Helldivers 2 bet cod because it had an actual sense of coomunity and rewarded teamplay aswell as a great monetization system and artstyle

i actually bought the microtransactions in helldivers 2 to support the devs

Don't forget their word on why there's friendly fire "Its Funny" "Accidentally Carpet bombing your friends is Hilarious"

Helldivers 2 has just a superb community. I just got carried by a level 50 veteran who likes RP and it was just so fun. Not even cringe, just pure fun.

Lethal Company, then Palworld, then Hell Divers 2. Every few months, an Indie literally blows AAA out of the water, love to see it.

It's pretty funny to see AAA studios absolutely horrified that Larian and Arrowhead don't want to completely rinse their consumer base dry.

The old days of COD is how I meet my girlfriend…she was one of the scariest and deadliest players I’ve ever met and now we are fighting the galaxy in Helldivers 2✊🏻

Tried to get someone to play hd2 with me, and that was the first complaint "all we are doing is getting killed by robots over and over" as opposed to getting killed by an 8yr old on CoD, Halo, Battlefield, Apex etc

The difference between the two studios is passion, Cod is money oriented whereas HD2 is about passion and a love letter to the community

The fact that they give the premium currency in game for free by exploring the map is actually insane These devs know what they’re doing

Seeing lethal company beat COD then Helldivers II is glorious. There’s so much soul and care in both games and players see that

The fact that HD2 also has weekly updates, and actually fix issues in a timely manner puts all these massive AAA studios to shame

"A game for everyone, is a game for no one" - Arrowhead Game Studios motto. Devs know what they are doing.

Helldivers 2 is not just a breath of fresh air in a pocket of mustard gas, it’s a literal entire habitable planet.

Helldivers 2 is the only game that made me actually want to pay for their currency, to support their team and enhance my experience, even though I easily could have just played more and collected super credits. It felt less like a purchase and more like a donation. I collected 1000 super credits simply by playing the game, which let me unlock Steeled Veterans, then I payed for the Cutting Edge warbond. Now that the latest warbond is out, I'm already halfway towards affording it, without spending a dime.

I've unlocked like 80% of all the premium content in Helldivers 2 by just FINDING credits in points of interests while playing the game. I don't even grind them like some do I just happen to find enough over time. It's so rewarding.

Honesty, if Arrowhead ran out of budget for the game, they could just ask for donations from the community and I bet the community would support them wholeheartedly.

I love how not only did they beat a studio with 30x their devs, but also there are reports of AAA studios rejected games with the EXACT gameplay loop as helldivers 2

Another great thing about HD2 is that even when you lose, you are still winning. Landing on a planet and getting wrecked immediately is still so much fun. Winning is fun. Losing is fun. Crushing the map in minutes is fun. Barely making it out with a mere few seconds out is fun. Playing with friends is fun. Playing with randoms is fun. Randomly getting squashed by a flying bile titan is fun. Getting launched like a football a hundred meters away is fun. Seeing people run into stratagems after warning them is fun. And there are so many ways to play and so many difficulties to choose from so everyone can have fun in their range. Everything builds on the fun and the moments and memes are everywhere. I don't remember ever have so many great memories of any game like this other than Age of Empires 2.

There is PvP in Helldivers. It's called friendly fire lol

Still waiting for the deeprock galactic and helldivers 2 cross over “What kind of democracy comes from underground” “The corporate kind”

I'm 41 years old. Proud Gamer since I was in the womb. Playing Helldivers 2 and loving every minute of it. I don't remember the last time I had so much fun with a videogame.

Anybody else notice that at 10:53 when the Helldiver steps on the Terminid's corpse, there is another Helldiver beneath it which raises their arm in protest to the extra weight?

"I feel like I am fighting the Call of Duty Devs, There are probably about 3000 of them." I LoL'd.

This is probably well known by now, but HD2 was in development for so long that their game engine went defunct, so they had to update it and fix it themselves on top of making a whole ass game.

10:18 Funny note: Stardew Valley also outperformed COD which i find hilarious

Fun , challenging , funny, and the fact the story keeps Going and changes depending how we play. Plus the community is so wholesome

Last night, I entered MW Warzone and spent the entire game on voice chat, recruiting players for Helldivers 2. I've already secured two new recruits, haha.

