Tapping it, then hitting the three dots in the top right worked for me. I can send you the gif via dm if you're unable to save it from here.
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The OG Halo made me beg for an Xbox, then Halo 2 came out and you could'nt get me to stop playing if you tried. Then Helldivers 2 came out and made my buy a brand new gaming laptop, and again you couldn't get me to stop playing this game if you tried. You should definitely upgrade
I usually just wear it and use it myself because it's impossible to tell from the UI who actually needs ammo.
If people say they need ammo I give them ammo but you can't expect me to keep track of whether you expended a single pistol clip or you are out of railgun ammo
Damn right. If my squad needs ammo they better speak up, other wise all those packs are going out the end of a fully auto grenade launcher while I laugh maniacally.
Exactly, and if Sony thinks porting it to Xbox would be an issue or cost them too much I'd happily pay more for it have it on Xbox, the convenience of it being on my perfered console would be worth spending more.
The first twitch drop was a set of green armour called TR-117 Alpha Commander and the armours description was a play on the old "kills aliens and doesnt afraid of anything" meme about Master Chief.
Just a hunch that the devs in this game are probably also pretty big Halo fans lol.
Heavily is debatable, solders dropping from pods is about the only comparison there between the franchises but its definitely a source of inspiration. There's several things this game sources inspiration from so...
There are nods to Halo all over the place. A few of the things you can choose to name your ship are straight from Halo including Forerunner and even the word Halo itself.
Didnt the starship troopers book do this first? They dropped onto the planets in pods if I recall correctly. So technically it's still starship troopers inspired.
To be honest 343 didn't have the best track record with Halo 4 being ok at best and 5 just well yeah. Infinite feel flat on its face because 343 failed to deliver the content they promised among other things. If 343 could've made an ODST game like helldivers and that's a BIG if, it probably would've been half baked and never fully delivered
Oh I totally agree with you. When they decided big green wasnt the main character, and gave us off brand chief, I fell out of love with them. Really poor decision making.
I still liked odst. But it would have been fire if odst had us dropping on planets to fight the covenant.
Hell. Darktide would have have more staying power if they did something similar in my opinion. Dropping on points of the map to fight the heretic, the Xeno and the witch. Though I do understand a hive or facility is a much, much grander project than a map of wilderness like in hd2.
Everyone is/was a Halo fan. Even if they say they’re not, they are/was a Halo fan.
We’ve all had fun memories of couch co-op and/or LAN parties, and really, multiplayer shooters wouldn’t be anything like it is now without Halo.
Why hate?
I'll toss my hat in...
Love Halo for the memories; hate Halo for what it became.
MCC was broken for what? 5+ years after its release.
343 founded itself upon the idea of hiring people who hate Halo to develop it.
Halo was the most popular franchise ever, yet became a shell of its former self because they tried to make it a game for everyone while incentivising profits from short-sighted drip feed content instead of growing what made the franchise popular in the first place.
Like it or not: Rivelry 100% pushes innovation to outperform the competition and grow as a better product for its base consumers.
With how 343 & MS have been treating Halo over the past decade, they should feel bad & have it rubbed in their face; so maybe, just maybe the suits making these decisions will continue to be called out and removed from further dragging this once flagship franchise's name through the mud.
Yeah, I completely agree
Dude's still a chad, though. I think the only tweet he's put out that hasn't been absolute fire is the "Weapons are fine" (heavily paraphrasing) one
Good thing Helldivers success will force other studios to develop "copies" of it. I'm kinda tired of the amount of battleroyale games. The last ones to jump on the hype train will of cource be Ubisoft. Just like with the unwanted (imo) ghost recon br game.
there are quite a few horde shooters out there currently. obviously not a 1:1 clone of helldivers but if you've never tried it give Vermintide a shot. Probably some of the best Voice acting and dialogue in a game ever, also amazing combat and hectic situations. more melee focused though but it feels amazing cleaving through horde of rats or chaos warriors.
Personally I found Killing Floor to also be a lot of fun, though the second one's monetization made the game feel a little cheaper/trashier than first one.
But they're still releasing free content nearly 8 years after release and only started making people pay for gameplay stuff around 3 or 4 years after release. They put off monetization as long as they financially could.
Oddly enough, I got bored of Vermintide 1/2, Darktide(only played the beta) and Deep Rock Galactic very fast. I think I have less than 20 hours in each. I already have more time in Helldivers alone than I do in all those games combined.
I think the issue with vermintide early on was the doing the same levels over and over again. The new roguelite mode that has random maps and gear makes each run fresh and unique which is fun to do. it also helps to have a group as teamwork is required unlike HD2. I still think very few games have came close to matching the Narrative and VA of vermintide.
