Melee is oh shit range, on harder levels you’d just die.

6:55 they could be hiding a load screen and that is why you cant skip it. It's probably loading your ship back in. Just a guess

The reason the music slaps harder than my dad on a drunk stupor is that it's composed by Wilbert Roget II. He composed music in Forsaken for Destiny 2, and if there's one thing bungie gets *consistently* right, it's the music.

4:03 I like how it does that, because it gives weight to your weapons. You can't just swing around the bigger weapons like they weight nothing.

12/10 sound design. Have we ever heard such praise from Grumpy?

Highly recommend you rebind the call in keys to the arrow keys so that you can make call ins while running away. And mechs and vehicles are coming

“Currently 4 planets to fight on” nah man the battlefield has shifted forward 6 planets now

The good: I haven't fiended this hard on a game for years. I thought I was getting too old for this stuff. The bad: Two crashes to desktop (no big whoop) and multiple connection losses during multi-play resulting in loss of mission completion rewards and player mission stats... problems persisted for several hours over two to three days, but to be fair I think the number of concurrent users is insane at this point, so the servers are groaning under the stress. I'm sure they weren't ready for the reception they've gotten. This too shall pass. Additionally, I have noticed small things like player mission stats aren't accurate (numbers of hits or kills or friendly fire damage etc) and player character settings sometimes revert to older or default settings when traveling from location to location on a planet. The same can happen with difficulty settings. Combat game play has been amazing.

First thing I did on PC was rebind the stratagem direction to the arrow keys which allows you to move while calling in stratagems. Not sure why this isn't the default. As controllers don't have this problem it might be an advantage over mouse and keyboard but with the arrow keys it sort of solves the problem anyways.

dont worry mechs are coming soon and possibly also vehicle's, the dev's have also made a blog post talking about future plans, like new missions, new objectives, new weapons and a whole lot of other new stuff that will help keep the game fresh :D

When you play a 40 minute mission having a 1 min break to see how well you did and breathe is not an issue.

Mechs already confirmed for shortly after launch

that aiming mechanic for anyone unsure of why it is the way it is, one retical is where you're looking the other is where your barrel is, so you don't have to look at tracers to adjust you're shots you can physically see where you're barrel is pointing with the circle. this is milsim lite, where things like backblast and danger close matter, so making shots count MATTERS. knowing where your round is gonna go at all times is stupid helpful in the thick of it.

Agreed its a solid 9/10.... me and the boys having endles fun on this gem!

there are 6 planets now, 2 new ones for the bugs. you have to wait because its the loading screen same thing when you dive down. we are getting mechs soon

Would be sick to have a 8-12 player mode on a larger scale to give that war feeling

Advanced tip. You can call in stragitums while moving if you rebind the keys to arrow key so your right hand can do the inputs and can still move even run. You gonna need this tip at higher levels

Can confirm, they servers could not handle the massive player numbers over the weekend

5:30 that’s just the planets the war was currently on, every couple days a planet will finish and new ones open up. There’s dozens of planets and environments combos

3:46 You can actually run while calling strategem by binding the keys used for the directional inputs to different keys than the ones used for movement. One way to do this is using WASD for movement and the arrow keys for the strategem inputs.

You can simply put the buttons for up and down on the mouse wheel, then you can run away relaxed and easily call your things.

Btw if you are on pc you need to change your keybinds for stratagem callin to seperate movement and dialing in. On pc by default we can’t move because we have the same movement keys as the dial ones.

I would love melee weapons like chainswords to be added as well, good point.

I think they should make instances. Bunkers, caves, nests where the team has to fight through mobs and kill a boss or three for phat lewt!

3:40 actualy you can run and call down stratagem at the same time. Don’t know about PC but on PS it is possible. It’s little bit weird but once you get comfortable with it, it can be life saver.

