Kick-babys And Elitists

[Vorb]

I will start with the elitists first, which you may be wondering exactly what type of player I am I talking about here. There are several. Players that insult squad mates for using different stratagems that aren't "meta" and/or kick them for doing so. This type specifically act and talk with a tone as if they're above others because they run "meta" load-outs, you can hear it in their voice.

My best example I can name, is when I was doing side objectives on the left side of the map and watched my other 3 squad mates run up to an Automaton fortress, only for one to say "Yea I don't think we're going to do anything to this base" and turn around and leave to go to extract. So I, finished up the entire left portion of the maps objectives and then ran and did the fortress myself, without even using stratagems, Eruptor only. Well on my way back to meet up with them at extract, they all 3 died (somehow my fault) and they wanted to talk about "Yea this is what i meant when I said not to do randoms". So I explain how I literally solo'd a fortress 3 dudes couldn't even do with "meta" load-outs. Which in response, I get back "You didn't solo ♥♥♥♥" among other ignorant replies in voice chat. Ended up somehow turning into what stratagems I used in the previous mission (what a reach), not even the mission we currently finished up. "Says the guy that brought in a car last mission".

To this type of elitist, all I have to say is: You guys are NOT that good, and no one takes you that seriously either. Again, I did that fortress without sweating it (0 Deaths), no stratagems, Super Helldive. To all you try-hard elitists, how does it feel knowing you are watching "Meta" YouTube videos and reading "Meta" Reddit posts and still being out preformed by just one squad mate and his primary? If you fit my description here, you are a slave to the "meta" and have no freedom in your load-outs whatsoever. You pull less weight than you think you actually are pulling. Don't forget that as a "Meta" slave you are first in line for nerfs :)

The other type of Elitists I'm sick of seeing (or reading about rather) are the divers who only fight on one front of the three, HOWEVER that itself is NOT an issue. Everyone has their own preference and I have absolutely no problem with these players.

But the issue actually begins and shows itself when you have people talking in a manner like: "Anyone not fighting on Super Earth should be banned, if we lose this major order because of you, you don't deserve to play this game" or even "I'm so mad that this Major Order is what we're doing right now, I'm glad lots of you love these lame-ass little mass effect dorks and have fun playin' 'em". The thing is, some Major Orders and pre-determined to be a loss from the get go. Which if you are reading this and aren't aware of that, be aware. Crying about .05% of players fighting bugs or bots isn't going to magically save the Major Order if that .05% showed up on super earth.

Secondly, not everyone has to play your favorite faction, and it will never be that way. But here you are (you specific elitists) crying a river because there's more than one faction in this game. It also goes to show how ungrateful people are towards the developers in a way. A huge major update and democratic last stand on super earth, and you have bug players crying because the update wasn't directed and catered towards them. You guys had a big change and update to the bugs, (You still do, the yellow mist hasn't left the galactic map and is still mutating bugs) you all were given free yellow armor at the launch of the bug changes when they reworked fire damage and then reverted it.

To this type of elitist the last thing I have to say to you is: While you piss moan and cry, the better part of the community is busy gaining medals and having fun while your grumpy asses judge others for playing all the factions. Statistically you only actually contribute to 1/3rd of our Major Orders if you think the way I described. You only help when it just so happens to involve your favorite faction, the other 2/3rds of our Major Orders you're complaining and upset, but you have no problem taking the medals from the Order when its won, which is thanks to the better part of the community and not you cry babies.

My final gripe I currently have with some of you divers is the kicking, which granted that problem has been improved by isolating those who are kicked into their own instance. This helped a lot because people were waiting to kick until the very end. Meaning before, you could potentially invest 30 minutes into a mission just to not get paid because someone kicked you at the last second. Regardless of the improvement there, the kick situation itself hasn't improved, and if anything only gotten worse. I've seen the host killed by a squad made on accident (think laser guard dog) and then kick the wrong person, not even the right person lol. Just for them to kick the actual killer after (now you're down two squad mates). I join SOS beacons more than I host. I've dropped in and immediately taken objectives out just to get kicked. The host has died because of their stupidity (not even died because of me or my stratagems) and I reinforce them within seconds, and I get kicked. There's been instances where when I join an SOS before my hellpod even hits the ground i'm kicked. I've seen squad mates kicked for dying a couple times within a few minutes when the host has died more themselves than all of the other squad mates combined.

