Did anyone else get conned into buying Helldivers 2 and now have it rotting in their steam library? :marseysuperearthflag:

>duuude come on, it's so consoomer friendly, unlike those other live service games!

And then it turns out to be like all the other live service games :marseybruh2:

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Anti-FOTM bros, I kneel.... I should have listened.....

Also !g*mers PSA, if you've ever downloaded HD2 onto your PC, you now have a rootkit on your PC that you can't uninstall. Enjoy!


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>paying $50 for a live service game

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>thinks $50 is a lot of money

:#marseyxdorbit:

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>paying for the game to pay in the game to grind in the game

:marseyemoji#laugh:

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I didn't do any of that. Just nuked some bugs with the boys for a couple :marsey2commies: of weeks :marseysharksoup: before :marseyskellington: we all went back to barely talking :marseypluribusanus: to each other.

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anything more than $2 is a lot of money and I hate spending it.

I'm jewish.

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I only buy games less than $20

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Ok, can you start from the beginning and give a few more details on what's happening?

I've seen g*mers soy out about how heckin wholesome and consumer friendly the game is, then they got fricked over and started posting about how how the game is unplayable and will literally die in 2 days, but then the management backed down from pushing the changes and everyone again celebrated it as a heckin wholesome consumer first capital G G*mer friendly it is.

Also what's the deal with the rootkit? I'm not reading resetera lmao :marseyemojirofl:

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It's a live service :marseyglow: game that nerfed all the cool weapons :marseytf2heavy: so it'd be more of a grind. Wasn't unplayable but it totally sabotaged itself in trying to keep a dedicated playerbase past a month.

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Play it again, the devs did a 180 and buffered every weapon after the controversy and now the game is super fun again.

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:#marseytf2scout::#marseytf2heavy::#marseytf2spy:

:#marseynew:

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The game is literal who status now, they fricked up the game and the overwhelming majority dropped it. Now it's just left with the copers that think running around and avoiding combat is somehow a good system.

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I got 50 hrs out of it, it was good while it lasted. I hope more co-op games come out

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Yep...

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The game is objectively fun with 3 other friends and now I see why dramatards don't like it :marsey57: :dramatardgenocide:

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Yeah people here b-word about multiplayer games all the time. Took me a bit to realize that they literally just don't have any friends.

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What if I only have 2 other friends? Because we are considering grabbing it. Heard it was better now after they screwed up with nerfs and for some reason required a Sony account even on PC.

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3 man squad will do just fine. You can always pick a random up if you really need a 4th.

Consider Space Marine 2 for a 3-man co-op experience which rocks peepee assuming you possess testosterone.

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Oh nice. Maybe Space Marine would be good. Don't know much about it.

Has Darktide become playable yet?

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It was cool for a minute but weapon nerfs kept annoying me and my friends so we just ditched it

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I've heard that they reverted most of the nerfs

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I was getting constant bluescreens, and by the time they fixed it a month later I lost interest in the game and forgot about it

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Recent updates severely nerfed armor. You're not forced to bring the uber rocket thing every game anymore, it feels a lot nicer now :marseygunnut:

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I played the first game a lot unlike literally anyone else on this site or any living breathing soul who ever downloaded helldivers 2. It was a really fun goofy little battlefield sandbox where you use powerful butt weps to blow apart the entire screen.

I got to see them turn that idea into a srs bsnss competitively balanced pain simulator because they got their heads stuck so far up their asses with trying to larp as if they're working on pvp balance hotfixes. Go back to your high fire rate screen explosions and pay 2 win vehicles that annihilate entire planets with half a magazine you fricking donkeys

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I fricking called it :marseylaughpoundfist: All my buddies were playing it, I ask them "What's the elevator pitch?" And none of them could give me one. Also imagine requiring anticheat for a coop game :marseylaughpoundfist:

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elevator pitch

>nuke bugs from orbit 10 feet away

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You have r-slurred friends if they couldn't give you an elevator pitch for this game

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They couldn't give me one which didn't boil down to DRG, but worse

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DRG but better because there's no midgets

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I think the Angry Republican Nintendo Nerds got so influential meatheaded antiwoke games got unnaturally boosted, even though they were pretty trash in 2007.

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Played it for the first time in months yesterday. Still fun and I didn't care to look into all the new warbond stuff. 110 hours played isn't so bad for $40.

