Question About Playing Solo

[D.A.R.K.]

Is it possible to play the whole game solo? It's a simple question of "yes" or "no" answer.

[Amaranth]

So are not forced to play with others, but the game does not cater to solo players. You will have the same spawn rate and difficulty as if you were a full 4 players squad.

[Hobbes]

You can make a private lobby so nobody can join your mission.

You may, or may not be limited to what difficulty level you are able to solo because the missions do not scale on number of players.

As a solo player, if you are not able to run missions of the highest levels you may not be able to get some resources that unlock late game buffs so it may be an unfulfilling experience for you.

If you like a challenge and are willing to accept that the missions are not tuned for solo play you can still have loads of fun. Different fun perhaps.

[D.A.R.K.]

Thanks. Nice to know.

[Kaine]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

So, I'm watching Asmongold playing, and at some point he opened the map chart or something like that, the place you see where you can go to do missions. It seems the game works similar to Warframe when there are invasions. Invasion in Warframe are temporary missions that you do until you reach 100%, every time a single player completes the mission, it works towards the general completion of the mission, reaching 100% will terminate that mission and a new one will activate.

The thing is, I want to buy and play Helldivers 2 the same way I play Warframe, I don't care to play with other people, I just want to go and play without the need of other players, Warframe allows that, so, it is possible to play solo on Helldivers 2 or am I forced to play with other people?

Yes you can play solo- I have completed HellDive missions solo although it can be frustrating and not what I d call fun. Playing lvls 5,6,7 solo is very doable once you learn the game. I often do it to farm samples as when playing with others they often get dropped or we dont get out with them.

Arguably the most fun to be had is with a team though and when u get 4 people all who can play, HellDive becomes a breeze.

So answer is yes-id strongly recommend this game to anyone-even if you just want to solo. Theres plenty of content for everyone. Also I spent last week complaining in the forums about the retuning- They fixed it -You have all the tools-use them well now and you will win:)

[M200Chan]

TLDR: You can, but there's no scaling.

[Kaine]

Originally posted by M200Chan:

TLDR: You can, but there's no scaling.

The level choices kind of make up for that though.

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by Hobbes:

As a solo player, if you are not able to run missions of the highest levels you may not be able to get some resources that unlock late game buffs so it may be an unfulfilling experience for you.

Are you telling me that are missions that are gated by number of players, OR the difficulty is so "hard" that solo players can't do?

[Madder Red]

There are no gated missions at all. You can, if you so choose to, run everything solo. But the game is balanced for 4 players, especially in the amount of enemy spawn so keep that in mind. There are mission objectives that can be quite cumbersome for solo players, especially defense mission etc.
Here is someone playing at max difficulty solo, might wanna give this a look aside from the previous posts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJeySDcHsJ8&lc=Ugw3WkRC82feiT_PduZ4AaABAg.A0v6yKfHHW-A0v_Jjehvyd

If you really only looking to buy this for a single player experience you should probably look elsewhere. Because warframe is a pure power fantasy with stuff that kills whole rooms while this game is wildly different.
You have limited ammunition for a start, you have no health reg, your basic weapons cam only do so much, you have no powers to speak of. You are a soldier, not a demigod as in warframe, like not even remotely close.

Edit: Its not that solo play is impossible, quite the contrary as can be seen in the above video. But to get to this level of gameplay knowledge, having everything unlocked etc. will take you upwards of 150 hours easily. So you have to ask yourself if you want to reach this level of gameplay or play it rather casually on the side. Because at a certain point, as you surely know, you play warframe on autopilot. You cant in this game.
As a solo player you have 5 respawns. After that its game over. And you can & will die a lot. Especially at the beginning.

And this isnt something like your basic warframe mission design. The enemy respawns. They will keep coming. This is like steel path with a fresh frame and entry level weapons if you want to compare those games

Games like Earth Defense Force are way more forgiving and can easily be played solo.

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by Madder Red:

There are no gated missions at all. You can, if you so choose to, run everything solo. But the game is balanced for 4 players, especially in the amount of enemy spawn so keep that in mind. There are mission objectives that can be quite cumbersome for solo players, especially defense mission etc.
Here is someone playing at max difficulty solo, might wanna give this a look aside from the previous posts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJeySDcHsJ8&lc=Ugw3WkRC82feiT_PduZ4AaABAg.A0v6yKfHHW-A0v_Jjehvyd

If you really only looking to buy this for a single player experience you should probably look elsewhere. Because warframe is a pure power fantasy with stuff that kills whole rooms while this game is wildly different.
You have limited ammunition for a start, you have no health reg, your basic weapons cam only do so much, you have no powers to speak of. You are a soldier, not a demigod as in warframe, like not even remotely close
Games like Earth Defense Force are way more forgiving and can easily be played solo.

