Helldiving hero Harvey Randall mentioned final week that issues want to alter at Arrowhead, as a result of the blistering tempo of Helldivers 2 updates is beginning to take a visual toll on builders and gamers alike. Apparently Arrowhead agrees: In response to an inquiry in regards to the launch of the subsequent patch, group supervisor Twinbeard mentioned it’s going to be out “when it is completed.”
It has been genuinely outstanding to look at Arrowhead construct Helldivers 2 right into a recreation expertise that feels genuinely alive. Eschewing a daily schedule of updates, Helldivers 2 builders seem to simply do issues, an embrace of chaos that retains everybody on their toes. For probably the most half it has been a smashing success, but it surely’s additionally led to some criticism as fast-and-furious steadiness modifications, generally bringing surprising outcomes, have annoyed some members of the group.
Personally, I am inclined to agree with Helldivemaster Morgan Park’s evaluation that the meta would not a lot matter in a strictly PvE recreation, however I am additionally somebody who caught with the IKELOS SMG for the complete time I performed Future 2, meta be damned, as a result of I like the way it sounds. (For the Future followers on the market, I’ve been knowledgeable that IKELOS truly was the meta, however that is not the purpose.) So, honest play, I will not be one of the best choose of this stuff, and actually Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt not too long ago acknowledged that the studio’s strategy to recreation steadiness in Helldivers 2 hasn’t been preferrred.
It appears Pilestedt was critical about the necessity to shift gears on updates, as Twinbeard mentioned on Discord that the subsequent patch goes to take somewhat longer than regular to reach, and future patches could as effectively.
“We wish to take some extra time for this one and doubtlessly between future patches since we really feel cadence has in all probability been a bit too excessive to have the ability to keep the standard customary we would like and also you deserve,” Twinbeard wrote. “Patching so much can simply disrupt work circulate and takes extra assets than you would possibly suppose; it wants planning, implementing, monitoring, potential tweaking in hotfixes and many others. For this one we desire to stretch it out somewhat, hopefully with a very good consequence.”
In a separate message on Discord, Twinbeard mentioned the specifics of a brand new, slower replace schedule have not but been determined. “I would say it is one thing we now have to check out and get a really feel for,” he wrote. “[at the moment] we really feel a barely decrease cadence general will profit each us, you, and the sport.”
It is a powerful spot for Arrowhead. A big portion of the participant base desires extra updates and Warbonds, however there’s additionally a rising sense that an excessive amount of is, effectively, an excessive amount of: There is a threat that amount could outweigh high quality. And even when that is not the case, as on-line editor Fraser Brown wrote in April, none of it actually will get an opportunity to breathe. Allow us to not neglect that builders have to sleep every now and then, too. It has been an admirable effort on Arrowhead’s half, and Helldivers 2 has been nice for it, however I believe at this level it will likely be even higher if all concerned can decelerate somewhat bit and take a while to scent the victory.
