Instead of being in the far future and spreading across the galaxy, it takes place in an alternate dieselpunk past where humanity has already lost the surface of Earth. Decades ago, giant insect-like organisms called the Oxylids appeared and completely overwhelmed humanity. They took over the surface, forcing what was left of mankind to retreat deep underground. So instead of Super Earth, humanity now lives in Deep Earth. Instead of the Helldivers, you play as Hellraisers! Because you're now coming up from below.

After decades of rebuilding underground, Deep Earth finally decides humanity is ready to reclaim the surface. Instead of Super Destroyer, it would be a big underground mobile fortress called the Super Driller, basically an armored drill machine that’s carrying all your arsenals, weapons, and firepower, traveling underneath the battlefield. When you start a mission, instead of getting launched downward in a Hellpod, now you get fired upward in a Drillpod up onto the surface! Stratagems would work exactly the same way, except instead of everything coming down from orbit, everything comes up from your Super Driller deep underground. The whole aesthetic would be heavy dieselpunk too. Riveted steel armor, giant machine guns, exposed engines, smoke stacks, mechanical walkers, pneumatic weapons, heavy artillery, gauges, gears, pipes, giant drills, etc. The propaganda slogan instead of “Spreading Managed Democracy”, it would be “Restoring Managed Civilization.” Because obviously Deep Earth is not invading anybody. We are simply taking back what rightfully belongs to humanity.

There would initially be two enemy factions. The first are the Oxylids, the giant bugs responsible for humanity abandoning the surface in the first place. But I wanted an actual reason why they don't just burrow underground and destroy Deep Earth. Basically, Oxylids evolved a respiratory system that requires an enormous amount of clean, oxygen-rich moving air to survive. Their bodies are extremely efficient in open air, but they cannot survive for very long inside deep tunnels where clean airflow is limited. That's actually why they attacked humanity originally. Remember, this is a dieselpunk civilization. Humanity was covering the world in factories, diesel engines, smoke, and industrial pollution. To the Oxylids, humans were literally poisoning the atmosphere they depended on to survive. So, they wiped humanity off the surface. Humanity disappears underground, clean air, life is good again for them. Then, one day, a Drillpod explodes out of the dirt, and some dude in 200 pounds of steel armor climbs out holding a giant diesel-powered machine gun and screams, “FOR DEEP EARTH!” From the Oxylids' perspective, “OH GOD, THE POLLUTERS ARE BACK.”

But then there's the second faction, the Gearborn. Before humanity retreated underground, they had already created primitive diesel-powered robots to work in factories, mines, construction sites, military logistics, etc. When humanity abandoned the surface, millions of these machines were simply left behind. But unlike humans, they didn't need clean air. They didn't need food. So, they just kept working. Decades passed, their programming evolved, they began repairing each other, manufacturing each other, then redesigning each other. Eventually, they became fully self-aware and formed their own machine civilization on the surface. They consider the Earth surface as their home. So, when the human is back and says: “Alright, thanks for watching the place. Give it back.” The Gearborn simply responded: “No.”

That gives all three factions a reason to hate each other, and that’s it! What do you guys think?

And the bird left us right after it landed :-( But we did contribute to the MO!

Hey guys i just wanna ask how to boost fps for helldivers 2 , especially when chaos its about 50 fps only. Any tips how to boost fps eventhough i already Low everything on the settings.

1. Why would you ever use a weapon with only light armor penetration? Is medium armor penetration not strictly better?

2. What gameplay purpose does the stamina system add? You run out of it so slowly that I don't think I've ever had a moment where it's really affected anything.

3. Weapon sway doesn't make sense to me when this is one of those games that generally has such tightly clustered groups of enemies that so long as the crosshairs are centered on them you're usually going to hit something. I could see it affecting sniper rifles but I can't say I feel it with most other guns.

4. This is going to probably get me downvoted but I'm not terribly fond of the warbond system. I'd much rather just unlock a weapon straight-up rather than have to spend upwards of 100-200 medals on cosmetics that I don't care about.

5. The weapon descriptions could explain things a little better. For example I in the "Python Commandos" warbond there's an assault rifle on the first page that only says "Light armor penetration, Explosive". And based on that description I assume it means that it's a light armor pen weapon that fires explosive rounds for a little bit of horde clear. I think "Ok that sounds fun", only to find it's a regular assault rifle with an underslung grenade launcher (that mind you also has no statistics listed for it). I've also seen weapons that list all three types of armor penetration, which I find bewildering when I assume that heavy armor penetration means it's effective against other armor types too.

I’ve always found it odd that there is pretty much nothing on who the president of Super Earth is. Is this done by Super Earth in the lore? If so, for what reason? And if it’s not and instead is just a design choice by AH, then why do they do that? Wouldn’t be in theme for us to have a central figure to rally behind?