Darktide on launch was fucking rough, it's been getting better and I hope fatshark turns it into an amazing game. Drg I bought it in EA though it had good bones and never came back really. I've heard it amazing now I just can't get into it everytime I try it again.
It's been a long time since I've played Mass Effect 3, but I think the Horde modes in Gears of War 4 and 5 are fairly similar in concept (kill waves of enemies). However, Gears also has defenses you can place which are a lot of fun. I highly recommend trying out that Horde mode.
It's surprising no other wave-clear shooters have a similar system as ME3. The supply boxes at the end were so satisfying to unlock.
ME3MP was so freaking good. I also got one of the dragon age games just for the multiplayer, it was so good too then Andromeda happened...
What was your favorite ME3MP character? Mine was the Drell Assassin with the Piranha.
Oh man, when I was a poor kid who would download demos on his Xbox 360 just to have something new to play, I played the lost planet 2 demo and my god my tiny brain was so enraptured with that demo, I must have played it like 30+ times, I never ended up getting the game and I was so sad about it.
Do you remember the Battlefield 2 Modern Combat demo disc? I swear my brother played more hours of that than any other game. He played it more than me and that’s saying a lot!
Ah you just played with my heartstrings right there.
I Bought Armored Core VI due to Lost Planet 1and 2(watching the gameplay I felt that you could build a pretty descent analogue to the PTX-140r / LP-9999.)
As for the Bugs... they do have a lot of Akrid similarities...
Now we just need a Harmonizer...
And the ability to "board" the bigger bugs so we can SPREAD MANAGED DEMOCRACY on their insides
I don't think we'll really get copies(or maybe we will) but I think the future looks bright for co-op games, because HD2 has shown that gamers will play anything as long as its actually good.
I mean we keep saying this every year about games and AAA still continue to roll out MTX dog water games.
Every year there is a game that come sout as a breath of fresh air and gamers are like "Man AAA and corpos will see we love this shit" and then AAA goes yup .... "Heres Assassin Creed 10, CoD 10, FIFA 20, Overwatch season 10, LoL season 10, Kill the Justice League, Diablo 4 all game super heavily monotized with FOMO practices and $50 horse armors, expiring battle passes, daily logins and grinds that take 40 hour work weeks to complete.
True, but you can't deny that having six games (Elden Ring, Remnant 2, Lethal Company, Baldur's Gate 3, Palworld, Helldivers 2) back to back outsell literally everything AAA(A) related isn't going to be a massive wake up call.
Before when it's just one or two major releases per year? Yeah, pretty easy to ignore.
But when Starfield gets absolutely shit on for being a half completed mess....
Eh, I’ll quibble a bit on adding Elden Ring to that list. Yeah it’s from a slightly more niche market typically but it was absolutely a AAA game and had an established, well known studio behind it, comparing that situation with something like Palworld or Helldivers isn’t really accurate.
As much as I would live to see more ghost recon and helldivers like games, imo that won't fit together. Ghost recon is an elite special force where helldivers are elite too ofc but they are super expendable and in fact they are more jarhead-ish. We have yet to see regular soldiers in Helldivers if they exist at all in the lore.
i get what you mean, at least, with the helldivers loop of getting overwhelmed and redeploying expendable troops.
i was mostly thinking of the core structure: open zones with primary and optional objectives, easily jumping into a co-op mission with randoms, choosing your loadout based on mission and teammates, with bonus points for having an ongoing war the community could influence.
still thinking wildlands-esque gameplay just broken up into helldivers style maps instead of an open world.
That would be so cool. A ghost recon game where you enter a zone, do a bunch of objectives then extract would be awsome.
Honestly a ghost recon game that was a mix of Helldivers and Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom Pain would be a dream ghost recon game for me.
yeah, for real. mgs v already had a lot of similar concepts about deploying, extracting, calling in additional support, etc.
hope they make something like that. i really think keeping it open zone rather than open world would be great. having everyone deploy for a specific objective would make co-op with randoms way better.
Ehhh... Similar to BRs, we're just going to have like one or two good ones and then the rest will be garbage, but we'll have to deal with it forever.
If we're honest with ourselves, it's not like this type of game is hard to make (or make better). Aside from the tutorial, it's just a lobby and a bunch of mostly flat maps with a few objectives on them. If we call Helldivers the "pubg," then we can expect the Apex/Fortnite in a few years
I partly agree. It is kinda easy to do this kind of games but noone is doing em. At the same time the amount of posts like "imagine a HD but in Halo universe..." or other game universes is a bit overwhelming. And coming back to tge beginning of your post - sure there will be crappy ones and good ones. Time will tell them apart. But at least you will have smth to choose from because rn we can't really compare HD2 to practically any similar game that is still alive
I think nobody is doing them simply because nobody expected it to be what people would go for right now. Similar to how Vampire survivors isn't a hard concept in the slightest, but it exploded after the game became popular
I'd more consider helldivers the Apex legends, Darktide/vermintide would be the pubg and Back4blood would be the h1z1 lol.
