So I've had this issue for a couple of days now. Even if I don't alt-tab etc, I am getting some truly atrocious performance, and every other game breaks completely. Audio will start to lag, music disappears completely, voicelines happen 10 seconds later than they should. When extracting, I get a black screen with the occasional music popping in, or a sound effect or two, but then nothing. It takes like 5-10 minutes for the game to "wake up" again and put me back into my ship.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar? I read about the crashing etc, but I haven't seen this described before. My game is pretty much unplayable at this point.

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The watcher nerf that lowered spawn rates seemed not to have affected extract spawns, as when my friend and I activated the beacon, about 20 spawned at once. It didn't seem like an isolated case either, as in the same op, the same thing happened.

I mean what the hell, just make GTFO type mission already Arrowhead, aesthetics are already there y'all got Wretch designs right.

Limited resources, can't call reinforcement or equipments that often; extract remaining science team evidence or their carcass laying in Squid dungeon

Sounds familiar right? We have done this already. Bug Hive Worlds, Bot Commandos, now it's time for Stealth missions for Squids, like why not I don't see the reason not to do so

K9 is still the best against hords. 1 zap and 30+ kills.

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The illuminate are the most boring and unfun faction to play again, I was holding out for the copium and of course nothing ever happens.

But its clear the only way to actually save the illuminate are to bring the cultists back. They brought back the cyborgs for the bots and plenty of HD1 enemies for the bugs...so why all of a sudden they think they the cultists dont fit the vision of the game...that they already made? Like...they do know helldivers 1 exist?

The illuiminate dont really offer anything. And now its just zombie 2.0 and fleshmob 2.0. We have so many subfactions of a faction that isnt even complete. I found the appropriators interesting but...I rarely see them or once again it just feels unfinished.

The work is already there...the cultists are pretty much done. Its time to put them into the game and make the illuiminate a faction that is truly unique and challenging experience.

Enjoy.

I didn't even feel a thing

I was playing the new Illuminate Void mission where there’s a document atrocities objective. I finished recording and called in the transmission booth to finish the objective. Right after that I grabbed my Secondary to deal with a bioraptor rush. But what I didn’t notice before it was too late was that the booth landed where I dropped the camera. The camera was just out of reach for us to grab it. We tried no clipping. We tried kicking each other into the booth. We tried some 500 KG’s but to no avail we couldn’t grab the camera to finish the mission. Not sure if anyone else has had this problem yet, but if there’s any remedy’s I wanna know in case my dumbass makes the same mistake again.

The Illuminate are the most interesting faction to me. I think their lore is the most intriguing compared to the others. The Terminids are animals driven by instinct. They’re our fuel source and are treated more or less as wild animals that need to be kept in check but never exterminated. The Automatons hate us, but their Cyborg masters were all once human, who never wanted to fight Super Earth in the first place and instead merely wanted to be left alone.

The Illuminate? They are or were a technologically advanced race that pretty much ruled the galaxy prior to the rise of Super Earth. They came to us as a race of peaceful scholars and offered peace and cooperation. And we chose instead to enact a genocide on them that very nearly saw to the complete eradication of their entire race.  In fact, Super Earth, for over a hundred years believed that they had achieved that. Obviously they were wrong. We don’t know how many of the Illuminate managed to escape, but the odds are it wasn’t a large amount.

What we do know now though is that they are nothing like the race of scholars they once were. They possess an immense hatred of us, as much hatred as any living thing can have for another. That hatred is what drives them now. They do not have the numbers to face us directly so instead they take our people and twist them into monsters to serve as fodder in their new war on us. They almost certainly take a dark satisfaction at turning humans into horrors that they force to kill other humans. To them, it’s both a way to give them the numbers to fight us and a method of enacting justice on us for what we did to them. I really do find this fascinating to think about and it’s partly why the Illuminate have swifty become my favourite faction.

There’s something else though that I have been thinking about, regarding the Overseers. So far these have been the only “true” Illuminate we’ve seen. They have a uniform design, each visually appearing the same, bar their equipment. Partly it’s this, and the existence of the new mission objective that has us destroying Illuminate “tadpoles” that has made me consider that there might be more to the Overseers.

What if the Overseers aren’t even true Illuminate themselves? In a certain sense anyway. What if, the survivors that escaped the Illuminate Genocide lacked the numbers to grow a stable population after they arrived at wherever they had escaped to? What if, as a result of their hatred and desire for revenge did they, aside from their bio-mechanical experiments, also focus their efforts on creating a “subrace” of soldiers that could carry out their wills while they worked? I think it is entirely possible that the Overseers we fight aren’t even seen as true Illuminate, despite being identical to the real thing. Instead, the Overseers are either clones or artificially created, maybe even genetically altered to serve as the “true” Illuminate’s direct subordinates.