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They buffed all the weapons so its fun again.

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They ended up buffing like everything after all the complaints. Also all of the premium stuff can be obtained via normal gameplay without paying. It is not difficult at all to obtain everything without paying.

That said it was fun for me for a while but it gets repetitive and it doesn't take very long to unlock everything so it doesn't feel like there is much to work for. The reward structure is also a bit wack and means diff 7 is the most efficient difficulty to play most of the time. Or even difficulty 1 if you want super credits. Doing max difficulty does not give enough rewards to be worth the time/effort.

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Doing max difficulty does not give enough rewards to be worth the time/effort.

Normally you'd play max difficulty because you find the challenge fun.

That's why I almost always do haz 5 in DRG. It's only like 15% more credits/xp than haz 4, and much more difficult, but the difficulty is what makes it fun and engaging.

Is difficulty 9 or whatever just tedious?

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As long as none of your teammates are r-slurred 9 is the most fun but if even one of them is r-slurred you'll get stuck in an endless swamp of enemies until you run out of respawns

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They added a difficulty 10 and the higher difficulties are a lot more hectic and can be more fun. It's just if you want to progress your character further it's faster to bump the difficulty down a bit. There is a high chance of failure with diff 10 and one of the resources you need a ton of has to be picked up and make it to extraction but people die and drop it all the time and going to nonessential points of interest is very risky so you will get way less of it than on lower difficulties. So it often feels like you just completed something really challenging but didn't actually progress your character at all.

If you are just playing for fun though it's fine I guess.

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Interesting. I haven't played Helldivers 2 yet although I did buy it when it was on sale to play w/ friends. I have strong doubts that I'll enjoy it more than DRG, as it sounds like the progression system is subpar and needlessly punishing, but I'll probably try it in a month or so. Hopefully it's good since my friends seem to enjoy it more than DRG for whatever reason.

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Honestly it isn't that punishing at least at first. However a lot of the upgrades they added after release are super expensive to give players who had everything something to grind for. Their premium currency super credits can also be obtained in game as well. But you get little to none on higher difficulties because of the extra risk involved in going to nonessential points of interest and the increased pool of stuff that can be there. So if you want to get the premium stuff for free your best bet is grinding difficulty 1 missions.

For me at least the result is that you progress rapidly early on but then it kind of slows to a crawl where you mostly need a billion samples which need to be picked up and extracted from missions and/or super credits to unlock all the premium stuff and it's just a lot faster to get those two resources on lower difficulties than higher ones. At that point though you've probably already unlocked a loadout you like and whatnot so it's kinda more getting stuff just to have it. You'll still be getting a ton of exp, credits, and medals but honestly they'll probably sit capped without anything to spend it on half that time when you are at this point.

I liked helldivers 2 a lot, but none of my friends really got into and I stopped after I felt like I had basically done everything and wasn't really progressing my character by playing. The galactic war thing also seems like it is meaningful at first but it really isn't. And once you get settled on a loadout missions really start to feel samey. I'd probably go back to it though if they did something to shake it up a lot. Maybe expand the galactic war stuff so you can actually see your contributions do something and feel like you are making an impact, or add some kind of long term progression system, or add a new faction to make the game feel fresh. Or maybe even just add a 'roguelike' mode where you don't get to pick you loadout and have to scavenge for whatever you find planet side.

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I have zero intentions of reading all of that crap

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Haz 9+ is a constant struggle wherein you either move the frick up to objectives or just get slowly whittled down to 0 tickets remaining fighting for nothing. Sometimes the AI director messes up and nothing happens though.

It's the entire fun of the game though. How fast you get blown to bits and / or eaten by bugs makes for near constant movie-like dramatic dodge and running footage.

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!soyteens Coaldivers dust

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I really enjoyed helldivers. Probably would still be playing it if not for the WoW expansion

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why would i buy some lame butt live service multiplayer game :talk2hand:

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:#marseyhesright:

The genre sucks and is for old people who suck at games

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I enjoyed it until they buffed the challenge out of everything so redditors can feel good playing on max difficulty.

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I got the feeling that they reduced the chance to find super credits ingame. Before I got enough to buy a new pass fairly quickly, now it takes super long. Maybe Im just schizo tho.

Still like the game, its chill.

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Buy EDF6 :marseypeacekeeper:

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>peer-pressured into buying a game

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Might as well transition, it's just a matter of time for you. Conformist.

