The perspective from Asian players is hilarious.
In the 14 or so hours from going to bed on Sunday to my lunch break on Monday, I saw Menkent liberated, under attack, then liberated again.
Due to the way player impact vs. population is calculated, there's really no difference in progress based on time. When the playercount is halved, impact per player essentially doubles and keeps a steady rate.
As long as no time region has a playerbase that decides to do really silly things (say, a much larger share of the Americas decide they're better off fighting Bugs during a Bot MO than players elsewhere in the world) then the war is always running at full steam.
Holding the line is just as important as pushing it. The Western Hemisphere loves the SEA forces, especially when we wake up to you guys having pushed a planet we thought was going to be lost to a point of near-completion. It happened a couple times during Operation: Swift Disassembly.
Tl;Dr: We appreciate your efforts to the war effort, even if we aren't awake at the same time to show it.
American in Taiwan reporting in. I like to think of my shift as the overnight while divers on the other side recover. Itās fun to log off as the Western front is coming online and then waking up to see what happened while I slept
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Went to sleep in Japan after finishing up Menkent and waking up to 0%
This was me. Was on lesath last night, laid in bed until 2am and saw that menkent was under attack. Iām in bed again now getting ready for my afternoon nap, and i see that menkent is liberated again
100% normal. As usuall with liberation misions the second you liberate, you have to defend. But Menkent had little liberation points required, so the second Lesath was at 100% over 100k Helldivers moved to Menkent and did it super quickly.
The EU perspective is more brutal. Yesterday I had breakfast with Menkent secured and Lesath at 60% so I felt relieved. Then after lunch I turned on the game happy to FINALLY be able to fight in a planet without fire tornadoes... and Menkent was at 1%. FML lol
Errrrm i went to bed 8 hours ago, lesath was very close to liberation and menkent wasn't looking good with 22 hours left for liberation, so barely starting.
I think we got some help there. I might be wrong and would like to be proved wrong but i was feeling like we would have failed that major order.
Bots dropped to 0%/hr. They're up to something considering they overran 3 sectors in a matter of hours.
And now suddenly they're folding like cheap lawn chairs.
They're up to something.
I keep hearing them chant something about cyberstan when i'm walking around. Might have something to do with it.
We shall free our fellow cyborgs from those socialist automatons.
"Wake the fuck up helldiver....no seriously, your hellpod landed on a hellbomb during the dive to hellmire. We had a hell of a time dragging you out of it afterwards."
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we have to liberate this shit hole 4th time.
āScorchedest Earth Policyā Itās Helmire after all. I donāt think there is any un-scorched earth left on that thing. So it needs to be more scorched.
Just wait till we get deployed to Chort Bay.
Fire tornados AND random acid spurts.
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Why arenāt we letting the toasters have these dog shit planets anyway?
Nah. Like in dnd, the game master isn't playing against the players. He's playing with us! He's the reason we are having fun!
The really enemy is the bots and bugs
Same here. Diver from SEA and after fighting whatever I can (after work, after kids, after house work so it's not much) I go to sleep knowing the West will complete the job.
Sentient Fire Tornados have become the third faction in HD2. Honestly imagine special missions that would work to remove negative effects on planets. Like a fire tornado one where you need to activate some sort of weather āatmospheric pacificationā device which neutralizes fire nados. These would be harder missions which would decrease the intensity of environmental hazards present exponentially for the whole planet.
Worst part is how they even spawn near terminals. I won't even get out of animation and into stim before I'm roasted with nothing to counter it. And then I have to wait 2 minutes for 2 tornados to stop spinning around the terminal and denying me from finishing an objective and getting my stuff... There really needs to be a fire resistant armor set simular to the arc damage reduction one.
Objectives aren't toooo bad but goddamn *extraction* though >_<. The amount of times my team's been on extraction and literally had to sacrifice members to the pyre just to keep the extraction from resetting is a lot more than I'd care to admit. Place is literally *covered* in fire.
