Два года назад, меня, участника Первой Галактической Войны, снова вытащили из морозильника. Очередные молодые патриоты с огнем в глазах, динамитом в заднице и ветром в голове... И я пошёл с ними, снова надев свой плащ. Когда-то один человек сказал: Война никогда не меняется. И это факт. Ныне, я похоронил всех тех, кто громче всех ратовал за Управляемую Демократию, Благополучие Супер-Земли и Леди-Свободу. Кого-то растерзали терминиды, что стараниями "наших" учёных адаптируются и плодятся быстрее, чем мы успеваем их сжигать. Одному не посчастливилось попасть под гусеницы танка автоматонов. Малевилон-Криг, Меридия, трижды проклятый Киберстан... Я был там. Я видел, как погибали мои товарищи. И по итогу, я остался последним. Это сообщение адресовано действующему Правительству Супер-Земли. Своей некомпетентностью и тягой к личному обогащению, вы повторяете историю ваших Предшественников. Невозможно выигрывать войны, когда вместо нормального оружия, нам постоянно присылают бестолковые игрушки. На почти сотню новых моделей оружия, что мы испытывали в полевых условиях, от силы четвертая часть способна нормально убивать. Наши враги развиваются и адаптируются быстрее, чем мы. А вы кормите нас пустыми обещаниями, что скоро промышленность поднимется и мы всех победим... Радуйтесь, пока можете. Я уже видел, как Супер-Земля горела во время Первой Галактической Войны... И судя по всему она сгорит снова. Ибо пушечное мясо имеет свойство заканчиваться. И когда это произойдёт... Сожалеть о содеянном будет уже поздно.

Время проведённое в игре говорит вместо меня. А вообще, я так долго ждал этого дня, что уже порядком выгорел, чтобы сейчас расписывать своё мнение. Здесь найдутся отзывы, которые описывают сложившуюся ситуацию, и я их поддерживаю.

Игра в которой умираешь от союзников больше (я сам виноват в этом), чем от врагов 10 подгорелых тараканов из 10

Helldivers 2 — это когда ты заходишь “на одну миссию перед сном”… и через 4 часа уже орёшь в микрофон, вызывая 500 кг Демократии на друзей. Helldivers 2 — это когда ты идёшь спасать галактику… а в итоге пытаешься выжить от собственных союзников. И всё это под пафосное ощущение, что ты несёшь свободу во Вселенную, хотя на деле просто пытаешься не умереть от собственной же бомбы или друзей. Еще игра учит важным вещам: — доверять нельзя никому — кнопки надо нажимать осторожно — “я всё контролирую” — самая опасная фраза Свобода. Демократия. И немного случайных взрывов. 10/10, буду страдать снова.

Отвратительная обратная связь от разработчиков, если в игре появляется какое-то сильное оружие которое при этом интересно использовать, то не сомневайтесь что в следующем патче его занерфят. Чинят хитбокс турели - ломается хитбокс всего огня в игре. Баффают меха-костюмы - увеличивают урон по мехам и ТУРЕЛЯМ в 3 раза чтобы скомпенсировать, оставляя последние на дне. Баги игнорируются месяцами, пока рэгдоллы врагов летят ИДЕАЛЬНО ТОЧНО в игрока чтобы "смешно" его убить. Было забавно первые 5 раз, на 50-ый уже не смешно

Когда то разработчикам дали выбор: слушать игроков или слушать начальников свыше по итогу выбрали слушать голоса в голове

