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  • 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.



  • I’m not about to leave it a negative review but I gotta say… that was the worst experience I’ve had with Helldivers since I’ve been playing.

    The Super Earth maps were ugly as fuck on their own and that’s not to speak about the clunky map mess, how buggy it was and lighting being completely wrong. But none of that is a serious problem. What bugged the hell out of me is that this entire situation did nothing other than embolden the most toxic Divers to be as toxic as humanly possible.

    I am a BugDiver. I go squish bugs. I do my part. The bots I’ll go against but they’re okay. The bugs I really enjoy fighting against. The squids I could not possibly care less about. I don’t find the gameplay particularly enjoyable for them as a start, speaking of nothing about the visual look of those maps and missions, so I just don’t play it. But that straight up wasn’t an option for the past couple of weeks because everytime I went to answer an SOS call on a bug planet it would just be someone yelling about how we’re not helping Super Earth. I tried to get on a few days ago and full on SCREECHING was occuring because the MO was super close and “Bug Divers refused to help what mattered”. Then something happened, I have no idea what, but evidently Bug Divers could have had an impact on the Super Earth stuff. I wasn’t paying any attention and the behavior half switched. It went from complete screeching to half screeching and half “Well AH finally gave you guys a reason to be helpful.” So I switched to a whole ass different planet that had absolutely nothing to do with the war.

    I did not fucking care about this Super Earth invasion at all. I didn’t find it fun in the slightest and a good major portion of that was because every single Diver that I had the misfortune of dealing with who wasn’t calling themselves a BugDiver was going out of their way to be as toxic as humanly possible, all emboldened by AH saying “Fine. You don’t want to play the Galactic War? We’ll FORCE you to through social pressure from the community.” It got me to stop playing the game entirely. I might reconsider now that this shit is over.

    My greatest disappointment is that Prosperity City didn’t burn to the fucking ground and that any voters on that planet survived.










  • I always loved that scene. The word Toronto is written in like three places in that square and there’s more than one Canadian flag. Both a dig at the fact that Toronto is used for New York everywhere and the fact that Kirk is a glorious dumbass.

    Fun fact: Did you know that New York City has basically no alleys? They’ve got around 5 and only one of them is really film worthy. Meanwhile, Toronto has alleys up the ass. One of the reasons people believe alleys are everywhere in NYC is because they are everywhere in downtown Toronto and that’s where they film.



















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    5 days ago

    Oh that’s even better because the things you’re resurrecting don’t count towards that total. You’re popping up minions/companions/familiars. They don’t fill up the NPC or PC slots so you can have a whole ass army if you have multiple necromancers.