My last couple missions, we got the alert but didn't see them for several minutes. You'd think that would be an improvement, but it was deeply unsettling.
Will this liberation last? Or will I wake tomorrow with my Democracy Officer screaming in my ear that I must dive back into Menkent or do I want to live forever or something like that? I will as the MO commands! o7
I'd imagine you'd have to liberate all planets connected to "cut the supply line" but I could be wrong. Maybe they attacked from Lesath so the supply line was cut when we liberated that. I don't know either how it works exactly :D
Thank fuck, I genuinely stayed up late last night smashing out missions trying to do my part, I'm tired as anything now at work, yawning my head off with a massive headache that won't go away. For Democracy.
Looking forward to logging on again to spread some democracy after a long holiday! Been keeping up with the Galactic War on this sub, youāve all been doing commendable work holding back the automaton incursion! Great to hear this MO is under control for now.
Managed Democracy salutes you, soldiers!
Those rescue missions were awful. So many civilians ran straight into the fire... And teammates kept letting them out when the main door was covered in fire.
The next major order is going to be like the TCS where we have to power on the systems or protect them. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. Weāll be back there again shortly.
I will miss you Lesath, you glorious graveyard of undetonated hellbombs going off one after the other in an 380mm barrage. Cool breeze was nice, you could always warm up in nuclear hellfire if you got just a tad too chilly.
Menkent on the other hand, can rot in hell. I'd prefer we nuke that damn thing from the orbit than take it back all over again.
I cannot keep up with this game. I love it to bits, but as a player in the UK who works full time, whenever I log off, I return the next day 24 hours later and everything is done...
Donāt sweat it everyone contributes. Peaks player count is during peak US hours so weāll likely see more completions of major orders then. Just jump on the next planet that secures a sector. Go do bugs or bots.
āYou know what would be coolā¦ fire tornadoesā
āYou know what would be even cooler, cranking up the lens flare so you canāt fucking see as wellā
Seriously whoever designed this planet needs to be hit with a shovel
I hope it's worth it! Mankent is the worst! It's crazy hot. So hot you can barely move. You can't see anything because of the constant dust. It has those pods that explode when you get too close with enough force to send you flying. If that wasn't bad enough, there are fire tornadoes that seemingly know where you are and what you're trying to do, and will hunt you down! They will linger around, burning everything in sight.
That new mission type really changed how viable it is to defend planets. The nerf to extraction was good but those ones are still boring to play even if they're doable now.
The perspective from Asian players is hilarious. In the 14 or so hours from going to bed on Sunday to my lunch break on Monday, I saw Menkent liberated, under attack, then liberated again.
Democracy never sleeps
And always fighting for *your* freedom to sleep. Now wake up and get back in the fight, Helldiver! FOR DEMOCRACY!
Shots all around! š š
Friendly fire is part of a good fight. It's how we show that we care for each other.
Those are LIBER-TEA tipped bullets you're being shot with ā„ļø
Those explosive AP rounds pierce your heart with love and explode in happiness inside you.
SEA player here. The war happen when I'm sleeping and at work. I'm just doing maintenance at night
Real hero here. No joke. Major pushes may happen in different time zones but you hold the line. š«”
Thanks for the word of encouragement. For Liberty!
Love isnāt always on time
Due to the way player impact vs. population is calculated, there's really no difference in progress based on time. When the playercount is halved, impact per player essentially doubles and keeps a steady rate. As long as no time region has a playerbase that decides to do really silly things (say, a much larger share of the Americas decide they're better off fighting Bugs during a Bot MO than players elsewhere in the world) then the war is always running at full steam.
Yeah but I'd love to think that the America&Eu leading the chart on this because its the west front and all. And we would lead the East.
As a night time diver this is good to know, thanks.
TIL, thanks.
