Helldivers 2 has been in a little bit of a quiet interval recently, comparatively talking. With Arrowhead largely busy specializing in bug fixes and placing out stuff at a little bit of a slower cadence, some gamers have been getting a bit bored with the identical previous factor, with an unlucky milestone the sport’s hit PC playerbase-wise having prompted some debate as as to if issues may be getting a bit too static.
Whereas the change in how Arrowhead’s approached fixing points and deploying new content material within the recreation obtained loads of preliminary assist, the outcomes have been a bit combined in apply, with some gear and upgrades specifically – the spear’s an enormous instance – seeing a gradual stream of issues afflict them, even after beforehand recieving fixes. Arrowhead continues to work exhausting to whack issues as they crop up, however you’ll be able to form of perceive the frustration.
As this has been taking place, the sport’s 24-hour participant quantity peak on Steam, in accordance with SteamDB (thanks, Forbes), sits at 45,315, which is just about 10% of the preliminary peak of 458,709 it recorded again in February. Now, to place this in context, that decline hasn’t occurred in a single day and positively is not that irregular – the sport’s participant numbers on the platform have been progressively coming down since that time, having final hit the 200,000 mark in late April.
This does not essentially imply Arrowhead’s finished something mistaken, even when the entire discourse brought on by Sony close to account linking in all probability did not assist issues. In all probability, loads of it is merely right down to the character of individuals’s enjoying habits – certain, some of us will follow one recreation long-term no matter what’s taking place, however most individuals, not less than to a level, hop from factor to factor pretty recurrently, be these issues new releases, older video games they need to replay, or present video games that’ve simply had contemporary updates.
That stated, whereas Arrowhead’s nonetheless busy specializing in fixes – having simply rectified a problem with the Superior Packing Methodology ship module – the relative lull in massive modifications because the final spherical of balancing tweaks and the Viper Commandos warbond has some gamers questioning whether or not it may be definitely worth the studio switching this up a bit as a way to attempt to preserve them extra engaged.
In response a publish on the topic on the sport’s subreddit, you may discover about a good cut up between of us who reckon sticking with the fixes to assist set up a extra secure base for future additions remains to be the important thing, and others who reckon an injection of content material must arrive quickly. Naturally, there is no consensus as to what this new content material must be if massive stuff like factions are out of the query, with the whole lot from new enemy and mission varieties to planets with contemporary biomes having made lists.
What are you most eager to see Arrowhead do close to Helldivers 2 in the intervening time? Is there something that you just’re ready for earlier than you dive again in if you happen to’ve put it down in previous couple of months? Tell us under!