The radioactive mud is simply beginning to choose the fracas that was the Helldivers 2 PSN account-linking debacle, however you may really feel the collective sigh of aid from gamers and builders alike now that Sony has relented and dropped the requirement. As peace has as soon as once more unfold throughout the land, some Helldivers 2 gamers have prompt a cape design commemorating the occasion, emblazoned with a sample primarily based on the huge spike in unfavourable Steam evaluations that in the end introduced the entire thing to a head.
Arrowhead CEO (and Helldivers 2 inventive director) Johan Pilestedt shared one clip he’d seen a neighborhood member publish, that includes three vertical purple traces on a blue background – immediately recognizable to anybody within the know as a sudden inflow of unfavourable Steam evaluations, identical to the sort the co-op sport acquired this previous week.
“The unintentional cape design is fairly cool,” he admitted.
Another design, this one given the complete mockup therapy, contains a navy blue background with the “latest evaluations” graph, this time together with the redemptive blue spike of constructive evaluations, which have been coming in because the announcement that Sony had reversed course on the requirement to hyperlink a PSN account with a view to play Helldivers 2 on PC.
Different designs add the Helldivers cranium emblem and different components, together with bombs on the tip of the purple bars indicating unfavourable evaluations.
It’s genuinely troublesome to provide you with a comparable occasion previously 20 years of video games – a breakout hit getting this large, then dealing with such an enormous backlash three months after launch, and eventually correcting course and (hopefully) residing fortunately ever after. So whether or not there’s a commemorative cape made for the event or not, it’ll be one we’ll bear in mind for fairly a while.
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