hell we're already about to finish the next major order... i think joel is trying to lure us into a false sense of success. plan on defense on super earth by next friday as the "got hya" moment
Yeah it wasn't impossible at all, people just jumped on the meme train for the Creek and as others have said, XP farmers. Planets could be defended fully in a 24 hour period if a decent number of people ran a half dozen missions. People just don't like civie defense missions.
I now picture him as like Desmond from Lost waking up every 108 minutes to hit a button, change some parameter, or flip a switch.
Edit: fixed my terrible grammar.
No medals received but now the major order, with the same exact reward, is to defend two planets from terminid spores. The concluding message for the Liberation of Veld implied that Eagle pilots would be assisting us, so check your stratagems when you drop.
Edit: As some people pointed out and recommended, reloging (presumably after getting the mission accomplished message) will net you the 45 medals.
Noticed this. Did NOT get extra eagle strikes when selecting the same strat though, they should disable the player strat from being selected when they do this. EDIT: Alright it looks like it does work and you get 4 Napalm Strikes, not sure what happened the first time I tried it.
Yeah but uses the same "ammo" so you don't actually get 4 uses. EDIT: Alright it looks like it does work and you get 4 Napalm Strikes, not sure what happened the first time I tried it.
Every airstrike type shares the same cool-down between calling them in. They share a refuelling cooldown as well. You do get 2 extra napalm strikes before having to refuel, they just share the 15 second cooldown between calling them in.
Even this undersells it. Iraq was the 4th largest military on Earth, considered one of the best equipped and trained, and was lead by a core of extremely devoted revolutionary guards. The entire world thought at BEST it would be a years long slog and at worst would be a second Vietnam. It took 43 days.
American air force cut off all communications in the opening hours. There's a famous video of General Norman Schwarzkopf watching CNN and celebrating when the feed cut out. For reference, cutting Ukraine's communications was a day 1 objective of Russia which remains unfulfilled.
American planes, many of which were considered overly expensive and overly complicated, unnecessary in a post-cold war world, almost single handily won the war themselves. They destroyed the entire Iraqi air force in a matter of days and destroyed a massive portion of their ground forces on "highways of death" where American aircraft turned Iraqi supply roads into turkey shoots.
Similarly, American tanks like the Abrams and the often criticized Bradley performed exceptionally well with the former famously winning engagements at longer ranges than Iraqi tank radar was even capable of detecting them at and the latter racking up more tank kills than any other ground vehicle overall and taking more losses from Friendly Fire than any Iraqis.
It's notable the Bradley *is not* a tank, it's an Infantry Fighting Vehicle. It's meant to move troops around.
And yet it crushed it's Russian made counterparts in the BMP series, and thanks to it's TOW missile system could even dunk on actual T-Series tanks.
Also, to your last point...
> Of the nine Abrams destroyed, seven were due to friendly fire, and two were intentionally destroyed to prevent capture after they became disabled. Sim- ilarly, of the 28 Bradleys destroyed or damaged, 20 were due to friendly fire.
So yeah. If you wanna kill people, it might cost a bit more, but buy American, kids.
To be fair, it may not have actually *killed* it, technically, I think (if post-engagement BDA came out confirming a kill I missed it), but it sure as shit sent it in for depot-level maintenance, won the gunfight, and survived. That’s impressive af (and for all intents and purposes it was a kill).
> if post-engagement BDA came out confirming a kill I missed it
The bradley mission killed the T-90 - it preceded to back up into a tree where it was hit by an FPV drone and subsequently abandoned by the crew.
Gotcha. The only video I saw showed the Bradley shredding its ERA. Tank definitely was not in good shape by the end of the video but it hadn’t been knocked out yet.
The rest of the story makes complete sense, and even if the Brad crew didn’t strike the fatal blow, that shouldn’t take away at all from what they accomplished. Fucking badass and also a show of how capable US military equipment is.
Read'n up on what happened with the T-90 to refresh my memory(I was POGing the fuck out when it happened)...the Bradly crew followed Opfor to a T. They buttoned it down, blinded it, the gunner was possibly killed from spawling...that's when you see the turret just start spinning...and then morale just broke and that's when they hit the tree...they were driving totally blind because the optics had already been scoured off the hull.