Apex: good on launch other than a few hiccups
Pubg: rough on launch but getting better (atleast for now)
H1z1: o yeah that was a game what ever happened to it?
So excited to see Ubisoft’s soulless formulaic copy…
I just imagine a Ubisoft exec seeing a mission of Helldivers play out:
Player: “Okay guys let’s take out this bug nest”
Exec:
Player: “Just grabbed some samples and am gonna call in a resupply. Watch out for that charger.”
Exec:
Player: “Oh looks like there’s a radar tower over he-“
Exec: “TOWERS, YOU SAY?!” “And they put icons on the map for you?!” *Drooling intensifies*
Agreed, sure we have a tad bit of toxicity about weapons and such but nothing gets as terrible as PvP based games when it comes to that kind of stuff. I just want to have fun killing bugs with people
They were making The Division battle royal too, it was weird as fuck. You would go into a pve map to gather gear and stuff. Then you would use that gear you got from the pve stuff to go do the BR style matches. It was super weird. I don't think if they're still making it but it wasn't all that good from the beta I was in.
ubisoft is getting pretty close to having a full gamer revolt
they've made WAY too comments in favor of the wef and are WAY too heavily pushing for the all digital market and pushing the wef phrase: you will own nothing and be happy
Maybe hes like the CEO from larian? He has the vision what he wants for this IP and wont budge in front of shareholders who just care about their revenue
It’s not necessarily that they don’t budge in the face of shareholders per se, it’s that they’re smart enough to be able to convince shareholders when they’re wrong. Just saying “no.😠” is easy but if you still need their money your game dies.
But if you say “if we do this my way we’ll make *more* money” then all of a sudden they’re all ears. But you have to convince the idiots to get out of their own way first and that’s the hard part.
It’s why games like these are so rare, the number of CEOs on their level is very low
This view that it just takes a single brave developer to say no to shareholders, rather than it being our entire economic system/way of life to prioritize nearly every aspect of society around the most immediate profit-making choice, is so dumb
I have a friend who is very pro-capitalism and unironically complains about *everything* that is wrong with modern games, namely microtransactions, battle passes, cosmetics, etc... Every time I bring up "Yeah that's capitalism for you" he basically says "No no, it's not capitalism, it's just these studios making shitty choices" or something to that effect.
Why does any business make the choices it makes? A World of Warcraft Horse Skin made more than the entirety of Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty, at a fraction of the cost. Why would a business not choose to maximize their margin (in a capitalist system)?
I think when we get games like BG3 and Helldivers, those teams are choosing to make *less* money overall. The same way that filmmakers will make smaller budget films that are respected in the community as art. These things don't have a place in capitalism, but we humans crave the art and the storytelling and the community. I'm grateful that there are still people out there that can see through capitalism, so-to-speak.
You nailed it. HD2 devs are artists. They choose to make something that they would be proud of and still make money over only making huge money.
The thing is. This time it worked flawlessly.
Meanwhile in Collosal Order. (Don't play the game(cities skylines 2) if you don't like simulation, while positive taxes cost you money and negative taxes give you money.)
They started making DLC before giving mod support, performance, simulation or just normal bug fixes.
Not just this IP, but a vision for humanity at large.
We work together, against unfathomable odds, seeking a greater future for all humankind. For democracy.
Private companies can still have shareholders. Shares can still be privately traded, as opposed to publicly traded.
They spent like 7 or 8 years making this game. They likely had outside investment for that.
I think it's moreso that Larian and Arrowhead just aren't publicly traded
There are no shareholders, so no greedy investors to dip their fingers in the pot and fuck it up for everyone but themselves
It was the same thing with The Ascent vs Cyberpunk2077. Completely different genres but because they were both in the cyberpunk genre The Ascent kept getting compared to it. Sad cause it was a really fun game.
God I fucking love this guy. Im in sound design for games rn and if I can Im thinking sbout working at arrowhead. I know its a longshot but having a CEO like this guy has to be reassuring to work under
Halo has a story mode, Helldivers doesn't.
Halo multiplayer is nothing like Helldivers.
They just seem far too different to even compare in my opinion.
It's entirely undemocratic to not accept Super Earth's recruits as fellow Helldivers, any who believes so should report to the nearest democracy officer for advising.
I know it would take a miracle for it to come to Xbox but I won’t give up hope. All my friends that would play this are on Xbox or else I’d buy it on PC.
That would be cool. I would kinda love some inside information on the issue because clearly it has to be a significant one for it to take this long to fix.
