As you may be conscious (we have banged on about it a bit already this week) Helldivers 2 obtained a cowboy-themed Warbond dubbed Borderline Justice yesterday. It has no cowboy hat, as a result of Arrowhead would not reckon that such headgear suits throughout the Helldiver uniform restrictions.
A number of gamers do not agree with that assessement – a few of them have even stormed out of the official gear saloon to choose up a mod that’ll allow them to staff the brand new armours with a ten-gallon hat. Now, at present on sabbatical Helldivers 2 director and chief artistic officer Johan Pilestedt has provided his personal view on the state of affairs through a twitter thread despatched whereas he is at GDC saying issues throughout panels.
Having requested gamers for his or her ideas on the Borderline Justice gear, the dev was naturally shortly requested by a number of individuals the place the Warbond’s cowboy hat is, or whether or not the sport can be getting one sooner or later down the road.
“I do not know – have not heard the design convo. However I feel it crossed the road of what the Helldivers are. Which I agree with,” he wrote in a single reply, “I’ll ask the staff subsequent time I pop by the workplace.” One other participant obtained a barely completely different response from Pilestedt: “I agree that it will be superior, however I feel it will break the fantasy of Helldivers…individuals do not put on hats on helmets.”
Quite a few gamers have been a bit exasperated by that final bit, and have been making an attempt to remind the dev that the beret from the PH-9 Predators armour in final 12 months’s Viper Commandos Warbond can also be a hat on high of a helmet, and obtained previous these strict uniform regs. I suppose it is dependent upon your definition of suitably military-ish hats. Do cowboys go to conflict, and is a cavalry hat a special factor?
Regardless, one factor Pilestedt did counsel may be coming within the fiuture duuring that thread sounds fairly cool. “[A] perk that permits individuals to take sidearms as main AND wield them akimbo…”, he wrote, “Sadly a bit an excessive amount of work to make the animations, however possibly someday sooner or later?”
Do you waltz round rocking a hat in your helmet in actual life? Which helmet are you referring in your reply? Tell us under!
