Right, like it is an extremely low stakes game that you are supposed to lose sometimes. It costs you nothing to lose, and people are still upset when the developers “Nerf a top tier gun into the ground” by making it sway .5 percent more and that makes the game unplayable.
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piskertariot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Game is fun.
Game supports upto 4 people.
Game does not require a community. T
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Reddit communities around games in general are awful. I swear no one in those subreddits actually enjoys the game they supposedly dump thousands of hours into.
BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
It’s not even just gamers or even Reddit users though. The online world has just normalized hyper-toxicity at all times. We all treat every comment like an argument. We’ve been taught hate as a default. Even the bots trained on us talk like that.
athatet@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
When I was on Reddit I remember there having to be specifically “no salt” versions of game subreddits because the main sub for the game got taken over by people shitting on it.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Hey now that’s not entirely true. The crusader kings community at least used to enjoy it, IDK been off reddit for several years so I don’t know if they’ve changed. Regardless the inbred ugly eugenics programs were always amusing.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Game is fun. It’s a damn co-op. It rarely goes sideways in game. This is pure community drama, I’ve never participated in reddit and steam forums and glad I haven’t.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 days ago
Ironically I gave up on the community for the complete opposite reason, you can’t criticize the game because criticism is always met with “you’re an enemy of super earth”. I get it, Super earth is a fascist civilization and Helldivers are the extension of that fascism and a lot of it is on the nose and it’s okay to joke about dissenters, sometimes. You don’t need to scream “enemies of democracy” every single time someone criticizes the game. The game is fun but it’s not perfect. There are real problems with the game, one of which has lead to this complete embarrassment of the community.
In short, the Helldivers 2 community is toxic in every aspect and anyone interested in Helldivers is better off ignoring the subreddit, the steam community and probably also the official discord. Instead join !helldivers2@lemmy.ca where this drama isn’t even mentioned.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The same people who would be susceptible to fascist thought are the same people who think Starship Troopers is about the good guys
Now you understand why media like HellDivers always ends up with the fan base that it does.