Recent reviews by Agent D.U.F.F

Update: As of May 6th, Sony reverted their decision to make PSN accounts mandatory due to community backlash. I'm changing my review to "Positive" to support Arrowhead and the work they've done but if anything like that happens ever again, I'm sure community will make themselves heard like now and I'll change this review accordingly to support them.



Helldivers 2 is a game that in a short time earned it's place amongs one of the greatest PvE 4-player Co-op games, Left 4 Dead 2 and Deep Rock Galactic to name a few.

Currently there are only 2 factions in this game you play against - Bugs, who are more close-combat oriented and rush you down with numbers, and Bots - who use ranged weaponry and are more tactical in approach. Both groups have a mix of Melee/Ranged and Light/Heavy units in different quantities, depending who you play against so no weaponry is useless, just has varying degrees of usefulness, depending what you bring to who.

Core gameplay loop and shooting are fun and satisfying. In my 200 hours of playtime I haven't got tired of shooting enemies because of the variety of tools at your disposal and how they react to what you shoot them with. Visual feedback really shows how damaged each enemy are, bugs bleed and limp, miss chunks of their bodies or limbs, bots crash and burn, and everyone has a distinct killsound so you know in the midst of chaos or if it's hard to see whether you got it ot not.

Progression system is meaningful, letting you unlock more ways to approach any situation and be more prepared for higher difficulties. From Machine guns to Rocket Launchers, from Airstrikes to Orbital strikes, from Turrets to Minefields, everything has it's use and developers keep adding more. Sure, there is Meta in-game, but even the standard loadout is so versatile, it can get you through a lot of the situations. (Pro tip - Get to lvl 10 and unlock the Autocannon as fast as possible, it's a Swiss army knifre of heavy weaponry)

Said weaponry is not only effective at killing enemies but also your fellow Helldivers. Friendly fire in this game is how they balance a lot of powerful tools. One wrong call for an airstrike and you can wipe your entire team. And even if you do, you have a reinforcements pool so it's not a big deal if someone just so happens to run in front of you when you're pulling a trigger.

Arrowhead made possibly one of the most pro-consumer live servise games I've seen in a while. Not only you can progress through Warbonds, which are an equivalent of battle passes, but you can progress and unlock them by just playing the game. Within missions you can find Premium currency just lying around in the world at Points of interest, among other things such as medals that you use to actually progress Warbonds. which you get by completing indivigual missions and Major Orders - a community wide goal to complete and progress the story of Helldivers. Whether you fail or win, the war marches on with the end goal of complete destruction of factions you play against.

I could go on explaing all little bits and pieces of this game but doing so would take me walls of texts and anyone deciding to buy this game would've already decided on doing so if they got to this review. I'm just doing this to support the developer and let my voice be heard.

This game is worth the 40$ it asks and more. I'll stay to see how far this game will progess becaue it has a lot of care put into it and potential it can realise.

No amount of items will give you the same level of power when you realise you can parry fall damage as Mercenary.

Great remaster of an already good game.

Right now in this game you can play as:
-Doomguy/Traser mashup
-A walking nailgun
-Space Legolas
-Engineer from TF2
-A weeb
-Thicc Mage
-Suicidal plant
-Fisto

If that's not enough for you, the gameplay is also good, if you're into that. Worth the money, even when not on sale.

0/10, false advertisement, you don't actually kill floors here.

Still, good game. You should get it.

10/10
Would waste another 1k hours on this game again.
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