Helldivers 2 Changed the Modern Gaming Industry
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Gaming is dead. Or is it? Although many are quick to say modern gaming is trash, indie gaming is quickly rising to question this narrative. Palworld, Lethal Company, and now, Helldivers 2 are proof to a rising positive trend of indie game successes rivaling and overcoming competition from AAA games, and hopefully this trend continues to pick up steam in the future, with small developers gaining inspiration to challenge the modern gaming market with innovative experiences.
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0:00 Outro
0:09 Season 6: Helldivers 2
0:25 Video starts at 0.25
3:37 War Thunder
4:41 Season 7: Democracy Addiction
6:48 Season 7.5: HellDDR
10:00 Season 8: Super Live Service
13:07 Season 9: Us and Them
16:34 Season 10: Community of Patriots
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The War Thunder sponsorship is so ironic for this video. Maybe that's on purpose fitting in with the irony of Helldivers 2, or maybe it's just because that's who was willing to sponser, but it made me laugh.
@@lukesmith9455thinking the same thing
11:40 to add to this you have a super rare chance that when u pick up super credits in game you will get 100 instead of ten
Sorry, Im dispensing freedom.
How about no.
"Automatons are dumb robots with a lot of innacuracy" - That one rocket devastator sniping you across the map:
I swear those guys have aimbots
@nightbrawler5283 idk man I've had one whiff a rocket shot on me (while solo so he wasn't targeting a teammate) while I was not moving 10 feet from him
@nightbrawler5283 it went over my shoulder, and I turned around and onetapped him lol
@@nightbrawler5283 what do think "lock-on" does? they basically have the equivalent of our FAF-14 Spear. so are they unfair? To the unexperienced perhaps, but its very easy to avoid their rockets with multiple methods, for example:
1. staying in cover can help make them waste their rocket salvo, as soon as the rockets hit the rock youre hiding in, you run.
2. Avoid soft cover as much as possible, trees are considered as soft cover, as well as crates and metal barriers, meter thick concrete bunker walls and pillboxes are considered as medium cover and can withstand some pressure, but the best cover are the rocks strewn about in the map as well as the terrain itself, craters made by bombing runs make excellent cover on the fly, as well as the dunes of some planets. Note that rocket devastators and cannons can still lock-on through rocks, but lose their lock through terrain.
3. Use Smoke, be it from smoke grenades, smoke orbital strikes, smoke airstrikes, or even smoke produced from bulbous mushrooms. Smoke obscures enemy vision and will make them keep firing at your last known location until they can reacquire you, smoke also breaks lock-on. Stealth is incredibly powerful against automatons, even if you only use it intermittently.
I’ve been airshot by two rocket raiders one too many times.
Let me guess. Now AAA will try to create their own version of helldivers. But it won't be the same.
They can try. Lol
they can try it, but will fail miserably
Probably with $20 skins, warbond predorders and pvp 😂😂😂
Of course! The big money-grubbers are like Cargo-Cults (look em up, you'll be fascinated). They'll TRY to create their own version to compete, but because of who they are and what their priorities are they'll inherently misunderstand what made the game good in the first place and ultimately produce a grotesque facsimile that no one will like, then proceed to continue to fail to understand why no one likes their garbage.
I'd actually love to see them try and lets try to remember that despite how good a concept is for a game, if it doesn't appeal to corporate, it doesn't happen. A lot of good ideas made by the devoted devs of a game are shot down by the sheer greed of the higher ups to make a more profitable game rather then a fun one. Really if you look at it, only small studios can really make the truly good games these days because they don't have someone in an office trying to push for more microtransactions, battle pass or shop in game for the player to buy things.
As a former war thunder player, the fact that this video had heavy emphasis on predatory micro-transactions and the fact war thunder SPONSORED IT, the irony is killing me
Bro thats the same thing I was thinkin lol
War Thunder is the king of predatory micro transactions lol
Profit off the disease and then hand them the cure.
I only play warthunder a couple of times a month and don't really care about progression. but even as the most casual of casual, I can still see how predatory warthunder is
...well, let's say if you waste money on a high tier premium, you will regret that :)
Freedom that's what this game is, Freedom in the battle pass, Freedom in the store, Freedom in the Progression, Freedom in the gameplay, Freedom fills this game like bullets in a Bile titan.
Yup
Exactly 🇺🇸
You forgot freedom in Democracy.
