If you’re having trouble playing Helldivers 2, firing an SOS beacon can sometimes be a worthwhile strategy, even if the help it’s supposed to summon may not always arrive on time, or at all. However, if you’re a low-level player, there’s a chance you’ll end up with a lot of help from someone who enjoys rock-paper-scissors games.
Look, I know you probably think of yourself as a staunch defender of a super-Earth who can single-handedly liberate planets and defeat an absolutely literal army of flying insects, but we could all use a little backup sometimes. Especially if you’re a newbie and would love to be intrigued by someone’s ability to wrap your rock in paper before teaching you how to throw it.
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Gamers who have been busy doing this kind of thing, who go by the nickname .atasu, gave some interesting insights into their gaming habits in an interview with IGN. The key to what they do is that they just love responding to distress calls from people trying to complete things from level three all the way up to level nine.
If they can’t find any of them, the player – who seems to work a bit like a Super Earth version of Elden Ring’s Let Me Solo Her, known for using his talents to help people defeat bosses – will also start a session, I hope everyone who needs a running buddy will join. How do you get these strangers to trust you when you give them some higher level gear to help them get through? Players say their answer is sometimes to play rock, paper, scissors using emotes from S.T.A.R.2.
To be fair, if someone could sweep me in a best-of-three series, I think I’d consider following them into Annihilation. Interestingly, in addition to helping people clarify their goals and allowing them to keep most, if not all, of their loot and resources, .atasu also said they would end up teaching parties how to do certain things on a regular basis.
Why? Well, Helldivers 2’s tutorials on things like resource sharing, switching weapon mods, and some of the mini-games required to complete missions are either a bit lackluster or non-existent. However, .atasu states that they are a personal tutor in real life, making them natural substitute teachers in the game.
Thankfully, those of us who react to acts of charity are inevitably jealous of all the attention and praise the person doing it gets, with players saying they are “not flawless” in the game, revealing: “I usually kill myself every time I use my Scorcher several times during each surgery.”
Apparently, sometimes they also have to be rescued from an ambush by the person they are rescuing, which can set off a chain of events that only ends with another rescuer showing up to rescue those who were trapped while trying to rescue them. The plight of the rescuers ended.
Regardless, the point is that help exists in the terrifying abyss of the universe, and it’s cool for players to do something like this. Be sure to check out our regular coverage for the latest updates on PLAYER 2’s galactic war.