Why Everyone Is Playing The New Helldivers Game - Helldivers 2 

Helldivers 2 has become so popular so quickly that the servers are dying trying to handle the amount of people trying to log in. Truly a great game.

Everyone talks about the bugs but the absolute brutality of fighting the bots is what makes this game for me. Rockets and lasers and mortars all just popping off together. It makes you feel like you’re on a massive two-sided battle when it’s really just 4 vs. 400.

I think the best moment I’ve had so far is where we had this huge line of Bots coming our way, artillery falling around us, and waiting for extract. I pop a cluster bomb, another hits a 120mm, then another a 500kg. The last guy is hitting the last of his auto cannon rounds as the Bot line goes up in flames, drop ship lands, and we pull out. Super cinematic, awesome time. I love this game, 10/10

When youre the sole survivor of a high level mission that went to hell it really give you that feeling of being a hero. Being surrounded, No stims, left destroyer left orbit, low ammo, picking up dead comrades weapons, whilst diving for cover and only shooting at targets in the way of the drop ship thats about to depart in 15 seconds. Crazy feeling when you actually pull it off single-handedly saving the mission. My teammate sacrificed himself to throw reinforcement, you bet your ass imma get to that fucking ship.

That ODST into Helldivers landing transition was fucking sick.

Just wait until they add vehicles like apcs, tanks, and mechs (Mechs are confirmed).

“Damn no kills” “visually it was awesome, morale boosting even” - Drewski is the type of energy we all wish we had from our teammates.

I just love how 3 different companies came up with the "you shoot bugs with friends" concept and created absolute bangers independently ( it being Helldivers, Starship Troopers: Extermination, and Deep Rock Galactic )

Crazy how this game blew up. But it just shows how much people wanted a fun game after every Triple A failures in the past. Absolutely justified! Bringing freedom to the gaming industry and showing every big studio how the f*ck its done!

this game gave me the rare pleasure of trying to log in, it saying "cant log on in, server at capacity" and all i do is smile

The aiming system in this game is one of the most novel and interesting ones I've seen. It is insanely satisfying to just actually have a consistent point of reference for where your bullets will go at all times, and for the game to be designed around it. To the point where I kind of wonder why noone tried this before.

Everyone talking about the massive scale battle. There’s a old game called planetside 2 who did this. Issue was it actually needed all those players. They’re having 1000 guns shooting in hell divers but most are NPCs. In planetside. If you want a 1k gun fight. You need 1k players. It was like seeing the planets align. It was crazy when it did happen. The night lit up with lasers and explosions. Good times. Games dead now unfortunately. Hell divers and planetside are actually pretty similar. Anyone who’s played planetside will understand what I mean. I’m glad hell divers succeeded in this kind of game. Those nights running with groups of 20 ppl in a 3 hours fire fight. Even when you got off. Fighting for a base. It would last a week in real life time. I’m definitely getting hell divers.

See, what I love about it is that it's a fun, arcadey game that still focuses ""grounded"" details like tossing mags away, limb injuries, squad-operated weapons, the environment actually affecting your movement a lot... Once, I drowned because I ragdolled into a sufficiently deep puddle and couldn't get out of the mud fast enough.

FOR ROCKA AND STO- Wait... Wrong bugs, FOR FREEDOM! LIBERTY AND SUPER EAAAARRTH!!!

The music from the game where you and your teammates enter the atmosphere with the pods reminds me of the Pacific rim movie when the main characters enter the Jeager robot.

Another nail in the coffin for Skull n Bones

I think everybody just wants something that is actually fun and not some sweaty shooter or extraction game that pressures you into taking them seriously and playing competitively. People just wanna have a blast with their homies for a change. I haven't even got to play this yet, but it gives off the same kinda vibes as playing halo splitscreen with my friends back in the day. Just good fun with friends shooting the time away together.

These Automaton firefights feel so good, because it feels like a modern firefight, where you're both missing a lot to get a hit. Between the bots often missing dozens of rounds at a time past you, and you missing shots when you're rotating and stabilizing, it feels so real.

Brings back memories of diving prone under sentry gun fire as they mow down the hordes pouring onto the objective. Nice to see the enjoyable gameplay mechanics and loop from the near 10 year old twin stick shooter brought into a three dimensional TPS.

