“Git gud” should not be the response to anyone about anything because it’s fucking nonsense babytalk and absurd flexing. The only appropriate response to “Git gud” is “Git fukd”.

See, I thought the gear rebalance was just fine. It’s just that the spawning feels utterly broken right now.

Pre-patch, I could clear just fine on difficulty 5. Post-patch, we ran the timer out on a difficulty 4 while legitimately playing our best, and it was a goddamn nightmare.

“making YouTube videos about the death of bullet Force.”

User reviews still have value as a whole. Review bombings are the exception, not the rule, so it’s important to maintain perspective.

so you are then defending the people who came in and was negative about the changes? why is it ok for them to be negative but not the creators?

Everywhere I saw those dev responses it was met with praise. The people they’re arguing with are the sweats who were kicking people for not running railgun/shield a week ago.

Your personal opinions on this don't matter. You don't berate your customers, period, even if they're being annoying. This is basic customer service shit 101 and the amount of you saying otherwise is sad.

True, though they’re also more likely to give your game negative reviews on Steam, Metacritic, etc. As a general rule, when you’re running a business, you want to minimize negative PR as much as possible. It’s better to just ignore the whiners than to engage with them in an antagonistic manner.

It’s not really the correct response if you’re running a business and trying to sell a product to customers. That’s why PR training exists and why employees without said training usually aren’t allowed to interact with customers.

Reading the comments here is already enough for me to see that there are two extreme factions clashing against each other and I don’t want to be part of that community.

One goes extreme ways against devs, the other goes completely elitist and calls everyone whiners who even dares to criticize anything. Hell, to the…

“I’m sorry if people took offence [sic] to it”

I have no dog in this fight since I haven’t played Helldivers 2, but this isn’t a real apology. It is putting the onus on the other side and implying that they are to blame.

I think everyone sucks here. Players are being whiny, devs shouldn’t speak to customers that way if they want to be professional. People act like games are their life and their life is ruined if a gun is less powerful, probably only temporarily until they do another balance update.

It’s pretty easy to tell you don’t play the game regularly by your comment. True there are insufferable whiners out there but inarguably the patch has made the game wildly more difficult and thus less fun as a result for most folks. It isn’t just a weapons update—even if you’re fine with those changes, now enemy…

Older men rounding up angry young teens/boys and twisting them into bigots is unfortunately nothing new... :( It’s a pretty standard theme on the extreme far right, explored in the movie American History X for example, back in the 1990s.

Yeah, to be blunt, the whole idea that the Catalyst/Starchild is crazy was something that they only added after the fact when it became clear that the fanbase saw it as crazy. The actual ending basically asks that you accept the rationale and dilemma at face value.

This is exactly right. All of the choices you made up to this point, the plot branches you completed and how you completed them, wound up not mattering at all.

The series presents you with these conclusions and does not allow you, the player, to argue against them. There isn’t much room here for interpretation.

That’s a meaningless distinction in this context, because by choosing any of the three options, you’re complying with Starbrat’s perspective that those *are* the only three options. The fact that you can choose Control after dispatching the Illusive Man five minutes earlier for making that exact same argument just…

I think all you’re proving with your ever-lengthier diatrabes is that religion is a big bunch of (not seldomly dangerous) outdated bullshit. Give it a rest, eh?