Recent reviews by RhondoDio

- Single greatest co-op service ever.
- Snoy mandate anti-consumer (eg: UN-LIBERTY-LIKE) practise
- Helldivers revolt
- Snoy was pushed back

God I love DEMOCRACY

You know that feeling when you're repeatedly killed in the same way nonstop for an hour in a single level of a shooter? You know how awful that feels right?
This is the one shooter where that feeling does not exist. I have spent hours dying int he same wave of the same room nonstop while giggling and genuinely enjoying the nonstop chaos and insanity from every attempt. This is the ONE fps I genuinely want to 100% and play every mission on the maximum difficulty after a first playthrough, because to Trepang makes the way to overcome brutal situations be the most fun thing ever.

100/10, would slow motion slide tackle cultists and sashimi them midair with a minigun mounted bayonet again.

The dog survives in the true ending.

oh also this game is absolutely rad. Laser Skates done right. Eat your heart out Cinemasins

Bro sees not enough demon gals in suits.
Makes entire game about demon gals in suitds spescifically so folks will make "art" of them.
Hires Smut animator to make funkalicious tunes. Bro knows his audience.
Glorious Puzzles that will throw your brain through a wall.
Secret abyss gals for extra brutal puzzles.
Free expansion. Unlockable art book.
Drops it for free.
Leaves.
Millions of fan "art" on command.
Absolute LEGEND.

Got buy the pancake recipe DLC. Support this absolute chad.
Also posts comics of all the gals on his twitter, Blind Best Girl in police costume came from there. You know the one you lovely degenerates.

Create Eldritch abominations of iron and bubblewrap no mere mortal can comprehend!
Also drive Scrapman and kAN insane with boxes full of ducks and marzipan.

The New War ruined.
But we remain.
Kahl fought.
Kahl Lives.
And the Tenno will die a thousand deaths, but none may stop us.
We all. Lift. Together.
And we will triumph.
Onwards, Tenno.
To Duviri.

I watched Rimmy Downunder Gaming play this, instantly bought it because it was rad...
IT HAS BEEN 4 DAYS AND i HAVE PUT IN OVER 48 HOURS AND HAVEN'T EVEN EXPLORED 1/3 OF THE MAP.
Curse you Australian war criminal, You've given me an addiction worse than Warframe and that's taken an entire quarter of my life.

Seriously though devs, by Loki's Laughter this game is LIT. And if you feel like laughing so hard you eject your lungs into orbit the emojis were a wonderful addition pfffft.

REAL REVIEW BELOW HERE
But yeah, seriously I'm lvl 40+, explored almost the entire lower half of the island, and I haven't found lumber or a tool that can let be breach the damage barrier that would allow me to start harvesting it, and I'm still getting really meaningful level up skills and haven't even unlocked cold weather things at all. The way the harvesting progression and item balancing works in this game is MAGNIFICENT. A katana is a really early game reward, with seemingly really weak damage, but lets you face a horde as the only melee weapon I know that can hit more than 1 monster at a time and it obviously is meant to scale late game because its upgrade materials are INSANE, and with only 2 upgrades it nearly matches melee weapons 2 or 3 tiers above it. Some tools are great for harvesting, like the sickle which has the katana's unique ability of multiple targets but only for RESOURCES, and as such the sickle remains relevant to speeding up your harvesting until way later in the game than I am right now. The machete is faster swinging but shorter range and has immense crit damage plus extra damage to monsters, meaning its designed to aggresivey murder 1 monster in particular, specifically fast monsters, but a baseball bat has ENORMOUS power attack damage that put it above the machete by far as long as you can take the moment to safely charge the swing it can kill anything 2 or 3 times faster than the machete, and a normal swing is great too because its knockback combined with it's bigger range gives you more room to breathe and an easier time power attacking things. And yet, the katana has such insane damage bonus againt monsters that it can easily match a maxed out baseball bat's dps against monsters despite it being the same tir as a machet, and it's listed damage being so low that the first new weapon you get, the sickle, has higher base damage, meaning it's worthless for harvesting, but insane for killing monsters, the opposite of the sickle which you can pick up around the same time.
The trinkets add tons of ways to play as well. You can go maximum dps and have so little health and armor that any non-basic enemy instantly kills you but you regain health on attack, you can turn the baseball bat into a freakin smash bros home run bat and instant kill anything with a number so absurd that compared to every other number you've seen so far you do a spit take, because a lot of damage in this game is 95, but you can make this thing hit 1k and I haven't even unlocked most of the map yet.