"The pit of death" can be blown up with a grenade. It's not a bug nest but you can still blow it up

Rumor is that Arrowhead devs are planning on releasing the third enemy faction from the first game, the Illuminate, down the road. There are clues if you watch the Super Earth government news reports being played in your capital ship.

23:35 Holy Hell you even see the planes coming in for the air strikes. This game is amazing.

Man I’ve been seeing yt videos about Helldivers 2 and everyone’s gameplay looks so different and even more fun I just get swallowed by it even if it is 1 hour gameplay. Wish I could play it but gotta wait at least a few months to buy it hope it keeps this fun and with good support. Great vid!

i remember playing the top down helldivers 1 when i was like 10 and had a blast playing it until i didnt have anyone to play with anymore. really great to see a childhood game become so popular

I would be hyped by a Warhammer game in this kind of setting. Playing as a Space Marine in a Tyranide or Ork infested world would be so great.

As someone who played the original game a shitload I really was hesitant about it being converted to a third person shooter rather than a topdown twin stick shooter but goddamn, they nailed it.

It’s kinda niche but my favorite part of the game thus far has been how you can dive over or across things and STILL shoot while doing it. Got a bug hole below you you’re standing on the rim of? Leap off the ledge and fling a nade backwards and down into it. Want to quickly jump past a Automaton walker to shoot the pilot? Just dive and shoot!

that fairly oddparents reference was GODLIKE lmaooo keep up the incredible work man! Glad I found your channel :)

6:27 The dive, straight into laying down fire while prone is a fucking awesome mechanic.

Played with some old friends last night, there were 5 separate instances where it looked straight out of a movie, and I had a moment where I was fighting alone against the Bots(think Commander Cody holding the bridge alone against the CIS in Clone Wars) and managed to throw a reinforcement beacon out right as I was killed. Everyone was cheering me on and it was such and intense moment!

Holy shit AGREED on the republic commando thing. A 4 player PVE co-op game fighting droid armies on land or in space squadron battles sounds not only amazing but also perfect for the setting! Customize your armor and weapons (arc troopers, jetpack troopers, etc) then get out there and make the republic proud, clones!

Even playing with randoms is fun i live pressing the SOS button and joining helping them while the music kicks in makes me feel a part of it all

Two things that really make this game great in vastly different ways. First is the lore, everything is in-character. The closest thing you get to a 4th wall break is the loading screen tips making witty jokes about teamkilling. The informational videos that pop up in your ship are portrayed as training material for divers, even for something as simple as "Reloading a half-empty mag will waste the ammo". They make in-lore news broadcasts to post to their social media about in-game events, even when the servers are having issues and the devs compensate players with bonus experience the game calls it an "Accounting" mishap, never breaking character. The second thing, is the attention to detail in combat. Shooting bug's heads off will occasionally leave them blindly pushing the offensive before eventually collapsing, all explosions can knock you off your feet and send you flying into objects, which with sufficient speeds can and will damage or kill you from the impact. Damaged limbs will affect your character's performance ingame, and the same goes for the enemies, shooting off limbs will occasionally have bugs trip and fall over before getting back up and continuing the fight. Resupply pods can be destroyed but the ammo supplies will survive, and scatter across the landscape. PARTIAL RELOADS which isn't that huge but tons of games don't do it and it's really annoying. Where most games have a thin veneer of enjoyable content that is usually just a short-lived gimmick or a poorly replayable repetitive loop, this game has a steel reinforced foundation of an absolutely S tier game with infinite replayability.

I was worried that something would be lost in translation when turning Helldivers from a twin stick shooter to third-person, so it makes me really happy that Helldivers 2 is as good as it is.

Im pretty sure the energy weapons bypass armored targets defences so they're actually quite good for that as well not as effective as anti tank weapons but not useless

Bro this video is so good im only 2 minutes in and it’s so funny, I’ve been watching a long time and I’m glad you’re so successful!!!

Chaotic starship troopers with dope capes

I mean, Starship Troopers meets Terminator meets Warhammer 40k with excellent visual effects and sound design...just from watching the game I get why this is so popular!

"Why couldn't Halo?" I used to ask that a lot then just accept the fact that Halo is Garbo and deserves to be where it is now with how badly the developers have treated it.

