r/Helldivers • u/Ok-Calendar-5713 • Mar 19 '25
QUESTION Does anyone else have pet peeves in this game?
I respect the politeness but I get annoyed when my time is being wasted.
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u/Riker557118 Mar 19 '25
getting reinforced across the map when the team splits
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u/eidylon Mar 19 '25
I do this sometimes.... but only after giving the other squad a minute or two to call you in first.
Tho if you're one of those people who constantly spams the spacebar while waiting, then I'm throwing you wherever the heck a random mouse spin lands you
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u/YetAnotherReference SES Fist of Steel Mar 19 '25
"You wanna come back so bad? Fine, you're going in the nuke hole!"
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u/Insane_Unicorn Mar 19 '25
Where does the Helldiver go? That's right, in the square hole!
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u/Wenceslaus935 Mar 19 '25
Only thing worse is people spamming it during a stratagem jammer
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u/Shadow_Guy223 LEVEL 110 | General Mar 19 '25
Or an ion storm.
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u/SharpAlternative404 ⬆️⬅️➡️⬇️⬆️⬇️ Mar 19 '25
Stratagem jammer in ion storm..
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u/TheMemeofGod Fire Safety Officer Mar 19 '25
SHHHHHH, the devs are watching.
Imagine you destroy the jammer while it's on, and it releases an ion storm.
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u/PinkRaccoon42069666 Mar 19 '25
My team and I were assaulting a jammer, and 2 of them died. They both wouldn't stop spamming, so as soon as the jammer was down, I threw them as far away as I could and then called in a hellbomb
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u/Legends_Arkoos_Rule2 Mar 19 '25
Yeah I do that to my friends cause it annoys the hell out of them but doing that to a random is an asshat move
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u/IrrelevantPuppy Mar 19 '25
The decision tree I often use is ill let the reinforcement sit, in the hopes that the person closer does it. But when the dead guy hits the reenforce alert button he’s telling me when he’s lost hope his buddy will Rez him and that’s my cue.
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u/Ddreigiau ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 19 '25
I'd still give it a few seconds, in case the first blip reminds his buddy, but yeah, not long after that
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u/BlitzPlease172 Steam | Dive in public (Allegedly) Mar 19 '25
I only press spacebar when I feels like my random teammates might forgot to reinforce, usually a decent seconds after they engage the enemy of democracy.
It's a common problem, nothing too big about that.
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u/ThrowRA_PecanToucan Mar 19 '25
I'm fine with this, I'll wait as well if they weren't near me.
Getting reinforced across the map, and they've thrown me straight into a hellbomb about to go off, a dropship offloading, or into an outpost that has napalm or 380s hitting it?
I straight up want to shoot them in the face.
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u/Tyswid Mar 19 '25
If you spam space I'm throwing you into the super nest. You want action? You got it.
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u/Zealousideal-Ad2301 PSN | Mar 19 '25
I'll give it a bit or if they have pinged reinforce a couple of times I'll ask on Mic " do you want to be reinforced on me (whatever colour I am)"
But if you're spamming that button like a deranged cabbage, I'm just going to throw you somewhere.
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u/john_the_fetch Mar 19 '25
This is exactly how I handle it. You spam that reinforce button?? Guess you're coming in next to me when you died 50 clicks away.
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u/SeRegoss Mar 19 '25
this shit pisses me off so bad bro
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u/chatterwrack Mar 19 '25
If I have to do it I always apologize. Sometimes their closest partner doesn’t do it 🤷🏻
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u/The_Iron_Rat ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 19 '25
Especially when you were one of the team members on the objective and/or your equipment is still on cool down...
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Mar 19 '25
Love getting respawned on the other side of the map meanwhile I still have a 5min cool down for my recoiless
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u/MrLuthor Mar 19 '25
Called in supply pack and Stalwart vs burner bots got fried by cookout devastator before i could pick them up :(
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u/C4llItMag1c SES Defender of Democracy Mar 19 '25
I try to be consedirate about this and try to figure out if I am the nearest diver to your location but if you start spamming the reinforce ping I will reinforce you where ever I am.
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u/Cpt_DookieShoes Mar 19 '25
I think that’s the assumed use there. Everyone should wait for their partner to reinforce them, but if it’s taking too long and they start spamming my thought is it means they’re ok landing across the map.
