With the initial battle to keep servers online seemingly over, developer Arrowhead Game Studios must focus on a new and insidious threat that seeks to undermine the intergalactic war effort - from within. We are talking, of course, about Helldivers 2's inevitable cheaters, who have somehow managed to find all-new ways of being annoying, an astonishing feat in a game that openly embraces friendly fire.
Progression in Helldivers 2 is a stately affair, partly gated by samples that must be collected and successfully extracted from deployments over dozens of hours. But cheaters, using exploits, can collect dozens, or even hundreds, of samples in each mission. Worse, samples are shared across the squad, so even true and patriotic soldiers of Super Earth are being caught up, with some even heroically requesting Arrowhead to nuke their accounts so they can honourably earn their just rewards (something the developer can do upon request).
Other undemocratic players use hacks to get infinite ammo, increase movement speed, or even activate "god mode" to gain invulnerability. We'll report to the nearest Democracy Officer for immediate punishment for this next thoughtcrime, but we suspect those responsible are playing primarily on PC, what with their greater understanding of mechanical matters. Such is the double-edged sword that is cross-platform play.
Why, you ask? Why would anyone want to cheat in a cooperative-only game in which overcoming enormous odds is the entire point? Ask the Automatons, trooper; it seems like the sort of thing those unfeeling, mechanical monsters would enjoy.
Have you noticed instances of cheaters or cheating during your deployments in Helldivers 2? Would you be annoyed to suddenly find you have more samples than you can spend simply by squading up with such disreputable recruits? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source ign.com]
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All the traitors and cheaters should be court martialed and then flogged like in the Starship Troopers movie.
Make an event of it. Where the other Helldivers can line up and watch them be made an example of.
I don’t get why people do this like what do they gain. It’s like when a game as leaderboards and all you see is cheaters on the top spots and at that point why even have leaderboards
I would bail from the squad immediately, the pressure associated with extraction of limited resources is a massive part of the appeal and camaraderie with this game
This is why PC gaming sucks for online. You'll always have idiots cheat and ruin it for everybody else.
If i could i would turn off cross play and just play with PS folk.
@MrMagic special event where we form firing squads as they face the wall too. It would be so epic.
Yeah stuff like this makes me want to turn off crossplay.
@breakneck Especially when this is a game that has community based progress.
Sigh, cheaters ruins everything 🙁
@Kidfunkadelic83 you can turn off cross play in settings if I remember correctly
@Kidfunkadelic83 You can turn off cross play.
@Angelus3K @Artois2 oh 😂😂. Well thats good to know. Also helps out with PC owners tapping keys over an open mike. Cheers.
@Kidfunkadelic83 you definitely can. First thing i did when i got the game as i knew folks like this would inevitably rock up at some point.
What is wrong with these people? Haven't they been taught the values that represent the foundations of SuperEarth's managed democracy? Whatever can we do to stop this madness? Is our free way of life doomed?
F.......'em all!! Let them play together, let them get one trillion samples, let them unlock every perk, and then once they have finished ruining their experience, not ours, let them go elsewhere to keep on doing whatever they do.
They do not stand for democracy, they do not represent SuperEarth.
That's possibly one good thing about a cloud gaming future, that because the game is running in a controlled environment then people won't be able to install these kinds of cheats. I'm sure they'll still be able to cheat in other ways e.g. aimbots etc but at least it's limiting it somewhat.
I still don't really understand what people get out of cheating like this as I've had a great time with this game ending up in those situations where everything can be lost at the very last second. Where's the fun if you are invincible and have unlimited ammo?
Keelhaul the buggers!
They need to be banned immediately
I've had crossplay turned off for the past few days , much better experience, 20 of those sky lasers in one match , no thanks.
Can you block PC players?
This is why I always turn off cross play
So lame.
Go back to CoD or Apex. We don't want that bs in Helldivers.
Cheating like using a "god" mode sure....but using something that's in the game to basically farm samples is perfectly fine.
Looking for peeps to hook up with on H2 - HotstuffFred
Granted I haven't played dozens of hours yet, but can't help but feel that PC players are less likely to chat in teams with PS5 players.
@TwoDents some us don't have hours upon hours to grind the game. It's not cheating to farm a certain mission that gives you better rewards
Man I've been playing Helldivers on PC, so glad I haven't run into people like this. Then again I'm super slow to play with randos, only really with friends. Reminds me of people who mod Monster Hunter for infinite resources - you're just kneecapping your experience with the game.
Oh, you didn't see this coming from a mile away, and save your money? I did. Soon as they said FRIENDLY fire = TOXIC ENVIRONMENT and EVERY game that's a shooter has cheaters/hackers.....Why I rarely play a shooter...
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