Love the Forest Gump reference. Mind mind was going there in the video and then you went there! :D

31:06 when that bug was clinging to that ledge on its last legs just before its head blew apart was cinematic AF. So dope.

Huge congratulations to everyone involved. I was 1000 percent expecting this to be a “flop” if not do the bare minimum financially. But it was INSANE! A server killer!

Love the content as always.

I love this game man I haven’t been able to put it down yet pure enjoyment I’m hooked the same way I was when I got into tarkov the first time

What I love watching RU-vid videos about HellDivers 2 is the mixture of almost all sci-fi games of run and gun. Starship Troopers, Star Wars, Destiny, and funny thing is, they have Terminator style enemies which is just another variety. Wish I could buy this game some day.

One thing that you can do btw, we accidently tested with a friend of mine, you can use the drop pods of reinforcements to kill large targets like Chargers and Tanks. But you can also destroy the fabrication sites and Bug holes. Just not recommended as you will likely get stuck in the ground XD. It is really funny though to have it accidently happen

The popularity of HD2 compared to the first game is absolutely insane. The game is amazing to play and one of the better games I've played in recent years. I'm also happy to see how many people are enjoying it, but 'suffering from success' is a term that applies after expecting nowhere near the amount of people that are attempting to log in. Fingers crossed over the next couple weeks they're able to expand and stabilize the servers and squash more bugs/issues, both those related to the overwhelmed servers and ingame problems that pop up now and then. Also gotta give credit to Arrowhead for updating the community via Discord up to multiple times a day about the current status of the games, server problems, fixes, etc as well as having been patching the game to improve or fix issues up to a couple times a day if needed. Shows the amount of struggle and effort they're putting forward to bring this game up to meet the popularity its garnered. See you on the frontlines fellow Super Citizens! 07

If you throw a grenade in the "pit of death" it causes a massive explosion. It helps out to know when you are getting chased

the options to name your ship... my trusty Panther of Family Values is out here distributing Managed Democracy like it is cool

The best thing about Helldivers for me is how cinematic the moment to moment fighting is. Followed by the quietness after you decimate all your enemies and you take a second to resupply.

This game is just one cinematic moment after another

I was sitting here trying to recover from a few days of bug bashing, but now that I have stumbled across your video it's time to get back into the fray.! Those Robots are evil!

Me and my friends failed a mission because we kept driving off a small ledge to no scope each other with the anti material rifle lmao

Man, the soundtrack in this game is so damn good. Like the part in the first mission where you and the squad reached the evac point, the music kicked up in an epic cacophony of what I could only describe as the perfect blend of Star Wars and Starship Troopers combined. Truly a soundtrack worthy of it's hype lol.

Awesome game, hope they add more servers to the lot, i havent been able to play all weekend. servers were full at 7am today (sunday) as well hahaha.

lmao The Forest Gump reference. You've earned a new sub.

the jungle maps against bots make me feel like im dropping into nam lol

As someone who played a decent amount of helldivers 1. I'm so glad to see this game get so much attention. I was hyped for this game for a few months ago but I never expected it to blow up like this. The devs truly deserve it.

'Bugs n grits.. fried bugs.. bug gumbo..' lmao, loved the forrest gump ref, and always love the content, keep it up drewski

Between this and Pal World, I’m starting to see a theme of games being released that should’ve been released by mainstream titles.

Finally got my paycheck in today, went to play the game, was super excited, and the servers were so full that I spent an hour in queue before my game crashed. Maybe one day I can do my part.

If I was Mr Disney I would be contacting these guys to make a star wars game. Clone wars era, mowing through waves of droids. ordering x wing gun runs, b wing bomb runs, orbital support from Venators. Going to the surface to blow up CIS droid factories

The music also contributes. It sounds like an action/superhero movie. Triumphant and inspiring.

17:40 did you see that... 😱 the blur of the Dron hot engine and reflect the user in the other side ... tha details are amazing.

I highly suggest rebinding your stratagems to the arrow keys, allows you to keep moving while calling in.

You mention 380k and climbing, well, actually that's their server cap and why there's some matchmaking problems. The cap was 250k before, they upgraded to 380k and it filled up in like an hour.

Super clean, great teamwork.

