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game just pre-loaded on PS5
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 03:22 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 06:34 |
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The very latest IGN preview showing the most in game footage I've seen yet. It looks intense, and over all sounds a lot like the first game. - Launching with 2 enemy factions - Vehicles and mechs 'Coming Soon' after launch - Procedurally generated levels (So far seen jungle/swamp, deserts, lava worlds, rocky/mountainous with and without snow, missions happening at day and night) - Stratagems similar to the first game: Bombing and strafing runs, turrets, anti armour rifles and launchers, support drones, shield bubbles. - Friendlies will drop collected samples and carried weapons on death - The team shares 20 revives (speculating that this can be altered by mission difficulty and stratagems) - The UI shows damage to body parts can impact player performance. Maybe this will make secondary weapons more useful? I don't think I ever actually used a pistol on purpose in HD1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGd0m1qjOJ4 TheMostFrench fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Feb 4, 2024 |
# ? Feb 2, 2024 10:47 |
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I used to be a Helldiver, til I took a dropship to the knee.
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 10:54 |
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This video shows a fair amount of gameplay without commentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH-peVASEIk
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 19:54 |
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I guess they built in "game master" functionality where staff members can look at individual games being played and throw in buffs (i.e. strategems) or debuffs. Also the staff might be mucking with the overall metagame/war. They talk more about the metagame/war also and how the aliens will react to player gains on the war map. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh_EGMxw9EY I have mixed feelings about this? Sounds neat. I imagine that while they talk about this being a live service thing, long term this let's them spice up gameplay while finishing development on whatever they want their AI to do. BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Feb 2, 2024 |
# ? Feb 2, 2024 20:06 |
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TheMostFrench posted:- The team shares 20 revives (speculating that this can be altered by mission difficulty and stratagems) One of my favorite memories was playing on a difficult planet with friends. We were being literally overrun from every direction and we survived by the skin of our teeth just throwing out respawn beacons until one person could get on the ship. I found the old video, but the PS4 didn't record voice comms . Me and my friend were hype af https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ihf8nb5G94 punching in the dpad strategem codes as fast as you can has never been more exciting lol
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 21:21 |
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credburn posted:I tried to play Helldivers and had to wade through so much lore I’m sorry but I need to know what you think the lore is. Because I can simmer it down to two sentences. SUPER EARTH… our home. Bugs = stealing our democracy.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 00:05 |
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 01:35 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F36q5eJuaGI More gameplay footage and discussion of mechanics. Stuff like changing weather - deep fog impacts visibility at ground level, there is rain but no evidence that it effects mobility or weapon functionality (e.g setting targets on fire), not sure if snow comes and goes mid mission. Planets go through day/night cycles. According to the video, the galactic campaign allegedly will never end? It might be ongoing for the entire life of HD2, whereas in HD1 you could fight all the way to an enemy homeworld and capture it to defeat that enemy, then would have to fight other factions. This may be a good thing; some people would stop playing HD1 because they didn't enjoy fighting specific factions, and would just wait for other people to defeat the remaining factions to start the war again.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 04:46 |
I'm kind of surprised they kept DDRing in powers over a radial menu or something.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 05:13 |
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Gamerofthegame posted:I'm kind of surprised they kept DDRing in powers over a radial menu or something. I know, it owns.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 08:07 |
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Gamerofthegame posted:I'm kind of surprised they kept DDRing in powers over a radial menu or something. It's one of the biggest reasons I'm coming back for this game. (Besides cooperatively shooting bugs anyways)
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 08:44 |
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Any chance this is gonna scratch my itch for EDF? I'm definitely interested in how crazy the enemy amounts can get.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 09:32 |
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FrickenMoron posted:Any chance this is gonna scratch my itch for EDF? I'm definitely interested in how crazy the enemy amounts can get. It's def gonna be sweatier than EDF, I think, major focus on tactics, communication, and difficulty (if the first game was anything to go by. Helldvers was renowned from day 1 for being excruciatingly hard)
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 09:35 |
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Another video with gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ZluDbK8ZA 31 minutes of it! "The thing about hell divers is that you are always outnumbered but your firepower is very bastard"
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 11:46 |
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I’m coming around on the over the shoulder the camera. Not a fan of the team life limit, especially if upping difficulty reduces that number further. Having unlimited lives in Helldivers 1 made it easy to laugh off teamkilling and I feel like it was a crucial part of the secret sauce that made the gameplay so fun. Maybe playtesting found you don’t die as much in this game and the cap is pretty roomy, but I’m worried it’s going to make the game really sweaty and a lot of people aren’t going to be chill with accidental friendly fire.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 13:23 |
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Looks very good! So from that video we can see that stuff like weather will have an effect on weapon performance Not totally sure but it looked like at the end of the mission they only had 1 research point extracted, even though they picked up more than that along the way. Seems like you really have to make an effort to survive the entire time if you want those resources. TheMostFrench fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Feb 3, 2024 |
# ? Feb 3, 2024 13:33 |
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Dinosaurs! posted:I’m coming around on the over the shoulder the camera. Not a fan of the team life limit, especially if upping difficulty reduces that number further. Having unlimited lives in Helldivers 1 made it easy to laugh off teamkilling and I feel like it was a crucial part of the secret sauce that made the gameplay so fun. Maybe playtesting found you don’t die as much in this game and the cap is pretty roomy, but I’m worried it’s going to make the game really sweaty and a lot of people aren’t going to be chill with accidental friendly fire. From what I understand you still have unlimited lives, it’s just after the first 20 uses you need to wait for a minute cooldown before using it again.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 15:21 |
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I'm just so excited to steer a drop pod guys
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 15:25 |
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no vehicles, especially the mech suit, on release makes me sad. they added a lot of variety
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 16:31 |
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Secret Agent Cow posted:From what I understand you still have unlimited lives, it’s just after the first 20 uses you need to wait for a minute cooldown before using it again. Oh neat that’s fine then
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 16:54 |
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Captain Beans posted:no vehicles, especially the mech suit, on release makes me sad. they added a lot of variety Wasn't all that stuff added gradually to the first game?
