SO as I've now completed a couple operations on the hardest difficulty in the game, lets write a review!
Being a big Helldivers 1 fan, it's pretty interesting seeing this game explode in popularity, and I think it's deserved. This game can essentially be described as Helldivers 1 in a new perspective with a shiny new engine, though of course there are many differences in gameplay and features.
Most notably, quite a bit is missing from the first game. There are no weapon upgrades, vehicles, gadgets such as the healing drone, you cannot save loadouts, a 3rd faction is missing, etc. I Hope all these little things will be added in due time.
What's here though is excellent, there is some really masterful gunplay here and the enemies force some great teamwork, simply put it's extremely engaging to me. You now have limited respawns and are timed much harsher, so it adds another layer of intensity as you need to haul ass. The actual gameplay itself is an easy 5/5.
Everything outside of the gameplay though, can be improved. As you may know there are a lot of crashes and dissconnects, which is interesting as it runs flawlessly, yk, when it doesn't crash. The system to getting new gear is a bit odd and extremely grindy, but I think it'll suffice, the first game was also a monumental grind. Another bit of the outside-gameplay thoughts, just like the first game, there is WAY too much downtime between missions. What I mean is, when you finish a mission, it'll take what feels like 5 minutes to get loaded, past all the stats, and back into the ship ready to go again. It is a pacing killer honestly, they need to give an option to skip.
Lastly the matchmaking is worse in this one. This game has like, a 100x larger playerbase than the first game, yet it's easier to find lobbies in the first. Y'know why? Because 1 had a server browser, and their auto-joining actually worked. You could consistently join full teams in 1, in this game I find myself scouring around for a full team and just ending up join a singular guy on a ship doing nothing. This needs to be fixed ASAP.
I did a lot of nit-picking and complaining, I didn't even mention the kernal-level anti-cheat, but don't let all this put you off. This is still a legitimately awesome game that I'm extremely confident will only get better with time. I have no doubt Arrowhead will look to improve this game in the future, and it might lead to my score raising. I would recommend joining the fight for Super Earth :)
Being a big Helldivers 1 fan, it's pretty interesting seeing this game explode in popularity, and I think it's deserved. This game can essentially be described as Helldivers 1 in a new perspective with a shiny new engine, though of course there are many differences in gameplay and features.
Most notably, quite a bit is missing from the first game. There are no weapon upgrades, vehicles, gadgets such as the healing drone, you cannot save loadouts, a 3rd faction is missing, etc. I Hope all these little things will be added in due time.
What's here though is excellent, there is some really masterful gunplay here and the enemies force some great teamwork, simply put it's extremely engaging to me. You now have limited respawns and are timed much harsher, so it adds another layer of intensity as you need to haul ass. The actual gameplay itself is an easy 5/5.
Everything outside of the gameplay though, can be improved. As you may know there are a lot of crashes and dissconnects, which is interesting as it runs flawlessly, yk, when it doesn't crash. The system to getting new gear is a bit odd and extremely grindy, but I think it'll suffice, the first game was also a monumental grind. Another bit of the outside-gameplay thoughts, just like the first game, there is WAY too much downtime between missions. What I mean is, when you finish a mission, it'll take what feels like 5 minutes to get loaded, past all the stats, and back into the ship ready to go again. It is a pacing killer honestly, they need to give an option to skip.
Lastly the matchmaking is worse in this one. This game has like, a 100x larger playerbase than the first game, yet it's easier to find lobbies in the first. Y'know why? Because 1 had a server browser, and their auto-joining actually worked. You could consistently join full teams in 1, in this game I find myself scouring around for a full team and just ending up join a singular guy on a ship doing nothing. This needs to be fixed ASAP.
I did a lot of nit-picking and complaining, I didn't even mention the kernal-level anti-cheat, but don't let all this put you off. This is still a legitimately awesome game that I'm extremely confident will only get better with time. I have no doubt Arrowhead will look to improve this game in the future, and it might lead to my score raising. I would recommend joining the fight for Super Earth :)