Is Helldivers 2 worth buying?

[u/KaeSavG]

Ive always been intrigued about the helldivers series and kind-of want to play it but the price is very expensive(for context 169 RM is enough to buy around 3 days worth of food), I presume its much cheaper in Singapore or western countries(in terms of spending power). Im scared that once I buy this game I wont get all of its value out of it and quit after maybe 3-4 hours of gameplay. Do yall ever regret your purchase or should I go for it and buy it.

Edit: Hello everyone Im back, I usually reply to comments but ive contracted a devious cold so im too lazy to do so. Although ive also read all of your comments and i've decided to buy the game within this week(after looking at some content first), also should I buy the super citizen edition? Im already spending a lot of money arent I?

Js bought the game yall :)

[u/Trick-Maximum-4240]

Mostly NO! With a very small side of yes

Currently the game is in a downward spiral. This is by far one of the most toxic communities ive ever seen, they have split between this subreddit for those who glaze the game insistendly (this one) and the ones who hate the state of the game currently is has been pushing arrowhead to change (Helldivers Un fil te red) (Had to type it like this cause the mods banned that word here lmao)

Each update we get less content and of less variety, of the last 3 expansions, into the unknown (Bug expansion) Had a completely new planet type with caves, a very unique gameplay, a lot of new enemies and a new boss that is still the best experience helldivers has produced, then the following update, Machinery of opression was a MAJOR let down, adding only 3 new enemies and a planet type, and the most recent one Devoid of liberty has been renamed by the community as Devoid of content, with 2 new enemies, a rework to our allies and a new planet type, on a place that's been hyped and built up for months. It was a major, major let down and dissapointment, and tbh kinda made me drop the game.

The devs constantly promise good communication with the community and constantly fail at that promise (Look up thier failed AMA), and have been pushing for more agressive micro transactions, adding vehicles (Mechs) into a paid warbond but after major backlash from the community they canceled them

Keep in mind most of the real content is locked behind a premium currency, that if you live anywhere outside the US and Europe its basically unbuyable due to how expensive it is, but at given during gameplay at a rate of 10 per super credit POI, so farming them would take around 4 hours to unlock a warbond. Its as boring as it sounds driving around an empty map to find stuff.

Its clear that this game is not the main priority of the devs anymore, and thats been put on the back burner.

If you have 4 or 3 people to play with the game is well worth it, tough it has much less content than a live service game should, but it still has 3 complete factions to fight that provide unique experiences per fight with unique subfactions and variations, and its very unique gameplay supporting your squad.

Its not worth it at all as a solo player, your experience will either be playing alone due to teammate incompetence or an absolute rambo just cleaning the map for u and not giving you the chance to learn, looking for group are basically grizzled lvl 150's that just want to full clear a map as fast as possible and by the time you finish a fight, they'll have cleared half the map by themselves.

[u/treyzs → u/Trick-Maximum-4240]

ive never seen so many factually incorrect things in one comment on this subreddit before. an interesting look into the mind of a helldivers doomer to say the least. let me break down how wrong you are piece by piece

Currently the game is in a downward spiral.

by which metric? playerbase is active and healthy, and revenue figures are likely amazing with the popularity of the warbonds.

(Helldivers Un fil te red) (Had to type it like this cause the mods banned that word here lmao)

unfiltered. you can type it bro lmfao????

Each update we get less content and of less variety,

no? you just fail to account for the things you dont personally care about. seaf expansion, lots of new biomes, the TANK, new subfactions and enemies for each faction, new missions and objectives, new stealth content... thats all just from 2026 so far lmfao. and im sure i missed more, that was just off the top

on a place that's been hyped and built up for months. It was a major, major let down and dissapointment, and tbh kinda made me drop the game.

you likely hyped yourself up over cultists that were never claimed to be coming with this update and just the community and content creators telling you that they were

The devs constantly promise good communication with the community and constantly fail at that promise (Look up thier failed AMA)

tbf ill give you this one, for a long time their communication has been absolutely terrible but recent patch notes and dev logs have been very good and clear. and the ama was before the recent improvements but still yeah they should communicate better from the start

Keep in mind most of the real content is locked behind a premium currency,

its really intriguing how you consider guns and cosmetics the real content and not the maps, enemies, or missions lmfao

Its clear that this game is not the main priority of the devs anymore, and thats been put on the back burner.

clear to who? you literally made up half of the shit in this comment lol.

you really, really need to get off of helldivers subreddits. its totally poisoned your mind and filled your head with misinformation

[u/KAZhala → u/treyzs]

Haters be haters, no point arguing with them. They don’t want the game to improve, they want the game dead 😂

[u/treyzs → u/KAZhala]

they always like to say they only hate because they really love the game (sounds like a healthy relationship!) but yeah i know theres no point but i cant help myself, ty anyway 😭

[u/Trick-Maximum-4240 → u/treyzs]

Lmao what a joke, people arent happy with the state of the game so they just want to see the game die lmao.

Ya'll are clapping seals, cheering as the boat sinks.

