Cowardly Helldivers Turn on Malevelon Creek Veterans, Targeting Noble Cape Wearers

I love this game and I really like the friendly fire because it provides some really,hilarious random lol moments but there is and always going to be that element of those who think it's funny to deliberately disrupt and ruin the game for others. Yes you can kick them but I think that being able to report them for crimes against democracy should carry some kind of stigmata over to their games such as a symbol on their player marking them as a miscreant for a fixed time so that you know an enemy of democracy...a traitor to super earth is amongst you.

Lmao, I did not know this was a thing. Dang.

I love this game one of the best mp games in years and I don’t usually like or play mp games

@Loamy correct, meaning a chunk of players who don't live on social media will put on this cape and have no idea why they're being targetted.

I sincerely think people who think it's their place to dish out their skewered version of "justice" to anyone they decide deserves it, should be put in their own special corner together, so they can just beat on eachother and leave the reasonable people to get on with whatever they're doing.

@Mortal so you are seeking justice against those who seek justice.

Failing or succeeding in a MO ultimately doesn't matter, a good DM is prepared for both eventualities and adjusts. Two MOs later and we are trying our hand at liberating the bots homeworld again. The failure lost some medals, not exactly something that's hard to come by. I think most of the issue is the Creekers being adopted into lore while the arm chair generals who take to social media desperate to dictate how people play were made to look like idiots for taking things far too seriously.

This is hilarious. I love the universe Arrowhead have created and just how bought into it the players are.

Just to point out. This isn’t really a “thing” in game. It’s just a very tiny number of people being lame.

The example above is a comment with -2 score saying they’d do it. The other posts aren’t calling for team killing but are mocking people going for the wrong objective.

You can post something mundane on the Helldivers Reddit and get hundreds of upvotes. So these comments and attitudes are not mainstream.

This is the gaming media equivalent of taking two negative tweets out of thousands of positive ones and saying, “People are OUTRAGED at whatever the thing we want you to be outraged about.”

I’m assuming articles like this will actually spread the killing of people wearing these capes. And I don’t blame PushSquare for that. They’re reporting facts, after all and it will be interesting to see if articles like this make it a thing.

However, most comments here are a good example of how people nowadays only read the headline and then go straight to the comments without either reading the entire article or applying critical thinking.

The takeaways. This isn’t mainstream. Don’t believe everything you read. And take the media with a pinch of salt, even the gaming media. 😅

Love that video someone made after first time dropping in.

Excellent game, was a bit stand offish when it was released as I haven't bothered with an online MP game for ages.

But the more I read about the world that was being created and of course the positive reviews for the gameplay I thought I'd drop in and don't regret it at all.

Most fun I've had in a shooter for a long time.

I think it's an outstanding question whether the meta-narrative has been affected by failing to take Tibit a couple of Major Orders ago. That Major Order noted that Tibit was believed by Super Earth to be a major bot manufacturing planet, and after we failed to take it, players noticed an increase in the rejuvenation rates of planets awaiting liberation. We also had a lot of Defences to see off in the next Major Order to hold three planets. It's possible that had we taken Tibit we'd have had an easier time taking the Creek afterwards, and have completed Phase 3 of exterminating the bots by now.
But that's the fun of this game having a GM; you're not just grinding out repetitive missions for the sake of random gear drops and incremental power upgrades, you're doing it in the context of a wider narrative, and win or lose it all contributes to the story and opens up new planets to fight on. A stroke of genius, really.

@Mikey856 its been happening alot over the last few days

Helldivers 2 is amazing, I really love it and have put a fair amount of hours into it. I plan to keep playing it and enjoying it.

That said, I don't get why there always has to be warring factions over seemingly everything.

@SodaPop6548 bored people

I have no idea what I just read. This felt more like fan-fiction than anything else.

I guess I would understand this if I actually played the game?

@SodaPop6548 Online gaming rule #1: If PvP is an option, it's a requirement.

This is why I always find it funny when companies promote cooperation in online video games when the reality is, there is none.

@GamingFan4Lyf actually the success of this game is based on cooperation with completely random people who all come together with the same goal...get off the planet alive and kill some bugs and robots along the way. It works! I have yet to encounter a PVP situation as it goes against the narrative of the game.

@GamingFan4Lyf HellDivers 2 is not PvP. The game is PvE with friendly fire, the point being the devs see the humor in a player calling down an airstrike and accidentally killing another player, or someone rapid firing at a bunch of bugs when another player runs across their line of fire without realizing it. Friendly fire happens.

However there is a contingent of players that take everything personally - if you accidentally hit them with a single bullet, as far as they're concerned it was intentional and they will kill you because of it, or in this case some players ignored the community missions and stayed playing on a planet they liked to play on, and if you wear this cape some players take that as a sign that you did that and they kill you for it because you didn't help with the objective.

That's not friendly fire or PvP, that's just being a toxic dickbag.

@Mortal @Pondo320 I get the point of the game is PvE...but my comment is a cynically poetic way of saying:

if other players can kill other players...someone will take advantage of it and do it (it's completely unavoidable)...this article being case in point.

Plus it was a response to this comment:
"That said, I don't get why there always has to be warring factions over seemingly everything."

I don't play online games because people are toxic [expletive] in online games.

If Super Earth didn't give the direct command to eliminate the players, then isn't it just pure treason to kill fellow Helldivers? You're in the field to obey democracy. This isn't anarchy.

Ironic

This is exactly why I hate online gaming.

If you want to be a jerk go play COD, You kind play that game.

Screw the Creekers! Death to the traitors! FOR MANAGED DEMOCRACY!!

This was the most recent HD2 article on here so apologies for being slightly off topic, is anyone else experiencing a lot of crashes in the game at the minute? Either during or just after finishing a mission?

@Weebleman it's a problem that I've experienced a couple of times just recently.

@GZoo yes we had the game hang on us..irritating to say the least.

@Northern_munkey same. It's driving me nuts

@Weebleman it's only happened a couple of times to be fair as I'm playing more rounds than there are crashes. At least arrowhead fix things pretty damn quick which is more than I can say about the big name studios..

@Northern_munkey I had a food run without it happening last night. Yesterday afternoon I had two on the bounce after putting in a good half hour on the missions. As you say, they do seem to be on top of this stuff though so that is a blessing.