Helldivers 2 Has Redeemed Itself

[@RennsReviews]

I had a lot of fun making this video, and I hope you enjoy watching it, if you did go ahead and leave a like! Generally I don’t make positive content on this channel because it doesn’t tend to perform very well, so I had intended to make this a “low effort” video, but it wound up turning into a relatively high effort project. So if you enjoyed the video at all, be sure to click like (but only if you genuinely liked it) so that we can break this channel’s curse of positivity! Every little bit helps! Regardless of how this video performs, Helldivers 2 is my favorite game right now, so I will continue making content for it purely out of my passion for the game! Song List: 0:00 - Extraction theme 03:00 - the lads are the lads 04:33 - epic military marching drums 05:55 - terminid combat theme 07:00 - now you know 10:30 - spirit of victory 11:27 - north korean song of the revolution 12:40 - sow the seeds of revolution 13:50 - honor the heroes

[@themarlboromandalorian]

Another custodian huh? I'm glad somebody picked it. Yeah, my gripes with the update are two points. One, they shouldn't have replaced the rocket arm on the hulks with a command post laser turret, because it's worse than getting ragdolled. Two, they should have only reduced head damage from 200% to 150%, instead of moving that 50% to body and limbs. Because there's a lot more body and limbs than there is head. And we're way more squishy now. Super Private MarlboroMando SES Custodian of Conviviality

[@billyburry4046]

Ever think that these companies do this shit on purpose to generate negative and positive hype?

[@Chiefofbricks]

Honestly Renn I prefer these more positive videos. I'm so sick of negativity on the internet and pointing out when developers do the right thing helps the industry as a whole.

[@aggressivefox454]

I don’t really care about whether it’s positive or negative, I just like this channel lol. Although I do think negative reviews are easier to make jokes in, positive reviews are a nice break from negativity

[@Narinjas]

Having "fun" fun at 7:08 I see.

[@Racecarlock]

You can tell renn enjoyed himself because this review contains no footage of him running around a mall in a funny costume.

[@117johnpar]

It's sustained his attention.. for now.

[@closelaugh185]

throwback to the Avatar game lmao

[@nicklasveva]

The solution for difficulty in a horde game is absolutely not to make enemies harder to kill. It's just to add more of them. It gives you more stimuli and a feeling that you're actually winning over a stronger force of enemies, instead of it just feeling like the enemies have an artificially large amount of health.

[@maxwell_edison]

Not just more of them - More variety of them, so you have to learn more patterns! And that seems to be the direction they're going. Good on 'em

[@luckyspartan1875]

Gears of war 3 horde

[@Danthepanman1]

Helldivers can’t really do that since 80% of enemies one shot you And the and the other 20% can cripple you from a distance

[@L4Disillusion]

Ah boys you need to look at how valve did it with Left 4 Dead. Strategy. The zombies where many and you needed to keep them killed but the special infected made it like chess. Especially online. This is the way to do it. Imagine if this game had a vs. Mode like left 4 dead.

[@Kdot..F]

@@luckyspartan1875get to 50 yet?

[@andrewmeyer3599]

Helldivers 2 was the classic tale of listening to the super small hardcore players. the amount of times I would see someone brag about clearing Diff 10 with only a pistol, thus meaning the game was perfectly balanced was fucking ridiculous

[@kvngjay1431]

Ngl im not even a hardcore player and a lot of the problems was people just complaining about difficulty but I had no issue with any of the enemies and I played on helldive

[@alphaxbox3728]

To be completely fair to ArrowHead. Helldivers 2 attracted a completely different audience then the first. HD1 was very difficult. It's a little disingenuous but I'd say the dark souls of top down shooters. We had tons of tools but it was extremely difficult and REQUIRED team work. You could not solo above difficulty 5. It's like a band that did Rock and decided to try a pop song. Now they have a huge audience of pop fans when they did primarily rock. It's growing pains, and I think they've decided what they want to commit too.

[@d3vilmaycry25]

I'm a hardcore 10 diff, but I find prebuffs a hell of a chore. Those super small hardcore players are nothing more but bots in a disguise and need to be escorted the reeducation camps.

[@phantombigboss8429]

I still can't play HD2 in my broke ass third world country because sony blocked it and I can't play on my broke ass pc. waahh!! Sony is bad and HD2 is bad.

[@crumpetcommandos779]

​@@phantombigboss8429just Sony brah, it fucking sucks as me and my other friend from the UK started playing with a guy from Bosnia, and now he can't play it!