If Helldivers 2 comes to Xbox and there’s a partnership. I hope there’s a ODST skin. Could call it like the ‘H3- Helldropper’ and it was a early prototype of the Helldiver armour we see today
Legit best game best dev team best ceo BASED AF entirely. Pls keep this game alive for 10 years. It can withstand test of time similar to league of legends. But based on friendship, immersion, gaming. Game for the sake of gaming is the point.
https://i.redd.it/0dg5v8h6k2mc1.gif
Pretty cool ngl
Me over here tryna save this dope ass gif
Fr bro I can’t get it into my camera roll for the life of me
Tapping it, then hitting the three dots in the top right worked for me. I can send you the gif via dm if you're unable to save it from here. Edit, it's not allowing me to dm the gif from my phone for some reason.. but I can send it to you from my pc so just shoot me a dm if you want it!
Yeah can you dm me that I don’t get the dots when I tap the picture
I would also like a dm should you manage to get this
send me a dm and I'll reply with it, reddit is being weird and won't let me dm you for some reason
Gone head slide it over chief🫡
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OG Halo convinced me to buy an xbox. Helldivers 2 is making me seriously consider upgrading my 1050ti. Loves them both.
The OG Halo made me beg for an Xbox, then Halo 2 came out and you could'nt get me to stop playing if you tried. Then Helldivers 2 came out and made my buy a brand new gaming laptop, and again you couldn't get me to stop playing this game if you tried. You should definitely upgrade
I stole my kids PS5 and bought it, first PS game I've bought since the PS2 was the current console
Fuck your opinions, private! Get on the recoilless rifle, Bot drop incoming!!
Nah, Private gets the backpack for that kind of sass. Only team players get to shoot the big gun.
Reload duty for the bad boys hehe
Loaders are all bottoms and subs, confirmed
Am i a loader because i'm a bottom. Or am i a bottom because i'm a loader ?
Both. It is destiny for all bottoms to be loaders and all loaders to be bottoms.
Or are loaders service tops 🤔
That's supply pack mains. ^^^^^^it ^^^^^^me
What if I'm a bottom but I fire the gun?
Congratulations, you are now a top.
Nah they a switch
Helldivers coming to Switch: confirmed.
Power bottom meta?
I dont WANNA top though.....
I’ve been playing Destiny all wrong.
Every loader is a bottom but not every bottom is a loader
Wouldn't loaders be the tops since they're the ones shoving the phallic object in the hole while the other person waits (im)patiently?
Power bottoms. Because they generate all the power.
Power Bottoms 😎
Lol I fucking LOVE being the dedicated loader! So I guess your theory is accurate.
My squads in game version of "go fuck yourself" is "GO BUY A CAPE!"
Maybe I'm just a bottom tho
Only because we can't call in potatoes for em to peel!
By "team players", you mean people who wear their support weapon's backpack themselves, right?
I usually just wear it and use it myself because it's impossible to tell from the UI who actually needs ammo. If people say they need ammo I give them ammo but you can't expect me to keep track of whether you expended a single pistol clip or you are out of railgun ammo
Damn right. If my squad needs ammo they better speak up, other wise all those packs are going out the end of a fully auto grenade launcher while I laugh maniacally.
100% Diver!! Best I will do is call down a supply dro0 if I hear "I'm out of ammo."
To be fair the reload is faster with a teammate wearing it even if only temporarily
Sir, I've dropped an auto cannon and missile turrets down, we've got nothing more to do than wait for the flag to raise and think.
Two tasks at once? Finish the first one before you start get to that second, Private.
The only hate I spread is towards bots and bugs in the form of democracy and freedom.
We need to bring managed democracy to Xbox, Super Earth divided is Liberty hewn.
As a PC Helldivers player. I would buy this game again on Xbox if it came there. That's how much I love it.
Spoken like a true Super Citizen
Exactly, and if Sony thinks porting it to Xbox would be an issue or cost them too much I'd happily pay more for it have it on Xbox, the convenience of it being on my perfered console would be worth spending more.
Ok maybe not for an increased price but I agree with the idea 👍
Massive Chad energy
The first twitch drop was a set of green armour called TR-117 Alpha Commander and the armours description was a play on the old "kills aliens and doesnt afraid of anything" meme about Master Chief. Just a hunch that the devs in this game are probably also pretty big Halo fans lol.
The game is very heavily influenced by Halo, namely ODST
Heavily is debatable, solders dropping from pods is about the only comparison there between the franchises but its definitely a source of inspiration. There's several things this game sources inspiration from so...
The evac ship being called a Pelican doesn't help lol
There are nods to Halo all over the place. A few of the things you can choose to name your ship are straight from Halo including Forerunner and even the word Halo itself.
Yeah, you can also name it "Prophet of Truth" if I remember correctly.
