I tried 'Helldivers 2' on PS5 & PC.....

so we're back with another live service game now this is one that has been uh sort of flying under the radar for a lot of people this month because most of the attention with YouTubers and streamers and journalists has been focused on suicide squad however hell divers 2 actually appears to be a more compelling offering in a lot of ways not only is it super super irreverent and wacky and silly all at the same time but it also has a really compelling gameplay Loop and it doesn't try to present any sort of super serious story but rather it just kind of presents a fun silly Encounter of fighting big monstrous bugs and gives you different Tools in order to do that like here you can uh select strategems and then once you've selected those you can ready up and go right into it now one important thing to note is that this is not a perfect launch we're going to get into that with the PC Port here in just a few minutes but looking at the game on PlayStation 5 which is where I'm playing it right now the game looks fine it's running pretty well for me so far and conceptually I'm actually kind of digging it there are also a handful of nice quality of life improvements and tweaks available to people you can change how strong the camera Shake is which is nice for somebody like me that can get kind of motion sick if it's too aggressive you can also turn on or off anti-aliasing if I turn it on you can see it's a little bit smoother as we look around but you'll lose a little bit of detail off in the distance however if you also want to play with say improved Graphics mode you can actually go change it to Quality apply and now it's going to move at 30 frames but it's going to be a lot sharper I for one I'm going to stick to Performance mode just because I prefer the frame rates over anything else and we're going to shoot some bugs now I should say that this is of course primarily designed as a co-op game right now I just started this out I'm playing it solo and it does work it seems that they actually do scale the HP levels and damage output of the little bug creatures to the party size which is nice kind of like a lot of other games will do whether you're looking at monster hunter or really any other Co-op based game worth it salt you know where players are going to have less HP to chew through if they're playing Solo versus uh playing with like four people with increased damage outputs there now as you can see here we've got a good number of Beasty Boys chasing us and one of the interesting things about it is that this is actually a little bit more hardcore than a lot of the games you might have played recently notably you see down in the bottom left it actually counts up the rounds in each mag and when you reload you lose the rounds that were left in that magazine meaning that you can't just will nilly reload and if I let myself die here which was going to happen anyways then I now get a reinforcement which you can see in the top left of the screen that immediately comes back down and you can kind of take a whack at it again it's kind of like respawns but if you're playing solo it gives you the chance to clear missions even if you were having trouble before but what I was saying is you see that clip empties out and you only have four out of seven mags left or in this case four out of five mags left and if I reload I lose all the other rounds that were in that mag I reloaded so that's another thing to keep in mind is that you can't just fire off a round reload fire off another round reload you actually need to be very intentional with when you choose to reload which adds another layer of stress as you take on hordes and hordes of these bugs because you can't just reload constantly to be ready you actually have to be more intentional with it which I kind of like personally uh but I could see it may be driving some people a little crazy if they don't like having to be that intentional with stuff one of the other things that you have access to are things called strategy and this is not like Warhammer 40K but actually if you hold down L1 you can see that you have a series of things that pop up in the left side that you actually call in based on inputting with the d-pad so this isn't like just popping an ability quickly it's actually a matter of having to to either memorize this for quick movement or being able to follow the prompts quickly but like that one it's a an orbital Precision strike and if I pin them down there for a second you'll see G kind of clears them out nice and fast which is uh just a cool thing and you can actually tweak these strategy so if you have a certain play style where you just want to unload with tons of orbital strikes that's high damage and just crazy you can do that or in this case if I want to call in a machine gun I can do that maybe I just could use that um or if I want to just get more ammunition I can also call in that one toss it down and then they get deployed and I can take it from there here it comes actually shipped in Bou that pops up and you can just reload from there which is awesome and to bring up monster hunter again you can see that we have a couple of objectives but behind my face you can see there's a timer going off in the top right and that timer is how quickly you need to complete the mission in order