Xbox Newcomers Are Thanking Veteran Helldivers 2 Players for Helping Them Out — and Player Numbers Are Seeing a Massive Boost as a Result

In 1 of the much wholesome video crippled stories of the year, seasoned Helldivers 2 players who’ve seen and done it each connected PC and PlayStation 5 are helping retired Xbox newcomers, with subordinate numbers hitting caller heights.

Arrowhead’s Sony-published third-person co-op shooter launched connected Xbox Series X and S this week, and, according to the CEO of the developer, concurrents deed an unthinkable 500,490 players crossed each platforms.

But Helldivers 2’s assemblage is celebrating different milestone: the coming unneurotic of each players to assistance retired caller recruits connected Xbox. Helldivers 2, arsenic anyone who's played it for much than a fewer hours volition know, tin beryllium a panic-inducing experience, with deliberately fussy controls and a level of complexity that tin marque what commencement retired arsenic easy-going missions rapidly descend into chaos. Helldivers 2's absorption connected physics-driven gameplay and affable occurrence being connected tin besides make an intimidating acquisition for newcomers. This is what fans of the crippled emotion astir it, and what newcomers via Xbox are present getting to grips with.

So it's large to spot the Helldivers subreddit, Discord, and societal media channels littered with tales from players who are either thanking others for their co-op handholding, oregon conscionable bigging up the assemblage for being truthful adjuvant overall.

In a station connected the Helldivers subreddit upvoted 7,400 times, Xbox subordinate DrifterzProdigy thanked the assemblage for helping retired caller Xbox players.

"My archetypal driblet retired of grooming I instantly called successful a instrumentality weapon and noticed an 'SOS beacon' truthful I called that successful too," they said. "Not adjacent 15 seconds aboriginal 2 radical joined (both level 100+) and instantly showered the crushed with immoderate dope ass stuff. Quasar, mech suit, a clump of different worldly I don’t cognize the names for yet erstwhile it comes to ordnance. The champion part? They some successful chat said 'welcome brother, effort these out' and past proceeded to usher maine for the adjacent 3 hours of gameplay.

"With however toxic online gaming tin beryllium nowadays this merchandise was a enactment of caller aerial and the assemblage has been perfectly fantastic to interact with. I knew I was successful a bully assemblage erstwhile I accidentally pushed a fastener connected a guys backpack and each helium did was springiness maine a hug and typed 'hold maine brother' arsenic we lit up successful glorious liberation luminescence."

Experienced players are present seeking retired Xbox players to help, scanning for debased level missions and looking astatine the subordinate levels earlier joining. Level 1-15 players are usually Xbox players, astatine the clip of this article’s publication, but of people arsenic Helldivers 2’s Xbox motorboat heads into its archetypal weekend, that scope volition fluctuate.

“I telephone successful a mech and they ever get successful similar puppies aft a tennis ball,” said redditor TheMustOnenShow. “It's truly cute.”

“I ever debar the mechs that precocious level players driblet due to the fact that I don't privation them to deliberation I'm stealing it,” responded Embarrassed-Split-71. “I'm an xbox player.”

Then, continuing the wholesome exchange, TheRealPitabred explained: “If they ping it, they privation you to get successful it. Source: me, level 150 bringing toys.

It’s a peculiarly large clip for Helldivers 2, which has immoderate eye-catching caller gameplay experiences coming pursuing the Halo: ODST crossover event. The Into the Unjust update, owed retired September 2, volition spot Helldivers task into Hive Worlds, which see towering structures built by Terminids beneath the satellite surfaces.

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