Helldivers 2’s newest patch is out and—having correctly received caught in final evening—it is a banger. I truly really feel like I can muck about with my loadouts now. I rocked an explosive crossbow, a revolver, a thermite cost, and an airburst rocket launcher and felt downright highly effective. Likewise, the flamethrower feels potent, too.
It is a stable victory towards lots of the points gamers have been citing for the reason that recreation’s launch, together with anger at a nerf-first coverage that does not actually monitor in a horde shooter. It was throughout these tumultuous instances that Area Marine 2 launched and, being fast to rally behind any banner that pops up, some gamers believed it’d proper the wrongs of Helldivers 2’s rocky replace cycles. A return to the halcyon days of energy fantasies and bug-smashing.
That is, uh, although these video games do not have an excessive amount of in frequent. Helldivers 2 is a four-player co-op shooter with reside service components and randomly-generated missions—Area Marine 2 has a linear marketing campaign and a co-op mode with particular missions. Helldivers 2 enables you to construct a customized loadout, Area Marine 2’s co-op is class-based. So on, and so forth. They’re extra neighbours than roommates.
Throughout one in every of these spats on the sport’s subreddit, as one participant was revelling within the pleasure of proving the naysayers of the Imperium mistaken, CCO (previously CEO) of Arrowhead Video games Johan Pilestedt descended from above to sue for peace (thanks, GamesRadar).
“Thanks for all of your superb suggestions, and it is superb to lastly see so many divers return. We at the moment are trying to the day 60 patch, which can carry some extra thrilling adjustments!” Pilestedt preaches.
“I simply wished to pop in right here and say that I feel we must always be thankful for getting a number of superior video games. I can not even think about how I, as a child, would have felt to have the ability to play Helldivers and SM2. They’re completely different video games, however you possibly can get pleasure from as many video games as you need!”
It is a voice of calm in a sea of patriotic hoo-rahs. I, myself, have by no means actually understood when gamers get all Mad Max about their favorite video games like they’re sports activities groups—it is as baffling an id marker to me as defining your allegiance based mostly on the console you purchase. I suppose, although, that it is becoming for each of those video games, based mostly in universes the place fascist superpowers undermine themselves and are typically unhelpful to their very own objectives.
Doggedly tying your self to a faction and defending it’s a part of that satire, so there is a pleasing type of irony to Pilestedt wading into the centre and being all saintlike in his requires peace. Like how the Imperium of Man in Warhammer is propped up by the Emperor who, from what I can surmise, is a nonresponsive FTL beacon in a psychic coma that must be fed 1,000 psykers a day simply to maintain issues from falling aside. Although, uh, apparently we’re not imagined to be being taught morals from videogames anymore—overlook I mentioned something.