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Helldivers 2 community manager pulls back the curtain on new major order

After taking down over 2 billion Terminids in 12 hours, Arrowhead has initiated a new major order that is much more difficult than the last.

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You may report players in Helldivers 2 now but fans want a commendation button

Helldivers 2 players can be reported but a group would rather share the love with a commendation button, rewarding players with samples and medals.

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atharazka24m ago

I really like this story. The fans called out a bad practice, Sony and Arrowhead fixed it, and now the fans are reversing their actions instead of leaving the game review-bombed for an issue that's been resolved.

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Don't Blame Arrowhead For Helldivers 2's PSN Controversy, Blame Sony

Sony is to blame for Helldivers 2 getting brutally review bombed, so why is Arrowhead still catching strays?

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gold_drake18h ago

i feel like a majority has been blaming Sony and not Arrowhead.
just what ive seen.

isarai16h ago

Same, not sure where they were looking

Tacoboto5h ago

Arrowhead's CEO is awesome and so transparent; they're demonstrating they're a gamer-first studio and will stand by our side even with a publishing partner as big as Sony.

I haven't seen anyone blaming Arrowhead except the dumb "but you knew!" takes... Which are useless, it's still the publisher that listed it for sale in unsupported countries.

northpaws3h ago

but when they review bombs, it hurts arrowhead, not Sony

gold_drake40m ago

it hurts sony just as much.

KwietStorm_BLM4h ago

I think we've already moved past it but hey gotta remind everyone what direction to throw shade where they were already throwing it.

DarXyde4h ago

Is anyone blaming Arrowhead?

That would be news to me.

TheColbertinator4h ago

I do. Sony is a pox on the gaming industry.

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Stellar Blade and Helldivers 2 , How Badly PlayStation Is Fumbling Its Dominance

Helldivers 2 and Stellar Blade have been at the top of the news cycle lately. And no, it's not for good things this time around.

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TwoPicklesGood1d 21h ago

Mistakes are ok as long as they learn from them. Sure they shouldn’t have happened like this but no company is perfect.

Hugodastrevas1d 18h ago

I'm willing to forgive and forget... After they fix Stellar Blade

outsider16248h ago

What's wrong with Stellar Blade?

Hugodastrevas5h ago

@outsider1624 besides some censored outfits, gore and graffiti after they promised there would be no censorship anywhere, not much.

MrBaskerville2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

Sony can't do much about decisions Shift Up made.

Hugodastrevas2h ago

@MrBaskerville you expect me to believe the devs launched a game with suits one way while promising they would be uncensored in all regions and then censor it in the day 1 patch and Sony the company famous of pulling stunts like these had nothing to do with it? Come on man, be real.

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isarai11h ago

Problem is we have not seen any signs of them learning anything. Censorship still out of hand, GAAS push is still delaying everything, still leaning on sweet baby inc and their lazy writing. We'll have to wait till Jim Ryans replacement is found and see what their plan is, cause all we have is the temp guy for now

Extermin8or3_7h ago

There was no fucking censorship. Censorship would have been changing all the outfits. The Devs have Ben clear that a version of the outfit that was not the final version was on 1.00 of the game by mistake and the pre launch patch corrected that, that one skin then covered up slightly more of the main character. Plenty more revealing costumes are there untouched.

CrimsonWing697h ago

Hey, tell @Extermi8or3_ you’re the Queen of England. He’ll believe it because you said so regardless of what we see and know.

lucian2297h ago

Extermin9or3

you live under a rock, the game was censored, blood was toned down and plenty of outfits have cheap patch jobs that look bad because of the rushed last minute censoring, such as clothing being painted on skin rather than an actual texture, when the original didnt have it.

Please actually at least play the game yourself or do research

Hugodastrevas4h ago

@Extermin9or3 censorship is censorship, it doesn't matter if it's one outfit or all of them.
If it's so small as you say they should have no problem restoring it to normal.

isarai3h ago

@Extermi8or3_

You do know they've censored plenty of other games, im not even referring to just SB other games like DMCV, LISA, and Doki Doki literature club among dozens of others are also censored only on PS5. They even admitted to censoring by offering a refund, wouldn't need to do that if nothing was changed. Several outfits were changed, and gore was reduced, you can literally prove it yourself by playing it unpatched

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vTuro2415m ago

Sure they'll learn from it. They'll learn that the way they went about their censorship and forcing a psn account down everyone's throat was bad so they'll do it differently next time so people won't immediately notice and roast them to hell and back for it. Stop defending these dumbass corpos, they're not your friend.

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MrDead1d 14h ago (Edited 1d 14h ago )

Stellar Blade complaints is just a bunch of incels following whoever tells them to be outraged, I have never been so embarrassed to be a gamer than when the Stellar Blade bs broke. Pathetic divorced Dads and incels losing their minds over a small bit of pixilated cloth over the cleavage of a couple of outfits in a sea of of outfits that show you everything.

Tacoboto12h ago

The outfit I'm wearing in that game is far more revealing than what they "censored".

Unstable fanboys making a victim of themselves for not having the slightest clue what "censored" actually means.

Helldivers 2 controversy - justified. Anger at the MS news today - justified.

