With Helldivers 2’s server woes lastly straightened out, Arrowhead Studios mentioned earlier this week that it may now shift its focus to cooler issues, together with—speculatively—playable mechs. These towers of cellular mayhem could also be nearer to becoming a member of the fray than we notice, as a video exhibiting one in motion has now leaked onto Reddit.
There is not any query that mechs are coming to Helldivers 2. They have been current within the first recreation, and the “Report for Responsibility” trailer that dropped in February options one very prominently, captioned with the message “coming quickly after launch.”
But when this leaked video is legit—and it certain seems to be that strategy to me—the mighty machines could also be coming so much prior to most of us anticipated.
The leaker, fozzye18, mentioned he wasn’t liable for bringing the mechs into the sport, however simply occurred to affix a recreation with a participant who was “exhibiting us new issues to take pleasure in.” One sharp-eyed redditor famous which you can truly see two mechs within the video, the one being utilized by the participant and one other, seen for only a second or two, within the background.
Mechs… take pleasure in from r/Helldivers
They’re apparently various kinds of mechs in motion right here: redditor VegetableWater4099 mentioned the one within the Helldivers 2 trailer was an EXO 44, whereas the one within the foreground of this leaked video is an EXO 48. The mech within the background is just too vague to make out, however the salient level is that if the evaluation is appropriate, it means we’ll have entry to multiple type of mech within the recreation. Fozzye18 confirmed that the participant with entry to this candy new {hardware} “spawned in a number of varieties of mech” whereas they have been taking part in.
And it is apparently not simply mechs which are already purposeful within the recreation. Fozzye18 mentioned the participant spawning the mechs additionally appeared to have entry to “new weapons like an vitality RPG coming, a meteorite that hits just like the nuke, a bunch of Helldivers you possibly can name in to help you (NPCs) and extra.”
The looks of the large stompy machines within the stay recreation has sparked all kinds of pleasure and no small quantity of hypothesis as to the way it received there within the first place. Some gamers suppose these things is already sitting hidden within the code, ready to be rolled out into future updates, a principle that is at the very least a bit of bit bolstered by dataminers who declare to have discovered an array of unused strategems within the recreation information, together with one which appears significantly related now: “-DropoffCombatWalker.”
A number of gamers have additionally puzzled if this is not the work of a hacker, however of Arrowhead builders, who’re spawning the brand new {hardware} in random video games with the intention to concurrently take a look at it in a stay surroundings and crank up the hype. This appears unlikely, however with the sport grasp instruments Arrowhead has described, which give the developer the flexibility to affect matches instantly, it is one thing that would occur.
Whoever it was, it seems like they have been having time. “He was simply exhibiting me all of the stuff he was pulling out of the information he had so I’m uncertain if he was a hacker or a dev however he appeared tremendous excited to point out us,” fozzye18 wrote. “Till my recreation crashed from all the pieces being loaded in after which I couldn’t discover his username once more.”
Neither Arrowhead nor its CEO, Johan Pilestedt—a fairly common presence on Twitter—have commented on the leaked video but, however I’ve reached out for extra data and can replace if I obtain a reply.