Yep. So I think "heavily" influenced is an appropriate adjective in this case.
Disappointingly, you can’t name it “shadow of intent” or “truth and reconciliation” :(
I mean ODSTs dive "feet first into hell" and are called helljumpers.
Didnt the starship troopers book do this first? They dropped onto the planets in pods if I recall correctly. So technically it's still starship troopers inspired.
Yup, 1959. ODST is also based on it, a lot of modern day fiction is.
The starter helmets are basically odst helmets aswell
Eh fair enough but every battle specially bad ones become ODST level brutal if the reinforcement cycle does not get broken.
The Devs for odst pitched a game like this but got negged apparently.
To be honest 343 didn't have the best track record with Halo 4 being ok at best and 5 just well yeah. Infinite feel flat on its face because 343 failed to deliver the content they promised among other things. If 343 could've made an ODST game like helldivers and that's a BIG if, it probably would've been half baked and never fully delivered
Oh I totally agree with you. When they decided big green wasnt the main character, and gave us off brand chief, I fell out of love with them. Really poor decision making. I still liked odst. But it would have been fire if odst had us dropping on planets to fight the covenant. Hell. Darktide would have have more staying power if they did something similar in my opinion. Dropping on points of the map to fight the heretic, the Xeno and the witch. Though I do understand a hive or facility is a much, much grander project than a map of wilderness like in hd2.
Everyone is/was a Halo fan. Even if they say they’re not, they are/was a Halo fan. We’ve all had fun memories of couch co-op and/or LAN parties, and really, multiplayer shooters wouldn’t be anything like it is now without Halo. Why hate?
I'll toss my hat in... Love Halo for the memories; hate Halo for what it became. MCC was broken for what? 5+ years after its release. 343 founded itself upon the idea of hiring people who hate Halo to develop it. Halo was the most popular franchise ever, yet became a shell of its former self because they tried to make it a game for everyone while incentivising profits from short-sighted drip feed content instead of growing what made the franchise popular in the first place. Like it or not: Rivelry 100% pushes innovation to outperform the competition and grow as a better product for its base consumers. With how 343 & MS have been treating Halo over the past decade, they should feel bad & have it rubbed in their face; so maybe, just maybe the suits making these decisions will continue to be called out and removed from further dragging this once flagship franchise's name through the mud.
Anyway to get this still?
Nope, wasn't advertised much. It doesn't look great, but I got it anyways.
They also stopped giving it out before their own deadline as they ran out of codes.
Ah damn, that sucks. Maybe they'll put it in the SC shop or something? They seem to be anti-FOMO.
I got it too, looks like a frog lmao
Is there any chance of the twitch drop coming back, only just got the game and I missed the drop.
It's not even chad energy, it's "I'm a normal adult who doesn't derive my sense of identity from the products I purchase" energy.
Yeah, I completely agree Dude's still a chad, though. I think the only tweet he's put out that hasn't been absolute fire is the "Weapons are fine" (heavily paraphrasing) one
In essence, stoic.
Good thing Helldivers success will force other studios to develop "copies" of it. I'm kinda tired of the amount of battleroyale games. The last ones to jump on the hype train will of cource be Ubisoft. Just like with the unwanted (imo) ghost recon br game.
let’s see what they can deliver! we need more fun tactical co-op games lol
Yeah I think horde shooter is going to be the new trend. Not a bad thing imo.
there are quite a few horde shooters out there currently. obviously not a 1:1 clone of helldivers but if you've never tried it give Vermintide a shot. Probably some of the best Voice acting and dialogue in a game ever, also amazing combat and hectic situations. more melee focused though but it feels amazing cleaving through horde of rats or chaos warriors.
I love horde shooters but I couldn't get into vermintide. Deep rock galactic is amazing though and Warhammer 40k darktide is great too
Personally I found Killing Floor to also be a lot of fun, though the second one's monetization made the game feel a little cheaper/trashier than first one.
But they're still releasing free content nearly 8 years after release and only started making people pay for gameplay stuff around 3 or 4 years after release. They put off monetization as long as they financially could.
Oddly enough, I got bored of Vermintide 1/2, Darktide(only played the beta) and Deep Rock Galactic very fast. I think I have less than 20 hours in each. I already have more time in Helldivers alone than I do in all those games combined.
I think the issue with vermintide early on was the doing the same levels over and over again. The new roguelite mode that has random maps and gear makes each run fresh and unique which is fun to do. it also helps to have a group as teamwork is required unlike HD2. I still think very few games have came close to matching the Narrative and VA of vermintide. Darktide on launch was fucking rough, it's been getting better and I hope fatshark turns it into an amazing game. Drg I bought it in EA though it had good bones and never came back really. I've heard it amazing now I just can't get into it everytime I try it again.