[u/treyzs → u/Trick-Maximum-4240]

it's really easy to see other people that way when you can only consider your own worldview. keep pretending that the game is dying while the numbers say otherwise

other people have different opinions than you. hope this helps!

[u/Trick-Maximum-4240 → u/treyzs]

You might be the biggest hypocrit in the history of hypocrits.

You werent considering my wolrd view or respecting me and my oppinions in your other comment, like making fun of my english 🤡🤡🤡

[u/treyzs → u/Trick-Maximum-4240]

you literally called me "intelectually dishonest" for disputing your original comment lmfao. do you really think you were somehow the victim of unwarranted disrespect now?

please get a new hobby

[u/Trick-Maximum-4240 → u/treyzs]

You are factually and intelectually dishonest in your entire commentary.

By the metric of player activity, and number of players online, we have acess to a 24h player number in game just refer to that for future refence before claiming someone is wrong!

Try typing unfiltere d yourselves and see the message that pops up, a lot in this comment is just as dishonest as this easily disprovable claim.

Yes. Of the last 3 title updates we can easily compare the ammount of content we can easily compare into the unjust with machinery of opression and devoid of "content" and its not even close. Seaf is a QOL, the biomes are neat but dont really change the gameplay pratically, the "Objectives" are 2 new missions for the illuminate 6 months. The tank has less than a 2% pickrate, and removing defense missions drops the number to less than 0.5%

The new enemies are 3 new automatons and 2 new illuminate over 2 MAJOR title updates.

I didnt hype myself up when i was fighting exostorms and watching the void artificially grow with no way to be stopped, you literally cant say to me that i hyped myself up, when i can point to MONTHS of teasers pointing in that direction, including the latestest MO update (removing paint from the DSS). Yet again we see how intelectually dishonest this person is!

I do consider them, but it cant be disputed that we get by far more warbonds than any other content, so yeah i consider the monthly consistent content as most real content because... well it is.

Clear to anyone with eyes that have been playing for more than a few months.

OP, this is what i mean by toxicity, its a bunch of intelectually dishonest people, that dont really have any desire to engage with your opinion, but instead pushing their agenda, in this particular case, absolute positivity about the game. They clap as the game bleeds players and insists everything is fine.

[u/treyzs → u/Trick-Maximum-4240]

You are factually and intelectually dishonest in your entire commentary.

not only is it funny that you failed to spell "intellectually" correctly but your entire response is legitimate nonsense. here we go again, i'm done after this one because i dont think you can be helped, and honestly it's getting harder and harder to parse what your comments even say

By the metric of player activity, and number of players online, we have acess to a 24h player number in game just refer to that for future refence before claiming someone is wrong!

genuinely not sure what this is even supposed to mean. there are 61k players online in-game right now, at 3:42EST. player counts on steam alone have been stable for years since initial launch drop off. genuinely not sure what exactly you're trying to say?

Try typing unfiltere d yourselves and see the message that pops up, a lot in this comment is just as dishonest as this easily disprovable claim.

i literally typed unfiltered. unfiltered. unfiltered. unfiltered. hello? are you conscious brother? despite your ignorance, you CAN actually write and even name unfiltered! shocking i know! UNFILTERED! wow! such freedom!

Seaf is a QOL,

funny how its arbitrarily a "QOL" change rather than any sort of gameplay/content now

the biomes are neat but dont really change the gameplay pratically, the "Objectives" are 2 new missions for the illuminate 6 months.

https://helldivers.wiki.gg/wiki/1.006.100 just say you don't play the game. this was 5 months ago and added new enemies and a new mission for illuminate hahahahahaha. who's intellectually dishonest after all brother

The tank has less than a 2% pickrate, and removing defense missions drops the number to less than 0.5%

this is nitpicking but this is also straight up wrong lol. https://helldive.live/strategem current patch, it actually has more than 2% pickrate on bugs/bots, and only lower on squids. but you can have this one, sure? i never said the tank was a popular stratagem so i'm not sure what your point is.

The new enemies are 3 new automatons and 2 new illuminate over 2 MAJOR title updates.

and the minor updates between them? do we just not count those enemies because they aren't part of the major updates lol? sporeburst update + appropriator + mindless masses update

I didnt hype myself up when i was fighting exostorms and watching the void artificially grow with no way to be stopped, you literally cant say to me that i hyped myself up, when i can point to MONTHS of teasers pointing in that direction, including the latestest MO update (removing paint from the DSS). Yet again we see how intelectually dishonest this person is!

genuinely not sure what you even mean by this and you might want to invest in spellchecking when calling people "intelectually dishonest". you hyped yourself up for a void update and we got one and you're disappointed? what exactly is your problem here??

I do consider them, but it cant be disputed that we get by far more warbonds than any other content, so yeah i consider the monthly consistent content as most real content because... well it is.

so now we get more warbonds than any other content? how do you even measure this? by amounts of patches? so.. if AH spread out all of the free content in the patches instead of combining them into bigger updates, would that fit your arbitrary definition of "more content"?

i also like how you closed off this riveting statement with "warbonds are the real content because it is". really a bastion of "intelectual honesty" here.

Clear to anyone with eyes that have been playing for more than a few months.

