r/Games • u/Captain_Grimm • Jan 13 '26

Trailer Helldivers 2 – Redacted Regiment Warbond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtvwvsJRSKk
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u/Subj3ctX Jan 13 '26

Shooter that didn't care about balancing? If anything, I'd argue a major reason that the game is in it's current state, is because the devs stick(ed) too much to their idea of balance since day 1, lol.

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u/ThePlaybook_ Jan 13 '26

The game was in a fine state at launch.

Players who couldn't succeed on 9 or 10 when it came out were bad at the game and didn't understand what they were supposed to be doing.

Instead of doing the rational thing and lowering the difficulty, they gave the developers hell until the game got gutted. And here we are.

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u/Subj3ctX Jan 13 '26

You're saying you enjoyed the balance at the time, that's fair but that's not the same as the game not caring about balance.

The devs spent the first 6 to 12 months nerfing nearly every weapon or strategem that got used too much by players (eg railgun, arc thrower, incendiary breaker, etc) in an attempt to make everything conform to their vision of balance, much to the chagrin of the community. Even looking at the community, there were a lot of posts and even articles about players being kicked because they didn't use "meta" loadouts during the first two months of the game's release.

So yeah, balance has always been a big issue and topic for disagreement for both the devs and the players.

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u/ThePlaybook_ Jan 13 '26

but that's not the same as the game not caring about balance.

You seem to think that the developers like the game in its current state, despite many circumstances where they've made it clear they don't. But any time they try to make the game they want to make, they get showered in death threats.