Helldivers 2 has been in a little bit of a quiet interval these days, 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out stuff at a little bit of a slower cadence, some gamers have been getting a bit uninterested in the identical outdated factor, with an unlucky milestone the sport’s hit PC playerbase-wise having prompted some debate as as to whether issues is likely to be getting a bit too static.
Whereas the change in how Arrowhead’s approached fixing points and deploying new content material within the recreation received quite a lot of preliminary help, the outcomes have been a bit blended in apply, with some gear and upgrades specifically – the spear’s a giant instance – seeing a gradual stream of issues afflict them, even after beforehand recieving fixes. Arrowhead continues to work arduous to whack issues as they crop up, however you’ll be able to type of perceive the frustration.
As this has been occurring, the sport’s 24-hour participant quantity peak on Steam, in line with SteamDB (thanks, Forbes), sits at 45,315, which is simply 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 definitely is not that irregular – the sport’s participant numbers on the platform have been step by step coming down since that time, having final hit the 200,000 mark in late April.
This does not essentially imply Arrowhead’s achieved something incorrect, even when the entire discourse attributable to Sony close to account linking most likely did not assist issues. In all probability, quite a lot of it is merely right down to the character of individuals’s taking part in habits – positive, some of us will follow one recreation long-term no matter what’s occurring, however most individuals, at the very least to a level, hop from factor to factor pretty usually, be these issues new releases, older video games they wish 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 difficulty 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 is likely to be well worth the studio switching this up a bit in an effort to try to maintain them extra engaged.
In response a put up on the topic on the sport’s subreddit, you may discover about a fair 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 isn’t any consensus as to what this new content material needs to be if massive stuff like factions are out of the query, with all the things from new enemy and mission sorts to planets with contemporary biomes having made lists.
What are you most eager to see Arrowhead do close to Helldivers 2 for the time being? Is there something that you just’re ready for earlier than you dive again in when you’ve put it down in previous few months? Tell us beneath!
