HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition Reviews

Just get the second helldivers and skip this mess. Thought everything would be attainable through gameplay like the second one. Apparently you actually have to buy dlc just to get things in this one. Yikes.

It's alright if you have a low-end PC and time to kill. Very difficult to grind and often infuriating.

It's rare that I enjoy a mostly online game or at least one that claims to be, the game is clearly designed for solo/single player. It's frustrating having to drag 3 players everywhere like they're 3 disobedient dogs because you have to share a camera in multiplayer, constantly telling people to hurry up because they'd rather fight infinitely re-spawning waves. Just do the objectives and finish the mission, enemies all run slower than you except for 2 or 3 and the enemies de-spawn once you're a set distance from them. Overall, I'd get this if you want a good singleplayer game. No idea what it's like with friends. Couldn't get them to play. Randoms are a nightmare though.

GREAT fun and challenging super fun co-op and interesting (& fun) friendly fire

The OG, the building blocks for HD2. Still holds up, 10 years later. If you have played HD2, play this!!

Kind of boring when solo. I'm not a fan of strategems. It's probably okay in multiplayer.

Helldivers 1 is insane. It's the most intense top-down co-op game I've ever played. Despite it coming out nearly ten years ago, it's still fun, good looking, and mechanically sound. I honestly can't think of a more well balanced game this old. Despite the recent cut off of support due to the elephant in the room, it's still loads of fun, and offers something different than its sequel. Even if you've played Helldivers 2, I would still recommend this game.

As someone who went backwards from HD2 to HD1, I surprisingly enjoyed the elder Uncle on its own, but more so as someone who has enjoyed the world created by Arrowhead, and wanted more from it. I loved how there are many enemies, objectives, weapons, bosses!, and stratagems yet to be introduced but exist here. There's a codex in the game, and special challenges you can do as well. While a much simpler game with its 2D isometric genre, I actually enjoyed the much quicker missions, the fact you do not need a constant internet connection! if solo, and it runs on anything. I played a good bit on my steam deck and it was great. Unlike HD2, which has a war that has continued since its released, HD1's war resets after total victory or total loss. I believe it has already reset at least once since I purchased the game over a month ago. This does mean there is a lot of content that relies on the day you log in. On our first login, the Terminids and Cyborgs (Automotons) had been defeated, so only the Illuminate front was available. There is also home planets to assault, and capital cities to defend, but again, these are time dependent. So you may get quite restricted on content depending on when you play. Unlike HD2, HD1's progression is based on old fashioned methods of leveling up all your equipment or buying them through DLC's, including primary weapons, stratagems, and vehicles. This is through picking up samples and leveling up your character. This bypasses all the currencies of HD2, but does make all the weapons feel underpowered until you grind samples. Once I learned that, I focused on equipment to find more and grind, but it takes some time, especially if you want to try different loadouts. If you are familiar with HD2, you will quickly pick up how to play this, and can get some fun about of it to this day, especially if you can bring some friends with you. The biggest issue will be when you use the many tools and enemies not currently available in HD2, you will be anxiously awaiting their additions to the sequel.

This game should be an example to all future co-op shoot'em up games, would definitely recommend. Planning on buying the second game as well. " For Freedom and Democracy!!! "

Arrowhead accidentally created the most satisfying unintended dodge mechanic in all of gaming history (search melee dodging). This single mechanic lets experienced players dance across the battlefield in glorious fashion, dodging any and every unit at the edge of their blades. Very sad not to see this implemented as an actual feature in the sequel. That, alongside some tactical know-how and ai pattern recognition and manipulation (all gained from experience) makes players out to be nigh unstoppable in Helldiver's ''seemingly'' unforgiving difficulty levels. Players are under the unfortunate impression that they are reliant on the in-game stratagems and weapons in order to complete their missions when that could not be further from the truth. They are simply quality of life items to help manage whatever players struggle with during a mission, but missions are fully doable with nothing but a pistol if they can manage not dumping all their fire at the first enemy they see. Which is why it's so saddening to see that the game incentivizes ''meta'' loadouts by not letting there be a weapon-lock option along with several modifiers for hosts to spice up their hosted lobbies with (which should have been perfectly doable considering it exists in the cheater-infested proving grounds that noone plays anyway. Still salty that they stripped swords away from us.) Phenomenal game that should absolutely NOT be skipped over in light of the sequel's success.