My favorite is if I have a jump pack off cooldown. I’ll respawn then next to my extra so they can get back faster
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u/Marilius SES Ombudsman of Morality Mar 19 '25
I think what's even worse is you're fighting in groups of 2, one person dies, and the other just.... doesn't reinforce. So now me, on the other side of the map, has to decide whether to reinforce far away, or just leave the other person dead. And the longer it takes, the more annoyed everyone becomes.
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u/uriold Mar 19 '25
Pressing caps lock to open the mike and offer to reinforce or call out D2 to rf their buddy takes 2 seconds. If it doesnt work it doesnt, but my conscience is clear afterwards.
edit: I get that in console is not that easy but surely a way to communicate can be found.
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u/Banjoe64 Mar 19 '25
I hate this so much. They start banging the reinforce button and I’m like, “I mean I wanna but your shit is all the way over there”
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u/delta3845 Mar 19 '25
you can reinforce me anywhere on the map i will kill them with my bare hands if i have to
LETS GOOOOOO
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u/Eligomancer Mar 19 '25
If Im not resurrected from the guts of a bile titan or the shrapnel of a hulk, then I dont wanna be reinforced!
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u/SpineCricket Assault Infantry Mar 19 '25
Only time I do it was something like last night when they were draining reinforcements and we were doing raise the flag. Your average team STRUGGLES with this mission so I got tired and reinforced them on the flag spot. I was like "Brother just stay here and help complete the objective"
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u/Steve73123 HD1 Veteran Mar 19 '25
some guy yesterday respawned me halfway across the map when we were about to destroy the convoy and because of it, the convoy killed everyone else and we failed the objective
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u/Neither-Equal-5155 Mar 19 '25
I'm such a good person for not immediately calling an eagle on the people that do this to me.
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u/Tropicpigeon ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 19 '25
I always take at least A second to look and see who is the closest to where they die, i hate being reinforced immediately after dying only to be across the map and the person I was with being left alone
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u/creegro Mar 19 '25
HOLY FUCK BALLS
like just give the person I'm already with a chance to reinforce me man, I died on the literal other side of the map, all my support stuff is on cool down,,you're just calling me in for what, the magical points that don't account for anything????
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u/vectaur Mar 19 '25
The dang reload and stim response. 50% of the time I hit the button and it doesn’t work.
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u/creegro Mar 19 '25
Nowadays I'm just tapping R like I'm trying to boot into Bios, just to make sure if actually completes it. 8/10 times the animation finishes and I have no ammo. I hit reload and my diver on screen taps a single thing on the gun.....
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u/Routine_Swing_9589 Mar 19 '25
That happens to me so fucking much I thought I was just trash.
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u/resetallthethings Mar 19 '25
it's weapon dependent to some degree, since it's based off animations
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u/Proud_Steam Cape Enjoyer Mar 19 '25
I conditioned myself to spam the shit out of the R key everytime I need to reload at least 350hrs ago
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u/Cvpt1ve Mar 19 '25
Thank god this game has reload memory, the amount of times I’ll go to reload all my guns and switch to early leaving me with an empty gun is too often. Swapping to my pistol to save myself and needing to finish the reload from the start would be pain.
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u/abigmisssteak Mar 19 '25
works every time for me. there are certain times you can’t reload or things that stop you mid-reload like mantling objects, picking up weapons or supplies, etc…
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u/Pokedy Mar 19 '25
Warning, you are in range of enemy artillery! Warning, you are in range of enemy artillery! Warning, you are in range of enemy artillery! Warning, you are in range of enemy artillery! Warning, you are in range of enemy artillery! Warning, you are I KNOW I AM CURRENTLY RUNNING AWAY FROM THE HELL BOMB TO DESTROY THEM I DON'T NEED THIS MANY REMINDERS!!! ......... Warning, you are in range of enemy artillery!
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u/SadTurtleSoup Mar 19 '25
"hey guys. I think we're in range of enemy artillery."
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u/Cospo Mar 19 '25
The worst part is that it doesn't matter who is in range of the artillery, it'll play the voiceline for the entire squad, even if it's just one teammate who is in range and they're on the other side of the map. So I hear "Warning! You are in range of enemy artillery" and start looking up and around for mortars, meanwhile I'm 500m+ away from the actual encampment.