Do not support these devs. Throughout the game's lifespan you might have heard many cool stories about different in-game events, the liberation of Malevelon Creek, defense of Super Earth, arrival of Illuminates, etc... You would probably want to know most of those happened during the first 1,5 years since the game's release. This also applies to other releases of new content. While warbonds (paid battle passes) release every other month or so, the amount of free content for non-paying players has dropped off dramatically since the game's first year. Essentially, it's a long-running theory that the only reason people got free content at all during the first year is because it was simply stuff that was supposed to be available on release that they didn't make on time. This isn't the only reason to suspect so, as the little crumbs of free content that have been given to the player base lately were just dropped out of the blue, instead of having a Major Order (essentialy an in-game quest for the players) associated with unlocking it. This leads us to the next point. Major Orders and the Galaxy War. If you were to launch the game for the first time, it may seem like it's a complex game of global strategy that needs to be co-ordinated between players on a platform like discord or reddit or something to that effect, but in reality there isn't really much you can't do outside what the devs allow you to, because of a simple thing, or rather, a simple guy called JOEL. JOEL is essentialy a game master running the Galactic War. This doesn't mean just designing the major orders and stuff, this is something he actually doesn't do, this means literally moving all the pieces manually. Every aspect of the war, every planet, every attack and every number on the map is manually monitored and entered by him. There was a second gamemaster added later in the game's lifespan but it's not really important here. What this means is that pretty much anything the playerbase might want to do has to be in-line with whatever JOEL (or rather the devs) have in mind. You want to liberate this planet that has low enemy resistance? Well, tough luck, it has magically increased it's resistance value by three times, so that now you need 60% of the playerbase to do so. A simillar principle applies to the over-arching "story" of the game as well. The "story" if it can be called that, is relayed through Major Orders, the afromentioned quests for the playerbase to do. They can technically be failed. In the past failure led to certain stratagems and equipment that the players were supposed to get to be delayed. My favourite example of this is when the playerbase was presented with a choice of either going to a planet to save very sick kids or with a planet that had the necessary materials to produce Anti-Tank mines that could later be used in-game. Naturally, the players went to save the kids, which further delayed the acquisition of this stratagem. This was in part, because the community already knew these mines are going to be terrible but I will talk about that in a moment. Nowadays, failure in a Major Ordrer means pretty much nothing. In the lead up to the Cyberstan campaign the players were supposed to complete a Major Order in order to fire up the Star of Peace onto one of the planets standing in the way. The order failed miserably because it required fighting on the bug front but the star still fired because the devs wanted us to succeed (which is quite rare, might I say) Now to the problem I've briefly mentioned before. The balance. This is a very sore subject for the community, the devs and everyone who played the game. Back when the game released, it was in a decent state, some weapons were good, some were weeker but ultimately everyone was happy. Then the first nerfs came running down. Arrowhead nerfed the weapons that were most popular against the Charger, an enemy on the bug front, that most of the game is "balanced" towards. In the passing months, more and more stuff was nerfed and in hindsight and several years having passed since the game's release, the community can confidently say that the way the devs make their balancing decision has no connection to how powerful the weapon actually is. Essentially, if a certain gun or a stratagem is used too much, a patch comes out sooner or later to make sure it now feels like ♥♥♥ to use. There are countless examples of this but the most striking ones are how the dev team has decided to nerf the fire significantly just before releasing a pack of (paid) weapons that utilized fire. A brillliant decision if you ask me. Another example that I must mention is the coyote incident. An event that completely destroyed any trust that remained for the dev team and the promises they make. It was a wildly popular weapon that came out one of the battle passes but after some time after it came out, the player base understandably started getting worried that it will be nerfed to the ground because of how popular it is. Devs come to save the day! They specifically promise they will not nerf the coyote. Well, everyone is happy, the devs finally started listening to the community! Patch comes and wh- What? Whuh??? The coyote suddenly gets weaker, nothing about it in the patch notes. What the hell is going on? "Oh, you stupid sheeple, we didn't nerf coyote. We simply buffed all enemies resistance towards it ;^)" said the devs. This isn't a direct quote of course, they have declined the change that was made was to nerf coyote in particular but later caved in and admitted that YES, it was just becauase of coyote, because ♥♥♥ YOU that's why. And finally, the last point, something mentioned thoroughly in this review, the community. To say it lightly, it is far from a good spot right now. While when the game just released, it was very chill and supportive, and genuinely loved the game, it's attitude did a complete 180 degree turn, thanks to the actions of the dev team. This should be a case study, really. With all the nerf, bugs, dubious changes and broken promises, the community has started completely distrusting the devs, in-fighting began and now the reddit community, for example, is split between like 4 or 5 big subreddits, with dramatically different views. The worst of all are probably the glazedivers, as no other part of the community has doxxed a harrased another player for a slight disagreement but that's an entirely different can of worms to open. So, reading all of this you might ask yourself: "Why? Just why does the dev team do this to their own extremely succesful live-service game with a once loyal and supportive community that they didn't even lose IP rights to like complete morons, like their previous game?" Well, the answer to that question, my friend, is rather simple. Helldivers 2 likely wasn't expected to live for so long and the devs don't want to deal with it, especially when their own community turned against them, it's confirmed the studio, likely the better part of it, is working on a new game. What that game is, nobody knows (or cares), HD2 was in turn, quickly made to be a "forever game" instead. The galactic war will never be won or lost, and a small team in their office would just casually chug out a battle pass once a month to monetize the game. The AMA that the CEO (or a former CEO, I'm not quite sure) did on reddit shows a complete and utter disconnect from the player base and was so bad it was actually the last straw that motivated me to finally delete the game and write this review. I'm guessing the game is probably on it's last legs now and will gradually continue to discount any support, since the devs are backing down on their decision of locking more and more content behind a paywall. It's sad really but there won't be another reviewbomb to force them to fix the game now. It's sad.

Предлагаю сделать официальным слоганом игры "ЁПТВОЮМАТЬ ОТКУДА ВАС СТОЛЬКО ВЫЛЕЗЛО"