@@yakemon Managed Democracy
just plain funny that the game saturating the overblown faux militaristic patriotic capitalism that is definitely "democratic" gives you more freedom in game than a lot of modern games
Helldivers 2 is yet another game that shows that Indie devs will carry on gaming, where AAA studios failed.
AAA gaming is not falling. The goals are to bring in money and force people to upgrade their rig/Consol. In this regard, they are moderatly successfum
Its hard to tell really, Studios like Ubisoft are seeing a decline as they push for monetization and purchases, rather than qaulity.
We've seen them be capable of posting art, same with every studio, but rather than that, they either:
A] Make the same game over and over
B] Buy out indie devs to publish their game
C] Make a new game that has love and care put into it.
No, AAA are not *Dying*, but with how horrible their quality is, it feels as if they are. Players like me are moving on, leaving titles like Call of Duty in favor of new original IP's designed by indie developers who care for their product.
@@eztvlight1202
@@eztvlight1202yeah they’re successful but fail to provide great gaming experiences. Their primary allegiance is to their shareholders rather than consumers. I’m sure arrowhead will become like EA or paradox or other Swedish studios eventually. They’ll be consumed by greed and profits. People don’t realise that most of these evil AAA devs/publishers used to be small indies at one point.
AAA Studio: Hey look at the succes of this game, what should we do different to achieve that?
Sweetbaby consultant: Put a chick in it and make her gay.. and lame!!!!
@MajesticLGBT well, we can enjoy them while they're still smaller!
At 11:22 you were asking if your teammate want's the super credits. It doesn't matter who picks them up, every resource in this game is shared. So if you pick it up everyone in the team gets it.
Same goes for medals and samples you find.
no way I thought it was just for samples, I thought medals and super credits didn't get shared!
I don't believe super credits are shared.
@@seandubose2342 they are.
Plenty of times, I'll get a hundred or more credits, but I hadn't picked ANY up during the mission.
They are shared. Everyone gets 20 per stack. @@seandubose2342
Should be an edit. A great idea again to iterate the coop. Every new team for an operation has got be addicted to this.
This is a game that got Play Station gamers to BEG Sony to release the game on XBox. Let me say that again. Play Station players asked Sony to publish this on a rival console. Not the XBox players. It's bridging a console war gap. Or, at least, the community wants it to.
We need more heldivers for managed democracy!
We need more troops, we are outnumbered I repeat we are outnumbered, we need those reinforcement NOW!!!!
Total nonsense. This whole port begging was initiated by Xbot number 1 Spil Phencer.
thats right f the gap we are all gamers
its because they know the halo fan base. This is the odst game they never got but deserve..
At Malevelon Creek, you have two song choices: Run Through the Jungle for when you’re running from a massive horde through a jungle, and Fortunate Son for when you are spraying with a flamethrower.
Why not "Monkey vs Robot?"
Welcome to the jungle, paint it, black. Hell, for stermination missions even kickstart my heart
@@iiclydez2367you creek goobers haven’t liberated it in 2 month
@@christianbenson5875 we're getting % now...
I go with the first Matrix soundtrack. Clubbed to death by rob dougan, rob zombie, rage against the machine,the kill Bill soundtrack and anything with tool or rammnestein is a good playlist for killing bots for me 😂
The footage is severely misrepresenting how incredibly bad things can get when there's fog/spore spewers/fire tornadoes/shreikers around. My first encounter with the shreikers in a hellmire canyon was hell. Some poor bastards answered my SOS beacon and we all got mauled 🤣
My team unkowingly landed on a stalker lair, shrieker nest, and heavy bug nest.... We bled about 15 reinforcements before getting it under control
Yeah, especially when people misjudge where to call in orbitals/eagles. Sentries are so underrated
Been there, done that, got the PTSD from dropping in to help an SOS on Helldiver difficulty. Dropped into ABSOLUTE HELL.
Most fun I'd had all week!
My first Shriker experience was in Hellmire, landing exactly in the zone of a Shriker next, surrounded by at least two Hunters packs and with Slugger as my main. I need to say no more
Hellmire is this generation's Malevelon Creek
I like to think that Lethal Company, Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers are in the same universe
Now I wanna see malevelon creek as a standalone planet for lethal company
"The Company" is just what Super Earth evolved into
Rock and Stone!!!
DRG is the prequel, Helldivers is present, and Lethal Company is the future
They’re all just in separate parts of the galaxy.