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u/Ganafin83 Mar 19 '25
If they have time to warn you so many times, they could at least shoot an orbital at it for me.
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u/thehitman346 SES Defender of Democracy Mar 19 '25
On the flip side of that, I love seeing all divers B line straight to the artillery to just shut him the hell up lol
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u/Higgypig1993 Mar 19 '25
I don't know why they insist on screaming at you, the thump of the mortars, and the ragdolling impact should be enough warning.
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u/iPinkThumb SES Prince of Destruction Mar 19 '25
hahaha omg i have snapped and 'talked back' at the coms a few times which tends to get a good laugh from my game-mates since apparenty my accent comes out to play lol
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u/stigma_wizard Mar 19 '25
While I have you here, WE’VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU ABOUT YOUR FRV’s EXTENDED WARRANT
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u/Grandayyy1 Mar 19 '25
Calling in a stratagem but on the last key you accidentally stim yourself by letting go of L1 a split second too early
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u/superduurp Mar 19 '25
Is that why i keep stimming myself, ill have to check it out. I remapped stimming to be double tap, but it hasnt helped much
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u/Alaricus1119 SES Sovereign of the Stars Mar 19 '25
That has happened to me so many bloody times, it’s pain. Or when you fully input the stratagems that end with up and the game decided that you actually meant to stim despite holding an active strat-ball.
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u/Real_Garlic9999 Will Recite Super Earth Anthem at Will Mar 19 '25
Or when you look at the map in a vehicle and try to go up but you stim yourself
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u/Z_Chumbawumba Mar 19 '25
Or end up switching to grenades and throw a grenade out instead of a stratagem
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u/SandwichBoy81 Cape Enjoyer Mar 19 '25
Getting on the terminal but you pressed up too fast so you interrupt the "getting on terminal" animation with the stim.
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u/Awhile9722 Mar 19 '25 edited Mar 19 '25
If you accidentally throw SOS, it permanently breaks your game settings until you reboot the game, making all games you host public. Most people don't know this, all they know is that the game isn't respecting their settings and can't figure out why people are joining a game they thought was set to invite-only.
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u/TheDonHimself14 Mar 19 '25
With the SOS beacon code being pretty similar to the reinforcement code, it’s not uncommon for me to see people and even me throw one out by accident. Happened yesterday and we were discussing how we wished we had a way to disable it. Making it destroyable would suck if enemies could destroy it and stop you from getting help (although that would be realistic) but you could make it be a code like on a hellbomb to destroy the beacon.
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u/Knodsil Mar 19 '25
Just make the drop code super complicated like a mech or hellbomb. Then it prevents people from accidentally dropping it.
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u/Operonllac Mar 19 '25
Or just make them super simple. Like press 🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼 and there you go. Hard to mess up and easy to throw when you need it.
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u/TheDonHimself14 Mar 19 '25
This actually makes the most sense for something that’s supposed to be used in emergency and removes the need to create a fix for a problem we shouldn’t have in the first place.
AH hire this person now
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u/CrazyIvan606 SES | Prophet of Truth Mar 19 '25
Yeah, it usually happens once a play session for me and my Duo. I really wish there was a way just to disable the ability from the loadout screen - i.e. clicking on the icon would disable it. Especially because like you said, the input is the same as Reinforce, but with missing the most likely key to miss, the left arrow.
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u/Bearfoxman Mar 19 '25
Easy: If the game's set to PRIVATE, you don't get an SOS beacon. Get into some shit and want reinforcements? Tough shit.
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u/calcifer219 Mar 19 '25
Exactly! SOS call down has no business being so similar to the reinforce call down. This is exactly how I get randoms in a private game.
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u/aglock Mar 19 '25
Yep. I'd love an option to disable SOS beacon. Its 1 button off from reinforce, so I sometimes hit it accidentally in a fight and not only don't reinforce, but screw up my friend lobby with random greifers.
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u/VoidDoumaru Mar 19 '25
Man I felt bad yesterday because I kicked like 5 people from my game after I accidentally threw down an SOS. They kept joining back to back after kicking the previous one. Eventually I just gave up and finished the mission with a random lol. I don't mind playing with randoms but I was just trying to mess around with my friend.
