Solo play

[Triflet]

Can you play this solo or will you always play with other players? Thinking about buying this game but I don't think any of my friends will get this

[Nihil]

Both.
You can set your game on private (friends only) So others won't join you.
But you will have a harder time. But that doesn't matter if you stick to the difficulty you are comfortable with.
But the game is designed to play with others. I'm playing currently with randoms using the "'quickplay" option and everyone is very chill and nice.
Much better experience playing with randoms in this game as it was in Helldivers1

[Elvi]

You can play solo whenever you want, on any planet or mission, but let me tell you, the harder difficulties will be extremely hard.

[PhilipWiseman]

Mostly i had played solo, even on Medium difficulty. But with randos are still ok, non toxic community yet

[Triflet]

Sweet, thanks for the replies. I just might get this game. Thanks

[kknd]

Originally posted by Elvi:

You can play solo whenever you want, on any planet or mission, but let me tell you, the harder difficulties will be extremely hard.

This is absolutely true, the enemy numbers and stats aren't going to change if you are solo or with a full team and the higher difficulty missions are designed for a full squad working together to be challenged. Then there is Helldives, for when you want that group 'modded to be harder Dark Souls' experience.

[Tigerhawk71]

Solo is very doable but you will have to plan ahead more. I can do challenging difficulty solo but you need to actively avoid patrols and bring stratagems that let you accomplish objectives.

Pick your battles carefully because you won't get much opportunity to stand and fight large groups.


It's obviously intended for co-op but as a self-imposed challenge you can play solo. You will redeploy automatically solo rather than fail on first death

[Kitty Katyusha]

Originally posted by Triflet:

Can you play this solo or will you always play with other players? Thinking about buying this game but I don't think any of my friends will get this

You can play solo though I would recommend unlocking scout armor if you do. In my opinion at least the game is much more focused on picking battles and being stealthy when playing alone as its easy to get overwhelmed. Though you do respawn if you die but you have limited respawns on solo I believe.

[󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡Club K]

You HAVE TO play solo, because you got no chance getting in to a multiplayer session.

[WarHøg]

Originally posted by Nihil:

Both.
You can set your game on private (friends only) So others won't join you.
But you will have a harder time. But that doesn't matter if you stick to the difficulty you are comfortable with.
But the game is designed to play with others. I'm playing currently with randoms using the "'quickplay" option and everyone is very chill and nice.
Much better experience playing with randoms in this game as it was in Helldivers1

yea that doesnt work for LATAM, main reason whyt multiplayer only games are a no go for me, specially a SHOOTER game, oof. Every server is just a bunch of latino slurs and griefing

[Triflet]

Originally posted by RΔvΞN:

@Triflet
check this out on YT and let me know if it was helpful to you ;)
(he play solo)
Helldivers 2 Gameplay First Impressions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC1myp7idd4&ab_channel=Rurikhan

Watched little and I think it sold the game for me. Gonna buy it for democracy!

[Commander Hitman2b]

Originally posted by Triflet:

Can you play this solo or will you always play with other players? Thinking about buying this game but I don't think any of my friends will get this

you can play solo but you gonna have a hard time in higher difficulty especially 3 and above however there quickplay as bugged as it is you can find games by spaming

[Triflet]

I don't mind playing with randoms but generally I find randoms to be toxic, had enough people like that playing for example Counter Strike 2 or Overwatch

[Commander Hitman2b]

Originally posted by Triflet:

I don't mind playing with randoms but generally I find randoms to be toxic, had enough people like that playing for example Counter Strike 2 or Overwatch

well i've got only go experience so far my friend not so much as people were running solo

[V.V.R]

Played solo and when friend available - duo. Solo capable on 3rd difficulty pretty good, duo struggle on 5, big and common patrols, almost non stop pressing on you, objectives with titans. And some unlocks require very rare samples which I guess starting to appear on 7 and higher difficulty.
We love the game, but can't find people to play with, so I guess will try to coop with randoms, but why we didn't from the start.
I will compare with Darktide, which same and very different at same time (just because I played darktide pretty hardcorish and team play needed very much like here).
Darktide is fine without any communication on any difficulty, just because it's pretty linear game, and when player know what he do, its just you know, straightforward, native experience, you help each other, you have build, you prioritise the most problematic specials etc. Same with HELLDIVERS 2, but here where difference come. Big maps.
You must communicate what you will do, and what not, where you will go.
And on higher difficulties as I said, its chaos with non stop push on you. It have ping, chat, etc, but with randoms its always dicey. And don't forget that we have duo weapons here which adds more complex to the gameplay. Here will be guy that load artillery with mini nukes and starting shooting point blank to you without alerting, there will be someone that went alone, aggro a horde and died, which came to you, and there will be objectives where you need to communicate to win, like titan ones. It can be done easily with two two guys which took duo weapons and loaded it in titan, or it can be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, where everyone will run like headless chicken.

All I want to say, this game focus around full 4 man party of friends, or 50/50 around randoms, but solo no, you will not be able to go far. Of course there will be people which complete even 9 difficulty solo, but its as exception

[Dragon]

Matchmaking seems to be mostly fixed.

That said, you can reliably play solo up to ~Challenging (Level 4) difficulty. It's just a different playstyle, where you focus on avoiding patrols and ambushing bug nests/objectives.

You can also focus on running away/'kiting' while waiting for short cooldown stratagems, and many of the 'high level' stuff you can unlock like the railgun (which was added as a mission stratagem by the devs cause so many people are struggling with armored bugs right now) make Chargers trivial and can pretty easily solo Bile Titans.