I’m, when all’s mentioned and achieved, fairly a lazy man. I like naps, normally overlook to take the bins out, and steadily delay making dinner till about 9 pm. However I am a really diligent Helldiver. The propaganda machine again at Tremendous Earth has actually had an impression on me, and now I can not assist however attempt my hardest to unfold managed democracy all through the galaxy. Helldivers 2 has made me a bootlicker.
It’s extremely exhausting to do that essential work, nonetheless, after I’ve solely obtained one journey off the planet, and the pilot would not care that there are extra bug nests and automaton outposts left standing. As soon as that shuttle leaves, the mission is over, whether or not I am safely inside it or not.
Proper after launch, my fellow Helldivers appeared fairly eager to scrub up throughout each mission. It was superb victory after superb victory. However now? Everybody appears to be in a rush to get again to the ship. Possibly there is a birthday celebration about to kick off and so they do not need to miss out on the cake. I get it. Cake is nice. However medals are additionally nice, and I need extra of them.
Final evening, I could not discover a single PUG keen to 100% a mission. I desperately tried to steer my squad away from the principle goal, realizing that as quickly as we accomplished it we might be hoofing it again to the extraction level. Granted, that is generally a really wise technique. In a single mission, the place disconnects left us right down to a duo, and dying had sapped us of all our respawn reserves, we actually ought to have left sooner, however as a result of we did not neither of us made it again to the ship. However that is an anomaly in my expertise, and more often than not there’s been no cause to flee so shortly.
So I am utilizing my privileged place as an individual who writes silly phrases on the web to make a private plea: please let me get extra medals. Some extra tremendous credit can be good, too. I’ve obtained my eye on some nifty heavy armour within the store. How else will I be capable of shield the weak, fleshy residents of Tremendous Earth?
This downside was inevitable when Arrowhead created an evac system the place any member of the squad may name the shuttle down, no matter consensus. As soon as the shuttle timer begins, there is no going again. Should you’re fortunate, you might need time to strike off another goal, if it is shut, however that additionally means you are not serving to your crew defend the touchdown zone, which appears like a little bit of a social fake pas.
I am not satisfied there’s another, although. A vote system would possibly sound good in precept, however that simply creates extra potential issues. One squad member not paying consideration, or seeking to do a little bit of mischief, may screw up the entire mission. Particular person extractions would not actually work, both. With a single shuttle, gamers are pressured to work collectively to guard the touchdown zone, and that singular goal helps ramp up the stress.
Possibly there might be a system the place a majority may cancel the shuttle earlier than it arrives, however I doubt there’s a lot impetus for Arrowhead so as to add such a characteristic. It is not just like the neighborhood is up in arms about this.
I am embarrassed to confess that this example has made me a contact passive aggressive. “Oh, so we’re simply going to disregard the remainder of the goals then?” Truthfully, this in all probability simply makes the particular person summoning the shuttle early really feel vindicated. No one needs the passive aggressive dude to have any enjoyable, and rightly so. Am I the villain? In all probability!
As a lot because it appears like this technique is a private assault towards me and my starvation for medals, in reality it actually simply encourages higher communication, and it is actually my fault for not wanting to speak to randos in PUGs. I ought to be hopping on voice comms immediately to ask if we may stick round after the principle goal has been accomplished, as a substitute of dropping some passive aggressive remarks in chat as soon as it is too late. It definitely looks like a extra wise strategy than writing an entire article about it. Sorry, I simply can’t assist myself. It is a illness. And sick folks deserve your assist. To get extra medals.