My friends and I are looking for a new game to play on Xbox and i had a couple wisdoms about helldivers. We are FPS/strategy fans. We loved CoD/Titanfall/gears pve/pvx modes. We need some sense of progression or we lose interest in the game. There are 3 of us.
- Would the 3 of us be able to play together and just be us or would we need to add another to play all the game content?
- If just two of us play would we leave our friends to far behind progression wise or would we be able to catch him up/ play his missions?
- What is the state of the game now? Would you encourage your friends to start now?
- What does the progression look like? Is it static missions you need to play through or can you just do one off missions launch and kill sort of thing that are randomly generated?
- Is Build diversity a thing? Or are you hampered if your friend decides to play with only pistols?
To clarify point 5, you get three weapons you can equip on your person. A long arm (AR, shotgun, smg, or DMR), a side arm (pistols, revolvers, some melee weapons, etc.), and a third slot which is varied in purpose. There are:
Additionally, you also have a backpack slot, which is also varied. There are drone backpacks, ammo packpacks, and bubble/directional shield backpacks.
And some armours have bonuses to playstyles. The one I use is a heavy armour variant with a bonus to melee damage. There are other offensive bonuses, like more weapon stability while crouching or prone, but most bonuses here are defensive.