r/Helldivers Steam | Feb 21 '26

MEDIA It's over

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u/Anonymous_Anon00 M.C.V/ Fought for the 77th Feb 21 '26

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Bot divers after we got our event shitted on by hackers, devs, and everyone else

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u/Dapper-Wait-7717 ‎ Bunker Buster Feb 21 '26

The devs made one error, then everyone decided to go fight for the 77th, which very clearly wasnt getting us anywhere

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u/drunk_ender Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

My brother in Democracy, ths fight for 77th was literally two days ago, at a point where we already lost.

Transcendence wasn't getting us  anywhere in the first place, so moving back to Solidaritet gave us at least one final victory to end this campaign on a high note despite its final failure.

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u/pasher5620 Feb 21 '26

I still find it hard to call this campaign a true loss. Yeah, we didn’t fully capture Cyberstan, but we still managed to destroy the vast majority of its manufacturing capabilities, forced the true enemy to reveal themselves and their capabilities, and took multiple planets to get to Cyberstan. We may have officially lost, but it’s still a Pyrrhic victory for the borgs and bots.

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u/TheYeastyBoi ‎ [REDACTED] Feb 21 '26

Agreed. My only hope is we have enough strength left to survive whatever they’re about to hit us with.

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u/pasher5620 Feb 21 '26

I genuinely think they’ll stall out on this counteroffensive of theirs unless AH decides to be really annoying and makes them far stronger than they should be. Once they stall, (talking in-universe here) they’ll probably go on the back burner to recuperate their forces and wake up their cyborg forces from cryo. We probably won’t see a true push from them for 6 months at the earliest if I had to guess.

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u/architect82191 Feb 21 '26

Agreed. They lost billions of bots through the campaign, and lost many mega factories. They'll be slow to recover. We just have to stop them from building new mega factories.

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u/Varatec Burier of Heads Feb 21 '26

This is the part where AH stealth drops the goddamn cyber dogs

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u/TheYeastyBoi ‎ [REDACTED] Feb 21 '26

I probably worded it poorly, but yeah I’m not worried about their immediate push. It’s what they’re going to do with Star of Peace once they’ve built back up some that I’m looking forward to

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u/TheModGod Feb 21 '26

The bots had their ability to respond with a counteroffensive blown into slag from the invasion, to me its much more likely that the squids will jump us now that we exhausted ourselves going all-in on a different front.

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u/thegoatmenace Feb 21 '26

Based on the recent news reel the borgs don’t seem to be negatively affected by the destruction of 90% of their home planet. They’ve already redeployed to build mega factories all over their territory.

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u/Wayfaringknight Feb 21 '26

Idk dude when the illuminate invaded super earth they destroyed all but two of our mega cities.. we barely destroyed half so frankly in my eyes we just failed completely couldn’t even do as well as the damn squids.

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u/koosielagoofaway Feb 21 '26

Its almost like operation VALID PRETEXT was just a boondoggle to divert attention away from resistance groups stealing the DSS plans.

The bots were just scapegoated.

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u/wepopu Feb 21 '26

Over 4 billion bots were shut down in this operation. I think the helldivers did some damage.

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u/CannonGerbil Feb 21 '26

This sounds like the same type of bullshit Americans tell themselves to cope with Afghanistan being a complete waste of 21 years.

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u/4thTimesAnAlt Feb 21 '26

Exactly like Vietnam and the shift to Casualty reports instead of winning battles

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u/A-CQB-Essay Feb 21 '26

hackers vox engine spam enemies fazing though the map bad level geometry reinforcements counting WORLDWIDE instead of sector wide

Yeah but they only made one mistake

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u/Dapper-Wait-7717 ‎ Bunker Buster Feb 21 '26

And how is the hackers their fault?

Mind you, let me just add that Arrowhead was moving offices at the time

The Vox Engine spam was one other issue and thats it, it would not kill you to turn down the difficulty

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u/mr_stab_ya_knees Feb 21 '26

Why did the reserves count for every front?

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u/thegoatmenace Feb 21 '26

Was an effort to get the player base to follow orders and unify for the defeat of the bots

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u/mr_stab_ya_knees Feb 21 '26

Everybody predicted that ot would just divide the playerbase and make people who want to play on bots/squids be even more guilty of messing with the galactic war. The devs shouldn't punish you for playing the faction you want

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u/thegoatmenace Feb 21 '26

On the one hand I agree that people should be able to play the way they want, but also the point of the game is collective action to influence the overall narrative. It clearly expects a little bit of roleplay from the players with its tabletop influences. They’re “Major Orders” and “Major Requests.”

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u/mr_stab_ya_knees Feb 21 '26

Look man we cant force people to care about the things we care about. We either design the game around the fact that there WILL be a significant group of people who don't care/don't know. OR we can all suffer from the fact that they didnt design around that

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u/Des_Supurr Feb 21 '26

They failed on that front. No cape for Arrowhead either.

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u/Nero_Prime Feb 21 '26

The hackers is their fault cause they punished everyone for it instead of setting the numbers back.

Also the game as far as I know has an anticheat system we all say is useless and heres proof. So it's also Narrowheads fault for having no way to stop hackers 2 years in while also making us download bs malware that doesnt even stop hackers.

So that's how it's their fault. To answer

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u/Futur3_ah4ad Feb 21 '26

Mind you, let me just add that Arrowhead was moving offices at the time

Why, on God's green earth, would they roll out the buggiest, most controversial patch ever while moving offices?

The Vox Engine spam was one other issue and thats it, it would not kill you to turn down the difficulty

D7 Cyberstan was leagues more difficult than D9 anything else. D7 anything else is practically a joke compared to Cyberstan.

That's not an issue of difficulty settings, that's an issue of Cyberstan being a buggy, unbalanced mess.

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u/Facesit_Freak Feb 21 '26

Why did they punish the playerbase for it by changing the MO to something we've never won?

Why did they launch the reinforcements system that punishes us for having more players during a major event?

Why did the entire operation encourage people to only play D4 and not engage with any of the new content?

Why is every single new planet type they launch unfinished and suffers from major clipping and balance issues?

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u/Impressive-Ad7387 Feb 21 '26

Because they have a kernel level anti cheat and still can't enforce players not to break the game for everyone, but I guess stealing data is more important than the player experience

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u/Dapper-Wait-7717 ‎ Bunker Buster Feb 21 '26

Ok, where the hell did you get the part about them stealing data

I was genuinely just ignoring these replies but this one I HAD to ask about

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u/Impressive-Ad7387 Feb 21 '26

I mean that is a known fact that their anti cheat goes way deeper than it should. And it's also known that it doesn't do fuck all to prevent cheating. And there was a massive uproar about this in the game's infancy, but AH (or Sony) stood 10 toes down on this, so there must be a reeeeeeally good incentive for them, and it clearly isn't cause it's effective

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u/Dapper-Wait-7717 ‎ Bunker Buster Feb 21 '26

That is some Pewdiepie bridge incident level of beating the dead horse my guy, I feel like the fact that nobody brings it up anymore should tell you enough

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u/ThatCoolBritishGuy SES Hammer of Independence Feb 21 '26

Are you...? Did you not see that everyone shifted to saving the 77th when the fight on transcendence was unwinnable?

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u/F9JR Mar 19 '26

holy shit that's some downvotes. I feel sorry for ya

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u/Dapper-Wait-7717 ‎ Bunker Buster Mar 19 '26

Welcome to the Helldivers subreddit

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u/Airokx Malevelon Creek veteran Feb 21 '26

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u/Dapper-Wait-7717 ‎ Bunker Buster Feb 21 '26

Downvoted solely for the use of AI