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 22:44 |
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Secret Agent Cow posted:From what I understand you still have unlimited lives, it’s just after the first 20 uses you need to wait for a minute cooldown before using it again. Yeah I think they've redesigned it to avoid those situations where everyone dies in the first 10 seconds and goes back to HQ
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# ? Feb 4, 2024 02:51 |
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for anyone playing on pc we have a discord set up for everyone to squad up if ya'll want to https://discord.gg/nvRUV4WkAr
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# ? Feb 4, 2024 03:10 |
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Is Helldivers 2 going to include clans? I would love to join a goon one for ps5
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# ? Feb 4, 2024 05:58 |
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There hasn't been any sign of colorable armor/capes yet has there? I was really hoping we'd get that sort of customization with the increased level of graphical detail.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 02:48 |
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The timestamped part in the latest trailer (:24) shows like a second of swapping out different armor
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 03:11 |
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Raspberry Bang posted:Is Helldivers 2 going to include clans? I would love to join a goon one for ps5 I thought that Arrowhead mentioned that there's crossplay, so there's no need to keep things isolated? https://www.pcgamer.com/helldivers-2-confirms-crossplay-and-pleasingly-modest-system-requirements/ At which point you could just join the protocommunity in the discord listed above.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 03:21 |
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Was really trying not to buy any more games this month because of FF7, but my friends told me about this and it looks pretty rad. I've recently finished playing Aliens Fireteam Elite, so another multiplayer shooter sounds good. Is this going to have leveling and weapon customization with different scopes and stocks?
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 04:41 |
Dinosaurs! posted:I’m coming around on the over the shoulder the camera. Not a fan of the team life limit, especially if upping difficulty reduces that number further. Having unlimited lives in Helldivers 1 made it easy to laugh off teamkilling and I feel like it was a crucial part of the secret sauce that made the gameplay so fun. Maybe playtesting found you don’t die as much in this game and the cap is pretty roomy, but I’m worried it’s going to make the game really sweaty and a lot of people aren’t going to be chill with accidental friendly fire. it's probably one of those to-3d conceits, as in helldivers one your field of gameplay was pretty narrow, so threats could easily maim you and wiping to defeat was relatively easy. there's no such tethers and you can see out quite a ways, so wipes need another threat.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 06:05 |
Open Marriage Night posted:Was really trying not to buy any more games this month because of FF7, but my friends told me about this and it looks pretty rad. I've recently finished playing Aliens Fireteam Elite, so another multiplayer shooter sounds good. Leveling sort of by unlocking new Strategems (call down abilities) and guns. I’m blanking on whether things were locked behind exp gates or not in the first game. Weapons customizations almost certainly no.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 06:08 |
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The first game did have exp unlocks. A big at letting you buy unlocks with real money.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 07:47 |
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Some discussion of rewards grinding and time/cost expectations. Edit: this is more clear than whatever I typed https://steamcommunity.com/app/553850/discussions/0/4206993388794675479/ quote:# Warbonds, Super Credits, and Superstore FAQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy_sPAdIraw TheMostFrench fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Feb 5, 2024 |
# ? Feb 5, 2024 08:43 |
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As someone who's going to only be playing with this friends, I don't really care if some super whale wants to buy a gun that does extra damage somewhere else in the world faster than just grabbing SC via missions.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 16:57 |
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Yeah like oh nooooo, my teammate spent $600 on a gun that deletes the bug trying to rearrange my limbs, who will answer for this crime??
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 17:08 |
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Well, I was going to hold off to see what the reviews are, and also get a digital copy, but Currys in the UK has a fiver off if you use the code DIVER15 at checkout, and I had some cashback type stuff, so I've just placed a pre-order for the grand total of £20. I'll definitely get £20 worth of fun from this just by dropping pods on my teammates.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 18:08 |
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Marx Headroom posted:Yeah like oh nooooo, my teammate spent $600 on a gun that deletes the bug trying to rearrange my limbs, who will answer for this crime?? After playing years of stuff like Warframe, these whales can decide the development direction of the game
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 04:47 |
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TheMostFrench posted:After playing years of stuff like Warframe, these whales can decide the development direction of the game Considering warframe's longevity and the fact that it's in a better place than it's ever been I'm ok with that...also I don't think that'll be the case here anymore than it was in the first one where some of the best vehicles were paid dlc.
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 11:12 |
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Every time I read Warframe my brain fills it in as WarHawk. drat I loved that game.
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 11:27 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 06:34 |
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Can't wait to accidentally shoot my gamer buds in the back of the head and yell "you're blocking my shots" into the mic
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 11:28 |