Chronicles of J.O.E.L - A Game Master's Review of the Galactic War
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- The Game Master speaks!
To celebrate our first anniversary, Game Master Joel sat down to share his favorite community moments from the past year in the Galactic War-the wins, the losses, and everything in between.
“I am Super Earth High Command, I am the Terminid Swarm, I am the Socialist Automatons, I am the Elusive Illuminates. I am J.O.E.L.” Goes so hard 😭 for an opening line. He is WAR!
Apollyon would be proud
the best part of the video was when he said “I am J.uper Earth High Command, I am the O.erminid Swarm, I am the E.ocialist Automatons, I am the L.usive Illuminates. I am J.O.E.L.” and then J.O.E.L.ed all over the place
Elusive or Illusive?
Hahaha our Joel is a badass!
He has become death. The destroyer of worlds.
happy anniversary, one of the best multiplayer games i've ever played
You said it best
true hope this game keep going strong
Helldivers 2 is the only game i've never stopped actively playing since i bought it
The sole reason I bought a ps5
It's one of those games I wish I could forget and start playing again from 0, I'll never forget how open my eyes were and how big my smile was every time I played in the first week of launch
Steam Maintenance happens Tuesday. Every week.
Every week, at Tuesday, the entire Steam community forgets this simple fact, and then remembers it again in unison.
Without fail.
Although it doesn't disconnect you from the game entirely anymore
@slavcow I won't remember I made this comment until the 11th
I have to keep reminding people constantly about it
Every Tuesday, Valve HQ gets bombarded with angry emails over something they’ve been doing for years to avoid getting angry emails
Why do they do it during the American afternoon instead of the middile of the American night like every other company? Im sorry but this is on Steam. People like to play games after school and work.
He said it!
He said 29!
What?
29 what?
Yeah, I need this significance explained to me as well…
@@Wizman347 Copy and pasted explanation of the 29 joke
29 (Galactic War):
The number '29' started after one of the Helldivers 2 Discord Moderators posted a joke comment in response to a member of the community asking when the next Helldivers 2 Major Order would be released, saying simple "29 minutes", this quick joke was caught on by many community members and was used as the next internal meme / joke within the Galactic-War channel, catching the attention of several Helldivers 2 Discord Moderators, and even official Arrowhead Game Studio Staff, including the Support Team, Community Management, and even the CEO & CCO themselves.
This meme was further popularised after the Game Master Joel had made a reference to this by making one of the rewards in the game for completing a major order 29,000 Requisition Slips, Tarsh had 2.9 million hp when the Jet Brigade attacked the second time, and when the decay on Lesath was lowered to 2.90%, which were obvious references to the joke in this channel.
@@thevigilante7994 inside joke in the hd2 server
Damn, 1 year since release, i still remember my first dive as a recruit, thank you for one of, if not the most fun game i have played
And continues to be the most fun game I've ever played, period.
Helldivers just keeps on giving and keeps getting better and better.
I remember way back in HD1(2015), there were only a few thousand(at its peak) of us playing Helldivers, and it's amazing how much bigger the community is now in HD2, and continues to grow.
For Super Earth!
My first drop ever I stepped out of the pod onto a landmine 😅
My first ever drop was with a friend onto a haz 1 snow planet and I spent half the mission just making snow angels. XD The snow physics are so cool, pun intended.
I've long since forgotten the first, but I'll never forget the feeling!
I just remember starting and shooting a bug to watch chunks and legs fly off and the thing ragdoll and roll, i was hooked. Then realizing the explosions are not set pieces but completely at your disposal...to put onto massive hordes😊
J.O.E.L is the kind of guy who vibes to Beethoven's 9th Symphony while fucking with the community in the war.
Meanwhile we’re listening to Lacrimosa and Agnus Dei
I'm imagining that Arrowhead made a specific app for him that allows a full real-time view of the map, the planets, and every battle.
Like, Helldivers are playing a Third-Person Shooter, J.O.E.L. is playing Stellaris.
