Helldivers

was a journalist, we would cite, they were, you know, back 15 years ago or whatever they were, they were, you know, a pretty great website.

But anyway, they write, well, I'll get into what they wrote, but basically they gave an interview with Johan Pylestet, who is the chief operating officer of, or chief creative officer, I guess, or rather of Arrowhead, the creators of Helldivers.

Helldivers of course came out, what, two, it's like two and a half years ago now.

which is pretty interesting.

And he got to interview him about the potential of a hell divers three and what they're doing and prototyping a new game and all the rest.

And I just thought we would go over a little bit of this as I thought it was fairly interesting.

They write a few things and then they say, quote, according to Pilstead, 95% of the studio is focused on Helldivers 2 with a small team now prototyping Arrowhead's next game.

They currently have around 150 people on the books and they haven't really gotten much bigger since they launched Helldivers 2, which I think is smart because I don't think they need to overshoot their skis.

Let's talk about some live service stuff.

Arrowhead would not do Helldivers 2 unless it was really different, John.

Speaking with Rock Paper Shotgun, the chief creative officer, Johan Pielstad, explained that they would only make a third game if it's very different from the current one or if players stopped showing up.

They explained that basically these two games would be competing with each other's time, so they wouldn't do a third game unless it really made sense and it was like dramatically different.

I mean, I guess it's, it's one way or the other, I guess it's good for the, top executives because they can either write down your entire studio by canceling it or they just collect money off of you working on this live service forever.

I feel like if the entire industry, it's kind of a shame because if the entire industry were live service, it would probably make the most money that's ever made before, but then it would also be the most stagnant it's ever been.

Well, I think in the context of this game, you remember Helldivers 1 to 2.

Those are very different games.

Because I quit earlier.

And I've got the little Helldivers thing in the channel.

Why the fuck is it saying...

I stopped playing that over an hour ago.

dare you?

Well, I mean, I got why you didn't come to Xbox and PlayStation games, but it's like, why not release them on PC? You did quite well releasing them on PC.

I mean, did you remember the shitstorm that landed with Helldivers 2? With that? You need a PlayStation account to fucking use

it? Well, they didn't initially.

But I'll say that for PlayStation as well.

I think it made absolute sense for Sony to bring Helldivers 2 over to Xbox.

After it had already been on PS5 and PC.

That game made sense for the Xbox platform.

I love that mode so much.

The coalition really struck gold with that.

It's a great idea, like fusing Helldivers to style submissions and extraction with just classic Horde gameplay.

Very good.

Which is diabolical.

It's like the opposite that happened to Helldivers.

That went from like a 130 gig download to like a...

Oh yeah, that was dropped to nothing.

And that's how I learned

to play Helldivers.

Yeah.

I should probably play hell divers.

Some other shit.

Cyberpunk, Ark Raiders, Call of Duty, Dead Space, Helldivers.

Just so much stuff.

So much stuff.

list.

Okay.

Helldivers anti-cheat changes.

Yeah.

I recall there being some crazy battles and, you know, a lot of the Illuminate forces have been upgraded severely.

And from what I've seen on a lot of Helmet Camp footage, there was a lot of new units that, you know, like different brigades and different divisions of the Illuminate that the Helldivers were dealing with over the last few weeks.

And things were not...

It wasn't easy.

the the illuminant with the stingrays before they do their strafing rum there's a glow on the ground to see the target path and i'd imagine it's to let observers know i mean the vote lists are kind of just mindless zombies that just bum rush you know humans on the ground whether they're c4 helldivers but the observers that go around like that are you know kind of leading the charge on the battlefield can kind of take note of the targets that the the stingrays are you know after and it lets the units know like hey maybe get out of the way so there's like a minimum friendly fire like there's they keep their friendly fire incidents to a minimum to a certain degree Yeah,

I see a lot less friendly fire on the Illuminate front on their side.

To be fair, a lot of the Helldivers are killing a lot of the Illuminate before they get close.

But just the simple fact, there should be some type of indication for the Helldivers that there is some type of strike coming in, whether it be like an orbital strike, eagle strike, eagle gas, something along those lines.