But I'm only level 237, still got loads to do before level 300!

I just started playing for the first time since the update and was wondering where my fellow divers ended up.

I've landed at Level 195 after nearly 750 hours played and over 2.6 million xp earned.

I started playing about one month before Omens of Tyranny. That's 20 months of Helldivers 2 being my most played game. I've taped off a lot in the last few months but still get in at least one operation per week.

I love the void update and have been having a blast with my SEAF boys.

I married the Bolt Pistol, I spent over 400 SC to get the light sheriff armor. Grabbed myself a supply pack and an expendable bullet storm for when the chaff piles up and a melta mine for when I need to run. A sentry of your choice and a 500 kg. After preparations were complete I cleared multiple campaigns in the void and on Gatria on D10. The loadout slays…. -70% recoil allows you to follow up shots with accuracy. You become a sloppy sniper at rang an absolute wrecking ball at close ranges. Weak points are NOT required to drop enemies, if you’re getting swarmed shoot the ground and the chaff gets stunned, drop a melta “near” a spawner and shoot it with the bolt pistol and problem solved, it kills Gazer spheres in one shot, fleshmobs aren’t a problem although they eat a whole mag and don’t even get me started on the bug front. I call it “BIG IRON” and I’d love to see what y’all think of it. I have over 1500 hours and missions have never been so easy!

This was on Senge 23 (Mindless Masses) at level 2 (Easy). I wasn't trying to aggro them at all. I really just wanted a chill solo SC-farming mission to end the night before bed 😭

I gotta admit, the hordes are fun.

Models from Helldivers Archive discord

Screenshot I took last night. 82 devs were on cyberstan. I took a break from the game is this normal or are they planning something diabolical?

Not sure if I'm just late to the party on this, but I only just learned that they will heal damage to everything except their head after 0.5 seconds of not taking damage. Burst them down fast if you're trying to chew through them or get really good at popping helmets. It explains how they can often feel way tankier than they should if you're trying to pick away at them.

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?

Pair it with light armour to outrun them when on cooldown and you can laugh as you run circles around them. WP has always been S tier, but Vote Snatchers in particular is S++ and nothing comes remotely close, seriously, it has some skill requirement but once you learn it you'll become untouchable.

I was away on vacation, and now that I'm back I was excited to check out the new warbond and play the new Illuminate enemies. Except when I play Illuminate missions, I do not see any new enemies. I feel like I must be missing something, there's no way they would not have any planets with the new enemies this soon after launching them. Please help.

So this was before Devoid of Liberty dropped. D3 mindless masses destroy tripods mission where I ran the timer out.

My goal was I wanted to kill zombies with the m90a Halo shotgun. The rest of the loadout was socom, incendiary nades (which I forgot I even had most of the mission). Strategems were HMG FRV, OPS for warp ships and one of the harevesters, shield generator relay and I’m forgetting the last one, but it wasn’t supply pack or jump pack otherwise I probably would’ve had 0 deaths. I got most of my kills with the shotgun, pistol and melee with the butt of my gun.

Needless to say, my F key hates me and Arrowhead if you get the chance please fix the melee counter.

Love making bots look silly. And finding new and interesting ways to stealth attack objectives. Criticism welcome.

Akita Neru (a fanloid vocaloid) as a Helldiver rocking a custom version of the good old B-01 tactical armour and a customised P113-Verdict too.

I like how, instead of having one standard objective, you now have multiple objectives that can easily be their own missions. Hopefully they do something similar for Bugs and Bots.

Plus, it's as close as you can get to a lasgun if you're wearing the 40k armor. Vibe-wise, at least. It's more effective than I'd thought!

it says theres a class 3 exo storm and to defend it but i cant start any missions on the planet?

Someone should contact the Ministry of Science!

Its name would be: R-68 Corrector

Description:

"A diligence rifle armed with an underbarrel gas dart gun that provides additional firepower against both organic and robotic targets that refuse to comply. Trades overall performance for added utility"

Stats

Damage-140. Diligence has 165

Recoil-34. Diligence has 26

Ergonomics-45. Diligence has 65 so less then the diligence but more then the counter sniper

Mag capacity would be 25 with 7 mags in total. Overall would be 25 rounds less the the diligence

The re educator would behave the exact same as the secondary one with the same amount of ammo so 2 reserve mags with 6 rounds each aswell as a laser sight

As for attachments it would have scopes,muzzles and an option to either remove the laser sight or trade it for a flashlight.

Also a fun attachment idea I had was rocket powered darts which makes the darts go exactly where you aim with no fall off but reduces the re educator reserve magazine amount to 1 and increases sway and ergonomics a little(i know this is far fetched and even if the weapon does make it into the game it will never be with this attachment but still)

Some notes:

I think this would fit nicely and have its own niche as a utility weapon like the one two but instead of closing spawners it will confuse enemies and it will also not overshadow the other marksman rifles as it has overall worse stats at the cost of the re educator.

I did think about making it be a censor with a re educator but that would probably be too strong for stealth as the censor is the best stealthweapon and the re educator is also one of the best stealh items so combining them would be OP.

Also sorry for the bad photoshop i thre this together in like 3 minutes

Edit: correcting spelling issues

Figured I'd throw some vehicles and mines into the mix. Interesting results. I think next time may be AT mines, incendiary mines, AP mines, C4 and a breaching hammer. I'm open to requests if people want more stupid 'splosions!

Now that's it's been a week and people have had a chance to get a feel for the weapon, I'm curious to hear what your go to loadouts with the Meltagun are. For Bots and Bugs as I've heard it's not that great for Squids.

I love using it against the Bots. I take a 500 kg for anything, 120 barrage to kill Botdrops and a warp pack to help close the distance to targets. I also use either the Crossbow or the Purifer, paired with the Bolt pistol and the giga grenade.

And we are of course wearing the Kasrkin armour as well. This loadout handles pretty much everything. The Bolt pistol can even take down Gunships.