Yeah… no one has ever looked at an armament and been worried it’s American in terms of function.
Shame it’s not something we can be more proud of, outside of a world war.
There is a breakdown of the 1st day of the desert storm air war on the DarkDocs YouTube. It is so much more than impressive how many aircraft were used, so in synch, all while launching from places all around the world. It really is mind boggling how much planning went into the opening of that and how extremely well it went. Worth a watch.
Angel's venture, but then we're also gonna have to reconquer Turing. We've also lost Erata. I wonder if this was a diversion so the bugs draw us away in order to fortify Erata
Or worse. Automatons with cybernetic terminids with lasers strapped to their heads. Granted they are just the scavengers but I hear they are very ill tempered.
> Automatons with cybernetic terminids with lasers strapped to their heads.
So what you’re saying is.. they’re going to take from the Starship Troopers book, as well as the movie? The bugs originally had laser weapons.
45 medals split 800,000 ways, minus cryopod storage fees, Super Earth Citizen tax, maintenance fees, ans Freedom fees, comes to 0.0000002 medals rewarded to you. Acceptance of this contract is mandatory for all citizens.
Keep up the good work soldier!
Oh no. I did my part yesterday all evening long and now I cannot login until sunday. Hopefully I will still get my reward even if you heroes spread democracy successfully and liberate the other planets that someone mentioned are the new order, too.
I just got mine after finishing a set of 3 Hard missions, went in at 95% Liberated, came out 100% and got the 45.
The next step is 2 planets and one is 100% and the second is about 65% so very hype about possible 2 weeklies with 5 days to go still
They sometimes do. Like I remember when in the first engagement against the Terminids when the game launched they said 6 million Helldivers lost their lives.
And in the defense of Ingmar I think they said 10 million dead Helldivers.
Through sheer determination, in the wake of echoing tragedy, we stand in glorious victory together brothers and sisters.
As the ash cloud settles from countless righteous flames lit across the battle fields upon this once blighted land, democracy stands strong where liberty and justice have prevailed.
Forward Fellow Divers, the battle is won but the war rages on! To Angels Venture we charge!
Ya'll just couldn't wait a few more hours when I could finally get online.
This full-time job and family are really cutting into my need to spread democracy.
All that crying and belly aching over what was like 7 extra hours on the mission?
Honestly if you were complaining about the liberation percent please delete the game and return to civilian life.
Clearly being a helldiver is too much for you to handle if like 7 extra hours of liberation is too much for your ego.
Stop bringing morale down for the actual dedicated soldiers.
You lack the mental and emotional fortitude to spread managed democracy, you all will never survive when shit actually pops off and we don’t need that kind of negativity when we have freedom to spread and defend.
Yeah, at first this place was kinda cool, I we enjoying the progress updates and the store trackers but ever since they named Joel it seems like people are just complaining about not getting free shit after they played 2 missions.
It's still a fun subreddit. It's just been bogged down with 20 highly upvoted posts complaining and keeps all other posts from my feed.
Either we can have a megathread about complaints or flairs so that we can filter them out.
unrelated and not my spotlight but today i pushed the final percentage on one of the planets (completely forgot whzt it was) seeing it go up from 99.*numbers* to 100% is so damn cool
Un-democratic blood rains from the clouds in Veld today
The perfect gif for this lmao
https://i.redd.it/68asfml1xslc1.gif
BLOOD FOR THE DEMOCRACY GOD!!!
Ahem. *Managed* democracy
Yes! All divers fight for the glory of ~~fascism~~ Managed Democracy!
Skulls for the liberty throne!
Milk for the kornflakes!!
What’s this from? Looks cool
Pretty sure that is from the movie Blade and is the blood rave scene
The first Blade movie (1998) and its the opening scene if I recall. The movie(s) can be a bit silly but you know what? I like it.
Well guess I’m rewatching Blade tonight
Reload the game and you’ll get the warbonds
Ty.
Just tried, and didn't work for me. Edit - I reloaded the game, and no metals.
But do you have the medals
Don't mettle in their business.
You have muttled mettle and meddle.
I did indeed muddle my words.
