Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Sport Studios is celebrating virtually a full 12 months’s value of success for the sport with a brand new video that highlights a number of the greatest moments of its Galactic Battle metanarrative. Hosted by Sport Grasp J.O.E.L., the video focuses on a number of the greatest actions that had been taken by the sport’s neighborhood as an entire as they responded to threats from a number of fronts by Automatons, the Terminate swarm, and the Illuminate.
“Over the course of the final 12 months of the Galactic Battle, we have now, on quite a few events, been positively stunned by the actions and selections that the neighborhood have taken,” says Joel. “Decisions that are actually canon, that are actually a part of Helldivers lore all the time.”
The primary second identified by the sport grasp was the Protection of Mort, which happened close to the very starting of the Galactic Battle again when Helldivers 2 got here out final 12 months. Whereas gamers had been engaged on liberating Heath and Angel’s Enterprise, they had been caught blindsided by the Automaton legion beginning its personal offensives within the south-eastern a part of the galaxy.
The important thing location on this occasion was the planet Mort; gamers needed to defend the planet from the Automaton hordes by means of protection missions for greater than 48 hours. In the end, it got here right down to the previous couple of minutes, prompting the participant base to rally round defending the planet until the very finish.
Going by the title of the video – Chronicles of J.O.E.L. – it’s probably that we’ll be seeing extra from Joel about his favorite moments from the Galactic Battle in future movies.
For these that will not know, the Galactic Battle is a giant narrative characteristic of Helldivers 2 the place a sport grasp from Arrowhead Sport Studios decides which planets will probably be targets for the sport’s numerous enemy factions. Gamers then have to reply to these threats by doing missions on the precise planets, which in flip results in a large storyline the place the gamers’ actions have long-term penalties for the galaxy’s story.
The sport’s artistic director, Johan Pilestedt, additionally not too long ago introduced that he can be taking a break from sport growth after having labored on the Helldivers franchise in some kind or one other since 2013. One in all his first actions after asserting his sabbatical was to participate in a sport jam with mates from the studio.
Whereas Pilestedt is taking his break, the studio itself has introduced that it’s going to proceed to work on Helldivers 2. In an interview final month, studio CEO Shams Jorjani revealed that the studio is able to work on the title for ten years if there may be nonetheless participant demand for it. Jorjani did credit score Pilestedt for being essential in key artistic areas of the event of Helldivers and its sequel, nonetheless.
Helldivers 2 is offered on PC and PS5. For extra particulars on the co-op shooter, try our evaluation. Within the meantime, additionally try the brand new Servants of Freedom Premium Warbond, which got here out earlier this week and options the Transportable Hellbomb. The sport has additionally been fairly standard, getting greater than 15 million gamers in its first 12 months.