So, you are just saying it's "hard" for a solo player, until it isn't. Thanks. I already heard that "it's too hard for a solo player" many times, none of them amused me, I bet this game will be easy to beat solo on the hardest difficulty after learning how to play the game properly. Thanks to explain.

[Xaelon]

You can do whatever mission you want on whatever difficulty you want solo but....the game isn't balanced for solo. You'll have to fight the same number of enemies regardless of how many players are in your group.

Some elite units also have weakpoints on their back that can be hard to get to solo. You can still kill them from the front, but the weakpoint there is generally much smaller.

The other thing that makes Solo more difficult is that you only get 5 respawns, but in multiplayer you get 5 per player, as well as the option to recover after they're exhausted (assuming the living player lasts long enough for reinforce to come off cooldown).

I do not recommend this game if you plan to avoid multiplayer entirely. Adding even a single additional player makes this game MUCH more fun.

[Is This Your Card? 69]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

So, I'm watching Asmongold playing, and at some point he opened the map chart or something like that, the place you see where you can go to do missions. It seems the game works similar to Warframe when there are invasions. Invasion in Warframe are temporary missions that you do until you reach 100%, every time a single player completes the mission, it works towards the general completion of the mission, reaching 100% will terminate that mission and a new one will activate.

The thing is, I want to buy and play Helldivers 2 the same way I play Warframe, I don't care to play with other people, I just want to go and play without the need of other players, Warframe allows that, so, it is possible to play solo on Helldivers 2 or am I forced to play with other people?

Edit:
People, it seems you are so focused on scale... I really don't care about it, I played Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 solo, games from 2008 and 2009, and there are no scale there. Actually, it's worst, if a Hunter, Smoker, Charger, or Jockey gets you, it's literally over because they'll incapacitate you and no one will get you up. I don't care about scale, but thanks for noticing that.

Listen. You CANNOT compare a game like L4D to Helldivers 2 solo.
In Helldivers 2, especially on higher difficulties it's going to be swarming with enemies.
In comparison, L4D you can just shoot and kill targets with the same gun, as long as you have ammo.

Here, that doesn't work. You're going to need to have guns for fodder and armored enemies. Stratagems aka call ins are an additional help, but they have cooldowns.

I am NOT saying it's impossible to solo on high difficulty, but that would be people with a lot of hours into the game, not something a casual player can do.

[Madder Red]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

So, you are just saying it's "hard" for a solo player, until it isn't. Thanks. I already heard that "it's too hard for a solo player" many times, none of them amused me, I bet this game will be easy to beat solo on the hardest difficulty after learning how to play the game properly. Thanks to explain.

If you watch the video, the guy thats playing that mission IS having a hard time. He constantly needs to have map awareness and make decisions in split seconds or its game over.
If the mission timer runs out, any death is permanent. You have no access to your orbital lasers, fighter pilot bombing runs etc nothing. Only the gear you are currently carrying. Ammo going low? Either find some or tough luck. Enemies drop nothing. You dont even get XP from killing them. A whole bunch of heavy armored foes closing in? Pray you havent wasted any ammo for your anti armor weapons or you are screwed.

[Hobbes]

Originally posted by Madder Red:

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

So, you are just saying it's "hard" for a solo player, until it isn't. Thanks. I already heard that "it's too hard for a solo player" many times, none of them amused me, I bet this game will be easy to beat solo on the hardest difficulty after learning how to play the game properly. Thanks to explain.

If you watch the video, the guy thats playing that mission IS having a hard time. He constantly needs to have map awareness and make decisions in split seconds or its game over.
If the mission timer runs out, any death is permanent. You have no access to your orbital lasers, fighter pilot bombing runs etc nothing. Only the gear you are currently carrying. Ammo going low? Either find some or tough luck. Enemies drop nothing. You dont even get XP from killing them. A whole bunch of heavy armored foes closing in? Pray you havent wasted any ammo for your anti armor weapons or you are screwed.

And judge me all you want but he's a vastly better shot than I am! ;-)

[pi73r]

You can solo most missions easily up to diff 7. It aint too fun though.

[Madder Red]

Originally posted by Hobbes:

Originally posted by Madder Red:

If you watch the video, the guy thats playing that mission IS having a hard time. He constantly needs to have map awareness and make decisions in split seconds or its game over.
If the mission timer runs out, any death is permanent. You have no access to your orbital lasers, fighter pilot bombing runs etc nothing. Only the gear you are currently carrying. Ammo going low? Either find some or tough luck. Enemies drop nothing. You dont even get XP from killing them. A whole bunch of heavy armored foes closing in? Pray you havent wasted any ammo for your anti armor weapons or you are screwed.

And judge me all you want but he's a vastly better shot than I am! ;-)

His gameplay is stellar. Especially his aim with the AC, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Still trying to get the aiming down, even after several hours. Also after watching him shoot the slugger primarily in 3rd person has been like a revelation for me. I swear this gun is way more inacurate in first person and playing several missions only shooting in 3rd person it really is way more reliable.