Why Helldivers 2 is GOLDEN AGE Gaming 

Anyone asking to disable friendly fire should be reported to your local democracy officer.

Goes to show that live service games aren’t bad because they are live service but are just bad games in general.

[This comment is under review for Treason]

Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2 are in a 2 horse race over showing the rest of the industry how to actually do a good live service with pro-consumer monetisation. It's like the space race but wholesome.

My wife got a great, friendly fire moment. I die. She calls reinforcements. I land right in front of her as she throws a grenade, and as soon as I pop up from the ground, I explode and immediately die again. I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time.

There have been so many times I've started to reload and suddenly need to dive away from a threat, roll over to return fire from prone, only to realize my Diver never finished reloading. He ripped out the clip with 4 bullets left in it because I need a full clip right now, but he didn't get the chance to slap a new one in, or he did but didn't get to rack it, so it doesn't fire. So you panic, thinking your gun is empty, and instead of racking the slide to get a bullet in the chamber, you switch to sidearm to defend yourself. Every gun has so many reload states and they can all be interrupted. It's such an underappreciated mechanic.

They told me "beep boop beep boop" and I said ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ not today satan

I must say, a Saberspark video about Helldivers II was not on my Bingo card...

Knock knock it’s the spread of liberty calling

I showed this video to my democracy officer and he approves, you live this time furry

The speedrun for videos that aged like milk

Very detailed and well put-together video! However, I could have missed it, but I feel like it needs to be pointed out: The PAID PREMIUM CURRENCY, Super Credits, CAN BE EARNED IN MISSION and are not required to be paid for. They are among many of the other currencies able to be found during a mission. In theory, if you collected enough, and used the warbond progression to also unlock batches of Super Credits via normal play, you could end up never paying a single dollar for all the premium warbonds. Medal progression is just slow enough and super credit acquisition is just fast enough, that you are likely to get super credits enough to open up a warbond before you even finish filling in an entire warbond. I understand the principle of the cash shop not being great, but the fact they even let you unlock it AT ALL for free is kind of staggering compared to most other live service games in the current landscape.

They're the ones who made Magicka? No wonder the satire is on point.

Friendly fire is one of the things Helldivers 2 has that I normally hate, but I think actually enhances the fun of Helldivers 2 specifically

Golden Age has ended

Well this video aged like milk

I immediately mapped the quick grenade button to a button on my mouse. Makes life much easier.

Having a 4 man, seeing 4 bile titans, and then deleting those 4 by the skin of your teeth makes you feel like you could take on the Sun in a bar fight

Well this didnt age well

25:50 - In Magicka the tutorial has you getting dropped into a basement and one of the other characters screams out as you fall, "Remember, the safe word is BANANA!" Well, if you hit escape in that tutorial there's a new menu option, that only appears in the tutorial, that just says "BANANA!" and then it skips the tutorial. Yeah that game was great.

Wait... Super Credits, though you can pay IRL money for it, you can easily acquire in game... Whenever you go to a point of interest on the map, there is a chance that there are stashes of the different currencies at the point, and they will ALWAYS spawn. The same number of Requisition Slips, Medals, and Super Credits spawns no matter what the difficulty, so playing at lower difficulties allows you to more easily farm things. There are two main benefit from playing at higher difficulties, first is the end rewards multiplier gets increased, so more EXP for leveling (its all cosmetic after level 25), and more Requisition Slips for unlocking Stratagems (you will unlock all of the stratagems pretty quickly), and the second, is that you are only able to get samples of differing rarities depending on the difficulty, 4 for orange, 7 for pink. There are a couple minor benefits of difficulty, which include having a bigger impact on the numbers in the grand strategy side of things. YOU DONT NEED TO SPEND A SINGLE CENT TO GET SC. I gathered enough SC to unlock my first "premium warbond" at about level 15 from just playing the game and cleaning out the maps when possible. The only thing you will likely feel extremely short on (at least for quite a while), will be samples, and that is all gathered from playing missions and actually collecting them while you play.