Today a new guy bombed me like three times, we won and then LITERALLY hugged it out 😂

Another thing can be said about the factor of camaraderie. Games like COD put you against others, you see them as enemies. HD has every player working towards the same goal. And the experiences you get when playing with others is rewarding. Last night, our group completed a mission ahead of schedule, and because I had an Airburst Rocket Launcher, I had someone team-reload me for victory fireworks. Moments like that make my day sometimes.

Super cool deep dive into it. I basically never buy triple-A games anymore. They usually cost more, they call price-gouging people "innovation", and there's no soul. Everything is quite the opposite with Indie games

Helldivers 2 is a call back to the early 2010s of gaming where companies prioritized a quality product not microtransactions. I still remember Halo Reach and the game flat out implying "screw you, play the game to get the credits to buy that armor piece you want. We aren't going to let you just BUY IT"

Literally spent $0 after buying the base game. I have all the warbonds unlocked and recently got the scorcher for bot missions. All from playing the game. The armor sets in the super store? Same exact passives as ones you unlock naturally playing the game. No pay to win. I enjoyed this process so much I actually upgraded to the Super Citizen edition BECAUSE I WANTED TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPERS!! this is almost like tipping because you want to - not because you "have to"

70 hours and level 55. Bought this game last week on friday (did not play that weekend) yeah. I'm in love with this game.

I used to play helldviers 1 with my friends and it was crazy fun just as helldivers 2 and it is still fun to this day. I genuinely dont know how more people didnt know about it.

January = lethal company February = palworld March = helldivers 2 & content warning April = manor Lords Every month this year is dominated by indie game

Another key point: By definition it doesn’t have a population of die-hard CoD fans in it, which immediately improves the experience massively.

Halo 3 ODST and Helldivers 1 used to be one of my favorite games of all time, seeing this game for the first time it was indescribable, beautiful, a game where it can make a man cry out of nostalgia and joy, seeing those triple A companies nowadays is like they treat us without even caring about us just about the money, and it is the first time buying a DLC from helldivers 2 and not regretting buying it I didn’t care if it sucked or if it was pay to win but I cared about those legends who showed the community and the triple A company that if you get the community agreement you would get everything you need, I am so happy to see helldivers 2 became so popular and those devs definitely earned their respect.

The music when you dive, never gets old 😍

You know what's nice for Helldivers 2 as well? You can play 1 game a day and still have so much fun.

Arrowhead communicates to the community, is realistic about their team size and ability to fix and release new content, gaslights users that the new flying enemies weren’t put in by them and “we don’t know what you’re talking about”. It’s amazing to watch passionate people get recognized and holy hell this game is a blast

This is awesome, it's been so long since I've been this greatly entertained from a creator and not been bored, you remind me of content creators of old, thank you for you work keep it up

The era of gaming is really changing in recent years, if we look at the latest biggest successes which have really marked players, there are Among Us, Lethal Company and Helldivers 2, only independent games (especially Lethal company which was literally made by 1 person) People are starting to get fed up with the greed of big studios who only see profit in gaming, and not offering a product that they are proud to present to the public so that everyone has fun, and that's exactly why independent studios will really take a major place in the world of games in the future

COD Players: Helldivers 2 needs PvP Me: Gets killed more by my fellow squadmates than from the bugs or bots.

I feel like the way the Helldivers team makes the money is actually fair, They give you cheap and good content, while you give them a small bit of money that they earned(Edit: Save Helldivers from the Sonytomatons!)

Was gifted this game, after playing for 4 hours, I bought it for someone else - it was that fun

This game made me realize how sad I was playing mediocre/shitty multiplayer games these last 5 years lol. All I have out of my favorite franchise right now are books, and 24 dollar cosmetics. Helldivers 2 was love at first sight, and now I'm a Fleet Admiral like a month and a half later lol. I hope this game wins hella awards.

You can tell who the COD players are by when they walk in front of an auto turret, die, start screaming, and then start team killing because they can't figure out its their own fault.

As a HellDivers 1 vet it makes me very happy to see this game doing well. I used to play 1 with my Nephew and when 2 came out he texted me very excitedly.

I'm a little shocked you didn't mention Helldiver's 2 small team of 300 vs Call of Duty's team of 3000 developers....

Hell Divers 2 is the only game I have ever played where once you purchase a warbond (battle-pass) you get to keep it forever, there is no end dates or countdown timer or anything like that, you finish your warbonds at your own pace.

Also in Helldivers 2 you earn Premium currency by playing game ,thats rare nowdays.

