the trailers don't do the game enough justice, the game itself is even more chaotic and explosive-ridden than the trailers show, and it's amazing.

If you wanna get an idea of how surprisingly big this game is, just know Helldivers 1 never even broke like 7k concurrent players. Helldivers 2 broke 50k on launch and servers were flooded to the point that people couldn’t even log in cause of skyrocketing player numbers that the devs didn’t expect! Right now I’m seeing on a good day 500k helldivers on both PC and PlayStation! All this from a couple well made trailers and word of mouth

That's the awesome part in this game: the "campaign" IS the multiplayer mode. What happens in the galactic war depends on the investment of the community as a whole. I mean, you could play alone if you want, but you get more rewards by playing as a group. You can even invite yourself in any mission that is already started (and that is not full house yet) to help your fellow helldivers!

This game is the baby of Warhammer, Starship Troopers, and Halo. You'd think a child like that would be hideous, but it's the most beautiful combination of all of that. They also mentioned element 710, and it is literally just oil upside down. The Terminids literally turn into oil.

"the galaxy's last line of offense" is such a great line

Fun Fact: There’s a Dev that is actively working against the player base and deciding what the enemy does. He has been named by the Dev Team, he is Joel. Basically playing as the Game Master

But were you there when Malevelon Creek fell?😢 Remember Creek 😤✊️

This game is basically just starship troopers and i love it

For us dedicated players, Helldivers II is to the shooter/strategy genre what Baldur's Gate III is to the role-players. A game that is aware of all the problems of the others and doesn't make the same mistakes in writing and design. So that you have a fantastic gaming experience. I'll tip my hat to both Studios for BG 3 and HD 2

The campaign is cool because players get to shape the galactic war. For example, the release of mech suits was done via a community event where we were given the goal of liberating a planet where the mechs are being constructed. Its entirely possible that Super Earth will fall if things get bad enough, though of course such a possibility is incredibly remote.

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HELL YA FOR DEMOCRACY!!!

The devs have actually been garnering goodwill among the player base by acknowledging concerns and implementing suggestions. They also have a snarky streak that is absolutely hilarious. There were a few people complaining about there being friendly fire and the response was "We're not changing it. Accidentally carpet bombing an ally is hilarious."

Now you see why Starship Troopers has been trending a bit more for the past month.

Whoever drew that Intro Character's for yourself did a great job, it has the potential to become a comic. 😂

18:39 peek the Helldiver in the background kick the Warrior after they shot it to death like "yeah B****!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Words can't even begin to express how much I love this game! What these trailers don't show is the sheer scale of this game. It's ridiculously intense and often helplessly overwhelming at times where the only thing that can save you is a giant ass bomb. Being able to just drop in with your buddies and jump into chaos is SO fun. This game is INCREDIBLE!

Ken hasn't seen Starship Troopers? you should totally rewatch it for the channel.

I survived the creek but now I wake up from nightmares screaming in binary.

The devs are also VERY committed to the jingoism and freedom bit. When one player claimed that they saw a flying but, the game director called the statement propaganda, saying “bugs can’t fly” (there was a flying bug)

My favorite memes of this game comes from the scene of Iron Giant with the nuke being launched as the punchline of the players accidentally orbital striking themselves and being told they're about to all die for the glory of democracy.

in the first week during the battle of malevelon creek (robot Vietnam) hell diver (player) casualties were counted in the tens of millions. it was the battle that got me hooked on the game. there are a number of shorts and tributes to that fight.

It's Starship Troopers meets Halo and I can't emphasize enough the sheer craziness that the game offers, and that the trailers don't show. In a fun way. Must try if you want to go crazy killing insects and bots.

Helldivers 2 is so much fun! And it’s on-going all the time. As one of the creators mentioned that it gives them ways to interact with the players, like the have a guy named Joel (literally factual) that is something called along the lines of “Game Master” if I’m correct that he will give out the major orders where players will have to defend a planet, or attack a planet that was overrun by one of the two current enemy factions. I guess there was a story that Joel had to wake up in the middle of the night to have a bunch of plants be under attack due to the players pushing too far into one of the enemy factions territories because we as players are not ready to get that far quite yet! They really did an amazing job with this game and they continue making it great!

One of the coolest parts of the game is how every players ship on a mission at a planet can be seen in the sky box and are actually there firing down their payloads and dropping helldivers. Meaning you can see a full on difference in the skybox and the chaos of the battlefield depending on if you are the only helldiver deployed to a mission or one of close to maybe fifty participants doing missions around the entire planet.

