The battle of Malevelon Creek lasted 58 REAL days before the player base finally managed to liberate it. To put that in perspective, we once liberated 4 different Automaton planets from scratch in a single day. That alone should tell you how much of an absolute hellhole the Creek was to fight on. Super Earth’s President (the developers) then declared the anniversary of its liberation, April 1st, a new holiday. Malevelon Creek Remembrance Day.

Yeah so the community got a major order to kill 2 billion bugs in 6 days. We did it in 12 hours.

Fun fact 1: The screaming at 6:21 is actually a Vtuber named Bao the Whale Fun fact 2: The song at the start is called 'We Are The Helldivers' by Jonathan Young

Helldivers 2 is widely considered to be a live service game done right. You’re essentially battling in a virtual war that, like real life, is ever changing, all controlled by a single person named Joel like a DnD DM. Planets come and go and new planets sometimes show up. Also, it’s popular because it’s a game that doesn’t have predatory monitization (which is entirely optional since you can only buy a premium currency called Super Credits, which is rather easy to find in missions so you can get everything just by playing the game) and battle passes that you can unlock just by playing and never expire, so you don’t have to treat the game like a job The Terminids are a bug species that were farmed for Element-710 (710 upside down is OIL), a very important resource needed for travel, but they broke free and now we have to cull their numbers. Focusing on swarm tactics, they are quantity over quality but are still not to be underestimated, especially the fast deadly Hunters, strong tanky Bile Spewers, summoner Brood Commanders, heavily armored Chargers, and near-invincible Bile Titans The Automatons are a species of blood fueled robots whose goal is to retake Cyberstan (which they have done), home world of the Cyborgs (faction from the first game who is believed to have a connection to the Automatons). Having ranged weapons and lots of armor, they are quality over quantity, needing only a few units to kill you easily, like the numerous armored Devastators, heavily armored Hulks, slow yet powerful Annihilator Tanks, and the brand new and very destructive Factory Striders as well as numerous base structures that can kill you or impair your calldowns

If you’re interested in playing it, just a heads-up: *the devs plan on “Removing the Training Wheels” soon…*

The casualty numbers are real casualty numbers tracking the number of in-game player deaths. Which is why it's also fun to leave your diver's voice set to "random," just to hammer home that every time you die Super Earth really is just sending one more cadet into the meat grinder. The fact that they always show up sounding calm and idealistic and start devolving into panicked screaming and shouting once they start taking hits or getting overwhelmed by enemies is also a nice touch. Also, naming your ship (as well as upgrading it) really does turn it into something you get weirdly attached to. Personally, I went with something that appropriately reflects the greatness of Super Earth, which is why I drop into orbit aboard the SES Fist of Benevolence.

Here's a really really cool fact that people don't really give a whole lot of recognition to, Arrowhead, the developers of this game, only have around 100 or so people helping develop this. As opposed to AAA studios that have several thousand

the creek is responsible for millions of names on the wall of martyrs. And as someone else said, this difficulty is ridiculous...but we're likely still in tutorial mode.... oh, fun fact. We're trying to set the terminids up on farms. Because their bodies decompose into element 710. And element 710 is a precious resource to the war effort, as it's....look just flip 710 over 180 degrees, and tell me what word it looks like stratagems aren't the little device you throw. That's the signal for your super destroyer or eagle strike plane to target with the payload of the stratagem. the open world nature is you can join the fight on any planet that's currently available to attack. You can queue up with up to three friends, or join random missions to play with random people. Every mission is instanced, so you load in a map, objectives, and fight in that area only. but basically all efforts are collective for the entire playerbase be advised, the game is a live service game, but it's a game with a live service supporting, and not a live service with a game supporting. The premium credits can literally be farmed, and rather easily (1000 premium currency per battlepass, the cost of premium currency is about 1 cent per unit, and it can be randomly found in packs of 10-100 in a mission). The battlepasses never go away and don't expire after a time, meaning any new gear is there to stay, which honestly altogether does justify new weapons being in them.

The song at the beginning is "We are the Helldivers" by Jonathan Young. Highly recommend his stuff if you get a hankering to do music reactions again. Some of his songs have full on animated music videos, like "Storm the Castle", "Man the Cannons", and "Best Band in the Universe". In addition to original songs, he also does a lot of metal covers of existing songs, anything from pop hits to anime themes.