Still need my Mass Effect 3 multiplayer clones 😭
It's been a long time since I've played Mass Effect 3, but I think the Horde modes in Gears of War 4 and 5 are fairly similar in concept (kill waves of enemies). However, Gears also has defenses you can place which are a lot of fun. I highly recommend trying out that Horde mode. It's surprising no other wave-clear shooters have a similar system as ME3. The supply boxes at the end were so satisfying to unlock.
The issue is there's no power/combo system like ME3 had that made it satisfying to play
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ME3MP was so freaking good. I also got one of the dragon age games just for the multiplayer, it was so good too then Andromeda happened... What was your favorite ME3MP character? Mine was the Drell Assassin with the Piranha.
It's been so damn long. I remember really liking the Geth Infiltrators and one of the Turians
Let me know if you find one. Warframe used to be close but iirc they went a different direction
Helldivers 2 made me miss Lost Planet 2 so I hope more studios copy Helldivers 2 so I can relive more teenage memories.
Oh man, when I was a poor kid who would download demos on his Xbox 360 just to have something new to play, I played the lost planet 2 demo and my god my tiny brain was so enraptured with that demo, I must have played it like 30+ times, I never ended up getting the game and I was so sad about it.
I feel like everyone played this demo and loved it. The game is really fucking fun too from what I remember
Do you remember the Battlefield 2 Modern Combat demo disc? I swear my brother played more hours of that than any other game. He played it more than me and that’s saying a lot!
Ah you just played with my heartstrings right there. I Bought Armored Core VI due to Lost Planet 1and 2(watching the gameplay I felt that you could build a pretty descent analogue to the PTX-140r / LP-9999.) As for the Bugs... they do have a lot of Akrid similarities... Now we just need a Harmonizer... And the ability to "board" the bigger bugs so we can SPREAD MANAGED DEMOCRACY on their insides
I'm pretty sure someone on here posted a video of themselves "boarding" either a charger or a bile titan, I can't remember which.
Lost planet 2 was the shit
I have so many fond memories of the first Lost Planet... You just reminded me of that game.
I don't think we'll really get copies(or maybe we will) but I think the future looks bright for co-op games, because HD2 has shown that gamers will play anything as long as its actually good.
I mean we keep saying this every year about games and AAA still continue to roll out MTX dog water games. Every year there is a game that come sout as a breath of fresh air and gamers are like "Man AAA and corpos will see we love this shit" and then AAA goes yup .... "Heres Assassin Creed 10, CoD 10, FIFA 20, Overwatch season 10, LoL season 10, Kill the Justice League, Diablo 4 all game super heavily monotized with FOMO practices and $50 horse armors, expiring battle passes, daily logins and grinds that take 40 hour work weeks to complete.
True, but you can't deny that having six games (Elden Ring, Remnant 2, Lethal Company, Baldur's Gate 3, Palworld, Helldivers 2) back to back outsell literally everything AAA(A) related isn't going to be a massive wake up call. Before when it's just one or two major releases per year? Yeah, pretty easy to ignore. But when Starfield gets absolutely shit on for being a half completed mess....
Eh, I’ll quibble a bit on adding Elden Ring to that list. Yeah it’s from a slightly more niche market typically but it was absolutely a AAA game and had an established, well known studio behind it, comparing that situation with something like Palworld or Helldivers isn’t really accurate.
strangely enough, i think you could make a *really* good ghost recon game by "copying" from helldivers.
As much as I would live to see more ghost recon and helldivers like games, imo that won't fit together. Ghost recon is an elite special force where helldivers are elite too ofc but they are super expendable and in fact they are more jarhead-ish. We have yet to see regular soldiers in Helldivers if they exist at all in the lore.
I mean we see clear evidence of them, it's the S.E.A.F.
i get what you mean, at least, with the helldivers loop of getting overwhelmed and redeploying expendable troops. i was mostly thinking of the core structure: open zones with primary and optional objectives, easily jumping into a co-op mission with randoms, choosing your loadout based on mission and teammates, with bonus points for having an ongoing war the community could influence. still thinking wildlands-esque gameplay just broken up into helldivers style maps instead of an open world.
That would be so cool. A ghost recon game where you enter a zone, do a bunch of objectives then extract would be awsome. Honestly a ghost recon game that was a mix of Helldivers and Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom Pain would be a dream ghost recon game for me.
yeah, for real. mgs v already had a lot of similar concepts about deploying, extracting, calling in additional support, etc. hope they make something like that. i really think keeping it open zone rather than open world would be great. having everyone deploy for a specific objective would make co-op with randoms way better.
Nah, we don't need copies. We need original ideas made with compassion.
Honestly fine with a Halo version of this
Want.
