![]() Often you will find yourself being overwhelmed and on top of making quick decisions, you also have to avoid wiping your entire squad out with a single rogue grenade. More on from that, having to watch where you fire and drop ordinance actually becomes a satisfying part of the experience. In contrast, with a weeks play under my belt, I have not come across one player who has intentionally set out to ruin a game. I pity the gamers who would spend time doing this but regardless it is a big downside to the friendly fire being always on. I've even heard of people who drop into a game, kill everyone and then disappear. As we all know the Internet is full of dickheads and trolls who love nothing better than to spoil other people games. This can be problematic in a game with your friends, never mind with randoms have just linked up with. ![]() Hell, often you will take someone out just by entering the game and landing square on their face with your drop pod. You can stab, shoot, crush, burn and explode any of your teammates at any time. The second and certainly the most interesting design decision made by Arrowhead was to include friendly fire. To help with this the game does have a built in VoIP which allows players to talk without using TS or Discord: yes you will get an unwanted soundbite from strangers lives sometimes but that's the internet for you. Of course, you will get some players who will just not agree on which direction to head and these games will very quickly end with a massacre. This is genius in a way because it forces players who don't know each other from Adam to work as one unit. This means that when in a co-op game nobody can break off and go lone wolf. Sounds simple enough right? Well, the developers have made a few design choices that will constantly keep you on your toes, the first being that all players share the same view window. ![]() Once planet side you have an unlimited amount of time to complete all the objectives and then reach the evacuation point from where you will be taken back to your ship in orbit. As the team leader, you need to select a drop point, players then choose their equipment loadout and it's time to take the express elevator to hell. When you pick a mission you will see a random bunch of white icons on the map and these represent objectives which can vary from destroying a number of structures, scanning for mines or carrying an objective a set distance (and many more). The planets range in difficulty, from the left being easiest (dive in the park) to the far right being the most challenging (Helldiver). If you already have that item you will be given a boost of XP instead. ![]() ![]() As you first start out with Helldivers you have limited gear at your disposal but as you complete all the missions on the surface you will be given the item reward for that planet. Elsewhere, Elden Ring has managed to shift 16.6 million copies since its release four months ago.When choosing a mission your first task will be to select a race to fight and then you will be presented with a string of planets. In other news, the next Marvel’s Avengers hero will be The Winter Soldier and he’ll appear sometime after September. Neither Sony nor Arrowhead Game Studios has made a comment, but hopefully, we find out soon whether the rumors are true. The game is still in development according to recent job listings at the studio, one of which requires the Senior Character Artist to focus on “everything from organic to hard surface characters such as creatures, humanoids and robots.” This hints that Helldivers 2 may take a different direction from the original game, which was an isometric, cooperative, twin-stick shooter. We do know the game is unlikely to be at Gamescom as PlayStation will not be attending Gamescom and Helldivers is a PlayStation-owned IP.Īrrowhead Game Studios announced they were working on a next-generation third-person cooperative game back in 2020, but nothing has been mentioned since. Many are expecting the game to be announced this month at the rumored PlayStation Showcase. Helldivers 2 has not been officially announced although the above Tweet seemed to imply it would be making an appearance soon, especially as the few seconds of gameplay footage leaked by Twitter user Adam has since been removed “in response to a report from the copyright owner.” Helldivers 2 was also one of many games that was leaked during the GeForce Now internal database leak approximately a year ago, further lending credence to the rumors. ![]()
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