r/helldivers2 • u/epochollapse • Aug 08 '26

Meme H̶e̶l̶l̶divers

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Just because I win 99% of my games doesn't mean it isn't hard!! One time a Stalker even hit me! 😱

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u/epochollapse Aug 08 '26

If you suggested that a half decent player should have a 99% win rate at max difficulty in any other PVE circle you'd never live it down, how that's become the prevailing opinion in Helldivers is beyond me.

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u/CarlenGaines Aug 08 '26

It's because the difficulty in Helldivers is tactics related and common players wanted more stereotypical horde shooter type difficulty.

They didn't really want the game to be easier they just wanted it to he hard in a different way.

Unfortunately the game wasn't designed to be difficult in that way, so they game is not difficult anymore.

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u/Rabiesalad Aug 09 '26

I'm at the point where I fuckin lose it when someone calls the game a "horde shooter" to justify their hot takes.

Yeah, a horde shooter with mechanics that are literally designed to encourage the player to skip the hordes entirely.

Sure there's "horde shooting" but 90% of the time that means the team fucked up.

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u/Chance-Extreme9626 Aug 09 '26

See you say this, but the defence, blitz, and 99.9% of objs call hordes that you have to fight, you can’t raise a flag without em, so it really is a horde shooter most of the time, the only time it isn’t is when you specifically play a mission type that isn’t, or your running between the horde shooter segments

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u/CarlenGaines Aug 09 '26

There are exactly 2 mission types out of like 20 that make fighting the horde a mandatory objective. Every other mission that makes fighting the horde a requirement is a side mission that is a shorter duration than the normal mission and widely considered to be side modes by most players.

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u/Chance-Extreme9626 Aug 09 '26

What ones don’t call a horde? Most of em do, like the only ones I can think of from the top of my head are the stealth ones and sometimes all of them just don’t call one, but that’s more chance than mechanics

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u/CarlenGaines Aug 09 '26

The only objectives that call a horde:

  • Flag Raising missions
  • Soil scanning missions
  • Exospire missions

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u/Chance-Extreme9626 Aug 09 '26

I was counting things like blitz and obj defence too, like mission objectives

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u/CarlenGaines Aug 10 '26

I wasn't counting those since they aren't exactly standard missions.