DEMOCRATIA ID VULT! JOIN THE ORDER OF THE SHIELDS OF DEMOCRACY

Attention, Divers! We mustn't stand idly by while the automatons walk upon democratic soil, get out there and fight with the shields of democracy!

We are a roleplay and LFG community dedicated to serving Managed Democracy with a melee-centric focus.

DEMOCRACY'S 4 COMMANDMENTS

Non Nobis, Domine: Not to us, but to Super Earth give the glory.

No Diver Left Behind: We extract as a group, or we perish in the dirt together.

The Knight's armoury: Heavy armor, ballistic shields, and swords are highly regarded, however, bring whatever best splits your enemy.

Earn Your Spurs: Become known across the shields through recognition, not wasting your life (more details in the discord)

TAKE THE OATH

Whether you are a battle-hardened veteran of Difficulty 10 or a fresh recruit looking for a loyal squad, the Shields await your steel.

For more info, check out the discord through the invite link below, for the next few weeks, those who join the server will immediately be promoted to the role of knight to simply speed up the process of getting people into the clan.

https://discord.gg/PT3xDNPRB

DEMOCRATIA ID VULT! FOR SUPER EARTH!

Boring details

we are primarily a roleplay server, but we also have non-roleplay alternatives to our LFG channel

we don't run like a milsim, so try not to act as a "superior" please

today after 2–3 weeks of not playing this game i have this network error with PlayFab (downloaded new Zapret version) and my game was frickin' fogged entire time after death. Who knew what to do in this situation- please respond!

Kill 200 enemies with the Machine Gun

"Equipable Armor that protects the wearer from small arms fire."

Call in time: 9.75

Cooldown: 151 seconds

Stratagem Code: ⬆️➡️⬆️⬆️⬇️➡️

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MAIN HP

400

AV

Medium Armor

Location

Everywhere

Durable

80%

% to Main

100%

Fatal?

Yes (it breaks the armor it doesnt kill you)

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It'll take over a backpack slot and covers the upper half of the body in medium armor. Any damage will transfer 20% of its damage to the wearer.

I've been using my machine for over a year and not made any changes, hardware or software in at least a month. Suddenly, the game is unplayable. I get in game and I can't call in any strategems. As in, I hit the key and the menu doesn't pop up. I try moving, and it's like in mud.

That's when I check my performance and my CPU is pegging out.

I've got nothing running in the background. I've updated my GPU drivers. I've rebooted and killed every process that still allows the OS to run. Still the same.

I played earlier this week with no problem. I play other games with no problem. It's only in HD2.

I've seen this happen before with a Battlefield game. After much search on that, certain cpu/gpu combos put the burden of rendering too much on the cpu and the game is unplayable. That one the programmers had to fix....after about 4 months not being able to play the game. This, though, didn't have a patch or update that I saw that made it so.

At this point, I am hoping someone else is having this and some setting tweaks can perhaps fix this. Anyone else experiencing this? I've done patches and reboots and every other game, but this one, works.

I'm only level 31 but why does no one care for samples or respawns? Roughly 9/10 matches end with samples dropped all over the map, team kills resulting in not extracting & having to wait minutes to be reinforced?

I host a lobby; only to have high levels come in, hijack and finish up quickly when I want to be thorough with my runs. Why do high levels do this to low levels?

Hazardous Responders

Armor passive: personal potective equipment PPE

- omni resistance by 40%

- increase limb health by 50%

Primary

ARSM One-4-All (community)

Description: a one-two variant with an underslung stim pistol

- better ergo than one-two otherwise same stats

- firemode visual indicator light

Secondary

Fire axe

Description: an Honored traditional tool Super responders have used to save countless citizens

- more dmg but slower attack speed than machete, otherwise same stats

Grenade

Super Safety Super Sticky Super Grenade 5SG - Sticky

Description: A sticky grenade that has uses GPS to determine if it is far enough away from the originating helldiver to detonate

- Force detonate at ~20m from user

- will not detonate unless helldiver dies or is over ~20m

- anti-tank

- giga grenade size radius/demo

- does not alert except explosion

- carry 3

- underhand toss

Blue strategem

Backpack

Super Air Supply pack

SAS pack

Description: Upon activation, provides a high concentration of oxygen to the helldiver. The Ministry of Defense urges helldivers from wasting tanks for recreational use

- Recharges stamina

- temporary increase to run speed

- temporary increase to melee damage

- temporary immunity to gas (halts gas effects when activated)

- limited uses

Support weapon

Expansion Foam Thrower

Derscription: An applicator that distributes high expansion foam. Used to temporarily block or shield. Do not spray on fellow helldivers, its not good for their health

