Helldivers 2

nedd

I hadn't got the medal rewards for the last Major Order. I just turned on my PS5 to check again and it just came through.

95 medals.

I finally got the Incendiary Breaker, I bought the Warbound the other night in the hopes of getting the medal.

I played last night and ended up in a session with another guy, we did 2 Extreme missions (my first time at that level), got through them but it was very hairy. It was my first time fighting a Bile Titan, and the number of Chargers was unreal.

Grumpypants

The incendiary is great for the Bugs as it sets them on fire and has a nice spread. But over all I've found the Premium stuff to be less impressive than the standard warbond unlocks. Which I guess is good to put some of the silly pay to win arguments in their place.

Also annoying that I just unlocked the Rail gun and backpack shield as they nerf them :)

nedd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121878629#Comment_121878629

I'm level 18 and grinding to get level 20 so I can get the Railgun and Shield. I know they are nerf'd but still looking forward to trying them out.

I typically don't go for micro-transactions, and I agree that all of the best weapons are available in the free tier. I picked up the Incendiary Breaker a few times when teammates died and I loved it.

Overall I am having a great time playing this game, 26 hours of play for €50 invenstment. Can't really complain about that.

Varik

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121879358#Comment_121879358

Railgun still good but you've just to use it in unsafe mode, before it did well in safe mode.

Hold reload button and you'll get the extra options and then on PS5 hit the d pad left to cycle options on left and down to cycle options on bottom (not sure about PC), certain weapons let you change the mode or the fire rate or just turn the light on or off. In the game options you can also set it to remember those options as they'll change between games and if you pick up someone else's weapon.

You can charge the shots up you really need to use it in first person as you can see the charge meter, if you charge it too much the gun explodes and probably takes you with it.

nedd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121879745#Comment_121879745

I picked up someone elses Railgun the other day and was playing with it. I did exactly what you said so I could keep an eye on the meter. I killed myself within 10 shots by charging it too much.

Homelander

Enjoying the game but find the performance is quite bad on PC. Bad in the sense that it struggles despite not looking particularly good. I have to run at 1440p medium with some upscaling to get 50-60fps in low-level missions.

Hopefully they'll optimise it better and add DLSS and FSR later to help.

brady12

Anyone have issue like ? When i'm playing. with my friend who ps5 like me no issues . Any time I join my cousins game who on pc kicks me from his ship after about a minute . So annoying .

EoinHef

Yeah I'm on PC and all my mates are on PS5, can launch a mission but probably crash about half of the missions while on the planet. Have to hope evac is not completed by the time I load back in or else lose all the xp and credits.

Pretty annoying tbh, some patches make it better then the next will make it worse again.

Poor launch tbh and should be fixed by now

TheValeyard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121894685#Comment_121894685

Piff, sounds like you're not a fan of Democracy!

Varik

There's like 1 out of 5 times I take the spear that I'm not disappointed in it. Taking out a cannon tower from across the map or a fabricator is great but usually it doesn't work right.

The lock-on on it is too hard to get to actually lock-on.

nedd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121938902#Comment_121938902

I unlocked the spear but never used it.

My support weapons for big things is mostly Expendable Anti Tank or the Recoilless Rifle.

I tried the Railgun but it was taking too many shots to kill things. (mostly because of my bad aim)

Grumpypants

I only noticed last night you can change your gun and armour from the hellpod screen before you ready up. When you are selecting your strategems press square and you get the weapons menu.

In case you forget to go to the little monitors. Handy as I have a bug that resets my load out after a reboot and I always forget to change it before jumping in the hell pod.

Varik

Intel updated in game a few days ago, in addition to the recent flying bugs the bots are getting gunships and we're getting some kind of dedicated AA.

Grumpypants

This really is how to do live service. So much fun and engagement from the Devs and players. Lots to do, lots to unlock, lots of stuff you actually want to unlock, lots of free warbonds, lots to work together on, lots of players in the community that's friendly and helpful.

Varik

The live service being a warbond with armour and primary/secondary weapons once a month, and then stratagems drop randomly during that month is great.

What could be described as the original live service games were like this, big bang at the start with an updated and then constantly adding stuff to keep people engaged. After "live service" became a term they all turned into just dragging it out and making it a chore which was made worse by some needing you to do stuff now or never.

We got the mech during the first month, and then after the second warbond dropped we got a pair of new stratagem weapons recently.

Leaked video of people spawning the second mech with the 2 autocannons, and what I like the look of most a little cruise missile stratagem drop pod.

The drop pod lands and as normal buries itself in the ground with a weapon popping which is a laser designator, but after you take that a man sized missile rises up from the buried pod like your own mini ICBM. You walk off across the map or where ever and point the laser designator at whatever (even far away) and that missile fires and fly across the map to hit it.

Still not got the buggy which is another big thing coming at some point.

Varik

Patch today they raised the level cap to 150, but any xp you got over 50 counted so I started today off at 67.

Grumpypants

They also added big ass robot walkers 😭

Varik

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121967977#Comment_121967977

And robot gunship.

they are kind of like the flying bugs they've a special spawn and fly out from that but unlike the tiny mass of flying bugs you get a couple big shooty dropships.

razorronan

Hi all. Just both my son Helldivers 2 on the PS5. I'm looking to buy it on PC so I can play with him. It is €28.59 on cdkeys.com and €39.99 on Steam. Do you think there would be any issue playing multiplayer Co-Op if I bought it on CDkeys?

EoinHef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122077415#Comment_122077415

Nope, I bought it on CDKeys and regularly play with friends on Playstation

Varik

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122077415#Comment_122077415

You'd both log onto the game and then one of you generates a friend code ( can't remember if that the name), it's a once off code to allow you to join other players you aren't on your friends list. They tell you the code and you search it and join.

Once teamed up you can add each other to the games own friends list to make it easier in future, for you on PC this list would be all your steam friends plus now your sons PlayStation account and for him it'd be his PSN friends list plus your steam account now.

razorronan

Thanks all for your help. Went with CD Keys in the end. Followed Variks instructions and was up and running with the young lad in no time. Really enjoyed the game. It's handy having a seasoned player with you to help with mission objectives and power ups at the start. Not used to as much recoil when shooting as opposed to other shooters I have played.

Grumpypants

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122079905#Comment_122079905

Recoil/aiming is linked to movement. So when you are running it's terrible. Stop and it gets better. Take a knee or lie down and it's very solid on most guns bar the very heavy machine gun.

Homelander

Sony taking serious flak over the announcement that every Steam player has to create a PSN account to continue playing.

Varik

Steam page said it was required since even before launch, they just not implemented it yet. Probably waiting for that new psn system that gor shown off with ghost of tsushima.

Kiith

And then locks out 177 countries from playing.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/sony-doubles-down-removing-helldivers-2-from-sale-in-177-countries-and-territories-that-cant-access-psn-while-arrowhead-ceo-says-i-dont-have-the-final-say/

Kiith

And then Sony backtrack.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/sony-backs-down-on-demand-that-helldivers-2-players-log-into-a-psn-account/

scrotist

Can somebody eli5 what the big deal is?

I don't have Helldivers and I don't plan on playing it. So I am 100% out of the loop, but like reading up on drama.

But can you just sign up for a PSN account and that's it? Does it cost money?

KilOit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102325#Comment_122102325

Think the steam refunds really hit Sony where it hurt, rare to see Sony backtrack

Retr0gamer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102776#Comment_122102776

That's pretty much it but it's more that Sony changes the terms and conditions for people that purchased that game. Also as a result people in 150+ countries would have been locked out of the game they purchased legitimately.