One of my favorite games ever. So much potential for the future content-wise as well!

On PC, they just made the match making work well. Holy hell, the game is a 10/10 when it's working right

Been having a (literal) blast with this game. I loved Helldivers 1 so I bought the special edition for the sick armor :) We've made it to diff 7, Suicide Mission and oh my god fighting the bots with just waves of killing machines everywhere is INTENSE.

Just got done with the platinum for Helldivers 2, what a unique gem of a game 👌🏻

I love how the extraction ship that comes down, when it fires it’s cannon the shells actually eject and land on the ground. It’s the small things

Every time I see video of this game I wanna play it even though I just stopped a few hours ago. Man is it good.

It feels more like a Pre Warhammer 40k Astra Militarum simulator. Gameplay goes really good with the Darktide soundtrack playing in the background.

I’m glad you said something about halo drewski this game gives me ODST vibes like crazy could have been a crazy halo game

I must say... that was one hell of a great intro to the video! Tbh, I could probably listen to Drewski ramble on about videogames or other stuff for hours. Great video! Keep it up!

It is genuinely a joy to watch you in these games. STALKER mods, MilSim games, and now Helldivers too. ;)

LMFAO the Bubba Gump reference was great! good shit, Bud.

Reminds me of a Starcraft II custom map I developed many years ago where you'd be rushed by randomly evolving creatures like this in increasingly bigger waves and have to work together to get through very hard waves and there'd be a timer, you could never actually win, just get a high score for time survived.

"You got them .338 Photons in that B****?" I'm dead...

You asked a very good question on why star wars or halo couldn't do this :,( The attention to detail for the character animations and the environment is great, I think that's what makes this game so interesting to me.

The star wars commandos bit. I feel you man 😂😂

the sound design of this game is so underrated. a lot of game's feel like your in a movie but this is something else. probably the best and smoothest game release in the past 5 years as well

The dialogue is actually funny and calling in infinite airstrikes like it’s Afghanistan is just pure joy as your teammates walk into the firing zone a gun run.

Your video was the reason I got this game. Just got level 20 and man I'm having so much fun out there. Brought in my brother, his buddy, my buddy and another friend. We're playing every evening until late and it's such a blast.

I've played one game that has previously taken this approch to co-op game play and that's Mass Effect 3 multi-player, I really loved playing it and was disapointed when thay didn't roll it out with the Legendery Edition.

@OperatorDrewski Fun fact, I found this on an accident but you can actually still fire your secondary in first person from inside the ship

There's just something about fighting against impossible odds with some friends with the chance for a last stand that just does it for me.

Most cinematic experience, best ambience. Feels good, is fun and difficult and you get some movie moments. Its just perfect. Haven't had this much fun in a long time.

This game is something special. First time playing anything like it but it’s literally my new favorite game.

Crazy how nobody talked about Helldivers 1 when it came out, and now to this

How can the gameplay be this cinematic? they can hide all the HUD, pretend it's a cutscene and I will believe it, that's it! playing it all day with the bois on the weekend!

I don't have a PS5 but was so hyped when I saw it on the Steam recommended page. All of my friends have it and we've been having a blast playing it over the last few days, visually it's stunning, guns are beefy and are satisfying to shoot and calling in an orbital or air strike makes you feel powerful! My only problem with it so far is the guns feel really spread out across the two progression paths we have right now and if you buy the Super Citizen edition the early armour is kinda redundant but they're my minor nitpicks I'm loving the game so much!

BROOO! That arc in clone wars is what did it for me it was sick assf

I tried to play today and couldn't the servers were full! I haven't had that problem since vanilla wow!!! This game is great I'm so excited for future content for this game. The future content is what's going to make or break the game.

You can really see how much attention to detail there is in all that total chaos. It's glorious!

I remember trailers for this game being shown at recent events and it was *crickets* around it. People did noooot care at all, weren't even acknowledging it. Funny how that happens.

so it came out by some ex 343 devs that they pitched a odst game that is like hell divers but the CEO said no to it there are like 30 to 40 other games they also pitched that CEO also said no to

I love how the bots music sounds like something that would play during a Kalon vs Alliance battle in The Orville

Last night the servers were full on steam with over 260,000 players online and more trying to get on. I wasn’t even mad just glad it’s doing so well