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Helldivers 2 went from one of the most beloved Steam games to one of the most hated pretty quickly (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by pro_grammer@programming.dev to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 57 points 7 months ago

I sure am happy i didnt buy this earlier because of the enforced rootkit.

[-] kaputter_Aimbot@feddit.de 28 points 7 months ago

Kernel Level Anti Cheat... In a co-op game!?

Why they did this is beyond me! 😔

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Oh no! Billy cheated his way to a new cape!! 🙄

It really is quite silly. There aren't even leaderboards or anything

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Billy cheating made you unlock everything in 1 too, that's their reasoning at least.

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

And fair enough, but you need to install a rootkit on my machine so Billy can't get me a new cape?!

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Lies!

It was a silly hat.

[-] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

It's doubly puzzling, because that component is just disabled on Linux and Steamdeck.

[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 months ago

Honestly there were a few reasons I didn't get it, but I'll say the rootkit was a big one.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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.

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