Helldivers 2’s most up-to-date patch helped set off a pleasant turnaround in participant feeling in the direction of the sport, in addition to an uptick in participant numbers. As you would possibly anticipate, this been a boon for Arrowhead’s devs, with one saying morale on the studio has been “a lot, a lot better” currently.
Beforehand, Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt had described the difficulties of retaining the spirit on the studio optimistic whereas it was going through criticism from gamers over the path it had gone with its adjustments to the sport, writing: “It is a tough scenario. The criticism is legitimate, however it causes low morale, and low morale causes sluggish improvement velocity. Discuss detrimental spiral.”
Fortunately issues sound a lot rosier in a current response Arrowhead neighborhood supervisor Twinbeard offered to 1 participant asking concerning the topic on Helldivers 2’s Discord server, writing that morale following the newest patch and Chemical Brokers Warbond arriving is “a lot, a lot better”.
“A number of colleagues have felt unhappy or annoyed by both speeding issues or not having the ability to cater to participant base suggestions nicely sufficient, which is in fact comprehensible,” they wrote, “Personally, however I feel plenty of Arrowhead colleagues would agree, it feels as if we have fought our approach again and have been give a uncommon alternative to proceed doing nice stuff and develop the sport from the place we at the moment are, not the place we have been mid-August.
“Is there nonetheless crunch-like stuff happening within the context of the issues we have comitted to? Positive. We’re in a a lot better place now game-wise although, and long run I hope the issues we’re doing and work we put in now will assist us, the sport and all of its gamers.”
They then added in a separate publish: “It is actually, like actually, with sugar on prime, good to really feel as nicely. I am and we’re nonetheless burdened, not denying that, however once more, we’re on a greater path now in plenty of methods long-term (if short-term, issues are nonetheless hectic).”
So, there you go. It isn’t simply the gamers laying the groundwork from that new area station who’re feeling higher about Helldivers 2.