[@Hananniee]

it's weird seeing a video without ren being dressed as sonic in a library or something

[@yoinkisplonki260]

The bar is so low that when the CEO apologized it was actually pretty impressive I'm looking at you wotc

[@ablazedguy]

AH apologizes every single time and then does something to buttf+ck players even harder a few weeks later.

[@dumb2389]

wotc?

[@z1u512]

​@@dumb2389wizards of the coast, the company that made magic the gathering

[@Dankmemeslover69]

@@dumb2389wizards of the coast

[@dynamicworlds1]

​@@dumb2389Wizards of the Coast

[@JaCKal_646f67]

i wish sony didnt blocked my country

[@maxwell_edison]

F

[@mystic2307]

It isn't Sony, certain countries have certain policies or censors that can effect certain things on Sony, idk too much but all I know is that it isn't sony's fault

[@OctagonCookies]

@@mystic2307 Of course it’s their fault, if they didn’t make PSN mandatory it wouldn’t have happened.

[@marzialalfonzocanada888]

@@OctagonCookies yeah this is mostly abt the psn account linking mandatory....before HD2 sony ported PC games were fine like days gone,spiderman,gow and horizon now after the HD2 drama the pc ports that came after that are all region blocked like ghost of tsushima and GOW : ragnarok lol .... oh and concord

[@phantombigboss8429]

Time to move.

[@mylestrumbore5382]

I had the advantage of starting the game in the middle of the nerfs. So it only got better for me.

[@BratFyre]

same

[@hailhydra3990]

I started before and stopped because of the endless nerfs, back then every update claimed to want to balance the game but they only nerfed weapons and had barely any buffs Definitely redownloading it though

[@phantombigboss8429]

@@mylestrumbore5382 I started in May and got almost everything maxed out at lvl 35 and beaten Super Helldiver diff. I pretty much beaten the game and been waiting for more content which is the real issue for the game. and its now here and more on the way.

[@RogueSith07]

Same! I'm loving it rn

[@sir_genericname4781]

@@phantombigboss8429how do you even have everything at lvl 35 I’m lvl 45 and I still have lots to unlock still

[@frank-b6169]

Funny how they buff the weapons as soon I start playing space marine 2. Y’all stay hydrated and have a bless one.

[@phantombigboss8429]

Hell divers 2 and Space Marine 2 Back to back Im in a dream right now.

[@Staladus]

Lmao ever since the buff update, I havent touched Space Marine 2 once

[@maybeasinner8007]

@@Staladus i'm enjoying my railgun lmfao, I swear if they nerf it I'm never coming back xd

[@crimsonsun4312]

@@Staladusi have played both since, and both are amazing

[@Staladus]

@@crimsonsun4312 oh i agree, though SM2 just doesnt scratch the itch the same way Helldivers does

[@skrrrtsusman3450]

Every two months be like "Helldivers best game" "Helldivers stinky doo doo" "Most coolest update ever?" "I F@$$# HATE HELLDIVERS" "Bestest COMEBACK for HELLDIVERS"

[@scorchercast8366]

Seriously it annoys me how often the community will take a stand and then completely fold the second they receive a single concession. If you forgive them this easily there just going to keep pulling this shit. Have some fucking discipline.

[@zm1786]

@@scorchercast8366 all they have to do is not nerf anything, ever. it took almost a year for them to understand that

[@timothyfloyd3269]

@@scorchercast8366 what you mean community the community hasn't come back yet you guys got a trickle of players playing again. people underestimate how many people bought this game and how many left after first 2 months. this game sold 12 million copies and it was shortly after release. if it wasn't for how they shit on the whole community and didn't listen to the people. they could have made it to the top 50 list of all time high selling games. helldivers 2 as far as i know have the highest record for amount of people lost in 2 months after game release. the community has never come back and it wont be back they already ruined it. its only a small percent of people that's play again cause creators make video hyping up their fan base. if you look at steam charts its a fing mountain for first 2 months then flatline all the way till now.

[@travisnyte1127]

@@scorchercast8366 the only point is to improve the game and everyones experience. there is no need to "punish" anybody and hate them forever...

[@FranknKitty]

@@scorchercast8366 it's a small studio, they make mistakes, it's not like you're talking about epic games about fortnite changes because they're concerned with making money

[@snop6176]

I'm beyond happy they fixed their game. I was ready to quit in april when it felt like primaries were pea shooters and you couldn't fight back. I uninstalled the game. Then when I hear of the buffs, I came back and have been playing ever since. Looove this game

[@timothyfloyd3269]

i hope you enjoy game but for a lot of people once they put something down or lose trust its really hard to pick that thing back up again. helldivers 2 as far as i know have the highest record for amount of people lost in 2 months after game release. if you look at steam charts its a fing mountain for first 2 months then flatline all the way till now.

