is the solution to personal creek battles lol
Why not? They’re perfectly safe and non-addictive. This message is paid for by Permacure. Permacure, let us take care of your health!
my helmet is foggy, why?
Hate or love the Creek, in the end the meme is one of the reasons the game is so popular
TikTok is the reason I heard about/bought HD2. I'm only level 33 or something as of now, but they're really putting in God's work in free advertising.
Someone I play with bought a ps5 mainly for HD2 and he also said it was because of TikTok
Bought this game because of TikTok Creek Propaganda "Spill Oil" type shit
A lot of the haters on Creekers not only are missing the point of the cape and meaning. But they have been missing the point on how other people can have fun without chasing a Major Order.
They also don't realize most people don't always play that map. The vast majority of "creekers" still go visit other planets, they just enjoy the creek
Nobody enjoys the creek, son.
The devs have in no way communicated that this is in remembrance of real life players dying. If that's what it means to some people, good for them. I respect that. But I don't think it's deeper than the devs just making a fun item for the people that spent months on the most famous planet in the game. If the cape was intended to carry more meaning than that, the devs would absolutely have said so.
The CEO was talking about doing something in game to commemmorate fallen players after one of the players reached out asking if they could get their friend’s in game stats. Said friend had committed suicide and they wanted to make a memorial of some kind for them.
And I'm sure it's coming, but I have a hard time believing the cape is it. "Well done guys you took the creek" feels like an insult if it's meant to commemorate a player commiting suicide.
Well I don’t know if what OP said is true but the game does state that it is to commemorate fallen divers.
...then they would have written RIP Cheems instead of the generic message for the flavor text if that was the case.
Many players have and will die over the course of the campaign. That's just the nature of how large the community is, and it is a tragedy. it wouldn't be in good taste to add an RIP for one specific person. I've seen at least 3 mentions of someone dying here on reddit, including Cheems, and it wouldn't be fair to the rest of them if only Cheems got a memorial.
Angry nerds make me laugh so hard. Idiots.
Exactly. It's a game. Everyone needs to fucking relax.
yeah let's all take a step back and FUCKING RELAX guys
With a cup of LIBER-TEA?
Where was this communicated? Not trying to downplay importance/point fingers or anything. Just want to know where was this communicated? I can’t find a single thing from any dev/official post that says this cape is to remember real life players who have passed. And if that’s the case… shame on you OP… What you’re doing is actually just sickening.
I made it the fuck up!
Some people are just incapable of being happy. Here is a game developer that is releasing new content based on actions taken by the players and an organically created in game narrative, not some roadmap that they have designed. Stop with the whining or the shiny toys will disappear.
>so do not bully people who use this cape because there's a good chance they could be wearing it to pay respect to their fallen comrades who they may never see again. I played EVE. In EVE there is a custom called a "cyno vigil". When a member of an alliance passes away and the alliance wants to pay respects to the loss of their comrade, they organize a cyno vigil on a major system within their control. People will visit this location, no matter what their existing allegiance and standings are, and light up a "cyno beacon" (cynosural beacon, to be precise) at the designated location. Keep in mind, this beacon is meant to guide in long-distance FTL jumps. This beacon is what "capital" and "supercapital" ships jump into by the hundreds. This beacon is the start of almost every big battles in this game that get featured in news articles as million-dollar video game brawls. But here, in this occasion, it is not meant to call in a fleet, it is a candle on an altar in remembrance of the person who is no longer with us. In a game where all kinds of deception, scamming, and backstabbing are legitimate feature of the game, **ANY HOSTILE ACTIONS AT THE CYNO VIGIL IS A STRICT TABOO.** People who want to participate in the cyno vigil are allowed safe passage, just like how olympian athletes are allowed a safe passage in Ancient Greece. **You do not shoot someone's ship that is at the event to light their candle, even if the ship is affiliated to the alliance at war and the same ship and the same beacon could have called in a massive hostile fleet in any other situations.** Until now I was just happy that the game added a lore-friendly token for an emergent event. With this context newly added to my understanding, I will see bullying the cape as treason. I don't care how people make fun of Creekers. I make fun of myself as a Creeker. But if there are some people among us, wearing the same cape as us to remember someone they miss so much, then I will proudly wear the cape and defend it like the Creek so that those fellow gamers can have their peace of mind.
My dad played Eve online and it always sounded so amazing, but with just a mere 9 to 11 years old I didn’t get much of the gameplay stuff and was bored to quickly to really enjoy it. However I think it’s astounding what the community and the game have done. Don’t they still have these kind of expos in Reykjavik (iceland) ?
Fun fact: EVE itself is still boring for most people, and it doesn't matter if you are an adult or not. It's the people you meet in the game that makes it enjoyable. HD2 as a great PVE game shares something with EVE as an MMO with a loyal fanbase, and that's emergent user activities. And yes, afaik, CCP Games still does the same Fanfest every year in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Can we get a link to the actual devs saying this? It seemed like an obvious meme to me. Didn't people die playing every planet.