to uh not be left here all by your lonesome and that's because the ship that dropped you off can only remain in low orbit for a set period of time so it means you can't really dilly dally you need to get from objective to objective with intentionality and focus I just like the word intentionality today I don't know what it is sometimes there's videos I film where I use the same word like 15 times and it's just like my word of the day I don't know what it is but it's a thing that happens oh we got lots coming oh God oh my God I'm glad I called that in when I did oh my god oh no oh no see I'm like oh I probably am reloaded wasn't wasn't you can't assume that you have to be very careful oh didn't didn't really mean to do that okay okay Chuck it even further yeah love it there's also a lot of bullet spread if you're not careful and you're just like running freely so you have to be a little bit more intentional with your movement than you might otherwise be like you see that I can't just swivel oh God I can't just swivel with the massive machine gun super flexibly I actually have to be a little slower with it as you can see that Circle that follows is where the barrels actually pointed so you can't just snap around super quickly you have to be a little more careful so here in this case I'm out of grenades to clear out that Hive right there so I'm going to call in a resupply Chuck that over there wait 10 seconds for it to drop in and then I can get a grenade that I can then toss in to clear this Hive wait for it here it comes gouche and then Rel from there Chuck it in yay hold on I want to try the oh no my flamethrower why wasn't it working okay hold on I I messed something up not today the dialogue is a little funny okay how does this work I need to hold it down yeah okay so this has a little bit of a wind up which is why I was I was having trouble okay now we have to take out the brood Commander how'd you like to chase all freedo how'd you like to Taste of Freedom there's one behind me that was my bad that was my [Laughter] bad okay another one's coming in it's okay we're going to do it this time we rock and roll okay oh and they're right here on me oh not good not good not good not good not good oh there's so many there are so many run faster oh no oh this is bad this is really bad this is one of those things where like I need to call in the uh orbital strike and we'll see if I can just hold him off long enough for it to pop maybe oh got it got some of them it got some of them oh my hands are so sweaty run run that's not good really not good oh got him okay okay now we just have to survive these have a of democracy have a taste of democracy oh it's so silly I love it okay we got oh shoot okay where are we going we need to go to extraction which is is all the way up there okay just run oh no I burned myself alive while grabbing the gun oh okay we got one more thank God now I just have to run to the extraction wow I have burned through every life and I'm on like the starter starter Mission what I get for trying to talk through the whole thing so I'm assuming that big blue beam is where I need to go don't mind me everybody just trying to get home just like all you bug creatures don't mind me I do appreciate you can pull up the map while running oh that's not good there are so many you know like they don't make the encounters easy they make them challenging enough to keep you on your toes even playing solo and a lot of the time by Design these types of games feel really lame when you're not playing with somebody else or with friends and so to actually be having like a good time while playing solo is kind of uh cool it's kind of refreshing so what I'm going to do is just preemptively I'm going to call in a resupply and I'm going to Chuck that there and basically what happens is once I start this it's going to start a timer and then I need to keep all of this held down while that comes in so I'm going to Chuck down a machine gun there cuz I'm going to want that and we should be good I should have reloaded this before before grabbing that but what are you going to do but okay let's do it and then we have boop boop boop boop oh I messed it up boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop there we go 2 minutes and then we extract that's all we need come on in boys come on in got you got you oh there's more there's a lot more okay I shouldn't be reloading right now this is a mistake this is a mistake reload faster oh no my life oh no the cackling oh no oh no reload yeah good good good good good oh no okay okay we can we can do this we can do this we're going to survive oh I'm cornered I need to get out of this we've come too far dude my hands are actually sweating like really badly it's actually like getting me going okay more ammo this is why we called it in there's some big boys okay there's some more okay we're close we're close I think we're going to do it I think we're going to do it oh jeez Coates always looking behind should have looked in front of me instead of [Music] behind and then they come in they clear out some of them for you and then the door opens and we extract yay we did it somehow [Music] somehow oh baby mission complete barely because I suck and then it goes through all of your accomplishments any optional stuff how many hell divers were extracted