Unless I missrecall, J.O.E.L has the ability to tamper with games as he pleases. I've heard rumors of him spawning several Bile Titans just to mess with helldivers who are moments away from mission success. I might be wrong in this, so please don't come for my neck :)
@@VorcusBro Yeah, that happened. How about the "Halloween Special" J.O.E.L. decided to pop on some bug planets with nothing but Stalker spawns.
That was fun.
So essentially, J.O.E.L. is the illuminati/highest level Freemasons, lol.
I hope J.O.E.L comments on the kid saving thing....THAT was huge
It is one of my favorite MOs and most impressive of all because we didn't actually need like an unique event mission or any reward for doing it.
Despite the fact that we could've gotten a new stratagem, the whole community joined in defending a virtual children's hospital and unknowingly ended up helping real children by starting a donation movement, with the actual devs donating $4311 (leetspeak for HELL) to the Save the Children charity and many of us soon following.
Like it is definitely my favorite story that has come out from this first year of spreading managed democracy!
@@AshenJobSnowthe fact that we didn't even know about the donation beforehand and just did it because we didn't want to unlock the anti tank mines makes it even more hilarious
We kept dodging the mines lol
Wait a minute, at 0:44 the Meridia is pretty close to super earth! Liberty guide us..
OH NO!
Close? That’s still days / weeks away 😂😂 should have been like that a week ago
I just notice that in the corner of my eye… uh oh
and the bug front is a little bit bigger, too
[EDIT] is the gloom smaller as well? i haven't played in forever and could be wrong, the size of the front could also be making it look tiny
cause we are actively loosing 2 illuminate defences on canopus and liberty ridge
Fitting that as Joel talks about how Playstation-only Helldivers were playing, Steam-only Helldivers are currently playing due to the PSN servers lol
Ikr
I suspect this was a surprise attack from the automatons 😤
I hope this doesn't ruin the anniversary
@@PerditioTempus2591I think it will. It is a DDoS attack.
Ikr…very strange and sad
Helldivers 1 vet here, never been so proud to serve with you all for 1 year now and…
29
HD1 vet here as well.
I'm blown away by how massive Helldivers community is now compared to the measly few we had in HD1.
In terms of stats, HD1 at its peak only had about 6-8K players, compared to 458K in HD2.
There are 1.8M subs in the Helldivers reddit community.
Happy Anniversary!
For Super Earth! 07
@ We will always remember each other, the very first few that held the line in the opening battles of the first galactic war o7
Happy anniversary fellow helldivers!
o7
The War for Malevelon creek will always be a core memory for me in Helldivers 2 and a core memory in my gaming history
Happy Anniversary! o7
Likewise, over 100 drops in mal i served. That is gaming ptsd, i remember full blasting halo odst asphalt and absolution and tip of the spear from reach over drop comms (regulations dont allow for this as it’s unnecessary traffic but we dont care)
Landing down and crawling through the muck to call in a orbital on one more outpost, fire a cleanly placed recoilless shot into the final fabricator on a heavy stronghold, seeing red tracers through the fog nearly kill my friends.
I still only wear the Fallen Hero's Vengeance cape in memory of it. For The Creek!
Definitely a moment in my gaming history that I will never forget. A moment I will be able to say “I was there”
More Joel retrospectives please, I love hearing GM's speak about their campaigns.
Mort is proof that no matter how small your contribution, it always has an impact
I played with my friends on Mort for a few hours when that defense was running, and im glad we did 🙏
Having a detailed recap of important helldiver events is going to the books for sure!
And then, there's the Defense of Calypso. The Malevelon Slog, the TCS saga, the Menkent Line.
We've done so much in just a year. And yet, liberation has only begun.
I am also really excited malevolent creek, the children's hospital, and claypso
calypsograd
I've been playing games since I was a little kid in the 70a with the Atari 2600. Helldivers 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Thank you Arrowhead and Happy Anniversary Helldivers 2
SWEET LIBERTY, ITS HIM.
The Legendary Siege of Mort was intense. Can't wait for the next episode.
For real tho. I thought we were cooked once pc players got booted out. I was one of the playstation guys still fighting on the planet till the very end.
I wish I could've been there, but super-school said otherwise 😔
I still remember the first time i dived in Helldivers 1. Me and my friend were going to try out this niche top down view game from the same guys who made Magicka, and we were so surprised with how fun the game was that we kept going day after day, until we reached max level. We called in other friends and my brother, and we all thought the game was amazing.