You may have medal'd them, but thats ok... it was in the name of liberty.
Meddling with metal medals builds my mettle
Ah, the English language 🤪
It’s metal.
It's a middling meddling at best.
Did you contribute to the war effort? Or did you sit back and expect to get free warbonds soldier!? lol
I'm doing my part!
It doesn't matter if you contribute or not
Yeah, I did. I'm hoping my metals just show up later.
Hopefully you'll get the medals as well.
Think he wants to smelt 'em.
New helmet made of Veld’s newfound Liberty
Took a bit for me. Went out and did some missions, suddenly they were there when I got back from one.
Ok, thanks for the info! I guess I need to spread some democracy!
I don't believe you need to contribute to get them. At the very least, you don't have to complete an operation.
An Allomancer's worst nightmare.
I knew there was a Mistborn/Sanderson fan in here somewhere
\*attempts to take over bug army with a duralumin fueled soothing, is squished by bile titan in the process.\*
Unexpected cosmere references make my day
Hoid always shows up in weird places, why not in the liberation fronr
Someone needs to wake up Joel…
hell we're already about to finish the next major order... i think joel is trying to lure us into a false sense of success. plan on defense on super earth by next friday as the "got hya" moment
Isn't this Major Order to keep two planets liberated for the next 5 days? There's still plenty of time for things to go wrong.
I think they're trying to apologize for giving us an impossible order out of the gate with the 8 Defends vs Automatons for a handful of Requisition.
Yeah it wasn't impossible at all, people just jumped on the meme train for the Creek and as others have said, XP farmers. Planets could be defended fully in a 24 hour period if a decent number of people ran a half dozen missions. People just don't like civie defense missions.
Do we have this emote?
https://preview.redd.it/35u17h3v8slc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=554fcf4ebce3a08fbc6b3194d1d682b639fbcc3e Says liberated but at 50% lol
 SWEET LIBERTY, NO!!
God, I love how they framed this guy’s acting. Pitch Perfect Propaganda actor here: taking the moment and overacting to Malevolon Creek and back.
Well I mean he did just see multiple people -presumably family- get slaughtered. Or just 1 person, idk but still
So many patriots were taken for the retakes but they did there part.
Joel hit that button too late, lol
The alarm clock didn’t wake him up in time.
We got a man on the inside that put Nyquil in his coffee this morning
A true patriot!
lmao
Liberty from consciousness.
I now picture him as like Desmond from Lost waking up every 108 minutes to hit a button, change some parameter, or flip a switch. Edit: fixed my terrible grammar.
Or this?: [https://youtu.be/vmPqHhasDSw?si=QNvmHegX80pSPz1G](https://youtu.be/vmPqHhasDSw?si=QNvmHegX80pSPz1G)
DAMMIT JOOOOEEELLLL!!!!!!
Joel be sleeping
That seems to happen with a lot of planets right after they're liberated. It usually clears up in a bit if I remember correctly.
https://preview.redd.it/td13oeqlzslc1.jpeg?width=624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bf8d69b23319c37d1b3834676e3444d417afbbd
No medals received but now the major order, with the same exact reward, is to defend two planets from terminid spores. The concluding message for the Liberation of Veld implied that Eagle pilots would be assisting us, so check your stratagems when you drop. Edit: As some people pointed out and recommended, reloging (presumably after getting the mission accomplished message) will net you the 45 medals.
You can actually see mission specific strats when you're in the hellpod selecting your own.
Noticed this. Did NOT get extra eagle strikes when selecting the same strat though, they should disable the player strat from being selected when they do this. EDIT: Alright it looks like it does work and you get 4 Napalm Strikes, not sure what happened the first time I tried it.
With the napalm, I did. It shows as two separate entries in the strat menu while you're deployed.
Yeah but uses the same "ammo" so you don't actually get 4 uses. EDIT: Alright it looks like it does work and you get 4 Napalm Strikes, not sure what happened the first time I tried it.
I was able to use 4. I literally saw one was on cool down while the other was still usable, which I took full advantage of.
Ok I literally just played and that wasn't the case at all, both were on the same cool down.
Well, then I guess one of us is bugged...no pun intended.
Lol. I'll check again tonight but I was really surprised it didn't work.