Modern gaming, ‘TIS A PLAGUE UPON HUMANITY
some sections arw
Only ones that has Sweet Baby elements.
@@garudanathanael5257 Go back into your incel hole, gamergater! Super Citizens only, here!
@@BengalaFraca Yes it is. However, just because one or even a few modern games are good doesn’t mean that modern gaming as a whole is good.
Very important:
*Everything* is shared. Nothing is split.
If someone 300 meters away picks up a medal, requisition slips, and super credits, *everyone in the team also gets that much of that stuff.* And it doesn't matter who has what samples when you extract - if there's a combined total of 15 common samples, 10 rare samples, and 3 super samples in the pockets of any extracted helldivers, then EVERYONE gets ALL 15/10/3 of those respective samples! Samples and support equipment (tac-packs and support weapons) are also reasons to go back to your corpse, as you only drop in with your armor, primary, secondary, and grenades - and not even all your ammo if your team doesn't have the booster for it.
Speaking of, Boosters. Basically, a perk that applies to the whole team. Stamina lasts longer and recovers faster, sure. Difficult terrain and other slowing effects slow you less, sure. Longer radar ping range. Everyone has full ammo stims and grenades each time they drop in via hellpod, sure. More lives, or faster regeneration of lives once you run out of lives, sure. Enemies can't call for reinforcements so soon after a prior call, sure. It incentivizes a team to bring in those boosters - Solo, you only get one booster, such as hellpod space (ammo is full when you reinforce) or stamina. In a team, you can get up to 4 boosters! And they're permanent unlocks, not consumed, you can equip the same booster every time.
It is worth mentioning that ammo is not shared, which is really the only thing that isn't shared across the game.
Oh and it is also worth noting that even "personal orders" are ALSO shared. For example our personal order for today was to kill 100 enemies using the strafe attack, and I was the only one who equipped that stratagem. Despite this, I got my 100 kills, but so did my other two squad mates despite not even equipping it. This effectively means that only ONE person needs to equip the items needed to complete an order, or if you want it done faster, but at the cost of everyone losing a stratagem slot for something better or more useful, everyone can equip the required item and have it done 4x faster if everyone does their part.
@@SpeCifiC0507 I've never had the personal order progress for something I haven't done myself wth
@@OnlyGrafting It seems to be hit or miss, so I'm not entirely sure it's a purposeful thing. Every personal order I've done or my friend has done has resulted in both of us getting the order done despite only one of us doing the specific task.
The only exception to this was back when we had to kill two bile titans, for some reason it worked for both my friend and I, but when my girlfriend was playing with us, it did not count for her, she had to kill two herself. Not sure if this means the personal orders are meant to be group driven or not, but it has always counted for myself and my friend group no matter who did or did not do it.
@@OnlyGraftingIt is shared, it’s how I get personal orders done with my squad, one runs mines, we all get medals.
Sharing is splitting, it's neither. It's multiplied.
Small correction around 2:30
They didn't institute a player cap. The servers had a cap that the players exceeded.
AH expected a successful launch of 50,000 CCU, but booked server space and had infrastructure in place for up to 250,000 CCU.
It had double that amount on launch weekend, and managed to hit an estimated 800,000 CCU. There was a log-in cap, but the game literally had more players launch weekend than they had expected for their Moonshot playercount.
It now averages (On Steam only) around that 250,000 daily.
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God I can only imagine what that would be adding the average PlayStation Count of daily players
So if they had plan and budget for a max of 50 000 players, it mean they arent going to die soon even when they hit the number one day. I really wish the game live for many many years and I come back after break and see it growth
@@teeman7137 please for the love of all that is good, edit your comment for grammar.
I have no fvcking clue what you’re trying to say
Every moment in this game is a movie moment. I find myself constantly thinking “damn. I look so fucking badass” while playing. And it happens constantly. I love this game.
it's gotta be the capes. they make us look very important and cool and strong even though we're all literally expendable lmao
I really want them to add poncho
or better, CAPES WITH HOODIE
Wholeheartedly agree.
When you bomb a bot Base with teammates, or when you bomb multiple bug holes and survive barely throughout a stampede - or many more moments that just feel badass.
I'm usually not that much of a shooter-gamer but this game got me hooked after I gave it a chance.
I haven't had this much fun in a shooter since Left 4 Dead
That warthunder sponsorship is crazy, can’t believe Gaijin would allow you to say all that about predatory business while sponsoring you
343 industries, take note of this AA studio
The very sad part is the halo devs specifically had a passion to make a game very similar to this and were turned down.
they wont .-.
