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@GZoo oh I'm not saying it won't have legs but best selling game of 2024? No.

It will do really well though, as it has been doing. And with more features changing the scale and gameplay, it's only going to go higher and higher IMO

@GZoo nahhh, I don't think its as appetizing to as much people as Harry Potter is. Parents would buy that for their kids, they'd be hesitant to get Helldivers for kids

@Americansamurai1 I agree, and yeah, contrary to the report of them not getting acquired, I heard it's due to happen soon.

Would much rather the single player studios stick to what they do best, so we don't have another situation like Factions where a dev spends years on a game, only for it to get scrapped.

Arrowhead, Guerrilla, Bungie, Haven, Firewalk, Deviation games (if that's still happening), and whoever else I'm missing are more than enough for the live service push.

@NinjaNicky I've spent £70 too many times to be proud of. Especially when pre-ordering but sometimes you get a nice £10 off from game-base or Argos

@Jay767 apparently, contrary to the CEOs tweet of it not happening, its something that Sony have been planning for a while.

I think I'd rather see them remain independent and second party like Insomniac were, so that if there's something one publisher doesn't like, they can ship it elsewhere

@NinjaNicky only thing is you can easily get XP enough for 1-3 levels from one mission if you do Suicide or above difficulties and optionals. The rewards on lower difficulties aren't worth the stress to be honest. But dealing with 4 bile titans and 5 chargers coming at you is also a trip.

Most importantly the anti-aliasing on PS5 should be actually working, making it look less like a PS3 game lol

They must live in some kind of Bizarro world

My biggest surprise is that this series gets between 1-2 million sales every release. Wild.

@Johnnycide I think it was Singapore, not Philippines

Who would've guessed! This game should really have been £30 or F2P, or non existent

@jedinite @NinjaNicky on a weekday the concurrent count is always going to be less than what we were seeing. Doesn't mean there's a drop off at all. Case in point, this last weekend, there were 440,000 and 430,000 on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

Plus as more factions, features, stratagems and missions are added, the more it'll stay consistent.

Plus I don't think it's that easy to get to level 50, unless you play like 6+ hours a day and have been doing so since near launch.

This could be really good. If it's in the vein of going out defeating robots, competing cauldrons and stuff like that then I'm all down.

Just depends on the gameplay and mission structures. Like it can't just be bow and arrow, those should be secondary weapons otherwise I can see it getting frustrating quickly

This looks so good. A future update with some aircrafts would be amazing too

@Shepherd_Tallon it's too early to know if Helldivers 2 will drive them to do more GAAS but hopefully we don't see many more. I just wish TLOU Factions was given to another studio to finish

@ChrisDeku I think it's around 3-4m right now. Don't think 6m for a game this size in less than a month is realistic. Maybe if we were a couple weeks into March.

Plus with this game, from what I'm seeing it has a pretty high retention/play rate? So if it had 6m sales I think we'd be seeing so many more issues with the server than we are now. Like 800,000 CCU wouldn't be enough.

@Loamy now is a great time to dive in. It's been smooth sailing since like Wednesday/Thursday

I have been directly responsible for 3 of those sales this week. Doing my part for managed democracy!

@breakneck impossible to know for sure but yeah I'm assuming PC just has the edge. Wish the active Helldivers number feature was working but early days still!

I've actually never been so unbothered about a game having some launch issues as this one, because 99% of the experience is unaffected and very fun but there's just one or two things that worked really well on launch day and aren't functioning as such due to the astronomic over performance. And also the dev team have been very vocal and quick to issue patches

@zhoont I think it hit 460k one night, maybe Saturday.

But at any one time there's probably ~100 - 300k people playing on PlayStation too to be fair.

@TheCollector316 no worries, I probably worded it weird 😂

@Kidfunkadelic83 for sure bro, I'll hit you up soon!

@TheCollector316 yeah, when you throw a stratagem down and let someone else take it. Like say you have a Guard Dog, call one down for yourself then when you can, call another one down for a teammate, or machine gun or whatever gun. As they stay with you all mission.

Played for 3 hours last night, had a real good random squad going. Was the best time I've had as the matchmaking was perfect and I was with level 10s and above. Love it when someone lends you a stratagem

@ShadowofTwilight usually I'd say buy it digitally but who knows, if you want to play it in 10 years time, will you even be able to... Been buying physically ever since I saw Sony take licences away from some of the media bought on the PSN.

Artstyle and animation look amazing! Still not sure what it's about

@KundaliniRising333 tell me you didn't play the game without telling me you didn't play the game

If they want to see what managed democracy feels like, maybe they should get PCs

@somnambulance makes perfect sense when you put it like that. I think that's what drew a lot of people I play with (including myself) to PS2 & PS3

Well it's almost 4 years old. Most generations are 8 years. First 4 years = early half of life cycle. Last 4 years = latter half.

Cross gen period for PS5 was too long in everyone's opinion. This won't stop in PS5 to PS6 launch. PS5 will get many cross gen games. As consoles get more powerful and are based on similar GPU architecture, with the majority difference between gens being clock speeds and number of CPU cores and CUs, the compatibility between each generation will increase and we get situations where games can run on both gens with the only difference being lower quality settings. Console gaming is going to be an expensive cage in the future, as they become more and more similar to PCs.

@somnambulance Flower is great but saying that over GOW should warrant some intense interrogation

Oh and the MTX are so good. Put in 3 hours yesterday, reached my personal target and I've been able to buy the whole store. Only hope is they don't try to diminish your purchasing power with future updates

@Jaz007 git gud. Alone is mostly fine, just set up turrets, use orbitals and take the enemies in waves.

Where it doesn't work is in hard difficulty and upwards. You will just constantly get swarmed.

This is an absolute must have. I am so happy with the game so far.

And don't worry if you have no one to play with, my quick play matchmaking experience (when it's working) has been really positive. Worked well on launch then days after it's been a bit of a chore, which is very different to comments I'm seeing here. Yesterday alone was just too many disconnects, but found a good workaround though.

The tagline being "it's Call of Duty with magic" did not help its case at all, plus full price was a mistake. Too ambitious too quick

@AdamNovice it's R1 to ping points of interest. Works same as Apex

@LazyLombax it wants to save you from this soapy mess

@BoomShakAllaker yeah there's pretty much no issues I found, played for few hours from 6pm, had slow matchmaking, turned crossplay off and it was fine. Good to see it patched already

October 2024?

This is what happens when you make a game not too big of a scope, you end up making everything tight, pleasing the community, work really well and not have to be £70.

I'm sure that if Returnal was similarly priced at £35 - £50, it'd have been more of a hit.

Don't start being a Disney pump, Fortnite

@Ramavetos the story is cool tbh, I like it a lot but that's where it ends for me sadly

This game gonna be a HIT

@Voltan literally, it's baffling to see them double down and waste time on something so hated

@Icey664 go to the game base!

@Czar_Khastik I love it

I'm interpreting this as potentially, if we start doing really well and killing the bugs easily, they'll shift the narrative and start a storyline where some stronger species come in. If so, that sounds amazing

@Nei this sounds amazing, full of variety and fun, day 1

@Czar_Khastik all this time I thought you were Russian, I have only just now finally sounded your name out 👌

Put it in VR and I'd day 1