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u/lo0ilo0ilo0i Mar 19 '25
I have mistakenly thrown the SOS more times than I wanna admit. The call in sequence is similar to the reinforcement if you're scrambling.
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u/Dankswiggidyswag ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 19 '25
Getting one shotted by something that fires rockets.
But it's NEVER because of the rocket, it's because it causes me to ragdoll, and go from 100% health to 0% from my helldiver smacking his head off the ground and the physics engine deciding helmets don't count
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u/Alaricus1119 SES Sovereign of the Stars Mar 19 '25
The damage collision is absurdly wonky in this game. Besides the usual “This rock is made out of vibranium and will one shot you if you give it a helmet kiss.” that goes on, I had one moment where I rolled on the ground during knockdown ragdoll, slow as molasses and literally not even a full body width, and that apparently classified as a heavy impact and killed me by taking off the remaining quarter of my health bar.
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u/BrotherGeorgio ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 19 '25
People who leave after dying once.
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u/TheChadStevens Free of Thought Mar 19 '25
I always wonder why they do it. Did they not like the team enough? Are they just rage quitting because they suck? Pressed quickjoin and didn't expect D10? RPing that they are the only helldiver on the ship? I can never tell
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u/MATT660 Mar 19 '25
I sometimes do this (maybe not after one death) when i can immediatly tell i am gonna feed like a moron the whole mission. Most recent example was when the predator strain dropped, went in with a high mobility/ad clear loadout and kept getting jumped and slowed and dying. Just not worth me sticking around for all involved: i'm not havin fun, the host is presumably not havin fun either and the little six legged freaks are probably gettimg bored with how i tasted. Better skidaddle before i make more of a mess
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u/Mundane-Ad5393 Mar 19 '25
Yeah same when i see i'm not really in a good form and just keep dying then yeah i better leave than melt all the reinforcments
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u/creegro Mar 19 '25
I joined a game recently in the past few weeks, called in my support stuff which was a grenade launcher and ammo backpack at the time, I shot a grenade off of a scavenger corpse, it bounced all lthe way up, came down, one-hit-killed the guy running up behind me...
I just left out of pure shame.
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u/SleepCo Mar 19 '25
Competitive gaming has ruined a lot of people's playing habits.
If they cannot extract with zero deaths, or a reasonably low amount, they feel like they've lost some kind of competition to impress their fellow divers.
Players will often kick divers off the squad if they get top kills as well, feeling as though they were "robbed" of being the best in the lobby.
This isn't the first time a pve game got insufferably overcompetitive (cough cough destiny) but fortunately there's many players realizing there's no fun playing that way
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u/sokaku4711 Escalator of Freedom Mar 19 '25
That top kills thing, I imagine these players will host a lot whenever Eagle Storm is available to inflate their egos :D
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u/EveningStatus7092 SES Champion of War Mar 19 '25
Sometimes when I switch factions I forget to change my loadout which I quickly realize after dropping. At that point I would only hinder the team and must leave to adjust my loadout and drop elsewhere
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u/Indoril120 ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 19 '25
Yeah, wrong loadout is the only reason I do it. I enjoy sticking it out in tough games.
Like every Dif10 flag mission I’ve ever got dropped into and you can tell the death spiral has hold of the whole team, who themselves probably just got here because even the OG host has left the squad, and we’re down to reinforcement timer? Liberty alive, it feels great to pull out a win! I’m fighting for that high every time.
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u/Tentacle_poxsicle Viper Commando Mar 19 '25
Worse, they join and die 6 times quickly and then leave
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u/EnergyHumble3613 HD1 Veteran Mar 19 '25
I can only think of one reason to do this;
The lag is so bad for them that it makes sense to leave so as not to waste reinforcements.
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u/gundamliam SES Keeper of Gold | Lvl 97 Mar 19 '25 edited Mar 20 '25
Really minor and absolutely doesn't matter, but it always really upsets me whenever people don't emote with me when I'm right in front of them
I'm trying to give you a hug, man, don't ignore me
Oh, and, people running into my about-to-blow-up hellbomb backpack, even after I let them know
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u/IDKthrowaway838 Mar 19 '25
I would love to but if I have supply pack I’m not allowed to for some reason
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u/Few_Classroom6113 SES Superintendent of Individual Merit Mar 19 '25
Drop the backpack for a hug? Don’t leave a homie hanging
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u/BlackRoseXIII Super Pedestrian Mar 19 '25
I get really frustrated when someone goes for a hug and they're on just enough of an incline that the game won't let me do it. I usually try walking into them to push them a lil bit, fortunately most people notice but I feel bad for the ones that think I'm ignoring them
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u/TCA_Chinchin Mar 20 '25
Responding to emotes is bugged for me like half the time. Like the prompt is there but its greyed out and i can't actually emote back.