@@ladyazalea6131This. Don't appeal to the devs who wanted to make this game; in the words of Carter, "You're preaching to the converted". Appeal to the soulless corporate shills who turned the pitch down.
A fun game
A great community
Fantastic live service
Non predatory battle pass
Fantastic vibes
And on top of it a much needed social critique/commentary
One of the best games in recent years hands down.
Ehhh, the battle passes are still predatory, just less than usual…
Great community is not entirely true. You will find wholesome people, but there are a ton of dumb toxic kickers.
@@Zlittlepenguin How? You have to play the game to get any of the stuff in the battlepass.
Toxicity tends to depend on the difficulty you are playing on. Difficulties 5 and 7 are the gateway levels to the true helldiver experience. 5 introduces you to the big bads and stratagem choice matters the most. Difficulty 7 is when you are expected to know how to use your stratagems and how to work as a team. This is the difficulty the devs expect most of the player base to reach and play at. At difficulty 9, you are expected to sweat and pucker. This is the difficulty for the guys who play halo on the hardest difficulty with only a sidearm.
@@christopherkeehn9962 well, because you have to spend premium currency in order to unlock the ability to play the game in order to earn that stuff - whether that’s by grinding for it, or by spending real money.
The reason it’s predatory is for 2 reasons:
1. New players that may not know that you can even earn premium currency in the game may go ahead and spend $10 to unlock it thinking that that’s the only way to do so.
2. I mean, it’s a classic mobile game tactic right? Only like I said, it’s a bit more generous than usual. These games will let you earn premium currency at a slow or steady pace in hopes that you’ll get close enough to the required amount to buy something - in this case, 1000 credits for a war bond - and say “hey, I can just buy $5 worth of credits (or whatever the cheap option is, I don’t even remember right now) and it’s kind of like I’m getting it on sale.”
To sum it up, they’re preying on new people’s ignorance and impulsive people’s impatience. Hence why it’s.. well… “predatory”
In the "oil puzzle" you don't need explosives to unblock the valves. Also, all materials earned in game, for example samples or super credits are shared in your squad. If you pick up 10, everyone gets 10.
On L2 bug planets, 2 of the oil pumps can be blocked by biomass
Shoot the blocks with your gun.
Let's not talk about how this entire battlefield is controlled by someone named Joel And this is basically like Joel is like a DND Master And We are in the learning stage of this It only will get harder
I think each planet is controlled by other people like Joel. Only Joel controlled the creek. Do correct me if I’m wrong
Also just think how much harder it will get when the enemies get closer to super earth 😭 democracy will be harder to spread
@@TheaereticalThere are team of Battle Masters who tamper with battles happening in game, and then there is Joel, who is Dungeon Master, tho he probably have a couple of coworkers helping him too
"totally inaccurate fire"
-Rocket Raider headshots you across the map ...
Gah, the FTL Music hit me in the feels out of nowhere.
Love that soundtrack
Same, legendary ost
I spent 5 minutes thinking: I know this music, but from which game is it?
Then remember FTL and redownloaded it again
And the battlepasses are forever too. When the next one comes out you still have the previous passes to pick and choose from at will. They're only 1000 credits to access but that accumulates suprisingly fast on even lower difficulties. As long as you look around before leaving you should get everything you need to fully progress at any level of play. I'm level 43 and i play on difficulty 5 (out of 9) because i have no need for super samples. I can jump into lower level players lobbies and help them have a good time while having a chill experience myself.
It's actually easier to cred/medal farm below challenging. There's 2 options for secondary objectives, arty or radar. Enemies don't spawn on POI's. Almost every potential rare sample spawning POI is a cargo container spawn with potential medals and super creds and best of all. You get a liberation point every 10 to 15 mins (difficulty 1 or 2 otherwise 2 mission OPs) instead of every 40 if you were on helldive (x3 for the entire op at maximum) and next to no chance of failing.
I find it funny that people are still pointing out malevolon creek still hasn't been taken after however long but I think it's on purpose. If people used it as a farming planet they'd at minimum quadruple the liberation effort just by running Cred/medal farms. And that's solo.
