Pelican down. Rescue the downed crew and helldivers.

I'd love this, and there's so many ways you could take it.

For example, you could tease new missions by having us jump down and rescue a squad that has their extract shot down, however they have already completed the mission. They would have a random amount of samples that you'd also earn on extract. The map could be a defense one, maybe requiring you to take down AA defenses so the new pelican can land.

Next you could have high ranking military officers under siege and you have to bail them out. The divers sent to defend them couldn't extract in time before the super destroyer left, so you're now sent in to bail both of them out due to the importance of this team.

Lastly, you could have a mission where one squad has their super destroyers leave early due to an emergency, and a new squad drops in to aid them after 3-5 minutes. Both squads share reinforcements, however they will be halved once the new squad enters the fray.

B-b-b-but the Helldivers are supposed to be expandable!1!1!!1!!

Pretty sure the first game had a mission-type where you would have to escort survivors to a drop-off point or there was also that escort the train mission. A rescue mission would be great for HD2.

This would make a great addition on the 12 min missions. I hope the devs read this.

The radar dish. Gotta set the radar up, then align it. There is a sound when it hits the sweet spot if you are solo. When this is complete you can see all of the hidden things on the map.

The seaf artillery. Start it, load shells (someone said if you load same ammo back to back it will shoot the same type grouping when you call in). Then have to turn it on and it becomes a call in.

The Broadcast tower. Can shoot from across map with rocket, call in air strike, or manually turn it off.

The spore spewer. Can shoot or blow up, will clear map of clouds, but I think this may be only for bug maps.

There are a bunch of stuff to find, haven't figured out anyway besides radar dish or just running around to pick up samples and currency.

If you were asking about the actual mini games. There is one for pumping that you have to connect the pipe to the outlet using only certain unlocked options. After that you have to actually turn the valves on the map. That one confused me for a while. There is one where you have to get the signal strength to 100%. Go in circles to highest, then play with up and down to get to 100%. Once there it takes a bit to read at 100% so wait 5 seconds and it will complete.

Hope this helps. My kids say I either over explain or am clueless to what they ask, so let me know if I was off on what you asked.

It's over... For now we wait for the new enemy while we kill bugs

War's far from over private

FOR SUPER EARTH!!!!

We are so f*cked.

They’re bugged rn. The mission thinks you’re 25 minutes into the game when you drop in, and adjusts the spawn rates accordingly.

I just figured it out. Only focus on protecting yourselves. Everyone take smoke screen stratagems and throw them on the path the civilians take. The bots will be confused and slow down significantly in the smoke and makes the mission much easier.

I usually use turrets and hope for the best lmao

Thank god I'm not alone, lol. I know, I know skill issue but I'm not having fun with those missions.

So glad to see i'm not the only one. The housing market is more attainable than these missions.

"Jarvis, my teamate refused to salute back. They must be a traitor. Deploy the DAM"

It's a cool concept but would only be better than the airburst launcher if it had more firepower

Ah yes, now I can bring both DAM and EAT

DAM EAT

Arrowhead hire this Redditor. Freedom needs some more escalation.

You are fucking genius bro!

Here is my upvote.

I'm not sure at what step of the mission you were so here's how that particular main mission is supposed to be done.

For the Upload Data mission you need to :

• get the SSSD drive at the initial point (you do a bunch of actions at the terminal then a box next to a nearby building will open and a light flash there to indicate you can pick the drive up)

• carry the SSSD to the local relay, the icon with the arrow pointing up on the map (it should be greyed out)

• once there, put the SSSD into the open box next to the terminal, deploy the satellite dish (like in the radar instalations) then have someone align said dish to communicate with the destroyer (again like the radar), then complete a couple more actions at the terminal (sending the data and wiping the drive)

Note : in higher difficulties you may need to activate a generator at another location before activating the relay to send the data, it will be indicated as a separate objective on the map.

I don't believe there's a written repository of all the missions and how to beat them, but usually looking at the terminal screen should tell you what to do.

