nanoUFOThe wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook
BigFigOkay yes, but helldivers is still filled to the brim with bugs. Not quite an equal comparison
Edit: wild that fanboys will down vote you for simply stating a fact
ThrowawayOnLemmyPeople talk like it’s game breaking, or completely unplayable. But I have an absolute blast playing this game every night with my friends. Bugs be damned.
I wish the game had single player stuff, it looks quite fun.
halcyoncmdrYou can play the entire game without anyone else. Just close your party and pick a mission. No one will be able to join your in-progress mission if your party is closed. It’s not even that difficult until the higher difficulties, you’ll just spend more time doing things alone without having a full team to sweep through enemies and objectives.
The game is built around playing with a group though, that is how it is intended to be played from the ground up.
I might give it a go, all the reviews I read talked about the multiplayer requirements for the missions and gameplay.
How good is it solo? Have you tried it?
It 100% intends you to play with others. It is not meant to be played single player, it just can be if you insist. You will not get the same experience.
That being said, I’ve played a ton on PC with no mic, just using the in game target and item marking system and a couple text messages occasionally, without any issue. Playing with randoms isn’t a big issue most of the time.
Just don’t take it too seriously. Half of the fun to be honest is not noticing someone threw a stratagem for a 500kg bomb into that crater you’re jumping into kill the bugs and dying to a massive explosion. The game tells you everything a player calls something in and there’s a light from God showing you where it’s going, but sometimes you just miss it. Or the guy was prepping to throw it and died so they dropped it at their feet.
Just don’t take anything too seriously. It’s not that kind of game.
Thank you for the honest take. Sounds like I am going to skip out on this one. Rather learn this way than spend money or deal with the refund process.
It is a great game even if it essentially required multiplayer. You might be able to borrow a friend’s copy through steam’s family library sharing or something like that to try out.
There’s no like ranking system or anything to worry about messing up a friend’s account as a new player.
ForesterI can regularly run suicide evictions as a solo. The trick is to not die because the forced respawns really fuck you over.
Same but i either have an network error or the game closes every other game, which isn't great. Especially after 20 minutes into a mission. I would say i only finish 3 out of 5 games usually. Don't get me wrong, i played like 150 hours, it's still not okay
I had the same issues, was even worse for me. I only got to play 1/3 missions, and had to restart Helldivers everytime I got the disconnection error.
But I upgraded my cpu, and now I have not had a single disconnection error since. Not sure if it’s correlated, but it’s nice not crazhing anymore
I damned those bugs myself with a combo of napalm, flamethrower, and incendiary breaker.
But in all seriousness there are some huge bugs that can ruin a run you spent almost 40 minutes on… So I also bring a 500kg to deal with those.
the way a 500kg can light up the darkest night, its a beautiful thing
I have fun playing it too but it’s definitely one of the buggiest games I’ve played, and while most of them aren’t game breaking, I have experienced a few pretty bad ones. One of my favourites put giant holes in the terrain across the entire map, causing me to get stuck and die several times lol.
CrackhappyI would care about dying a lot if it actually mattered.
Some days I have to restart helldivers after every mission because it crashes during the extraction cutscene.
It’s ok to admit games aren’t perfect while also enjoying them. Helldivers is fun but it’s no paragon of the industry.
Must be a Windows issue. Never once had it crash on Linux.
Same i have friends that have crashed perhaps once or twice a week on windows.But never been an issue for me on linux. Only had it for the last month tho. Could be an older fixed issue as well.
PerogiBoiNot a word of a lie. Filled to the brim with bugs and automatons.
The bugs are quite literally a feature.
There’d be half a game if they took out the Terminids.
Yeah, it’s bonkers it’s been out for months and months and the Spear is still completely broken.
AnyOldName3I just left a game where someone was using the Spear to great effect, although they were finding it a bit of a pain to lock. That’s pretty different to completely broken.
I’m shocked. Every time I use it, I can’t get a lock on anything. When I manage to, it works great, but it’s not worth it for me over the quasar.
redfellowSpear isn’t in a good place, but it works after you learn its kinks. I wish they made the locking work better and added a range indicator when you are aiming it too close, so you know why it’s not locking in that case.
Yeah, in one game I was having issues locking at a big distance. Maybe the hitboxes of the hills the hulk was running across were being funky, so it was thinking it was out of sight. Idk.
We killed 2 billion of them a week ago, but they just keep coming.
Your comment’s score has convinced me that the post is just paid shillery to promote helldivers.
Or we just have no fucking idea what they are talking about and the game works fine for us.
I find the game in general pretty mid. I’d rather play DRG 100% of the time.
That was true when it launched, but past month I’ve had 0 crashing in about 100 hours of gametime. It was unfortunate, but it’s not filled to brim with bugs, unless you’re referring to the Terminids 😄