Helldivers 2 Dev Tracker

I haven't deleted anything, it's all there to see.

That was me.

I went a little far with the trolling, but what I said is said.

I'm sorry if people took offence to it, I'm not going to engage with the community anymore, since as many people have pointed out; we have a community team that should handle that. I figured I'd have a little fun with the players, but I realize being a dev I'm in an unfair position.

Maybe this isn't going to mend anything with you, but atleast I feel I should own up to it and apologize. I'm sorry.

There shouldn't be any more need for more nerfs with the primaries as far as I'm concerned.

We will see what happens, our first priority was bringing things in line. Then we can see if things needs to come up in general. People are still successful on helldive even with other weapons, it is just a lot easier with the mentioned items. I currently worry a little about the flamer and orbitals being overbuffed, but we will see.
Overall we're not so worried about stratagems being strong, it's just that the railgun and energy shield really didn't have a downside, so the other stratagems just pale in comparison. The railgun can still do mostly the same as before, but only on unsafe mode. And the shield will save you from one big hit and some small hits, but it won't start recovering immediately. So they should still be good, we just hope they stop being autopicks.

We can still get an average of kills per mission no matter how many uses them, people do still use the other weapons after all.

I didn't see your comment about what is viable against the chargers, but it wasn't only your comment that got me trolling I realize. However you started commenting on a lot of things, so you stuck out.

I do still stand by what I said, if you can't make it work where other people can, then that would be the definition of a skill issue.

To answer what is viable against chargers; the legs and butt are weak points, it won't be as fast, but you have options other than the railgun. It isn't supposed to be easy to deal with them, but the railgun might've given off that impression. Try things and see what works.

The Breaker wasn't overrepresented when looking at successful extractions at higher difficulty, but the average killcount per mission was a fair bit higher with the breaker compared to all the other weapons, which was mostly on the level. The primaries don't exactly have a huge footprint on the higher difficulties, it was mostly the railgun and energy shield that trivialized things.

Don't worry, there are a lot of very vocal people with strong opinions, that's a good thing because that means people actually care.

We are looking into what we can do to make the weapons feel better besides just changing stats. Animation, sound and vfx etc. are levers we can use that doesn't affect balance, but that is harder to swing with a schedule full of other things.

Tweaking the numbers to get the guns into line was the priority here, but we'll keep an eye on the community, we just want the game to mature a bit before we start turning the big knobs.

Most people I've interacted with here is very understanding and polite once I've made my case, but you really touched off and that just made it a little too tempting to mess around.

We want to get things in line, and for players to have a little more than four weeks on the game before we start making huge changes. We'll buff things it turns out our line of reasoning doesn't work.