[@Levyathyn]

It's not just a difficulty thing, never has been for me. I love difficulty, I LOVE it... I was one of the people pushing for a Level 10, and I can't wait for the Hell of the Illuminate to return. The problem is that the moment-to-moment fighting has always needed to be a bit more fun. I understand primary weapons aren't designed to be able to handle everything--and they shouldn't be, that's fine. But they shouldn't be designed ONLY to handle the weakest enemies. Diving back into the game, I can already think of ten, twenty stories or more of things just... feeling better. Even when, say, a Charger killed me yesterday after I couldn't kill it (I just got swamped) it still FELT better because my primary was at least occasionally busting through its face. I saw blood, and even though I died I had the scent of that blood and my efforts to come back and kill that bastards were redoubled. What I've always wanted is to not just fall back on my old, familiar routines of picking whatever weapon works best--be it the Slugger, or the Autocannon, or being forced to bring a sniper on someone in case we got flying drones since not much could even damage them---and I just wanted a game where I could, on a whim, pick up an SMG against the bugs, or go to bring throwing knives and not risk blowing a high-difficulty mission, or just to bring and use the Spear, my favorite weapon, without it letting me down like I let my parents down. I love the idea of more bugs, or what they've been doing by adding new, difficult stuff like Impalers, or giving extra abilities to the warriors. I WANT the game to be more difficult, but more fun at the same time. I don't want to just mount up with a basic assault rifle you start the game with and lay on the ground with hordes and hordes of enemies not being able to make it to me; I want to mount up with friends, and a versatile bag of strategems and weapons, and blast the shit out of my enemies and walk away from every fight with bloody knuckles, broken bones, and a smile on my red-stained face. I would rather die facing three Chargers because of my bad positioning, or my inability to mitigate a horde of enemies, or a rough time for a reload, than fight one Charger and have the same amount of struggle because I just respawned and can't call in my only effective weapon for another six minutes, so I die because I just can't do anything.

[@timothyfloyd3269]

apparently the devs don't understand this game is a horde shooter by default and horde shooters shouldn't be weapon difficulty it should be how many enemies are coming for my A difficulty. it shouldn't be me unable to even kill the basic enemies. it should be there are so many enemies on my screen i cant kill them fast enough.

[@mrmedic7799]

"big booms, should boom big" is a quote that inspires us all

[@PriscentSnow]

Alright this video has convinced me to reinstall HD2. I stopped playing on the patch right before they nerfed the flamethrower simply because it just got too frustrating to play for reasons you mentioned in the video. If I had still been playing and reached the flamethrower Nerf patch, I 100% would’ve quit on the spot because flamethrowers were my go to support weapon on difficulty 8/9 because of how effective it was against chargers, and I hate chargers with a fiery passion, no pun intended It was just so irritating that our tools were getting less and less effective against enemies that were seemingly getting stronger each patch That I just stopped having fun

[@rocketman3285]

With you on that one. When the flame buff and pyro outfit came out I would non stop play with flame weapons. After the nerfs though, I never went back to the game. Thinking about going back now that things are fun again though

[@fffrrraannkk]

Thanks for clueing me into Johnny Sins. Downloading his entire filmography right now.

[@olgagaming5544]

Which movie do you recommend the most?

[@Largentina.]

​@@olgagaming5544 All of them.

[@blacyc]

Great actor, hard core method

[@SwagBroPlays]

He.....he's been in over 3000 projects.....

[@Wildbert]

😅😅😅😅

[@JuanNaranjo-v1t]

Using the railgun to Aggro a bile titan a mile away, and trying to kill it with a nice clean headshot before it gets to you is a thrill i didnt know i needed..

[@buttergolem8584]

Now, every gun is fun again instead of just 2 viable ones.

[@rocketman3285]

A wise man once said "A big boom, should boom big"

[@brandobvf]

i am glad you made this video. i stopped playing the game because it just became less and less fun every update i need to download the game again rn

[@CakeSublime]

Jump on NOW before it's time to complain and whinge again.

[@lenoxpI]

Fr 🤣

[@cloggedpitot1]

Jokes on you, I never stopped.

[@Hanakin-Sidewalker]

They’ll go right back to nerfing everything once they win Goty

[@gamerbeast3616]

Doubt it​@@Hanakin-Sidewalker

[@Lord_IckisDickus]

@@Hanakin-Sidewalker DOUBT IT especially now since space marines 2 is doing so well and is basically the same idea, but with more of aa mission linear design then helldivers 2

[@Krystalmyth]

It's impressive that they took in all that feedback and actually, truly listened. I've never seen a developer actually come through like this. I specifically commented on how the recoilless should feel powerful, that it should feel like the opening trailer and take out whatever it hit like in Helldivers 1. It should have punch to make that reload worth it. Never thought they'd actually go and DO it.

