As you could be conscious (we have banged on about it a bit already this week) Helldivers 2 obtained a cowboy-themed Warbond dubbed Borderline Justice yesterday. It has no cowboy hat, as a result of Arrowhead does not reckon that such headgear suits inside the Helldiver uniform restrictions.
Loads of gamers do not agree with that assessement – a few of them have even stormed out of the official gear saloon to select up a mod that’ll allow them to group the brand new armours with a ten-gallon hat. Now, at present on sabbatical Helldivers 2 director and chief inventive officer Johan Pilestedt has supplied his personal view on the scenario by way of a twitter thread despatched whereas he is at GDC saying issues throughout panels.
Having requested gamers for his or her ideas on the Borderline Justice gear, the dev was naturally rapidly requested by a number of folks the place the Warbond’s cowboy hat is, or whether or not the sport shall be getting one in some unspecified time in the future down the road.
“I do not know – have not heard the design convo. However I believe it crossed the road of what the Helldivers are. Which I agree with,” he wrote in a single reply, “I’ll ask the group subsequent time I pop by the workplace.” One other participant obtained a barely completely different response from Pilestedt: “I agree that it could be superior, however I believe it could break the fantasy of Helldivers…folks do not put on hats on helmets.”
Quite a lot of gamers have been a bit exasperated by that final bit, and have been making an attempt to remind the dev that the beret from the PH-9 Predators armour in final 12 months’s Viper Commandos Warbond can also be a hat on high of a helmet, and obtained previous these strict uniform regs. I suppose it depends upon your definition of suitably military-ish hats. Do cowboys go to warfare, and is a cavalry hat a unique factor?
Regardless, one factor Pilestedt did recommend could be coming within the fiuture duuring that thread sounds fairly cool. “[A] perk that permits folks to take sidearms as major AND wield them akimbo…”, he wrote, “Sadly a bit an excessive amount of work to make the animations, however possibly someday sooner or later?”
Do you waltz round rocking a hat in your helmet in actual life? Which helmet are you referring in your reply? Tell us under!
