You can strategize with your team and build your load-outs collaboratively to prepare for the challenge ahead.

is an unmistakably tactical game. Even when outfitted with airstrikes, EMPs, and automated weapons systems, each player can still only carry a very limited amount of ammo, which is discarded if you reload early, a dash of realism that most shooters simply smooth over. The planets themselves are hostile environments, with rolling fog and snowstorms that make navigation difficult, and that’s not even counting the fact that they’re crawling with enemies.

Helldivers 2 lets you play as an elite soldier among the Helldivers, the greatest military force the galaxy has ever seen. Join the fight for freedom as you eliminate monsters who threaten the peace.

These, along with individual mission completions, net you special Warbond medals that you can use to unlock new equipment, gear, and cosmetics from a Warbond — a series of 10 tiered pages full of unlocks to progress through. Note that as long as you spend enough medals in Completa, you can start unlocking items from later pages without getting every single unlock from previous ones.

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The game is no stranger to having a buggy release day. There have been multiple reports of crashes when accessing the Armory in the game and I’ve experienced these quite a bit myself.

co-op games, it's especially critical in Helldivers 2. Breaking off from your squad is a surefire way to get yourself overrun by the horde, many of the game's best stratagem weapons have poor rates of fire unless you've got a buddy helping you reload them, and friendly fire is extremely lethal.

Take part in a successful final assault on an enemy's home planet by completing at least one mission.

These can be used to purchase Warbonds progression and unlock items such as Super Credits, victory poses, and gear.

Either way, it’s your team’s first priority to use a Reinforce stratagem to call your brand new Helldiver down to the planet to pick up right where you left off. You can even grab the guns your previous corpse left behind.

Arrowhead Game Studios announced they were working on a next-generation third-person cooperative game back in 2020, but nothing has been mentioned since. The game is still in development according to recent job listings at the studio, one of which requires the Senior Character Artist to focus on “everything from organic to hard surface characters such as creatures, humanoids and robots.

It pays to play with friends! Occasionally, you can find doors that require 2 people to open up. But that's not all, you get a big XP boost when you're in a team and you all extract together.

It is a bit on the difficult side if you’re not playing with at least a friend, but I highly recommend a full group of 4 for the best experience. There are a good few types of missions, and some of them are very challenging as a solo player. If you don’t mind a good challenge, however, or have friends you can party up with, Helldivers 2 is a fantastic time and I sincerely believe you will enjoy yourself.

" Ultimately, the developer wants "an environment that's supportive, Helldivers 2 Gameplay fun and where we all are fighting on the same side."