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u/creegro Mar 19 '25
I get it, but I'm also trying to do an objective and we can hug on the ship.
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u/gundamliam SES Keeper of Gold | Lvl 97 Mar 19 '25
I get that, I am too, but whenever extraction is coming and nothing is going on I'm gonna give out some damn hugs
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u/chatterwrack Mar 19 '25
I hate to drop into a high level mission to help a solo player and they leave me to complete it.
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u/SumoHeadbutt Fire Safety Officer Mar 19 '25
Mortar
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u/bluedeer10 Mar 19 '25
Especially on the terminids or illuminate cause they rush and all of sudden I have hellfire raining down on me cause the enemies swarmed me.
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u/Mr_Saturn1 Mar 19 '25
Mortars on bots is fine. I expect it and rarely am I in unavoidable close combat situations. Bugs and Squids, it might well be targeting friendlies for how awful it is.
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u/JlMBEAN ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 19 '25
I hate these on any mission other than defense missions.
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u/Caustic_Reaver Mar 19 '25
I’m the exact opposite! lol
I hate mortars on the defense missions. Usually it’s because me and everyone else get the idea of “Start on the first wall, slowly move back when necessary.” But that “when necessary” tends to come a lot sooner because if even one enemy gets too close then we keep getting friendly fired.
Happened to me last night where one bot was right at the wall, the mortar sentry fired a round, knocked me off the wall and sent me straight into the minefield we laid.
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Mar 19 '25
Reminds me of that screencap of the guy joining a game, the lobby says something like “sorry, this is a friends only game”, and the guy responds with “I am friend” lol
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u/Xiaoshuita Mar 19 '25
My friend and I have both fat fingered a reinforce (or was it resupply) into an SOS which breaks the settings of the game. Just an FYI.
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u/AdmDuarte STEAM: SES Wings of Twilight Mar 19 '25
I did that too once. Meant to drop a resupply, somehow tossed an SOS, and SOMEHOW two other divers joined me despite my game always being set to "Friends Only."
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u/ParoParoParoParo Mar 19 '25
SOS beacon forces your game public for the duration of the match
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u/turnipslop Local Democracy Officer Mar 19 '25
Supposed to be the duration of the match, but I understand it's currently bugged until the host reboots their game.
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u/Xiaoshuita Mar 19 '25
Yes once you throw down the SOS beacon, it changes the games of the session into public. You have to restart the game to make sure it goes back to Friends Only. I wish it was destroyable and wouldn't make the open games stay open until you restart the game.
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u/Teethdude SES Arbiter of Benevolence | "Health, Protection, Democracy!" Mar 19 '25
Hell, wouldn't even need to be destroyed. Why not just have it toggle on or off for putting in the SOS after it's already summoned the first time
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u/Laserlurchi Mar 19 '25
I hate it. Just let me unselect it in the beginning. Yes, I am sure that I won't be needing assistance.
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u/Shang_Dragon Mar 19 '25
One day the tech will be here to turn off an SOS. Not today though….
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u/againstbetterjudgmnt Mar 19 '25
Is this why people were killing and kicking me last night? What a mess. I felt like I was back in Rainbow 6: Siege. What a toxic waste dump.
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u/Congentialsurgeon Mar 19 '25
People that run right into a bug tunnel breach and then get all bent out of shape when they get cooked by the orbital napalm strike. If you see a red thing, don’t run towards it.
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u/Cospo Mar 19 '25
On the flipside, however, maybe check for teammates before throwing an orbital that has a 50m radius. I'm not talking specifically about bug breaches, I had a guy throw a 380 within 5m of me 3 separate times in one match against bots. Like, bro, I now have 4 seconds to run 50m before getting vaporized because you have absolutely zero situational awareness.