Aaaaand then it has just been announced that PC players of Helldivers 2 now require a PSN account to play the game. Great. Not only do most PC players just not have one, but in some countries where Helldivers 2 is sold, it's prohibited to make a PSN account, so some players are just getting cucked now.

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This is the most generous live service I've played. I have all the warbonds and lots from the superstore without spending a dime. I'm about to have enough for the next one pretty soon aswell. I can see people wanting to just outright buy the warbonds if they got the game later though. I however have been playing since day 1.

The golden age of gaming that lasted 3 months…

my personal favorite line the helldivers scream out is "Sweet Liberty! My LEG!!!"

Hoo boy, the timing of this video coming out

This aged well considered current Sony related issues

“The enemies of Mankind surround us at all ends” was read like Arcturus Mengsk from sc2. Love it.

As someone who played a LOT of the first game, I'm looking forward to seeing how the war goes, since the missions to defend Super Earth were really different and fun. It had a lot more of an urban combat feel do to it being in established cities and towns rather than sparsely populated frontier operations, more than once it they'd had special versions of even those missions where it was nighttime, foggy, and you had to use sidearms only while escorting documents or VIP's, mind you the sidearm in question was the big honking revolver with a flashlight and laser sight that one-top most if not all weaker enemies if you hit them right.

Well this didn’t age well… Now that you have to require to get a PSN account. Total shame

This didn't last long Also, PSN has been hacked multiple times, no thanks

The aiming system HD2 uses is something I have only seen in a vehicle context like BF1/5, World of Tanks/Warships or War Thunder. So players of these games should have gone like: "A, I see what they did there..." And as a nice side effect, it negates the difference between aiming with the controller and the mouse. Bring all players closer together in terms of aiming difficulty. This game finally is no longer just a product. It is again art, fun, fair, challenging, pure fun.

The first Helldivers game was also very fun, albeit with a top down arcade co-op shooter view.

Oh, this came out just days before Sony screwed up the good reviews they had going on Steam... Interesting drama.

Dam this aged like expired milk

100% to 0% stupid Sony decision they don't listing gamer fan only care about money

"Sweet liberty, MY LEG!" *Is this SpongeBob?*

And now Sony is demanding that all players of Helldivers 2 on Steam must connect a Playstation Network account...or else you wont be able to play the game.

My favorite moment in Helldivers 2 to date is the time I fired an anti material rifle at a charger, it bounced and I heard my friend suddenly scream that I had killed him. Apparently the bullet bounced off the charger's shell and nailed him square in the head. We laughed about that for the rest of the night. Anyone who says FF needs to be turned off has no idea how much raw unfiltered shenanigans they would miss if it was gone.

"Friction" is a good term. I find sometimes developers and gamers get hung up on "realism" without thinking of how that affects the gameplay. In this game, where satire is being worn on it's sleeve, having a bunch of "elite" forces (read over-eager 19-year-olds fresh off basic training) screaming, panicking and accidentally blowing each other up fits the intended tone of the game perfectly.

The only reason I don’t play this game more is because of the time commitment. If I sit down for a single session I know for sure I won’t be getting off for another 2 hours

You know there's actual Starship Troopers games right? That being said, it's weird Helldivers does Starship Troopers better than Starship Troopers does

And 3 days later they are legit shooting themselves in the foot

Saw you play this on Twitch, and you actually made me wanna try it for myself

This aged so fast, what a disaster

Well this video aged poorly... Now Sony has fucked Helldivers II, mainly for PC players to have a mandatory PSN account to login when playing the game, even if you buy it off of steam. I was gonna buy the game soon, but until this stupid shit is reversed, I'm not spending a single dime of mine to buy the game. Let this be a giant middle finger to Sony, I'm not gonna risk my own personal data to the company known for having shitty security

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FOR DEMOCRACY! I played with THE general Brasch a few days ago. This game is truly incredible!

