Arrowhead Recreation Studios has saved up years price of concepts for its breakout sci-fi shooter Helldivers 2, which isn’t any shock contemplating how fashionable the co-op comedy fest nonetheless is, however even in a recreation that is as topic to alter and mutable to fan suggestions as this one, the devs apparently “will not relaxation” till divers can unfold democracy by way of a chainsword.
It was a large enough deal when the developer lastly added melee weapons to the sport – swords, spears, pseudo-lightsabers included – however the studio’s now ripping and tearing a web page from the nice previous traditional shooter playbook.
Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani hopped onto the official Helldivers 2 Discord to channel the responsibility of a chivalrous galactic knight and vow that “we can’t relaxation till some type of chainsword is within the recreation – you realize, for the elegant kills.” Nothing might be as elegant as slashing by way of an Automaton whereas bits of shrapnel and swimming pools of oil splutter out, proper?
Jorjani additionally lately hoped {that a} potential Helldivers 3 is “years away,” as a result of all the workforce is solely targeted on ensuring Helldivers 2 can “run for a very long time.” The hefty updates we have been getting ought to definitely go a protracted approach to guaranteeing that, as ought to the upcoming Xbox port, which is coincidentally dropping on the identical day as fellow chaingun-filled, multiplatform port Gears of Warfare: Reloaded.
Both manner, so long as Helldivers 2 retains a wholesome reinforcement of gamers, new chainswords are an inevitability.