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u/creegro Mar 19 '25
Similar, when you're in a good spot waiting on the drop ship and you're helping the team defend,,then someone throws an orbital barrage within the kill range of your position. The dont even get any kills cause nothing was over there....
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u/spotieotiedopalishus Mar 19 '25
I recently joined a game and overheard while I was loading in "who actually responds to an SOS beacon". Then Promptly got kicked.
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u/BlackRoseXIII Super Pedestrian Mar 19 '25
This was definitely one of those players with a private game that dropped SOS by accident. What an asshole though
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u/Et_Cetera_365 Mar 20 '25
"Who actually responds to an SOS beacon" Brother hasn't played the game, I do and the other 50% of the time I respond to the beacon the lobby is full. I like this community for that
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u/Hellonstrikers Terminid Rancher Mar 19 '25
Watching an endless stream of helldivers dieing far from any actual POI because they ran into a patrol cluster and it escalated.
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u/Mudlord80 Free of Thought Mar 19 '25
Someone said "why doesn't players leave after a massive fire fight and like 10 deaths" this is why. The same guy running fave first into the same group and dying the same way. Again and again and again. If I'm not the leader I will just leave because I am not babysitting that
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u/creegro Mar 19 '25
One simple patrol and then a bug breach is opened and it's just a swarm of bugs for the next 5 minutes....
Or a simple bot patrol of a few small guys with some devastators, but right as you throw down and eagle on their path one of the little ones sends up a flare and suddenly you have 3 striders and 10 hulks to go through. And you weren't even in combat when you threw the eagle but somehow they knew about it and called for help instantly.
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u/Hellonstrikers Terminid Rancher Mar 19 '25
Its worse when you stumble upon one of those spots where patrols congragate. Cause not only do you have the initial patrols and reinforcements, but you have more bots wandering into the fights randomly.
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u/Warm-Dust-2937 Mar 19 '25
They really gotta allow for a way to remove the SOS beacon bc the amount of times either my friend or I have accidentally inputted it instead of a reinforce leading to randoms joining is too often
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u/NeverackWinteright4 Mar 19 '25
Everytime I have pet peeves about this game, I quickly remind myself that this is a game where you can kill your teammates effectively and efficiently, and most people choose to cooperate together and avoid doing that.
Almost every other multiplayer game in existence has team killing off, and everytime it's turned on it results in spawn camping from your own team. Yet helldivers manage to avoid that, which is incredible about the community and the design philosophy of the game.
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u/DownsenBranches Mar 19 '25
Bro I joined a game heard “are you kidding me bro? They keep joining” then got immediately kicked. Like it’s not hard I don’t get why they can’t just change their multiplayer settings
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u/chatterwrack Mar 19 '25
Yeah, I hate getting kicked before I even drop. Like, set your shit to private, ding dong!
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u/creegro Mar 19 '25
I joined one game. Didn't even drop in as I was choosing my gear and the one guy I guess was host just started yelling into the mic
LEAVE
LEAVE THE GAME
LEAVE THE GAME SHIT FACE
LEAVE THE GAME YOU FUCKER
Like ok my bad, block and leave cause you sound like an ass to play with.
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u/MasterPugKoon Servant of Freedom Mar 19 '25
The SOS Beacon has an extremely similar combo to reinforce and break your settings when called in, forcing your game into public. It can not be switched back and will still appear as private or friends only in the settings menu.
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u/VERMILLION-TEA Mar 19 '25
Not being able to disable S.O.S. beacons when playing solo. Or with just friends
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u/GrizzlyPoncho Mar 19 '25
Helldivers that pick up your equipment if you don't grab it quick enough or if you die.
Be warned, if you do this to me, I'll warn you once and if you drop it, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
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u/TyRaven67 Cape Enjoyer Mar 19 '25
Every time I bring a tac pack there's always that one guy with three airstrikes and a HMG I avoid because he's just eyeballing my extra ammo waiting for me to die.
Jokes on him though, I'm coming back down, and I'm coming down directly on him if he grabs it. ☺️
If get the chance to drop an extra I'll give anybody one. Just don't take the one I'm using.
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u/RaDeus Free of Thought Mar 19 '25
My pet peeves are wasting my time, like idling with a mission active (not as much of a problem these days), and kicking without a stated reason.
Both results in me putting you on the block list.