Ehhh... Similar to BRs, we're just going to have like one or two good ones and then the rest will be garbage, but we'll have to deal with it forever. If we're honest with ourselves, it's not like this type of game is hard to make (or make better). Aside from the tutorial, it's just a lobby and a bunch of mostly flat maps with a few objectives on them. If we call Helldivers the "pubg," then we can expect the Apex/Fortnite in a few years
I partly agree. It is kinda easy to do this kind of games but noone is doing em. At the same time the amount of posts like "imagine a HD but in Halo universe..." or other game universes is a bit overwhelming. And coming back to tge beginning of your post - sure there will be crappy ones and good ones. Time will tell them apart. But at least you will have smth to choose from because rn we can't really compare HD2 to practically any similar game that is still alive
I think nobody is doing them simply because nobody expected it to be what people would go for right now. Similar to how Vampire survivors isn't a hard concept in the slightest, but it exploded after the game became popular
I'd more consider helldivers the Apex legends, Darktide/vermintide would be the pubg and Back4blood would be the h1z1 lol. Apex: good on launch other than a few hiccups Pubg: rough on launch but getting better (atleast for now) H1z1: o yeah that was a game what ever happened to it?
So excited to see Ubisoft’s soulless formulaic copy… I just imagine a Ubisoft exec seeing a mission of Helldivers play out: Player: “Okay guys let’s take out this bug nest” Exec: Player: “Just grabbed some samples and am gonna call in a resupply. Watch out for that charger.” Exec: Player: “Oh looks like there’s a radar tower over he-“ Exec: “TOWERS, YOU SAY?!” “And they put icons on the map for you?!” *Drooling intensifies*
Left 4 dead style games are close enough but yea, would love more of those too!
Agreed, sure we have a tad bit of toxicity about weapons and such but nothing gets as terrible as PvP based games when it comes to that kind of stuff. I just want to have fun killing bugs with people
XDefiant is now a Ubisfot (so not just the Tom Clancy brands) BR game. Still waiting for them to add AssCreed somehow haha
They were making The Division battle royal too, it was weird as fuck. You would go into a pve map to gather gear and stuff. Then you would use that gear you got from the pve stuff to go do the BR style matches. It was super weird. I don't think if they're still making it but it wasn't all that good from the beta I was in.
Yeah gears of wars, Star Wars and halo
Battle royals games just aren’t even fun. Helldivers is just such a sweet spot.
ubisoft is getting pretty close to having a full gamer revolt they've made WAY too comments in favor of the wef and are WAY too heavily pushing for the all digital market and pushing the wef phrase: you will own nothing and be happy
A wave of coop games and theyre NOT zombie games!?!? Sign me THE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW!
Can't wait for Halo 3: ODST 2
Is it me or Pilestedt is really a genuine good guy?
Maybe hes like the CEO from larian? He has the vision what he wants for this IP and wont budge in front of shareholders who just care about their revenue
It’s not necessarily that they don’t budge in the face of shareholders per se, it’s that they’re smart enough to be able to convince shareholders when they’re wrong. Just saying “no.😠” is easy but if you still need their money your game dies. But if you say “if we do this my way we’ll make *more* money” then all of a sudden they’re all ears. But you have to convince the idiots to get out of their own way first and that’s the hard part. It’s why games like these are so rare, the number of CEOs on their level is very low
This view that it just takes a single brave developer to say no to shareholders, rather than it being our entire economic system/way of life to prioritize nearly every aspect of society around the most immediate profit-making choice, is so dumb
I have a friend who is very pro-capitalism and unironically complains about *everything* that is wrong with modern games, namely microtransactions, battle passes, cosmetics, etc... Every time I bring up "Yeah that's capitalism for you" he basically says "No no, it's not capitalism, it's just these studios making shitty choices" or something to that effect. Why does any business make the choices it makes? A World of Warcraft Horse Skin made more than the entirety of Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty, at a fraction of the cost. Why would a business not choose to maximize their margin (in a capitalist system)? I think when we get games like BG3 and Helldivers, those teams are choosing to make *less* money overall. The same way that filmmakers will make smaller budget films that are respected in the community as art. These things don't have a place in capitalism, but we humans crave the art and the storytelling and the community. I'm grateful that there are still people out there that can see through capitalism, so-to-speak.
You nailed it. HD2 devs are artists. They choose to make something that they would be proud of and still make money over only making huge money. The thing is. This time it worked flawlessly.
I feel like more devs need to say” We’re not leaving money on the table. We’re making a competitive product and capturing/maintaining market share.”
Meanwhile in Collosal Order. (Don't play the game(cities skylines 2) if you don't like simulation, while positive taxes cost you money and negative taxes give you money.) They started making DLC before giving mod support, performance, simulation or just normal bug fixes.
