Helldivers 2 Review - First Impressions: It's Good

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This will be my Helldivers 2 review first impressions, and I gotta say, it's good. My time with Helldivers 2 gameplay flew by and I didn't want to stop playing. Consider this a Helldivers 2 before you buy video based on my time in the game.

I did only experience Helldivers 2 PS5 gameplay and we are hearing that the Helldivers 2 PC version is improving as there has already been a patch to address crashing.

Helldivers 2 is a third-person shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is the sequel to 2015's Helldivers, which was a top-down shooter. It released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on 8 February 2024.

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The moments that are cultivated naturally through the game, are unbeatable.

Last night, had a mission with 3 others, to drop a huge bug, 2 of them.

The first one, saw us coming and was a handful.

On the second, while the rest of my team was collecting samples, and such, I snuck away to the next objective, and laid a precision orbital strike, right in the heart of it.

1 shot completed the objective, and i was met with a handful of holy F***s!.

such an awesome game.

riteousrighthand

Beautiful Cannon Fodder Chaos. Friendly fire is a riot. Part of the gameplay.

magusi

Game is good. I have been playing solo on PS5 ..will like to play with more people if matchmaking was working

thehitman

Yooo Lono, since little b4 moving to the new place (end of last year) I've been lacking time to play games, this was the perfect one to jump back into gaming!!! XD
SS-KJL wasn't to my taste, but Helldivers2 is right up my alley!!! XD is awesome chaotic fun, but much more deep than one might think at 1st glance...
just a handful of quick tips for folks out there: (since the game teaches close to nothing about systems/mechanics)
_yellow stratagems_ are shared by teammates (resupply being most important here), even stratagems acquired during match;
reloads b4 empty waste ammo;
holding the reload button shows additional options for the weapon (fire mode, flashlight, ADS zoom, etc)
tapping RB/R1 (controller) quick tags, holding shows additional comms;
collectibles POI usually have a light beam marking the location, some have medals, some support weapons, most have samples laying around;
medals counts towards the battlepasses, but gathering samples is important for ship upgrades (but must successfully extracted;
semi-buried containers can be opened w/ grenades (occasionally there will be explosive canisters around, so no need to waste nades XD);
most enemies have weak points, but specially important for armored units (both for bugs and automatons), a ricochet icon will appear if your ammo isn't penetrating (along w/ the actual bullets ricocheting lol);
take a look at the stratagems upgrade page, some of the cheaper ones are quite useful, but some of the more expensive ones are much more than an upgrade, saving credits might be better mid-term;
look closely the warbond progression, it requires a lot of medal investment to unlock good guns and gears, so planning ahead is in order (also you don't need to buy every thing on each tab, every tear is unlocked by a cumulative total of medals spent, so math is order too lol);
boosters are not consumables, unlocking them will make it available every time you set up for a drop (the hex slot next to the stratagems squares)... between the 3 days I've been playing this game only one person has used these (besides myself lol)
challenging difficulty is... well... challenging, while is fun even when you don't successfully "exfil", a tip is to unlock better gear and guns to at least have a fair chance... XD (when going against automatons do use cover since they more often hit than miss shots lol)

now, I've been playing this on my PC and was a mess day 1, but I've managed to run it, and is mostly smooth... for folks having crashes on splash-screen some tips: open the game folder 2\bin) and open the properties [alt+enter] for helldivers2.exe (app), under compatibility tab check both _run this program in compatibility for: win8_ and _run this program as an administrator_ if this doesn't work right away on the same folder as above delete the GameGuard.des file (anticheater), inside steam open the properties for the game and on the installed files tab click _verify integrity of game files_ (it will check the necessary files and re-install the anticheat... this is how I got mine to work properly (no more crashes) game still has some bugs that will likely be ironed out along the road...
for reference this is my rig specs:
i9-10850K @ 3.6 / RTX3090 / 64GRAM / on SSD / Win11
playing @ 4k / settings on ultra/high(max) (-vegetation density @ mid)
I get between 75-105 fps usually, bug stages have better fps than the automatons ones, when hectic the fps does dip, but never bellow 70 fps... bear in mind, some folks have reported poor performance irregardless of rig specs, I would guess drivers for one and particular GPU configs...

pay-to-win discussion, yeah... this _is not PtW_ more so cuz is a exclusive PvE, also from what I know stuff you can get using real money are exclusive cosmetics and everyone can get the needed currency (supercredits) by playing the game (battepass-warbond)...

game is good fun and I'm having a blast, even managed to make half a dozen of friends... but this will live and die by players numbers... I hope folks gather around this one, cuz playing solo, while possible, is not as fun... great stream Lono, cheers homie!!!

Canis.Lupus.Arctos

What’s interesting about this is the dev dungeon master system that allows them (and possibly AI) to observe and ‘tweak’ the game you’re in. They can drop you an extra stratagem or make things harder by increasing extraction time or bug spawns lol. That could be huge for longevity. Then there’s the future content and the plans for the galaxy map changes and bug ‘responses’. So anyone saying it will get boring or be dead after a few weeks….I don’t think so. Going to try and get this over the next week or so!

jamiefroud