[@itsumayo]

I don’t know if it’s just me, but in the Escalation of Freedom trailer they kinda just looked like they were halfheartedly listing off statistics, some new features, and looked kinda bored. With these new buffs they look like they’re having fun and want the game to be this reckless fun. They seem a lot more enthusiastic in general.

[@-Zegop-]

My brother and I played yesterday. We launched into diff 7 with weapons that were once entirely outclassed, the recoiless rifle was one tapping bile titans, we were having fun again, it was incredible. The anti-material rifle hit hard too.

[@JokerChany]

they did the one thing everyone said they should do for a pve non competitive game. Make shit strong us fuck to give you an insane power trip. This game perfectly balances being a glass cannon as it should. We hated feeling like we had to use certain things to have any chance as it wasn't fun to be locked to like 1 good loadout but to now have just so much shit be so strong is fucking crazy

[@victormoreno5386]

Good job on highlighting the explosions. More explosions. Been playing the game since launch. Took a break and came back without knowing there was an update. I was shocked and fell back in love with this game.

[@GregHeffleyGaming]

Thank you SO MUCH RENN for featuring my lovely old pops in the title of this video! I don’t really understand why he’s there, but thank you! Much love from me and my 68 siblings ❤

[@maxwell_edison]

He Bangs

[@acay5722]

"Big Booms should boom big." "Yeah." Thats exactly how i imagine Helldivers 2 was developed.

[@unknownceleb642]

How can you not love the team behind Helldivers 2? When the game came out, it had problems. The team told people not to buy the game until those problems were fixed, and now the CEO says that this problem is on him, and not on the designers. I mean, we never see this mentality with anyone else - at least I don't.

[@overlordshiina]

I don't want to be that guy but if their mentality was that great they wouldn't have lost 90% of the player base in 6months before doing anything to change that trend... The best mentality a dev team can have is "Show not tell" if you're there for what they show you'll be happy.

[@scorchercast8366]

They showily killed off the majority of there player base while ignoring the clear and obvious complaints of the fandom till they were forced at the equivalent of gun point to reverse course. If they had a good mentality they would of recognized in the first few updates that players didn’t enjoy this kind of gameplay and averted course. But no, they kept going and refused to stop until they were stopped.

[@timothyfloyd3269]

what you mean good mentality their mentality can go and f themselves. you wanna know why cause 90% of player base said same thing don't nerf don't nerf. they nerfed. when people were outraged the dev team said you don't like it don't play. and people got angry and CEO APPOLOGIZED GUESS WHAT they nerfed anyways. this repeated several times with CEO APPOLOGIZING on SEVERAL OCCASIONS. people underestimate how many people bought this game and how many left after first 2 months. this game sold 12 million copies and it was shortly after release. if it wasn't for how they shit on the whole community and didn't listen to the people. they could have made it to the top 50 list of all time high selling games. helldivers 2 as far as i know have the highest record for amount of people lost in 2 months after game release. the community has never come back and it wont be back they already ruined it. its only a small percent of people that's play again cause creators make video hyping up their fan base. if you look at steam charts its a fing mountain for first 2 months then flatline all the way till now.

[@mattmaffett5879]

@14:00 "If you have a squad that knows what they're doing this game has gotten a bit too easy." ...said zero BOT divers ever. Bro, play on the automaton side, super helldive, and you'll question reality itself. They're insanely aggressive, deadly, and accurate. They just mash that "W" key the whole time.

[@Kdot..F]

Took a page of out Tf2’s book W+M1

[@Razumen]

It wasn't hard before with a good team, it was just the noobs that want to kill everything that were complaining.

[@poggestfrog]

I assume they mean if you have 4 players each with like 200 hours on a discord call then you'll be able to beat the mission but... that's kind of a given tbh. If a bunch of people who no lifed a game got together and still couldn't beat it then there's something wrong

[@dr.science_0177]

I'm fine with diff 7 bots. No thanks

[@CloudyB_MT]

Before all these updates, i saw roughly around 20,000-50,000 players online. These numbers have sky rocketed once again.

[@scorchercast8366]

Can’t wait for them to do something stupid again just for players to take a stand and then immediately fold the second AH dose anything remotely close to a concession.

[@campbellhansen7533]

0:52 1 thermit grenade to kill a hulk. From testing, all three used together leaves a factory strider with low enough health to kill with small arms, without hitting the belly.

