Helldivers 2 Confirmed for State of Play Livestream

Nice! This one is looking good!

This will take up most of the time Imho

Alright now I’m excited

It's going have a release date and going to be plus day one. Might even stealth release a beta

Liberty!!!!

Is Arrowhead a Sony owned studio?

Nice already better than the awful Nintendo direct

@BusyOlf No, it's similar to how Sony don't own Kojima Productions so Death Stranding was able to appear in a 3rd party State of Play despite being a Playstation Studios game.

This is twinstick co-op online shooter right? If anything of that is true it's a no buy for me. I wonder if I ever get to play a Sonyproduced singleplayer game again after Spiderman 2? I hope so, that the only reason I love my PS1-PS5 collection.
But I heard a rumor that Wolverine is a online brawler game. I hope my friends are trolling me but if that is the case I will be sad for real...

@BusyOlf
Not yet!

Release date today hopefully!

@TrickyDicky99 Is there a console that doesn’t require that?

@TrickyDicky99 Isn't this the same for every single multiplayer game that isn't free-to-play across PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo?

It would better be free on ps plus with all the price increase

@Zeke68 the original was. The sequel is 3rd person

@TrickyDicky99 You would rather pay the nvidia tax?

@Zeke68
look up!! There's "gullible" written on the ceiling.
all jokes aside, of course your friends are tricking you and sony is never abandoning the Single Player space, thats their speciality, baby""

I'm actually looking forward to this one, this should be fun.

Isn't this a live service game? I'm kinda shocked on the hype around this considering they are literally completely reworking the IP to fit into a live service co-op shooter model.

Don't get me wrong it could be fun, but just conforming to that model alone already guarantees a gameplay design framework that is going to eventually be terrible, unless you are ok with being taken advantage of.

@LordOfTurnips I REALLY hope you're right!!

JUMPING!!
I put way too many hours into the first game and I'm looking forward to getting my boots on the ground in this one. My money says that it will be launching on Liberty Day (Oct 26th), but I honestly kinda hope it doesn't because October is already a crowded month for me

@Zeke68 The first one was a twin stick shooter like you described, but this one is a third person shooter.

The tone has always been basically Starship Troopers with the gameplay being squarely focused on working well as a squad; covering each others' backs, repairing and restocking each other, and taking care not to kill each other because friendly fire can't be turned off. It worked really well in the first one, and I have high hopes for the formula to translate well to the new perspective!

@TrickyDicky99 Hasn't Sony been charging for online multiplayer access since the PS4 launched? Regardless of 1st or 3rd party status?

@TrickyDicky99 Does the first Helldivers count?

@MonkeyNinja506 I'm not against the game initself, I just don't play co-op / online games. Everyone I know play singleplayer games so...

PSVR2 yes, thank you very much, intrinsically fun, original and different. Indie have that potential too, without all that AAA bloat that is so common; Helldivers however, no interest at all.

@Zeke68 Fair enough!

@MonkeyNinja506 Hard to find co-op/online friends when you are 55 as I am. At least where I live So I'm really against Sony's online/MP push lately. I feel 100% left out atm.

@Kanji-Tatsumi There's only one that is charging an embarrassing $80 for the privilege to access your internet, Nintendo asking for a meager $20 is the most reasonable if we can't have free online play again

This is rumored to arrive on Plus (don't know what tier) at Day 1. Lets see if they confirm it.

It's fine that it's there, but also confusing. "Third party and indies only, but here's a 1st party game." Wait, what?