Helldivers 2

Way back, one of the times we got pushed off the creek to Draupnier, a bunch of randos and I boosted the difficulty up to extreme for the first time. Random support weps, everyone had nothing but eagle airstrike and 500ks (almost mandatory meta at the time). We got stuck on with an endless hoard of hulks, tanks and devastators for 30 minutes constantly losing the precious inches we needed to push towards the base. It was intense and brutal. Made it down to our last reinforcement before we could actually break away and sneak for extract.

In hindsight we were just trash, and didn't understand how the ai worked, but hot damn will that slog stick with me. We all made it out, but I dropped back to hard strait after that failure. What a ride

My friends and I were playing an eradication mission, before the bot vanguard force was defeated. We were being destroyed by the bots but had reached decently close to beating the mission. I was camping on top of a mountain trying not to get killed by the bots when my friend who was being actively hunted by a group of hulks decided to drop a 500 kg bomb on himself. Despite the radius being much smaller back then, I was knocked off the mountain and with me went our last reinforcement. This blunder lost us the entire operation. We dubbed it “The 500kg Incident”.

I joined right after the creek and have been playing pretty steadily since. I think I’m close to 250 hours and level 101.

The best moments were being low level and encountering the heavier enemies for the first time. Seeing a factory strider getting dropped in, hitting it with all of our stratagems, and it coming through the smoke like it was nothing was terrifying. Now I just call in an AT emplacement and blast until it isn’t standing haha

The illuminate surprise drop at the game awards was awesome, super earth cancelling all existing orders and ordering all divers to Calypso got me so hyped.

Now I chase the John Helldiver feeling of joining groups of lower level players and helping them out