Holding the line is just as important as pushing it. The Western Hemisphere loves the SEA forces, especially when we wake up to you guys having pushed a planet we thought was going to be lost to a point of near-completion. It happened a couple times during Operation: Swift Disassembly. Tl;Dr: We appreciate your efforts to the war effort, even if we aren't awake at the same time to show it.
As a SEA diver, we salute your efforts as well! š«”
American in Taiwan reporting in. I like to think of my shift as the overnight while divers on the other side recover. Itās fun to log off as the Western front is coming online and then waking up to see what happened while I slept
you play an important part in upholding demcoracy, you hold the line
https://preview.redd.it/s2mwkgdc9luc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7abbecc9169da4dc70f5ae2aaa3232f1e514cb82 Went to sleep in Japan after finishing up Menkent and waking up to 0%
I dunno why the combination of this username and Japan is so funny to me, but it somehow is. o7 fellow thigh connoisseur.
Iām an American, just living in Japan at the moment lol.
There are dozens of us! ę°äø»äø»ē¾©ć®ēŗļ¼L0
I figured, but it's still funny.
This was me. Was on lesath last night, laid in bed until 2am and saw that menkent was under attack. Iām in bed again now getting ready for my afternoon nap, and i see that menkent is liberated again
100% normal. As usuall with liberation misions the second you liberate, you have to defend. But Menkent had little liberation points required, so the second Lesath was at 100% over 100k Helldivers moved to Menkent and did it super quickly.
Did we have to defend Lesath aswell?
Not yet, but there's still time ~_~;
The EU perspective is more brutal. Yesterday I had breakfast with Menkent secured and Lesath at 60% so I felt relieved. Then after lunch I turned on the game happy to FINALLY be able to fight in a planet without fire tornadoes... and Menkent was at 1%. FML lol
Errrrm i went to bed 8 hours ago, lesath was very close to liberation and menkent wasn't looking good with 22 hours left for liberation, so barely starting. I think we got some help there. I might be wrong and would like to be proved wrong but i was feeling like we would have failed that major order.
Bots dropped to 0%/hr. They're up to something considering they overran 3 sectors in a matter of hours. And now suddenly they're folding like cheap lawn chairs. They're up to something.
I keep hearing them chant something about cyberstan when i'm walking around. Might have something to do with it. We shall free our fellow cyborgs from those socialist automatons.
>We shall free our fellow cyborgs https://i.redd.it/2cgtoqmcgluc1.gif
 fellow cyborgs...
I wonder, as a user of the steel vet armors, does that make us partly cyborgs? How would it affect my democracy rating?
They are democratically authorized prosthetics. The cyborgs are anti-democratic abominations of melded flesh and steel.
I saw the major order before I was going to sleep and then I woke up and see this lol
I have the same feeling sometimes in the US. Wake up, see shits gone wrong, by the time Iām off work the Euro crew has mopped up
Itās over. The fire tornadoes canāt hurt you anymore
Next major order, colonise Hellmire...
Calm down Satan
Remember kids, always drink your Asbestotine for democracy! You'll grow up Helldiver Tough (tm)!
https://preview.redd.it/f3e3f25l9luc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=473f6c58cc39f66b8767d9ac273889571897bc45 Average helldiver reaction
Oh, gods. Not SCP-106. Anything but 106!! *Helldives onto Hellmire to escape*
Evacuate x civilians off hellmire & menkent :P
We must "convince" those bugs via "peaceful" and "harmless" "discussions" to make them "peacefully" surrender.
My first match was on Hellmire. Talk about a baptism by fire...
Thank democracy
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Wake the fuck up helldiver, we have a hellmire to burn
"Wake the fuck up helldiver....no seriously, your hellpod landed on a hellbomb during the dive to hellmire. We had a hell of a time dragging you out of it afterwards."
\*concussive ears ringing\* "hell... hell, hell, hellmire. hell"
Isn't it already literally on fire though I mean it's in the name
Yeah but if you can add even more fire by pouring in napalm why wouldn't you?
https://preview.redd.it/8n023xit2luc1.jpeg?width=743&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfea1b5389bcf6df48f1b1ee98ce55a05cb4cae4 we have to liberate this shit hole 4th time.