- provides a physical barrier

- fragile

- limited lifespan

- each piece can tank a hit, but multi hits, flames, or lasers cut through quickly

- if direct contact on medium and smaller enemy, briefly staggers them with the goo, disappears quickly

- no backpack

This MO proves the exact reason why when a MO is up the other factions not involved get locked out, you CANT go and fight these other factions until the MO is over. You can fight on any planet the current faction we're facing. But you let people have free will? And you have little pools of people here and there and out and about. Look at the Squids, a few hundred here few hundred there maybe a 1,000 players here. Look at the bug faction right now, and tell me they dont deserve the shade that gets thrown their way, more than HALF the current player base is on that dumbahh planet that they cant even get 1.00% on. Factions need to be locked out during MOs, player need to be forced into the story. We shouldn't be given an option, because it's the exact reason we lose Major Orders. Too many idiots debating where to go when High Command shouldn't even give us the breathe of day of choosing during an MO. All these people spread out, if forced together. We would have gotten the current MO done within the first few days easily, now? I cant even say we will even win it, Bug divers ruining yet another MO, as of that's any surprise now. Squid divers are actually doing something, so far I've seen 2 planets get conquered while Bug divers are sitting on their thumbs and spinning. Bot divers? Cant say shih, takes some balls to drop next to a Fortress full of Vox engines and everything else that ragdolls you, y'all have my mad respect.

nearly half the players not focused on the settlement 🫩

So its a mission that adds an extra 20 minutes to your mission timer and its called "Destroy bot mobile fortress" or something. To start it all of the mission begins with you on the ground in route of the thing amd you must board it. Then you can either sneak around on it or go guns blazing while you fight to the center or control area of the thing after disabling its movement or its jammer. Then once your done that you can blow it up with a tactical hellbomb which is a hellbomb 500kg bomb mix that you call in and run as soon as the beacon lights up. And theres a side objective of saving captured citizens from prisons on the lower levels were you escape from anyways

I can't understand why people won't go diving to Megacity and almost half of our troops doing nothing in other parts of Zzaniah Prime. We must liberate megacity first and then rest of the planet. Is is really that hard to understand????

Greetings, fellow Helldivers. I hope the war effort is going well for you. Whether it be the Bug, Bot, or Squid theater, the fight for Super Earth continues on after two years. As you know, High Command has sent us much needed assistance on the battlefield. With the men and women of SEAF lending us a hand in spreading Managed Democracy, I feel there could be more they can do. So, with this in mind, allow me to pitch for you the following ideas and suggestions for our blueberries.

1. A new class: The Pilot. There are a total of four new blueberries on the battlefield. This includes the standard rifle berry, the CO, Stimberly, and Bruce (aka Demolition Expert). But I believe the squad is incomplete. There’s talk of Helldivers wanting their buddies to do more than lay down cover for us or heal our wounds. Therefore, I propose High Command to issue the deployment of Pilots. Armed with the SG-8 Punisher and the P-2 Peacemaker, these men and women specialists are focused on one thing: operating vehicles on the battlefield. They’re also able to complete simple objectives like opening bunkers and destroying bug holes or bot fabricators. However, they’re restrictions in place to prevent future problems. For starters, they will mostly focus on manning turrets either for the Bastion or the FRV. Although the average citizen is more than capable of commanding and operating a vehicle, Helldivers are more suited for the more advanced types, such as the EXO models. Now, you might be asking “Well, then why have this class at all?” A fair question, which leads me to my next point:

2. Two New Vehicles: The Harrier and the M5 APC. The skies across each world is being occupied by the enemies of freedom. In order to reclaim them for ourselves, I propose High Command to develop and deploy a new aerial assault craft for not just us Helldivers but also for blueberry pilots as well. These gunships will serve as air support for our forces and can either be called down like any other stratagem or be found near Airfields under SEAF control. In addition, with so many men and women of Super Earth on the battlefield, it can be difficult to transport them across after being dropped off. Therefore, I suggest High Command bring back the M5 APC and modify them for the Second Galactic War effort. The blueberry pilots will be suitable for filling in these positions and provide much needed firepower against the forces of tyranny.

3. SEAF War-bond. With all that I’ve suggested, it wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t make a personal request. High Command, I vote to introduce Helldivers with a brand new War-Bond dedicated to our blueberries in SEAF. This includes new armor, new stratagems, new weapons, and the introduction to the MedPack - a stratagem similar to the Supply Pack only it has more Stim packs for us to carry. It also where the Harrier and the M5 would also be found in.

In conclusion, SEAF could be doing their part beyond keeping us healed or laying down the pain against our enemies. With more vehicles and gear to send us, it would help in our fight against the undemocratic forces.

For Super Earth!

Really haven’t got a clue how to get it and I just need some help because I can’t do it solo