Why Everyone Is Playing The New Helldivers Game - Helldivers 2

Helldivers 2 has become so popular so quickly that the servers are dying trying to handle the amount of people trying to log in. Truly a great game.

Everyone talks about the bugs but the absolute brutality of fighting the bots is what makes this game for me. Rockets and lasers and mortars all just popping off together. It makes you feel like you’re on a massive two-sided battle when it’s really just 4 vs. 400.

I think the best moment I’ve had so far is where we had this huge line of Bots coming our way, artillery falling around us, and waiting for extract. I pop a cluster bomb, another hits a 120mm, then another a 500kg. The last guy is hitting the last of his auto cannon rounds as the Bot line goes up in flames, drop ship lands, and we pull out. Super cinematic, awesome time. I love this game, 10/10

When youre the sole survivor of a high level mission that went to hell it really give you that feeling of being a hero. Being surrounded, No stims, left destroyer left orbit, low ammo, picking up dead comrades weapons, whilst diving for cover and only shooting at targets in the way of the drop ship thats about to depart in 15 seconds. Crazy feeling when you actually pull it off single-handedly saving the mission. My teammate sacrificed himself to throw reinforcement, you bet your ass imma get to that fucking ship.

That ODST into Helldivers landing transition was fucking sick.

I think everybody just wants something that is actually fun and not some sweaty shooter or extraction game that pressures you into taking them seriously and playing competitively. People just wanna have a blast with their homies for a change. I haven't even got to play this yet, but it gives off the same kinda vibes as playing halo splitscreen with my friends back in the day. Just good fun with friends shooting the time away together.

I just love how 3 different companies came up with the "you shoot bugs with friends" concept and created absolute bangers independently ( it being Helldivers, Starship Troopers: Extermination, and Deep Rock Galactic )

The music from the game where you and your teammates enter the atmosphere with the pods reminds me of the Pacific rim movie when the main characters enter the Jeager robot.

Just wait until they add vehicles like apcs, tanks, and mechs (Mechs are confirmed).

this game gave me the rare pleasure of trying to log in, it saying "cant log on in, server at capacity" and all i do is smile

The aiming system in this game is one of the most novel and interesting ones I've seen. It is insanely satisfying to just actually have a consistent point of reference for where your bullets will go at all times, and for the game to be designed around it. To the point where I kind of wonder why noone tried this before.

Everyone talking about the massive scale battle. There’s a old game called planetside 2 who did this. Issue was it actually needed all those players. They’re having 1000 guns shooting in hell divers but most are NPCs. In planetside. If you want a 1k gun fight. You need 1k players. It was like seeing the planets align. It was crazy when it did happen. The night lit up with lasers and explosions. Good times. Games dead now unfortunately. Hell divers and planetside are actually pretty similar. Anyone who’s played planetside will understand what I mean. I’m glad hell divers succeeded in this kind of game. Those nights running with groups of 20 ppl in a 3 hours fire fight. Even when you got off. Fighting for a base. It would last a week in real life time. I’m definitely getting hell divers.

See, what I love about it is that it's a fun, arcadey game that still focuses ""grounded"" details like tossing mags away, limb injuries, squad-operated weapons, the environment actually affecting your movement a lot... Once, I drowned because I ragdolled into a sufficiently deep puddle and couldn't get out of the mud fast enough.

FOR ROCKA AND STO- Wait... Wrong bugs, FOR FREEDOM! LIBERTY AND SUPER EAAAARRTH!!!

“Damn no kills” “visually it was awesome, morale boosting even” - Drewski is the type of energy we all wish we had from our teammates.

Brings back memories of diving prone under sentry gun fire as they mow down the hordes pouring onto the objective. Nice to see the enjoyable gameplay mechanics and loop from the near 10 year old twin stick shooter brought into a three dimensional TPS.

These Automaton firefights feel so good, because it feels like a modern firefight, where you're both missing a lot to get a hit. Between the bots often missing dozens of rounds at a time past you, and you missing shots when you're rotating and stabilizing, it feels so real.

Crazy how this game blew up. But it just shows how much people wanted a fun game after every Triple A failures in the past. Absolutely justified! Bringing freedom to the gaming industry and showing every big studio how the f*ck its done!

"The pit of death" can be blown up with a grenade. It's not a bug nest but you can still blow it up

Man I’ve been seeing yt videos about Helldivers 2 and everyone’s gameplay looks so different and even more fun I just get swallowed by it even if it is 1 hour gameplay. Wish I could play it but gotta wait at least a few months to buy it hope it keeps this fun and with good support. Great vid!