Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has revealed it is placing a short lived pause on content material updates whereas it really works on enhancing efficiency.
In an interview on the official Helldivers YouTube channel, director Mikael Eriksson admitted the sport’s most up-to-date huge replace, Into the Unjust, had “extra points than [the team] had been comfy with,” which is why the studio has now determined “to push a few of our content material and have updates a little bit bit into the longer term.”
Current evaluations for Helldivers 2 on Steam are ‘combined,’ with many of the complaints revolving round efficiency hassle. The ‘most useful assessment’ penned over the past 30 days is a destructive one from a participant with over 500 hours in-game. They known as Helldivers 2’s efficiency “inexcusable,” pointing to stuttering and freezing throughout gameplay and crashes.
“Arrowhead, Sony, PLEASE put much less concentrate on new content material and dwell service updates,” they happy. “PLEASE cease nerfing loadouts which might be already underpowered or underused with the guise of ‘realism’ or ‘stability.’ It is a PvE sport; nobody cares if individuals are cheesing hulks with a flag. The sport must be enjoyable and PLAYABLE earlier than you possibly can rake within the money with a brand new warbond.
“FIX THE GAME <3”
Now, Arrowhead has addressed these complaints. “After the final huge replace, Into the Unjust, we skilled extra points than what we had been comfy with,” Eriksson stated, as noticed by Eurogamer. “Gamers felt it, we felt it, and I might say the suggestions that we have got has been very justified.
“We’re taking this very severely and we’re focusing far more now on addressing these points to verify this kind of factor would not occur once more,” he added. “Now we have made the choice to push a few of our content material and have updates a little bit bit into the longer term whereas we’re addressing these items to guarantee that we are able to get to a way more steady state that we are able to imagine in.
“We’re already making actually huge enhancements and I am assured that we’ll get there and we can speak in additional element about this hopefully fairly quickly.”
Final week, developer Arrowhead Studios stated it nonetheless did not have an answer for the shooter’s groaning set up dimension on PC, however did verify it was engaged on it. In an replace posted to Steam, Arrowhead’s deputy technical director, Brendan Armstrong, penned the primary in a collection of posts through which the engineering crew talks in regards to the “technical well being” of the sport, in addition to the “technical challenges we’re working by.” Admitting that the set up dimension “appears to be a sizzling matter proper now” — at 150GB, Helldivers 2 takes up 3 times the house on PC than it does on console — the developer revealed that one of many causes the PC dimension is a lot larger is due to knowledge duplication and mechanical onerous drives.
Try IGN’s assessment of Helldivers 2 on Xbox Collection X and S to see what we consider the sport as it’s immediately. Arrowhead has additionally revealed it has no plans for Helldivers 3 proper now. As an alternative, it desires Helldivers 2 to maintain going for years and years, like veteran MMO RuneScape.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and guide with 15+ years expertise working with a few of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.