Venting about helldivers, the game and community

I used to dislike this unfiltered sub a lot because all I saw was people complaining which really ruined the experience of helldivers for me all together but Ive had a change of heart. I love helldivers 2 a lot and I always acknowledged it was buggy and not very perfect but now the very visible cracks are starting the bother me and their bothering me a lot. It started with fighting back the bugs on oshaune on difficultly 10 in fact it was before that, it was when I fought the rapture strain for the first time in while. Everyone was moving to the bug front again after the battle for cyberstan. I was having an absolute blast burning bugs left and right with a flame thrower and getting high kill counts. That was until the rapture strain appeared. Since I feel obligated to go play on planet with the most players, I went on a planet that had the rapture strain and I brought my usual load out, flamethrower and I think dogs breath could be wrong though and long story short, it sucked. I couldn't do shit against those rapture bugs because they would always be underground and I couldn't do jack. The same thing happened on oshaune and what made me pissed was I joined a game where everyone has the same exact or similar loudouts, grenade launcher and supply pack and there I was, Fluffycat106 with his flamethrower doing absolutely nothing and dying. I even brought the maxi gun and still didn't do much to those damned tunnel digging bugs because I cant move while shooting and on top of that those rapture warrior bugs have a medium armor pen head which means I can't use anything else besides medium pen weapons or else fighting them will be an awful time. Now this could all be chopped up to me having a major skill issue but I wish helldivers 2 would make every weapon useful and good so I can have more verity and see other load outs that aren't the recoiless or grenade launcher. I don't want to use the meta just so I can pass a mission, I want to be able to use every single weapon and have fun doing it because I don't want to be stuck using the same damn thing over and over. Now I should point this out, there will always be a meta in this game but as I said I just wish more weapons were just as powerful as the meta weapons.

Enemies, oh boy we love our enemies don't we guys? Warstrider, do we all love that thing...guys don't we? No? Why? Well lemme tell you why, that thing is covered in armor pen 4 and you'll need something that can go bomb to take it out because a heavy machine gun doesn't do shit to it and there are many more issues with it but I think we know that already. I was gonna complain about cyberstan being to hard but I played most of it on dif 10 and the fact we were also on their home planet soooo all I can do is blame myself for that one, although vox engines could use a rework. Overall I like the bots even though two of their enemies could use a rework and the squids, I like where their at to be honest. Nothing is more satisfying in this game than using the maxi gun or lib carbine to mow down hords of voteless.

Also Arrowhead for the love of liberty stop putting support weapons and backpacks and stuff like that behind fucking warbonds because it kinda just sucks all the excitement out of it because I have grind my ass off just to get my hands on cool shit and I also hate how they put weapons and grenades in the super store for super credits JUST PUT THEM IN THE FUCKING WARBOND GO BACK TO THE OLD DAYS WHEN WE COULD GET THREE SETS OF ARMOR AND LIKE ONE WEAPON PER PAGE. I don't like the way warbonds are being done right now, I just want them to go back the way they were man. I also wish we'd get stuff like armor when we do big campaigns instead of a cape. I'm starting see arrowhead put more stuff behind a paywall like the Chinese new years set, we had to pay for everything and I fear it will become more common for them to do that.

Now for the community, oh boy I'll keep this short. This community feels like it's hitting its breaking point. All one man wanted to was something fun, charitable and could have made the devs see the flaws in their game it was a win win for everyone if you ask me. But no some fat living in his mom's basement chuds had to harass and even find the guys place of work because all he wanted was a game he probably loved a lot to be fixed and he even offered to donate 1000 dollars to charity. How evil and disgusting of a human being do you have to be to do that.

Also I'm writing this down right after I finished writing everything, I one time made a post on the official subreddit asking for bug load outs as the one I was using was getting stale but you wanna know what happened the post got removed because I guess asking for new and fun load outs isn't allowed and I have to use some forum on the sub that I doubt very many people use. All I really wanted from that post was to interact with the community and just see people talk about their load outs with one another, but nope I guess it isn't democratic to talk different ways to kill bugs.

Overall everything is going to hell and fast, it was only a matter of before we got here. I don't play helldivers 2 as much as I used to anymore considering that damn rapture strain and people bringing orbit napllam stops me from living my pyromaniac by going to a bug breach and lighting that sucker up. I want to say most of the stuff I complained about (beside the community thing) is mostly on me sucking donkey balls at the game sometimes but I do feel like I bring up some valid points but that's just me. If you've made it this far, thanks for reading this rant. See you space cowboy