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 17991
I saw the hype online and pretty much ignored it until one of those late-night "I'm bored, what should I do?" moments. I'm about 15 hours in, which isn't bad for me as a fairly casual gamer. Here's a quick story from last night:
Had trouble finding a mission that I could actually connect to, so I decided to just poke around on my own to get some practice on Hard. I'm about ten minutes in and get totally swamped with bots from all sides. My sentries are putting in work, but I'm on my last mag and am basically sprinting through the forest to find some cover. I try to hit my resupply and accidentally hit the SOS thing.
I swear it wasn't more than 15 seconds and a couple of folks jump into the mission. The first thing I hear on the mic?
"Stay strong, brother. We're here to help."
These guys totally bulldoze through the next couple of bases and help me smash the last Hulk before a really gnarly exfil. I then played another THREE HOURS with the same squad. When they finally said that they had to hop off, I thanked them for the rescue. Their response?
"For democracy".
Holy hell this is the game.
Steam User 4876
The only co-op game where you are scared of your teammates more than monsters
Steam User 398
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Helldivers 2 Review
About The Game
An epic 1-4 player PvE First/Third person shooter filled with intense and epic battles, where you will find yourself fighting on dozens or more planets facing off against Terminid bugs, Automaton machines and yet to be seen threats in the name of Super Earth and Democracy.
Story
The game takes place 100 years after the events of the first game with the resurgence of Democracy hating murderous enemies looking to once again threaten the peace and freedom of the superior human race.
The story progresses as Major orders are failed or succeeded, with the progression planned for either scenario, which makes it engaging to check in with the game every few days for new story events.
Gameplay
You start off in a boot camp tutorial, where you are introduced to all the game’s basic mechanics like walking, shooting, healing destroying enemy spawns, calling in equipment and the like.
Afterwards you will find yourself on your very own Super Destroyer which you get to name using a number of preset words to combine into a name fitting your peace-dispensing space ship. There you will find you can collect samples on missions to upgrade call-in equipment and air support, as well as unlock new equipment and weapons using Requisition (base currency).
You will also find a Warbond store, which is a store where you can buy new pieces of armor, capes, weapons, grenades and perks and premium currency, which you buy with Warbonds. (medals found in matches, rewards for completing missions, private objectives and major orders)
There is also a premium store, where you can buy additional armor and equipment not available to the regular store, but still using the same Warbonds. (You can get enough premium currency to buy premium passes from missions and other passes)
From the map at the deck, you can select the world you want to drop onto to complete missions, but those worlds depend on the progress of fellow helldivers, as once a world is liberated you can no longer access it unless it is retaken by enemies, which happens via Story events where you have to defend a planet to 100% in a set amount of time, otherwise it gets taken over by the enemy.
Once your world is chosen you get to select the sets of mission you want to complete, your weapons and up to 4 pieces of call-in equipment and deploy. (Number of equipment may be reduced depending on a world’s passive effect)
The equipment can be called in once you land, which is done via directional/button prompts, adding an extra bit of engagement to the game, but be careful, as a wrong input means you have to do it all over again. And try not to fall when holding call ins, as if you get knocked down you will drop them, meaning they will be called in right on top of you which can prove deadly.
There are various sets of objectives which you can see available on the world map, and they work in various sets depending on the difficulty. (Only 2 missions on lower difficulties, 3 missions on higher difficulty)
When the objective is complete, you can extract to gain bonus Requisition depending on the number of surviving Helldivers, and the amount of Sample you survived with.
If you complete the objective but the squad gets fully wiped, all is good, you died for a good cause and completed your objective. If you get wiped and failed to succeed… Let’s just say that the records won’t show it.
There is a limited amount of respawns available depending on the number of Helldivers in your squad. For each Helldiver the number goes up by 5, up to a maximum of 20.
Each world also has it’s own passive de-buffs and events making a planet more hostile to life, or just making it more difficult/longer to get your hands on call-in equipment.
And if a fellow Helldiver disconnects from the game, you can call down a SoS beacon to increase the chances of someone else taking their place.
After completing the mission sets the % of world liberation goes up, and once it reaches 100% the world is once again under the control of Democracy.
Visuals
The game looks amazing and cinematic and is pretty well optimized, the enemies have various designs which also look great. It’s not the best-looking game, but it’s pretty high up there.
Audio & Music
The game has some great and epic soundtracks to accompany you on your missions, and is also voice acted for NPCs on your ships and announcer while on mission. Your character is also voice acted, spitting some cheesy lines as well as screams of terror, pain and freedom as they get torn to shreds or shot to bits.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Fun and repetitive gameplay,
Amazing atmosphere and cinematic feeling,
Variety of maps,
Overall fun time with friends and randoms,
Variety of weapons and equipment to use,
Freedom loving and Democratic (Anyone says otherwise, report them)
Cons
Lots of issues with game crashes and no option to reconnect to a mission afterwards,
Meta of certain weapons, leaving not much reason to use others,
The crash issues are getting fixed all the time so there is less crashes that are occurring.
Conclusion
The game is overall an amazing experience, well worth the price as you can easily sink at the very least dozens, more likely hundreds of hours and still enjoy the experience. It does have some issues with crashing, but that’s about the only thing I can think to complain of.
Disregard any previously stated negative points, as the traitor who wrote them has been dealt with.
Remember, for Glory, Freedom, Democracy and Liber Tea.
Rating: 8.5/10
Steam User 3928
Worked so hard to save Super-Earth, only to be napalm striked by my team mates. For Democracy!
Steam User 5207
Thank you Jimmy525521,
I will never forget the bond we had together until the session disconnected.
Steam User 6410
Instead of investing in a heater, fight automatons on max graphics settings, your PC will heat up your entire apartment complex.
Steam User 4471
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