Anyone playing HellDivers 2?

Skid_Marc_

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First blush, it **feels** like an asset flip, with nothing original. Gameplay from Deep-Rock Galactic, but without the dynamic tunneling; 3rd-person controls from the Division; game tries to look like Destiny while copying Halo, right down to "Pelican" drop-ships and blown-up definately *not* "Warthogs" laying around a world ripped right out of the "Starship Troopers" universe. The premium store feels about as generic as Anthem. The battlepass from... every EA/Activision game ever (although you can earn enough in-game credits to not spend realy money on it, someone on redditt said 40-60hrs of grinding, which isn't bad, imo). The weapons aren't customizable, some of the first-person reticles are flat-out unusable, graphics are totally meh, ( make sure to cap your frame-rate so it doesn't melt your GPU in the menus); Server issues are ATTROCIOUS. Good luck trying to get in with friends...


NOW, that all seems super critical, BUT, having said all that...

It is fun as fuck, especially the bugs (the enemy ones, not the game ones), despite feeling copy-pasted out of DRG, that's a niche game, so I'm guessing most people won't feel the same. The robot enemies feel a bit more generic to me, and less fun. I find killing bugs is almost always fun.

To clarify, I'm not accusing this game of being an actual asset-flip, or directly copying/ripping-off other games, I'm just saying that's just the way it came across to me at first glance. Whether it is or it isn't, they've managed to make a good game out of it, which a lot of devs, assett-flip or original, fail at.

They really need to fix the servers, though. That's LITERALLY the only reason I would tell you not to buy it RIGHT NOW. Despite everything I wrote above, I think you'd enjoy it. It's awesome, it's just too unreliable at this moment to expect to sit down and play when you want to. We waited 3 hours Friday night to get three people together. Monday night Joe and I played for 5 hours and our friend NEVER got in to play with us.

Also, I did buy the Premium Pass outright, and... it's not really worth it (shocker), but hey-ho, to each their own.
 

Deb

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Wow, great review @Skid_Marc_!!!!!! We're approaching end game in Division 2 and thought this might be something to pick up after that. Maybe they'll have worked out there server issues by then.
 

Kenadian

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There's a lot of hype around this game but it just doesn't look like something I'm into.

The visuals are so muddy on some of these maps, I'd be lucky to only tk my co-op buddies a handfull of times each.

...and I know not one person here would believe me it was done on accident.
 
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Jes_971

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I can't stop playing this game. Starship Troopers is a favorite of mine so with the heavy handed satire ripped straight from there I had to play it. I've never played a co-op shooter like the other games mentioned here so its all new to me. I absolutely love it and would like to join any of you in spreading some managed democracy. Lets kill some mindless maggots for their E-710 and make some socialist toasters drown in their oil.
 

Skid_Marc_

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I've mostly played with my friend JMart, and some of our other friends, have gotten in to it. It is way more fun than it has any right to be, for sure! I've also noticed you've been on a lot. JMart will be heading off to work next week (he's seasonal), so if you ever need a fourth, I'm around. Tuesday and Thursday nights work the best for me. I try to race the other days. I'm level 23, currently. Tallent wise, as a squad we usually do Challenging vs the bots, and Hard vs the Bugs. Solo I just do normal, although I did complete one mission on Challenging solo, sprinting and screaming in terror the whole time!
 

Jes_971

Hardcore
I was having a hard time when I first started playing knowing which planets lead to which for FTL jump access. This is a good site to be able to see the galactic war and supple lines. The bottom center of the screen allows you to change from grid view (grid icon which shows active planets) and the swirly eye icon (shows overhead of galaxy with supply line connections).

Secondary site that I was using at first:

Tertiary Galaxy map site:

Helldivers 2 Training Manual site:
 

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