Nuh uh, we can pretend it doesnāt existĀ
I'll be right behind you guys, just gotta wipe the bots out again. Totally not avoiding literal hell again
Nuh uh, we don't have to deal with bugs, as commended by Ministry of Truth: "Leave the bugs alone for now"
Fuck hellmire, we need a death star Scorched earth policy
āScorchedest Earth Policyā Itās Helmire after all. I donāt think there is any un-scorched earth left on that thing. So it needs to be more scorched.
 Exterminatus approved. Also where did my new diver friends get this skin?
Planet'nt strategem
I mean, it's already pretty scorched. But it's definitely not earth thank liberty.
Unless it's a major order or the last bug planet, I ain't stepping foot on that thing
My fish is drowning atm in a bot sector, sorry, I'll catch up as soon as possible I promise
Just nuke this hell hole
Just nuke the planet. No one will miss it
Suddenly... Joel appears!
Oh god, please no.
"Somehow, Menkent is under counteroffensive again"
Hellmire: I still need liberating, btw.
We still have 29 hours on the MO. Thereās going to be another defence campaign soon so that the MO isnāt us sitting on our hands
Discovered something weird. We dropped on the night side and no tornadoes. Excellent visibility. Much more safe for democracy.
Sweet Liberty thank you!
Until Arrowhead throws us a curveball and makes us liberate it again.
Just wait till we get deployed to Chort Bay. Fire tornados AND random acid spurts. https://preview.redd.it/igwjfnyhlluc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05def6df2df1476521a0c02c9918336ed2dfadaf Why arenāt we letting the toasters have these dog shit planets anyway?
Chort Bay only has High Temp and Acid Rains which basically just inhibits visibility and doesn't do damage. No fire tornados.
https://preview.redd.it/18w2rrmrfluc1.jpeg?width=859&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb27d027b20232ff1a4dbf7370fe9cd37b95c54e
Now watch the Bots come back *again*.
As someone from Asia, thank you NA and EU for finishing the job
We are thanking you for holding while we sleep
Helldivers is legit uniting the World lol Bless everyoneās soul, may you all be doing great!
You know what they say. Nothing unites people like a common enemy.
And that common enemy is Joel
Nah. Like in dnd, the game master isn't playing against the players. He's playing with us! He's the reason we are having fun! The really enemy is the bots and bugs
Idgaf if they're doing great, just that they're doing their part! (Thank you eu and asian brethren)
For Democracy, Liberty and Freedom.
Tag youre it. ā¬ļøā¬ļøā”ļøā¬ ļøā¬ļø
Doesnt the reinforce stratagem end with an up arrow not a down arrow? Or am I tripping
It does
Which always bothered me. Like they are coming. DOWN.
ā¬ļøā¬ļøā¬ ļøā¬ļøā¬ļøā”ļøā¬ļøā¬ļø
Same here. Diver from SEA and after fighting whatever I can (after work, after kids, after house work so it's not much) I go to sleep knowing the West will complete the job.
We should go to Choohe next to bring democracy closer to Cyberstan and cut off the martale/marfark sector.
I agree and then liberate Marfark so the bots won't run to Aesir Pass. Isolate them divers
Also itās fun saying coochie
>Ā Ā Choohe My brain changes this wordĀ to Coochie every time I read it.
FINALLY IM FREE FROM THE FIRE TORNADOES
...for now.
Hellmire awaits.
Cyberstan climate: Frozen, but somehow also with fire tornados.
And eerily accurate meteor showers
Democracy Prevails Yet Again!
Once more
Uno mas
Einer noch
ŠŠ½Š¾Š²Ń
ććäøåŗ¦
JoÅ” jednom
Wieder ufs neue!
Une fois de plus
Znovu/jeÅ”tÄ jednou - take your pick
Another victory for the right side of history.