Have a go sometime. If you get enough hours playing you can make up an entire warbond without paying anything over the course of a day. Plus it's a breezy change to helldive all the time. I can attest to that. My built up knowledge is being wasted but low level is fun for a power trip. Drop into an illegal broadcast, mission complete in about 10 seconds. Scan the map for a radar, hunt down POI's, done in ~7 minutes
it’s worth playing on impossible for those rare samples tho. gets you the later upgrades for your ship. cool-down times, extra eagle strikes etc
@@jim191185 yeah but I got all I needed just by playing a few games. The requirement for them is so low I have no incentive to play harder difficulties anymore. Maybe if I was feeling like a good spanking but I mostly just stick to lvl 5 and 6 for my chill experiences. Maybe I can chaperone a lower level squad or 2 up to their first lvl 7 missions.
It's really only 400 credits you need, you can 600+ in each warbond the first many being cheap in medals
A couple friends and I decided to play a trivial yesterday as one of them never did the 'raise the flag' mission. (We usually play anywhere from 5 to 7)
Ended up finding 60 super credits.
This game hooked me just as destiny hooked me years ago. It scratched that itch I’ve been searching for when I quit Destiny 2.
I love the grind on this game, it feels worthwhile
@@Nikos. oddly the grind doesn’t feel like a grind. If that makes sense.
Destiny 2 was the go to date night game my wife and I played together. Helldivers is much more fun!
@@darkshamrock5763 It certainly doesn't, it's more generous and rewarding
up and up with you my irish man. you spoke truth
Authenticity is the currency of the future.
This comment honestly inspired me with more hope for the future than I've felt in a long time. Thank you. ❤
Well, this has aged like milk.
Mhm
WE SHALL LIBERATE MODERN GAMING FOR DEMOCRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
starts talking smack about how predatory modern gaming companies are "THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY WARTHUNDER" (the worst company of them all in this subject)
no hate intended just wanted to show the irony
helldivers helldivers helldivers
I am odst so do i count
IM NOT A BIG FAN OF THE GVMNT 30 30!!!
@@ZK9931 judges gonna let you have this one, you count. Congratulations
@@Nikos.liberty liberty liberty liberty liberty democracy democracy democracy democracy democracy
2:00 that’s a hawk screech
Stalker ... that thing is never fair, especially when you look another way
That and the spitters are the worst things ever
If you have either of the ballistic SG-8 guns, they're a cakewalk if you see them coming. They can 2shot headshot stalkers, both can stunlock up to 2 of them at a time from attacking, and in particular the Slugger can ~2-4 shot headshot kill either variety of Spewer (Nursing, orange with pissfog and low-light armor, or Bile, green with the mortar artillery attack and more low-medium armor)
I find the hunter nowadays to be the most of my deaths.
I thought he was talking abt the game series for a moment lmao
Got jumped by 8 of those creeping things last night, did not see that coming...
My friend bought me this game, and then I bought it for my buddies. Then he bought it for his friend. That day became "recruitment day." Democracy was spreading for the low price of $39.99🎉
I just hope arrowhead doesn't sell out after all the success.
11:18 what I love about finding super credits, is that they are shared between you and your teammates, at least from my experience picking them up, my homies get them as well when I ask about their super credit count.
Helldivers 2 is going to be sitting next to L4D2 as one of the best coop shooter of all time.
In my head canon, these small Dev game are set in the same universe, as in Deep Rock and Lethal Company supplying Super Earth for their quest of Managed Democracy
That… almost makes sense. Huh
@@De_Vegi while we farm component 710 (totally not Oil) from Terminids, the Mineral and Metal are from Deep Rock and from the Company
I hope helldivers ends up being a long-term success
It's very much is and the stuff that's gonna come later will blow your mind
@wakandaforever616 the fact it uses the same game engine as the first game is insane
Im sure its been said already, but its still worth mentioning that the premium currency that can be found in game can also be used to purchace the premium battle passes, and im very thankful for that fact.
What i love about the battle pass, aka warbonds, is ArrowHead said theyre never going away. So if you play Day 1 or Year 5, youll always have access to them
Which is how it should work, nothing tied to a limited window.
*Battlefront 2 defending loot boxes:
'We view them as surprise mechanics.'
*Hell Divers:
'Do you hear treason?'
'I hear treason.'
The irony of a video talking about toxic paid live service models being sponsored by War Thunder is not lost XD
"Do you want the super credits"
Whoever picks them up, everything is given to every player, don't worry about such things. Medals and currency included.
Yep, a team depository gives it to everyone, similar to Deep rock galactic.