I'll do the same. I only got to run one mission today, but will probably have time later.
> one of us is bugged...no pun intended. my favorite thing to say while playing Must be a bug. No pun intended! I think my friends hate me now
Every airstrike type shares the same cool-down between calling them in. They share a refuelling cooldown as well. You do get 2 extra napalm strikes before having to refuel, they just share the 15 second cooldown between calling them in.
Maybe the real rewards are not the war bonds but the camaraderie we found along the way.
I have 0 new medals. But 69 new liberty. 100% satisfied.
Give this man a democracy
Relog, it happened to us too. You'll get your medals
I got my medals I think you need to relog
I got my medals, and everyone has access to the napalm eagle.
I had access to a mission permitted Napalm Strike so yeah
Ditto, this seems to be what they mean about eagle support.
If Malevalon creek was Vietnam, Veld was like the first invasion of Iraq. Efficient.
Iraq? I’m thinking more like the defeat of Saddam Hussein. Found the bugs in a hole and annihilated them
In the 90’s, the US rolled into Iraq, then rolled out in about a week. Edit: I’m wrong, it was a couple months, but that’s still fast.
Even this undersells it. Iraq was the 4th largest military on Earth, considered one of the best equipped and trained, and was lead by a core of extremely devoted revolutionary guards. The entire world thought at BEST it would be a years long slog and at worst would be a second Vietnam. It took 43 days. American air force cut off all communications in the opening hours. There's a famous video of General Norman Schwarzkopf watching CNN and celebrating when the feed cut out. For reference, cutting Ukraine's communications was a day 1 objective of Russia which remains unfulfilled. American planes, many of which were considered overly expensive and overly complicated, unnecessary in a post-cold war world, almost single handily won the war themselves. They destroyed the entire Iraqi air force in a matter of days and destroyed a massive portion of their ground forces on "highways of death" where American aircraft turned Iraqi supply roads into turkey shoots. Similarly, American tanks like the Abrams and the often criticized Bradley performed exceptionally well with the former famously winning engagements at longer ranges than Iraqi tank radar was even capable of detecting them at and the latter racking up more tank kills than any other ground vehicle overall and taking more losses from Friendly Fire than any Iraqis.
It's notable the Bradley *is not* a tank, it's an Infantry Fighting Vehicle. It's meant to move troops around. And yet it crushed it's Russian made counterparts in the BMP series, and thanks to it's TOW missile system could even dunk on actual T-Series tanks. Also, to your last point... > Of the nine Abrams destroyed, seven were due to friendly fire, and two were intentionally destroyed to prevent capture after they became disabled. Sim- ilarly, of the 28 Bradleys destroyed or damaged, 20 were due to friendly fire. So yeah. If you wanna kill people, it might cost a bit more, but buy American, kids.
A Bradley in Ukraine recently killed a T90 with the goddamn autocannon.
To be fair, it may not have actually *killed* it, technically, I think (if post-engagement BDA came out confirming a kill I missed it), but it sure as shit sent it in for depot-level maintenance, won the gunfight, and survived. That’s impressive af (and for all intents and purposes it was a kill).
> if post-engagement BDA came out confirming a kill I missed it The bradley mission killed the T-90 - it preceded to back up into a tree where it was hit by an FPV drone and subsequently abandoned by the crew.
Gotcha. The only video I saw showed the Bradley shredding its ERA. Tank definitely was not in good shape by the end of the video but it hadn’t been knocked out yet. The rest of the story makes complete sense, and even if the Brad crew didn’t strike the fatal blow, that shouldn’t take away at all from what they accomplished. Fucking badass and also a show of how capable US military equipment is.
Read'n up on what happened with the T-90 to refresh my memory(I was POGing the fuck out when it happened)...the Bradly crew followed Opfor to a T. They buttoned it down, blinded it, the gunner was possibly killed from spawling...that's when you see the turret just start spinning...and then morale just broke and that's when they hit the tree...they were driving totally blind because the optics had already been scoured off the hull.
Imagine being in that T90 and just hearing the deafening BANG BANG BANG BANG of rounds hitting the hull
Did they accidentally ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ like I did?