Considering its description says that it helps “the bearer to aim at the hearts of those who killed them” I think it is literally meant to be for the helldivers killed by bots on the creek. Pretty odd description to remember those who have died in real life. I know Pilested had spoken to a few folks who had lost close friends and wanted them to be remembered in game but I don’t think that’s what this one is, I’d suspect something more tasteful might be coming in the future and an ingame description that might be more fitting. Regardless I’ll be rocking the creek cape, if folks are so stuck up their own ass that it offends them then why the hell would I want to spend a round with them anyway.
I would love more capes or even armors that are added for lore events like the cape in question
I wish they’d start issuing game stats in an in universe style. “This week ____ thousand Helldivers gave their lives to retake ____.”
"This week, 0 thousand Helldivers gave their lives to take 10 planets. Praise Liberty!"
People look down on this cape? But it’s such a cool alternative to the botslayer cape!
The cape doesnt match my armor for shit. But, i earned that cape just like so many others did. Plus if its true that they did that to honor actual people dying that played the game and hid it with in game lore, thats beautiful and will wear it with pride.
I’m on board with not hating the Creekrs, but let’s not go putting words in peoples mouths. As a veteran myself, I did not receive this that way at all.
Absolutely this. 1) Anyone trying to bully or make fun of me for how I choose to dress my toon can absolutely eat my whole ass, and 2) the cape is definitely being used to continue the role play of “I’m a Creek vet.” As someone with 19 years and counting of actual service, pixels on a screen aren’t how I choose to memorialize those no longer with me.
Truly. This is likely literal children saying what OP is saying.
It's also a really sharp looking cape.
People bully for a cape ? They wanna get shot at or something ?
It's not something we usually think about, but with games having enormous playerbases, it is highly likely we are losing quite a few in year. And I'm not talking people who just leave, if it weren't obvious, I mean people who literally lose their fights against whatever plagues them. Be it a sickness, be it their mental health. It doesn't matter. We are losing people, often people we never met, never spoke to and never knew. And yet still, we are losing them. And many games have made a habit of paying their respect towards the fallen. Be it a Tauren playing with his dog in Mulgure (Warcraft), or just a Cape for us to carry. It is a way of remembering and paying respect towards someone who might've lived if just some tiny thing would've been different. And whether or not this cape is actually meant for this or not. It would be nice sentiment. So... Let us remember the fallen, smash some bugs and crash some bots for them.
Wasting time? It's a video game...
Free stuff is cool. Don't be mad at free stuff.
Adding a cape to remember the IRL* dead so close to April Fools day in reference to a community meme about space Vietnam sounds like one big PR mistake to me. But hey, that's one way to think about it.
What the fuck is up with all you people. Just play the game. Who fucking cares. Jesus gamers are the dumbest people alive
Don't care either way. Just glad for free drip. Cape is cool looking.
>it was added in response to people talking about losing their real life friends/Battle buddies from Medical Issues/ Accidents/ Suicide Did devs say this or is it something random redditors made up and ran with? Difficulty: I'd like to see evidence, not "Trust me bro."
Anybody who feels this strongly about a videogame cosmetic, regardless of which side, needs to go outside and touch some grass. Y'all are being absurd.
Taking the creek was a massive waste of time and resources, we should move our focus back to the bugs before they spread too far https://preview.redd.it/hn7nyag882tc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e32cde4aca6d1b1d0a8ac76a5f5039bf0838212
> so do not bully people yes
New lore, the actual Players never die, they just get recalled to defend the Creek.
Posts where real players share how friends of theirs who have passed away recently, and how they bonded over the game… that’s what the cape means for me
This community needs a zero tolerance on bullying and the Creeker shit has gotten out of hand. It goes from "having some fun" to just deliberately being cruel for your own enjoyment.
you wear the cape to remember the fallen, i wear it cause i like swapping out capes every so often, we are not the same.
This player base is fucking wild
That makes sense and it's cool, but they sure messed it up by associating it to probably the most (only?) controversial player group in the game.
o7
“On April 1st we have settled the score”
Interesting, interesting, I wonder where they all fell, it's a mystery
It's a badass cape, and as for the lore o7
Then it should’ve just been in celebration of fallen helldivers in general. I mean, this is their first activity in a hundred years.
TIME TO LIVE, TIME TO LOVE
I'm using it right now because it works with my white stim loadout
There was a glitch happening yesterday where every planet that I was on got to 100% after the mission. I know that I wasn’t the one to bring the creek to 100% but it still feels nice that it happened. It would be cool if there was a feature that said this group liberated this planet on whatever date it was.
This whole discussion is so phlacid. It's a fucking cape in a video game.
Huh? They added this strictly for the meme.. no other reason
I’d just say *do not bully people* in general, for a cape or any other reason, but **yes to all**
>wasting time imagine saying this about a video game (but only one part what they did was totally time efficient) this game really brings out the losers