There’s lots to maintain us all engaged with Helldivers 2 in-game Galactic Conflict right now. Whereas he is eager to emphasize that sport stays Arrowhead’s “fundamental 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.
Should you’re out of the loop, the studio deployed an enormous Illuminate push in direction of Tremendous Earth earlier this week, in addition to dropping some new features and a patch full of 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 because of the superb assist of you FINE individuals Arrowhead’s future is sort of brilliant and we now have 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 would occur because of you.”
Naturally, that triggered some concern from people that the studio could be shifting away from HD2, with one participant responding: “This makes it sound such as you’re already abandoning a very good chunk of dev money and time from Helldivers 2”.
Nevertheless, 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 12 months and go at it sloowly. Helldivers is our fundamental focus and might be for a loooong time.”
He additionally added in response to a different participant questioning whether or not this subsequent sport will endure 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 photographs.”
As for a way lengthy content material updates for Helldivers 2 – a sport Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt has previously suggested might nicely develop into Helldivers 3 simply by maintaining 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 enjoying and shopping for tremendous credit we are able to maintain it going,” he wrote, “Final summer time we had been kinda screwing the pooch so it seemed 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 so much so it is wanting brilliant.”
So, no purpose to fret about Arrowhead winding up work on Helldivers 2 quickly, and a few hints at cool stuff to stay up for additional down the road. Now you may return to helping save Super Earth.