Outpost destroyed you get bonuses for that and then you also bonus based off of how much time was remaining as well which is is nice one star oh no way it shouldn't count as five I'm going to be real that should not have counted as five stars we got a little more Liberation or not really but okay and then we go off to the ship which is the central Hub and then we can tweak our loadouts we can tweak everything else from there and uh kit ourselves up if we so choose and here we are fireworks love it love it and we did the we did the thing so now we return to ship new difficulty unlocked medium the more you play the more difficulties you get which have higher payouts as you would expect blah blah blah pretty standard Affair so war bonds are apparently like this game's version of a battle pass basically as you you gain more of these you can unlock different skins and different things for the game it doesn't really appear that it's pay to win or anything like that it seems like you do unlock these currency things which can be redeemed for different stuff but it it's pretty standard Affair honestly and then the premium one has some fancier options as you would expect if you happen to pay as for how much it is the premium one is a thousand of the blue credits the super credits as they're called are these and uh so it's 10 bucks for the battle pass effectively if you want less of them you pay more if you buy more of them you get them for Less again pretty standard I also appreciate that this is only 40 bucks as opposed to a full like $70 title I think when a game asks $70 and it's online only Co-op looter shooter type of thing like there are certain standards that have to be met if you're going to charge that much and have an in-game store and all of these cosmetics and battle passes and stuff so to see them approach it more affordably offering it for 40 bucks I think deserves some credit as well however it's not all sunshine and rainbows this is like as far as I'm aware the first PlayStation title being launch launched day one on PC as well and it's receiving mixed reviews a lot of people are liking the gameplay they like the game itself they like the content that is there however there are apparently a ton of technical issues server issues issues with like Co-op quality control issues if you're running like AMD based Hardware all sorts of things like that which is unfortunate some people are reporting they can't even get the game to launch at all after the tutorials so I decided that I would buy the game on PC as well and see if I can get it running cuz I typically have kind of bad luck with this stuff uh I I'm kind of a bug magnet so we will see if I also run into similar issues as well oh and this is nice you can actually connect it to your Playstation network account so you can presumably continue your progress across the two meaning I won't have to do the tutorial over again let's try it uh well it just is telling me uh that it can't sign in it just gives me an error message so I don't know what is up with that okay and now when I try to log in anything relating to PlayStation linked by this game it gives me this which doesn't look great so it seems like there are server issues after all and this is a big deal because it says that it's required for playing playing the game like linking your Steam account to a Playstation network account is required for playing the game I already had mine linked so I guess it UNL for some reason okay I'll work on this I'll be back a little longer than a few minutes later okay I'm back I was able to get them linked up I had to click Link account and then copy the URL it generated before it went to the next URL and like cycled through and then paste that into Microsoft Edge instead of chrome and then sign into my PlayStation account and then it linked it properly I don't know why those are the Hoops I had to jump through but that's what worked so now we're linked next uh next agree and then uh we can skip this little video CU we saw this earlier and blah blah blah blah hopefully the link worked and I'll just have that account on here and I can just do another mission with without any issues let's see defrosting hell diver failed to connect to server oh but it seems to have worked okay cuz this is what we saw before this is the opening sequence so did it not I can't believe we're actually yeah it's starting me from the very beginning so I don't think it actually synced progress okay that's a bummer no network connection has been lost oh no yeah now it's back level one loot Cadet so there might not be any cross-platform progress like if that's not the case then okay I'm not like that butt hurt about it cuz I didn't realize there would be but I was really hoping there would be okay I just Googled it and apparently it does of course have crossplay but it does not have cross save capabilities at launch so if you are playing on PlayStation and hoping to swap to PC it apparently does not support that and just in me abing over it what it's tagging the gameplay of Hell divers 2 is copyrighted content what okay let's that's weird I don't think I've had this happen for like any game that I've played recently or like ever I can't think of a time that this has happened before but like any time I deactivate activate it Flags it as copyrighted content that is