40:32 It runs VERY well on Linux & Steam Deck. No complaints except occasional connection errors mid game but I think all players are experiencing that issue. Also it gets a bit frame studdery on Helldive difficulty when there are TONS of enemies on screen during extraction. Overall tho it runs really well. I have 300+ hrs in game, every upgrade, every warbond item & all currencies are maxed out. No intention of slowing down. absolutely adore this game & I'm hopelessly addicted. 🔼▶️🔽🔽🔽

That title aged poorly

Helldivers 2 is amazing because it forces you to work together in ways never seen before in a game. It reminds me of Lethal Company in a way, how you can be antagonistic to your friends and still get the job done when it’s needed. On top of that, it also has the ability to make you feel as if you are really in a fight for your life with a friend. An example of this is when me and my friend were ending a mission and on our way to extract, at this point we had to make a division because we were running out of time and the bug hordes were becoming unstoppable. Since my role in the game when playing together is to be the crowd disperser, in charge of mowing down the massive numbers of enemies while my friend takes down the enemies too big or too armored for me to handle, I decided to call in my HMG turret and hold them off long enough to allow my friend to extract. I wasn’t able to hold them off long, so I told him to drop his last cluster bomb before he embarked. By sheer luck he over threw it and I had no more than a second to run and dive out of the way of it, narrowly avoiding a charger as well. I could see the path before me, it was narrow, but clear, so I dropped a napalm strike at my feet and ran for sweet liberty. The strike somehow managed to not kill me and held off the bugs long enough for me to board the pelican without a second to spare. Literally! The timer was at 00:00:00, it went zero the second I boarded and we both extracted and it was the most XP and requisition I have ever made in a single mission to this day.

*Fortunate son starts playing in the background WELCOME TO THE BUG FIELDS MOTHER EFFERS

Huh, 2 days earlier this was 100% valid. But Sony had to exist, of course.

yeahhhhhhhhhh maybe not

Oh no

Officially no Helldiver has died from friendly fire.

Ah, so he's cursed to be good on commenting on cartoons and destroys video games he praises.

One of my favorite friendly fire moments is when we called for extraction and I was being chased by a bile titan and around 30 other enemies. I just barely got far enough to where I felt safe to use my arc thrower just to immediately die to my teammate.

And now, it's gone to the dogs, now that a PSN account is needed. You know, for a game with a massive PC only audience

I'm really loving this channel!

Helldivers feels so damn good because Arrowhead focused on FUN

There is one other game that I find to have similar qualities, if a bit different 'general' feel. Except for the swarms in harder difficulties... they're pretty much spot on with each other. That game is Deep Rock Galactic. I would love for your thoughts on it. However I do have one recommendation to help you in the game. Play a bit with your friends and learn some of the game. But when you are starting to get a good feel for it. This is probably the only game I'll give this to... but play with rando's. 90% of the people are great and helpful, for things you don't get when only playing with mics, as well as fun voice lines that bring a lot to the experience which are easy to miss. The 1% are genuinely toxic, with the rest 9ish percent that just speed through missions with blinders. Hope you enjoy whatever you continue with. Keep up the great work 👍

"Spreading your will with the barrel of a gun." Wouldn't have it any other way!

Sony steps in and ruins everything, because OF COURSE they did!

Well...this aged bad 🥛

this is the only online game ive genuinely wanted to spend time on, it really is fun TIP: if you find the gun sway reticle weird and hard to work with I recommend using first person person aim because the sway feel more like a typical shooter in that view -sincerely, my friend Jacob TIP 2: ANY SUPPORT WEAPON WITH MEDIUM ARMOR PIERCING OR HIGHER CAN KILL A HULK BY SHOOTING ITS EYE OR ARMS (laser cannon, HMG, base LMG, AM rifle, Autocannon)

13:17 "outplayed with stupidity" XD hahaha

Oh, so you're one of us, Saberspark. *salutes you and your friend* It's good to have you fighting the good fight, soldier. For Liberty and Managed Democracy.