Yeah… no one has ever looked at an armament and been worried it’s American in terms of function. Shame it’s not something we can be more proud of, outside of a world war.
There is a breakdown of the 1st day of the desert storm air war on the DarkDocs YouTube. It is so much more than impressive how many aircraft were used, so in synch, all while launching from places all around the world. It really is mind boggling how much planning went into the opening of that and how extremely well it went. Worth a watch.
It was like 48 hours to establish complete air supremacy.
I’m not looking forward to the second battle of Veld now…
Veld 2: Electric Boogaloo
So we get to spend 20yrs building fobs now😎
https://preview.redd.it/lqae8664vslc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=893126f66395e030eb9c14884da4e9cec066480d
The fight is not over, we need all helldivers available for Angel’s Venture!
Angel's venture, but then we're also gonna have to reconquer Turing. We've also lost Erata. I wonder if this was a diversion so the bugs draw us away in order to fortify Erata
Im more worried about the automatons, only a few helldivers are engaging them, im sure out next orders will be to defend against them
probably, it's eerily quiet on that front atm.. they could be prepping for another major push
Worry is for the weak, not for the Helldivers.
Holy shit it’s Jimmy Rings.
He's still wearing more armour than he did during the fall of reach
Is that *Jon Helldiver?!?!*
Nah, that’s John Halo
More like Mister Chef
Master cheeks?
It never ends
Nonsense helldiver. It will end when the last godless bug lies dead on the field.
You are right. I apologize. I would never say anything treasonous
Angels Venture??? Again!!!????
 Joel letting us get high off our success before he crushes us with a multi-sector automaton offensive.
Or worse. Automatons with cybernetic terminids with lasers strapped to their heads. Granted they are just the scavengers but I hear they are very ill tempered.
> Automatons with cybernetic terminids with lasers strapped to their heads. So what you’re saying is.. they’re going to take from the Starship Troopers book, as well as the movie? The bugs originally had laser weapons.
They also took POWs.
Joel Rn https://preview.redd.it/lwlu6236gslc1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f02b70104296cded86c8551adfe634d8a1ef4df
I did my part!
I did MY part!
I'm assuming you have to play to get those medals, I havnt had the chance to log on during that major order...
It's a community event, if the community succeeds we all share the rewards
Man, 45 medals split 800,000 ways is a pretty slim reward.
45 medals split 800,000 ways, minus cryopod storage fees, Super Earth Citizen tax, maintenance fees, ans Freedom fees, comes to 0.0000002 medals rewarded to you. Acceptance of this contract is mandatory for all citizens. Keep up the good work soldier!
Nah the 45 medals is your split, we liberated an entire planet! Every ship in the fleet gets a cut of them spoils
This is good news. Saw this post at work where I've been itching to get home and play. Glad to hear I haven't missed out.
I did my part!
Service guarantees citizenship!
You do not. My buddy got the medals and never set foot on Veld.
You’re sure he didn’t randomly help someone complete an operation there?
You don’t need to help. Everyone gets them
I didn’t play at all since that operation on Veld started and I got the medals.
So unrelated, but angels venture is the best-looking planet so far imo
I agree. Played 1 suicide mission with a friend before leaving for work and the first thing I said was “ooooh, this is a new biome. I like it!”
I did a trivial to test some new weapons and sightsee, amazing.
We had to liberate Heeth and Angel's Venture when the game launched and holy shit it was a damn slog hope it won't be as hard this I time.
Oh no. I did my part yesterday all evening long and now I cannot login until sunday. Hopefully I will still get my reward even if you heroes spread democracy successfully and liberate the other planets that someone mentioned are the new order, too.
Community events should grant everyone the reward recent login or not. I believe others who didn't fight in veld got medals still
Definitely was not awarded those 45 war bonds…master bait and switch Edit: I will relog when I’m home and check
Maybe the rewards will be granted after the original timer expires? I don't know, just shooting darts here.
I got mine, I had complete and extra mission though for it to process. The added to the order so maybe once that's done we get the medals?
already got mine
Got mine too
I just got them re log
I got mine the moment I logged on
Log out and back in again
I just got mine after finishing a set of 3 Hard missions, went in at 95% Liberated, came out 100% and got the 45. The next step is 2 planets and one is 100% and the second is about 65% so very hype about possible 2 weeklies with 5 days to go still
It's a display bug, restart
Same.