bizarre well straight up if that is going to be a thing I I just I literally cannot record footage of the game huh I haven't run into this before that's okay and I just tried starting a mission at the main table which I would like to show you but for some reason it is trying to copyright itself and uh it's telling me that it lost connection to the server as well so I can't start a mission or play the game like here's the thing I like the game on PlayStation it's running fine even pretty well and I'm having a good time with it it but on PC apparently the game is just flat broken it thinks that it's copyrighted material to play it and it also has server issues and connecting it to your PlayStation account is currently a nightmare though hopefully that like maybe it's just on my end maybe I was doing something wrong I don't know but it doesn't change the fact that I'm not the only one that is experiencing problems on the PC Port that are completely absent on the PlayStation 5 Port which is just unfortunate because with all of these live service games so much of it success rides on initial Impressions and it's true of something like suicide squad Marvel's Avengers or Hell divers 2 and that is simply that you got to stick the landing right as everything is starting you got to stick the landing right out of the gate you got to come out sprinting and blow everybody away and I think the PlayStation 5 version is doing that and accomplishing it but unfortunately I would guess most of what you hear about hell diverse 2 is the PC Port uh if you're seeing it on social media and that's really unfortunate because I think there is a good game here here but because they decided to do a PC port and then didn't iron out the issues before launch you run into this where all anybody's going to be talking about most likely are the issues and I know that can be frustrating for some people they're like well as a YouTuber Luke you should only talk about the good and you shouldn't focus on the negativity I I get that I totally understand it but it doesn't change the fact that the PC Port is still broken like like I think the game is good on Playstation from what I've played at least but on PC it's still broken and to pretend like it's not is to just ignore reality as it currently is and if people choose to not play the game at all because the PC Port is broken that's honestly an informed Choice that's a reasonable choice I can't blame them for making a Surefire way for the developers to avoid people making that decision would be to have a quality ironed out and solid PC Port that just runs well and doesn't have all of these hoops to jump through or issues and now that I have the game closed now my PC screen capture is working again but I mean this is the whole thing is that everybody on these reviews is like it's a 10 out of 10 game but it's only one out of 10 for cucking me because it crashed right as he reached like the final bug fight and everything and people have been wrestling with this where some people are having better luck it seems getting the game to run properly other people are having a lot more issues and you know maybe they iron out the server issues and they get it working better but at this point if you have a PlayStation 5 just get the game on PS5 where it seems to be running properly so unfortunately at the end of this video I can't give like a full double thumbs up I'm kind of giving like a single thumbs up and then another one that's kind of like leaning down for PC PS5 Port seems really good I'm having a good time with it I'm going to keep playing once I shut off the lights and everything cuz I'm just having a good time with it but on PC I literally can't play the game and I can't even record the game to show you how I can't play the game so what am I to do I don't know let me know what you think of the game if you're going to pick it up and uh if you're playing it on PC maybe you found a way to work around some of these issues put that in the comment section and maybe you can help somebody out because I would love to play it on PC where like it's not doing the weird blurry performance mode it's just running at full 60 the whole time I would love that that'd be great but if it's got all these issues I don't know if I can manage that so before I commit to a full run on one platform or the other I'd like to see if there's a fix for PC cuz that would be my ideal but otherwise I'm just going to stick with PlayStation and also you've probably noticed on this video this is marked as a fundraiser I'm raising funds for the national Center for missing and exploited children as a relatively new father myself it's a cause that's very near and dear to me so if you were thinking of doing like super thanks or buying a cup of coffee or something today I would personally appreciate it if you would toss a coin to your Witcher in that Coffer and we can do a little bit of good fundraising on this video which would be awesome I will also be making a contribution myself so join me and we can do a little bit of good but with all that thank you for watching I love you all dearly and I'll see you in the next video hugs and kisses bye-bye

Channel: Luke Stephens

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Length: 24min 8sec (1448 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 09 2024