The moment we all saw the trailer for Helldivers 2 we all knew: "This game's gonna explode". And here we are.
Now since the community is so big, the feeling of brotherhood and heroism is felt not only with the squads of randoms we were diving with, but with the community as a whole. Thanks Arrowhead, for such an amazing experience!
This is an amazing Anniversary gift! Thank you Arrowhead for keeping up this sense of connection between the community and the dev-team. You all never had to do any of this and could have just kept developing in silence, but you took your time to film and make this. This sets the game apart from so many others. Keep it up!
Can’t wait to hear about Malevelon, Merida, and Calypso
Happy Anniversary Helldivers!
I was getting emotional watching this video. Helldivers 2 came out at the perfect time when I didn’t feel like I had anything worth living for. I just got dumped and it was really hard for me to escape my reality I love this game so much thank you arrowhead 💛🖤
when women fail you there is always DEMOCRACY
Hope you're doing better fellow Helldiver! Reach out to the community olif you ever need, or holla at me!
With time comes healing. I hope you’re doing better now and wish you all the best! 🙏
@@NightmareCo666 I really appreciate this comment I’m in therapy and working through all the trauma if you ever want to dive let me know I’m always on
@@kevinsolomanmcbride139 brother, I'll dive with you 💛 🖤 (❤🖤 😉)
In J.O.E.L we trust ❤
you have been reported to my local democracy officer for undemocratic opinions. face the wall, traitor
It's the same analogy if you trust Darth Sidious in Star Wars during the Clone Wars
An Democracy Officer has coming your way.
@@Krotoroth Joel is the true defender
@@Krotoroth As your local Democracy Officer, you've passed your random yearly test of democratic pureness. You should be proud!
I don't know who this Darth Sidious but I've dispatched a fellow democracy officer to investigate.
HERESY!!!
0:34 why is nobody talking about how the galactic map looks behind him meridia is halfway too super Earth and is that the jet brigade I see
Not to mention but the bugs look like they have gained a ton of ground
It’s a deliberate leak of the future
I fought on Mort the day of the steam maintenence, those 30 minutes were the most panicked minutes of my life, as i listened to the chaos unfold through the perspective of my brother in arms GarbagedumpActual a playstation diver. He fought long, hard, and swiftly. With minutes to spare i managed to rejoin, chucking as many strategems as i possibly could to slow down the onslaught that threatened my teamates frontlines. In the end, i got to be one of the departing teams to see the completed liberation of Mort.
Thank you for such a hard fought, and overall rewarding gaming experience, to J.O.E.L and the rest of the helldivers team. I thank you.
🫡🫡🫡🫡
The world must know the the sacrifices that were made on Draupnir and the Creek! The Creek was a big event for the playerbase but for me, Draupnir stands at the peak of what Helldivers provides as an experience. Never have I experienced the aspect of a grinding war machine as we fought hordes of automatons from the beaches, the narrow gaps in rocks as missiles and gunfire came at us from all sides. It was spectacular and it holds a firm place as one of the finest moments of gaming I've ever experienced.
10/10 Thank you Arrowhead for all your work and I'm excited to see where it goes.
History recaps for each of the fronts would be great. Maybe even different theming in the way the history is told based on the front? I’d watch it more than the news.
Wish i could celebrate the anniversary but psn being psn
Otherwise happy HD2 anniversary everyone
So happy I've gotten to be a part of this war since day 1
Yeah that is still the biggest issue with the game and there's nothing the devs can do to the game that will fix it. Hope Sony gets its thumb out of its own ass at some point.
@@chilliewhk really hope so, I'll have to settle with celebrating from super earth it seems
He talk about PSN being offline now@@chilliewhk
i have spent more hours in this game than any other game i play, i've never had that much fun, anger, frustration, satysfaction, and joy in one single game, all in a positive way :). thank you arrowhead.
Ditto my friend ditto! I haven't played an online game since destiny 1 on PS4. Helldivers 2 brought me back in. And I've made so many good friends bc of it that I still play with basically everyday since launch! This community is amazing.
