Just asking, is starting a new character now going to leave me annoyed and feeling like a little brother tagging along or is new character progression pretty forgiving?
Join us! It’s a great value for money game.
The starter gear is actually pretty good, you will be able to contribute right away and handle everything on lower difficulties. You unlock the more specialized weapons over time but I used the starter guns and stratagems until level 15 with no issue and was always filling a role on my teams.
You have to unlock the higher difficulties by completing groups of missions at your highest option, so you will not be outclassed by any difficulty level at the start. A low level player in a high level lobby just means they’ve succeeded on several missions before, so it is not a negative for the team.
I do know trolling on the trivial difficulty became a thing, but it’s much rarer than high level players joining to chill out and share equipment with newbies. If you’re being trolled (and it is rare), just leave, they can’t follow you or find you again.
If you do buy the game some tips:
- there are multiple currencies, they are not a pay to win obfuscation mechanic, so don’t worry about that. They let you upgrade different things at the same time.
- Samples help you unlock upgrades to your ship, they are always shared, not everyone understands this, so at low levels sometimes people steal them, it means nothing for the team.
- All rewards are shared equally by your team, always
- medals help you with your Warbond (like a battle pass, they appear in the acquisitions tab), they do not expire or go away, and only the premium ones can be purchased. You can unlock the premium Warbond by saving your Super Credits, you don’t have to buy them, you aren’t behind for not having them.
- warbonds are how you unlock armor and primary weapons, but most importantly Boosters, which are team buffs you equip.
- Requisition is used to unlock new stratagems, there are no best stratagems, they’re all useful depending on play style. The only broadly one considered better than another is the laser guard dog vs the liberator one.
- you can find samples, super credits, and medals in mission by investigating points of interest, so exploring is the path to upgrades
- teamkilling happens, just use the emote wheel to apologize and move on, nobody cares or tries for revenge unless you’re especually eggregious.
Great tips! I appreciate your type-up.
This game is stupidly overpriced for what it is…
It’s half the price of almost all games these days, and is twice as fun as most.
Yeah, it’s got bugs, but also way more depth than a lot of games that are just assets thrown into a game engine.
It’s $50 for me, I have never even considered a game at $100, I instantly blacklist them knowing they won’t be worth it
No lie I’d be just as happy with this game if I paid full price. The kool-aid is tasty over here.
Found the average Ubisoft enjoyer
LOL you are so far from accurate. I won’t even pirate Ubisoft games, nor ea games. Literally not worth the bandwidth
As for hell divers, I see zero enjoyment in the W simulator. Glad people do, but the cost is NOT worth this game at all. Maybe half the price…maybe…and even then it’s like 10 hours of play then I know it’ll be boring as shit
it’s goty material, and the next best coop shooter since l4d2
goty is a meaningless title…
Game Awards has a voting jury consisting of over 100 video game media and influencer outlets
Not a biased thing at all…no way.
For me. Jeaus it must be tiring to be you, everything is shit, meaningless, not worth it, overpriced, etc.
And here we others are, just enjoying good value for a small amount of money.
Here’s some perspective: the amount of money it costs to make a game has multiplied by many times since 1995, and PS1 games back then cost 40$. The value, inflation taken into account, means they would cost 80$ today.
HD2, for it’s quality, content & enjoyment it provides is far from overpriced.
Games are actually and luckily pretty fucking cheap considering the effort they take to make.
People will be playing the game for years. It came out less than six months ago. It’s not too late.
We’re still accepting green beards at DRG too.
This game is very accessible at all levels, get in there, Helldiver!
after unlocking everything ive foud myself using the starting weapons the most.
until the slugger nerf i was all EAT, Stalwart, and Slugger.
I run difficulty 6 and 7 pretty exclusively and here is how I host. I will bring any level character on any mission, there are two caveats. If you burn like 7 lives in 5 mins I’m going to kick you because you aren’t ready and you need to learn more, the other is if you are stopping and fighting everything on difficulty 7, just move on. Even in the latter circumstance you would have to do that for a very long period of time like 20% or 30% of the mission time. Honestly a level 7 character already has enough stratagems to run lvl 7 blitz, they just don’t have the experience probably. Just know difficultly 1-6 and 7-9 are extremely different types of gameplay and pay attention to what others are doing and you’ll be fine!
Just play. Level is just a way to unlock equipment anyway. If you unlock stratagems, play them for a couple rounds and then you’re leveled up anyway and can switch to the next after unlock.
Doesn’t really matter, just go in and spread democracy! Do your part!
Nah nah, you get split up by difficulty. At first you only have access to level 1 difficulty, and you gain difficulty level access by accomplishing missions in each level (up to 9). Chances are, you’ll be playing with fellow rookies until about 5 or 6. By the time you’ve hit difficulty 5 you’ll have a full arsenal of very competent gear, helped very much by the fact that some of your starting gear is actually still very viable mid/late game.
Thanks for all the replies folks, Ive got a big couple of weeks but then I’ll be picking it up.
It may have seemed like a dumb question (kind of felt like one) but being a dad and working and all I didnt want to drop the cash on a game only to spend whole evenings waiting for low level groups to play or getting repeatedly kicked for being a noob.
Democracy knows no bounds, join the fight against tyranny!
Progression is capped, and pretty fast. And as others said it doesn’t matter much (or at all, under difficulty 6).
Get in the hellpod, cadet
Sorry for hijacking your post. But is this game a worldwide co-op or something? It sounds interesting but I haven’t made the plunge yet
The gameplay itself is in missions where it’s up to 4 of you, co-op, against the enemy hordes. Sometimes you’re trying to blow up an enemy installation, or launch a missile, or whatever. About 40 minutes or less where there’s only 4 “good guys”
The part where it feels like worldwide co-op is that every mission someone wins or fails contributes to the shared global conflict. So we all have some order to defend a planet that is under siege by our enemies, and so the community all does missions on that planet to attempt to rescue it from the attack, etc.
Kind of. It takes 10s of thousands of players to liberate a planet. And everybody gets rewarded when specific planets are liberated within a timeframe. Or punished if we fail. Last time we all got mechs. If we had lost the enemy would have gotten the mechs. So to win the wars a significant part of the player base has to focus on specific targets otherwise the enemy gets stronger and move closer to Super Earth.
I wish I could start over.
Just play! I’m only level 32 and a random level 9 joined my game. It’s fun!
Not at all. Level doesn’t matter too much, some losers only care about meta builds but fuck em.
Although it’s best enjoyed with friends.
Helldiver go brrrrrrr fredom brrrrr