[@jonmann4980]

How do you get close enough to a factory strider to actually throw it on them 😭 I just started difficulty 8 and was struggling fr

[@jamesThebulbmin]

​@@jonmann4980dont approach from the front get under it and tickle its bells

[@nogard015]

You can throw ther thermite over cover to hit it, I believe it’s also only 1 thermite to the belly and to it’s eye. You can destroy the miniguns wit medium pen weapons to approavh it safely as well

[@fakskis]

I started playing Helldivers 2 after the big buff patch, and I've had a lot of fun, I just wish I didn't get DISCONNECTED AND THROWN BACK TO MY SHIP, EVERY, MISSION...

[@SupaFly-gx1zo]

The countries banned by SONY still cannot purchase the game. It has not redeemed anything.

[@bigmyke2008]

A company that listens to its consumers, it's like a unicorn

[@maxwell_edison]

Like a Unicorn Democracy* FTFY

[@johnnybensonitis7853]

Yeah, shit's weird man....Perhaps the end of times is nigh upon us. Devs not going online to yell at consumers for having complaints? What the fuck's going on here, man, I'm scared..

[@selectionn]

what company are you talking about? Surely not arrowhead.

[@D3vilTube]

They listened to the numbers. They dgaf about you.

[@bigmyke2008]

@@D3vilTube consumers are counted dingus

[@ballacaust]

Aw dude I can't believe you've been playin with Commissar Kai, I happened to find his channel and loved his whole teamplay oriented style, how perfect.

[@flightassist3785]

yeah it's pretty fun now, high difficulty is still challenging but you can play with a lot more different options and players less than lv50 won't be instantly kicked out from every single lobby they join

[@envixous_402]

Helldivers only have two moods: "It's so over 😭😭" "WE'RE SO BACK!!!! 🗣"🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥"

[@JaySliZe]

12:50 this by far is the thing I love most about this update, I don't have to be a meta sweat to try and beat a mission anymore I can just play and have fun and just chill with my friends

[@san_toad]

8:22 that’s my favorite little boy Renn I would like to say you inspired me since D1 to always excel and put myself in difficult situations where I can learn from my mistakes and become better. Soloing raids and running through Sekiro with no deaths. You’ve inspired me to become better and actually show passion and appreciation to gaming. You raised my standards high I love this video

[@RennsReviews]

It is my belief that if you can learn to improve in videogames, you can also learn to improve in life. Unfortunately improving in life isn't as fun or as important, but it's still a good skill nonetheless. Sekiro deathless is absolutely insane, here's to living your life deathless as well🥂

[@rush_17]

Thermite grenades were my favorite before this update and my view still stands lol

[@OrdoMallius]

Logged back in today shot from the erruptor and blew myself to pieces. We are back baby

[@angryyoutuber8013]

That man DOES NOT look happy reading the reverted nerfs lol

[@ak8911]

thank god for Space marines 2 for putting fire under their ass and actually making Hell divers 2 great again

[@scottgust9709]

Helldivers2 is great...just need more beautiful worlds to explore

[@An_n1]

9:29 The bushes shoot back Multiple planets have some sort of unfriendly flora like that, like the frozen flowers that stun and slow or the spores that blind and explode, they impair foe and Helldiver alike.

[@InsaneElmosGaming]

JFC it took them THIS LONG to buff everything?

[@antman8845]

Hey man love the videos, hope you're well.

[@raidenwesterman4479]

I love where the game is at. The bugs are a thousand times easier than bots though. That isn't really something that can be changed without a complete overhaul. Since you're not constantly being shot at by the bugs. So it makes sense. For those that want a challenge. Play level 10 against the bots. You'll struggle. It's still damn near impossible

[@zedus4042]

Now this is an extremely well put together video, great script and editing and hell yeah, Helldivers is great again, better than ever in fact. Now you'll excuse me, I gotta go and liberate territory for Super Earth!

[@gabuks1]

Looks fun to bad they won't let me buy it because I can't connect to the playstation network in my country. Can't even buy a single player game like God of War Ragnarok because that has to connect to it for some reason. This is the first time I can't buy a game.

[@phantombigboss8429]

Sucks to suck time to move.

[@GeNoXcro]

@@phantombigboss8429 Corpo-rat bootlicker

[@jhtwf]

omg im so glad you've made a helldivers video, i never expected this!!!! id love to team up sometime

[@LouisScholes]

No it hasn’t .

[@wakandaforever2401]

If you want more of a challenge, go to the bots. Helldiver limb damage has been modified so that even the smallest bot grunt can kill you quick.