Speaking of damage, you harvest things, in fact, you harvest literally everything not attached to a specific quest, and that is not a joke in the slightest. But there are 3 types of damage, and apparently explosions which are entirely a different thing. Blunt is what you start with on the crowbar, and can harvest hard things like metal or ceramics, but not stronger spongy things,, like wood and rubber, which is what Slashing damage is good for. And these two can be used interchangeably on most things, like the cabinets in a house or walls of wooden buildings, but their exclusive materials mean you'e forced to get a specific new weapon to harvest the next resource, but then there's Piercing damage, which doesn't harvest anything (so far, I'm lless than 40% through after all) ut is instead exclusively reserved for murder, like throwing knives and A GUN, but that's incredibly late game. Certaint hings can buff certain damage types,, which actually applies to their BASE damage, meaning the kill bill bike helmet lets your slash weapons hit the next damage threshold that was designed to stonewall you with them before, and the soldier uniform boosts pierce damage on thrown weapons which is the gun and the knives, meaning the weapons that keep you safe and do tons of damage are now safer and more deadly, but both of those require titanium, a metal so rare I've had to smelt all but 2 of the stuff I've gotten, which requires you to overcome the barriers they solve before you can use them, so the buff is just a quality of life thing.

And about the damage, every object has a minimum amount of damage the weapon needs to do in order for it to take damage, meaning you can't rip a building down with a crowbar or a baseball bat if it's made of brick or concrete, but the bat can rip apart a wooden home or knock down a telephone pole por wreckk a bus stop just fine if you reinforce it enough, but the most a crowbar could do is smash a toilet or bathroom sink and certain small metal objects. A sickle is amazing for clearing leaves off of things because thewy're right at the amount of health a siickle can do at max and it hits tons of resources at once so it's great for clearing the vines of of everything but it can't do much more than rip up a couch, but a machete can hack through a wooden wall in a house and it takes an actual axe to chop down a larger tree, but the katana cant even do what a sickle can in terms of harvesting until waaaaaay late into the game when that threshold was passed ages ago by another tool.

The way this all combines together is just the most magnificent form of progression in any game ever. You work towards making a specific item, you horde resources, hunt for harvest spots, learn how to play around the monsters in the areas you're harvesting, work out the best paths to speed up your resource dumps, and as soon as you craft it, the tool or resource adds an entirely different effect only it in particular can give, and then almost immediately you can harvest something new if it's a weapon or have an inrecible adjantage for trinkets or throwable slot items, like landmines which are the greatest thing ever and can trivialize the scary enemies if used right but have an immense amount of harvesting to get to the point they break a ton of things and learning on how to do that without diying instantly as well, grenages which are like diet landmines with waaaay more aoe and ability to clear hordes when used by an expert, bandages which are slow and heal tons or pills that are fast but heal just enough to mitigate stronger enemy attacks about 1:1 enough to save your life. No item ever eclipses the other, with the sole exception so far being the very first clothes you wear and the very first weapon the crowbar, both of which are good as the perfectly vanilla feel of the game to ease you in, which only they can give as well. Everything else has uniuye flavor and extra abilities that can turn them into sidegrades of each other in certain situations or the only logical choice for a specific task. This game has an inredible feel of having every tool do something specific in a wonderful way that they feel satisfying to use and are intuitive to figure out what works where. I have ZERO common sense and my ape brain recieved instant neuron activation using the motorcycle helmet to boost slash damage and realizing how it affected base damage in a unique way that was different from other boosts so I could use a lumberjack shirt, a board game die, a counterweight, and a machete to clearcut a forest in the amount of time that it used to take to barely farm a backpack of wood, like 6 or 7 times more with a more fun weapon that is built to occasionally do the entire tree's health in a single crit, speeding it up even faster and making it a genuine joy to run around like I'm the Schnitzel Man from Hoodwinked. It's all so... just WOW!

Best game I ever bought!

Multiple paths encourage you to SMASH FACEFIRST IN A SCREAMING FIREBALL INTO YOUR NEMESIS!!
Also you can roleplay a battleship launching a million artillery shells in every direction.
Or you can go full metal gear solid, ghost everyone and everything and then wipe the screen with a literal 1,000+ clusterbomb missions and wipe the next 8 waves by accident!
You can become a GIANT F*CK YOU SPACE DRAGON murdering everything by smashing your face and tail into it, most effectively in that order.

And the insane hidden mods completely change your game. You can forego weapons entirely and use a mne as a mortar stuffed full of railgun shells. You can BECOME THE SUN and have no weapons at all, and the mortar thing doesn't work at all but instead anything you accidentally tap lights up in a nuclea inferno that deletes everything around it when it inevitably detonates from the caustic fire, which is somehow even more evective that uranium shells in a battleship roleplay filling the screen with railgun flavored death.

Or, hear me out: Engineer Gaming TF2.