When directing the stratagems directional buttons, lately, I’ve been practicing using my the right hand to switch over and steer the left joystick, while keying in the directional buttons as I’m running away, on a PS controller. Still difficult but sometimes saves me from dying. 😊. Good video. I’m really enjoying the game also. Been dreaming of playing it when I get home. I just recently got back into video games, cause of my son and nephew. Only had one game on my ps5, COD, and I got tired of HC-team death match, spawn die, repeat. This game has been much more fun. Although a bit slower, realistically, but I enjoy the cooperative game play. And it’s gotten super intense, everyone shouting , hurry!!! Dive dive dive into the pelican! 😂. And then the sigh of relief when you make it! 😂😊

Waiting impatiently for the car and mech from HD1 to make it over to HD2.

The original Helldivers has Tanks, APCs and mechs . . . maybe we'll see them in HD2 eventually

The Original Helldivers had tanks and mech suits. I would be willing to bet they are going to happen in HD2. Loved HD1. Glad to see the sequel doing well. Many big KZfaqrs have caught onto the game and so the servers are probably filling up very quickly. Great review. Keep up the good work. 👍

When you get to the levels 20 above its all about surviving trying to extract the purple loot and oh boy it is fun.

Best 9/10 game I’ve played all year! Hope star citizen is taking notes

Just an FYI you can call in stratagems on the move by running towards the camera, no need to stand still.

Mech suits are already confirmed to be coming very soon!

the game could be an amazing tv show with the comedy played straight

That minuate of achievements sounds like a pee break when you're with impatient randoms

I even got my old pops to play it with me, and we are having the most fun since we played something together on PS2

The only visual issue I have with this game, is that the explosions look like they're from like 10-15yrs ago. Aside from that, some guns feel like they need a buff

Hot take on the ship exit scene, you clearly have not played on a hard enough difficulty to have that nice breather after completing a mission you were about to lose.

Personally, I think gameplay gets a 9/10. I think its unfair to give it a 7 because of your personal gripes considering there 100% going to add more as they go forward. New factions, weapons, and stratagems are all confirmed, so i dont feel like it should play much into gameplay when the core gameplay itself is fantastic. That's my 2 cents, though, and to each there own.

It's awesome! Was playing last night and we're surrounded I back into the path of a resupply drop and I'm laughing with glee while I'm crushed and my team are shouting "Have a cup of liber-tea! & Freedom never dies!" 😂

the first one was amazing in top down so i knew it would be good in 3rd person but im finding hell diiver 2 a hell of alot easier , if you can get into the sever that is , , hell diver is the only difficulty to play... but you have to work up to it on 2 wheras you could jump straight into helldiver difficulty in the first one

not a fan of arcade shooters, but this is doing arcade right it reminds me a bit of Deep Rock Galactic in a way with some of its elements, and that game rocks

Mechs are coming for sure (already teased in a trailer). Tanks probably too. Great game indeed

Love this game but I agree, there are defo some areas and gameplay parts that could do with improvements

great review. thanks for sharing

Wish I could play it but it crashes every other mission Edit: Game works when running in Fullscreen

Hell yeah Grumpy having fun with HD2, amazing game, and I love every second of it.

Wow, you didn't just go to 11, you went to 12.

First off: read the full comment. I believe you stated that towards the end of your video, you said you wished the devs talked to us more. These devs have done nothing but speak and try to fix the servers' since release. I respect your opinion. However, I disagree. For 40 bucks, this game is doing everything better than pretty much all AAA studios but i can see your points And could see why you would give it a 9/10. I have also played the first hell divers so i do have biases. The dev said they would not add pvp as the community that comes with pvp is toxic and goes against the atmosphere hell divers is trying create.

looks a bit like Deep Rock Galactic and that's a good thing

you can move if you really want to while calling an ordinance, just do the monster hunter hand on a controller or let go of the mouse on keyboard and mouse. Your gameplay critiques were pretty funny, you basically just want to be playing a starwars game but called it a lack of "mechanics" Also, i have the impression you dont understand or didnt pay attention to the Galactic war aspect of the game, just as the first one, as the players liberate the galaxy, not just you but the whole player base, it will bring new events, new planets, new factions. You can at minimum expect 1 more faction and some vehicles like a mechsuit a motorcycle and a car. Those 4 planets available you were talking about , its just the current planets hell divers are fighting to liberate, as they get liberated they also become unavailable and new planets on the system become available, you can see the liberation progress of every planet before selecting missions.

