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A Helldivers 2 glitch proves that physics mishaps continue to be some of the funniest moments in gaming, and the developers at Arrowhead Game Studios agree. We can mourn our fallen democracy lover in arms together as we witness their untimely death after clipping through an electrical pole in this hilarious video circulating Reddit.
Helldivers 2 has been, over the course of its turbulent lifespan, criticised for a couple of things—firstly, its heavily armoured enemies take a little too long to murder, and are downright impossible to kill without specific equipment. Secondly, whenever anyone's having a bit too much fun, the weapon in question seems to get nerfed.
Helldivers 2 has been encountering a bit of turbulence since its absurdly popular release—community dramas, review bombs, its CEO stepping down to CCO to better respond to player feedback, in-game protests, and, finally, a promise of a 60-day update plan to help haul it out of the fire.
Helldivers 2's creative director has responded to players, agreeing that the shooter has unfortunately become less about "a fun, chaotic, challenging, emergent experience" and more about "competitiveness."
Helldivers 2's game director has finally confirmed that a test server is "being worked on" at Arrowhead. However, to prevent unreleased content from leaking online, it'll need some sort of NDA.
Former Arrowhead CEO and longtime Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt spent a good chunk of the afternoon chatting to the game's still somewhat disgruntled Discord community about weapon balance, future update ideas, and other game design bugbears. In particular, he reiterated that "weapons should feel powerful" and dug into the recent unpopular changes made to flamethrower-type weapons, bluntly saying the updated fire visual effect "looks like [Team Fortress 1]."
In the wake of yet another blowup amongst the Helldivers 2 community over an unpopular balance patch, game director Mikael Eriksson says Arrowhead «didn't hit our target with the latest update,» and laid out the studio's plan to do a better job with future patches.
Helldivers 2, it would seem, is having balance problems. As fellow PC Gamer writer Morgan Park noted last week, the major update Escalation of Freedom, while bringing plenty of cool new features to the game, has also set everything on fire. Again.