Linux user here: Helldiver 2 plays fine with Proton! Works on the Steam Deck, though performance is not great unless you really turn down the settings, nor does HD2 like the Deck going to sleep (outside the fact its an online game). Runs great on my desktop Linux PC though, ignoring the recent patch that killed performance, no issues with the anti cheat on a normal desktop Linux install. Anti cheat is stuck in it's sandbox and can't install its rootkit like parts because its not running Windows.

I can absolutely agree with the tile sets that repeat, but I have since yet played a game that is the same what I say is quite amazing.

I would say Super Earth is more an evolution of the European Union than the United States. I will also note, the Geneva Convention only technically apply to creatures *from Earth*.

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There is a dedicated "just throw the grenade" button. I have that mapped to the middle mouse button, and I remapped the ads toggle from the middle mouse button to a side mouse button. It is also highly advised to remap your stratagem buttons, so that you can run and stratagem at the same time.

Helldivers feels like if Hillary Clinton controlled the galaxy

It’s a great game, but right now, Sony is doing everything to kill it. The PSN account requirement got backlash, not just from the community, but also the developers of the game as well. Yeah, Sony screwed the pooch on what is a good game .

Super Credits are of abundance. 20 per mission with ease, probably more if you focus on it. Then you can get many from warbonds too. You need 1000 to buy a warbond. The only catch I can think of are new players as there are more and more warbonds now. Will feel overwhelming having 0SC and looking at 4+ locked warbonds. But getting there is faster than I would expect for sure. Haven't spend any extra money apart from buying the game and I have all the warbonds and like 5 or 6 armors from Super Store (+ 3 helmets). It's not a pay wall per say. Only if you don't want to spend the time. Microtransaction prices seem reasonable tho

I bought a bass shaker and attached to the bottom of my chair and man, those 500 kgs have never felt any cooler

8:54 - The ergonomics also go a long way to making the weapons feel realistic and it helps differentiate weapons. It also creates an organic way to differentiate big heavy support weapons and make their usage feel more organic. People zipping around and spinning in circles and one-shooting people with what is supposed to be a long distance precision sniper rifle has been a design challenge since Team Fortress for Quake. The weapon weight and ergonomics creates an answer for that which can be applied to all weapons types so they can all be tweaked in this way an it doesn't feel out of place to have these mechanics on something like the anti-material rifle because those mechanics are the same ones you've experienced in every weapon in the game. The only way I can imagine it being more accurate, not that they should do this, is if scopes got even more blacked out and out of focus when your movement would put you out of the ideal eyebox. (That would differentiate them from the red dot sites.)

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Only thing I think was missed when talking about super credits is that they can be found in caches in game, so pay the initial have purchase, there is no need to open the wallet

Love Helldivers 2. The only Live Service game I've been excited to throw some extra money at to support the devs.

Glad you're on board soldier. We just lost some planets and now we've got a massive bug hunt going on. We need all boots on the ground going wild

I recommend checking out Warhammer Darktide if you like Helldivers. Reductively, it's Left 4 Dead in Warhammer but it adds alot of extra depth through massive replayability and player loadout/skill expression. It had a very rough launch and is still a bit unoptimised but otherwise has been improving steadily over time. The gameplay is visceral and feedback driven rewarding skillful play and has a remarkable melee system and gun system that allows both to shine without one becoming better than the other. There's 4 playable classes, each customisable right down to their backstory and personality, which informs a mid mission conversation system where player characters will banter and chat during quiet moments based on their personalities. The only problem it has, aside from optimisation, is the monetisation. It's a premium currency cosmetics shop with unnecessary rotating inventory. This could be ignorable as it's not in your face like alot of games but there's a definite difference in quality between the uniquely modelled fancy looking premium cosmetics and the stuff unlocked for free that are mostly recolours of each other. If the premium currency was earnable through gameplay like Helldivers that wouldn't be a problem but doesn't so it creates an implicit class divide in players.