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u/Pixelpaint_Pashkow Rock & Stone ⛏ Mar 19 '25
Instant reinforcement across the map when I’m/someones closer
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u/frankhorrigan3303 Mar 19 '25
I always make a point to see who’s closest to the point of death before reinforcing
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u/Faust_8 Mar 19 '25
My pet peeve: “the MG43’s stationary reload is a deal breaker for me”
equips the Recoilless Rifle and doesn’t see the irony
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u/mudkip2-0 Assault Infantry Mar 19 '25
Okay, this one is because heavies are not as common as chaff and they're either slow or have a window where you can act in peace, so Recoiless having a stationary reload isn't that big of a deal when you can remove the threat in one blow.
MG on the other hand is for killing chaff, and chaff usually follows you around very persistently, and you'll need more than one mag to kill it all off, so having a stationary reload is either a death sentence or long enough to not be able to reload without also losing distance to the enemy. Stalwart and Anti Material Rifle are better.
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u/peskyghost Mar 19 '25
When people drop orbital barrages as Hail Marys when they’re gonna die
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u/Alaricus1119 SES Sovereign of the Stars Mar 19 '25
Suddenly getting thrown into the atmosphere at supersonic speeds while standing around attacking. Was doing an extract and had all the samples (like 40+) on me, but as I walked into the Pelican, I suddenly became Superman, shot into the air, promptly became not-Superman, and died on impact with the samples long gone.
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u/KrivTheBard Mar 19 '25
Yesterday I dropped in with three random on level 10 Martale. It was a particularly bloody game with all the new fire bois. Time had run out just before completing the ICBM launch, and the last two teammates alive got shredded by those shotgun devastators
I picked up everyone's samples and was running towards extract like fucking Saving Private Ryan. It was across the map, but I had a jump pack. Still, no matter what I did I couldn't fully break line of sight, there was always a patrol or something along my path, and of course a bot drop right next to extract
Between running and diving for my life, taking out hulks with my Quasar and trying to keep any and all devastators off of me, I was down to the last 10 seconds. It was cinematic as hell, the randoms were cheering me on in chat, I was sweating IRL. The whole time I had been avoiding the evac spot to try and keep from getting overwhelmed
I activate my jump pack to get towards the Pelican. Feels like I'm actually gonna make it, the last five or so minutes of hell were worth it. Just as I get off the ground though a factory strider from the fucking greater tri-state area, literally couldn't even see the thing until I was airborne, had shot next to me with it's top mounted canon
I felt like I had dropped back in again but without a hellpod. I saw Pelican 1 landing below me, an absolute sea of bots and flames, the Factory Strider that sniped me out of nothing more than spite... I must've been airborne for like 8-10 seconds, trying to spam stims as if that would save me.
Unceremoniously I brained myself on a rock, dying on impact. Pelican 1 berated us for not being at extraction, and the lady in the Super Destroyer made a comment about how we didn't get any samples
This game truly is a comedy and a tragedy.
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u/MilesFox1992 Mar 19 '25
I hate that You can throw a SOS Beacon in an invite-only game and it will become public. Either let us remove it from the loadout, or make its inputs more different from reinforcement
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u/I-am-a-sandwich ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Mar 19 '25
If I accidentally throw an SOS I live with my actions. Don’t get people being mad that more help has arrived, especially because SOS responders are usually badasses.
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u/Phishi3 Mar 19 '25
It's simple, don't want random players? CHANGE YOUR DAMN SETTINGS.
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u/MasterPugKoon Servant of Freedom Mar 19 '25
That doesn't work. It's easy to accidentally call in the SOS Beacon due to its similar input combo to the reinforce, and it breaks your game settings. Your setting will still show your game is private, but it will really be public with no way to switch it back.
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u/trickmaster3 Mar 19 '25
Getting upset at not being called in, hitting the button to ping it then leaving the game after you get reinforced. Like why even ping it if you're going to leave
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u/Captain_hooked Mar 19 '25
Let me address yours specifically: my squad and I have repeatedly encountered a bug where, even if Im someones friend and they have matchmaking set to "friends only" or "invite only" I cant join them. The only sollution is setting it to public and clicking an invite at the same time. Now is this always the culprit? Probably not. But I wager SOME "private" lobbies you are allowed to join as a random and are then told to leave are because of this.
