Chatacter creation question

[Cien22n2]

I've noticed in some gameplay that when your character dies your next one is either guy or girl, is it really like that? u cant set gender of your character and its basically random who you get?

[Gilmore]

You can set it to be specific or random.

[Cien22n2]

I see, thanks for clarifying

[SpaceKiwi]

It defaults to random everytime you spawn. You can change this to just using one voice all the time though.

[SupaPlayer]

Just to clarify, the above posters are specifically mentioning the "voice pack" that you can change in your armory on the ship

[Serath]

For better or worse, there isn't much physical appearance customization in the game anyway as you never take off your helmet.

The joke is that everyone is expendable, and when your character dies, they truly are dead and are immediately replaced with somebody else. The game pokes fun at over-patriotism to the point of hilarity. (Think America ♥♥♥♥ Yeah.)

[[Asgard] Thor]

Canonically each death actually happens and an entirely new Helldiver is dropped in. As other has mentioned you can just have it be one voice.

[cckim92]

Set voice line in career terminal to anything other than random

[Cien22n2]

What about overall customization?? I'm talking gear, is it on same level as deep rock galaxy? are there items worth grinding for, or getting randomaly and such? for example, how much helmets there are? or capes?

[Serath]

Originally posted by Cien22n2:

What about overall customization?? I'm talking gear, is it on same level as deep rock galaxy? are there items worth grinding for, or getting randomaly and such?

Oh there's that stuff for sure, yeah. Weapons, armor, stratagems, and other stuff.

As far as it being on the level of DRG, it's hard to say. Yes, and no? HD already has more armor and weapon choices on release than DRG has currently, but the weapons themselves cannot be customized in anyway, like DRG. You could also probably grind through the progression in about a week, while as with DRG it would take a very long time. But then again, most of DRG's rewards seem to be mostly about cosmetics, while this game it's about getting more and more weapons and armor choices.

Not to say Helldivers don't have different looking armor aesthetically, but they all seem to have their own stats too. I kind of wish there were cosmetic slots.

It's really hard to tell what Helldivers 2 is going for as it's too early, and because the devs said their current roadmap is now considered obsolete/out of date considering the unexpected sales they got. We don't know what direction they were trying to turn the game to before, or what they plan to change.

[Cien22n2]

Originally posted by Serath:

Originally posted by Cien22n2:

What about overall customization?? I'm talking gear, is it on same level as deep rock galaxy? are there items worth grinding for, or getting randomaly and such?

Oh there's that stuff for sure, yeah. Weapons, armor, stratagems, and other stuff.

As far as it being on the level of DRG, it's hard to say. Yes, and no? HD already has more armor and weapon choices on release than DRG has currently, but the weapons themselves cannot be customized in anyway, like DRG. You could also probably grind through the progression in about a week, while as with DRG it would take a very long time. But then again, most of DRG's rewards seem to be mostly about cosmetics, while this game it's about getting more and more weapons and armor choices.

Not to say Helldivers don't have different looking armor aesthetically, but they all seem to have their own stats too. I kind of wish there were cosmetic slots.

It's really hard to tell what Helldivers 2 is going for as it's too early, and because the devs said their current roadmap is now considered obsolete/out of date considering the unexpected sales they got. We don't know what direction they were trying to turn the game to before, or what they plan to change.

Unexpected as it went better as they expected or worse? I wonder if this game has bright future infront of it like DRG does

[Serath]

Originally posted by Cien22n2:

Unexpected as it went better as they expected or worse? I wonder if this game has bright future infront of it like DRG does

Better than expected.
https://www.pcgamer.com/helldivers-2-roadmap-is-very-out-of-date-in-comparison-to-what-we-now-want-to-do-according-to-arrowheads-ceo-as-the-games-stratospheric-launch-brings-new-ideas-and-ambition-to-the-studio/#:~:text=Helldivers%202-,Helldivers%202%20roadmap%20is%20'very%20out%20of%20date%20in%20comparison,and%20ambition%20to%20the%20studio&text=%22I%20am%20completely%20exhausted%20by%20the%20success%22.