Helldivers 2 is gearing up for some information, and developer Arrowhead Sport Studios appears assured it should impress. Or, as Arrowhead’s CEO is framing it, you would possibly wish to put together your self.
As noticed by VideoGamer, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani was discussing Helldivers 2 in the sport’s Discord when a person requested him if he may “supply up something, nevertheless small, of what is coming down the pipe.” His response?
“You’ll shit your pants.”
Whereas not particular about what’s in retailer, it does at the least give us an concept of the affect of what is in retailer. And the doable penalties to our britches, too.
Jorjani took a couple of different questions, with some notable mentions of wanting so as to add extra bladed weapons and a few considerate responses to worries about content material droughts. There’s some open transparency about the technical debt of one thing like Helldivers 2, and the way the workforce handles it over time, that is actually cool to see alongside humorous quotes about distressing your denims.
There’s already been some tease about what’s to return, involving a flag with each a sharp finish and a grippy part. Presently, Arrowhead stated it’s aiming for Could 8 to announce its subsequent Warbond, and there will probably be “extra thrilling information to return not lengthy after.”
In a current interview with IGN, Arrowhead’s manufacturing director Alex Bolle stated the studio desires to be round for “years and years and years to return,” and that it is persevering with to work on creating Helldivers 2 whereas staying true to what the workforce desires to do.
“The extra we work out easy methods to thrive in a dwell setting, and we nonetheless have a method to go to determine a number of issues round that, the extra we will let creativity unfastened on new techniques that we might’ve by no means considered a yr in the past once we launched,” Bolle instructed IGN. “I’ve labored on dwell video games earlier than and it is the place you’re feeling like you may have one thing you’ll be able to work out: 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 wanting ahead to this second.”
We’ll begin to discover out what cool issues Arrowhead has in retailer for Helldivers 2 subsequent week. You would possibly wish to deliver some additional pants.
Eric is a contract author for IGN.