s what I call democracy!” with every airburst strike they call in. I do wonder sometimes how many are in on the joke, and how many think they actually are the good guys. But who cares when you’re covered in insect guts, the smell of cordite lingering in the air?

You'll still have a good time if you decide to live out your space marine fantasy all by your lonesome, but we definitely recommend giving multiplayer a chance.

Using voice communication is strongly recommended, though you'll get by just fine with pings and a decent awareness of your surroundings.

Troopers are little more than guns with legs, base caricatures of consciousness fused to machine guns and rocket launchers. Unlike Super Earth, the bots seem to believe that strapping heavy weaponry to expendable cannon fodder is the solution to every problem. Commissar

Just like in Helldivers 1, you’ll have access to a variety of different weapons and stratagems. Optimize your loadout for the situation you expect to be in. If you’re expecting heavily-armored enemy units, ditch the regular assault rifle and go for laser weapons, explosives, or call in an airstrike with your stratagems.

You'll have personal orders and major orders. The major orders will last for multiple days and reward you with Requisition Slips. Personal orders update daily, and you'll be rewarded with medals for completing them.

Many games that support cross-platform play also allow you to carry your progress over to other versions as long Helldivers 2 Gameplay as you link your accounts on different platforms together, but this isn't one of them. Sadly, Helldivers 2 does not support cross-save or cross-progression right now.

Take part in a successful final assault on an enemy's home planet by completing at least one mission.

Tempest 3D AudioTech on compatible headphones Listen out for alien footsteps, incoming attacks, and distant, desperate screams for help from Helldivers wandering away from their squad mates.1

These are the Yellow R at the top of the screen. These can be earned from completing missions, as well as found in loot.

But don’t sleep on those defensive stratagems either. While one Helldiver is handling the heavy fire, another Helldiver can call down a shield generator to protect teammates as the enemies push back.

If there’s anything that concerned me about my time with Helldivers 2, it’s that after three hours I felt like I’d played a whole lot of the content available in the game, which makes use of procedural generation to drop players onto the surface of various planets to complete generic objectives like launching an ICBM or destroying a specific military target.

But you won't need to hit L1 and try to check these during fights, as a handy little pop-up appears on the screen to tell you when you've just got a few more seconds to wait.

Note that if you bought the standard edition of the game, you can upgrade to the Super Citizen Edition digitally for $20.