Just to let you know, they’re medals. You use medals to unlock stuff in the warbonds.
You people have no patience
Ok I finished, now how do I switch?
Masturbate and switch
That worked for me
Happened to me too, if you relog you'll get them.
https://preview.redd.it/b0ubjogwrslc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad07d59a77ff48d3ddb02c01f1135dc6c02b40a6
I got my medals. But the major order has changed so that we must now liberate and hold both veld and angels venture when the order expires
Heeth and Angel's Venture, not Veld
My apologies soldier. I swear I'm not a bug
*sends name to the Ministry of Truth*
And Heeth is already liberated 🤔
Not for long i suspect
Can’t wait to get home from work and spend those hard earned medals. I was up late last night liberating.
Thank you for your dedication helldiver
I’ll cheers that with a nice cup of Liber-Tea!
Fuck! In two days? I didn’t even get to play
Same. God dang you guys are good. 🫡
Should we start complaining that it was too easy now?
Nope, Hundreds of thousands of helldivers lost their lives to protect our democracy! This was glorious! ...and also thanks for the 45 medals!
They really should give out battle reports. As well as install a "# of missions survived".
They sometimes do. Like I remember when in the first engagement against the Terminids when the game launched they said 6 million Helldivers lost their lives. And in the defense of Ingmar I think they said 10 million dead Helldivers.
Obviously
You jest, but it’s gonna happen.
Well glad I did my part last night. Yall didn't even have the decency to let me die for the cause tonight. Killed them all without me.
Through sheer determination, in the wake of echoing tragedy, we stand in glorious victory together brothers and sisters. As the ash cloud settles from countless righteous flames lit across the battle fields upon this once blighted land, democracy stands strong where liberty and justice have prevailed. Forward Fellow Divers, the battle is won but the war rages on! To Angels Venture we charge!
WTF! I’ve been at work all day waiting to hit veld and as soon as I clock out I see this shit
No worries Helldiver, can always go and try to take back the Creek Lo
Ya'll just couldn't wait a few more hours when I could finally get online. This full-time job and family are really cutting into my need to spread democracy.
All that crying and belly aching over what was like 7 extra hours on the mission? Honestly if you were complaining about the liberation percent please delete the game and return to civilian life. Clearly being a helldiver is too much for you to handle if like 7 extra hours of liberation is too much for your ego. Stop bringing morale down for the actual dedicated soldiers. You lack the mental and emotional fortitude to spread managed democracy, you all will never survive when shit actually pops off and we don’t need that kind of negativity when we have freedom to spread and defend.
At this point, it might just be better to stay off the subreddit lol. The complaints are like daily specials at a restaurant.
This sub can't decide if it's a discussion forum or a circlejerk sub and every thread gives me whiplash.
Yeah, at first this place was kinda cool, I we enjoying the progress updates and the store trackers but ever since they named Joel it seems like people are just complaining about not getting free shit after they played 2 missions.
It's still a fun subreddit. It's just been bogged down with 20 highly upvoted posts complaining and keeps all other posts from my feed. Either we can have a megathread about complaints or flairs so that we can filter them out.
Funny, I spent all day grinding veld (I don't have a life.) Logged off last night with exactly 89 medals. Just logged in and I have 89 medals.
Finally, I did several tours there, about time Veld was captured, big thanks to everyone that did their part, the free world smiles upon you this day
Veld was "velded".
Well done helldivers! Where you off to next?
We need to defend Angel's Venture and Heeth for the next 6 days. I'll be on one of those two planets till then.
May fortune favor you, my brother, and Godspeed.
shit i didn’t get to participate in time :( will i still get the medals or am i SOL?
dude thats nice and all BUT AT CREEK WE AT 28% BABY LETS GOOOOOOOO TRIPPLE THE MILITARY BUDGET AGAIN🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅 #
unrelated and not my spotlight but today i pushed the final percentage on one of the planets (completely forgot whzt it was) seeing it go up from 99.*numbers* to 100% is so damn cool
It might seem crazy what I'm bout to say