Helldivers 2

Really enjoying it, got to level 13 myself, but after a challenging operation which just wouldn't let you breath for 5 seconds i needed a break. Will be back on again tonight though :).

Server issues have been a bit hit and miss, mainly affected me by not letting me join other peoples games or the occasional disconnect. They did take the servers into a maintenance at around 6PM yesterday saying you may get disconnected more during this period.
 
While i enjoyed Helldivers 1 this was very low on my watch list,
However i am loving this its amazing fun.
I had high hopes for the Starship Troopers game but it was disappointing. This ticks all the boxes and more.

That and i hooked up with some guys i haven't played with since Planetside 2 days so been a good night for democracy and freedom.
 
Kill_Phil said:
Hows this like with randoms? Don't think I'll be able to convince my mates
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I think like any game, Some are amazing and talk in game and you have a really good couple of sessions. Others stay silent all the way through and then Leave the second one mission is done.

And then you have the final bunch who like the pretty red lights and going headfirst into an orbital barrage as if the game is called Helldiver game of Chicken. Failing that these people sometimes make you an unwilling participant of this activity instead.

All in all i play randoms and its generally been good and only had people messing around on easier difficulties because they wanted to chill and play with their new toys.
 
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I played with randoms for a few hours yesterday and it was fine (besides the match-making issues). People don't generally talk but seemed receptive to text chat. The games seemed to organically have the team follow one person who seemed to take the lead or just split into two groups of two. I was only playing on challenging mainly though, although did do a couple on hard (at the point you do all need to start communicating with each other as it starts to get trickier).
 
Kill_Phil said:
Hows this like with randoms? Don't think I'll be able to convince my mates
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Random i guess?

Ive had 2-3 who were talking and cool, one who had the PS5 open mic hell noise going on (kicked pretty quick), and like Kyhas said some who seem to be part moth and walk towards the light of my cluster bombs.

Better with mates, bareable with randoms but YMMV
 
I had some matchmaking issues yesterday, the odd bug where I got stuck not being able to exit someone else's ship as I think the host disconnected which meant only option was to force shut the game. That's it though, with many games over crossplay at the weekend its a fun game; has been less bugged than lots of big game releases in recent past in comparison.

Randoms seem OK, I had a couple who either would shoot you or detonate stratagems clumsily wiping but thankfully not that often! :cry:
 
House said:
While i enjoyed Helldivers 1 this was very low on my watch list,
However i am loving this its amazing fun.
I had high hopes for the Starship Troopers game but it was disappointing. This ticks all the boxes and more.

That and i hooked up with some guys i haven't played with since Planetside 2 days so been a good night for democracy and freedom.
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Gosh planetside 2 , that brings me back. Still play it now and again.
 
nitram100 said:
Haven't bought a new game in years, but very tempted by this as I love co op horde type games.

How quick is it to rank up in the game?
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After about 11 hours of play I'm at level 10, I think the max level is 20 at the moment. This has given me enough resources to unlock several different stratagems (air strikes, call in turrets/weapons etc.).

I'm a few tiers into the free battle pass which has unlocked a few new armour sets and weapons, I'm also at about 600 of the premium credits from normal play, the premium battle pass costs 1000 so I don't think that's too bad.

You do need to tackle the higher difficulty levels to obtain rare materials for ship upgrades (they give permanent passive buffs), but that's honestly where the game really comes alive.

You literally only need to be a couple of levels in and have a few different stratagems unlocked to be effective at higher difficulties, a few hours at most.
 
20 isnt the max rank, but it is when the last set of unlocks currently sit, I had a random who was 21 lastnight, I've gone way too hard on this game over the weekend and I'm at 13.
 
I still have a lot of trouble with matchmaking, most quickplays result in a failed to join lobby/game or whatever the message is. It's a lot more fun with a few people than solo in my experience, its quite stressful on your own! :D
 
Yeah tonight matchmaking was worse than the weekend. They said server fixes are done but we couldnt quick join others at all tonight. The daily quest we done a few times but the credit never awarded, seems like this is affecting a lot of people.

Spent many missions in duos and was difficult with so many mobs overrunning. Not seen any mentions on discord or X so hope they are going to address most of this by the weekend.
 
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