Whereas Arrowhead Recreation Studios has beforehand mentioned a bigger Future-inspired social hub for Helldivers 2 prior to now, the developer has famous that bigger participant lobbies received’t be taking place any time quickly. As caught by GamesRadar, studio CEO Shams Jorjani took to the sport’s official Discord server to debate the potential of massive 16-player lobbies.
When requested about the potential of such a factor taking place, Jorjani primarily shut the dialogue down by noting that bigger lobbies would deliver much more efficiency points to the sport. “My man, we’re making an attempt to repair efficiency. Not kill it,” he stated.
“I may give you 16 participant lobbies tomorrow. And 16 FPS. Need it?” requested Jorjani earlier than happening to notice that “This was a joke. Plz [sic] don’t quote me.”
Jorjani has spoken prior to now concerning the studio’s need to get the efficiency points plaguing Helldivers 2 underneath management. Earlier this month, he additionally famous that he would adore it if the co-op shooter grew to become a “endlessly recreation” for the studio within the vein of RuneScape.
“Myself and the administrators agree we’d love this to be a endlessly recreation,” Jorjani wrote on the official Discord server. “Assuming we get a grip on the efficiency and dev practices we will hold increasing it for a very long time. PlayStation is tremendous supportive.”
As for an even bigger social hub, Jorjani had beforehand written about it being within the function checklist for a possible sequel to Helldivers 2. When requested by a participant whether or not a social hub the place a number of gamers can hang around between missions is one thing that the studio is likely to be engaged on, Jorjani’s response all however confirmed that we received’t be seeing it occur in Helldivers 2 any time quickly.
For the sake of context, Helldivers 2 in its present state doesn’t actually have a social hub. Every participant does have a spaceship, nevertheless, the place they will hang around with their co-op buddies between numerous missions. This spaceship additionally acts because the place the place gamers can swap out gear and purchase upgrades. Nevertheless, it solely helps as much as 4 gamers.
It’s value noting that Helldivers 2 has been no stranger to efficiency points, particularly in newer months. Again in August, Jorjani had famous that a number of members of the event staff had been on trip, however had since returned and had been “focusing 100% on bug fixing and optimization.”
Earlier this month, Helldivers 2 noticed a significant replace, dubbed Into the Unjust, which launched a completely new kind of mission and terrain for gamers to tackle. For the reason that launch of the replace, gamers have been in a position to tackle missions that take them deep underground on Terminid Hive Worlds to assist the additional unfold of Managed Democracy.
The replace, nevertheless, did find yourself introducing a number of bugs and efficiency points, a few of which had been addressed with a hotfix simply a few days later.
Helldivers 2 is obtainable on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. For extra particulars, try our assessment of the latest Xbox Sequence X/S model.
