Co-op third-person shooter Helldivers 2 has a brand new bug found this week (thanks PC Gamer), as the sport’s newest massive story beat reached its dramatic conclusion: providing mid-air hugs saves lives. Varied emotes, when carried out whereas plummeting, will scale back fall injury. And right this moment, the developer’s CEO, Shams Jorjani, has implored his group to go away the error within the sport.
The freshly found error within the sport went very massive on Reddit yesterday, as individuals realized the ridiculous-looking trick may get them out of a bind once they’d in any other case fall to their deaths. It seems that saluting, providing to shake arms, and even proffering a hug causes characters to go inflexible, and thus lose the ragdoll impact when hitting the bottom. This, in flip, reduces fall injury and permits individuals to stroll away from what ought to have been a lethal plunge.
“Pre-death rigor mortis,” was how one Redditor described the trick. Rigor vitae, we’d recommend.
This, as Redditor Adduly observes, is the other of actuality, the place drunk individuals—way more embracing of their ragdoll when falling—are more likely to maintain fewer accidents when hitting the bottom than those that tense up.
Others identified how a lot this appears to be like just like the Norwegian sport of døds diving (demise diving):
What’s vital is that it really works. And it’s foolish. And for that motive, it deserves to be preserved, with many within the Helldivers 2 group hoping that developer Arrowhead isn’t going to repair it. They ought to, clearly, as a result of it’s their sport not working correctly. But additionally they shouldn’t.
So agrees Shams Jorjani, who took over as CEO of Arrowhead in Could this 12 months. Taking to Twitter (informally X), he quoted unofficial Helldivers account Helldivers Alerts’ report of the bug, including, “Can we please, please preserve this?” tagging in his personal firm.
In response to somebody down-thread, Jorjani insisted that the bug/function wants to stay. “We’ll add inflatable bouncy luggage that deploy from below your arm pits or some shit if we’ve to. c’mon! we’ve the know-how.”
Another person means that as CEO, he ought to simply give the order to maintain the emoting trick, not let the group have a selection. “What a horrible technique to run a gaming studio crammed with good & artistic individuals,” he replied.
This new trick is simply a day previous at this level, so it’ll be fascinating to see if Arrowhead fixes the bug, leaves it in, or leans in by making it a extra deliberate function.
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