Helldivers 2 seems to be set for an unlikely Halo crossover after a brand new trailer teased the arrival of the ODST.
Arrowhead’s massively profitable PC and PlayStation 5 third-person shooter launches on Xbox Collection X and S on August 26 as the primary Sony-published recreation on Microsoft’s console. The trailer, beneath, ends with what seems to be just like the arrival of an ODST on a rain-drenched battlefield, alongside the long-lasting music from the sport. It is all very ODST!
The Bungie-developed Halo 3: ODST got here out completely on Xbox 360 in 2009. You play as an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, or ODST, throughout and after the occasions of Halo 2. So, that is not the prospect to play as what can be an over-powered Grasp Chief in Helldivers 2, slightly a reasonably highly effective customary soldier.
The following apparent query is whether or not this ODST crossover will come alongside different Halo objects, resembling its iconic assault rifle and maybe even the Warthog. Helldivers 2 appears significantly suited to a Halo crossover of this type, so it is going to be fascinating to see simply how far it goes.
Arrowhead introduced Helldivers 2’s Xbox launch date final month (bizarrely, it comes out the identical day as Microsoft releases Gears of Battle: Reloaded on PlayStation 5). In a submit on Xbox Wire, Helldivers 2 Recreation Director Mikael Eriksson commented on what this launch means to the studio.
“We all know avid gamers have been asking for this for a while and we’re so excited to convey extra Helldivers into our recreation,” he stated. “We’ve a lot extra in retailer for the long run months and years – and the extra gamers we have now the extra tales we will inform! The struggle for Tremendous Earth has solely simply begun.”
Crossplay throughout all platforms is confirmed, which implies PC, PlayStation, and Xbox gamers will be capable of play collectively.
Helldivers 2 launched on PC and PS5 in February 2024 and was a uncommon stay service smash hit for Sony. It’s the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios recreation of all time, shifting an unimaginable 12 million copies in 12 weeks. Whereas participant numbers on Steam, which Valve makes public, stay wholesome a year-and-a-half on from the record-breaking launch, the Xbox launch will no-doubt increase the participant pool even additional.
The timing of Halo in Helldivers 2 coincides with Halo additionally being featured in Fortnite, throughout a bug-infested season that some Arrowhead builders have stated is principally a Helldivers-themed Fortnite. “Hmmm… it is giving ‘we have now Helldivers at house,'” group supervisor Katherine Baskin wrote on the sport’s Discord, earlier than including: “I am not nervous.”
As for Halo, Microsoft has teased extra on what’s to come back in October.
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