[@wuz_mobbinfaded7434]

see what happens when u change ur game and piss ur playerbase off...hopefully it's nothing but forward for AH

[@ollihilden1864]

Love your videos Renn. Nice to see you're also fighting for liberty. :)

[@RezaQin]

Ironically, HMG got a nerf whack...

[@charles281]

alright renn, youve convinced me to give hell divers another shot

[@SkyRunner21]

I'm an Xbox fan and still happy for hell diver's redemption... We need more good games, more high quality games🎉

[@phantombigboss8429]

@@SkyRunner21 I hope HD2 goes on Xbox soon. Give us Halo please lol

[@SkyRunner21]

@@phantombigboss8429 I wouldn't hesitate for a single second my brother, but it's not in my hands...

[@Toniscampers]

This is how you do a follow up video, not like Joe and not mentioning a game dev 'Asked' (With money) To come back to a game and say things are better

[@agidyne9676]

Not yet. Patch is good, but countries are still blocked, no?

[@phantombigboss8429]

@@agidyne9676 nobody cares.

[@aggressivefox454]

@phantombigboss8429 having fun going to every comment mentioning sony and saying nobody cares? It’s sad they cut off a large portion of the world. People from those countries can’t buy the game. It’s just bad and sony deserves criticism

[@phantombigboss8429]

@@aggressivefox454 cry some more.

[@johnnybensonitis7853]

@@phantombigboss8429 Very insightful response!

[@gamerbeast3616]

Thats on sony not arrowhead

[@marekkunicki8167]

Your video reminded me of changing my review, thanks!

[@BLUEWOLFJAPAN]

Good on them for fixing for these nerfs. However, there are still issues that need to be addressed.

[@abbiecapps9822]

The SES sword of the stars is back in service. I’ve been on leave since the creek fell. And am ready for action.

[@Ryan-tn4gk]

I just havent gone back since my ps plus expired. And i would get it on pc but there isnt any cross progression so im going to at least wait for that

[@RennsReviews]

I had 20 hours on Playstation when I made the switch to PC, and it SUCKED having to start all over again. That's a must have feature right there.

[@jhtwf]

@@RennsReviews i did the same lol

[@Ryan-tn4gk]

​@@RennsReviews thanks for responding! I love your videos!

[@BuffaloMAcnCheese]

This was a great video, liked and subbed.

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

Buffing is always the way to go. Nerfing is for virgin losers. Especially for Helldivers: I have been downright scared to play on higher difficulties because it was just too hard. But now, with buffed weapons, I have more confidence to play the game in the most fun way. And it still is not easy at all!

[@lenoxpI]

Especially when nobody asks for something to be nerfed and yet they still do it

[@siubhan2047]

Never played Helldivers, probably never will. I am just here to support my sweet, sweet boy Renn, with two N's, cause you deserve it.

[@Ataximander]

No, not until Sony unblocks everyone that lost access to it cuz of that dumb PSN rule

[@maxwell_edison]

:(

[@carlosvicenty-9856]

Believe it or not, that’s actually not true even if you’re in a blocked country as long as you didn’t delete the game, you can still play it but it does still suck

[@phantombigboss8429]

Nobody cares

[@LeadMetal82]

Take it up with Sony

[@td1068]

How many people are going to complain that they cant play helldivers, it's one game, move on and play the 1000's of other games

[@Dmansvids2]

Honesty Brutal cold but true honesty ... Thank you. Thank you for being genuine honest and above all sincere with us no excuses no sugar coating either of your self or the events/groups/individuals in question this is real video game journalism and I applaud you for it for being better than many of you peers by simply being decent.

[@Bad_Bug_Bad]

My favorite little boy in the whole wide world is back!

[@sanmarinyo]

Definitely redownloading it after this video. Seems like weapons are not shooting beans anymore, seems more realistic. Love it

[@EvanJamesAudio]

I'm not playing this game again until the new enemy faction arrives. Bored of robots and bugs.

[@TTSP907]

Same

[@QuirkyAvik]

Helldivers 2 is what Starship Troopers games should be like.

[@cactophone4552]

are they still locked in like more than hundred countries

[@theasiancrusader9467]

yeah they are basically the only problem left

[@phantombigboss8429]

Nobody cares

[@ssjbargainsale]

@@phantombigboss8429 Im pretty sure the people on all those countries care, but sure

[@johnathanshade2578]

​@@phantombigboss8429we arent talking about you here, go sit back down

[@devilinblack637]

​@@phantombigboss8429damn that pfp

[@demetriusbrooks5577]

Amazing video as always

[@charliehaigh8161]

I wish you could use thermite grenades for pest control irl -_-

[@seanroughley4060]

You can! Just don't tell the police about them :D

[@charliehaigh8161]

@@seanroughley4060 O_o

[@Notapro1243]

2:38 nice kill

[@rude_wredne]

Okay, but just listen: they did exactly the same thing couple months ago: 1. Don't fix shit 2. Nerf Shit 3. Buff Shit 4. Nerf shit like its some esport 5. Buff shit so people praise you 6. Profit Wait another month or two when they will nerf shit again.

