It’s fun, but extremely raw right now. Lots of balance issues, random disconnection issues, game stability issues, occasional game breaking bugs. More fun with friends than solo or randoms. Wait for a sale, though if $40 is nothing to you, then I guess go for it.
Railgun is the best support weapon by a wide margin and many orbital strikes are just bait. Many of the primary weapons are mediocre and the secondary weapons there’s basically only 1 good one.
That’s said I played a lot of Helldivers 1 and trust that balance and new progression will come.
… I’ve already hit level cap in-game and am almost fully capped on all the samples.
Playing with friends is great imo. If they meta game I suggest just really leaning into a chaotic roleplay.
Man, I love the singleminded drones downvoting me just because I didn’t say this game is perfect. I still like this game a lot, I’m just saying it’s got flaws right now.
-There are a lot of fun primary, secondary and support (big guns) weapons to use. The gun play is very fun. Cool weapon models, cool weapon SFX, cool VFX. Unfortunately, only the automatic shotgun and arguably the incendiary shotgun or SMG are viable at any difficulty past the beginner stuff since the ones I mentioned are the only ones with enough DPS and/or ammo reserves to be useful at that level.
-Support weapons are the big guns. All of them very cool. Unfortunately, at difficulty 5 and higher, your team encounters multiple enemies during each swarm wave with heavy armor - heavy armor that is untouchable except to a scant few weapons that can pierce that armor. GG no re if your team doesn’t have a competent person bringing one of these. At the moment, the meta is just use a railgun for everything, not because it is overpowered, but because it is the only weapon that isn’t severely undertuned.
-General difficulty balance: OK, so the game sells you this idea of being a badass space soldier who gets to slaughter hordes of bugs or robots, right? But at higher difficulties, the meta shifts from being DOOM guy lite into being scared little babies who need to stealth past all the enemies on each map in order to succeed.
There’s more I could nitpick but those are the big balance issues imo. Like I said, very fun, but expect to be frustrated by bugs and balance issues the more you play.
DoctorButt, you are saying an excellent game isn’t worth $40. If Helldivers 2 to is not worth $40 I don’t know what games are worth that. Despite some bugs this game still provide excellent entertainment and lots of fun with friends. And that’s what you are paying for. And you don’t need railguns.
However the game is needlessly difficult right now because all the enemies have 100 percent armour penetration and they are basically useless. This will probably be fixed in the next patch. It doesn’t mean it’s not worth the price.
DoctorButt, you are saying an excellent game isn’t worth $40
Lol says who, DaseinPickl? That’s my opinion. The game isn’t worth $40. I’m trying to do strangers a solid and tell them to save their money until Arrowhead patches their game into a more playable state. Probably that sale will come after they release a major patch or two, making it even more worthwhile for people to wait to buy.
I really can’t believe you’re advocating so hard for people to part with money in their wallets for a studio that clearly just shoved their product out the door early to turn a quarterly profit faster, rather than just actually taking time to fix a lot of obvious, serious bugs and obvious gameplay balance issues.
Despite some bugs this game still provide excellent entertainment and lots of fun with friends.
I literally addressed this already. I’ve said multiple times “this game is fun” and I said above this game is “more fun with friends.” If I didn’t like this game, I wouldn’t even care about it, nor would I say “wait to buy,” I would be telling everyone “don’t buy.”
Holy shit nuance is dead, I swear I’m talking to a bunch of fucking idiots anywhere on the internet anymore.
It’s 40 bucks, that’s about the same price for a ticket to see Dune and popcorn and a coke. I think it’s a reasonable price for what you get. I haven’t encountered any game breaking bugs in my 20 hours playtime. Maybe it’s a problem later, but if you have played 50 - 100 hours you have gotten your money’s worth already.
And don’t complain about the lack of nuance and then begin to call everyone who doesn’t agree with you morons and idiots.
Because you keep somehow completely missing the point of all of my comments and keep attempting to debate things that aren’t a debate. It’s like you are looking at all of the words yet not understanding them.
everyone who doesn’t agree with you
No. I’m calling everyone who can’t read a fucking idiot.
It’s fun, but extremely raw right now. Lots of balance issues, random disconnection issues, game stability issues, occasional game breaking bugs. More fun with friends than solo or randoms. Wait for a sale, though if $40 is nothing to you, then I guess go for it.