I'm doing my part I've been playing Helldivers 2 with my coworkers in the last two hours of work, after management has gone home. After one session a coworker said they were thinking of getting the game --I handed them 40$ and said do it, Managed Democracy needs us.

God I love this: we expect 14k players like the first game, pebble in a river. *the 800k players patiently waiting to get into the game on lunch week* “you got eny more of them orbital bombardments ?”

Palworld and Helldivers 2 devs just seem far more human, and wholesome actually encouraging their playerbase to be normal and have a good time

One of my favorite things about the superstore is: they don't list super credits as a $100 bundle with 'BEST DEAL' written on it. The highest you can spend is $20, and that's enough for 2 full gear tree unlocks. That's fucking insane and I love it. I ALSO love that if you spend that $20 or whatever, it doesn't give you 1999 credits or some bullshit like that; it actually gives you 2100 creds! I mean you're still a little uneven, but giving you more for your money? I adore this company.

A game success isn't determined by how well the game sells but how passion the devolopers Let keep spread liberty and Democray everyone

Dude, I’ve met a couple of cool people in this game. It feels wholesome because it’s an us vs them mentality. It’s awesome.

*in the board room* “Alright guys. We need to make a fun game” “Sir I have a good ideas, we could see what COD does… and not do any of that.” *helldivers 2*

See this is what we need. Nerds making the games and not the suits making the games

Don't mind me I'm just here watching and having a cup of liber-TEA

I absolutely love all the support and attention that Arrowhead is getting from people in and outside of the Helldivers community. They deserve the acknowledgement.

curious to why you don't believe weekly events with challenges for free animated camos, operator skins, blueprints and after market parts in Call of Duty aren't something to progress towards 4:10

Helldivers 2 STILL has 80k players (at its lowest) to 250k players (at its highest) CONSISTENTLY. Its been 2 months!

I love that you can find the Super Credits in game. You don’t have to buy a single SC with real money if you don’t want to. And all the Battle pass stick around so you can work on it on your own time.

It’s funny how you mention that older cods were more social and you could meet some life long friends. Literally one of the people I currently play helldivers with is someone I met in MW2 all the way back in 2009 and have been playing various games with ever since.

Funny thing is on a mission sometimes I only get teamkilled, it’s kinda funny and never met one toxic player. Helldivers 2 is breath of fresh air and I love playing every second of it

Don’t forget that one person outsold call of duty,which was a Roblox developer.

The real FOMO of this game is missing out on the story of the galaxy war. Not being part of the crucial major order is a huge FOMO moment

I’ve been a fan of arrowhead since they released their first game, magicka, and enjoyed the first helldivers. I was really excited when I saw them announce a sequel, and even broke my “don’t preorder games” rule, but man was I unprepared to see how much they blew up. It makes me really happy to see a relatively unknown dev studio I’ve followed for years finally getting the recognition they deserve.

It isn't just Helldivers 2 that is gaining more love than a triple A title, it's pretty much most of, if not the entire Indie Game Dev side of things. The devs of Lethal Company, the devs of Deep Rock Galactic, and even the ones of No Man's Sky after their rocky start. Most of the AAA Game devs have lost any sort of touch with their playerbases, now running their games off of how much they make. With the smaller dev teams, it feels more about the passion of making a game that people will love, and their success is based on how much people will stick around and play.

It’s not even just call of duty players I think helldivers does a good job of bridging the gap between many people who probably wouldn’t otherwise be playing together. I never liked call of duty and I generally like more story driven games, but it’s one of the few games my step dad really plays. Suffice to say we didn’t really play together much until helldivers 2 came out and it’s honestly genuinely fun to play something with him we both love.

I just love how you can find fun in Helldivers 2 even after dying or losing

Lethal company, pal world, and now Helldivers two have put triple A gaming studios to shame and I’m so glad it did

Helldivers 2 and lethal company both have something cod don't, actual love for their game....

What actually is impressive is the game is bugged as hell. Like it is really bad. Every 3 to 5 games I get stuck in a rock or under the earth or get stuck in third person shooting an invisible gun that you can't really aim and you have to find the magical combo of diving and/or shooting or crouching to get out of it. And yet it is still fun even as crazy buggy as it is.

The coolest thing is that super credits only allows you to buy the warbond. You still HAVE to play the game to earn the stuff in it. You can't buy your way to a completed warbond. And, as your working on one warbond, organically through the 100 credit bonuses in all the bonds, and the small amounts you can find in game, you'll earn enough to buy the next warbond. It's genius.