Stellar Blade's 10th most revealing outfit getting a bit more cloth - what kind of loser do you have to be to throw a hissy fit over that?

derek12h ago

@taco, stellar blade "censorship " is the perfect example of the tendency these days by some gamers to use trivial issues to create fake outrage campaigns.

Demetrius9h ago(Edited 9h ago)

Grown men simping over a fictional character lmao just imagined wtf they're doing with the money they make in real life probably onlyfan subscriptions and more, most guys love being slave to women& their bodies lmao

Eonjay3h ago

Thank you guys for talking sense. The stellar blade thing was all about making yourself into the victim. They don't even realize that it's emasculation to claim harm when their is none. A man doesn't loose it over tiny pieces of cloth on a digital avatar. A man doesn't feel harmed if potential racist comments are removed. A man can accept the decision of others even if it contridicts his own. They aren't men. They are empty shells the internet and scam artists have tricked into victimizing themselves.

-Foxtrot12h ago

Regardless how you feel on it at it's core they said something was going to be uncensored, people bought it, they found out they censored stuff and they were p***** off.

Maybe be up front with people or how about with Sony's weird censorship rules maybe lay up on it. We can get Abby in TLOU2 being raw dogged by a drunken Owen but some clothing is suddenly bad? It's cherry picking sometimes.

Even an physical art book for a game Tsukihime was censored on PS4 (yet the game was not)

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Tacoboto11h ago

I'm gonna take the word of the director over the word of lonely bitter losers crying about digital cleavage.

Again. If you play the game instead of posturing and whining about it, you too can enjoy far more risque outfits than the stupid bunny outfit you're having a tizzy over.

-Foxtrot11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

@Tacoboto

Rather than being an asshole about it, maybe if you re-read what I said above, I agree things are silly but I'm talking about the idea of censorship in general not specific to one game or situation over that said game. Censorship is an issue that's been an issue with Sony for years now and you never know what they'll take aim at next.

Tacoboto9h ago

Sony's tried taking aim at direct access to titles they list in countries they don't have any intent on actually providing support to.

And yet you're still arguing about cleavage being "censored" from one outfit when there's still more revealing outfits in the game.

I will not be less of an asshole when *this* is the molehill you're choosing to make out to be Everest. You're clearly not playing the game.

HankHill12h ago

Divorced dads? What are you on about?

jznrpg10h ago

Divorced Dads is the best card game ever made

jambola11h ago

If you need to insult the other side to try and make a point
It just shows how dishonest you are

MrDead9h ago(Edited 9h ago)

I don't need to insult incels to make my point, they're doing it themselves. Hence my embarrassment at being a gamer when the Tater Tots start crying.

Gameseeker_Frampt10h ago

Incels perfectly describe Stellar Blade and the country that created it. South Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world. Like many Asian countries, misogyny is still a problem and women have pretty much given up on relationships with men. It has gotten so bad that the government has just ended a ban on sex dolls so that the men of the country can have something to screw. Stellar Blade is a product of that environment and it amazes me to think that some want the rest of the world to be more like South Korea.

jambola1h ago

Tater tots? Incels?
Yeah if you want to have a discussion like a normal human being, feel free
Until then, I'm out and you're weirder than any of the people you mock lol

vTuro2412m ago

You have no arguments so you go straight for personal attacks. Classic. How deep up Sony's ass is your head? Do take it out every now and then for some fresh air, will you?

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Knightofelemia1d 6h ago

I just hate the fact I buy and pay for a game rated M and Sony takes it upon themselves to censor a game for me. So Eve wears a little revealing suit don't care. If I wanted to buy the censored version I would buy it for the NES or SNES. Modern women wear more scantly clad outfits then that in a mall, gym, school, the store and other places. As for Helldivers requiring an account should only be tied to Playstation. Ways to kill the hype of a game is to piss the customer off.

jznrpg10h ago

There is no other version on NES or SNES. Just saying. Also if you bought it physically you don’t have to download the patch if it really matters that much.

Knightofelemia8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Think about it during the golden Nintendo era what was Nintendo known for when it came to games. I'll give you a hint a difference between Mortal Kombat on Genesis and SNES. Still don't get it it's called censoring.

Moegooner19h ago

Sony has nothing to do with Stellar Blade's patch incel.

Levii_9210h ago

Oh god. Why.. then WHY wouldn't the director of the game just revert the outfits back after the big shitstorm it created and hurt the sales of his own game potentially and also the Shift's Up reputation? Stellar Blade outifts changes has Sony written all over it.

Tody_ZA12h ago

I get it, you need to detract from all the terrible news going on about Microsoft.

The Helldivers 2 issue is over, fans have already dropped 200k positive reviews on the game as an acceptance that the mistake was rectified. There is no fumbling as the game hasn't failed yet.

Stellar Blade...that's yesterday's news. Try to keep up.

amazinglover12h ago

You do know not every article needs to be written about the MS fuck up.

In fact this very website has several articles on their homepage discussing the MS fuck up.

So how exactly is this detracting from anything.

jambola11h ago

Everything negative about Sony is just Xbox fanboys coping apparently

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