Yes, this is a live service game, war updates are in real time. Major orders are usually a weekly thing that are a community objective and they have two "gamemasters" who can go in to individual missions and increase or decrease the spawnrates of enemies to fuck with you. The automaton one's name is Joel and he was responsible for the creek

5:10 the Taiping rebellion was an incident where a Chinese man had a mental breakdown after failing the civil service exams 4 years in a row (thus invalidating his entire life's purpose, no joke) convinced himself he was JESUS'S YOUNGER BROTHER and sparked a war that killed hundreds of thousands.

god i hope it comes to xbox... I WANT TO JOIN THE CAUSE DAMNIT

I love the smell of democracy in the morning.

for!!!! freedom!!!!! if you dislike this video you will be court martial and remember kids you should fight for freedom. become a helldiver!!!! for freedom!!!

Wait you haven't played it yet? Replace TF2 for a day see how it is.

10:25 Technically, you fight alongside aircraft pilots that drop a bunch of bombs on the places that you indicate with throwable beacons. But on the ground, it’s just you and your friends.

A recent mission was to kill 2 billion bugs...We accomplished that mission in less than 12 hours.

It’s a collaborative effort from the community. It’s honestly pretty interesting. I would definitely watch you play this game

helldivers is wide scale war...every lose and victory stacks on mission completion...its heavy on mission success...mass teamwork....really fun

Setting the railgun in unsafe mode allows the weapon to charge past the safe limit and do more damage. But charging too far will cause the weapon to explode and kill the user.

The song is called 'We Are The Helldivers' by jonathon young and it SLAPS

The amazing thing about Helldivers is that it required very little advertising, and even less hype. The gameplay itself created the community, and the community created the lore, the history, and the patriotic fervor that is the Helldivers Movement. FOR FREEDOM! FOR DEMOCRACY! FOR SUPER EARTH!!!!

I've been playing Helldivers. I've running it solo. Fun game.

We actually got a special cape in game after we re captured the creek

Yeah. Helldriver 2 actually has story and we as Helldriver 2 need to spread democracy to entire galaxy. There is content creator name Guns, Nerds, and Steel who record our progress to spread democracy and freedom.

Quick overview of helldivers: 1-4 players are drop on a planet in an intergalactic war. Their goal is the wipe out the enemy, complete their objective, and evacuate the planet. Players get to make a their own loadouts with different armor, weapons, grenades, and most importantly 4 different stratagems. Stratagems come in a variety of types, from air strikes, turrets, minefields, orbital lasers, or orbital barrages. But also tools that helldivers use by hand like flamethrowers, rocket launchers, railguns, energy shields, and autonomous drones. Enemies come in two types. The bots specialize in defense and range, creating powerful bases filled with mines, turrets, AA guns, mortars and more. Their troops come equipped with laser guns, grenades, rockets, flamethrowers, and heavy armors On the other side we have the bugs who specialize in offense and melee. They swarm the player with sheer numbers and rarely let up (max0r wasn’t joking when he said you’ll fight for 40 minutes straight). Each bugs comes with unique fighting styles to overwhelm you, such as stalkers that ambush you with invisibility, chargers with super heavy armor, spewers who fire acid, shriekers who take to the air, or titans that require heavy resources to bring down.

Oh my... Watching a Max0r video as your first experience to a game is either best choice or the worst choice you could make

I think you should watch RubixRaptor's videos on Helldivers 2 if you want to learn more about the game. More specifically "Is Helldivers 2 A Dream Game?" because he goes into depth about the studio, some of the cool stuff about the game, as well as some of the stuff that could be improved. It's older than Max0r's video so may not have some of the more recent events, but its a good intro. Max0r himself says its not his job to explain the game to you, so maybe Rubix's video would be good. His video "Democracy in its Final Form" also has some pretty funny gameplay clips. Or you can watch Bricky's review of the game. Really up to you.

Helldivers is basically starship troopers, halo, and a but of warhammer thrown in a blender.

