If I started playing HD2 today

[Funky Koval]

New account, never played the game before. I think my review would be positive. Lots of content (put urself in the shoes of newcomer!) Fun gameplay. Gameplay balance is rather in good spot right now.

One that would be discouraging is super credits grind and samples grind for ship modules. As somebody, who just started playing we are looking at 300+ h grind. Yikes. But thats the live service games reality (remember Payday 2 launch vs late state of the game?)

Another thing are bugs and performance. My PC is decent with rtx 4080 and still HD2 choke it sometimes. Game is CPU bound hence I am getting 70+ C temps and thats the only game that does that (I am at i912900k).

Thoughts?

[VoiD]

Don't worry, unlocking the stuff you actually want is very easy, just keep playing the game and aim for certain items.

Of course, being a completionist takes a lot longer, but you don't really have to get absolutely everything before you get all the stuff that interest you

[The_Hagen]

Well the whole super credit thing is cause it’s a live service so they kinda need continuous revenue. Them letting us get it through gameplay is a kindness though it’s likely expected you spend some money over time

[The Blind One]

If you play 1 to 2 hours a day you should have everything unlocked after about six months to a year without ever needing to buy super credits.

The game is very friendly at handing out super credits that you won't need to buy any if you just play consistently.

Hell even if you do buy super credits, you'll still need to play to get the medals to unlock the actual content in a premium warbond and the time it takes to unlock the content is roughly the same as it would take to farm the credits to buy a new warbond to begin with.

You really don't need to buy super credits unless you desperately want to unlock something much earlier than what is generally recommended to do so anyway.

I played the (free) standard warbond and by the time I finished it I had over 3000 super credits, enough to buy me three more premium warbonds and by the time I finished those three warbonds I had again enough super credits to buy another three premium warbonds.

So technically if you just play and aren't worried about unlocking things early and don't spend unnecessary super credits in the super store. You can play indefinitely without ever needing to pay a dime more than your initial purchase price and you'll unlock everything without ever needing to worry about feeling pressured to buy.

[LeftIsBest-James]

The Mobilize Warbond is 2100 Medals.
Get at least half of that before worrying about Premium Warbonds - you will have plenty of SC by then.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Funky Koval:

If I started playing HD2 today
New account, never played the game before. I think my review would be positive. Lots of content (put urself in the shoes of newcomer!) Fun gameplay. Gameplay balance is rather in good spot right now.

One that would be discouraging is super credits grind and samples grind for ship modules. As somebody, who just started playing we are looking at 300+ h grind. Yikes. But thats the live service games reality (remember Payday 2 launch vs late state of the game?)

Another thing are bugs and performance. My PC is decent with rtx 4080 and still HD2 choke it sometimes. Game is CPU bound hence I am getting 70+ C temps and thats the only game that does that (I am at i912900k).

Thoughts?

Use the tips here for the performance
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3235564264
the tips here for gameplay
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3208648129
The day before yesterday I bought my latest warbond and was back to 35 Super Credits. Today I am back to 455 Super Credits again. Do not grind. Just enjoy the game normally.

[Electi]

enjoy game, do not grind, first warbond is all you ever need, it has it. belive me.
Bugs - HMG
Illuminate - LMG
Bots - lasercanon
recoiless rifle is an answer to any question.
Do not rely on stratagems, they are fun factor.
Do not rush to 9-10 difficulty, there is a lot of braindead players.
6 if nice if you play with randoms. When you will feel comfortable that you can clear whole map solo, know all enemies, go higher.
Difficulty only give more enemies. They have same hp.
Do what you like, or you will burnout. In 250 hours I almost have everything done. I have grinded only 3 times since I've bought the game.

Supercredits are on every map, someone or you will find them eventually, they are easy to get, they give questionable options, meta is still in regular warbond. I have opened almost every warbond, and I was spending some super credits on silly fat armor, which could already gave me all warbonds, if I calculate the supercradits. Never donated.

Enjoy game, play what you want. But we for sure will be glad to see you participate in major order.

[Electi]

for specs. I play on laptop, r9 amd, 3080, 32ram, and It's 40-50 fps on ultra settings. It does not matter if I go low. game is not optimized, so it's fine for it to heat. Untill you reach 100*celcius it is fine.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Electi:

for specs. I play on laptop, r9 amd, 3080, 32ram, and It's 40-50 fps on ultra settings. It does not matter if I go low. game is not optimized, so it's fine for it to heat. Untill you reach 100*celcius it is fine.

You should consider giving the performance tips from my guide a go as well.

[Funky Koval]

guys :) I am 150 lvl diver, 700h into game, everything unlocked and maxed :)) This topic is sorta lookback If I was at the start. Hellova grind

[Tahla]

People can't even read the topic correctly anymore.

I guess if I would get into helldivers 2 today I'd be torn between positive or negative. Seeing the pile of micro transactions in game for the first time would put me off a lot. There are no bundles or sales on old warbonds either to ease the pain and it's only going to get worse as new ones are released.

[Vinyltavia]

Game is fun, easy to pick up as it is to put down. Can be a bit frustrating to learn and coordinate with people who have their own agenda (teammates who don't explore POIs, do the mission, and call extraction ASAP without any other contributing factors and will board with or without you.)
It's certainly a time to play the game and the difficulty doesn't change the damage you do or take; only how much of a standing force you'll be up against.

[Funky Koval]

The warbond are crap though. Not worth grinding