• ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    People talk like it’s game breaking, or completely unplayable. But I have an absolute blast playing this game every night with my friends. Bugs be damned.

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      6 months ago

      I damned those bugs myself with a combo of napalm, flamethrower, and incendiary breaker.

      But in all seriousness there are some huge bugs that can ruin a run you spent almost 40 minutes on… So I also bring a 500kg to deal with those.

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      6 months ago

      Some days I have to restart helldivers after every mission because it crashes during the extraction cutscene.

      It’s ok to admit games aren’t perfect while also enjoying them. Helldivers is fun but it’s no paragon of the industry.

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          6 months ago

          Same i have friends that have crashed perhaps once or twice a week on windows.But never been an issue for me on linux. Only had it for the last month tho. Could be an older fixed issue as well.

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      6 months ago

      Same but i either have an network error or the game closes every other game, which isn’t great. Especially after 20 minutes into a mission. I would say i only finish 3 out of 5 games usually. Don’t get me wrong, i played like 150 hours, it’s still not okay

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        6 months ago

        I had the same issues, was even worse for me. I only got to play 1/3 missions, and had to restart Helldivers everytime I got the disconnection error.

        But I upgraded my cpu, and now I have not had a single disconnection error since. Not sure if it’s correlated, but it’s nice not crazhing anymore

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        You can play the entire game without anyone else. Just close your party and pick a mission. No one will be able to join your in-progress mission if your party is closed. It’s not even that difficult until the higher difficulties, you’ll just spend more time doing things alone without having a full team to sweep through enemies and objectives.

        The game is built around playing with a group though, that is how it is intended to be played from the ground up.

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          6 months ago

          I might give it a go, all the reviews I read talked about the multiplayer requirements for the missions and gameplay.

          How good is it solo? Have you tried it?

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            6 months ago

            It 100% intends you to play with others. It is not meant to be played single player, it just can be if you insist. You will not get the same experience.

            That being said, I’ve played a ton on PC with no mic, just using the in game target and item marking system and a couple text messages occasionally, without any issue. Playing with randoms isn’t a big issue most of the time.

            Just don’t take it too seriously. Half of the fun to be honest is not noticing someone threw a stratagem for a 500kg bomb into that crater you’re jumping into kill the bugs and dying to a massive explosion. The game tells you everything a player calls something in and there’s a light from God showing you where it’s going, but sometimes you just miss it. Or the guy was prepping to throw it and died so they dropped it at their feet.

            Just don’t take anything too seriously. It’s not that kind of game.

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              6 months ago

              Thank you for the honest take. Sounds like I am going to skip out on this one. Rather learn this way than spend money or deal with the refund process.

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                6 months ago

                It is a great game even if it essentially required multiplayer. You might be able to borrow a friend’s copy through steam’s family library sharing or something like that to try out.

                There’s no like ranking system or anything to worry about messing up a friend’s account as a new player.

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            6 months ago

            I can regularly run suicide missions as a solo. The trick is to not die because the forced respawns really fuck you over.

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        You can definitely solo a lot of content, if that’s your jam. There’s plenty of vids on YouTube showing this, at the hardest level to boot.

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      6 months ago

      I have fun playing it too but it’s definitely one of the buggiest games I’ve played, and while most of them aren’t game breaking, I have experienced a few pretty bad ones. One of my favourites put giant holes in the terrain across the entire map, causing me to get stuck and die several times lol.