Is this game solo friendly?

[Juliko]

Looking to play but none of my friends are really interested in this one

[justanotherhuman]

Originally posted by Juliko:

Looking to play but none of my friends are really interested in this one

in the 1st few difficulty's it is when you go past that might be a good idea to group with others

[SUPERSPANISH64]

its not really solo fieldnly, its motly designed to play with others. BUT if u want to just pick the first 3 difficulties, past that it hurts

[l]

Yes the game is really easy

[dyra55]

You can always match with random people if you don't have friends to play, using game's lobby search system or even hosting your own lobby for others to join, you're not forced to be solo but you can do that too, it's just a bit more challenging than in a group

[Malidictus]

It's not solo friendly almost at all. Helldivers is balanced around a team of four. Difficulty does scale down with smaller teams, but not by much. And that's only combat difficulty. Mission difficulty does not. If you're going solo, you're usually not going to accomplish a majority of objectives - not because you're getting killed, but because there simply isn't time. Even on a team of four, there's usually only enough time for a full sweep if you split up and do objectives in parallel.

With that said, though - you CAN solo in the game up to a point. You won't be able to do everything, but you can complete missions and make progress. It's going to be difficult, though. You're limited in terms of the "tools" you can bring since that doesn't scale when solo. You also have to fill all of the necessary roles by yourself - crowd-control, anti-armour, demolition, exploration, etc. You're also going to lose access to "friendship doors" - bunkers which require two players to press two buttons at the same time.

I personally don't think solo is really worth it in this game (and this is coming from the "why solo in an MMO guy"). It's not impossible, but the game will fight you at literally every step.

[l0ve]

Yes and no. You can play and win solo but you might find the game feels a bit empty. The good news is that matchmaking is very active and easy.

[Greyedsteel]

it is solo-able, however it's definitely not easy, you'd have better luck with randoms, as much a cesspool as steam forums are the in-game community is pretty chill.

[AonGreyFox]

Matchmaking is quite active and easy to find group to play. So no worry about that.

It's no solo friendly as it balance base on 4 man party.

But it doable, it you learn the game mechanic, how to counter each enemy effectively. Due to how game balance, you likely to play more into stealth and avoid as much as combat as possible. The higher difficulty, the more you avoid the combat as one or two mistake to shut down problem enemy, more likely to get kill and snowball into nasty situation real quick.

[Koala 4peace]

No. It's very multiplayer focused. You can play solo quite successfully, but it only means that you will tire of the content faster.

[Vicpool]

My play-time would be like 70% solo, and 30% with friends. As others have already said, game's designed to play coop, but you still can play solo in X or Y difficulties, depending on your mood. If you just wanna chill and enjoy this game's stunning visuals and atmosphere, you can launch a difficulty 3 or 4 mission, and I'd say those are pretty "calm", more like an ASMR/movie experience, and if you want a challenge you can play a 7-8 mission solo, so you can face all kinds of enemies (some of them only show up at certain diffs) and they are doable as long as you have some experience, skills and some upgraded in-game systems and weapons unlocked.

As a solo experience, I'd say it has a nice learning curve, and you decide at what difficulty to stop/you enjoy game best. Higher difficulties, also depending on the type of mission, but 9 and 10 diff tend to be somehow demanding for the average player. I don't consider myself a Helldivers pro and CAN complete level 10 missions, but I tend to rush objectives and ignore many secondary missions and stuff, cause those are hard, tons of enemies (sometimes close to unfair if many armored/big enemies pop up while hordes of smaller ones swarm you haha). Anyway, you don't lose anything for playing at 7 or 8 instead of 10, only thing, as said, is that some types of harder enemies may only appear from 8+ (but iirc in difficulty 8 you already face all of them, just not as stacked as in 9 or 10).

In its current state, I'd 100% recommend it. With friends it's a blast, and overall a funnier experience, but if you appreciate games with stunning visuals, atmosphere and I'd say a really crispy, if long term repetitive gameplay (but even with that, after 300 hours I still love playing it from time to time), in my opinion it's perfectly enjoyable as solo player too.

[0rga]

Up to difficulty 6/7 is doable without too much stress.
Higher difficulty levels are also doable but boring and not fun due to the amount of things to avoid and skip.
As a solo you will notice very rapidly how the spawn system works and you will be annoyed by patrols spawning at close range on your back just because.
It's doable? Yes. It's fun? The first hours. Playing solo has a longevity? No, you will reach boredom after the 100th patrol appearing from thin air for no reason and the scripted ones at the various occasions during your mission.
In a team it's always different, you will never know who in your group is the dumbest that will try kill you with his stupid actions.

[GustavoM]

Personally I consider bugs to be less solo-friendly whilst bots to be more solo friendly than the rest. But overall the game is "fine" solo, even at diff 6 and 7.
Just don't kill everything that blips on your radar and you should be fine.

[[Venture]]

Request Sent.

Feel free to join up with me sometime.

[USM-Valor]

Outside of one horribly botched mission I tried with a friend, i've played solo for about 70 hours. With practice, you can play up to at least level 6 difficulty with out any real skill or talent (speaking from experience) and extract. In so doing, every unlock in the game is available to you without relying on others. It will be at times painful and slow going, but it is a hell of a lot of fun.

[Dick McForeskin]

Depends on the difficulty and maybe even your luck