Difficulty Poll

[Microcosm]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's curious as to what difficulties the majority of players have beaten right?

What difficulty have you reached?[strawpoll.com]

What difficulty do you play?[strawpoll.com] (Vote with your terminid difficulty to keep things simple)

I personally thought that most of us were at impossible or helldive but considering how many people are complaining about the difficulty, I'm starting to doubt my original beliefs. It's not going to be 100% accurate but it's better than nothing I believe :D

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Garbage Google Doc[docs.google.com]

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Difficulties	Unlocked Whole	Unlocked Percentage	Main Whole	Main Percentage
Trivial	0	0	0	0
Easy	1	.89%	4	3.96%
Medium	1	.89%	4	3.96%
Challenging	8	7.14%	27	26.73%
Hard	20	17.86%	24	23.76%
Extreme	29	25.89%	18	17.82%
Suicide Mission	23	20.54%	8	7.92%
Impossible	19	9.82%	8	7.92%
Helldive	11	16.69%	8	7.92%

52.95% of players haven’t gotten past “Extreme” difficulty.
58.42% of players main Terminids on “Hard” difficulty or lower.

[Mochi_flamer]

i mostly play extreme and suicide solo or random, helldiver sometimes if someone level 20 can go...

[Microcosm]

Please leave a comment like "I voted" or something to boost this back up to the top of discussions. I want to make sure we get as many votes as possible :D

[Malidictus]

Difficulty 4 so far. That's already hard enough that I run into the limits of the timer quite often, with things potentially going bad quite frequently. It's also where anti-tank weapons become VERY mandatory, and those seem to have gotten quite the nerf in Helldivers 2.

[DMesse]

Difficulty 7+. Mildly sad when I see people don't bring any sort of anti-tank weapons or off-map support in public games though!

[Microcosm]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Difficulty 4 so far. That's already hard enough that I run into the limits of the timer quite often, with things potentially going bad quite frequently. It's also where anti-tank weapons become VERY mandatory, and those seem to have gotten quite the nerf in Helldivers 2.

If you're running out of time, I'd recommend focusing on objectives. Going solo, I can complete a suicide mission in around 20 minutes if I focus purely on the main objectives. Speed is a key factor in solo runs since you have no one to provide cover fire and if you use sentrys, bugs will prioritize killing them over the player. Not sure if you're running solo but you are kinda require to focus your build on agility rather than firepower/support.

[Rabid Urko]

Trivial difficulty :P

[Microcosm]

Originally posted by Rabid Urko:

Trivial difficulty :P

Jesus christ bro how? I'll need you to carry me some time :(

[Hoxton]

did multiple missions on highest difficulty already (helldive)

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by Microcosm the Catboy:

If you're running out of time, I'd recommend focusing on objectives.

I'm aware, but that cuts rewards down significantly. Rare Samples aside, it's more profitable to play on lower difficulties and explore the map vs. higher difficulties and do just the main objectives. Finishing the mission isn't so much the issue. Actually having fun doing it is :)

[McFuzz]

6 and 7 are about the sweet spot.

But wave defense is a joke even on Helldive. Needs a dramatic difficulty increase for this mode.

[Oobaneko]

Probably, will stick on 6

[McFuzz]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Originally posted by Microcosm the Catboy:

If you're running out of time, I'd recommend focusing on objectives.

I'm aware, but that cuts rewards down significantly. Rare Samples aside, it's more profitable to play on lower difficulties and explore the map vs. higher difficulties and do just the main objectives. Finishing the mission isn't so much the issue. Actually having fun doing it is :)

No, actually, medal per minute, helldive wave defenses and blitzes are far and away the best return on time invested. It's 8 medals for one, and they're 10 minutes each.

If you can get one location with both of those, you get 19 medal for 20 minutes of fighting.

Edit: I'm tired and level 30, lol, i thought the rewards you were talking about were medals, cuz thats the only thing I'm still hurting for at this point lol. But you were, in fact, not talking about medals lol.

Yeah sample return is best on 4 and 5 where you can get rares, and also take your time nabbing all of them.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by McFuzz:

No, actually, medal per minute

Medal per minute, maybe. I'm currently looking for XP and Requisitions.

Originally posted by McFuzz:

Yeah sample return is best on 4 to 6 where you can get rares, and also take your time nabbing all of them.

I've been meaning to ask - when do the rarest samples start dropping? 6, is it?

[Doomvora]

solo 7 (5 or 6 with randoms) unless I'm playing with friends, then it's whatever difficulty they feel they can do.

Haven't tried 8 or 9 and don't really intend to, feel like 7 is my skill cap.

[McFuzz]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Originally posted by McFuzz:

No, actually, medal per minute

Medal per minute, maybe. I'm currently looking for XP and Requisitions.

i apoloogize i realized that after i reread your post. am tired. too much hellin' and divin', i sleep.