HELLDIVERS 2

[aigomorla]

i think one of the dev's in this game must of been a contra fan..

as this totally reminds of of the infamous... up - up - down - down - left - right - left - right - B - A

i wonder how many even remember that code.

 

[Shmee]

I got it, it's a pretty fun game, though I prefer 1st person generally for shooters. Definitely not without bugs though, (lol pun) and some people get them worse than others. For instance, I have had a couple game crashes, though downclocking my GPU a bit seems to fix this, and occasionally I will see one of my squad is invisible on the ship. Also there is the known issue where the mech will sometimes randomly blow up when firing a rocket while moving.

Overall though the game is pretty awesome, lots of people playing, and even the cross platform play is pretty good too.

 

[AlexanderSalazar]

It was real shock to find this game, but I understand why it became so popular, I didn't have more fun from a game for long. Destroying other races to save Earth and the setting and also the story is so funny. It has bugs as any other game, but they are also like a parts of this crazy world, I don't even pay attention to them anymore. It's enough to deal with the long queues befoer the game and it will be perfect.

 

[VashHT]

I'm having a lot of fun with this game, it's a blast with friends even if you're getting killed. I was playing with some people and got taken out by meteors 5 times in one mission but we were all just laughing about it, the entire time the rest of the night I never got hit from a meteor. I haven't bothered to try quickplay at all, if I'm playing on my own I just start missions or join games in progress so it doesn't take any time at all to get into a game.

 

[RnR_au]

heh

 

[Fallen Kell]

You guys gotta stop giving it so much praise. I'm trying to hold off buying this until at least the fall sales, especially since I'm still playing other games.

I was honestly hoping for it to be pretty lackluster, but everything I've read about it across the internet has been stellar praise.

I'm trying to hold off buying it until I have a graphics card in my computer (well, a card made this decade...). I'm really trying to just hold off until the next gen pops in 3-5 months...

That said, I just checked and I do pass the minimum with my 1060 6gb, and my Ryzen 7950X CPU is overkill (yeah, the GPU is simply a hold-over, really, a swap over from upgrading my HTPC to a 3060 Ti).

 

[Fallen Kell]

Also there is the known issue where the mech will sometimes randomly blow up when firing a rocket while moving.

I would venture a guess that as they spawn the rocket into the game engine, it's hit detection collides with the moving mech as the rocket's initial position, speed/movement vector, and inertial momentum did not get properly updated from the mech that fired...

 

[RnR_au]

I'm trying to hold off buying it until I have a graphics card in my computer (well, a card made this decade...). I'm really trying to just hold off until the next gen pops in 3-5 months...

That said, I just checked and I do pass the minimum with my 1060 6gb, and my Ryzen 7950X CPU is overkill (yeah, the GPU is simply a hold-over, really, a swap over from upgrading my HTPC to a 3060 Ti).

I'm running on an RX 6600 8GB in an egpu enclosure with thunderbolt. And my 8th gen Intel 18W laptop only exposes 2 pcie 3.0 lanes to the thunderbolt connection... and I run fine in HD II at 1080p rez with the settings all the way down.

Not exactly #pcmasterrace stuff, but I get to experience many cups of Liber-tea and the excitement of friendly fire with my friends 😀

 

[Fallen Kell]

I'm running on an RX 6600 8GB in an egpu enclosure with thunderbolt. And my 8th gen Intel 18W laptop only exposes 2 pcie 3.0 lanes to the thunderbolt connection... and I run fine in HD II at 1080p rez with the settings all the way down.

Not exactly #pcmasterrace stuff, but I get to experience many cups of Liber-tea and the excitement of friendly fire with my friends 😀

Yeah, so, this then happened (call me Space Cadet)... and I got no sleep last night, playing till 6am when I noticed some light just starting through the window.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Well, I was holding off buying it but a buddy bought it for me since he wanted us to switch from Tarkov to Helldivers 2. It is a lot of fun, but has some jank to the controls that I'm still getting used to. Also, whoever thought it would be a good idea to have Sprint be defaulted to a Long Press keybind should never be allowed to touch a computer again. I thought I was losing my mind as my character wouldn't sprint consistently.

 

[RnR_au]

Well, I was holding off buying it but a buddy bought it for me since he wanted us to switch from Tarkov to Helldivers 2. It is a lot of fun, but has some jank to the controls that I'm still getting used to. Also, whoever thought it would be a good idea to have Sprint be defaulted to a Long Press keybind should never be allowed to touch a computer again. I thought I was losing my mind as my character wouldn't sprint consistently.

Default for Fortnite as well.

