Recent reviews by Brother Loden

Like playing games with your friends and TTRPGS? This is for you, it has it ALL via an amazing modding community. A must have for all board game lovers out there.

Free weekend review

Combat is absolute trash, there's no block, no dodge, you swing left and right, and with even massive 2h weapons and doing charged 2h hits, it STILL takes 3 head shots or so to kill a single zombie. And I tell you, they SWARM you, 24/7 you'll have like 10 of them key-logged in on your position, never letting you have any respite AT ALL.

Maps take forever, the objectives are crazy, there's 0 light in the game so you can't ♥♥♥♥ of what you are doing. You constantly have to take a 2-3 minute pause to figure out what ammo you have and to what guns they go instead of just letting you know what ammo type it uses, normally I wouldn't mind that, but when you have zombies breathing down your neck from start to finish of the game, you don't have the luxury of that time.

The problem with the melee I have is you have NO block, NO dodge, and the zombies sometimes lunge at you, and you can't really move out of the way, meaning they constantly get these cheap hits on you that EVEN if you hit them, they STILL carry through and hit you, and half the time in melee where you swing at them, they'll still get in swings at you EVEN IF YOU STUNNED THEM. The combat animation is garbage, because you'll take hits even when its nowhere close, or you knocked them on the ground or backwards, the swing STILL connects.

I really can't recommend this, the game is hard, and I like that, but with the constant flow of zombies with 0 stealth elements in the game, and the hits connecting with you no matter what you do, its just not satisfying at all, and half the time you die you'll feel it was to BS reasons. Still not worth getting, let it cook for another year or so I'd say.

Fun game, got it from a friend, Do I still want to be friends with him? <-- Yes No -->

50 for this game when its released in such a terrible state? Hell no man, the proper game is called Helldivers 2, and that's only 40 when it ain't on sale. Grab that instead of this shameless cash grab.

Very good game, highly recommend it. I'm honestly very impressed how smoothly the game runs, I've yet to run into any actual bugs, and the optimization is fantastic. I do have a pretty good rig, but even then for a big game like this to release in such a clean state? With all the high budget games lately releasing with a TON of issues, this game have very few. 10/10 smooth release!

However the savior schnaps is a system I believe no one wanted to see returned. I haven't run into anything that annoys me in this game other than that. Just let us save in safe zones like towns or villages. Please do not make saving a friggin mini-game.

First off, F U C K Fliers in this game. Late game, they become so healthy, that not even 30 WALL CROSSBOWS CAN KILL THEM, And they just fly Right past you into the rift. You'll loose at least 20 rift points through a run by them just bypassing all your defenses and they take 0 damage. God the OMD Devs must HATE their playerbase because they went from a singelplayer game, to HATING anyone who try to solo. The scaling is so bad. Nothing like wasting 2 hours on trying to get to a boss, do really damn well, and then just have 40 fliers fly in and end your run because you can't aggro them, and can't kill them.

The game is entertaining. That's what I can say, its not good, its not bad, its entertaining, for the first few runs. The formula has completely changed, no longer do you build up the threats anymore, they spit ALL the types of enemies you can encounter on you at once. And its now a rougelite. Each map is 6 rounds, and each time it becomes harder, and you work your way towards the bosses.

Whats the problem? Its extremely bare bones, massive levels that are very difficult to find your way around. Limited barriers, odd scaling and balancing, and bare bones content. There's very few maps, they removed a ton of content from the previous games, no more trinkets, weapons, or siege maps. You have ONE game mode, and that's it. No more difficulties to choose from either, and its a forced multiplayer game (solo is very difficult here) And the only from of communication they added, was a ping, and voice chat. Hardly anyone use Voice chat though, and the ping is quiet and never work. Why can't we have a in game chat to write in with the people in our lobby..?

Orcs must die 1, 2, and 3 was fantastic games. And I DO not understand, how they went so wrong with this one. The game is extremely boring after a good time, and its just the same gameplay loop rinse and repeat, with no change to it. No difficulties or modes, just the same mindless slog. Another problem I have is, usually an orcs must die level went from 15-20 minutes perhaps? These can stretch hours, and at least half of that, is spent waiting.

TLDR: Game is fun for a few hours, but extremely bare bones, missing tons of content from the previous games, no difficulty settings, and hard forced Multiplayer systems. Also LIMITED BARRIERS, grr. 5/10, a big disappointment, and I recommend getting it at sale.

Like hands down, this game is good, VERY good. But it is RAMPANT with hackers right now. It is actually insane, I just came from 3 back to back games with 1-2 hackers in. The wall hackers and snap targeting hackers are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ endless. It is very nice they have the replay mode so you can go back and watch their gameplay, so you are SURE they are hackers though. Its so easy for people today to go "They are hackers!" just because they are good. This, actually allows you to confirm it by watching how they trace you through walls, and snap left and right onto you.

Go onto youtube, there is numerous videos out there of people catching hackers. Its a great game, but again, until they fix the hacker issues, this game is not worth playing. Three back to back games with multiple hackers is a bit too much for me. And the past few days we've played, its been like this. Until they fix the hacker issues, I'll be patiently waiting to return.

Best played with a friend, but this game is sooo fun.

Funny game locked behind overwhelmingly tedious choices, such as the quest system. You don't just unlock weapons when you finally REACH the level for them. No, you unlock a quest you gotta do, and some of them are just beyond mind numbingly annoying and stupid. Like you have to be the ONE guy in your team of 32 people to build 2 fobs before you can use a pistol.

Some of the maps balancing is just idiotic, a straight line with 0 cover and defenders with MG's to the point they can kill you in spawn, its a turky shoot. The gameplay itself is pretty damn good, really fun with friends, and good shooting, but again, if you want a pistol, or even grenades, you need to complete tedious quests that force you to play in an unoptional way, in order to unlock your loadout. And you need to do this with -EVERY- class.

Meaning you can't just class swap, nooo you gotta do it on different classes, so you might be level 20 and have unlocked a gun, but its locked behind "Kill 20 enemies with a canteen effect activated" or stupid things like that. I was pleased to see the game allows you to level -decently- fast, but it was all ruined by this stupid quest system. Which leaves people scrambling and playing unoptionally because they are also trying to complete and compete for their quests. For this alone, I cannot recommend the game, its just annoying at best because of that system.

Edit: A little thing that I find really annoying is, on each team, there can be 4 snipers. But only ONE of you is allowed to have a scope. Meaning there is literally -no- point in having more snipers, its just the same rifles. Like cmon man, just let us have scopes.

super fun game with friends, just a silly one. Deffo need to play it with 3+ friends though. Well worth the low asking price for a good few hours of silly laughs.