Helldivers 2: The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence
In the vast expanse of a hostile galaxy, where freedom hangs by a thread, the Helldivers stand as the last line of defense. Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Helldivers 2 is a cooperative third-person shooter that thrusts players into an intergalactic struggle against rising alien threats. If you’re ready for fast-paced action, teamwork, and explosive battles, buckle up for an exhilarating ride across the cosmos.
What is helldivers 2
URGENT BROADCAST
Super Earth, our home planet, faces imminent danger. The pillars of our civilization—freedom, peace, and democracy—are once again under threat. As a Helldiver, you’ll join the greatest military force the galaxy has ever seen. Your mission: make the universe safe and free for all. In Helldivers 2, there are orders which are like quests to complete. There are two types, major orders and personal orders. These have a time limit, some are daily missions and some can last as long as a week. Major orders are for everyone to join the fight and complete. Personal orders tend to be shorter in length and normally center around using a type of weapon or killing so many of this type of enemy. Personal orders can be completed by a fellow Helldiver in your squad.
Becoming a Legend
Squad-Based Combat: Assemble squads of up to four Helldivers and embark on strategic missions. Watch each other’s backs because friendly fire is an unfortunate reality of war. Victory without teamwork is impossible.
Loadouts: Rain down freedom from above, sneak through enemy territory, or charge head-first into combat. The choice is yours. Choose from a wide array of explosive firepower, life-saving armor, and battle-changing stratagems—the jewels in every Helldiver’s arsenal. There is no ability to transmog your chacters looks and the developers Arrow head studios have said that there is no plan to implement transmog or to change your characters appearance. If looks matter to you though, there is a number of armour sets within the game which are all unlockable by just playing the game. You can ignore the stats on these armour sets and go with what you think looks pretty.
Requisition Rewards: Super Earth recognizes your hard work with valuable Requisition. Use it to access rewards that benefit you, your squad, and our overall war effort. There is a microtransaction shop, but if you don’t want to spend any real money you don’t have to. Everything in the game, you can obtain by just playing the game, which is really refreshing in this era of gaming. You can purchase things for your character like armour sets or guns, you do this from the warbonds. There are currently 4 warbonds available and Arrowhead have said they have many more in the works. When you unlock a warbond, you unlock it forever. You don’t have a certain amount of time to unlock what you want, so it is a bit different than your normal battle pass in that sense. After unlocking a warbond you need to spend medals to unlock armour sets and guns etc. Each warbond has a number of pages within it, to unlock the next page you need to spend a certain amount of warbonds. You can spend these warbonds in any of the previously unlocked pages of the warbond to unlock the next page. Not only can you upgrade yourself, but you can also upgrade your ship. These ship upgrades are unlocked with samples. There are 3 types, common, rare and super samples. You can collect all of these within missions. Common samples are found in every mission difficulty. Rare samples are found in Challenging, Hard, Extreme and Suicide Mission. Super samples are only found in Suicide Mission, Impossible and Hell dive difficulties. It’s pretty easy to find Common and Rare samples running around doing mission objectives, but Super Samples can only be found near a rock.
The Game Play
Facing the Threats
Everything Wants You Dead: Every planet harbors enemies that fight ferociously without fear or morality. Their distinct characteristics, tactics, and behavior make survival a constant challenge. At the moment, the fight is against two factions, the Automatons and the Terminids. The Automatons, are a robotic race hell bent of destroying all humans. The Terminids are bugs, they don’t communicate so we don’t really know what they want, but there sure is a lot of them.
The Galactic War: Capture enemy planets, defend against invasions, and complete missions to contribute to our overall effort. The fate of the galaxy rests on the actions of everyone involved. We either stand together or fall apart. The gameplay is very well structured and accessible. You jump in the game, do a quick tutorial and then you’re a full fledged Helldiver. After this you jump into missions and get dropped down to planet’s via your hell pod. Missions last from 40 mins to 10 mins. The gameplay loop is very much like Warframe, if you are familiar with that. You jump into a mission, complete it and then jump into another. It is very satisfying, and you feel like you are contributing to the war effort.
Why is Helldivers 2 so good?
Helldivers 2 is so good because of the fast-paced gameplay loop which is very accessible to anyone that picks it up. The game does a good job in walking you through the game mechanics and just throws you in to the fray to figure it out. The game model of Helldivers is a play when you want to play, which is great. In an era of a lot of grindy survival games where you need to grind for hours before you go after that Dinosaur or can make your perfect base. In Helldivers you jump in complete however many missions you want and then retire to civilian life. You can play as much or as a little as you want and there is no waiting to get to that game play.
The live service model that Arrowhead Studios have created is what I imagined a live service game being when the internet first launched. I imagined if I did something in a game, the game would then react and change. This is exactly what Arrowhead Studios has done, they even have a game master called Joel to oversee all the happenings within the game. He is responsible for the major orders that we receive within the game itself. The fact that all the Helldivers helped bring down the bots was incredible. We will always remember all the Helldivers that gave their lives at Melovent creek, and those of us that survived will always remember the horror. The bots actually disappeared from the map. Of course they came back with a vengeance but we wiped them out for awhile. Interaction like these within the game makes it so special and engaging.
Arrowhead Studios has really made a great community. There is friendly fire within the game, but the community itself is very helpful and friendly. Most of the time friendly fire only happens on accident. For instance, I was holding a 500 kg bomb stratagem and I got knocked down by a charger. Well the stratagem fell right in front of me and all my team mates, we all knew what was coming and did a helldivers salute and exploded in a glory of laughs.
It is really refreshing to have a game studio that just wants to make fun games. They remind me a lot of Coffee Stain Studios, who make Satisfactory. In Arrowheads own words “We’re dedicated to creating intensely thrilling and hilarious game experiences for our players. Through games as a medium, we are on a mission to cure loneliness and build bridges, one friendly-fire co-op session at a time. We are a value driven company that strives to become the best co-op studio in the world."
Where can you play Helldivers 2?
Helldivers 2 on PlayStation
You can get Helldivers 2 on PS5, you do need PlayStation plus to play.
Helldivers on PC
There is a digital deluxe edition which is called The Super Citizen Edition. In this your receive
‘DP-53 Savior of the Free’ Armor Set
‘Will of the People’ Cape
‘MP-98 Knight’ Weapon
Super Citizen Status
Stratagem Hero Ship Game
‘Steeled Veterans’ Premium Warbond
Can your PC run Helldivers?
MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system.
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470
Storage: 100 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
o Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
o OS: Windows 10 or Higher
o Processor: Intel Core i7-9700K or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
o Memory: 16 GB RAM
o Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
o Storage: 100 GB available space
o Additional Notes: SSD Recommended
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