 

[techenjoyer]

helldivers has been so much fun for an indie game

 

[Fallen Kell]

I'm just glad they gave some love to the PC and keyboard/mouse control customization in the first place. Still not 100% sure I like my control setup, but it is getting there. I basically made it a lot like my CS:S controls. I think the only thing I wish they supported was the numpad keys as their own, and not simply as their numerical values or as the arrow keys+home/end/pgup/pgdown. I really wanted to use them for mini-map functions. I might consider creating some macros for the various controls such as orbital strikes, etc., so that I just need to hit one button to call them.

 

[RPD]

Ah so there is a thread for this game. I got on my PS5 so my kids could see me play, which resulted in another 2 copies purchased on Steam for them.
Been having so much fun playing with my kids and buddy since I got it. My only gripe is they need to fix the crashing issue when extracting, they know about it but hell it does SUCK when you are counting on some super samples and at the last second, SIKE. At the harder difficulties I do wish I could play with a mouse and keyboard since precise aiming is difficult with the joysticks on PS5.

As of now trying to max out medals before the 11th for the new warbond drop, have unlocked the last pages on the previous but haven't purchased all the fluff stuff yet.

 

[RPD]

Game play wise when I started I always used the laser rover or the shield pack. But now I can't join a game without using the autocannon.

For bugs my goto layout if I'm hosting is the incendiary shotgun (since the rumored bug is only host gets burn/gas/tick damage) primary, auto cannon, eagle airstrike, orbital rail cannon strike and last spot depends, either 500kg bomb or some sentry (gatling or AC). If I'm joining a bug game I'll primary the dominator, have probably the same loadout for stratagems, unless it's a defense type mission. For armor I can't recall the name but I try to stick to light armor, the one I use most of the time is the one with extra padding but has 125 for stamina.

For bots, orbital laser/eagle air strike/auto cannon with the Scorcher as primary. Sometimes I switch out the AC for the AMR with it's recent buff it's fantastic. I think it's a medium or light armor but has the resistance to explosions on it.

 

[Fallen Kell]

As of now trying to max out medals before the 11th for the new warbond drop, have unlocked the last pages on the previous but haven't purchased all the fluff stuff yet.

Why do you need to max out the medals before the drop (or do you mean, having them already saved up for the new drop so you can just unlock everything useful)?

I'm just wondering as I have only had the game for less than a week. Luckily I watched the various reviews and weapon recommendations and I basically went straight down the Steeled Veterans track (with just a little a couple pages of the original unlocked and the first page of the Cutting Edge). As such, I have been able to be fairly effective since I have most of the "meta" loadouts available to me (unlocked the breaker in the original tree then worked on getting the jar from steeled vets... and use the incendiary shotgun from the first page of the steeled vets against the bugs in the last couple days since they patched fire damage).

I'm still mixed on the nerf to the arc thrower. I really liked it pre-nerf since I learned how to properly fast fire, but the stagger it does now still seems good, unfortunately it doesn't fit my play style anymore as with random other team members, they will many times pull too many enemies at once and its new 1 second fire rate is too slow in those conditions.

 

[RPD]

Why do you need to max out the medals before the drop (or do you mean, having them already saved up for the new drop so you can just unlock everything useful)?

I'm just wondering as I have only had the game for less than a week. Luckily I watched the various reviews and weapon recommendations and I basically went straight down the Steeled Veterans track (with just a little a couple pages of the original unlocked and the first page of the Cutting Edge). As such, I have been able to be fairly effective since I have most of the "meta" loadouts available to me (unlocked the breaker in the original tree then worked on getting the jar from steeled vets... and use the incendiary shotgun from the first page of the steeled vets against the bugs in the last couple days since they patched fire damage).

I'm still mixed on the nerf to the arc thrower. I really liked it pre-nerf since I learned how to properly fast fire, but the stagger it does now still seems good, unfortunately it doesn't fit my play style anymore as with random other team members, they will many times pull too many enemies at once and its new 1 second fire rate is too slow in those conditions.

Yes so I can play with new toys immediately. I love to fiddle with different combos of primary, support to see how they deal with stuff. The range nerf in practice isn’t that huge because before a grain of sand would randomly prevent your gun from shooting, the stagger is very, very welcomed.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Yes so I can play with new toys immediately. I love to fiddle with different combos of primary, support to see how they deal with stuff. The range nerf in practice isn’t that huge because before a grain of sand would randomly prevent your gun from shooting, the stagger is very, very welcomed.

I'm hoping they will give another viable secondary weapon. I think just about everyone uses the same one....

