Whereas Helldivers 2 inventive director Johan Pilestedt has introduced that he will probably be taking a sabbatical from engaged on the sport, Arrowhead Recreation Studios itself needs to reassure followers that it might probably maintain the title alive in the meanwhile.
On the official Helldivers 2 Discord channel, studio CEO Shams Jorjani needed to reassure followers of the sport by saying that improvement on the title will proceed “so long as individuals play”. He additionally stated that work on the sport gained’t cease even when it has to go on for 10 extra years.
“So long as individuals play, pay and we will construct a enterprise case round it, we’ll help it to hell and again,” stated Jorjani, based on GamesRadar. “If we will maintain it going for 10 years we’ll.”
Jorjani went on to speak about Pilestedt’s break from improvement, and the way it gained’t do a lot to have an effect on the tempo of improvement on Helldivers 2 shifting ahead, for the reason that title has been headed up by Mikael Eriksson for the previous couple of years.
“The lead for the sport is Mikael Eriksson and has been for the previous couple of years,” defined Jorjani. “Johan’s position as a senior inventive is to help all our tasks. So he’ll completely nonetheless be concerned – in the identical method he’s been the previous yr – offers enter on high-level plans and collaborates with designers on some stuff.” As Jorjani states, “The overwhelming majority of Helldivers is a group effort – it’s not one Jesus determine.”
Whereas Pilestedt was necessary in key inventive areas of Helldivers and its sequel, Jorjani stated that there have been many others on the studio that helped in getting the sport developed.
The title doesn’t appear to be in any hazard of shedding gamers, nevertheless. The sport wrapped up its first calendar yr by getting greater than 15 million gamers. In terms of arduous gross sales information, it had offered 12 million copies again in Might 2024.
Pilestedt introduced his sabbatical earlier this week, stating that he wanted the break after having labored on the Helldivers franchise virtually continuous since 2013.
“11 years of working “across the clock” on the identical IP has made me put aside household, buddies and my beautiful spouse… and myself,” posted Pilestedt when he introduced his sabbatical. “I’m going to take a while now to redeem what was misplaced from all of those who supported me for over a decade.”
Pilestedt’s sabbatical would possibly contain a pleasant trip, however he virtually instantly kicked it off by internet hosting a recreation jam along with his buddies from the studio. Whereas the sport itself didn’t end up too nice, Pilestedt did point out that the group loved it, and that typically the journey itself is the vacation spot.
In terms of Helldivers 2 itself, the title just lately received an replace that introduced fixes for crashes associated to Illuminate missions. This features a repair for a crash associated to Illuminate ships despawning, in addition to jittering from gamers making an attempt to make use of ADS with a scoped weapon.
Helldivers 2 is on the market on PC and PS5. For extra particulars on the title, take a look at our evaluation from again when it first got here out.
