Helldivers 2 artistic director Johan Pilestedt has tweeted that he is taking a “sabbatical” from engaged on the sport with the intention to get a much-needed break following a few decade straight of helldiving. He is coming again by means of, and says he’ll begin engaged on Arrowhead’s subsequent recreation when he does.
Whereas he is been a key determine by way of Helldivers 2 because the starting, usually utilizing social media and Discord to talk to gamers immediately about modifications and issues they’d prefer to see from the sport, this is not the primary time Pilestedt’s opted to change up the function he is enjoying on the studio. Again in Could final 12 months, he switched to being chief artistic officer after handing the CEO reigns to Shams Jorjani, with the intention to focus extra intently on serving to develop HD2.
Now, although, he is determined to step again and take “a sabbatical for some time”, so as to have the ability to spend extra time having fun with his life exterior of recreation growth.
“I do know quite a lot of you will assume ‘por qué?’ – properly, whilst you have loved Helldivers 2 for nearly a 12 months, I’ve been residing it since early 2016, and with [the original] Helldivers it is since 2013,” Pilestedt defined, “11 years of working ‘across the clock’ on the identical IP has made me put aside household, pals and my beautiful spouse… and myself. I’m going to take a while now to redeem what was misplaced from all of those who supported me for over a decade.”
He added: “I’m positive my pals at Arrowhead will do their utmost within the meantime to ship superb stuff to Helldivers 2. After I’m again – I’ll begin engaged on the following Arrowhead recreation.”
Naturally, the Helldivers 2 neighborhood’s been fast to thank Pilestedt for all he is accomplished for the sport and sequence to date, with Reddit being filled with threads of gamers providing a Tremendous Earth salute to the developer. Although, some are a bit involved about how Arrowhead will fill the artistic management void Pilestedt might go away by way of Helldivers 2 whereas he is away, particularly because it seems like he’ll be selecting up a brand new undertaking when he returns.
For now, we’ll simply have to attend and see, however to date Pilestedt’s sabbatical seemingly is not seeing him take a break from recreation growth utterly – about two hours after saying it, he revealed that he is kicked it off by attending a recreation jam with Arrowhead’s most senior employees.
“Generally, you have simply bought to reconnect with your self and your bros,” he mentioned of the jam in a reply, “The journey is usually the purpose.” Very philosopical, that is undoubtedly a person on sabbatical.
