Author: [email protected] (Morgan Park)
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Arrowhead CEO says Helldivers 2 balancing patches have ‘gone too far’ recently: ‘It feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun is removed’
I don’t envy the folks at Arrowhead charged with balancing Helldivers 2 guns fans have grown attached to. Arrowhead has rolled out a handful of sweeping balance patches in the game’s first few months, all of which I believe made the game better by both buffing guns with untapped potential and, less often, nerfing a…
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Steam review bombing is gaming’s most powerful method of protest: 3 takeaways from Helldivers 2’s weekend meltdown
You might have heard about Helldivers 2’s terrible, no good, very bad weekend. It went like this: Last Friday, Sony announced that Helldivers 2 PC players would soon need a PSN login to play, in the name of security Players said “that’s messed up” Arrowhead reminded players this is technically how it was supposed to…
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‘Ouch, right in the review score’: Arrowhead CEO reacts to Helldivers 2 review bombing, apologizes for PSN mandate communication
It’s been a challenging day for Helldivers 2 as developer Arrowhead continues to wrestle with the fallout of an unexpected and unpopular announcement: Soon, all Helldivers 2 Steam players will be required to link a PlayStation account to continue playing. Videogames requiring outside account linking is nothing new, but many Helldivers 2 players are protesting…
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I fell in love with Abiotic Factor the minute I strapped a couch cushion to my chest and called it armor—there’s no other survival game like it
Three years ago, I got swept up in all the Valheim hype and pressed the big green purchase button. I made my viking, basked in the pretty forests, and then immediately got bored by chopping trees and crafting wood logs. I should’ve listened to the part of my brain that’s known for years that I’m…
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Helldivers 2 players are asking a reasonable question: Why has a whole planet turned green?
If you’ve been cruising around the Terminid border planets in Helldivers 2 lately, you might’ve noticed something weird about the planet Meridia: It’s green. Not unheard of in this particular galaxy, but you’ve gotta understand that Meridia used to be a beautiful shade of blue broken up by fluffy white clouds. It’s one of the…
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Over half of Helldivers 2 sales have been on PC in the US: ‘Already the 7th highest grossing Sony published game in history’
When Helldivers 2 came out in February, Sony decided to try something different. It let developer Arrowhead Game Studios launch the PlayStation-published co-op shooter on both PS5 and PC on day one, instead of the publisher’s usual tactic of making PC ports three to four years after the PlayStation version. Helldivers 2 enjoying three straight…
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It’s a shame Gray Zone Warfare is a performance nightmare, because it fixes so many problems I have with Escape From Tarkov
I sometimes question if I can call myself a fan of extraction shooters when I don’t enjoy the most popular game in the genre: Escape From Tarkov. I bounced off the hardcore milsim after a few painful gear wipes at the hands of extraction campers. I’ve almost reinstalled it a dozen times in the years…
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Don’t worry, you’re not missing out by boosting straight to level 20 in Fallout 76
Ah, so you watched the Fallout show and caught the Bethesda bug too. Instead of starting another Fallout 4 playthrough like half of my friends list, I’ve opted to give Fallout 76 a fair shake after noping out of it six years ago. If you’re doing the same, then you’ll notice a lot has changed.…
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I almost quit Fallout 76 until I realized Bethesda still hides its most important setting in a config file
Like so many of us, I bounced off Fallout 76 back in 2018. Bethesda’s micro MMO wasn’t very good back then—an opinion that even Todd Howard shares these days—but the studio stuck with it, reverse engineering its Appalachian aberration into an engrossing multiplayer wasteland complete with NPCs, settlements, factions, and years’ worth of quality-of-life updates.…
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Arrowhead’s latest major order is exploiting the Helldiver 2 community’s greatest weakness: communication
Less than three days remain on Helldivers 2’s latest major order, and the projections are grim. Super Earth has tasked the community with successfully defending 10 planets from enemy takeover, but over the weekend, we barely managed three. With a handful of new defense missions opening just hours ago, it’s looking like this major order…