A current Helldivers 2 patch triggered debate on-line over stability points within the recreation, and one developer added gas to the fireplace with intentionally inflammatory feedback. Nonetheless, Arrowhead’s CEO and recreation director Johan Pilestedt has clarified that this habits is unacceptable.
The controversy started following the discharge of Helldivers 2’s first main stability replace. Whereas patch 1.000.100 buffed some weapons, it additionally nerfed fan favorites just like the Railgun, Breaker Shotgun, and Protect Generator. Reactions had been blended however largely destructive, prompting builders to elucidate the change. This consists of Senior animator Fredrik Eriksson, who defended the adjustments on Reddit.
Whereas Eriksson’s preliminary remark wasn’t too inflammatory, issues acquired more and more heated as the controversy continued. It got here to a head in a subsequent remark when he wrote, “I’m feeding the craze just a little for my very own leisure right here, simply so you realize.”
“We haven’t nerfed something into the bottom,” the Helldivers 2 developer continued, “I simply assume it’s just a little too early to faux like the sport is found out. We made two of probably the most brainless playstyles much less viable, and introduced the weapons which can be underneath/overperforming extra into line with the remainder.”
It didn’t take lengthy for that quote to get handed round within the Helldivers 2 neighborhood. This prompted a response from Helldivers 2’s recreation director.
“We’re conscious of this and have taken motion internally to coach our builders on the right way to symbolize the group,” Pilestedt wrote in a Reddit remark. “This isn’t a message that the studio stands behind. We’re all the time working to make as an satisfying expertise and neighborhood that we will.”
“Whereas I perceive that it displays on the studio as a complete, it isn’t our intention that this must be the habits from us,” the Helldivers 2 director wrote underneath one other publish. “We wish to be sure that you all have one of the best time attainable on this recreation and on this neighborhood.”
Eriksson additionally apologized and mentioned he would depart neighborhood engagement to Arrowhead’s neighborhood crew any longer.