The really cool thing is that the game is basically a war between the playerbase and the developer. As we take planets and sectors the developers are making decisions for the enemies and they can go on the offensive and take planets as well.

It'd be fun to see you try the game! Yes, it's 75% Starship Troopers, and then 25% of Warhammer 40k, Terminator and other references.

Helldivers will look at this and just say "Hell Yeah!"

I have never played a game that so perfectly balances over-the-top campiness and humor, intense and challenging combat, and moments of genuine terror in the face of overwhelming enemy hordes.

Believe it or not the actual gameplay is far more cinematic than the trailers give it credit for. Even more cinematic than the trailers themselves I would argue. It really makes you FEEL like your in the battleground fighting

To sum up this game, imagine the front lines of the Terminator invasion or the Doom invasion. That's basically the gameplay.

Thank you very much for watching our fellow helldivers fight for democracy 🫡

Never forget the brave souls of Malevelon Creek. Spill Oil!

You guys give this game a try. It's one of the all time best indie multi-player games this year, and it's still beating every other AAA multi-player games.

I don't know how anyone could watch these trailers and not play this game. I can't even resist logging in from the theme music lol it is as much and more fun as these trailers show.

This game is an absolute blast. Seriously these trailers absolutely do the game Justice. Every game is a Riot play especially when people are using their mics

This game is sooooo much fricking fun !! Even playing with randoms is fun i can only recomend

Ive already sunk like over 100 hours in this game, its so damn fun P.S: Ken still not seeing Starship Troopers is not only a crime, but very undemocratic and should be reported to a Democracy Officer immediately

Me and 3 other friends just finished doing the hardest difficulty (Helldive) all night and yeah, this video doesn't do it justice as awesome as it is 🤣 we were swarmed from start to finish. Insanity. It took communication and strategy to get them all done without failing. This game changed the game. I love it.

This reminds me, I need to log on tonight and do my part! Thank you for the reminder, citizens!

At this point, Malevelon Creek has the following statistics: Active Helldivers: 15,012 Enemies Killed: 93,175,184 Helldivers KIA: 7,159,671 Bullet Fired: 691,830,567

DEMOCRACY NEVER SLEEPS

For once the review trailers are actually 100% correct. Also yeah the Starship Troopers vibe is pretty accurate lol Definitely worth a play, even if you play Solo like I do.

ive been playing this everyday, its so fun haha

the biggest strength of the game is probably how easily it generates completely rediculous situations that are a lot of fun, even when loosing or dying. the friendly fire aspect in itself is a never ending source of laughter.

I love this game: no feminism, no progressive shit and 100% Powerful Democracy and Militarism

Fun fact, there is premium credits in game that you can buy to unlock more weapons, armor, etc, but, you can get those premium credits in normal missions around the map, and they usually come in bundles of about 50-100, the most any one thing costs is 1000 credits, and you can easily get 100 in a single mission, and upwards of 250 if you search around enough, and this is every mission you play. (The 1000 credits is to unlock a premium warbond, which is basically just a tree of stuff for more armor, guns, etc, the main tech tree's stuff is honestly better than anything in the premium stuff, and it's mostly just for cosmetics/to slightly augment your playstyle)

Still can’t get over how like real the guy looks in the intro

You will never understand the game until your running for your life from hulks and bile titans

Fantastic game to have fun in with friends. You land, you look around - nice planet. Blink an eye and suddenly there's chaos all around you. Coming out of it all at the top (of the pile of freedom-hating bugs and bots) - cherry on cake.

Most important key to its success is not mentioned here..HD2 has a living Dungeon master directly affecting the game..his name is Joel

Just the intro to the game when booting up would be the perfect thing to watch first, its really all you need. 💪🏻

*COME WITH US COOKY CRAZY KIDS! AND SPREAD MANAGED DEMOCRACY ACROSS THE GALAXY!*

Game legitimately looks as beautiful and cinematic as these videos show , I haven’t seen a game this far ahead of its competitors since Morrowind.

Just as this was revealed an fps starship troopers branded game dropped on steam: Starship Troopers: Extermination

The game is both starship troopers and terminator. It openly draws inspiration from those games, as well as warhammer and halo odst, and does so very openly.

Just watching this i can feel the democracy coming inside me

Honestly I haven’t had this kind of fun with a video game since I was a kid.

Fun fact: tha audio lines of each hell diver is different, young men and women usually 18 years old throughout the mission will slowly after each battle in mission scream with excitement or terror. They speak calmly, but then are frantic, and scared

The game oozes this kind of humor and chaos throughout. For example there is a cosmetic store for armor and every review has given 5/5 stars and with a praising review but occassionally if you refresh the store there will be a 1/5 stars and the card will say: [Redacted] This comment is under investigation for Treason. Mind you we are fighting for Super Earth, Liber-Tea and Managed Democracy. :D

So the developers actually do show up in random games, which is so much fun

Let us never forget, nor give up on Malevelon Creek. We will take it back.

