Recent reviews by SquishMasterFlex

Adding pay to win ships in this game is a big mistake, maybe if you actually put some actual love and care into this game with content, overhauls for things like engineering that have been requested for years and more ships, maybe people would spend more money on the cosmetics. Adding pay to win ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ isn't the right move and is more than likely going to kill off the game if they keep pushing it. Despite the insane grind, I did have a lot of fun with the game, but I'm not gonna give a positive review for a game that's pushing blatantly pay to win elements.

If friendly fire was a genre or game in of itself. This would be it! 10/10 would get blown up by my squadmates again

Update: Sony are now forcing players to make an account and link it to their steam account in order to keep playing this game. If the game launched with this requirement, i wouldnt have an issue, but saying it was only a "grace period" and changing it months after launch which locks people in countries that cannot make playstation accounts out of the game that they paid for. If this was their plan all along, they shouldnt have been selling this game in those countries in the first place. This should be Illegal.
UPDATE*** Playstation posted an updated announcing they will no longer be going forward with the mandatory psn sign in! Giant win, good job fellow helldivers!

Pretty dang good for an early access build as far as things go. combat is pretty decent, hits are strong and you can sense the weight behind attacks. Its not all perfect as performance isnt good at all as it stutter quite a bit for me when i make attacks in combat and just walking around the world. But then again, its early access and they still have a lot of time to optimize the game as they continually develop it over the early access period. I noticed a detail that was super cool when i found it. I use two handed swords and they generally are pretty good but i found a super heavy stone sword while doing a quest and it weighed 100 pounds and its much heavier than any other sword i currently have, so not only does it do wayyy more damage, it uses more stamina because its so insanely heavy and it knocks people off their feet due to the sheer weight of it, sending monsters and animals you kill flying 20 feet back when you use it. Such a super cool detail i thought when I found it. Sorry its kinda a long giant paragraph of text but I do like it so far. I can't wait to see what this game will be like when they develop it further and eventually release it!

I got banned after a little over an hour of playing. I have no idea why I got banned. Just started playing and im really confused. I don't know what the hell their cheat detection detected but I guess im banned an hour in. First game I've ever been banned in a game before. This is really damn weird but if their cheat detection is haywire and flags random people for seemingly no reason, I wouldn't recommend playing this game. Too bad, I was having fun with the game for that hour. UPDATE: the game unbanned me after I restarted. Seems like its a weird glitch of some kind. I can play again anyway. Still unacceptable that even happens.

This game is actual hot garbage. No balancing at all. If you get knocked down as a human, its basically game over since you are vulnerable for the three seconds it takes you to get up. you get stunlocked by monsters with no way to avoid damage. or you get stunlocked when playing as a monster by other monsters until you die, its ridiculous. you have lag that doesn't register things for example, I would pick up a grenade launcher and someone would come around the corner I would shoot them and then nothing happens its like the game didn't register it me shooting it despite the grenade launcher being used up. Stuff like that happens all the time in the 45 mins of playtime I put into this piece of garbage before calling it quits. Its hard to believe Capcom would let them push this thing out like this. Even at the price of free alongside Village, this thing is a waste of hard drive space.

Lots of fun, and its even more fun with friends!

The game runs like ass whenever you go onto a planet. I have a gtx 1070 with a ryzen 3700X cpu with 32gb's of ram and on low settings I get 20 fps on planets. I can't finish a mission on a planet because the manage inventory option literally doesn't work. So I got a fine for failing a mission that couldn't be completed due to it being broken. Also I can't do any combat in the game due to the low fps, the fps drops so hard in combat while on a planet that its extremely difficult to aim. If they actually fix the game and performance, this review will changed.

Great game so far, lots of fun and plenty of customization with builds and plenty of loot. Good combos and the best graphics for an arpg I've seen! There are a couple animations here and there that could be improved. Like maybe add a knockback animation, as of now your character kinda just gets moved really fast with no animation. But other than that, the game is solid and a lot of fun. Highly recommend just based on the beta. Can't wait for the full game to release and the future of the game!

Very fun combat system, a bunch of different weapons to master. Their is parrying and blocking with light attacks and heavy attacks with a dodge button. Some enemies have unblockable and you can't parry instead you must dodge or block if you have a blocking weapon equipped. Even on the lowest difficulty which is just normal difficulty. the game can be fairly challenging. putting you in positions to fight multiple enemies at once a lot of times. Has the souls like bonfire system. This time around, it is water fountains you can restore your health at and spend your essence I believe its called to level yourself up. You also have this syringe thing you inject yourself with to restore health. Its basically the estus flask from dark souls. But this time around, you can have up to 3 at max and you can refill each slot by killing enemies. So as long as you are doing good, you are rewarded with more health to keep it going. Bosses can be challenging too. The first boss I fought wasn't too hard. But the second area boss is much harder. I haven't been able to beat it yet. It requires precise dodging and parrying and its very difficult and Ill be honest, if this is the easiest difficulty, Im a little scared of what the hardest difficulty is like lol.

The game itself is really good. The biggest problem with it though, is the performance. microstutter and just stuttering in general can be fairly common. Sometimes it runs a perfect smooth 60fps but only in certain areas of the game like the small arena in the gathering hub. If i'm in the ancient forest area, it will microstutter like crazy. it will be like 50 to 60 fps but it feels like im running it at 25 to 30. It's really bad, I wish the developers would work on the optimization as its crazy how bad it can be at times. But despite that, the game itself is fantastic. I originally got this game on the xbox one and played over 300 hours of it on one character until I decided to jump to pc for hopefully that better performance and graphics, sadly its not that big of a difference other than the game looking clearer and sharper due to higher resolutions. I've heard some people can run this game fine with zero issues. It's very strange, I can max out witcher 3 and get perfect 60 fps constant but I can't get this game which looks a lot worse to run at a steady 60 fps. Hopefully they eventually fix the performance but other than that, I do recommend the game, especially if it runs great for you.