https://x.com/Pilestedt/status/1928584527590371347

Interestingly, around 2.5M played weekly before the event, so only a gain of ~900k players. I’d be curious if the number of missions per player changed at all.

  • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    I sure as shit wasn’t one of them after being bullied off the game entirely by Squid Divers.

      • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I prefer playing with people and I don’t have friends who play it consistently. Every lobby I joined, or tried to run, had at least one person join in and frag us all repeatedly while screaming that we should be fighting for Super Earth. If they weren’t fragging they would join and just start yelling about it until whoever the host was kicked them. After 3 days straight of that and not a single game where that didn’t occur, I uninstalled the game entirely and let it play out. It was utterly impossible for me to find a game that wasn’t being made as toxic as humanly possible by people who just hated any BugDiver who didn’t find Super Earth maps, or Illuminate gameplay, to be remotely enjoyable.

        • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Ever since I found a helldivers focused discord I don’t really play with randos. Also if those losers had been playing illluminate instead of harassing people maybe we would have gotten that MO.

        • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Fascists do tend to externalize blame for all issues, so blaming bugdivers for Super Earth’s plight (whether scapegoat or not) is canonically appropriate for them to do… Although I am very sorry you had a bad time…

          For the “Heart of Democracy” campaign, at the end of any play session, I tended to join new single digit level folks wherever I can find them, help out, and then say that I had hoped to see them join the frontline to help us defend Super Earth next time they play.

          I feel like making new players’ initial impressions : / first experiences positive, we help grow and foster a healthy community of “Helpdivers.”