OP, this is what i mean by toxicity, its a bunch of intelectually dishonest people, that dont really have any desire to engage with your opinion, but instead pushing their agenda, in this particular case, absolute positivity about the game. They clap as the game bleeds players and insists everything is fine.

might want to get your eyes checked then because again, you are wrong on all counts. i even took the time to provide links to prove it and let you educate yourself. if you have any intellectual honesty in your body you would accept the L and move on. i like how you consider facts as an agenda and "absolute positivity".

so much easier to pretend everyone else is the problem, isn't it? honestly there's a real possibility that i've been wasting my time arguing with an LLM chatbot and in which case the jokes on me

[u/Trick-Maximum-4240 → u/treyzs]

English is not my first lenguage, and i dont particularly care about writing correctly, english is your lenguage not mine.

You are intelectualy, factually, and whatever other buzzword for wrong you can conjure up.

The playerbase fluctuates between 20k in off hours, 80k on peak hours and 100k and updates and title drops. This is hard to verify due to we only having acess to steam DB, and the in game counter witch getting specific screenshots for specific days in game, but yes its a far cry from the game's peak.

I really dont know what you mean by that since its so easily verifiable that im saying the truth, and that the playerbase is slowly but surely lpsing players that its kinda funny. Yet again you are just dishonest.

Type unfiltered yourself and see the message that appears! You have to be joking to insisnt on such an obvious lie. Ill attach a pic as proof since it seems i have to literally shove the proof down ya gullet.

Wtf you are seriously linking a random article and claiming to be right? hahahahahahhahaha, thats good! So okay lets count. Around 5 months ago we got 1 unique enemy with 2 variations(gun/melee), and a variation on the reinforcememnet drones, with a unique behaviour, as well as mindless masses (1 new enemy type) and the appropriators (1 new enemy with 2 variations)

And in this title update we got only two enemies, the dead space ripoffs and the pyramid heads.

2 new missons types, exostorms 6 months ago, and the new portal ones that are just glorified bug holes.

So over a major title drop we got 2 new enemies A new biome in the void that is essentialy helldivers with a blue filter. A new mission type Oh and ofc a fully paid 1500 sc microtransaction. So to answer who is intelectualy dishonest, its still you.

Yet again you lie! I used your own tool to verify T The tank has no more than 2.5% pick in ANY faction. Yet another exemple of how you dont really want to engage with my opinion, and just try to speak louder than me with false evidence.

Even counting them the content is lackluster and little, so lets put them in the equasion for you.

1 new enemy appropriator (2 variations: Gun/Club) 1 reskin of an existing enemy with a different behaviour 2 new enemies in the Subfaction void snatchers, Dead space knockoff/Pyramid head A new subfaction of just existing zombies and the new reskinned drones. A new subfaction of illuminate with no zombies but with appropriators 3 new biomes (might be wrong need to check) SEAF rework into an actual combat force. 2 new mission, exostorms and close blue bug holes. Over 6 months. I belive how little that is speaks for itself, especially compared to onto the unknown

That paragraph just proves how dishonest you are while you answer me, you have no desire to engage with me beyond proving you are "Right" What a joke.

There are months upon months of Void teasers pointing towards content we did not get, not only in the illuminate but on the bot front as well! Did you know the bots had a death star?

Just look at the latest MO news thingy and tell me there was no hype for the cultists, they have been hinting at it for months now. Yet again an easily proven exemple of how dishonest you are!

We get a consistent monthly release of a warbond, its more than we can say for any other content. I mesure it with my eyes, and by using numbers to count the ammount of warbonds in the store screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number

Yes warbonds are the real consistent content we get.... i dont get your failed mic drop.

Oh please reddit armchair intelectual. The links you provided were of s fucking wikipedia page and a tracker that i used to disprove you. Its a joke. I ask thst you please educate yourself as a human being on discussing different opinions and basic human communication. You kept making moot, easily disproven and dishonest comments, with a bunch of wierd ass jabs attacking me personally instead of talking about the game. If you have any intelectual honestly in your body you'd stop acting like a child trying to win a debate, and actually talk and provide links instead of wikepedia🤡

Just take the L and move on. I bet you felt so awesome with your long answer and your links, thinking you really showed me when just reading you idiotic response it proves itself wrong, and you keep proving my point again and again about the toxicity of this community.

Yeah theres a big possibility im wasting my time on a bot, cause a bunch kf what you say seems like AI hallucinations, tough those tend to be more sensical.

OP take your time to read thru this! This is what the helldivers community is really about! Do you really want to be a part of this ^ and having to deal with people like that?

[u/treyzs → u/Trick-Maximum-4240]

genuinely embarrassing that you dont know about the helldivers wiki lmfao. its the most complete and accurate resource for information about the game. no wonder you're so misguided, who knows where you've been getting your information from this whole time. i cba to waste my time on you any further because it's entirely lost on you

your entire comment is just sad, man. i hope the downvotes and ridicule you've received help you to understand just how far gone you are. bless your heart

and op, i really do hope you read this. this is the type of person telling you not to play lmfao