![]() I felt like there were a lot of things happening that weren’t meaningful to me - numbers flashing up on screen telling me how the wider global multiplayer war effort was going in particular - and I don’t know which of those things affect me and which I can safely ignore. I like unlocking things if there’s a sense of progression and I’m learning as I go, but that didn’t seem to be the case. How do you feel about the Destiny-esque weapon/power unlock treadmill? Is it in danger of taking over?Īdam: That’s the side of the game I’m least affectionate toward. I want to be screaming and laughing, not tutting and chest-thumping. I don’t think I ever want to be playing it like that, though. I am sadly aware that, in other players’ hands, our comically inept funtimes would be considered foolish and disastrous, that this is a game you can master if you put your mind to it, that you’ll pursue specific unlocks and have specific strategies for any situation, and that'll you'll grind your way to the best stuff. We get so many 40K games that don’t really feel like 40K, but this gets so much closer to hitting the right buttons, even if the irony is probably too overt. That is a good thing.Īlec: It’s very Unofficial 40K in so many ways, isn’t it? The whole Space Fascists pretending to be righteous plot (though ‘plot’ is probably being too generous), the death toll, the big stompiness, the idea that the ‘heroes’ are as sacrificable and squishy as anything else…. ![]() The weapon and equipment drops are wonderful - they can splatter anything foolish enough to stand in their way as they land, friend or foe. Chaotic and on a knife edge the whole time, but always leaning toward farce rather than being punishing. We were just about capable of surviving long enough to call in reinforcements while fleeing for cover and covering ourselves, but far too doomed to make it out of the situation in one piece. Almost as soon as the pod with replacement Alec landed, the same beastie that had killed original Alec killed me, and so it went. I was on foot, surrounded and doomed, but I managed to throw down a turret and keep myself alive long enough to call in reinforcements - which is the game’s way of allowing you to respawn a dead co-op buddy. The mech was soon aflame, having taken loads of damage from a tentacled hellbeast, and it exploded, killing you to bits. They are, as you said at the time, very much like Warhammer 40,000 Dreadnoughts in appearance rather than anything from the Battletech end of the mechtrum. That’s tricker than it sounds because the mechs turn REALLY slowly, creaking and hissing. You’d deployed a mech and were stomping around battering aliens left, right and centre. Especially when it's impossible.Īdam: From our session earlier today, one sequence around thirty seconds long encapsulated just about everything I like about the game. It is VERY IMPORTANT to emerge triumphant. The consequences are never especially harsh, but the idea that you must win any situation - that you must bring “Managed Democracy” to these various alien worlds is absolute. It’s about getting yourself into a terrible state then trying to find a desperate way out of it. But it manages to be bloody brutal as well as Pop: the operative term is, as you mention, panic. It’s so Pop! which is exactly what I needed after the year of heavy duty fare like the Witcher 3 and Fallout 4. ![]() I’d for some reason had it in my end that it was some hyper-precise aeroplane-based shmup, which I think is because the logo looks quite a bit like Luftrausers, so the discovery that it’s sort of Destiny Does Alien Breed was delightful. The game’s an enormously pleasant surprise anyway, especially one to end the year with. I think I like it rather a lot.Īlec: I am also extremely in favour of ‘helldive’ becoming a verb. It involves friendly fire, d-pad combos, mechs dropping from alien skies, ammunition shortages, panic, awesome motorbikes and death. To be clear about this, Helldivers is a cooperative game, from the creators of the original Magicka. Bugs that tore our starship troopers into pieces. Where hell is understood to be one of several planets occupied by hostile forces. I think I am the worst Helldiver.Īdam: Helldiving is the act of diving into hell.
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