Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has confirmed plans to release a blog post tomorrow (September 5) which will tell you “all you need to know” about the current progress of the studio’s 60-day plan.
“As you all know, we are working relentlessly to meet our 60-day commitment schedule, and in order to do this we will be changing the frequency of updates during this time,” the studio announced via the game’s Discord server yesterday.
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“This Thursday we will be publishing a new blog detailing our progress to date, the fixes we have made, and the delivery dates for these updates,” it continues, “which will give you all the information you need, as well as our deadlines for first delivery as per the plan.”
Since the announcement, CEO Shams Jorjani has also appeared on the server to answer some player questions. He has been typically tight-lipped about the contents of tomorrow’s update post – noting that Arrowhead Chief Business Officer Johan Pilestedt has “shared quite a bit of information about the game’s next balance patch.”
“The trick is to make the weapons feel powerful (good), but not too easy for the game (shhh),” Jorjani reiterated in response to a player asking for details. “Maybe more dangerous enemies? Maybe more fragile divers? Let’s see what the team can come up with for you.” The executive also declined to offer any specific information about upcoming features such as the space station mentioned in the main order last month, saying, “We have many teams working on different things at the same time. Some are planned…soon. Others are planned…later…and some are planned…much later.”
He did tell one player who suggested the Thermite grenade change, “Let me know how you feel in two weeks.” That being said, Jorjani then told another player, asking if his response hinted at a Thermite change or was just “general hype,” that “I don’t know anything about Thermite in the current game, but liked the Thermite in the dev build I played yesterday. We’ll see what it ends up being on patch day.”
Beyond that, the executive said he asked the Reddit subreddit last month for feedback on the game’s long-term development and that “progress” had been made. “It’s definitely one of the priorities that’s being discussed,” he added, hinting at plans to ask Reddit for suggestions on “another topic” soon. Oh, and he also said he’d be willing to give his first-born child to a Hellraiser animation, which is understandable.
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