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This is an incredible and in depth review. Excellent work you guys! I couldn’t agree more about this game. Despite some issues, it’s a masterpiece in my mind. I’m completely hooked on this game. I haven’t had this much fun with a game in over a decade. It feels like it was made for halo/sci-fi shooter fans like myself. Despite no actual story the game is incredibly immersive and pulls you right into the universe they have created. The combat is insanely fun. It NEVER gets old dropping eagle cluster bombs and orbital lasers etc. the coop nature of this game makes it so fun and removes the frustrating completion of multiplayer games. I am having a blast with friends and feel like this game is helping us bond even more. I would like to see some of the nerfs to weapons retracted and some crash fixes but overall this is a phenomenal game I can’t put down. God bless arrowhead game studios!

I do like it but I haven’t played in well over a month. The super credit grind got old fast and the honeymoon wore off after a month straight of crashing or disconnecting every 3rd game. 3/4 of the weapons are paperweights, they wafflestomp weapons that are actually fun to use into the dirt, and when they do eventually buff something it’s minuscule.

Aaaaand it’s gone.

between helldivers 2 monster hunter wilds and gta 6 this next year of gaming is gonna be sooooooooo fucking fun.

I liked the conversation about how enemies react to being shot when it comes to weapon satisfaction. A bio Titan requires a lot of hits to kill, but when it’s low on health, that thing is carved up. It has chunks missing, it no longer spits acid since you shot off its stomach and neck, it’s bleeding out of every pore, it’s a gruesomely glorious sight. Even if it’s still a problem, you feel like you did a number on it, and your guns feel effective.

How can you commit war crimes against bugs and robots? Especially since, both factions have one purpose kill every...last...human without mercy or care. Also defending Super Earth is a real thing in HD1, but one thing I haven't seen in HD2 yet is the defense of other capitol planets like in HD1.

Terminids are just overly excited to become E-710. Baby terminids are told that if they're very good a Helldiver will help them evolve into "pure energy." 😊

As a live service game, Helldivers 2 doesn't have that FOMO or exploitative factor you see in other live service titles. The battle pass system, called Warbonds, has no expiration, and no spending of real money to advance in tier. The only thing you can spend your real money on, is armor that shows up in the shop, but with the way that the armor stats work, you're never gonna feel like you're missing out if you don't buy a piece of armor from that shop, unless you like the look of it. You can also find Super Credits, the currency you buy, in game when you play if you choose to explore. More live service games needs to follow this example.

How ironic.

As far as super credits go, I you earn them through gameplay pretty decently. Either by finding them on the map or buying them with medals, no real money. I honestly don't have much time to play. I only get a few hours a week. That said, I've gained enough super credits to unlock 2 of the 3 premium warbonds without spending a dime. I don't even have enough medals to completely finish them either so, while you can spend the extra money to get them earlier, you easily can earn it through gameplay.

My friends and I literally call this a Soul game. It's hard, but not impossible and it's difficulty is what makes it fun!

I bought only the defalt game, no super credits and I can almost unlock my third premium warbond (currently having 780 super credits). I have been playing for something over a month. You don't have to buy super credits. You will gave enought for another warbond before you finish the basic one.

Man...

who the hell said they want friendly fire disabled? its the best, and after like 200 hours as long as its not repeated I laugh almost every time especially with friends. you are back in the fight so fast anyway it doesnt matter that much, plus use that Hellpod for maximum death to heavies.

DAMN THE BUG! THEY HAVE ABANDENED THEIR SWOORN DUTY TOO FUEL SUPER EARTHS STAR FLEET! DAMN THEM TOO THE PUMPS!