I love DEMOCRACY!
but on another note I love how helldivers 2 is so hyped and yet its never overhyped and my friends don't let IRL flags or symbols in helldivers 2 there's only one flag or symbol that should be here and that's the one of Super Earth!
Besides the fascist undertones there is something quite heart warming about the fact that we're all united under one banner
@@2020_Visi0n it's not necessarily fascism. Authoritarian, yes. Militaristic? Definitely. But fascism is such an awkward thing to define. No, Wikipedia doesn't encompass it. Check Britannica for example. It mentions it's many forms and differences. The main unifier for Germany was economy and political persecution. Italy seeked to expand it's lands and prompt a rebirth of the Roman people's. Romania was hard handed into it through a desire to expand territories. Hungary was similarly so, but less obviously fascistic and more so authoritarian.
The issue with a lot of the examples to define it are German pressure. If we look outwith Europe South America had it due to economic woes. We have no indication as to why Super Earth is authoritarian. All we know is that Earth is unified and seemingly cooperation between races is seamless. Public order is a priority and trust in the state is assured. We can only definitively brand it as Authoritarian. Or, as some would call it, Democracy with a backbone abused by politicians when a party or person misused the powers available.
I should also note that similarities with the communist state in 1984. Fighting a war you can't doubt. Truth rigorously monitored. Dissent outlawed in an under the table yet obviously intimidating manner. Militaristic.
The only obvious difference is the state of the world. Civilians in Super Earth don't have any known discrimination for class. We don't even know if class exists in their economy.
Perhaps Super Earth is some weird modern hybrid of Social Democracy and Authoritarianism.
who up moderning they gaming
I'm over here modernizing my digital entertainment services
FOR DEMOCRACY
As someone who works a job and attends university i really appreciate being able to purchase the super credits as a i simply dont have time to grind for then specifically. But giving the more die hard players the ability to earn those rewards for free is an amazing feature that extremely uncommon these days.
at this level you can't consider it grind. it's just progression.
games designed with disrespectful grind to push you to purchases are the likes of activision/blizzard/ea
You can play for like an hour a day and get super credits pretty quickly. Just find a team that knows what they're doing and you'll be drowning in resources
Always funni to me when an AA game out matches an AAA game lollll
When the gaming was about types of batteries all along
@@Nikos. I really can't wait until we get our first D game
The number of A’s only seem to reflect the money it’ll cost. Nothing about quality and entertainment value.
@@pauldelol6064you mean Diablo 4? 😂
They put the money into the game instead of marketing and trusted the player base to do the right thing. And we did.
When players love it and critics hate it you KNOW you won
Indie games and souls games are the future of modern gaming. Studios like Larian, Fromsoft, Pocket Pair, and Arrowhead will herald the next generation of gaming.
In my opinion the only flaw with helldivers is it not being on Xbox. It has half the players it could have
I think they might be working on that but I'm not sure.
I'm sure it's coming, once whatever exclusivity agreement they have with Sony expires. They'd be insane not to port it over, it's a licence to print money at this point.
@matthewn4896 except it's not a Square Enix case where they bought exclusivity rights for a limited time. Sony straight up owns the IP. It being on PC changes nothing as that's been an initiative they have been doing for a while now with their other big hitters like God of War, Spider-Man and Uncharted. That said...
PLEASE PORT THIS GAME TO XBOX SONY
“Automatons have inaccurate fire” so we just ignoring the missiles shot out of a laser sniper rifle?
You can have the "Battlepass" completely for free by searching the credits on almost all maps (my record was 50)
it's the First inovation ive seen in a long time. Having a DM run the galaxy is pure genius.
In the center of the flag used in Helldivers 2, is Sweden. Because Prosperity City is just Stockholm, and New Stockholm exists in Helldivers 2 just south of Super Earth.
It isn't "America Simulator", its Sweden on roids.
(Also helps that the company *IS* Swedish)
I think it’s just a reference to where the devs live and work, obviously Sweden has no chance of ever uniting the world into a space empire that would be either the US or China
@@Kingedwardiii2003that’s why it’s a scientific fantasy
@@inteallsviktigt nah it’d be like saying Argentina is a space empire because the main city in Starship troopers is Buenos Aires
@@Kingedwardiii2003the characters on your ship all have Swedish names, though.
