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Helldivers 2 went from one of the most beloved Steam games to one of the most hated pretty quickly
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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I sure am happy i didnt buy this earlier because of the enforced rootkit.
Kernel Level Anti Cheat... In a co-op game!?
Why they did this is beyond me! ๐
Oh no! Billy cheated his way to a new cape!! ๐
It really is quite silly. There aren't even leaderboards or anything
Billy cheating made you unlock everything in 1 too, that's their reasoning at least.
And fair enough, but you need to install a rootkit on my machine so Billy can't get me a new cape?!
Lies!
It was a silly hat.
Because there's a real money store
So does Deep Rock Galactic (at least it has real money cosmetics via DLC, so maybe different to HD2), but they support modding
Yeah, but this is not about DRG
Point being, a relatively similar-themed co-op title that has paid DLC cosmetics, but wasnt fundamentally crippled by allowing modding and cheats (albeit in sandboxed environments)
It's doubly puzzling, because that component is just disabled on Linux and Steamdeck.
Honestly there were a few reasons I didn't get it, but I'll say the rootkit was a big one.
Yeah, that had me already decided that if I did get it, it would be on ps5 not pc. Though this move will probably make me do that in general for any ps exclusive game they make a pc port of.