Helldivers 2 - Releasing Feb 8th 2024

[Stg-Flame]

Pre-purchase HELLDIVERS™ 2 on Steam

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.

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Looks like they are taking the Risk of Rain approach and making the sequel a third-person action game instead of sticking with their original design. If they stick with the original concept and simply expand upon the first game (like RoR did) then it'll be an automatic purchase for me. Still, time will tell after the game gets released to see if they try to pull the EA lever again with 20 different DLC packs that make the game pay-to-win but I'm holding out hope for this one.

 

[Fenixgoon]

WHAT?!?! what in the ever living hell?? where is my top-down, twin-stick, drop-a-turret-on-your-friends game?

hard no for me, unless a miracle happens

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Yeah kinda disappoint that they changed the whole genre of the game.

Kids and I will regularly vegge out on Helldiver's and the chaos and hijinks are getting to be absurdly entertaining as they both get better at gaming.

Son called down a mech suit and my daughter got mad he was the only one using it, so he hopped out, and as she hopped in he dropped a pod on her and blew up the suit and killed her in the process.

She then proceeded to "accidentally" TK him over the remainder of the mission until things finally melted down into a full blown gun battle between the mutants (and the enemy Mutants too *haha slaps knee*).

Guess we'll just keep playing HD1, lot more game to uncover there.

 

[Stg-Flame]

I understand the hesitation when they completely change things up and sometimes it works great (Risk of Rain 2) and sometimes it's a critical failure (Rebel Galaxy Outlaw). Like all games, I'm going to give this one plenty of time before I jump in just to see if they dumbed it down to make it playable in third person or if they simply added more content and made it more engaging as a third-person action game.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I understand the hesitation when they completely change things up and sometimes it works great (Risk of Rain 2) and sometimes it's a critical failure (Rebel Galaxy Outlaw). Like all games, I'm going to give this one plenty of time before I jump in just to see if they dumbed it down to make it playable in third person or if they simply added more content and made it more engaging as a third-person action game.

-Well one thing that will immediately change is I don't see this being a couch co-op game anymore, can't really do this kind of 3rd person that way unless they bring back split screen and split screen is basically deader than dead now.

So it's just flat out a non-starter for me.

Hope the game is good regardless, but I'd have a hard time enjoying it solo or anon MP when basically 100% of the HD1 mems are couch co-op madness with the kiddos.