Arrowhead Sport Studios is outwardly 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, can 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 much 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 dwell again in December. As a part of the occasion, the sport obtained a bunch 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 acquired from our group surveys is that crossover content material is de facto excessive up in your wishlists,” stated the studio. “On the similar time, a few of you aren’t proud of the costs of the gadgets, and we are going to 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 Moveable Hellbomb, which can be utilized to filter buildings.
Helldivers 2 is round a 12 months previous at this level, and Arrowhead Sport Studios determined to have fun the occasion with a glance again at a few of its favorite moments from the Galactic Battle marketing campaign. That includes the mysterious sport 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 can 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 sport jam together with senior builders at Arrowhead.
Whereas Pilestedt is on his sabbatical, studio CEO Shams Jorjani spoke about how it might maintain engaged on Helldivers 2, since improvement of the sport has been a crew effort. Jorjani spoke about how the sport is at present being headed up by Mikael Eriksson, and the way its future isn’t depending on a singular “Jesus determine”.
Helldivers 2 is obtainable on PC and PS5. Try our assessment for extra particulars.