SO they have a game master named Joel.... sometimes he helps you.... sometimes he spawns tons of enemies to break you... me and some buddies were destroying drop ships before release their troops. Near the middle end of the missions Joel must have noticed because suddenly there were 20 drops ships spawning at once.... fun times.

The fact you pick up on the fact it's satire from just the trailers, while people expoed to the entire game as well can't recognise that is very telling of them lol.

Something of note that might not be better explained. The developers have integrated what is something like a Dungeon Master system controlled by a single developer named Joel. He is the one who effectively controls the big picture. He tells the story by dynamically changing the galactic invasion. You likely heard about Malevelon Creek and it's fall. You probably heard about the planet where the mechs are being constructed. He is the one who basically gives the broad-scale objectives. Everytime a team beats a level, they liberate that planet by something like 0.0002%-0.0004%, and it takes the collective efforts of EVERY player succeeding their missions, and it's incredibly slow, but with so many people working together, they can liberate a planet. But just like any good enemy race, they will push back. They will try and flank the overextending Super Earth forces or retake planets liberated by us. He is also the one who rewards us by granting us medals for completing the major and personal objectives. The major objectives are usually given a number of days to succeed, such as activate sufficient Termicide Towers that are supposed to kill or control the Terminids. Or push and liberate a couple planets that are behind enemy lines (which means you have to liberate planets in the way). And sometimes they're simply too short or too hard to complete. But there's a consequence for that, sometimes. Sometimes because of a failure by the Helldivers for a Major Objective we could be hit by an effect across the board that like the Tyranids would have a major surge or something. Or the Automatons' factories are in full swing which means that more enemies would spawn in a reinforcement wave or something. Things like that could be happening behind the scenes without us knowing. And this all boils down to what the SuperEarth Government is having us focus on. For example, by focusing too hard on Terminids, they could lose track of the bigger picture on the other side and the Automatons could suddenly push back a huge amount, and we could lose a few sectors. And it requires controls that are built into the game. And planets can and often do have a global effect, such as a hot planet would make energy weapons overheat faster, cold planets would overheat the weapons slower, some planets could have ion storms that prevent calling in strategems, or have meteor storms, or the strategems take longer to arrive, or only allow you to bring 3 strategems instead of the usual 4. There's a lot to unpack and it's great that the community as a whole are responsible for effecting how things happen. Our successes are shared, and so are our failures.

Been playing nearly daily since launch. The game's a blast, figuratively and literally, Would highly recommend it to anyone interested in shooters. It's just fun killing Communist bots and Tyrannical bugs in the name of Managed Democracy. Tons of explosions, tons of team killing, alot of laughs with mates. And the way new content works is great, For example, that mech from the trailer. The Automaton bots took control of Super Earth's mech foundry planet, So the devs gave us the challenge, take back the world and the mechs are yours instantly. Fail and the bots with get the mechs and you'll have to wait a couple of weeks. It makes the game feel so much more alive when your actions have real tangible consequences for not just you but the entire Community.

Good game plus they have good people working behind the scenes and the people aren't the typical corporate greedy pos's haha. To be honest you can tell that they love the game they made. When it first launched, the servers were terrible because they had too many people for the servers and the CEO (or someone else from the team, can't remember) said to not buy the game and/or wait until the servers were operational. He actually wanted people to not buy the game, unlike other CEO's and companies that might blame their customers. They also have done a lot of other cool stuff but I can't remember them all tbh haha.

They took the kids out of the mines, so they went to Minecraft They took the world out of war, so we went to spread liberty

My favorite bit of lore that one of the devs hints at in one of the videos but doesn’t really become apparent until you start finding messages in the game is that all the conflicts Super Earth is engaged in were started by Super Earth- the bugs aren’t spreading themselves across the galaxy, Super Earth spread them across the galaxy in order to farm them for a valuable resource and accidentally lost control of them. Likewise the robots are a defensive measure against Super Earth created by the remnants of peaceful cybernetic human civilization that tried to declare independence from Suoer Earth and was nearly genocided for it in the first game.

This is what the Starship Troopers game should've been.

the Bile Titans (the one that was killed via Recoilless Rifle) is pretty much a Heirophant Biotitan from 40k's Tyranids faction (Bricky pointed this out to me in his review of the game and I have to agree it looks just like it)

The game is over the top parody of all the tropes! And it even has some hidden lore and player interaction to such a high level! Not to mention J.O.E.L. who is against Freedom!