I stopped playing CoD around Ghosts and moved onto other stuff so I cant speak to modern CoD. But what I do love about Helldivers is that when I play it I'm playing with players together, cooperation breeds friendship. Hell even the way the game plays encourages players to get over mistakes. Its just nice.

i’ve never heard if helldivers 2 in my life, let alone heard of the developers, but hearing that they don’t want to add pvp to avoid toxicity in the community was like a breath of FRESH AIR. as if after years of drowning in corporate products made by people who wouldn’t ever dream of worrying about their community to a degree, that sentence was like finally coming up for air. they KNOW the internet, they know how cruel people can get when given full anonymity. it just feels so good for a game development team to actually recognise that and steer their game away from it.

Bro cod is like that one uncle that is trying to fit in with everyone but can't while Helldivers 2 is the other uncle that stands out that everyone loves. I'm for sure buying Helldivers 2 now.

Why? because Helldiver doesnt need to chase trends in the hopes it could stay relevent unlike cod that needs to copy the most popular thing

Nailed on Memes, this week we are memeing on either saving the kids or killing a long living meme of not winning and getting a stratagem

Me hearing the based arguments: He's got a point, based. Me watching him playing on the second difficulty AND having fun: Based Me internally: Haha go helldive

Helldivers, Palworld, Lethal Company, and Deep Rock Galactic are the four horsemen of fucking amazing indie games

Arrowhead has good communication with the community, so when places like the creek happened, they can turn that into more fun

An hour ago I was playing on a nighttime mission against the bugs. Visibility was low, we were on a suicide mission and some guy called a gating sentry to the extraction point. Only thing enabling us to see the incoming bugs was the muzzle flash of that turret and some construction lights around the point. I'm on low graphs but my man that was a sight almost as cinematic as battlefield 1. It was scary af as well. This game is a masterpiece for connecting people more with that non toxicity policy and delivering the atmosphere just right

Unlocking a new battle pass in Helldivers equates to about 20 hours or one to two matches every day between battle pass releases. pretty reasonable compared to some games.

Cod4 Modern Warfare and OG MW2, we're literally best games ever made in this franchise. Simple, unconvoluted, ungreedy games that were truly fun to play. I remember first playing it online and instantly thinking "wow, I love this but I need to get better" and i did, everyone did. I used to play with an entire team of newly made friends from across the globe. There was no buy to win stuff, you just had to play. Those days will never come back and it's truly upsetting

Some guys from work told me about Helldivers initially. I remember thinking it sounded cool, but still being hesitant given the state of the gaming market. They continued to talk about it for a few weeks, and eventually I was like "Okay, I gotta see what this is." So, I watched some gameplay, and I was like "Oh, this does look like a pretty cool game." I still held out for a bit longer, kept up with the news on the game for a bit. Kept hearing nothing but good things, so I gave in and bought it. The intro scene was so epic, the music was so awesome, the writing was witty, clever, and amusing. And the gameplay was just stunning. Even still, I'm sometimes blown away by the scale of the battles, explosions, and landscape. I think I played almost non-stop for 2 weeks straight (including nights after work) and put over 100 hours in after one month of owning the game 😅. It really is that good. Helldivers 2 has captured something really awesome, and I'm glad I decided to join the ride!

One of the things about the warbonds is you have to use super credits to unlock them but you allso have to actually play the game to get medals to be able to get the equipment inside them

not to forget that you can playthrough the battlepasses at all times. you dont need to rush, they stay and give you time to finish them

The funny thing is, is that Sony did not believe in the success of Helldivers 2.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Arrowhead doesn't have 100 dev. They have 100 staff. This could mean they have around 30 dev.

remember when entire map packs used to be 10$ lol for 4 maps and a zombies map, now you spend 40$ to get 1 nicki skin and p92 pistol that shoots salt water into your OWN eyeballs

Those old MW2 days playing on the skyscraper map, hearing the other team screech at the commando pro user on your team. Those were priceless moments 🤣

As therussianbadger states in a video about Halo Reach: "this game was made in a time where the goal was to have fun" or something like that

Helldivers 2 has been so refreshing I don’t even want to play another call of duty past black ops 3.

The fact you can even find the premium currency on the ground in missions is amazing too. My friend has bought 2 of 3 premium warbonds and almost has the 3rd without even paying a cent, just having fun with the guys.

This aged very well😂😂😂😂😂

Indie company: *makes something with actual passion and not to make money* AAA companies: these ways are unnatural