Helldivers 2

[Reppyboyo]

Well count me excitied, I loved the first game!

 

[Thekwango]

oh, that looks good. i'm sure he said at the end '....could result in morbidication' what a wonderful word

 

[Malevolence]

Any PC footage?

 

[MoNkeE]

This looks incredible, and makes that new Starship Troopers game completely irrelevant the first Helldivers is a fantastic game and anyone who likes Starship Troopers should give it a go for sure.

 

[Smeghead]

As I was watching the trailer, I was 100% expecting it to be for Starship Troopers.. I'm surprised that they're not entering lawsuit territory. The enemy types, the cheesy recruitment-type video, even down to the gameplay of needing to capture resource points. I'm looking for a new PVE/Coop game though, and the 1st one was apparently quite good and recommended to Deep Rock Galactic players, so I'll keep my eye out for this.

 

[MoNkeE]

If this is anything like the first (and I imagine it will be), there are actually 3 or 4 different alien races to fight against, so perhaps the fact the bugs are just a third of the content is the reason they’ve dodged a lawsuit.

 

[Smeghead]

Probably unlikely, but I hope there's an FPS mode. I just don't see any benefit aim-wise in a shooter to third person over 1st. Plus being able to peek round corners is basically cheating.

 

[MoNkeE]

It’s entirely PvE, no PvP in Helldivers. Lots of TK’ing tho

 

[ShiWarrior]

 

[MoNkeE]

I’m calling it now, GOTY.

 

[Dr Delphi]

It looks great, fingers crossed its as fun as the first one!

 

[Rob_B]

I loved this on the Vita, that 2nd video makes it look so much fun! I'll have to keep an eye on this one.

 

[Grim5]

	Minimum	Reccomended	High Performance	Ultra
AVG PERFORMANCE	1080p @ 30 FPS	1080p @ 60 FPS	1440p @ 60FPS	4K @ 60 FPS
GRAPHIC PRESETS	Low	Medium	High	Very High
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 or AMD Radeon RX 6800	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
CPU	Intel Core i7-4790K or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X	Intel Core i7-9700K or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X	Intel Core i5-12600K or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D	Intel Core i5-12600K or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
RAM	8GB DDR4	16GB DDR4	16GB DDR4	16GB DDR4
OS	Windows 10 64-bit	Windows 10 64-bit	Windows 10 64-bit	Windows 10 64-bit
STORAGE	100GB SDD	100 GB SSD	100 GB SSD	100 GB SSD

 

[Smeghead]

Oof. It's still a bit of a shock seeing 100GB+ storage space as a minimum requirement for games these days. Hopefully it's worth it.

 

[hyperseven]

You also need to have/link a PSN account to play this on PC.

 

[Raumarik]

Potentially a lot of fun by the looks of it

 

[DereksDontRun]

I'm torn. The 1st being isometric always made aiming a smidge of guess-work, which resulted in (many) TKs. I also seem to remember that all characters needed to stay on the same screen (not sure tho), which means coordination. This being a third person shooter it looks almost more like Gears of War than traditional Helldivers. The graphics and atmosphere look promising, but is it Helldivers?

 

[Devrij]

I'm torn. The 1st being isometric always made aiming a smidge of guess-work, which resulted in (many) TKs. I also seem to remember that all characters needed to stay on the same screen (not sure tho), which means coordination. This being a third person shooter it looks almost more like Gears of War than traditional Helldivers. The graphics and atmosphere look promising, but is it Helldivers?

I'm kinda the same. The TKs were part of the hilarity, and eventually skill, of playing it. Going to 3rd person is a bit of a step away from the charm, but could make it more immersive and exciting.

I'm tentatively excited though

 

[theukmoog]

Definitely of interest - any online co-op game is of interest - but will hold out for reviewers I trust (Worth A Buy is rarely wrong, IMHO) after Helldivers1, which only managed 9h play before being abandoned back in 2015.

 

[Vinno]

Looking forward to seeing the reviews of this. I loved the first game way back when.