Thank you J.O.E.L.
You're making the game really fun. Keep up the great work.
0:35 meridia has moved quite far
i was bout to say
LOL what the hell
Damn squids, it's time to make sushi out of them for good this time.
Terrifying
"Only the playstation divers were left" AND WE FUCKING SAVED THE DAY BY HOLDING THE LINE!
And now the PSN has taken us out of the fight :(
@@HeckDescender2184fear not brother, the pc divers shall hold the line until you return
@@LukasHoglund the war may in fact be over by then but I appreciate the sentiment. Give em Hell, Diver!!!
@@HeckDescender2184 Ho, so that's why I can't figt today ? Hope we'll be back very soon, I dont think we can defend against the illumates, but I would like to retake Matar Bay.
Edit, well, look like everyboby is leaving the bot front for the squid front, Matar Bay will certainly stay under the bot rules for a little longer....
Why is this surprisingly heartening?
I speak for only myself, but this level of care and community engagement (and listening to the players) is what keeps me around.. that and the gameplay..
I was so scared that you were going to show his face when the voice modifier turned off. Thank you for keeping it a mystery
I can hear it in your voice and can relate more than I can explain.
Thank you Joel (Both of you) for the time you take every day to give us such a great experience.
And thank you, all of Arrowhead for making this possible.
So softly spoken for someone who creates so much chaos.
Hey Joel! It's been a blast being your adversary and plotting on how to match and counter the moves you make.
Simply watching the map. Puzzling out the mechanics and rules you play by. Watching and running numbers. Slowly understanding what makes you and the game tick.
Sadly I am but one voice and have been silenced by the Community Team on the official channels.
But I am here, watching, plotting, and playing.
"Episode 1"
Hell yes, I'm hitting the bell. I gotta see all of these.
This needs to be a serie. This is history.
Lovely video, Happy Anniversary! Looking forward to more in this series!
And the irony of PSN being down right now is just spot on.
First time in my 50+ years as a gamer that i FEEL apart of something bigger then myself.
Thank you AH.
For SUPER EARTH!!!!
I love that story too, from our PoV it was just chaos and tension, but for Joel it was watching numbers rise and fall, and yet he could grasp everything as it unfolded ✌🏼
Happy anniversary :) I have never thought a game would drastically change my life for the better not only through a wonderful new community but funny belly laughs and teamwork that transcends logic and reason. To many more years to come!
J.O.E.L you have been the bane of our existance with all the curve balls you've thrown us, but we love ya for it... FOR SUPER EEEAAAAAARTH
The way this was presented was just so amazing. happy 1 year
Heres to another year of one of the greatest games I've had the pleasure of playing since launch
Happy birthday Helldivers 2 🎉🥳🎂 you were my favorite game and my GotY last year ❤️ I’m looking forward to playing for many more years to come.
Thank you for this amazing game Arrowhead!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! FOR DEMOCRACY AND ANOTHER LIBERTY-FULL YEAR!
God I forgot about the defense of mort, can't believe it's already been a year, you guys made a amazing game you should all be proud, happy anniversary
Hearing from J.O.E.L himself made my shitty day a lot better. Thank you AH for making this awesome game!
J.O.E.L - judgement of eternal liberation
happy anniversary!
I didn't know the story of Mort and got literal goosebumps thanks to your retelling of it. Thank you for this, and MAD Respect to our Playstation Siblings for holding the line: Without you guys, it wouldn't have happened.
How did this not win game of the year
how? well bullshit my friend nothing but bullshit thats how and the game awards are voted on by hacks in non game related media
Because mmm monkey
Happy Anniversary! I still remember my first drop on Heeth one year ago. It was amazing, and i couldnt get enough. Thank you Arrowhead. I'm looking forward to another lore defining year.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY let’s all spill oil in the name of Super Earth 🎉🎉
happy anniversary!
hd2 is one of the greatest gaming experiences i have ever had in my 40yrs of gaming.
never give up on hd2.
never give up on the helldivers.