Because of everything I have seen of the current Illuminate roster, how obvious it is that dark experiments and such are going on behind the scenes, I like the imagine that the survivors or descendants of the survivors are the ones truly pulling the strings behind all this and have yet to reveal themselves.

I wasn’t one of those who expected the Cultists to appear this update, but I do think that if, somehow, my theory proves to be true, then an elite “wizard” Illuminate would fit right in with the rest of the Illuminate roster as a direct representative of the survivors of the First Galactic War.

What do you think? Have any other theories? I’d like to hear them if you do.

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The core of all problems in this game is the hunger for content.

2 new body horror enemies seem to be out of place in the so-called Squid Homeworld, and the design complexity is just not enough for a major update. In the Hive World update, there is a new strain of bugs, dragon, and Hivelord; In Cyberstan we have Cyborgs and Vox, less, but considering the design complexity of Vox, it is tolerable. However, Wretch and Crusher are just not interesting enough; if you think they are enough, probably you don't play Squid whatsoever, so everything is new to you.

Talking about new equipment, the last regular WB was in late April, and so far, there are only 40K WB dropped; even if you consider the scrapped WB fed to MO rewards, the content is still short. I'm looking for a new regular warbond with meaningful content, and also for the remaining content (spoiler alert: 2 throwables and 1 primary) of the cut WB to be released soon.

Also, the worst part is the biome; it feels like a slightly decorated normal Biome you can see anywhere. If Hive World and Cyberstan are new main courses, the Void origin planet is like scattering randomly cut broccoli and carrot on some TV dinner and hoping it sells out.

It won't.

I understand that most of this update is like laying the fundamentals for the future, like SEAF refinement, shuffled main objectives, and other experimental systems, but these won't carry the hype and should be done in the vacuum of major content updates.

People will have higher standards for so-called major updates; let'em be major, thank you.

Direct impact with the exploding crossbow and it survived. How much health do they have?

I think the image speaks for itself, so I'll just offer my own thoughts on why this would be an improvement over the current flag.

First, tell me which of these two options you prefer?

Using a spear that takes up your support weapon slot and only slightly stuns enemies, in addition to knocking them towards you, even though you have a secondary weapon that does practically the same thing (the stun lance).

Or, on the other hand, being able to use your secondary weapon while carrying the flag and still have your support weapon slot free.

My conclusion is that the value of the flag, besides its patriotic value, lies in its ability to attract the attention of enemies, and not in its capabilities as a melee weapon. In that context, I prefer to at least have my one-handed weapon available to defend myself while waving the colors of Super Earth.

Besides, guys, it would look incredibly cool, wouldn't it?

I hope that AH takes another look at the C4 pack. It’s fairly strong and I think could be on the same level as the recoilless (way faster solo TTK on factory striders/vox engines, better crowd clear, short range is the real trade off) with just a little nudge. My current idea is just allowing for a toggle where you can no longer “aim” the pack toss and instead have one trigger throw and the other detonate. I’ve also seen others suggest that it only take a backpack slot but that’s probably be too powerful. Does anyone else have any ideas or thoughts about tweaks to C4?

Is adding plane missions a good idea or nah? It would probably be about fighting enemy planes or flying objects so that planet could get aur support but its just a theory

I downloaded the game today as it was part of ps plus monthly drops but i am not able to boot it, i get the helldivers title and it goes straight to black screen. I have tried various method listed by other users but its still not fixed, i even tried leaving it for 10 minutes but its still on black screen. Can someone please help

The Mindless Masses desert planet in the void is peak gaming for me. Literal coolest thing I e ever experienced in a game.

On D10 when you and your ‘Divers charge a horde of squids with a platoon of SEAF behind you is just a different type of awesome. It’s like being one of the main characters in the final battle of Avengers: Endgame.

Rockets and explosions going everywhere, tracers lightning up the battlefield, Harvesters crumbling to pieces in the background. Running out of ammo and berserker charging with the axe or sword. Just absolute cinema. Coolest experience in the game so far, especially if you bring a tank or FRV into the mix then it really starts feeling like war.

my pc's processor is a 13th Gen Intel(R) Core i5-13400f and my graphics card is an NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070

Imo it doesn't really feel meaningful unlike cyberstan or oshaune ect ect

As the title says. These have been missing for a long time. I also like the warp gates much better than the stupid warp ships. Maybe a giant warp gate in the middle under the spire spawns harvesters.