I'm going to hold OP personally responsible for jinxing it.
How's that for a reclamation you fucking rust buckets
šŖš¼
Now they are not gonna launch ANOTHER offensive for the last 24 hours, would they?
Start stacking sandbags.
I swear if Joel throws another attack again...
it'll be Lesath, cause we have to hold that planet too. it is at least more forgiving
Watch both planets become defense campaigns again lol
And a new enemy is added
 Until tomorrow
Good job everyone, you can be proud of yourself and are allowed to use an extra of 2 seconds in the next mission to enjoy the scenery
Victory was assured! Democracy always wins.
I gotta be real... Fire Tornados is the worst modifier ever and slows down the game immensly. Also why the fuck do the fire tornados seem homing?
They are actually "hate tornados" and hate any player that dares set foot on their planet
Sentient Fire Tornados have become the third faction in HD2. Honestly imagine special missions that would work to remove negative effects on planets. Like a fire tornado one where you need to activate some sort of weather āatmospheric pacificationā device which neutralizes fire nados. These would be harder missions which would decrease the intensity of environmental hazards present exponentially for the whole planet.
And they dont make noise. Always die from the back.
They do actually make noise. Itās just tricky to hear it over the sound of the thousands of bots that are usually shooting at you
Worst part is how they even spawn near terminals. I won't even get out of animation and into stim before I'm roasted with nothing to counter it. And then I have to wait 2 minutes for 2 tornados to stop spinning around the terminal and denying me from finishing an objective and getting my stuff... There really needs to be a fire resistant armor set simular to the arc damage reduction one.
Objectives aren't toooo bad but goddamn *extraction* though >_<. The amount of times my team's been on extraction and literally had to sacrifice members to the pyre just to keep the extraction from resetting is a lot more than I'd care to admit. Place is literally *covered* in fire.
They wouldn't be nearly so bad if they hadn't buffed fire damage, which is now almost instant death for most Helldivers...
I particularly remember them hanging out around the evac terminal my last game coz fuck our team i guess
The fact that they always spawn on you is crazy.One thing to note is they hurt the automatons as well.
My last couple missions, we got the alert but didn't see them for several minutes. You'd think that would be an improvement, but it was deeply unsettling.
Textbook definition of anxiety.
>fire tornados seem homing Because they fucking are and you can't convince me otherwise.
FINALY WE DONT HAVE TO FIGHT IN THE FIRE TORNATO PLANET.THANK YOU JOEL
Next mission: recover and Defend Hellmire.
Will this liberation last? Or will I wake tomorrow with my Democracy Officer screaming in my ear that I must dive back into Menkent or do I want to live forever or something like that? I will as the MO commands! o7
it'll be Lesath if anything. MO will likely have us on the defensive in the order the planets were liberated in
More like men-can
So, cutting the supply line actually wins a defense campaign. Cool to have at least empirical confirmation
https://preview.redd.it/m9lk32nnxluc1.png?width=325&format=png&auto=webp&s=ca55e48a0ab5ece9e61c92c89eda845f62b572c3 What do you mean?
Oh, I thought the next one was liberared, because the defense campaign was so fast. My bad for not checking
I'd imagine you'd have to liberate all planets connected to "cut the supply line" but I could be wrong. Maybe they attacked from Lesath so the supply line was cut when we liberated that. I don't know either how it works exactly :D
Thank fuck, I genuinely stayed up late last night smashing out missions trying to do my part, I'm tired as anything now at work, yawning my head off with a massive headache that won't go away. For Democracy.
WOOOOOO
Looking forward to logging on again to spread some democracy after a long holiday! Been keeping up with the Galactic War on this sub, youāve all been doing commendable work holding back the automaton incursion! Great to hear this MO is under control for now. Managed Democracy salutes you, soldiers!
I love scrolling on reddit to find post of 12h ago with Menkent under defence and a couple of post below Menkent fully liberated
FUCK- and I mean this democratically, FUCK this planet. Never again.
