Incredibly fun game that melds together so many of my favorite games into one thing.

It has aspects of Halo in the enemy variety and the different weapon types doing better against certain things, it has parts of Deep Rock Galactic, it has themes from Starship Troopers, it has the battle pass system of Halo Infinite where they are permanent and you slowly progress through them but they feel rewarding, they have the upgrades you get for your ship actually shop up on your ship that lets you see the ship being upgraded, the animations are crisp and there are a fantastic variety, the guns feel good to shoot and the enemies are satisfying to blow apart.

The only real complaints I have are that the Automatons can shoot their flares so fast that it feels unfair at times, evacuate citizens is far overtuned on difficulty even now after they tried fixing it, some weapons could do with buffs to bring them up to speed with the rest, and playing solo can feel nigh impossible at times.

While I understand the sentiment of some of the other reviews stating that they paid for the game and expect it to work, I think that it is ridiculous to assign a negative review for that.

It's like you just went to a small mom & pop restaurant which someone famous just talked about on social media, where the line isn't just out the door but it's around the whole block and blocking traffic in the streets, and then when you finally get seated you say how long your food is taking to get there and how half of the menu they've run out of, well no **** sherlock, they didn't expect this many people, hell you probably barely knew of the game until a friend or YouTuber told you about it, there isn't such a thing as "just putting up more servers" or just making it work, the last game had a peak player count on steam of 6,744 players, the all time peak -So Far- for Helldivers 2 is 411,359, the followers on Steam for this game leading up to launch were 48,000, after launch it has skyrocketed to 138,000.

There were zero expectations for this game to reach such insane heights that is has out of the blue, they have been trying their damnedest to fix the servers, to patch out bugs, and to make things right, they have been working around the clock to try and fix it and frankly should be commended for how much passion they have shown for the game and the community.

Incredibly fun game that melds together so many of my favorite games into one thing. It has aspects of Halo in the enemy variety and the different weapon types doing better against certain things, it has parts of Deep Rock Galactic, it has themes from Starship Troopers, it has the battle pass system of Halo Infinite where they are permanent and you slowly progress through them but they feel rewarding, they have the upgrades you get for your ship actually shop up on your ship that lets you see the ship being upgraded, the animations are crisp and there are a fantastic variety, the guns feel good to shoot and the enemies are satisfying to blow apart. The only real complaints I have are that the Automatons can shoot their flares so fast that it feels unfair at times, evacuate citizens is far overtuned on difficulty even now after they tried fixing it, some weapons could do with buffs to bring them up to speed with the rest, and playing solo can feel nigh impossible at times. While I understand the sentiment of some of the other reviews stating that they paid for the game and expect it to work, I think that it is ridiculous to assign a negative review for that. It's like you just went to a small mom & pop restaurant which someone famous just talked about on social media, where the line isn't just out the door but it's around the whole block and blocking traffic in the streets, and then when you finally get seated you say how long your food is taking to get there and how half of the menu they've run out of, well no **** sherlock, they didn't expect this many people, hell you probably barely knew of the game until a friend or YouTuber told you about it, there isn't such a thing as "just putting up more servers" or just making it work, the last game had a peak player count on steam of 6,744 players, the all time peak -So Far- for Helldivers 2 is 411,359, the followers on Steam for this game leading up to launch were 48,000, after launch it has skyrocketed to 138,000. There were zero expectations for this game to reach such insane heights that is has out of the blue, they have been trying their damnedest to fix the servers, to patch out bugs, and to make things right, they have been working around the clock to try and fix it and frankly should be commended for how much passion they have shown for the game and the community.