Helldivers 2 is now PlayStation's biggest PC launch by a factor of two
Helldivers 2 is now PlayStation's biggest PC launch by a factor of two
The peak concurrent players Steam has doubled God of War.
What blows my mind is that I've never heard of this game until the past two days when suddenly it has shattered records. I don't know if I'm just outside of demographic shit or what now a days but this game might as well have not existed for me up until 48 hours ago. Like... did I somehow miss everything or did they have a subdued marketing campaign or something?
This is how I feel about movies. Did you know there was another haunted mansion movie last year? I didn't until a month ago.
I feel like I'm aging outside the demographic for entertainment, so news of it doesn't reach me anymore.
shit dude I didn't ever realize I missed the superbowl until I saw a random post about snacks for it. The older we get, the less fucks we have to give.
I knew about the Haunted Mansion movie but only because of my playstations media tab. I tend to just leave the PlayStation on that screen to kill system audio if I'm just in a party chat. The page has ads though for different streaming services. Disney plus has been pushing that movie for the past 4 months for me.
That's how I felt about Palworld. I don't know how I completely was unaware of its existence, but there was enough prehype around it to get the huge sales it did at launch.
Same. A friend of mine messaged me about it, and I had never heard of it, not to mention there was an entire other game that came out before it. Same with Palworld. Shit came outta nowhere (for me).
Seriously. I'm fairly active in checking Steam Early Access, but I'd never heard of Palworld until the day of its release.
As for Helldivers, I had no idea there was a sequel in the works, though I'd heard off-hand that the first was pretty good (but still not my kinda game, anyway).
Maybe it's because I have adblockers on everything I can and don't use social media outside of Lemmy. Actually, that's almost definitely it.
The kernel level access anti cheat is a pass for me, the company running it has had breaches before proving it isn't secure and there have been instances where breaches like that allowed a bunch of people to get ransomware on their PCs. I would only play it on playstation 5 if I had one but there is zero chance of putting that on my PC that has all kinds of sensitive information like banking and personal ID stuff. Real shame because I loved the first game.
That level of anti-cheat for PvE is weird. Is there any trading that could cause hackers to break the item economy?
In the first game a lot of people had their saves ruined when a cheater would enter their lobby and instantly unlock max resources for anyone else in the lobby..
Just repeating what I read on a dev post; still not a fan of AC.
No local co-op unlike the first, am I the only one who's bothered by that?
I would be if I still had local friends to play with.
Lol, I hear that. Those were the good old days. Now I have to wait for my daughter to grow up for a local coop resurgence in my household
I assume it's a symptom of the switch to 3rd person. Would still be nice to have. I'm interested in a DF review to see how graphically intense it is and if this is possible down the line
Is it any good? I enjoyed the game but I haven't looked this one up yet.
There's been server problems, like, I can't stress how bad the servers have been... But it's really awesome when you can play.
It's the first game cranked to 11, similar gameplay loop as Deep Rock Galactic but it's all explosions and horde fighting.
When it works, it really works. Weapon sounds and feedback are awesome, airstrikes are immensely satisfying, and the chaos is some of the most co-op fun I've had in years.
But you can tell this a AA title, and the developers were unprepared for the size of this launch. Lots of bugs, matchmaking is wonky, and the servers are struggling hard to keep up. Not to mention the kernel-level anti-cheat on PC...the only reason I have it on PC was because a friend gifted me a copy.
If you can look past that, give it a shot. If not, wait a couple of weeks and then try it.