Series : Helldivers
Developer : Arrowhead
Genre : Third person shooter
Themes : Insect enemies
Robots
Space Marines
Trophies : truetrophies.comnot completed.
Image source: playstation.com
Facts
Destroying Transports: Apparently, you can shoot down the bot transports by hitting the engines with the Recoilless Rifle.
Dropping Items and Backpack Reload: Malu discovered these two features: You can hold down on the D-pad to drop items! And if you have the Supply Backpack, you can access it yourself by tapping D-pad down.
Sample storage: You can hold D-pad down to drop samples at the extraction point for later, which avoids the risk of losing them in an area where you can't retrieve them.
Mission Fail Extraction: You can extract from a failed mission by waiting out the timer, after which the Pelican will come automatically.
You can bring down the shield of a Warp Ship with an assault rifle at a distance, and then destroy it with a Recoilless Rifle.
Analysis
I think it's clever that your entire team can wipe, but the mission can still be a success, and you still gain most of the resources from it. It plays well into the central theme of the expendable marines being sacrifice for 'the greater good', and even the marines being shot down towards the surface of the planets in bullet-shaped drop pods. In this war, human soldiers are the ammunition.
This game has issues, but somehow it's occupying more of my brain space than any other game since it came out a month ago. It does a lot of things incredibly well that I'm missing from other games.
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