Sounds like removing couch co-op didn't hurt their sales. :(
What percentage of PC players care about couch co-op?
What percent of PC players have friends. Let alone come over to play on the couch?
I much rather fix up some burgers and drink a few pints at home while playing helldivers 1 with friends than sit at the pub eating worse burgers and paying too much for the pints.
Those of us who live with fellow nerds, obviously!
I don't know of any popular games that have it anymore. It's not something I'd actually expect to exist in a game anymore.
I think it used to be a feature in games back when computers were expensive, but these days that's not so much the case and if I want to with my partner, well she has her own computer.
It's not like only nerds have computers now. Basically everyone comes with at least a laptop.
Definitely rarer now, but four people sitting in the living room with controllers is still as fun. Helldivers, Magicka, Overcooked, Totemori, Gang Beasts and Genital Jousting are all great fun with some being easier to get into than others.
I really always prefer local coop but it doesn't work well when it's 3rd person over the shoulder and you have to split the screen into two different viewports.
I agree that their choice of perspective makes local coop harder to implement due to needing splitscreen, it also means I wouldn't want to play it with a controller.
I just hope that they keep their Helldivers 1 servers up and about, or release a patch that makes the game work offline if they don't.
Sounds like removing couch co-op didn't hurt their sales. :(
What percentage of PC players care about couch co-op?
What percent of PC players have friends. Let alone come over to play on the couch?
I much rather fix up some burgers and drink a few pints at home while playing helldivers 1 with friends than sit at the pub eating worse burgers and paying too much for the pints.
Those of us who live with fellow nerds, obviously!
I don't know of any popular games that have it anymore. It's not something I'd actually expect to exist in a game anymore.
I think it used to be a feature in games back when computers were expensive, but these days that's not so much the case and if I want to with my partner, well she has her own computer.
It's not like only nerds have computers now. Basically everyone comes with at least a laptop.
Definitely rarer now, but four people sitting in the living room with controllers is still as fun. Helldivers, Magicka, Overcooked, Totemori, Gang Beasts and Genital Jousting are all great fun with some being easier to get into than others.
I really always prefer local coop but it doesn't work well when it's 3rd person over the shoulder and you have to split the screen into two different viewports.
I agree that their choice of perspective makes local coop harder to implement due to needing splitscreen, it also means I wouldn't want to play it with a controller.
I just hope that they keep their Helldivers 1 servers up and about, or release a patch that makes the game work offline if they don't.