We seriously need to give up on the sarcastic, parodic pro-capitalist games, and go back to ripping heads off of virtual fascists.

The Boys worst fans lol

Ironically I gave up on the community for the complete opposite reason, you can't criticize the game because criticism is always met with "you're an enemy of super earth". I get it, Super earth is a fascist civilization and Helldivers are the extension of that fascism and a lot of it is on the nose and it's okay to joke about dissenters, sometimes. But you don't need to scream "enemies of democracy" every single time someone criticizes the game. The game is fun but it's not perfect. There are real problems with the game, one of which has lead to this complete embarrassment of the community.

In short, the Helldivers 2 community is toxic in every aspect and anyone interested in Helldivers is better off ignoring the subreddit, the steam community and probably also the official discord. Instead join !helldivers2@lemmy.ca where this drama isn't even mentioned.

Reddit communities around games in general are awful. I swear no one in those subreddits actually enjoys the game they supposedly dump thousands of hours into.

You can't tell me that Valve cannot hire a dedicated team of forum mediators to help mitigate the toxicity happening in their forums. They're a multi-billion dollar company that could've made it happen ten times over by now, but choose not to and prefer people to be subjected to a snail team that takes their time getting to you. While letting the worst of autonomy take action.

Steam is toxic yea but to compare with reddit? Thats wild. At least in steam discussions everybody just hates you while Reddit has some true degens

Warframe recently changed pugs to automatically and instantly disband upon mission completion. It's kind of awesome. I actually don't only play solo now.

I can give some; A player started a charity event (proposed to) involving the dev team playing the game at its highest possible difficulty, difficulty 10, in a game where the highest achievement is obtained at difficulty 7, after which there are no achivements, so to play dif 10 you gotta love the game and be insanely good at it. Said challenge happens on the hardest scenario of the game, a difficult planet with a weird name that i forgot.

Cool, I guess.

Another player added to the challenge that he would pay the dev 1000 dollars, but not for charity, no no, but to prove that dif10 is fucking impossible. Which triggered a ' discussion ' that brought some 'git gud' players to be overzealous. They doxxed the first guy, sent death threats and other things too.

in short, he got his life ruined because he attempted a fun charity event.

I don't engage with these communities...but it ended up in an article so i happen to know about it.

There are people on the Fediverse who are trying desperately to shit in it enough to where it is comparable to Reddit.

People are clamoring for more people to be on the Fediverse? I don't know anymore if more people available would be the answer. We could use more microcommunities, but I don't know about people.

Today I realized I’m too outta the loop on games since halo 3.

It's a peaceful life...

It's kind of a shitty thing about modern gaming, is that the game revolves around the community, and if you're not part of the community, you don't know WTF is going on, because they never explain anything in the game.

I got pretty sucked into it playing Destiny 1 like 10 years ago but eventually it was too much fucking work and not enough fun.

D6-8 are like that. Its a flood of the light to midrange enemies that roll over you.

D9-10 are better because it fills in more heavies.

I have REALLY gotten sick of the “git gud” crowd.

I've always been sick of it. It's impacted how developers create games.

Once upon a time, hard and difficult games on 8-bit and 16-bit platforms were created accidentally, either because of design bugs, or developers not having time to run through proper play-test cycles, or only doing the play testing themselves. We put up with it because we were kids and had a limited budget for games, so we played what we had. It was never intentional, since they wanted to make sure it was balanced enough to appeal to the general audience, but still have difficulty levels for people who wanted to try out a second harder playthrough.

Then, games like Dark Souls came along, which pretended that hard games were a From Software invention, and propped up a community of egoists and digital sadomasochists. All they did was make the designs more deliberate, to the point of developer trolling. (I know this started earlier on in the indie scene, especially roguelikes, but Dark Souls popularized it.)

The "git gud" crowd pushes this narrative of "if it's possible to do, then it's the player's fault for not having the skill to do so", to the point of personifying a game with statements like "the game is punishing me with bad RNG" or "the game is actively trying to kill me". This completely ignores the developers' responsibility of instituting balanced difficulty levels, since it's the developers' fault that "the game" does these things.

Again, it has really impacted how developers create games nowadays. First, the "git gud" crowd is loud enough that developers now think they deserve a voice, as if difficult games weren't absolutely everywhere, even before Dark Souls. The popularity of speed running makes them think that have to cater to that crowd, and streamers streaming impossible challenges skews that difficulty Overton window even more. Developers think they have to make some impossibly difficult game, so that streamers, who famously play video games for a living for thousands of hours a year, will advertise their game and push it to the top.

I'm tired of those crowds and the hardcore gamer crowds. They believe that they are the best of the best and should therefore, be the ones dictating how games should go. I've seen this in real-time with games like Rocket League, where the elitists controlled the asylum and their input was more valuable to Psyonix than compromising so as to make everyone happy.

You can't even play a casual match anymore without getting penalized when you leave it, since it's casual and the game places an AI bot in your place to remedy this. All because the elitists, who primarily play Competitive, felt that you should be penalized anyways even in modes where Competitive isn't the primary focus. Imagine if you were playing single player games and whenever you died or your run ends, you decide to quit the game in frustration.

So you come back to the game later and you're locked out from playing a single-player game because the people over in the multiplayer side of the spectrum, complained too much about how people quit games that wouldn't otherwise affect them and the developer taking their side. That's how ridiculous it got with Rocket League.

This is why I don't play multiplayer with random people anymore, I am reluctant to gripe about frustrations I have with already hard games when I question the difficulty factor. Because all that it is going to turn into, is just dogpiling with people stabbing at me and screaming I should 'git gud' or 'stop playing games because games are reserved for real gamers' or 'go back to playing your shitty 3-match game'.

There's a surprisingly big chunk of the playerbase that ignores satire. Any game like that will attract these assholes, oldest example I can think of is TF2