The ARCHENEMY IS SPEAKING TO US 😭🙏🙏🙏
Its so wild that no other game can claim they had shit like this, Helldivers' galactic war stories is like those battlefield moments but on a WAY bigger scale. Thank you Arrowhead for making such a kick ass game
Thank you for an incredible journey J.O.E.L........ but I still don't trust you 😂😂
Cloud look at Meridia in 36th sec. WTF
Can't wait to see more of these, JOEL is such a massive part if the game, I love hearing directly from him
I have a question arrowhead the illuminate have a God Penion??
And can we take the books of the illuminates? So I will Hel divers can learn magic.
Happy anniversary! Its insane its already a year. And it's nice to see and hear JOEL.
I have my eye on you J.O.E.L
I absolutely love this game so much, i can't believe it's been a full year. I digress tho - thank you guys for such an amazing game, and happy anniversary
3:00 so all this time our enemy is STEAM MAINTENANCE
Thank you for this game and the support for this game. I love the community and this game is one of the top games I've played in my life. Please keep it going!!! Thank you for the work!
I look forward to celebrating the anniversary just as soon as the seaf engineers liberate the psn servers
It's truly heartwarming to see the passion that the creators and runners of this game have for this game. I was there when Miridia was collapsed into a black hole, ship emergency jumped and everything. It was one of the coolest moments Ive had in gaming, seeing my personal actions effecting the outcome of a games lore and story.
Love you guys
Happy Anniversary! Helldivers 2 brought me back to shooters and Malevelon creek made me many friends in the game. I thank you for this incredible title and will continue doing my part!!
I speak for the Liberation Fleet. I speak for the ChaosDiver Shadow Fleet. I speak for the Bank of Prosperity, the Freedom Alliance, and the Liberty Nexus. I am the Radio Angel, and I have made a daily job of trying to anticipate you, Joel, and thwart your plans. I play up your drama, report on every move you make and though we've never met or spoken, I consider you one of my best friends. Thank you for the gift of this amazing war. Thank you for letting me do this.
I was expecting him to sound like Megatron lol, happy 1 year anniversary !!!!
This message is addressed to all Helldivers and commissioned Officers of the SEAF.
We are entering into the second year of this war to defend the values of Liberty and Freedom. But we have not conducted ourselves in ways conducive to the spread of liberty across the galaxy.
Among the lower officers of the SEAF and members of the Helldivers Corp, A pattern of grand strategic errors have been made. This has cost us dearly materially as well as in the lives of our citizens. It is imperative that all of us, as beacons of democracy act as examples of strategic brilliance rather than folly.
In recent months, The near capture of the Turing Xenobiology Center and The Martale pocket are great examples of this in practice.
Of Turing, The bugs were one jump away from taking the Turing science centre. However, the bugs made a tactical error and attacked towards super earth instead of the clear objective. If they did, The efforts of a split Helldivers Corp at both containing the gloom’s expansion and maintaining Turing’s defence would have failed. The Xenobiology Centre would have fallen.
Of the Martale pocket, it was an isolated sector for nearly two weeks. Where helldivers despite having ample warnings did not rally beyond a small force. The enemy easily pushed us back after a last ditch effort to take it by us. This was despite the world having 0% resistance.
We do not merely wish to belittle the brave men and woman of the SEAF, But rather that we must act in greater capacity if we are to win this war.
It is thus that high command dispatches this order. All those who are found in violation of it are to be declared traitors.
Order: 77402 “Strategos”
1. Priority must be given to planets under assault by the enemies of democracy. Unless designed to cut off enemy forces, assaults during defensive campaigns are to be discontinued.
2. SEAF personnel must redeploy to other fronts when ordered too. Preferences for fronts or enemies of democracy are not relevant considerations to refuse redeployment.
3. Attacking worlds without adequate forces to take it quickly and efficiently is a wasteful act and hereby prohibited.
4. Isolated sectors are prioritized in terms of strategic considerations. Encircled worlds should be taken within 2 weeks (14 days or fewer) of their encirclement. Failure to do so is considered extreme incompetence and thus treasonous.
For Managed Democracy.
I love this kind of content, recapping key moments in the galactic war! This along with the Super Earth Galactic War Data Archive channel. Please make more!
Lets fucking goooooooo
Happy anniversary! You guyz are making real what I was just dreaming about!
Awaawaaa !
