If I accidentally carpetbomb my squad I am always quick to reinforce out of guilt 😬

I 100% will team kill my friends if its funny in the situation and expect it in return.

The randos just can't avoid walking into my mines and I feel bad about that one, but they do glow red.

When I first started playing with my brother, I was shocked to learn that he was fuming for days when I called down an Eagle Airstrike on him. I thought it was hilarious at the time, but he was legit mad. Then after playing for a few weeks, he came to lighten up and realize that team killing is part of the fun.

But yeah, if you come from a game like PUBG where team killing is a mortal sin, it can be a bit of a shock to the system.

Tell that to the PS5 player who immediately booted me after he ran through my field of fire and died.

I immediately re-enforced him too.

Hard not to take it personally. feels bad man

I don't like to team kill on purpose, but I do think it's very funny to drop an orbital J U S T outside the range of my friends occasionally to keep them on their toes.

Sometimes their toes are the only thing left of them.

(It helps that I only play with IRL friends and only with VC so I can warn them. But you know how it goes, you don't always hear the warning even over VC.)

Most people are very bad at media literacy

The game is made by the people who made Magica. Helldivers 1 was also full of friendly fire. Of course they stick to what works. Being careful around teammates is 50% of the gameplay, with the other 50% being what happens when someone throws a jellied gatling on a flat terrain when you are surrounded.

I haven't played this game, but usually the issue with FF being on in multiplayer games is that there are a million little trolls out there that love to kill their teammates. That's not realism, it's just annoying.

I didn't realize that! Magicka is so funny due to the complex spell casting (like strategems) and the sometimes unintentional friendly fire. Makes a lot of sense knowing it's the same developers.

Oh wow, I had no idea! I may have to pick up Helldivers 2...

When I learned they were the Magicka devs it made a lot of sense.

They've made team killing an artform :D

TIL. Magicka and 2 were a hoot with my friends. The first game deserves a remaster with a better controller layout.

I once got some sweet revenge on my friends because they wanted to prevent me from extracting for the laughs, so I ran at them with an airstrike ready in my hand. They melee'd me, knocking the stratagem out of my hands. And that eagle airstrike comes in fast

10/10 would commit treason again

There are always people wanting to optimize the fun out of a game.

It baffles me as well. The game isn't called "Helldivers" because they drop in, everything is a doozy and it goes according to plan and they calmly extract. The potentially chaotic mechanics are a bit part of the charm.

And boring

Disagreed just because of the currently acknowledged bug that terrain steering restrictions are too strict, e.g. if you're anywhere near any objective or mountain you will not be able to steer at all, which is most of the time in my experience. Unfortunately this module is just about worthless at the moment.

If you never teamwiped your squad by getting hit with the backblast of a recoilless rifle/rocket sentry while readying an eagle stratagem, you didn't play the game

That's how you can tell someone is a Maritimer. "The other day" is anywhere between yesterday and 4 weeks ago. "A while back" is anything over 4 weeks ago.

Technically correct though.