Helldivers 2 - Hell is more diverse than ever as PlayStation's demographics continue to grow and change.

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One of the things I've always found infinitely funny about Helldivers 2 is that when you dive into randos, you wind up with one of two situations:

1. A group that can't have a coherent thought for more than 20 seconds and tends to furball at the center of the map unless somehow guided out of it.

2. A group consisting of a random dude speaking French, a Russian, and a Chinese player. No one speaks the same language, and your text chat has periodic outbursts of Cyrillic and Mandarin, and yet despite this, everything works and everyone operates in unison despite no ability to meaningfully communicate.

There is no middle ground.
 
I've been playing level 7 and above and its been complete and total silence with every one (basically) dong their jobs unless some one finds a bunker/gets glitched and needs to be put down. And then its a quick text in chat. The Japannnese players just use the emotes and it works out fine.

It is surprisingly refreshing.
 
Back me up! said:
I've been playing level 7 and above and its been complete and total silence with every one (basically) dong their jobs unless some one finds a bunker/gets glitched and needs to be put down. And then its a quick text in chat. The Japannnese players just use the emotes and it works out fine.

It is surprisingly refreshing.
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That's to be expected. Nobody has time to type much when they have roughly 85 billion automaton patrols coming at them from all directions.
 
"doing generally terrible for the last week"
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Damn that's crazy man. Maybe next time you're in a role that acts as PR directly to the player community don't antagonize people over valid complaints.

The shit he said made Arrowhead look bad. Full stop. It might've been his own words but as a community manager in the face of something that virtually the entire playerbase hated, he made it seem like Arrowhead didn't care.

You suck at your job and you were rightfully removed.

On another note I was looking at the CEO's twitter. A lot of people have been trying to tell him about Alexus and his work on his previous game. He had a reply asking someone if other people know about this or if it's kind of a one off thing, and a lot of people weighed in. So there's a non-0% chance that the CEO is aware of this slime's "work".
 
Asian tech support said:
Without any evidence to suggest this is the case, I think the game was shat out without any consideration for the long term. The junk they're drip feeding us now was in my mind probably the plan from the beginning. Half the Internet purchasing the game was unexpected and threw a wrench into how they initially planned to support the game. I don't think that they're equipped to support the game properly
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I remember hearing during the initial launch of HD2 that the Arrowhead team were expecting maybe 14-15k people at peak then a gradual decline after the hype, so they were very much taken back by having such an explosion in player purchases.

Gilgamesh! said:
Damn that's crazy man. Maybe next time you're in a role that acts as PR directly to the player community don't antagonize people over valid complaints.

The shit he said made Arrowhead look bad. Full stop. It might've been his own words but as a community manager in the face of something that virtually the entire playerbase hated, he made it seem like Arrowhead didn't care.

You suck at your job and you were rightfully removed.

On another note I was looking at the CEO's twitter. A lot of people have been trying to tell him about Alexus and his work on his previous game. He had a reply asking someone if other people know about this or if it's kind of a one off thing, and a lot of people weighed in. So there's a non-0% chance that the CEO is aware of this slime's "work".
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If you're a CM your job is to basically toe the company line, while also trying to be relatively friendly about it, and at least seem willing to carry complaints or questions to the devs about whatever issues might arise. That's been my typical experience with CMs on games I've played in the past that had such jobs. You have to restrain your inner sperg.

There's no way that Alexus dude got into being head of balancing team by accident, I'm guessing he has friends on the dev team that vouched for him at minimum. You can fail upwards, but you tend to need some friends already in those upper positions to give you hand, Pilestedt also could've just not cared and hired him anyway.
 
Jaimas said:
2. A group consisting of a random dude speaking French, a Russian, and a Chinese player. No one speaks the same language, and your text chat has periodic outbursts of Cyrillic and Mandarin, and yet despite this, everything works and everyone operates in unison despite no ability to meaningfully communicate.
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Holy shit i've been in those. Chang is usually out in the middle of nowhere, has cooked three nests and somehow manages to come back to jam another reload down my pants and Ivan is always double-fisting EATs
 
Coldline said:
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Here's the thing about good community managers: The ones you want aren't the ones that just showed up with the qualifications of "knows how to use Reddit" and "has a forward-facing Social Media presence." It requires actual people skills and an ability to realize that not only is what you say is important, but what you don't say is equally so. A quality community manager who knows what they're doing can mitigate the damage from a fuck-up, help calm tensions, and encourage community involvement in positive directions.
A bad one, more often than not some shithead who has no qualifications beyond what I mentioned above, is honestly worse than no CM.

CM is often scrimped on because of the belief it doesn't take special qualifications, but in reality, it requires very strong ones.

Fag Albert said:
Holy shit i've been in those. Chang is usually out in the middle of nowhere, has cooked three nests and somehow manages to come back to jam another reload down my pants and Ivan is always double-fisting EATs
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Everyone who has ever played HD2 and run randos has run into a squad like this.
 
Jaimas said:
Here's the thing about good community managers: The ones you want aren't the ones that just showed up with the qualifications of "knows how to use Reddit" and "has a forward-facing Social Media presence." It requires actual people skills and an ability to realize that not only is what you say is important, but what you don't say is equally so. A quality community manager who knows what they're doing can mitigate the damage from a fuck-up, help calm tensions, and encourage community involvement in positive directions.
A bad one, more often than not some shithead who has no qualifications beyond what I mentioned above, is honestly worse than no CM.
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The problem with that is that someone with those skills can do better than being one step above a janny.
 
Hear me out, if Arrowhead wants to get people to stop shitting on them over Sony and game balance, here's what they do. Pride month is coming up. Add pride flag capes for every denomination of faggot. This will stir up shit so hard on both sides that everyone will forget what they're currently mad about. "Helldivers 2 faces wave of transphobia as divers with pride capes are team-killed on sight." "Helldivers 2 shines a light on the problem with entitled toxic gamers." "Yes, Helldivers 2 needs PSN account linking and here's why that's a good thing."
 
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