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New player questions (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Dashi@lemmy.world to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca

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My friends and I are looking for a new game to play on Xbox and i had a couple wisdoms about helldivers. We are FPS/strategy fans. We loved CoD/Titanfall/gears pve/pvx modes. We need some sense of progression or we lose interest in the game. There are 3 of us.

Would the 3 of us be able to play together and just be us or would we need to add another to play all the game content?
If just two of us play would we leave our friends to far behind progression wise or would we be able to catch him up/ play his missions?
What is the state of the game now? Would you encourage your friends to start now?
What does the progression look like? Is it static missions you need to play through or can you just do one off missions launch and kill sort of thing that are randomly generated?
Is Build diversity a thing? Or are you hampered if your friend decides to play with only pistols?

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Agree with all the other answers, just adding a bit more.

I've been playing at least 4+ hours a week with friends since launch. Since progression includes unlocking warbonds/buying skins from the super store with super credits you can find in game or buy with cash, don't buy them and you will get years of progression as they have had a continually stream of content since release. To the best of my knowledge there is no FOMO either, the warbonds are always available and the superstore rotation means anything you didn't pick up earlier will come around again eventually!

They added additional upgrades over time, weapon upgrades to spend stuff on, and the space station takes donations too! While everything other than super credits has a cap, that is there to encourage spending!

Everything you start with is completely viable in all difficulties. Things you pick up later tend to be more situational, but everything is useful in different ways. The real progression is learning how to counter all the different enemies!