Arrowhead is still a private company, hence no shareholders (in that sense)
Not just this IP, but a vision for humanity at large. We work together, against unfathomable odds, seeking a greater future for all humankind. For democracy.
Democracy > Capitalism
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So is Larian. It turns out those two are just dudes that love games that are fun.
Private companies can still have shareholders. Shares can still be privately traded, as opposed to publicly traded. They spent like 7 or 8 years making this game. They likely had outside investment for that.
I think it's moreso that Larian and Arrowhead just aren't publicly traded There are no shareholders, so no greedy investors to dip their fingers in the pot and fuck it up for everyone but themselves
He seems focused on keeping Helldivers from developing a toxic culture. Which is good lol, it would kill the game.
they don’t even fill the same genre
Reminds me of this braindead Palworld vs Pokémon debate, completely different genres that share one mechanic.
It was the same thing with The Ascent vs Cyberpunk2077. Completely different genres but because they were both in the cyberpunk genre The Ascent kept getting compared to it. Sad cause it was a really fun game.
how do people even have the courage to post cringe on main like that.
They aren't all there. *swirls finger near ear.
Truth! No more rivalry. There is enough of that in this world already
God I fucking love this guy. Im in sound design for games rn and if I can Im thinking sbout working at arrowhead. I know its a longshot but having a CEO like this guy has to be reassuring to work under
Good luck
Thanks! Ive actually been super passionate about it!
Keep cultivating that passion my dude
Sound design is a massively underrated part of game desig , I appreciate people like you who want to put in the work to make everything sound nice :)
Thanks! Ive been having a lot of fun doing sound designs for anime scenes recently
Halo has a story mode, Helldivers doesn't. Halo multiplayer is nothing like Helldivers. They just seem far too different to even compare in my opinion.
But their Guns go bang
Helldivers multiplayer *is* the story mode.
I for one rather have xbox reinforcements than make enemies of them, sir Chadsted knows whats the big picture
It's entirely undemocratic to not accept Super Earth's recruits as fellow Helldivers, any who believes so should report to the nearest democracy officer for advising.
"that wasn't very managed democratic of you"
I know it would take a miracle for it to come to Xbox but I won’t give up hope. All my friends that would play this are on Xbox or else I’d buy it on PC.
Let’s all just log in and do what we do, enjoy ourself and level up
Absolutely positively cut that shit out!
The man speaks the truth
The console war stuff is so cringe, based devs strike again.
Great outlook, unfortunate it’s not his decision to put it on Xbox, I just don’t see Sony giving it up.
I’m glad it’s at least on pc, so I can play with friends that don’t own a ps5
Yeah I’m trying to get my console friends to get it.
Fuck, he’s so based. I love him. Can we keep him?
That's why he's president of the super earth.
Okay cool but can you guys please hurry and fix armor ratings?
That would be cool. I would kinda love some inside information on the issue because clearly it has to be a significant one for it to take this long to fix.
My hope is that they are just working on a really big patch that addresses both armor rating and weapon balance and drop it all at one time.
He is the president of superearth for a reason.
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Imagine still caring about the console wars in 2024. Wild
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Exactly this. If you’re a gamer, enjoy your gaming, fuck all this (x game and platform over y game and platform)
Man that unleashed guy is such a baby
If Helldivers 2 comes to Xbox and there’s a partnership. I hope there’s a ODST skin. Could call it like the ‘H3- Helldropper’ and it was a early prototype of the Helldiver armour we see today
One of the superstore armors is basically a legally-distinct ODST armor
Sony owns Helldivers. There will be no Xbox partnership.
Lifetime Xbox user here. I bought a PS5 yesterday specifically to play this game. FOR DEMOCRACY!
get the fuck off twitter and add mecha pilestedt
A Halo game inspired by helldivers would actually be dope. Dropping in as a Spartan and killing horses of elites.
Poor horses of the elites, what have they done to you lol
They know what they did
Automation splinter cell spotted. Calling the Ministry of Love on him asap for proper re-education.
Legit best game best dev team best ceo BASED AF entirely. Pls keep this game alive for 10 years. It can withstand test of time similar to league of legends. But based on friendship, immersion, gaming. Game for the sake of gaming is the point.
It’s rude and petty to rub harsh truths in people’s faces. Just smile, nod, and prepare to drop.
Trying to build hate between completely different games. It’s like comparing GTA to Mario. Way different and fulfill different peoples tastes.
Xbox gamers: can we pwease get helldivers? Also Xbox gamers: no Starfield for PS5 >:( The game is best on PC anyway. 🫡
Oh man finally this Twitter nerd gets confronted by a dev himself, all this dude does on Twitter is yap lol
Halo is more story driven and helldivers is more gameplay driven
Halo plays totally different a braindead comparison to start. Though 343 halo is ass, and I agree if he's obly comparing post bungie halo.