With the calendar having rolled into 2025, the studio behind one among final yr’s largest video games definitely does not sound prefer it plans to relaxation on its laurels. Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead’s CCO and longtime figurehead Johan Pilestedt has seemigly prompt that the long-term plan might nicely find yourself being this second recreation “rising into” its successor by way of updates.
Yep, whereas loads of people have spent their holidays battling The Illuminate, after Arrowhead nearly managed to clam down that pricing backlash towards the sport’s Killzone crossover gear, Pilestedt’s been chatting to a few of them on the socials about what the long run could maintain.
In a single Twitter thread simply earlier than Christmas, the developer responded to somebody asking about the opportunity of Helldivers 2 being up to date to permit eight participant co-op in some unspecified time in the future. The reply – for now a minimum of – was no, with Pilestedt saying the sport’s “engine, community structure, UI, efficiency and problem cannot cope” with eight gamers without delay proper now.
He added that whereas it could require “important funding”, this sort of factor is “not inconceivable, and its one thing we discuss typically on the studio”. The following bit may be probably the most attention-grabbing a part of the response, although.
Albeit in reponse to a joke that Helldivers 3 will drop in 2032 with that eight participant restrict and swimming, Pilestedt mentioned: “We’re rising Helldivers 2 into Helldivers 3…. so chances are you’ll be right. Besides perhaps swimming – I do not assume its attainable to swim in a heavy plate provider with rifle and assist weapons.”
Naturally, this has provoked loads of chatter on the sport’s subreddit. There’s a great deal of assist for it, a minimum of in principle, given the sport’s been out for lower than a yr and people are eager for Arrowhead to maintain specializing in creating sigificant updates for it within the rapid future.
Although, some do have considerations, with consumer pokiane writing: “It’s important to marvel although how limiting their historic engine will likely be. I am all for simply including stuff to the sport as an alternative of constructing a third one, however it’d be a rattling disgrace if we lose out on huge new options (greater than 4 gamers, gigantic maps, extra enemy selection and so forth) due to it.”
Whereas letting people debate that amongst themselves, Pilestedt’s gotten busy chatting about one thing else that may very well be coming to Helldivers 2 sooner or later – full-size miniguns. “There are issues we wish to do earlier than that,” he wrote in response to 1 Reddit consumer posting a video of a dude firing what appears to be like to be a Nerf minigun, “Miniguns as a carried weapon are notoriously problematic, you may see this in each video of individuals hip-firing a minigun – they’re roughly thrown backwards by the insane recoil.
“The best way we might resolve that is to have gamers be moved backwards until they take up a gradual firing place. This is able to in all probability additionally apply to the HMG (which was added perhaps a bit prematurely). As well as, the backpack journal is required, and sadly – the sport at the moment does not assist a weapon occupying 2 slots which must be resolved earlier than a minigun could be added. In spite of everything that’s finished, 5.5mm minigun will likely be able to be deployed.”
He completed up be asking if people have “some other design recommendations for how you can understand a minigun in Helldivers”, so make certain to inform him when you do – it appears to be like like somebody’s already put the concept of the gun working with stamina drain-based recoil in his head.