I DONT KNOW HAD ONE MUTI PLAYER MATCH GOING ON QUICK START YOU GET KICK OUT I DONT HAVE 3 FRINDS TO PLAY WITH SO AS OF RIGHT NOW THE GAME IS USELESS TO ME UNTIL THEY FIX THE MATCH MAKING.

I'm glad the game worked out but online only sucks.

6 planets now...for democracy

Great Review i can agree

The real heavy hitting question is how do I spend thousands of dollars on ships?

I use macros for my mouse and they work for strategems, also you can bund the directional keys to the arrow keys allowing you to run and walk while calling in strategems. Js.

Pity you can’t get onto a server to play it

I am all set with pvp... i like that this is pve... id like to see large scale missions where you have more than one squad of 4 on the same map... maybe some underground missions... vehicle/mech missions, hell maybe boat missions on a watery planet...

17:13 oh.. only if he knew... eheheheheh

preach it brother - for liber TEA !!!!

Mechs are coming.

Flying around the battlefield and using chain swords is no good bro. This is exactly what big game companies do wrong. Cater to too much, it’s generic. The way Helldivers plays is more iconic, tactical, hilarious. Making it snappy quick and Fortnite-y won’t help

Mechs have been announced to be coming soon.

Better than a 7 outta ten. More like 9

IM DOING MY PART!

Id rather them not add pvp. I want them to focus on the main game and not split up resources for different gamemodes. The game doesnt need pvp. Also they ARE adding mechs. Dont know when though

“There should be a pvp or pvpve mode” FUCK NO! DO NOT MAKE HELLDIVERS LIKE EVERY OTHER MULTIPLAYER GAME OUT THERE!

Grumpy Eye Entro ??

nice review.

VR ?

It is you, i can tell you didn't play the first game, and of course you said it and left that clear. This game, the second one, is entirely based in the first one, all the things you do and the way you do them come from the first game, only with a different camera view, its a translation, so when you can't do this or that, when you want to do something like this or like that, thats why you cant, because, as of now, everything is based out of the first game, and they had to nail that before adding stuff, or mechanics, im sure things will be added later, given how good the game turned out to be. In conclusion, they wanted to make the first game with a third person point of view, and they nailed that, the game can grow from now. I invite tou and encourage you to play the first game, and compare them, that way you will see why the second game, is the way it is.

Great game but it’s a mess at the moment! Connection issues and worst of all getting to the end of missions and getting no xp or rewards! Played 8 missions yesterday and only got xp and rewards from 2 of them!

Adding swords would make the game terrible. Maybe certain melee weapons would be ok but im perfectly fine if the game never adds melee weapons to be honest.

the first part died due to repetitive gameplay and the same thing here.

pretty good. Shame about the scummy battle pass tho

I cannot believe complained about not playing for a little over a min, please relax.

I have zero friends. Is it worth the buy to play with Randoms?

I pray that the devs dont listen to your ideas thatd ruin the game. Vehicles i agree but no flying over the battlefield

Easy 8/10

You're only allowed to talk about Star Citizen

Dude sounds out of breath the entire video

WTF no jump not getting my money

Your complains are extremely nick picky. I would you suggest playing something else. The loading screens are really not that bad so chill. Plus you suggestions for the game are you trying to make yourself a solo god face tanking enemies. You missed the purpose of the game. Strategy, fighting from distance because your a squishy human and most importantly TEAM WORK. MY SUGGESTION YOU SHOULD PLAY SOMETHING ELSE.

Naw it’s not amazing.. the game doesn’t even work. Connection issues and failing to connect 90% of the time.

Destiny 2 and Halo clone. Arcade shooter. I prefer a more tactical shooter like Wildlands or Breakpoint.

@7:34 this is taken straight from the first game. Stop whining, embrace tradition.