Helldivers 2
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence.Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
URGENT BROADCAST – SUPER EARTH ARMED FORCES
Freedom. Peace. Democracy.Your Super Earth-born rights. The key pillars of our civilization.Of our very existence.But the war rages on. And everything is once again under threat.Join the greatest military force the galaxy has ever seen and make this a safe and free place to live.
BECOME A LEGEND
You will be assembled into squads of up to four Helldivers and assigned strategic missions.Watch each other’s back – friendly fire is an unfortunate certainty of war, but victory without teamwork is impossible.
LOADOUTS
Rain down freedom from above, sneak through enemy territory, or grit your teeth and charge head-first into the jaws of combat.How you deliver liberty is your choice; you’ll have access to a wide array of explosive firepower, life-saving armor and battle-changing stratagems… the jewel in every Helldiver’s arsenal.
REQUISITION
Super Earth recognises your hard work with valuable Requisition. Use it to access different rewards that benefit you, your squad, your destroyer ship and our overall war effort.
THREATS
Everything on every planet wants you dead. That’s what we’re dealing with.Each enemy has distinct and unpredictable characteristics, tactics, and behavior – but they all fight ferociously and without fear or morality.
THE GALACTIC WAR
Capturing enemy planets, defending against invasions, and completing missions will contribute to our overall effort.This war will be won or lost depending on the actions of everyone involved.We stand together, or we fall apart.
Steam User 4984
The only co-op game where you are scared of your teammates more than monsters
Steam User 4506
Crazy to say that in February 2024, a successful 4 player coop live service third person shooter launched and it’s not the Suicide Squad. Arrowhead, with a much smaller team, accomplished what Rocksteady could not in the same amount of dev time. Gameplay loop is a blast, with procedurally generated missions giving what appears to be a lot of replay value. To me this is Deep Rock Galactic without the mining and a lot more emphasis on the bug killing. Being able to earn microtransaction currency means you can unlock everything in the game through gameplay. A breath of fresh air in the AAA multiplayer game space that seems motivated to squeeze every last dollar out of you. Highly recommend
Steam User 6477
Instead of investing in a heater, fight automatons on max graphics settings, your PC will heat up your entire apartment complex.
Steam User 3806
Got knocked out of bounds by some exploding mushrooms, was declared a traitor for abandoning the mission, and then got nuked from orbit.
10/10 - I'm doing my part.
Steam User 1088
The game is certainly having some launch issues.
It is safe to say however that if this game works for you, you will love it. It is fantastic, fluid movement and combat, realism where it's enjoyable and immersive, really fantastic stuff.
My advice would be to take heed of the reviews, make the purchase, set a timer for two hours and refund the game if it doesn't end up working for you.
EDIT:
It is the 4th of March and this game is still going strong, server issues are (mostly) fixed, you shouldn't have a problem getting in now as they've upped their server cap exponentially.
Mechs, Vehicles and new Weapons are on the horizon, now is the time to get in and get some experience before it gets complicated. The game is now at very positive and it deserves it, BUY IT.
Steam User 2545
They finally found the corrupt official that was putting war funds into his own pockets , causing all helldiver's weapons to be weaker and outdated models.
With patch 1.001.100, helldivers finally have the right firepower to keep super earth safe. This game is finally back on step to being GOTY again.
Steam User 890
This game is awesome and you should play it.
Pros
* Premium currency system is probably the fairest i've ever seen, earnable in game, either through the base progression system (warbonds) or found randomly in maps. worth noting too that the store armors aren't even remotely expensive, costing the equivalency of 2$ in the premium currency if you bought it
* bug blasting is fun
* If you get bored of bug blastin you can swap to shootin terminators, completeing changing the game
* nice in depth weapon/orbital assistance call in system + different armors+different guns makes loadout styles feel nice and varied
* global progress in the war against bugs make you really feel like your doing your part, liberating .0002% of a planet per mission. Im doing my part!
*Each mission feels extremely varied due to differenet objectives/map layouts
*Difficulty scales up in a super fun, challenging way (enemies dont scale up in health, but new special enemies are introduced and you'll fight more of them)
cons:
* glitchy, probably will run into matchmaking problems or the occational crash
* kernal level anticheat, while basically unavoidable these days in half the multiplayer games out there, is still sketchy