Helldivers 2 has arrived on PS5 (and PC!) with a bit of a bang. The co-op shooter appears to be quite popular already, rocketing up the Steam player charts and garnering a sizeable audience on streaming websites like Twitch. The question, then, is whether you're joining the Helldiver ranks and taking the fight to those big old bugs.
We don't have a Helldivers 2 review yet — we're working on it — but for what it's worth, our initial impressions are positive. There's clearly a lot of bug-blasting fun to be had here, especially if you can get a session going with one or two friends.
So, are you playing Helldivers 2? It's obviously been a very busy period for new releases, but perhaps a weekend of co-op mishaps is in order? Whatever your plans, vote in our polls, and then report for duty in the comments section below.
Are you playing Helldivers 2? (1,826 votes)
- Yes, of course I'm playing it
- I plan on playing it, but not at launch
- Nah, I'm not sure about the game yet
- Nope, I'm too busy with other games
- No, Helldivers 2 just isn't for me
Did you play the first Helldivers? (1,493 votes)
- Yes, I loved that game
- Yeah, it was fun
- Kind of, I dabbled in it
- Nah, I wanted to but never got around to it
- No, I never wanted to
Comments 54
Are you reviewing Helldivers 2?
Loved the first Helldivers, but still waiting on reviews. No reviews no buy!
Not big on co-op games. Wish it had AI teammates like the first one did.
I'll be playing tonight... Waiting for the rest of my squad... Who I certainly won't kill by accident/on purpose.
@bowzoid Yes
@bowzoid "We don't have a Helldivers 2 review yet — we're working on it — but for what it's worth, our initial impressions are positive."
Waiting for reviews before deciding for sure, but none are out yet. That being said, I don’t do co-op games, but if the solo play is good, I’m interested for sure.
It's not a full price kinda game for me. I will probably get it at some point.
I brought it yesterday on pre-order with another pre-order & a game on sale. I never pre-order game's usually but both Helldivers 2 & TombRaider I-III Remastered are an exception for me. I am just finishing off platiunm a game then jumping into Helldivers 2, also definitely picking up Castlevania Advanced Collection I really liked Castlevania Requiem Symphony of The Night & Rondo of Blood I platiunmed it the other day.
Where's the "I'll wait until it hits PS+" option!?
No Foamstars atm
They need to fix match making soon I love the game though
@AgentMantis you can’t afford 40 bucks lol.
Waiting for the reviews before buying it. Always feels worrisome when a game has released, yet their no reviews out for it...
I tried but ultimately ended up refunding. Broken mess on PC, hopefully they can patch it up soon. I’m willing to give it another go then.
I really want to and nearly pulled the trigger earlier today but my policy is to always wait for reviews.
Pre-ordered it and gonna sit down and play it shortly but no friends to play with so it'll have to be with randos.
Not really, I’ll wait a couple of months to settle down and wait for games updates/patches, reviews to flood in, gameplay loops videos and the most important; a juicy sale, meanwhile I’m preparing the ground for FFR.
Amazon needs to look at its entire business model because this grown crying man is very disappointed he doesn’t get to play it today. You’re in my sights, Bezos!
No reviews so it’s skipped for now. Actually by the time we get them I’m sure I will have just moved on and forgot about it.
I only played for a couple of hours with a buddy of mine during the midnight launch and it is pretty fun.
Just a solo gamer here, don't really wanna have pay for ps plus aswell like
Waiting for a sale! I'm expecting 20$ off in about a months time, and I can wait!
first one was pretty fun!
not sure about the third person perspective for the second one. i kind of liked the top down view.
i will see. one day. surely not now cause you know. final fantasy 7 is coming .
@Splat $39 isn't really full price but ok
It's apparently pretty busted at launch, that coupled with zero review codes going out certainly compels me to 'wait' at best.
I've been having a lot of fun with it! Not sure if I'll play it much on my own, but after playing a few coop missions with a friend this morning I can see us putting plenty of hours in together.
i tryed to... no connection
I've ordered it hopefully it'll be here for the weekend it looks decent and it's only £35 so worth a risk.
Great game. I'm doing my part!
@Jay767 Yeah but I won't pay out for a live service game. Too many just to see it flop and close the servers within a year.
If only it was also on Xbox so I could co-op with my shooter buddies. Then I'd play it. Don't think this will be very fun with randoms.
If there wasn't PS Plus requirement i may buy it.
I’m going to wait to see how the reviews look.
I’m terms of PS5/PC versions, PC gaming is an absolute mine field! I’m glad I stick to consoles and i know(most of the time) it’ll just work 👌
I’ll add to that I’ve just purchased a steam deck and it’s scaring me. I ended up on a screen which looked like windows and I just turned it off. Maybe that’s also why I don’t play on a pc 😙
I need a lot more and impressions and definitely some reviews to come out before making a decision. With games releasing half finished with the "fix" it later mentality, no reviews being out on or prior to release doesn't exactly give me hope.
Not interested in online co-op games.
I’m doing my part!!!!
@NinjaNicky Yeah solo is not it, especially when there are doors that are needed to be unlocked by two people. I do kind of wish that there was AI just for that type of stuff, but I understand that the devs want the game to be this community effort type of game.
@DylanT @Americansamurai1 I din't do f***in' sh*t!
I bought it, waited last night thinking it was releasing at midnight logged into my PS5 to see it was 3am. Went to bed, but plan on spending a good amount playing tonight and the rest of the weekend. If my Suicide Squad wasn't broken (bug), I would be playing that instead.
@NinjaNicky Yeah I tried quickplay multiple times with and without crossplay on and it unfortuantely doesn't work.
Trying to...bad launch day so far. Co op quick play doesn't work, at all.
@Hellaween
Ooh good catch, I was thinking of getting it on ps5 instead of PC, but I let my ps+ sub lapse and keep forgetting that's a requirement for online play.
Well will wait for a bit then.
I don't do live service games outside of mmos
Yep, all weekend! Me, my brother and my friends are having a blast.
Needs some patches to fix a few issues but apart from that it's fun. Better than I expected it to be. Platinum'd the first one and was sceptical about this with it being 3rd person but it's definitely worth it
It's broken on PC, so hard pass on PS5. Also, the change from top down view is a turn for worse.
@VanguardKaiser me and a friend, and 1 of his friends all played yesterday. Feel free to join in whenever we're playing. PSN ID: HyuugaFoxx
Edit: forgot to say we're UK based, so GMT. Will be playing most days for an hour or so until Rebirth comes out.
Absolutely... HELL NO! Same of the same.
No words to waste with this, its only fad.
@awp69 wait the first had ai team mates?
@NullForce I thought it did. But it’s been a while since I played it. I know I wasn’t playing it with “real” people at the time.
@HyuugaFoxx ok thx. I'm UK too.
Not a fan of online co-op shooters ordinarily but the tongue in cheek trailer and early gameplay clips looked so good I bought it after reading some positive day one reviews. I haven't been disappointed by it either, nicely priced and it's just buckets of fun, not microtransaction hell & very Starship Troopers influenced(which is definitely a good thing!). Loads better than Suicide Squad KTJL for sure, which was a huge crippling disappointment that I traded in after playing through the story once.
Not really sure how I managed to totally miss trying the first top down game but Helldivers 2 rocks!!
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