Helldivers 2 gamers have found a fairly implausible bug that stops them from taking fall injury — and the new CEO of developer Arrowhead needs it to keep.
As surfaced by redditor Chunke-Funke-Monke, Helldivers 2 emoting truly reduces fall injury. It’s true: carry out an emote when you’re falling from a peak you’d sometimes die from and you will cut back the injury you’d usually take and survive.
Why does this occur? The idea is that Helldivers 2 applies its physics mannequin to fall injury because it does throughout the sport. That’s, the sport works out which a part of your physique you’ve landed on and determines injury accordingly. It is smart! A bang on the head might be going to be deadly, however you would possibly survive a bang in your butt… simply.
Helldivers 2 doesn’t allow you to change your orientation as you fall by way of the air, however in case you emote whereas doing so that you drive your character mannequin to reposition into the emote pose, thus altering the a part of you that hits the floor first. Genius!
That is genuinly helpful in a sport filled with explosions that always ship your Helldiver hurtling throughout the map. And so, Helldivers 2 has a brand new meta: utilizing emotes to stop fall injury. Now that’s a twist Tremendous Earth didn’t see coming.
You’d assume Arrowhead would need to patch this one out (I doubt it’s supposed gameplay), however new CEO Shams Jorjani, who lately changed earlier Arrowhead CEO and present chief inventive officer Johan Pilestedt, tweeted to name for it to keep.
can we please, please preserve this? @ArrowheadGS https://t.co/a57PMZ4JtT
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) July 8, 2024
Whereas emote free-falling is meme worthy now, what is perhaps higher for Helldivers 2 long-term is a extra practical mechanic that lets gamers cut back fall injury in-universe. Maybe there’s sure armor that will assist, or gear that provides you a parachute or one thing related. Yet one other mechanic to probably add to Arrowhead’s lengthy listing of upcoming Helldivers 2 content material.
we’ll add inflatable bouncy luggage that deploy from underneath your arm pits or some shit if we’ve got to. c’mon! we’ve got the know-how – the place there is a will there is a approach!
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) July 8, 2024
This is not the first time Helldivers 2 gamers have found unintended emote gameplay. Quickly after the PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter got here out earlier this yr, gamers found that if one Helldiver used the defend generator pack to defend from sustaining injury from explosives, they might hug emote one other participant to share the defend. Healthful!
Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation sport of all time, having shifted an unimaginable 12 million copies in simply 12 weeks. Amid the enormous income Helldivers 2 has generated, Arrowhead itself has suffered a lot of crises, together with launch server issues and a battle with Sony itself over the console maker’s controversial try to drive Steam gamers to account hyperlink to PlayStation Community.
Arrowhead lately revealed it was in the means of setting the studio up so it may “make extra and higher stuff” in the long-term. In an introductory post on reddit, Jorjani stated the studio has had to regulate to the huge success Helldivers 2 has introduced to the firm.
Picture credit score: reddit / Chunke-Funke-Monke.
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