Friendly Fire Expected in 16-Player Starship Troopers: Extermination PVE Action | Push Square

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Starship Troopers: Extermination will compete directly with Arrowhead's Helldivers 2, landing under fire on PS5 on 11th October, and it looks absolutely sick. Johnny Rico, of the legendary Rico's Roughnecks (and your commanding officer in-game), called Helldivers 2 a «good tribute» but reminds us all that Extermination is the genuine article. We got a look at the sort of competition coming to PS5 in a new trailer.

Extermination is a first-person shooter set in the Starship Troopers universe from which Helldivers takes so much inspiration. And not to make everything a direct comparison, but the idea of 16-player PVE action is certainly tantalising, especially as Arrowhead has already given us a taste for this type of gameplay.

By this point, PlayStation fans are well acquainted with Helldivers 2 drama, the community currently in revolt, locked in a Machiavellian power struggle with developer Arrowhead. If Extermination manages to stick the landing, disaffected Helldivers players could potentially jump ship and find somewhere familiar to land.

Damn bugs whacked him, Johnny

Don't mention Helldivers 2

What do you think of Starship Troopers: Extermination? Would you be up for a Helldivers alternative, one which paradoxically inspired Sony's surprise multiplayer hit in some sense? Let us know in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

Starship Troopers Extermination looks very fun, so I'm interested. I don't see myself ceasing to play Helldivers 2 anytime soon, however. The game is just immense fun.

starship troopers is a classic hope they nail this game

Crossplay is enabled so that’s awesome. Cross-save is not, but