Stylish Helldivers Guide: Taking Down A Bile Demon Like A Boss

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Helldivers 2

(stylised as Helldivers II) is a third-person shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is the sequel to Helldivers, a 2015 top-down shooter. It was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on 8 February 2024. It received positive reviews from critics and sold approximately one million copies in the first three days after release.

Helldivers 2 gameplay
Unlike Helldivers, which is a top-down shooter, Helldivers 2 is a third-person shooter. Similar to the first game, players are able to select Stratagems, air drops players can call during missions, which include cluster bombs, sentry guns, shield generators or supply pods containing limited-use special weaponry. Friendly fire is always on. The game's armor system is inspired by real firearms fired against armored targets.

While Helldivers featured split-screen co-op, Helldivers 2 does not. There is multiplayer with up to four players, but there is no single player campaign. It also provides a cross-play feature between PlayStation 5 and Windows players. In the initial days of the release, gameplay involved human observers at the studio influencing gameplay in real time.

Plot
Helldivers 2 is set a century after the triumph of Super Earth, a "managed democracy", over its adversaries in the events of the first game. Following an era of peace and prosperity, Super Earth colonized the galaxy, fueled by the resource E-710 found in decomposing Terminid bodies. However, the Terminids have broken free from their farms, threatening to spread chaos across the galaxy. Simultaneously, a new threat emerges in the form of the Automatons, fully mechanized soldiers. The game begins as the Helldivers begin recruitment again in order to be used as patriotic shock troopers to reclaim the colonized lands.[8] Additional storytelling elements take place in the game's world through environmental storytelling and propaganda messages.

Development and release
On 3 December 2020, Arrowhead Game Studios revealed that they were working on a new project expected to be released on PlayStation 5. It was confirmed that the game would be a third-person shooter.[9] Like the first game, Helldivers 2 was run on the Autodesk Stingray engine (which was first known as Bitsquid).[10]

On 13 September 2021, Helldivers 2 was mentioned in a GeForce Now leak. The game was teased in a TikTok post showing Arrowhead's social media manager starting their workday, which is followed by a series of posts from fans demanding them to release the game. On 18 August 2022, a 12-second clip of gameplay was leaked on Twitter, but was later removed.

On 24 May 2023, Helldivers 2 was announced during the 2023 PlayStation Showcase, with a slated release of sometime in 2023.[15] On 6 July 2023, a trailer showcasing gameplay was released. On 30 July 2023, the game received a M rating by the ESRB for "blood and gore" and "intense violence". On 14 September 2023, gameplay was shown in a PlayStation State of Play event. During the event, the game got an official release date set for 8 February 2024. Pre-orders became available on 22 September 2023. On 8 February 2024, the game was released for Windows on Steam.

Post release, Arrowhead Game Studios announced the intention to introduce of playable mechs in an upcoming update to the game, as well as prioritizing game optimizations and promising an unveiled roadmap in the near future due to the game's unprecedented success.

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