Popli IX

[Gundug]

Hello Helldivers! Popli IX has an invasion level of 40 and would require 189% of the players to overcome. While the 13k (56% of the players) brave divers defending it are admirable for their courage in the face of hopeless odds, perhaps there are other planets that are open to attack where actual ground could be made. Mort, Ustotu and Troost are better options at this moment. Even Julheim, which was a massive waste of time to attempt to defend and later recapture is now gradually fading back to complete Automaton control.

[Gundug]

A quick update: 2 hours to go, and only 43% defended, and with 33k divers. On a fire tornado planet too. With those numbers we could have made so much progress on any of the three major front worlds. Mantes is almost certainly next, with a possible attack on Vandalon and even Ingmar to spread the defense out. Eagle Storm will be coming online at a terrible moment as well, where it can manage to be completely wasted right after this attack ends, unless the bots quickly attack Mantes, and players manage to move the DSS there in time.

[Quill]

Originally posted by Gundug:

A quick update: 2 hours to go, and only 43% defended, and with 33k divers. On a fire tornado planet too. With those numbers we could have made so much progress on any of the three major front worlds. Mantes is almost certainly next, with a possible attack on Vandalon and even Ingmar to spread the defense out. Eagle Storm will be coming online at a terrible moment as well, where it can manage to be completely wasted right after this attack ends, unless the bots quickly attack Mantes, and players manage to move the DSS there in time.

I don't think people care as the revived Jet Brigade are on Popli IX. While Mort is the source of the Attack and would be the more logical place for our forces to deploy it's not where the sub faction is. Julheim has the Incineration Corps and as a result has more players deployed to that planet than Mort

[Gundug]

I guess people are that hard up for new content, but what an awful planet to play on. Are there people who enjoy fire tornado planets?

[Gundug]

Update to the update: the Eagle Storm came on earlier than I expected, and now the bots are stalled at approximately an hour left to take the planet for the next 23 hours. At the current rate of defense, Helldivers are on track to defend the planet in just under the next 24 hours, a little bit after the Eagle expires, so it is doable.

[Softis]

I've heard that the Jet Brigade event is designed to attack multiple targets in succession, and based on how much progress we make on each defense, the subsequent invasions are weaker.

In which case, it's not wasted effort.

[Lionitus]

With the Eagle Storm halting the offensive, it is not possible to succeed in the defense with out attempting the Gambit with only 55% of the population (we have 65% right now so that % pop required will only go down).

[Gundug]

Originally posted by Lionitus:

With the Eagle Storm halting the offensive, it is not possible to succeed in the defense with out attempting the Gambit with only 55% of the population (we have 65% right now so that % pop required will only go down).

I’m not sure I follow. According to the Helldivers 2 Companion App, we are currently on schedule to defend the planet in about 16 hours, with approximately 19.5 hours of Eagle Storm left, so it’s going faster than I originally projected.

[McGillicutti]

Until they nerf burning from the enemy the game isn't worth buying it on sale.

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Originally posted by Gundug:

I guess people are that hard up for new content, but what an awful planet to play on. Are there people who enjoy fire tornado planets?

Fire tornado planets are FRV planets, what are you on about?

[Gundug]

Originally posted by {CLASSIFIED}:

Originally posted by Gundug:

I guess people are that hard up for new content, but what an awful planet to play on. Are there people who enjoy fire tornado planets?

Fire tornado planets are FRV planets, what are you on about?

Sorry, it could not be less clear to me what the point is that you are trying to make with your connection between fire tornado planets and the FRV.

[John 11]

ya i got super bored with the half ammo thing on popil, got me to close the game and stop playing for a while: having to fight your team all the time for supplies is supper annoying... moreso on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ super hot, fire tornado planet so your lazers kinda suck, ammo eating weapons suck, the supply pack sucks. just got annoying and boring. so i quit playing and probably wont touch the planet from boredom.

i guess you can kinda look at it like when people got salty at all the nerfs. but now theyre just nerfing with modifiers on one planet.