@@_loss_ again just a nod to their home country the game lore isn’t Sweden conquers the world lmao
The button keys remind me more of old school cheat codes than QTE's.
what's funny is, at least in terms of progression, the war bonds use the same progression system Fortnite battle passes currently use, where you earn a currency through gameplay and get to pick and choose what on each page you wanted to unlock, while requiring you to earn a certain amount of things to unlock the next page.
The difference is War bonds are free or earnable for free, can be unlocked at any time, and never expire. That's the key that makes them rock.
First Lethal Company, now Helldivers. Recent Video games are becoming better
The (gaming) world is healing.
Great work! I really enjoyed your videos on this topic. It really was feeling hopeless with how money hungry and poorly made most games have become. More and more I found myself going back to older titles to find new experiences rather than anything new. Will the standard set by Helldivers and those like it see all other studios forget their toxic practices and follow suit? Probably not. But I agree with you that we will likely see a new age of games and companies following suit.
Not everything will be positive and we will still have plenty of bad actors still, but now that the lie of having to put up with poor practices to get "AAAA Games" has been shattered I think many will tolerate poor games even less. It is a good trend I hope to see continue.
I hope so too. Glad to see some good changes goin on with new fun games I can enjoy, and I also think it’s important to stress how many great alternative and indie titles have been coming out for the past decade too, there’s plenty of options out there
The moment you see that flare go up... the mission just became loud and I hope to god you have the gear, skill and determination to survive.
One thing I've found personally, I appreciate when a game like deep rock or helldivers actually respects the player as both a player and a customer, it makes me more comfortable with the idea of spending money, I genuinely feel better about my purchases in a game that respects me especially when their an indie team, because then I know I'm genuinely supporting a team of developers that I respect and respect me in return. In a game where the premium currency is so easy to get for free, I enjoy the opportunity and FREEDOM to just play the game for currency or essentially donate to the devs for a game they definitely deserve the extra few bucks for. Plus, to send the point home, if you do decide to spend your money, the game limits how much you can effectively spend, while giving you an amazing deal for as little as $3 and a max price of $26 which allows you to basically buy out the whole store, or unlock 2 warbonds. Layers of respect.
"It has a surprising amount of graphic fidelity for the budget and studio behind it" no this is just what brand new games should look like in 2024, people have gotten too used to old ass games like fortnite, siege or any other title they keep rereleasing/remastering.
tbh I wrote this game off as just another starship trooper clone, but fortnighty-er. Spent my gaming money elsewhere and now I'm regretting it. It will be a while before I can fight for Super Earth now.
You will join the fight soon brother
Good news, the game is only 40 bucks!
I been playing for like 3 weeks now and it's the only game I've been playing. Not too time consuming and don't feel the need to have to get on. Fun, Casual and very skill based. Couldn't ask for more since they keep updating and adding more content at a good consistent basis.
@@SpaalKodaav that is good news!
You mentioned “Glassing the planet” and I actually had a flashback to seeing Reach getting glassed. Talk about PTSD 😂😂
you asking if your friend wanted the super credits was adorable. generosity is key for a helldiver.
The best advertisement you can give your game is making it so god damn fun that word of mouth is all you need.
I've earned enough super credits in the battle pass and in mission to buy the premium warbond, from march, and I have enough saved up for Aprils.
Same. I've got a little over 4k SC. I haven't bought any of the warbonds, but with how much I've saved up, I can get both current warbonds, next months warbond and still have enough left over to buy some armor sets from the Super store.
What is also great is that the warbonds themselves have SC within them as well, so, for example...the cutting edge warbond is 1000 SC, but within the warbond itself you can get 300 total SC unlocking those with medals, meaning the warbond in reality only cost 700 SC in the end.
A couple more things to touch up on that weren't mentioned in the video that I believe SHOULD have been mentioned.
• The Battle pass isn't going away. There is FOMO nonsense. You can unlock the first-ever battle pass even 4 years down the line. THIS IS HOW BATTLE PASSES SHOULD BE!
• There is no competition for who gets super credits. If you pick up super credits during a mission then everyone gets them.
My greatest gaming accolade was having the badge in Gears of War 3 that you can ONLY get by beating the entire campaign on the hardest difficulty.
It wasn't all THAT particularly hard, but there was one and only one way to earn that badge - which you could show-off in multiplayer.