Not sure this was the best video to be introduced to Helldivers 2, as it was full of a LOT of tongue-in-cheek stuff that made it difficult to actually get a good grasp on what the game is like.

Man, we've gotta get you to play this game. Although, you should probably do tutorial and a couple missions by yourself before playing with anyone. And yes, the story is always changing as the game goes on and they're bound to add more things as the game goes on.

WELCOME TO HELLDIVER

This game takes a lot of references from the movie Starship Troopers, just with a lot more obvious fascism and propaganda. We have ODST style "elite" soldiers as our standard infantry, each one carrying 4 different "strategems" to carry with them to use at any time. These strategems include, but are not limited to: heavy weapons, standard resupplies, automated turrets, orbital bombardment, and mechs. Unfortunately, these mechs are more like the Halo Mantis rather than Titanfall mechs. That being said, we have good reason to believe they will add more vehicles in the future. As for the galactic war, each planet has its own persistent progress in liberation and/or defense, which can change at any time at the developers discretion. Sometimes, we lose these planets, either because not enough players have completed enough missions or because the plotline demands it. One of the best parts about the game is how the developers are actively writing its story to mirror how the community performs. For example, the planet Malevelon Creek wasn't originally our main objective, but so many people wanted to try and take it because of its memetic difficulty that we failed the primary objective. A lot of people were not happy with this, and when people who participated in the fight got themselves a dedicated cape to wear, people started griefing anybody wearing that cape. In response, the devs decided to make the Creek our new objective, just to raise morale. It was a massive success, and in-universe they now celebrate its liberation as a holiday.

Yes. This game is like Risk. Except the events here happen without your consent. Also, yeah. Everyone playing this game is fighting the same battles. And also yea, this game changes each time. Especially the goddamn skynet

Yeah I'd say 95-98% of deaths in Helldivers 2 is teamkills/friendly fire. Both by accident and mainly on purpose because LOL

"That's not a resupply" I mean.... you respawn with refreshed supplies :D

The game is only on ps5 and pc at the moment, not sure if it will come to xbox, but the community keeps pushing it to

I’ve yet to run into an angry Chinese guy.

we do know how the bugs are on the planets, humans put them there to farm them for E-710 but they escaped and now infest the planets that were their farms.

You really do live under a rock

Not sure if you remember me but i do have you friended on steam. If i ever see you playing this game and having an open slot, you can expect me trying to join.

Here are some fun facts: 1. This is a live service game, but multiple people have said it's live service done right 2. Because this is live service, the numbers shown on the planets are from real people. 3. The community actually completely destroyed the robot faction once. They came back with a vengeance. That vengeance took the shape of At-Ats from starwars. 4. This game is mostly inspired from Starship troopers. 5. Helldivers 1 was a top down shooter instead of the 3rd person shooter it is now.

Helldivers 2 is the lethal co.pany of 3rd person shooters. Just swap Horror for dramatic last stands.

2:59 we are the helldivers song was made by jonathan young

This game has a game master who's one of the devs. He picks where the enemies push and when super earth makes new tech

"If I do play this game, I'll live stream it" Sorry Xboxboy, you won't lol

I'm watching this as I'm chilling in my ship, the Princess of Audacity lmao

being your own worst enemies is more than half the fun.

helldivers 2 is basically that scene from the beginning of 'tremors 3' where bert mows down the horde of shriekers. ...wait...have you seen 'tremors' yet? with Keven bacon? if not... watch 'tremors' while downloading helldivers 2. you wont regret it.

Libertas Non Dormitas!

Why do you use an xbox to watch videos?

The only good bug is a dead bug

Someone call the director of the [censored] first adaptation of Starship Troopers to movie and tell him that *this* is how you make mockery to Fascist ideals.

is it a mmo

I do see why people like the game, but I found it really wasn't for me. Between the always enable friendly fire, the health pool of 2, The lack of any real narrative and our actions not actually having any effect since planets just reset once they're 'liberated', it just feels to me like 'beating your head on a brick wall simulator: the game'

This games so fun lol. Theyre just starting to talk about opening it to xbox

Bring in Xbox players! We need halo veterans as reinforcement

the hazbin hotel finale is nowhere to be found good sir

Enlist brother

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