Recent reviews by m2Kal

i like portals

The first patch of the game and it's not a nerf to weapons/abilities? They actually removed frustrating sequential immunity balls on bosses and buffed item drop?

SWEET LIBER-TEA, this is how you ROCK AND STONE

We are back.

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update 20240923:
Patch 1.001.100 We. are. so. back.
But let's see if they can keep this up.

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update 20240808: not great, not terrible update it's disappointing . This patch is one step forward and 3 steps backward.


5 months of mediocre updates, with some W, but mostly just Ls. I lost hope.

update 20240613: THEY COOKED

This patch is a big step in the right direction and the biggest W since the charger health nerf.

• Rifles are buffed, they actually shoot bullets now. The new Tenderizer slaps hard. No longer is SMG the better rifle
  
• Enemies dont oneshot you if one pixel of enemy puke/flame hits you
  
• Some Orbital strategems are buffed, Eagle strikes no longer the only SSS tier strategem
  
• SPEAR TARGETTING (mostly) FIXED
  
• THE UNFUN -1 STRATEGEM MODIFIER REMOVED
  
• "maybe old/new threads" ?

I'm back to spreading managed democracy in HD2 after losing the war in HD1

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old review:

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Good game, but held back by the clueless balancing.
Shooting paper napkins at enemies that can oneshot you if one pixel of enemy puke hits you is very balanced.
New stuff releasing in broken state (mech, 4th strategem upgrades, airburst rocket launcher, the new Tenderizer releasing with wrong/outdated model, etc) is very balanced.
Plus the Sony shenanigans didnt help.

The game currently doesnt need new content. Especially if the content is unusable. Just rebalance the current stuff in the game and BAM! new content. About half of the ingame weapons and strategems are "wasted slot" at worst and "why would i use this when i have X" at best. Players would use different weapons and tools if they were viable.

It would be great if the weapons and strategems were brought up to Autocannon level and not down to trash tier (like the Crossbow, Slugger, Scythe, Breaker spray&pray, etc.)

Compared to the previous game, Helldivers 1 had much better balance. Every weapon was good, some were better.
Here, every weapon is bad and some are usable.

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Example of 500 IQ move:
The game at release had wacked balance, 7 chargers at once, 5 titans dancing around you. The only way to deal with so many tanks was railgun tech (shooting the charger's leg 2 times to remove the armor and shoot the leg with primary weapon). There was no other way to deal with so many tanks fast and efficiently. Rocket launcher took too many shots to deal with ONE charger, so the "leg tech" was also used with rockets.
Here comes the balance team with their all-knowing-wisdom and nerfed the railgun (changed to 4+ charged at 90% unsage shots to remove armor from the leg). Reasons: "too popular", "overpowered".

Welp, later they nerfed the charger head armor, nerfed the spawn rates. And released a better version of Railgun, Quasar. It does everything the railgun does but better. Kills chargers in one shot (no need for "leg tech"), kills titans, has unlimited ammo.

Railgun was slightly buffed recently. And no, it's still not worth taking it over other weapons. Even if the nerf was reverted, it would not be worth taking the railgun. Yes, the same "over powered" railgun would not be good.

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Other examples of questionable balance:
* Buffing fire and DoT damage when it wasnt working properly for everyone in the lobby.
* Nerfing Slugger, because it was a better DMR then DMR weapons. Removed stagger, slight dmg decrease. Now it's a bad shotgun but still a good DMR.
* Nerfing Crossbow, because.. just because. The weapon was already bad, but now it's not even worth being called a paperweight. At least a paperweight has a purpose.
* Removing shrapnels from Eruptor, increased explosion damage to compensate. And then claiming the game is performing the same as before. It does not perform the same as before.

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Fireball. Fireball. Fireball.

legitimate salvage

Great combat, awesome dwarfs, excellent missions,
but most importantly
Rock and stone! To the bone!

F

Great episode, they even included Chloe's story for free

short
captivating story
emotional

It used to be a very good game.. Now it's worst than No Man's Sky :(