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

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 57 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] kaputter_Aimbot@feddit.de 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

Why they did this is beyond me! 😔

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 2 points 6 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 6 months ago

Lies!

It was a silly hat.

[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 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 6 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.