Can a game like this have a battle royale mode too?
Helldivers 2 Review and |OT| "Fight for freedom, fight for Democracy"
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Yes, I mean it can do it if it wanted too but I think thy are just focusing on co-op PvE.
Shu giving Sony their first major breakout GaaS hit. Only seems right it would be his doing.
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Helldivers 2 Review - I'm Doing My Part!
Helldivers 2 brings a whole new fight for freedom on Playstation and PC this week, delivering a sequel that goes above and beyond the original.
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Bumping this since loads of threads were merged. Thank you @TubzGaming
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I'd imagine since the game seemingly couldn't be played by anyone until launch, reviews are only just now being worked on and written.
In terms of game design and server programming PvE and PvP are highly different games. It would be almost like to make a new game.
On top of that, inside PvP games it's also highly different to handle a match between a few players, lets say under a dozen, in a relatively small stage, and to make an open world game with a hundred players. Again, it would be like to almost make a new game.
They weren't able to play until launch, and I assume they'll wait more because first they may be waiting until the login, matchmaking and rewards issues get totally fixes and second they may want to experience it for at least some days or weeks to see how the progression is.
Because this type of MP GaaS titles aren't something you can complete in a few days, but instead are designed to be played during months or years. So they need at least some days to get first impressions of the whole picture.
As an example, I didn't realize until yesterday that you'll be able to get the premium Warbond for free just playing the game, and that the game has tons of cool free unlockbles like drones and a jetpack, or that the premium warbond weapons may be cool but aren't as good or useful as the ones you unlock in the free warbond.
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I keep thinking about this game when I'm not playing. Even at night I have the music playing in my head 
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Metacritic had a statement saying reviewers should wait to review after a few days, something to that effect.
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Thnks similar to their tweet. They got bombarded. A good problem to have for them at least.
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I love it! Ima play all night and it's going to snow in my tomorrow so all day tomorrow too
I think the kind of wacky emergent gameplay scenario that can happen within this game is something that gives the game a lot of viral potential.
You can see the effects of this on the Steam Canada/US store.
Canada
#1 Regular Edition
#2 Deluxe Edition
#6 Upgrade to Deluxe
US
#1 Regular Edition
#2 Deluxe Edition
#4 Upgrade to Deluxe
Game is selling better(relative to the competition) than it was 2 days ago, which is not typical for new releases.
Showing the game has good sales momentum despite the very real technical issues.
Twitch and/or social media in general is sure to be a big part of this.
Game is currently at 82k viewers on Twitch which was pretty much the same numbers as when the game was being sponsored on Day 1-2.
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Word of mouth is going to take this farther. It's just a good, fun game.