Is Helldivers 2 Worth Playing In 2025?
quickly became one of 2024's biggest hits, garnering a huge audience and an unexpected explosion of popularity when the game launched in February of that year — a considerable step up from developer Arrowhead Game Studios' previous game in the series, which had an all-time peak of under 7,000 total players on Steam. Going into 2025, however, has undergone some significant changes, and for new and returning players alike, it's worth questioning if the game is still worth getting into.
Over the course of 2024, has already had a tumultuous history of updates, with heavy-handed balancing changes, bugs, performance issues, and the narrowly averted implementation of mandatory PSN account linking on Steam, all sparking backlash from players to the point that, at multiple points in 2024, 's Steam reviews took drastic hits. More recently, though, has been on a definite upswing, winning Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2024 and, more importantly, putting out several updates that have been largely well-received — including the introduction of the game's third major faction, the Illuminate.
Closing out the first year,has received several updatesin a row, which have included major course corrections in terms of balancing, new content, and, most importantly, an entirely new faction in the Illuminate, a reintroduced enemy type from the first game. The regular addition of new Warbonds, new Major Orders, and an ever-changing galactic map means that can manage to stay fresh between play sessions, and there's plenty of new content for new or returning players to check out, especially if they've taken a long break from the game.
Helldivers 2 has the perfect chaotic gameplay model, as seen in its latest trailer, that Halo needs to borrow from for its next multiplayer title.
Whereas, closer to the game's release, 's approach to balancing player equipment was controversial, to say the least, more recent updates have switched up the game's approach, offering meaningful and
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