re: Helldivers 2 - Playstation Breaks Its PC Launch Record

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They are hopefully stopping the nerfs on guns.

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I was just talking with someone about this.

The "fun" factor for a PVE game like this is engaging in a chaotic, frenetic frenzy of enemy-killing. If you have a weapon that's good enough to become a meta, that should be a sign that your other weapons are lacking instead of looking at it as that weapon being OP (unless it truly is). So instead of nerfing the meta, bring the other weapons up to that level to give players more GOOD choices to choose from instead of forcing them to choose among more not-as-good choices.

On the other end of that, instead of buffing enemies to compensate for good weapons, just buff their spawn numbers. Give players MORE of that "surviving a bloodbath" feeling.

On this point, I fully expect the new impact thermal grenades to get a nerf before too long. Last night I was pretty much soloing tunnel breaches at high levels just by tossing 2-3 of those bad boys at the breach spot (and having the quasar for any chargers or spitters that might show up while supplementing damage with my Breaker Incendiary). The chaotic massacre was glorious!

In one instance, we were waiting on evac and I had used my jetpack to get atop a tall rock outcrop. A charger and two spitters were headed toward the camp and I was fully loaded with ammo. I lit them up with an initial grenade to get their attention then peppered them with a couple of shots from my Breaker. Once they got to the base of the rock I dropped another incendiary then finished off the charger with a Quasar shot. By the time that was done it took only one shot to kill both spitters.