With gamers feeling underwhelmed at among the adjustments made in its huge new Escalation of Freedom replace, Helldivers 2’s recreation director has apologized to the neighborhood and acknowledged that there are “basic inconsistencies” in its present method to balancing the shooter. Arrowhead has additionally now laid out a 60-day plan to enhance the sport and overhaul a few of its practices.
Helldivers 2 has been on fairly the rollercoaster experience this yr. Its early months had been outlined by big gross sales figures and participant counts, and it appeared it couldn’t put a foot improper. Then the co-op recreation confronted its first large bump within the street after its PSN account linking fiasco. Then it modified its method to content material output and patches, choosing bigger, less-regular updates that had been of a greater customary – one thing followers agreed was the precise determination.
This month’s Escalation of Freedom replace was set to be the one which turned issues round and pushed Helldivers 2 again in the direction of the successes it skilled recent out the gate. Nevertheless, sure facets of the huge new replace are fairly underwhelming, and it wasn’t the reversal of fortunes I’d hoped the sport would see.
Now, recreation director Mikael Eriksson has come out to acknowledge that Escalation of Freedom missed the mark, and has outlined how Arrowhead goes to win again its gamers and repair a few of their greatest ache factors.
“We’ve spent the final week listening to suggestions, reflecting concerning the path forward for Helldivers 2 and the way we need to proceed growing the sport,” says Eriksson in a brutally sincere message on Reddit. “Briefly, we didn’t hit our goal with the most recent replace. Some issues we simply didn’t get proper – and [there are] different extra basic inconsistencies in our method to recreation stability and recreation route.”
Eriksson then lays out the core gameplay adjustments that Arrowhead goes to deal with over the subsequent 60 days:
Proceed to re-examine our method to stability. Our intention is that stability ought to be enjoyable, not “balanced” for the sake of stability.
Replace how the fireplace injury mechanic works to tweak how the flamethrower serves as an in depth vary help weapon. (A fast straight revert gained’t work, as it might break different issues)
Rework gameplay to forestall extreme ragdolling
Re-think our design method to main weapons and create a plan for making fight extra partaking
Re-prioritize bug fixes in order that the extra speedy gameplay-impacting bugs are prioritized.
Enhance recreation efficiency (body charge is a spotlight)
Rework Chargers
He additionally says that Arrowhead is contemplating launching an “opt-in beta-test setting” to assist spot bugs and points in updates earlier, be extra clear about why adjustments had been made in patch notes, and ship out extra common surveys to gamers.
It’s been actually unhappy (and considerably complicated) to see how Arrowhead has managed to lose favor with so many gamers over the previous few months, given the sport’s early success. Helldivers 2 nonetheless boasts a formidable Steam participant depend that many stay service video games would kill for, however there’s no escaping that it’s a good distance off the place it was once, and the preliminary spike it did see when Escalation of Freedom dropped has already virtually returned to pre-patch ranges.
Nevertheless, Eriksson’s motion plan seems like a very good one, and Arrowhead’s honesty and acknowledgement of the state of affairs goes a good distance too.
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