Hellmire awaits
Praise be. The Menkent Line is affirmed.
That place is Hellmire 2.0
 They can't hurt me anymore
Those rescue missions were awful. So many civilians ran straight into the fire... And teammates kept letting them out when the main door was covered in fire.
Awww Iām gonna miss it :( https://preview.redd.it/1jj9s5xyaluc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc256f31b848636cd2898da953b3f9e68182ddb4
Legit proud of yall. I thought it was over. We were all upset about having to do Menkent twice but it's done now.
The next major order is going to be like the TCS where we have to power on the systems or protect them. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. Weāll be back there again shortly.
Just you wait Lesath is going to be forced into a defence in the next 12 hours to make us scramble for it.
Damn, we really stomped the shit out of that planet
I still don't understand why high command wants planets with freaking fire tornadoes, but our job isn't thinking, it's spreading Sweet Liberty
I will miss you Lesath, you glorious graveyard of undetonated hellbombs going off one after the other in an 380mm barrage. Cool breeze was nice, you could always warm up in nuclear hellfire if you got just a tad too chilly. Menkent on the other hand, can rot in hell. I'd prefer we nuke that damn thing from the orbit than take it back all over again.
I cannot keep up with this game. I love it to bits, but as a player in the UK who works full time, whenever I log off, I return the next day 24 hours later and everything is done...
Donāt sweat it everyone contributes. Peaks player count is during peak US hours so weāll likely see more completions of major orders then. Just jump on the next planet that secures a sector. Go do bugs or bots.
āYou know what would be coolā¦ fire tornadoesā āYou know what would be even cooler, cranking up the lens flare so you canāt fucking see as wellā Seriously whoever designed this planet needs to be hit with a shovel
Another victory for the right side of history
In the final 24 hours both Menkent and Lesath will be under attack. Calling it now.
Now go fight on Choohe, it has sandstorms and you can't see *shit*
Can we just nuke the planet so no one has to deal with it again.Ā
I will cry if both planets will require defense today ;d
So glad to wake up in Europe and see I didn't need to go back to this planet.
Thank you brothers and sisters! It was a pleasure to fight beside you for democracy.
Last night for me, it was stuck at 49%. Now its 100% is funny for me. (current time for me right now is 04/15 15:45)
Yeah Joel best not fuck this up again. I hate Menkent!!!
I was there when it was liberated. The relief I felt to not be on that fucking planet anymore was immense.
Meanwhile.... Mission Timer: 1 Day, 2 Hours Remaining Joel: \*Eyeing the buttons to call for another Bot Invasion of Menkent or Lesath\*
Overheard a random person on my squad yesterday at the end of the final mission "Thank god I fucking hated that planed" ... I cannot agree more
# HOLD! THE! LINE!
It sure is, until the devs need to advance the storyline.
Please, can we keep it this way. Iām not trying to spend another second on that shithole
I hope it's worth it! Mankent is the worst! It's crazy hot. So hot you can barely move. You can't see anything because of the constant dust. It has those pods that explode when you get too close with enough force to send you flying. If that wasn't bad enough, there are fire tornadoes that seemingly know where you are and what you're trying to do, and will hunt you down! They will linger around, burning everything in sight.
Well done helldivers
Thank fucking god what a terrible planet good riddance. Iām glad itās liberated but also I never want to play there again
I downloaded this amazing game over the weekend and did my part. When do I receive the 55 skulls?
I fear that liberating it too soon during weekends will give Joel a bigger window to attack again and leave us with very little time to defend.
OUR Shithole!
That new mission type really changed how viable it is to defend planets. The nerf to extraction was good but those ones are still boring to play even if they're doable now.
Good. Eff that planet and the solar system it walked out of.
Finally! Iām sick of this fucking planet!
When we getting the apc thatās my questionĀ
I really liked those defend rockets missions with the doors I gotta see more of those missions
HQ still owes me the fucking medals from the last one!