Helldivers II remains the best-selling premium game of 2024 year-to-date after placing 2nd in March. Helldivers II currently ranks 7th in lifetime US dollar sales for Sony published titles...
It's a good game, and despite complaints people have had regarding balance issues, Arrowhead do seem to be doing things well (if slowly).
The only complaint I have after the recent balance changes is that the number of heavies seems at odds with the nerfs. Quasar was too strong, but the extra 5 seconds added to the cooldown means it has about 20-25 seconds between each shot. That's near EAT calldown levels of slow
In terms of balance it does make sense tho, it was overshadowing EAT too much. Now it's more in line with it, it has better overall sustain and reliability but a smaller burst (1 every 30 vs 2 every 60). Also works with stratagem jammers,so it might be better for bots while EATs are for bugs.
I couldn't care less about balancing. People are such babies when they nerf a thing they like. They need to stop watching these "use this meta loadout in helldivers to DESTROY bots" on youtube. I don't think the spear for example is very good, but i still use it quite a bunch, because it's hella fun. Turns out that's why i play video games. This isn't call of duty, where uou need to use the same gun and attachment as everyone else.
The senator got a huge buff in the last patch, i've been using nothing but the senator before the buff. People cried when the railgun couldn't oneshot literally everything in the game anymore... Like is that what you want?
Can't agree more. Despite all the gnashing of teeth the railgun still performs great in many situations, it just isn't a panacea anymore. The "buffs not nerfs" crowd seems to be under the impression that the ideal balance for the game is one where they can reliably win missions at Helldive difficulty. Which is silly since the level below that is literally labeled "impossible". Why would they create 9 levels of difficulty if the intention was for most players to spend all their time grinding level 9? You think it's BS that there are so many armored units and the anti armor tools don't make it easy to handle them? Yeah that's what "impossible" means. If you were playing on "hard" I doubt you'd have that problem.
Yeah till they buff Spear targetting in the next patch as they promised and everyone will be running it for the buildings.
What people want is powerful weapons, not peashooters. Slugger got nerfed because "we thought it was the best sniper rifle in the game". So instead of nerfing snipeability - adding tumbling after 40m, maybe huge damage falloff, they nerf close range damage and stagger. So now it isn't possible to stagger a devastator out of the rocket salvo at all. So they buff dominator, which is basically a slugger now, just with a shitty cloud every time you shoot.
The issues are they aren't balancing sensibly, and they nerf too much instead of bringing guns up. The nerfs they deal out are quite often so severe, that the weapon becomes completely useless. And then they even say "we didn't see many people using the slugger, yet we felt like it was too good of a sniper rifle". Like what kind of balancing is that if they aren't even going by the numbers?
wtf is a "premium game"?
A game where you pay up front for access, as opposed to a free-to-play/freemium title where the initial download is free.
Its a premium game? It sells for $40
As opposed to free-to-play.
Still got those micro transactions tho. Almost 20 years on from the horse armor and gamers offer no more resistance. Fully domesticated.