The community in Helldivers 1 was never like this and no where close to being like this either. A lot of divers have a complex. And most of you that I've described (in the upmost rawest, truth way possible) just need to stop sucking at the game and blaming others for your game-play. Turn down the difficulty if you're dying too much instead of blaming your deaths on the squad. The kick option is meant for divers going out of their way to intentionally kill their squad mates, not because you ran into someones laser, or because you died across the map and got butt hurt about it. ♥♥♥♥ happens just like it would in Helldivers 1. Sometimes you run into friendly fire not paying attention (or being chased down), Sometimes a grenade from an ally ends up by your feet. Sometimes a sentry swings and bodies everything in its line of sight including you.

To this type of diver: If you were as good as you think you are, you wouldn't need to throw the SOS out to begin with. Let alone care if a squad mate died a couple times. In reality what is a couple deaths if you can handle the mission big dog? But here you guys are throwing it out anyways just to kick people for the dumbest reasons imaginable, and as you've also displayed with no reason at all sometimes.

In closing, shout out to all my John Helldivers, who don't fit any of the descriptions in this text. You are the better part of this community.

(edited breaks in because it was kind of a big wall in a few pieces, I'm sure it still looks horrible on mobile)

[Starbarian]

You also kick people who kill their Team multiple times, especially when the extraction shuttle ship arrives.

[obsessedwithpineapples2223]

i aint reading allat

[Cryptic]

rantdivers are real i guess?

new factions of helldivers everywhere i look

[Chaos]

wtf is ♥♥♥♥?
This is not novel website?

[Cryptic]

He says kick babies so now I'm wondering how far he can kick a baby? Like I'm assuming somebody could punt a baby a decent footage but maybe not kick

[Chaos]

I guess you can toss babies up first then kick it mid air like you would a football.
Better have strong leg tho or it would won't go very fast since I doubt they transfer force that well.

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by Chaos:

I guess you can toss babies up first then kick it mid air like you would a football.
Better have strong leg tho or it would won't go very fast since I doubt they transfer force that well.

Okay another question, can I drink a Red Bull before this event starts so that I can maximize my effectiveness or do I have to go completely natural?

[Vivianite]

Originally posted by obsessedwithpineapples2223:

i aint reading allat

[Chaos]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

Okay another question, can I drink a Red Bull before this event starts so that I can maximize my effectiveness or do I have to go completely natural?

That's kinda depend on how long do you intend to do this event.
If you need a short burst of enery for a little while, go for Red bull.
But if going for a long hual, going natural with some break and water would be better.

Since "sugar crash" (or was it caffeine?) from red bull will it make worst in the longer run.

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Originally posted by Cryptic:

Okay another question, can I drink a Red Bull before this event starts so that I can maximize my effectiveness or do I have to go completely natural?

That's kinda depend on how long do you intend to do this event.
If you need a short burst of enery for a little while, go for Red bull.
But if going for a long hual, going natural with some break and water would be better.

Since "sugar crash" from red bull will it make worst in the longer run.

In this case I think I will go the natural route. I can probably get about 6 to 8 ft naturally I would assume. Maybe that's a little bit of an overestimation but that feels pretty doable to me. What do you think?

[BingusDingus]

Jesus man, your keyboard has a spacebar for a reason, use it.

[Chaos]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

In this case I think I will go the natural route. I can probably get about 6 to 8 ft naturally I would assume. Maybe that's a little bit of an overestimation but that feels pretty doable to me. What do you think?

Sure why not? just try it.
If it doesn't go as well as you thought, you can keep trainning and it will get there eventually.
6 to 8 ft shouldn't be too much for healthy adult human.

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Originally posted by Cryptic:

In this case I think I will go the natural route. I can probably get about 6 to 8 ft naturally I would assume. Maybe that's a little bit of an overestimation but that feels pretty doable to me. What do you think?

Sure why not? just try it.
If it doesn't go as well as you thought, you can keep trainning and it will get there eventually.
6 to 8 ft shouldn't be too much for healthy adult human.

Okay, thank you for the input. Yes, I am 6 ft and I weigh about 180. Good health. I'm thinking my estimate should be reachable

[Chaos]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

Okay, thank you for the input. Yes, I am 6 ft and I weigh about 180. Good health. I'm thinking my estimate should be reachable

No problem, good luck with...whatever that was.

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Originally posted by Cryptic:

Okay, thank you for the input. Yes, I am 6 ft and I weigh about 180. Good health. I'm thinking my estimate should be reachable

No problem, good luck with...whatever that was.

Lmao all I know is he was talking about kicking babies and I thought it was a funny skit between the two of us. Oh well. Moving on.