Helldivers 2 'Is Our Main Focus and Will Be for a Loooong Time,' Arrowhead Boss Insists: 'As Long as You Keep Playing and Buying Super Credits We Can Keep It Going'

Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead has addressed subordinate interest that it mightiness permission the crippled down to absorption connected its adjacent project, dubbed "Game 6."

As spotted by VG247, CEO Shams Jorjani spoke to fans successful the authoritative Helldivers Discord pursuing the explosive motorboat of the full-scale Illuminate penetration this week.

“The fantastic happening is that acknowledgment to the astonishing enactment of you FINE radical Arrowhead's aboriginal is rather agleam and we person the state to research immoderate truly chill concepts that we couldn't person otherwise. Game 6 (our adjacent project) volition hap the mode it volition hap acknowledgment to you,” Jorjani said.

That seemingly innocuous punctuation sparked interest from 1 instrumentality who said it suggested Arrowhead was “already abandoning a bully chunk of dev clip and wealth from Helldivers 2.”

Jorjani rapidly unopen that down, insisting: "Nah. It's ALL Helldivers 2 for now. A very, precise tiny squad volition rotation up thing aboriginal this twelvemonth and spell astatine it sloowly. Helldivers is our main absorption and volition beryllium for a loooong time."

So, however agelong does Jorjani expect contented updates for Helldivers 2 to last?

"As agelong arsenic you folks support playing and buying Super Credits we tin support it going," Jorjani said, pointing to Helldivers 2's virtual currency that's utilized to bargain Premium Warbonds. "Last summertime we were kinda screwing the pooch truthful it looked similar we wouldn't beryllium capable to support the bid going for a agelong clip - but we turned the vessel around, you enactment america a batch truthful it's looking bright."

And here’s an absorbing follow-up remark from Jorjani, successful effect to 1 instrumentality who called connected Arrowhead to marque its adjacent crippled disposable successful each regions and debar the region-locking acquisition debacle the Sony-published Helldivers 2 has suffered from: "The adjacent crippled is 100% funded by ourselves truthful we'll telephone 100% of those shots." That suggests Arrowhead isn't going with Sony oregon immoderate different institution for its adjacent game, which successful crook suggests it's not Helldivers 3.

Speaking of Game 6 and however its improvement volition (hopefully) disagree from the "rough", eight-year slog that was Helldivers 2, Jorjani said Arrowhead wants to nail the "core s**t" aboriginal connected earlier moving connected to making the remainder of the crippled this clip around.

"For the astir portion of the improvement rhythm games plain suck," Jorjani explained. "Very seldom are they genuinely amusive from the get-go. And for Helldivers taking 8 years to marque it was unsmooth for the longest time. But it came unneurotic successful the end. The ONLY mode to cognize is to playtest playtest playtest.

"For our adjacent crippled we're doing things successful a overmuch smarter mode and nailing a batch of the halfway s**t aboriginal connected (as you should) past marque the rest."

All this tallies with erstwhile comments from Arrowhead developers, who’ve said they privation Helldivers 2 to past for years to come. Let’s remember, Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios crippled of each time, with an astonishing 12 cardinal copies sold successful conscionable 12 weeks. It is simply a grounds nary first-party Sony-developed crippled volition apt ever beat. But truthful overmuch has happened since that archetypal explosive release: a melodramatic U-turn connected PSN relationship requirements connected Steam, review-bomb campaigns, and a assemblage often astatine warfare with Helldivers 2 itself arsenic nerfs and buffs either spell excessively acold oregon not acold enough. So you'd beryllium forgiven for wondering whether enthusiasm for Helldivers 2 astatine Arrowhead mightiness person waned.

But Alex Bolle, accumulation manager connected Helldivers 2, precocious told IGN “we privation it to beryllium astir for years and years and years to come.”

“How bash we enactment existent to the Helldivers 2 fantasy, challenging capable that we support making astonishing caller features and caller systems and each that portion we enactment existent to who we are? And I deliberation it's thing that is truthful motivating for the years to come.

“The much we fig retired however to thrive successful a unrecorded environment, and we inactive person a mode to spell to fig retired a batch of things astir that, the much we tin fto creativity escaped connected caller systems that we would've ne'er thought astir a twelvemonth agone erstwhile we released. I've worked connected unrecorded games earlier and it's wherever you consciousness similar you person thing you tin fig out: what if I would bash this chill happening I've seen successful different games and accommodate it to our sauce, that inactive makes it existent to ourselves? I'm looking guardant to this moment.”

To that end, caller leaks (one from PlayStation itself) constituent to the imminent merchandise of Super Earth arsenic a playable map, arsenic the Illuminate yet marque it to our location planet.

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