A social hub in the vein of Future 2’s Tower is “on the function checklist” for Helldivers 2‘s successor, developer Arrowhead has indicated.
Helldivers 2 makes use of spaceships as a small staging space the place as much as three gamers can put together for missions, fussing over their look and loadouts. There is no such thing as a bigger scale social hub, which some followers have referred to as for Arrowhead to think about given the social nature of Helldivers 2’s community-driven galactic struggle.
When a fan recommended on Discord that they might “actually recognize a social hub house station (like the tower in Future),” Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani responded with an unequivocal: “it is on the function checklist for the subsequent one.”
That sounds fairly definitive, however we nonetheless do not know when Arrowhead will get round to Helldivers 3. The studio has indicated that it plans to help Helldivers 2 for years to come back, and solely lately launched the Sony-published recreation on Xbox Sequence X and S. Certainly, it’s a notably nice time for Helldivers 2, whose Into the Unjust replace added Hive Worlds.
In April, Helldivers 2 manufacturing director Alex Bolle informed IGN “we would like it to be round for years and years and years to come back.”
“And it is nearly like, how can we keep true to the Helldivers 2 fantasy, difficult sufficient that we hold making superb new options and new techniques and all that whereas we keep true to who we’re?” he continued. “And I feel it is one thing that’s so motivating for the years to come back.
“The extra we determine the way to thrive in a stay atmosphere, and we nonetheless have a method to go to determine a lot of issues round that, the extra we will let creativity unfastened on new techniques that we’d’ve by no means thought of a yr in the past once we launched. I’ve labored on stay video games earlier than and it is the place you’re feeling like you’ve got one thing you possibly can determine: what if I might do that cool factor I’ve seen in different video games and adapt it to our sauce, that also makes it true to ourselves? I am trying ahead to this second.”
Try IGN’s evaluation of Helldivers 2 on Xbox Sequence X and S to see what we consider the recreation as it’s at present.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and guide with 15+ years expertise working with a few of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.