Helldivers 2’s concurrent Steam player record is PlayStation Studios’ highest yet

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• anamethatisnt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like removing couch co-op didn’t hurt their sales. :(

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  • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What percentage of PC players care about couch co-op?

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    • halfwaythere@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What percent of PC players have friends. Let alone come over to play on the couch?

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know of any popular games that have it anymore. It’s not something I’d actually expect to exist in a game anymore.

      I think it used to be a feature in games back when computers were expensive, but these days that’s not so much the case and if I want to with my partner, well she has her own computer.

      It’s not like only nerds have computers now. Basically everyone comes with at least a laptop.

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    • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Those of us who live with fellow nerds, obviously!

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  • zecg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really always prefer local coop but it doesn’t work well when it’s 3rd person over the shoulder and you have to split the screen into two different viewports.

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    • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree that their choice of perspective makes local coop harder to implement due to needing splitscreen, it also means I wouldn’t want to play it with a controller.
      I just hope that they keep their Helldivers 1 servers up and about, or release a patch that makes the game work offline if they don’t.

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• ours@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The game looks great. I guess they fixed the more glaring issues with their initial release.

  People seemed to have issues logging in, matchmaking or CDT randomly. I’ll wait for a few trusted reviews but it looks like something I’ll enjoy.

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  • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I refunded on day 1 because their anti cheat was preventing it from launching on Linux. They had a fix out Friday night, so I repurchased and have put maybe 6hrs into it.

    I’ve been playing the early access Starship Troopers Extermination over the last 6 months, and after 30 minutes of Helldivers I told my friend “they’ve made a better Starship Troopers game than the Starship Troopers game.”

    There’s a couple bugs here or there, but just playing 4-man with the homies seems to have avoided all the matchmaking issues.

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    • ours@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have Starship Troopers Extermination as well but I feel it has a long way to go still. I’m really tempted now to get Helldivers 2 and keep Extermination on the side as it progresses in Early Access.

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  • Lesrid@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had a bug where the obstacle you’re meant to crouch under spawned in at a height too low even for crawling. I had no idea it was a bug because I had never seen the tutorial before. After leaving and re-entering the tutorial it spawned in at the correct height.

    Game is awesome though. If they smooth out the experience it will be my shooter of the year.

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    • ours@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good to hear. Sounds like a must-have.

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• toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i hope they remake magicka, dunno if they still own the rights

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• Boingboing@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now do Bloodborne

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