So if a helldiver is dead, do they count as "extracted"? Technically, they're on the ship as they haven't been launched yet.

Although extracting with all helldivers and dying less will make your impact better, this formula is no longer accuarate since AH has changed the calculations latley. Right now we dont know exactly how the impact is calculated and AH isnt answering anything about it, but it all points at impact being more "equal" across difficulties. We really need all the info ingame so more people know about this stuff tho so please put that in the surveys when they are open.

I love the crap out of this game but it's becoming exceedingly frustrating to see how many of its mechanics aren't explained within the game itself. We have to rely on wiki, word of mouth, posts like these and "oh, but that guy mentioned it on discord that one time".

What's even more frustrating is people buying into the "game lore" excuse that Arrowhead have thrown out there, and parroting it around like OP. what's the "game lore" reason for the number of deaths or extractions mattering to the liberation progress? If the mission is successful then those factors should not matter at all. It's clearly a game mechanic. We have an end mission screen detailing how much XP and credits we got but they can't do a simple "6 deaths: -2 liberation contribution"?

We get no codex on our enemies, no information on how most of the mechanics work, even that recent poll to name a Megacity "Gun" was held on discord. For how great of a game it is, some of its shortcomings, especially on the QoL/live service aspect, are mind-blowing.

I guess they don't put it because It goes a bit against the lore that helldivers are crayon munchin "special" units

I'm so tired that in this game nothing is explained and all the numbers are lies. Weapon stats (and completely hidden "durable damage), armor rate, mission impact, planet progress - everything is not clear and confuses players. It is so easy to show numbers, it is actually much harder to hide them - you need to come up with something "general and easy to understand" instead of several clear honest numbers.

I want to work in AH only to clear out this mess.

For a year and a half, I had no clue how difficulty affected the campaign contribution since all I could do was base it off that number they give you at the end. So sometimes we’d spam Diff 1 thinking we were helping. We’d also do diff 10, but fast clear instead of full clear.

Then about two months ago, I was reading that wiki article and came to understand exactly how the system is set up and boooooy were we so wrong. I did a spreadsheet to compare full clears of all difficulties and it’s so freaking obvious how much more higher difficulties are helping than lower ones on liberation

I still don’t understand what the number at the end of a mission and op is. It doesn’t seem to jive with any number I’ve calculated

EDIT: I recreated my spreadsheet for calculating mission impact. I'm sure there are errors as it was done pretty quick, but it's all based on the official wiki numbers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10I0vOHR-l040THI7OyyNDYHWeJ0YLkAcKvm7NjXmDAU/edit?usp=sharing

Vindicated for all the times I've been shouting "get in the goddamn ship!" at my screen only to see someone trying to do some fancy trick get annihilated right before entering.

https://helldivers.wiki.gg/wiki/Second_Galactic_War_Mechanics

With this mission type,they could introduce a new illuminate unit:The harvester tier 2/The destructor

https://preview.redd.it/3x8ewia3pnae1.jpeg?width=790&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2271538de7c0495652e5a849a2ca39eee222c95

This mission type would stand out from the existing ones by dropping Helldivers into the chaos of an active invasion rather than post-invasion occupation. Instead of enemies passively holding areas, you'd see Illuminate forces actively hunting civilians, destroying the environment in real-time, and pushing Helldivers to defend evac zones under immense pressure. The cinematic chaos—civilians fleeing, tripods leveling buildings, and real-time destruction—would make the experience feel dynamic, urgent, and vastly more immersive.

I always just run both mortars and run a circle of the doors. I've won games where the other 3 aren't even paying attention to the civvies.

That's why now there's an alternative with tower defense instead. There's at least one operation with it instead of personnel mission and it's so much better

They're horribly imbalanced I felt like I was playing on helldiver difficulty (9) when it was extreme (6). No time whatsoever to recover or allow civilians to escape, it's just flat out bullshit how it's been made

What difficulty are you playing on? Just lower it if you’re struggling

They're stupidly overtuned. Even other game developers like PirateSoftware think so too.