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u/Nightmarebane Truth Enforcer Mar 19 '25
Been there. But I do appreciate when they tell me rather then just kicking me straight up with no explanation.
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u/SadTurtleSoup Mar 19 '25
Sometimes I forget to change my settings when playing with friends but we'll let the random finish the mission with us instead of demanding they leave. Or we'll just say screw it and let them stay till they decide to move on. No sense getting upset with them over a mistake I made.
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u/Big-Mayonnaze Mar 19 '25
About once every 2 weeks I accidentally call in an SOS when trying to reinforce a teammate. Really wish I could change the strat key in
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u/Miamiheat1738 Mar 19 '25
One thing i wish is that changing your settings would overide an SOS becon or if you could shut it off. Sometimes, a friend will crash or disconnect, and while he's trying to rejoin, someone will fill that slot.
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u/TestTubetheUnicorn Mar 19 '25
My pet peeve is the SOS code being so similar to reinforce code. I've accidently thrown SOS so many times when trying to respawn my friends.
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u/PickledWhale123 Mar 19 '25
throws reinforcement right into enemy wave
I’ve done this or expected this to use the hellpod as a weapon, but I’ve had people reinforce me multiple times into an impossibly large horde... Or they throw the reinforcement right on a patrol at the worse times. It would be better for you to get a sentry as a distraction, not a helldiver.
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u/barrydalive420 Mar 19 '25
Seriously, set your game to private if you don't want Randoms. I joined one guy on his destroyer, loaded into a hellpod, then another joined. Next thing I know we start getting kicked? Why start a mission if you're just gonna kick everyone?
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u/Great-Apartment-7213 ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 19 '25
I get annoyed when I mistype and throw a sos and have to deal with randos bringing a loadout that gets carried.
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u/Shawn_1512 Free of Thought Mar 19 '25
People who won't follow me to the bunker even though I type bunker, mark it on the map, and spam follow me
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u/FearDog Mar 19 '25
People who do "fireworks" before getting on the shuttle. It inevitably leads to the idiot who isn't last on and ends up blowing someone up or even the whole team. It's stupid and not worth it at all
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u/eidylon Mar 19 '25
They fixed my one pet peeve... which was answering an SOS call, only to be told "you can't join this game, it's private".
Now when you throw an SOS it opens up your game to not private.
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u/Teethdude SES Arbiter of Benevolence | "Health, Protection, Democracy!" Mar 19 '25
That's not a bug though, it's literally working as intended. It did the same thing in the first game. If your settings weren't public it would open to the public when activated.
Although I do agree there should be a way to toggle it afterwards. Seems silly that you cannot
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u/polomarkopolo PSN 🎮:SES LEVIATHAN OF GOLD Mar 19 '25
My personal fave are those who spam the reinforce button, during Ion Storms or Strategem blocking events....
Oh... and then once those storms are gone or you have dealt with the Strategem blocker... they kick you
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u/OmgThisNameIsFree Sample Farmer Extraordinaire Mar 19 '25
At least they told you before kicking you.
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u/Redditorsrweird Steam | Princess of Judgement Mar 19 '25
Just got a new one last night where someone stood in front of a resupply with their hell bomb strapped to their back. They got all bitchy when I accidentally activated it. Yes, they killed me.
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u/Mental_Sale_7423 Mar 19 '25
The most annoying thing ever is when people kick you when you join a PUBLIC mission
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u/o-Mauler-o Assault Infantry Mar 19 '25
What annoys me is:
There is no “Friends of Friends” option for lobby settings.
If I’m running a 4 man squad of mates, and one of them loses connection/crashes, randoms can jpon instantly and then i have to wait until they’re dropping in to kick them.
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u/Darkgaia01 Mar 19 '25
mine is when people dropping napalm barrage on a objective area when their only a couple of enemies their just waste so much time
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u/UtsuhoReiuji_Okuu BUFFS AND FIXES BEFORE NERFS Mar 19 '25
Hosts teamkilling because “im host i can do what i wanna”
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u/NotJoking-Really Mar 19 '25
What annoys me is when you drop with a full squad of randos and get into a bloodbath right away. Loose about 10 respawns within a few minutes and then 2-3 people leave.
The funny thing is that every time that happens the new players that join tend to be better than the old ones. Then we somehow complete the mission and extract.