There’s a lot to maintain us all engaged with Helldivers 2 in-game Galactic Battle proper now. Whereas he is eager to emphasize that sport stays Arrowhead’s “most important focus” now and going forwards, studio CEO Shams Jorjani has chatted a bit in regards to the studio’s plans for its subsequent sport in his newest chinwag with gamers on Discord.
In case you’re out of the loop, the studio deployed an enormous Illuminate push in the direction of Tremendous Earth earlier this week, in addition to dropping some new options and a patch filled with weapon balancing.
Reflecting on the journey Helldivers 2 and its creators have been on since launch in his newest Discord go to, Jorjani wrote: “the fantastic factor is that due to the wonderful assist of you FINE individuals Arrowhead’s future is kind of vivid and we’ve got the liberty to discover some actually cool ideas that we could not have in any other case. Recreation 6 (our subsequent mission) will occur the way in which it’s going to occur due to you.”
Naturally, that triggered some concern from people that the studio may be shifting away from HD2, with one participant responding: “This makes it sound such as you’re already abandoning a great chunk of dev money and time from Helldivers 2”.
Nonetheless, the exec was fast to supply reassurance, writing: “Nah. It is ALL Helldivers 2 for now. A really, very small workforce will spin up one thing later this yr and go at it sloowly. Helldivers is our most important focus and shall be for a loooong time.”
He additionally added in response to a different participant questioning whether or not this subsequent sport will undergo the identical region-locking purchase-wise that Helldivers 2 has by asserting: “The subsequent sport is 100% funded by ourselves so we’ll name 100% of these pictures.”
As for a way lengthy content material updates for Helldivers 2 – a sport Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt has beforehand advised might effectively develop into Helldivers 3 simply by protecting on including stuff to it – will maintain coming, Jorjani was clear that there is ciurrently no set endpoint in sight. “So long as you people maintain taking part in and shopping for tremendous credit we are able to maintain it going,” he wrote, “Final summer time we have been kinda screwing the pooch so it appeared like we would not be capable to maintain the prepare going for a very long time – however we turned the ship round, you assist us quite a bit so it is trying vivid.”
So, no motive to fret about Arrowhead winding up work on Helldivers 2 quickly, and a few hints at cool stuff to look ahead to additional down the road. Now you may return to serving to save Tremendous Earth.