What balance issues are there? I want to play with some friends but they have a habit of metagaming and killing the joy.
If you don’t use the Breaker shotgun and the Railgun support weapon, you’re effectively handicapping yourself. Thats the main issue.
The unlockable SMG works just as good as the Breaker IMHO. Railgun is a must-have though. Enemy armor needs a total rework.
Railgun is the best support weapon by a wide margin and many orbital strikes are just bait. Many of the primary weapons are mediocre and the secondary weapons there’s basically only 1 good one.
That’s said I played a lot of Helldivers 1 and trust that balance and new progression will come.
… I’ve already hit level cap in-game and am almost fully capped on all the samples.
Playing with friends is great imo. If they meta game I suggest just really leaning into a chaotic roleplay.
Man, I love the singleminded drones downvoting me just because I didn’t say this game is perfect. I still like this game a lot, I’m just saying it’s got flaws right now.
-There are a lot of fun primary, secondary and support (big guns) weapons to use. The gun play is very fun. Cool weapon models, cool weapon SFX, cool VFX. Unfortunately, only the automatic shotgun and arguably the incendiary shotgun or SMG are viable at any difficulty past the beginner stuff since the ones I mentioned are the only ones with enough DPS and/or ammo reserves to be useful at that level.
-Support weapons are the big guns. All of them very cool. Unfortunately, at difficulty 5 and higher, your team encounters multiple enemies during each swarm wave with heavy armor - heavy armor that is untouchable except to a scant few weapons that can pierce that armor. GG no re if your team doesn’t have a competent person bringing one of these. At the moment, the meta is just use a railgun for everything, not because it is overpowered, but because it is the only weapon that isn’t severely undertuned.
-General difficulty balance: OK, so the game sells you this idea of being a badass space soldier who gets to slaughter hordes of bugs or robots, right? But at higher difficulties, the meta shifts from being DOOM guy lite into being scared little babies who need to stealth past all the enemies on each map in order to succeed.
There’s more I could nitpick but those are the big balance issues imo. Like I said, very fun, but expect to be frustrated by bugs and balance issues the more you play.
DoctorButt, you are saying an excellent game isn’t worth $40. If Helldivers 2 to is not worth $40 I don’t know what games are worth that. Despite some bugs this game still provide excellent entertainment and lots of fun with friends. And that’s what you are paying for. And you don’t need railguns.
However the game is needlessly difficult right now because all the enemies have 100 percent armour penetration and they are basically useless. This will probably be fixed in the next patch. It doesn’t mean it’s not worth the price.
Lol says who, DaseinPickl? That’s my opinion. The game isn’t worth $40. I’m trying to do strangers a solid and tell them to save their money until Arrowhead patches their game into a more playable state. Probably that sale will come after they release a major patch or two, making it even more worthwhile for people to wait to buy.
I really can’t believe you’re advocating so hard for people to part with money in their wallets for a studio that clearly just shoved their product out the door early to turn a quarterly profit faster, rather than just actually taking time to fix a lot of obvious, serious bugs and obvious gameplay balance issues.
I literally addressed this already. I’ve said multiple times “this game is fun” and I said above this game is “more fun with friends.” If I didn’t like this game, I wouldn’t even care about it, nor would I say “wait to buy,” I would be telling everyone “don’t buy.”
Holy shit nuance is dead, I swear I’m talking to a bunch of fucking idiots anywhere on the internet anymore.
It’s 40 bucks, that’s about the same price for a ticket to see Dune and popcorn and a coke. I think it’s a reasonable price for what you get. I haven’t encountered any game breaking bugs in my 20 hours playtime. Maybe it’s a problem later, but if you have played 50 - 100 hours you have gotten your money’s worth already.
And don’t complain about the lack of nuance and then begin to call everyone who doesn’t agree with you morons and idiots.
Never said this
Because you keep somehow completely missing the point of all of my comments and keep attempting to debate things that aren’t a debate. It’s like you are looking at all of the words yet not understanding them.
No. I’m calling everyone who can’t read a fucking idiot.
The worth of a game is not a debate?DoctorButts hold the objective truth!? You are too full of yourself.