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>you now have a rootkit on your PC that you can't uninstall.

same link

>No, GameGuard is removed at the same time as the game is uninstalled. The installer and uninstaller for GameGuard is visibly included with the game in <install-dir>/cowtools/GGSetup.exe and <install-dir>/cowtools/gguninst.exe.</install-dir></install-dir>

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devs lie all the time


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:#marseymisinformationtalking:

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widely used. if they're lying not hard to prove.

no reason not to believe them

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I genuinely don't uunderstand how reddit loved this game so much. Its a paid game with multiple battlepasses and an ingame shop with items that have gameplay effects. Not even the armor is purely cosmetic. It's literally everything they hate about live service games and the thing they got mad about was having to spend 2 minutes to make a Playstation account

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It went to shit but it was still a great game for as long as it lasted. It should have never been made as a live service though, it would have been godly as a co-op campaign. May Sony rot in heck for what their endlessly r-slurred decision-making

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I think its structure is way too repetitive for a live service game. AAA companies need to understand that not every game has to or has the ability to become the next fortnite

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Lel @ g*mers

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I bought it awhile ago, then got bored of them nerfing every fricking weapon they release until you were shoehorned in a boring butt meta with a bullshit gun sitting on a cactus as peak elite gameplay. They supposedly buffed the weapons again but I havent had time to get me and my wife and brother back into it to play again.

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I played it back in April-July with some co-workers, and we had a blast. Got a few hundo hours in it, at least.

...Until AH decided "YA'LL CAN'T BEHAVE" and nerfed everything. We all collectively lost interest after that.

I've moved onto Warframe for my power-fantasy/looter-shooter fix. It's faster-paced, has better weapons, and actually has long-term goals for me to work toward. (It's free as well, but it's not THAT free.)

Helldivers had the bag, but in true Sony fashion, they fumbled it. :marseydoomer:

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The game looked decently fun but I'm genuinely brain-broken and I hate the idea of cooperating with a redditor in any game so I never bought it.

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They had no chat moderation for a while and I loved calling people r-slurred BIPOCs for dropping nukes on me. I imagine they've gone full 1984 with that now :marsey1984:


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How fricking r-slurred did you have to be to buy this game?

My neighbors kid went on and on about how AMAZING it was, but he has autism (like you apparently).

Teenagers are fricking r-slurred when it comes to picking out video games.

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Bro bro bro, it's like Starship Troopers but a video game, isn't that so cool!!! :marseysoylentgrin:


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How do you get conned into buying a video game hahahahaha

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friend gifted it to me cause I called this happening just like every other flavor of the month game since covid. Played it once that night, never felt like touching it again

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Show play time

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The whole coop pve shooter genre sucks and is boring :marseysleep:. Last one I've ever played is borderlands 3 and I can't imagine buying one ever again

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I probably have 10 hours combined between that and Warhammer. Everytime I get a game to play with the boys, I get one or two sessions most out of it.


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I would :marseymid: never :marseyladybugitsover: buy a multiplayer game because I hate g*mers and want nothing to do with them.

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It was neat but i really :marseythinkorino2: dont care for live service :marseygreytide: games :marseygamer: and im not going :marseysal3: to spend 10 hours unlocking shit

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I thought it was alright... for about 5 or so hours then we went back to Darktide.

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We played for a few weeks, and then stopped

I think if my friends had wanted to play it for longer, it would have been worth $40, but as it is idk

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then it turns out to be like all the other live service games

Please elucidate

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  • forced account linking

  • nerfs galore

  • community ignored

  • locking gameplay features behind premium battlepasses

  • generally a disappointment


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forced account linking

:shocked2: the horror

nerfs galore

Reddit tier complaint. Also they were 99% reverted. Game is easier than ever.

community ignored

:marseyspit: categorically false. It would be a better game if they did though!

locking gameplay features behind premium battlepasses

Meh. It's like 5 bucks for a new set of weapons and armor. Not exploitative in any way, unless ur a third worlder ig.

generally a disappointment

Curious what you mean by this. Cuz the rest of your complaints are not really issues.

I like the game a lot but I would say that the game feels like a missed opportunity. I blame the shiftless nature of the Swede.

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Don't worry. It's an internet required "live service" game, so it'll eventually go the way of The Crew.

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