 

[Fenixgoon]

I'm hoping they will give another viable secondary weapon. I think just about everyone uses the same one....

I still go with the SMG. A friend likes the senator revolver.
Primary I still feel like shotguns are the best. For support weapons I'm all in on the autocannon

 

[sze5003]

Had a lot of trouble joining randoms today. 2/5 matches worked without crashing or disconnecting.

I also experienced a weird issue where the game would minimize itself but nothing else would show up on my desktop. I wonder if it is a windows 11 problem.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Had a lot of trouble joining randoms today. 2/5 matches worked without crashing or disconnecting.

I also experienced a weird issue where the game would minimize itself but nothing else would show up on my desktop. I wonder if it is a windows 11 problem.

Been having very few issues under Windows10 (I think I have only crashed 1 time all last week).

 

[RPD]

I don't know if its more a cross play issue, but this weekend I didn't have any of the crashing issues I had past week; but the issue was when playing with my sons (I'm on PS5, they are on laptops) they would randomly get disconnected and have to rejoin, but seemed to happen less the longer we played until it really didn't. What was really odd some instances they could continue playing in their own game like the server made us each in our own map solo.

Otherwise made a ton of progress on medals, still have fluff stuff to get but got all the emotes, just a like an armor, a few helms, one of the boosters and some cards left. All ship modules unlocked as well, if you haven't yet the hellpod steering upgrade is VERY noticeable.

 

[Saylick]

I don't know if its more a cross play issue, but this weekend I didn't have any of the crashing issues I had past week; but the issue was when playing with my sons (I'm on PS5, they are on laptops) they would randomly get disconnected and have to rejoin, but seemed to happen less the longer we played until it really didn't. What was really odd some instances they could continue playing in their own game like the server made us each in our own map solo.

Otherwise made a ton of progress on medals, still have fluff stuff to get but got all the emotes, just a like an armor, a few helms, one of the boosters and some cards left. All ship modules unlocked as well, if you haven't yet the hellpod steering upgrade is VERY noticeable.

I was doing some reading on the Helldivers subreddit during the weekend and I recall reading something about cross-play games being buggy, specifically players would get kicked out of the host's game, which sounds like what you're describing here. Bummer too, because my brother plays on PC and I'm on PS5 and we've yet to play together since I convinced him to buy the game 🙁

 

[sze5003]

That reminds me, I do have cross play enabled on PC. I am actively trying to get two friends of mine to buy the game on PS5.

These guys normally don't play games as much other than single player titles, but they randomly started playing fortnight. They tried to get me on it but there's no way I'm playing that.

I suppose the barrier to entry here would be the cost. Last night I had a decent set of matches without any issues for once.

I'm really hoping for a better primary weapon. I've been using the machine gun you get from the beginning because I didn't like anything else.

 

[RPD]

That reminds me, I do have cross play enabled on PC. I am actively trying to get two friends of mine to buy the game on PS5.

These guys normally don't play games as much other than single player titles, but they randomly started playing fortnight. They tried to get me on it but there's no way I'm playing that.

I suppose the barrier to entry here would be the cost. Last night I had a decent set of matches without any issues for once.

I'm really hoping for a better primary weapon. I've been using the machine gun you get from the beginning because I didn't like anything else.

This is my take, but the weapons you unlock from the war bonds other than a few exceptions aren't a direct upgrade, you just get to do different things better. Same goes for unlocking stratagems. You can specialize in what you want to do/accomplish in a drop. You'll easily unlock all the stratagems quickly-ish so no huge choices on what to get when. But the starting machine is good because it punches through medium armor, which a lot of non-trash (very very base bots, and the scavengers, hunters, stalkers have light armor) has. Most primaries only punch through light armor unless they state medium armor piercing. So you'll find yourself spending a lot of bullets doing little to no damage on these guys (you'll see the shield icon with a deflecting bullet on it while hitting such targets). Examples are hive guards, brood lords/commanders, most other bots other than the little guys.

Trash clearing is definitely needed on harder bug missions, think difficulty 5-6 and up. So everyone bringing autocannons and such isn't ideal.

I will say for primary weapons, right now I feel the best are the incendiary shotgun (if you are host, since burning/dot damage doesn't work unless you are the host, they know about this and are trying to fix it per today's patch notes), dominator and the scorcher. The sickle in the CE warbond is good, basically unlimited ammo rifle, but sucks vs. anything not light armor. Until I can see how Thursday's warbond feels, the steeled veterans warbond I think is better value than cutting edge due to the dominator and the incendiary being great. Scorcher is free, but on the last page so it is a grind.