19:20 yeah they are super inspired with Starship troopers for this game

Honestly, the videos made by gamers and fans are extremely entertaining! And it's hilarious, because each match can be lead to insane crazy close calls, and a lot of panicking mixed with laughing and celebrating. The chaos is real, and I never played a game that's so fun and crazy. Reacting to just short clips of videos can have you in tears very quickly. This is a game I think is a MUST play for any gamer!

There really isn't a set campaign like other games, but rather a story driven by player action and Devs basically DMing. A great example of this is Malevelon Creek. A jungle planet eternally set in twilight. Normally just a hard Automaton planet, but due to the launch focusing on the Terminids barley anyone was playing it. So you then got war stories of those that were there... The trees, they spoke binary. Through community action and the Devs themselves messing with the spawn rates, The Creek has now gotten recognized as Space Vietnam. Where New divers go to become veterans or die trying. Creek Crawlers is what those that thrived there were called, their mission: Spill Oil.

Fun fact. The game, being online, is able to have its difficulty tweaked in real time by a developer named Joel. Meaning that the game is essentially one giant DND campaign where Joel is the DM

i THink we should use commercial like helldivers 2 for our military, it would make me wanna join! :D

Most fun I've had in a long long time playing games, oh and yet probably the most frustrating too.

SES Light of Conviction reporting in. You on the right, sir, looks like a good candidate as a Helldiver. Enlist today!

These trailers remind me of those old Army recruiting videos from the early 2000’s

If you were ever aware of the Magicka games a decade ago, it's the same studio - the world takes itself seriously to a comedic extent, making it fun for the community to get very immersed and in-character. Getting killed by your friends is not only possible, it's highly probably, but you'll probably be laughing at the absurd moments.

Since you brought up Starship Troopers. You are absolutely correct. This game is heavily inspired by the movie and Gamology has a video of Starship Troopers actor Casper Van Dien reacting to the game, and he said that this game is very much Starship Troopers. I am sold on this game because I love Starship Troopers. Watching this game makes me want to go back and watch Starship Troopers again. ❤❤❤

That Gatling Turret is like the Hand of Death.

Honest, I think the sounds in game is some of the best. The whole game is great. It is the best co-op I have experienced outside of Deep rock Galactic.

ive not seen you guys in ages. Must be me just missing the fun. Glad to catch a vid. Just imagine what Helldivers 2 could be if we combined Casper van Dean with R Lee Ermy and Helldivers 2 game play...would be awesome.

Draft me up baby i ain't dodging this one. Ill gladly enlist but keep me. away from the creek

this game is filled with absolute chaos and somehow that makes it so much fun :D get yourself some dudes and dudettes and bring democracy!

I think definitely not definitive need a cup of libertea

Never seen Star Ship troopers?!...Bruh...great reaction.

Helldiver players had their Vietnam/Cadia/Reach moment 2 weeks ago, it was actually kinda traumatizing lmao.

Awww there's a skit trailer done by gamespot which was awesome too! Nice reaction thanks for vid!

There where some fantastic posts on reddit of devs who joined players games and would give them items and weapons and stuff that where still not fully released. Like they would join give people mech suits then a couple of months later we would receive the mission to unlock mech suits

The videos of Rubixraptor and the review of Bricky are perfect to describe the game lol

well if ken and beth ever decide to play helldivers 2. there is some info that is not told upfront, like everything has friendly fire, gold beacon's have goodies (either a weapon, req slips, medals, super credits), and samples are shared on extraction so if ken picks up 5 samples and beth picks up 2 and they extract with the samples everyone gets 7 samples

Starship troopers plus terminators thats how it feels, just jump in kill stuff, also your teammates, most of the time you will die or kill a friend and then it becomes personal, so much fun.

you should watch the short clips that players make. they make the game seem much more chaotic than the actual trailers and it’s insane

Terminators and Tyranids are threatening Super Earth. I wonder what new threat will come next. I say psionic aliens with advanced tech like the Protoss or Eldar :P

Just loving this game .so much fun .

Just a little factoid here, if you want to really geek out, watch starship troopers 1, and then the trailers. You will go absolutely nuts!!!

I don't have the game, but I really want to buy it. The devs are so amazing to with the community. They also gaslight the community a lot when they add things and it is super funny. Also, there's going to be a new enemy faction from Helldivers 1 coming soon from what I hear. And the way they tease it by making players die to "random" attacks not from the bugs or the automatons which is both funny and scary to see when they finally come out.