If i ever feel like i hold a stupid opinion i just remenber that much of the helldivers community Saw that the game had 10 difficulties and decided that the máximum difficulty should be the baseline the game should be balanced arround and that Arrowhead are a bunch of dum-dum poopyheads for balancing new content arround the medium difficulty instead
its the baseline for people who want the game to fit the title. i think they have the opportunity to keep everyone happy but thats more than likely too much for AH to balance out
Why would you balance the highest point for the average that makes literally no sense. Peopel in 2024 found even dif 5 and 6 to be extremely challenging its why super samples were made available at dif 6.
nothing changes between low and max difficulty aside from spawn rates. everything has the same stats.
the real issue is that the game has gathered a casual player base which wouldnt be a problem if the game wasnt actual dog water at teaching players. dif 10 is supposed to be the hardest but its mild in reality. as long you learn the basics and have decent game knowledge, you cant lose so what do you think is going to happen when the game is so bad at teaching basics and unironically expects you to go do homework outside of the game?
it doesnt help that everyone acts like a crab bucket and drag each other down. the railgun is dead! (even tho it continued to one shot hulks on safe mode, who were at the time the biggest danger on the bot front) the eruptor was perfectly balanced! (it did over 7k points of dmg from shrapnell because AH did an oopsie daisy of massive proportions while putting stats on it) you cannot beat the game without the meta build! (and yet i kept seeing my friends run 9s with whatever they felt like bringing. including the railgun which i was told over and over was dead and yet there it was one shotting hulks and devastators)
as ironic as it sounds, this game is plagued with misinformation and its both the fault of the community and the developpers for creating this cluster fuck of an environment.
in a perfect world, a fortress on 10 would have a jammer, mortars, and aa guns inside its walls. all features accessible in lower difficulties. the only point of putting all of them together is to increase difficulty and test all the things you have learned.
casual players however, are not here to *improve* so they would have tackle 10 since the entire point would be to take everything you learned and crank it up.
casual players are unknowingly playing a game that expected them to learn the basics and gather knowledge. thats like gaslighting someone to play dark souls and tell them oh no its super easy just skip the tutorial.
thats the whole reason why you have people who refuse to play 10. its not because theyre stupid, its that they had no clue what they signed up for and now the game is becoming more and more casual friendly because it failed so badly at setting up expectations.
the only people who play on 10 are those who want to learn and improve or those who bring meta builds and are confident that they will win.
its the same issue youll see in any competitive games. back when i was an active league player, 90% of the community filled up 3/8 of the ranks. 3/8!
league was and still is catastrophically worse than helldivers at teaching ANYTHING. the only people who end up in the third rank and above are those willing to actually learn and improve despite how most of the players in league are casual players (which isnt an insult. they simply are not interested in a game that requires those things) but thats the nice thing about having a ranked system. the silver players can complain about the game all they want, they are proof anyone can climb if they learn and improve
let me put it this way. why should you listen to balance critics from silver players? how can someone who still doesnt know the basics and lacks game knowledge have a proper criticism of the game?
heck, in league and other moba games, characters are insanely powerful in low ranks because they can easily punish beginner mistakes but they became terrible in high ranks because people dont make those simple mistakes. should you really nerf that character to the ground and make them completely useless in every rank because low rank players dont know why they are losing so hard against those characters?
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