[@LethalOwl]

There will always be balance patches. Things will get nerfed, things will get buffed. That's the nature of ongoing updates in a game like this. Expect the worst, hope for the best, and you'll never be disappointed.

[@rude_wredne]

@@LethalOwl Yes and no. Its PVE, not an esport. Before this patch they fucked up balance so bad that only couple of the weapons were really doing any damage on higher lvls. Spawns/patrols were fucked for months. They even nerfed a fucking crossbow that 3 players used. And now, after months of silence they come up with a patch (again) that buffs everything (again) fixes some things (again) and breaks some things (again) just so they can fuck everything up (again) in upcoming patches.

[@Razumen]

@@rude_wredne Doesn't matter if it's PvE, it still needs to be balanced.

[@phantombigboss8429]

@@rude_wrednethis guy never played a online game before.

[@LethalOwl]

@@rude_wredne I've played the game since day 1, I'm very familiar with what's happened. I highly doubt it will get as bad as it has been twice, but we'll see. That said, balancing will always happen. Some things will get nerfed, some things will get buffed, every patch. Always. Doesn't matter that it ain't pvp, I don't play much online pvp stuff. Balancing happens in PvE games too.

[@MrSierra116]

5:58 That's the Alpha Commander, they continuously spawn warrior if you leave them be, unlike the Brood Commander they only spawn either warrior or hiveguard once iirc

[@soundrogue4472]

Considering Helldivers 2 originally wanted to be quote, "tarvok in space" it amazes me how FAR off the mark they are.

[@phantombigboss8429]

@@soundrogue4472 eh Escape from Tarkov is too much.

[@soundrogue4472]

@@phantombigboss8429 I agree yeah, idk what the devs were smoking when having that in mind.

[@Maximilian-Willert]

Thank you so much for this summary of the current state of the game man. I'm going to start playing again soon with my buddy!

[@mojtaba3334]

Too bad it's not available But have fun

[@oatsmilks]

i’m able to buy it just fine :)

[@phantombigboss8429]

Third world problems

[@TTSP907]

I hope Sony Reverts it soon for you. Arrowhead has no control over that but I think you can get a friend in a different region to buy it for you 🤔

[@reganico2114]

Oh, i am definitely going back to playing it after these magnificent changes.

[@adwans1491]

Its way too easy to take down big enemies now. They are a joke now. They should feel intimidating and be of high concern Factory striders and Bile Titans should not be one shot by support weapons! Apart from the bile titan receiving a headshot from the spear. Otherwise no. Chargers are okay getting one shoted by recoiless riffle etc... Also, one or two thermite grenades for biles and factories are just... too strong too. One more maybe

[@matthewdeklerk3457]

No one is forcing you to use those guns. Of you want the game to be harder literally just pick something els3? Pick sentiees and hmg? If you don't like it play on a higher difficulty. Lmao

[@olgagaming5544]

@@matthewdeklerk3457 Your team-mates will be using these weapons anyway ruining the fun

[@maxwell_edison]

@@matthewdeklerk3457 That's a pretty bad response to this critique, a pretty big nothing burger for a semi-valid comment What if they like those weapons and just want to see them balanced differently??

[@DanMann-c5m]

Its nice seing how passionate the devs are for their game

[@mainer97]

its a PVE game why even nerff. i left when they nerffed the breaker.

[@NeroWalker]

What you mean ye canny nerf stuff on a pve game 😂

[@troypowers750]

​@NeroWalker you both suck at English.

[@mr.pollito6303]

@@NeroWalker most people wanted a power fantasy, devs didnt see that and nerfed to the ground alsmost every weapon... NOW WE HAVE POWER, AND ENEMIES ARE MORE POWERFULL THAN EVER. i only have a single thing to say... FOR SUPER EARTH

[@mainer97]

@@NeroWalker you probably didn't play it much. all you do is shoot everything that moves and blow stuff up. its how the game plays when nothing dies from gun fire and you dropping bombs that game is not playable.

[@orkhepaj]

to balance it out

[@relicvault1515]

Part of the fun of Helldivers 2 was figuring out the many ways “How” you could kill bug and bots and sticking to what works for your playstyle and Not how it should be. I’m glad that Arrowhead buffed everything and not double down on taking the fun away like other companies do. For that reason, the Leviathan of Wrath will be returning to her service.

