Following the Escalation of Freedom replace for Helldivers 2 final week, Arrowhead Recreation Studios has acquired vital backlash for its nerfs and adjustments. In a brand new letter to the neighborhood, sport director Mikael Eriksson admitted that the studio “didn’t hit our goal with the most recent replace” and there are “different extra basic inconsistencies in our strategy to sport stability and sport route.”
A brand new 60-day plan has been introduced, throughout which the developer goals to re-examine its stability beliefs, emphasizing enjoyable and “not ‘balanced’ for the sake of stability.” It’s additionally seeking to replace hearth injury (although it might’t revert adjustments to make the Flamethrower the identical as earlier than) and stop “extreme ragdolling.”
There are plans to enhance sport efficiency, re-prioritize bug fixes (together with “extra fast gameplay-impacting bugs”) and rework Chargers. Maybe essentially the most attractive level is relating to a rethink of major weapon design for extra “partaking” fight. We’ll want to attend for an ETA on these fixes throughout the subsequent 60 days, so keep tuned till then.
Helldivers 2 is offered for PS5 and PC. Try our assessment for the PS5 model right here. Regardless of the present controversy and the obligatory PSN-linking for Steam gamers that Sony finally backtracked on, it offered 12 million copies as of Could fifth.
