Arrowhead Recreation Studios is seemingly engaged on a brand new collaboration occasion for Helldivers 2. As caught by GamesRadar, the studio revealed via the sport’s official Discord channel that it’s engaged on one thing new when requested by a participant about future crossover occasions.
A developer that goes by the deal with Sephez revealed on Discord that Arrowhead is in “the very early levels of one thing new.”
The reveal was in response to a Helldivers 2 gamers saying {that a} potential crossover between the co-op shooter together with one other co-op shooter, Deep Rock Galactic, could be fascinating.
Whereas the developer was cautious to not reveal any particulars, the usage of the phrase “new” would point out that it received’t be a crossover occasion just like what we’ve seen earlier than.
The final main crossover occasion we noticed in Helldivers 2 was with the (nowadays ignored) FPS franchise Killzone. The crossover primarily centered on Killzone 2, and went reside again in December. As a part of the occasion, the sport acquired a number of latest content material, together with new armour units, weapons, and beauty gadgets like banners and capes.
Whereas the crossover was profitable, it was a supply of some controversy owing to excessive value tags for the brand new gadgets launched to the sport. The studio took to Twitter to answer these criticisms.
“As this was our first crossover providing, we’ve been listening to the response, and the suggestions we’ve obtained from our neighborhood surveys is that crossover content material is basically excessive up in your wishlists,” mentioned the studio. “On the similar time, a few of you aren’t pleased with the costs of the gadgets, and we’ll revisit this.”
The newest little bit of content material launched for Helldivers 2 was the Servants of Freedom Premium Warbond, which introduced with it weapons themed round explosives, such because the LAS-17 Double-Edge Sickle and the GP-20 Ultimatum. The replace additionally introduced with it the B-100 Transportable Hellbomb, which can be utilized to filter out buildings.
Helldivers 2 is round a 12 months outdated at this level, and Arrowhead Recreation Studios determined to rejoice the occasion with a glance again at a few of its favorite moments from the Galactic Conflict marketing campaign. That includes the mysterious recreation grasp Joel, a video took us on a visit down reminiscence lane by giving us a glance again on the legendary Protection of Mort.
Helldivers 2 artistic director Johan Pilestedt introduced final month that he could be happening a sabbatical. In his announcement, Pilestedt spoke about needing a break after having labored on the franchise continuous since 2013. He kicked off his sabbatical by internet hosting a recreation jam together with senior builders at Arrowhead.
Whereas Pilestedt is on his sabbatical, studio CEO Shams Jorjani spoke about how it might preserve engaged on Helldivers 2, since growth of the sport has been a staff effort. Jorjani spoke about how the sport is at the moment being headed up by Mikael Eriksson, and the way its future isn’t depending on a singular “Jesus determine”.
Helldivers 2 is out there on PC and PS5. Try our assessment for extra particulars.