[@Genghis_of_Swans]

I knew that thumbnail and title was too spicy, Renn

[@dawsonreum5459]

People said Space Marine 2 would kill Helldivers, but as of now they have roughly the same number of players, with Space Marine 2 only having slightly more despite the fact it was just released and is likely experiencing its highest player count.

[@Llama_charmer]

Ive been playing space marine and its fun but its just a tad too straightforward for my liking at the moment. Im hoping that as time goes on they will flesh it out more, its just too repetitive at the moment

[@timothyfloyd3269]

its not dead per say but it can almost be classified as dead. people underestimate how many people bought this game and how many left after first 2 months. this game sold 12 million copies and it was shortly after release. if it wasn't for how they shit on the whole community and didn't listen to the people. they could have made it to the top 50 list of all time high selling games. helldivers 2 as far as i know have the highest record for amount of people lost in 2 months after game release. the community has never come back and it wont be back they already ruined it. its only a small percent of people that's play again cause creators make video hyping up their fan base. if you look at steam charts its a fing mountain for first 2 months then flatline all the way till now.

[@prompking3345]

Gotta hand it to them. It was do or die time and MAN did they do it!

[@wurmschn3693]

That title is absolute gold. That's the only reason why I clicked. I'm actually not interessted in the content, but damn you deserved a like for that and at least 3min of watchtime ❤

[@legitbetterthanvinny9725]

Only played with my friends that just got the game the week the update came out and it was rough even on level 5, but finally went back to quick play with seasoned players and it was a lot easier and more fun than I remember

[@fefloria]

I stopped playing for about 2 months and I am back now and having so much fun again.

[@k0rmit730]

one change i wish they'd make, is having local strategem hero leaderboards per ship, so you can compete with your friends, rather than a hacked leaderboard of top global scores.

[@RennsReviews]

I totally agree, I've wanted that for awhile myself. But that isn't even a hacked leaderboard, the devs put those names and scores in there themselves. there is a guy who played stratagem hero for over 8 hours straight and got over 1.5 million points, but he wasn't ever put on the leaderboard.

[@rphntw1n]

Can’t wait to play this. Can’t till after next week aghhh

[@ReachTea]

5:00 I respect the Halo 3 Believe font

[@kamilholzer2185]

Great vid. I agree that it became quite easy. The fix is to not make enemies spongier but put more of them, hopefully. I had one mission (10 lvl) and they just wouldn't stop coming after me. It was resupply after resupply shooting magazines through, great moments. I wish my teammates would be more helpful though. As it gets easy for some players they seek solo challenges in teamwork game, which ruins it a bit.

[@wesselvanharrewijn3082]

I have been using the flamethrowers non stop against the bugs. It feels way better fighting them now, i can actually handle all the threats with flame damage. I dont know how to deal with bots though but your video enlightened me to the heavy machine gun.

[@GnomeKr]

The game right now is in a nearly perfect spot - it's accessible, fun and engaging. However, you're right about game being too easy with a squad that knows their shit, what I would suggest for AH to do is to treat all those 10 difficulties as a "main dish" of Helldivers and focus on making next 5 difficulties harder and marke them as fully optional and even with a warning that *"this difficulty is reserved for most experienced Helldivers that search a REAL challange"*

[@JaySliZe]

I stopped playing the morning of May 6th when the update released and I had not picked up the game until the 18th when I heard about the update I have had so much fun again and playing it has reminded me how good games can be when the devs take feedback and learn from mistakes and deliver on stuff that the people that are actually playing their game want, I was so upset when I stopped playing hearing all of the nerfs and debuffs and thought I'd never return but man I am so glad Arrowhead turned it around because this game is just such a gem

[@JailShanker]

So nice to see this game come back to life again.

[@timothyfloyd3269]

what you mean life the community hasn't come back yet you guys got a trickle of players playing again. people underestimate how many people bought this game and how many left after first 2 months. this game sold 12 million copies and it was shortly after release. if it wasn't for how they shit on the whole community and didn't listen to the people. they could have made it to the top 50 list of all time high selling games. helldivers 2 as far as i know have the highest record for amount of people lost in 2 months after game release. the community has never come back and it wont be back they already ruined it. its only a small percent of people that's play again cause creators make video hyping up their fan base. if you look at steam charts its a fing mountain for first 2 months then flatline all the way till now.

[@JailShanker]

@@timothyfloyd3269 thats a whole lotta words i aint reading that

[@timothyfloyd3269]

@@JailShanker k