3:22 bro you can't hide that shit from us he was about to eat shit😂
I reviewed the clip, I actually didn't hit this mine, but I've hit about 10 at this point
it only took me and my friend an hour of grinding to earn enough SC for a battlepass, and we had both already blown all but like 300 of our SC on armor and couldn't get any more from the pass.
in the future it'll probably be a bit harder, but still not too bad
love the ftl soundtrack throughout and ur analysis :P keep it up fam
Thanks, will do!
I didnt even spend money after the 30$ pricetag, and by me doing chill medium difficulty. I am able to have atleast 2 battlepass worth of Special currency. WHich I will stockpile for future battlepass
For SuperEarth!
Helljumpers ready🗣️
I mean Helldivers ready to deliver DEMOCRACY 🤺💪🌍🌙🗣️🪐
Nah I'm putting up the cape for now
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I love that all sample, slip and credit is shared with the team. So even if you think you’re being selfish by picking up the items. You’re actually being a team player. I play in higher difficulty due to my level, I need the exp. In that difficulty, you’ll meet teammates who would do their best to protect you or pick up the sample for you when you fall.
You know you love the game when you hear the theme song everytime you wake up or go to bed.
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Is that some bf1 music I hear in the backround??
They shall not pass bf1 music
Love the FTL background music in this video. Worked well
5:26 there’s a glitch that lets you do this. Go into first person and then reload, then have the reload cancelled to get locked in 1st person until you ads and melee to switch back to 3rd. I think diving and getting ragdolled by an explosion work for this, and I may have gotten the glitch wrong cus I haven’t done it in a while, but it is pretty cool bc you get to see your diver’s arms pump while you sprint and the reload animation in 1st person and all sorts of other things
6:43 The Into the Breach song choice was a great choice- bunch of high tech hopeless soldiers fighting a neverending space war.
FTL music on the "look even microtrans progression isn't that bad here" part gave me joy
The amount of animators and sketches you can find online is amazing! PLEASE BRING BACK CLASSIC CZcams MEMES THROUGH HELLDIVERS!
The fact the the tips are actually cool and useful is amazing
I haven't had this much fun playing a shooter in many years. Really revived that L4D feeling.
and now I'm getting misty-eyed over the former color and shapes of the artillery shells. now they all look alike
good video. you love to see a game that focuses on being FUN (imagine that...) getting the shine it deserves
hey, that sponsor you included was not only unrelated, but felt like a full on youtube ad
I can hear that "Into the breach" music when you talk about "Fighting bugs" you sneaky devil you! :D
With the super credits, they are adding more war-bonds, and I think to the point where it will be almost impossible to come up with enough credits to buy it all (like warthunder funnily enough). However, this still allows you to pick and choose the warbonds that you do want to buy, which I still think is a great system and even something to look forward to.
I love how the talking goes quite and the screen goes dark and the very chill Space Vietnam was hilarious
My first Shriker experience was in Hellmire, landing in zones between a Shriker next and a hive and geolical examination point, surrounded by at least two Hunters packs and with Slugger as my main. I need to say no more
The hard transition from "Helldivers means more than your kids" straight to "*SPACE VIETNAM*" got me xD
What is genius as well is the lobby in HD2. You have your own whole ass ship that you can name, you get a cape as a sign of badassery when you complete the tutorial, the loading screen is cleverly disguised as a cinematic drop sequence. The devs are really like, "here go be a badass" right of the gates. Also, the configuration options are plenty, the HUD is clean and immersive, it's just a great time all around to play this game.
I love the FTL song at the end dude.
I dropped out of playing online games a few years ago. I was there when Xbox Live first released and I used to love it, particularly Halo but it all changed and I found myself frustrated. I stopped getting excited about new games coming out for a long time after so many disappointments. I am now back playing online because of Helldivers 2. I knew from the moment I saw the trailer and heard the music that I needed to try this game, then I saw all the buzz around it from the players and I bought it. I've met people from around the world and I'm having so much fun in this game. I've got new friends in the USA, France, Germany, Brazil and more because of this game. I hope it lives on for a long time and I hope the industry takes note of how it should be done. Put the fun back in gaming!
Change stratagem to arrows, you can run while calling it 😎.
Thank you for using FTL music in this, so good.
Another thing I love about this game is the customization, the armor you equip actually has a use, like the Bonesnapper allows more stims, this is how customization should be in my opinion
Love what you had to say, but gotta shout out that sweet sweet FTL music you’re playing. I’ll never not recognize it.
If there is one thing I never fail to notice, it is risk of rain 2 music in unexpected places.