Yesterday, Helldivers 2 artistic director Johan Pilestedt introduced that he is taking a sabbatical from sport growth, and that he’ll begin engaged on Arrowhead’s subsequent sport when he returns. This bought a number of gamers asking questions on the way forward for Helldivers 2 itself, and Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani’s now had a go at addressing these considerations.
As he fairly usually does, Jorjani took to Helldivers 2’s official Discord server final night time to area queries from the neighborhood and usually take the heart beat of the neighborhood, with the dialogue naturally turning to Pilestedt’s information, and whether or not it will imply something for the continued help the studio’s present sport will get going forwards.
Fortunately, and because the director prompt in his sabbatical announcement, it sounds such as you’ve bought nothing to fret about. “So long as individuals play, pay and we are able to construct a enterprise case round it, we’ll help it to hell and again,” Jorjani instructed one participant asking if a date when Helldivers 2’s help will finish, “If we are able to hold it going for 10 years, we are going to.”
As for rumours being unfold amongst gamers that the information is tantamount to Pilestedt “quitting” on the sport, the CEO defined: “Johan is simply on an prolonged trip. He is by no means been on a correct trip for the reason that firm was based. We get six weeks of trip per yr – most swedes take 4 weeks off in the summertime. He is by no means completed that. He is bought like 65 days saved up or one thing. He is simply beat.
“When he is again, he’ll hold being the grandfather and sounding board for Helldivers and get going with a brand new undertaking in due time. I do not need to diminish Johan’s mild – he is wonderful for Helldivers – however we have now different wonderful senior designers. Emil Englund, additionally a co-founder, has been instrumental in giving Arrowhead video games their voice – he is just lately been on paternity depart and is returning extra as effectively.”
Jorjani expanded on this in one other reply, saying of Pilestedt’s senior artistic function: “The overwhelming majority of Helldivers is a crew effort – it isn’t one Jesus determine. Johan’s tremendous energy is creating ideas and video games from the bottom up. He was instrumental in getting Helldivers to the place it wanted to be – others carried it throughout the end line.”
The CEO additionally echoed what Pilestedt’s beforehand prompt about how Arrowhead might deal with issues going forwards, by way of rising Helldivers 2 into one thing that may very well be thought-about a ‘Helldiovers 3’ of types, vs simply engaged on a follow-up. “Examine Helldivers 2 as we speak to when it launched,” he wrote, “It is so, a lot extra. Now think about Helldivers 2 in 3 years. Inform me how that is totally different from a hypothetical ‘Helldivers 3’.”
As for now, Jorjani instructed one participant asking a few first particular person purpose choice for mounted weapons and emplacements: “We’ve so, so a lot stuff within the pipeline. We’re not solely engaged on the following launch, however the subsequent after which subsequent – and we always talk about totally different choices forwards and backwards, and for individuals who’ve been round they hold the recollections of all of the stuff that was deliberate however did not occur or modified.”
So, no finish in sight for the recent additions and modifications to Helldivers 2 proper now, even when one in all its most well-known devs is gonna chill away from the Galactic Conflict for a bit.