Happy Anniversary to a game that came out on my birthday. I dive every day that I can. It's undoubtedly of my top 3 favorite games. #1 for multiplayer. Can't wait to see what else this game has in store.
Joel tuah
Joel on that thang
I've never rallied to do anything in any game like I have in Helldivers. Yes, I've done raids in WoW and such, but I've never seen a community so into the events and story of a game like this - and I'm glad I could be a part of it. Happy anniversary, Helldivers!
Happy 1 Year, all you beautiful folks at Arrowhead! Here's to many more!
Thanks for sharing this story! Happy one year and on to many, many more! For Super Earth!
Happy anniversary to helldivers 2, such a peak game I have very much enjoyed playing, and even when I couldnt play enjoyed watching the events unfold through youtube and other things. Shall we all fight for super earth for another year.
Thank you for this video. It has been a pure pleasure to play from launch to now. Your success is hard earned and well deserved. Happy anniversary, to you and your stuido! 🎉
This is so cool to look back at how close it was! I love seeing how the galactic war progresses, thank you J.O.E.L
Dear Arrowhead,
Despite me being frustrated with the game state (we all know what I refer to)
I appreciate your dedication. I love this game. Thank you for not giving up on this game even though I did. You made it fun again I confidently say, despite its downs.
Helldivers 2 is my GOTY.
Thank you
I wish we had a “recap” of the bigger major orders and important events in the game since it was released, we’ve all come a long long way since the first version of helldivers 2
God, please be a series
this content is gold!
This game hooked me after I saw the community rally on reddit for a simple goal that comes down to minutes that's shapes the galaxy. I am so glad I never stopped playing. I wake up early and sneak every bit of tike to stuff into this game like a 10 year old (I'm 35) with a full time job and wife. I can't wait to play this game all the time. Thank you arrow head and please don't stop i hope to continue as long as you guys will play. i0
Want to hear more from Joel! More stories, more favorites please!
We need more of those recaps of the previous year and history we all worked hard on. Pls, do more like this.
I was there! I was one of the PS5 divers that were fighting in the last minutes of the defense of Mort and just as I finished my operation I saw the glorious yellow strip around the planet map saying "Planet liberated". What a moment.
Been in it since day 1 and man what a ride we've had some crazy fights over the past year and it's crazy that they aren't just in game events with premade outcomes, every loss and every win was ours together as a community... Thats something special.
Actual great story. I wasn't there at that specific moment but I was playing and didn't know it was THAT big of a deal lol
Great story telling, I hope we can hear more of these !
Happy anniversary to what is one of the best, if not *THE* best, multiplayer shooters. May you see so many more.
Hope he mentions all of the events that happened in the Severin Sector. That Sector was WILD!!
Calypso was the best. I was fighting Terminids with randoms. We get back to hear the emergency alert for "Calypso" (where tf is that, we were all used to the normal planets) and dispatches was written in a way that was almost analog to morris code. All my fellow random Helldivers were going crazy on the chat. Immediately we stopped what we were doing and tried going to Calypso, but we quickly figured out we had to download the patch. So we quit/installed patch and immediately jumped to Calypso. I never saw those same guys again.... *sips strong drink* ....They got too excited and jumped in, but, without my leadership... *pushes thought out of his head*... Anyways, I jumped in, not knowing what to expect, no idea about enemy weak points, tactics, anything. I just knew to bring Ole Reliable and Painless with me (Heavy MG and Revolver) and I brought the Adjudicator w/ rifle guard dog. Everything was so "new", I grabbed a vehicle and ended up running over a horde and saving a lower level guy who jumped in with me. We successfully finished the mission to extract and from then on, it was mission-after-mission to save Calypso. The feeling of accomplishment was insane. I honestly assume that we interrupted Arrowhead's storyline plans because the chances that we would defeat the Illuminant invasion that they'd been planning for 100 years was so low, but we did it. Such a great moment in gaming
Joel, more than once I have screamed your damn name at the top of my lungs, looking up at the sky on my knees, without a single bullet and without stims as I watch not one, not two, but three factory striders be dropped on my team at extraction.
And for that I say thank you.
Thank you for making Helldivers 2 the most fun video game ever made.