Arrowhead Recreation Studios has reiterated on its official Discord that it has no plans on slowing down help for co-op shooter Helldivers 2. Noticed by VG247, Arrowhead Recreation Studios CEO Shams Jorjani thanked the sport’s fan base for its continued help, and went on to say that, so long as there are nonetheless gamers for Helldivers 2 shopping for Tremendous Credit, the studio will proceed to help the sport.
“The great factor is that because of the wonderful help of you FINE folks Arrowhead’s future is sort of brilliant and we now have the liberty to discover some actually cool ideas that we couldn’t have in any other case,” mentioned Jorjani. “Recreation 6 (our subsequent mission) will occur the best way it’s going to occur because of you.”
This message by Jorjani led to questions on the Discord channel about whether or not the studio was planning to desert Helldivers 2 in favour of its subsequent mission. “Nah,” responded Jorjani. “It’s ALL Helldivers 2 for now. A really, very small crew will spin up one thing later this yr and go at it sloowly. Helldivers is our fundamental focus and will likely be for a loooong time.”
The studio plans to proceed supporting Helldivers 2 so long as it probably can with new content material, together with Premium Warbonds. Whereas Jorjani did point out that the studio did fall into some rocky waters with help for the sport final summer time, it has since “turned the ship round,” and can proceed to “maintain the practice going for a very long time.”
“So long as you of us maintain enjoying and shopping for Tremendous Credit we will maintain it going,” Jorjani mentioned. “Final summer time we have been kinda screwing the pooch so it appeared like we wouldn’t have the ability to maintain the practice going for a very long time – however we turned the ship round, you help us loads so it’s trying brilliant.”
As for the studio’s subsequent mission – dubbed Recreation 6 by Jorjani – he additionally spoke about how, because of the help of Helldivers 2 gamers, Arrowhead Recreation Studios will likely be extra accountable for general choices surrounding the title, together with whether or not or not it could get region-locked due to PlayStation Community restrictions. “The subsequent recreation is 100% funded by ourselves so we’ll name 100% of these pictures,” he mentioned.
He additionally spoke about how growth was going for Recreation 6, emphasising that the studio wished to make it possible for it had the core gameplay foundations laid proper earlier than transferring on to creating the remainder of the sport. That is in order that Recreation 6 doesn’t find yourself having the identical lengthy, drawn-out growth cycle that Helldivers 2 did as a result of the studio wished to skip pre-production for the title when it was being made.
“For essentially the most a part of the event cycle video games plain suck,” Jorjani defined. “Very seldom are they honestly enjoyable from the get-go. And for Helldivers taking eight years to make it was tough for the longest time. But it surely got here collectively in the long run. The ONLY strategy to know is to playtest playtest playtest.”
“For our subsequent recreation we’re doing issues in a a lot smarter method and nailing quite a lot of the core s**t early on (as you must) then make the remainder.”
Helldivers 2 is obtainable on PC and PS5. For extra particulars concerning the title’s present state, take a look at our protection of its most up-to-date replace, its latest Warbond, and even the unintentional announcement for a much bigger occasion taking place within the recreation on Could 20.
