Yeah the good old Hema. There’s now “adversary” version of it in the game that you can get in an hour or two. it’s significantly stronger than the original, but I believe the original Hema research has not changed. Warframe is full of silliness like that, and to some extent I think it’s fine. It creates stories and gives the player base something to bitch about together.

It’s really weird. I played in those early days (there’s a handful of badges available for the game, so most people don’t have one, but I get to be special because there’s an alpha or beta badge), and I really enjoyed it. We had one tileset, and that was enough. Now, I’ll occasionally get the urge to play it again, and there’s so much more, but I’m so much less interested in it. Everything feels less impactful. It’s just too easy now, and there’s no reason to keep going. Back then you needed to progress to survive.

The community is still as nice as ever though. I’m glad that hasn’t changed. Not many games grow as much as they have and keep that. Studios should really try to examine what they did and try to replicate it. It’s something beyond game design. It must be partially how they communicate (weekly streams, and just very up front about their plans), and also how important that is to them. It’s so important that the community lead was made the game director. What other studio has done that?

The official forums and main Discord are fine - the original community still hangs out there and remains chill and friendly. It’s just the wider community (Reddit, 4chan, etc) that spawned after Sseeth’s video that’s a problem.

For example, some guy on 4chan made a lovely little mod called R*peSector where you can capture enemy officers and story characters and… well, yeah. When the subreddit mods tried to ban discussion of it, the community went nuts and was like 90% in favor of a mod that adds explicit sexual assault as a feature to a freaking spaceship combat game, one where character interaction is a perfunctory feature that makes up like 1% of the experience.

Seeing the new community rally around that kind of thing destroyed my interest in the game, even if by all accounts the dev and official communities are horrified by its existence.

This comment is a decent example of the antagonistic relationship that helldivers seem to have with the devs. I doubt they are actively trying to ruin their own game, but mistakes are very regularly framed that way in feedback, and said feedback is usually very angry, and usually written in a way to insult the developers competence or choices.

I just don’t see that level of anger in most other games, and I really don’t know what’s so different in this case.

Commissar Kai just made an excellent video about this very thing.

We need more soup damnit, not more cake.

Some dude made very shady mods involving the child character. Huge arguments over this broke out on Steam forums and Twitter, with a good chuck of it instigated by those who don’t even have the game (based on Steam data, Twitter it’s obviously unknowable). People began saying it’s the game’s fault for these mods existing and is normalizing pedophilic behavior with roundabout fallacy criticism about the game depicting a father-daughter relationship.

So now you have a messy mix of actual pedophiles, trolls, and rage baiters who keep bringing the issue up and a bunch of people trying to defend the game from being smeared because of a small set of bad actors and it’s spiraling out of control in the fan base.

The game is an amazing title. The plot is serviceable; not gonna win any Emmys but it’s a refreshing new IP which is much appreciated in a sea of endless remakes. The content is paced fantastically to never feel like it’s getting stale while managing to not overstay its welcome. The new mechanic with hacking while shooting feels well incorporated and not gimmicky. Different “hacks” and weapon combos make for a lot of freedom in how you tackle enemies with a decent enemy variety makes for very dynamic and enjoyable action.

Unlockable skins and player challenges aplenty to boot is just good old game design that has been sorely missed about the gaming days of old.

CAPCOM really knocked it out of the park by making a fun, well rounded game that feels satisfying to play and experience without having to nickel and dime the player or rehash an old IP to do it. The game doesn’t deserve the hate it’s getting just because a small minority of mentally ill bad actors are using the game to do horrible and immoral things.

It’s a great game from what I’ve heard but too many people are gooning to a 7 yr old.

Give it a try now. I held off for 9 years because of the bad release before a friend convinced me to try it. Immediately sunk all my playtime into it for 2 months.

Now they’ve got the Pokémon thing and I’ve got another reason to explore worlds again.

From what we hear, sounds like it was a publisher pushing release too early thing, stacked with the lead dev not really being good at PR and going like “oh it’d be cool to have this, and this, and this…” and then everyone just ran with it and assumed he meant “it will have this”. It was apparently a huge shitstorm at launch.

Then the devs actually buckled down and added all that stuff in. We came in much later, after that was already underway.

And then they just KEPT ADDING SHIT. There’s so much stuff in the game now, it’s ridiculous.

– Frost

NMS was pushed out way too early. They had a lot of really big dreams about how they wanted the game to look and they ended up falling short of what they wanted before the game was released. A lot of people who bought NMS on release day felt like they’d been sold a bill of goods that Hello Games didn’t fulfill, and IMO their feelings were justified at that time. Launch NMS was buggy and had very basic functionality problems, and many players left it after a short time.

That was ten years ago. NMS has been developed and worked on for all ten of those years, with multiple huge content patches released every few months. NMS now is almost nothing like NMS at launch. There’s a whole lot more to do now. Hello Games has produced and added nearly everything that they promised during initial development of the game like player bases, player freighters that you can customize, a player hub where you can group up and do quests together, and more. They also massively revamped the inventory and storage system so it’s easier to manage.

If you already own it, give NMS another try and treat it as a new videogame. I enjoy it a lot more now then I did at launch.

It is almost an entirely different game now from the state it was on release.

It’s an indie dev team of a few dozen people and almost self-published if not for some assistance from Sony. They bit off more than they chew with their ambitions and made the mistake of teasing the game too early in the dev cycle while failing to manage the hype build up. They released what they could because development was taking too long and they needed something released or else the doors were gonna close but what was released had some key missing features from what they originally promised and, combined with the game becoming over hyped beyond Hello Games’ expectations, resulted in a lot of backlash.

Even with this massive stumble, they never stopped working on the game and have continued to regularly release massive, game changing content updates (seriously, with the most recent one being released like a few weeks ago adding creature battling) entirely for free and making the game into what they promised it would be.

Did they shit the bed on release? Yes. That said, did they own up to it and do everything in their power to make up for their mistakes? Also yes.