Key Takeaways
- Helldivers 2 players are struggling to coordinate their efforts on the battlefield, as evidenced by recent annoyances surrounding the Battle of Acamar IV and Turing.
- To solve this problem, players can request a Warframe-like local chat, allowing the community to talk to each other outside of missions.
- Although there are concerns about potential “linguistic toxicity,” many players are on board with the idea. Ah, that's the role of the mediator, right?
Helldivers 2 is a large-scale group effort to defend against evil forces trying to take over Super-Earth. If you've ever worked on a group project of four or more people, you know how difficult it can be to coordinate movements. Imagine what it would be like to coordinate the actions of approximately 35,000 people simultaneously.
It can be quite frustrating to watch fellow helldivers chasing goals that blatantly undermine their chances of achieving them. That's exactly what happened recently this week. Helldivers 2 players were steadily working to liberate a planet called Acamar IV and were approaching the final stretch until they encountered an unexpected obstacle.
The challenge was the invasion of Turing, the planet next to Acamar IV, which had to be successfully defended within 22 hours. Naturally, the tight deadline sent players racing to Turing on Acamar IV, not realizing that an invasion was coming from the very planet they were fighting to liberate. This split the game's player base and slowed down the pace of combat for everyone.
Helldivers 2 players want local chat like Warframe
Helldivers 2 players have been calling for a more accurate tutorial for quite some time, but some believe a better solution to this problem would be for developer Arrowhead to introduce local chat and allow teams of Helldivers to talk to each other when they're not on missions. . This will immediately let your entire player base know where to go.
The idea was first floated into the community by Reddit user theCowboyMartyr, who shared his frustration with the situation earlier this week. In their post, they believe Helldivers 2 needs “local chat like Warframe” and claim that “7-8,000+ players don't use Discord or Reddit or their brains.” That's a little harsh.
But this seems to be the harsh truth, as their post received over 3,000 upvotes and is still live. Most of the replies to the post are filled with people who are equally frustrated with the situation, asking Arrowhead to allow players to communicate to prevent something like this from happening in the future, or to make the Galaxy map more transparent so it's easier to see your exact location. I ask you to allow me to do so. Their efforts will be most effective.
Of course, having a large local chat full of different people can undoubtedly cause problems. Because right from the start, you can bet your sweet son that there will be harsh remarks about Eagle-1 or terrible comments about other players. go. Many players are worried about potential “verbal toxicity,” but if Arrowhead hires decent moderators, I don't think many Helldivers will be annoyed by the new social tools to combat enemies.
