It is defintely not Christmas, however Christmas in Helldivers 2 has principally simply been cancelled. Arrowhead’s advising that you just chorus from lobbing any snowballs at your mates till additional discover, till it figures out find out how to repair your favourite pastime from inadvertently inflicting crashes.
That is proper, you is perhaps secure to make use of your arc weapons once more with out fearing any sudden freezes, due to the sport’s newest patch stopping that from being a factor, however now you have to keep away from attempting to cowl somebody in a suspicious patch of yellow snow you’ve got discovered mid-op and are somewhow okay with selecting up. To be honest, you are now imagined to be ensuring these pesky bots get pushed again now anyway, so you’ve got obtained a lot to maintain you occupied.
Over within the official Helldivers 2 Discord server, Arrowhead neighborhood supervisor Baskinator introduced this miserable information, declaring: “Helldivers, keep away from having snowball fights”. Don’t be concerned although, this is not some sort of punishment for failing a serious order or, er, being a bit too reticent to cease killing Terminids and really take care of the galaxy’s present largest menace.
“We’re conscious of a crash attributable to selecting up and throwing snowballs,” the developer defined, “We hope to have this fastened within the close to future, however till then, we advise in opposition to snowball throwing”. So, there you go, if you wish to ensure you do not get booted out, cease attempting to take folks’s heads off each time you drop onto a frigid planet.
Over on the sport’s subreddit, folks defintely aren’t already firting with disobeying this instruction, which is, you already know, for their very own good, provided that crashes are naturally one thing that all of us moan about at any time when they crop up.
Look, possibly we simply want a brand new interest to focus on within the interim. Like, er, a mid-mission knitting break, or a recreation of I spy – even when the reply will in all probability all the time be ‘an automaton coming to kill us’. Or, how about arising with knock-knock jokes whilst you’re pinned down in cowl? Yeah, you are proper none of these are as enjoyable as snowball fights, however I’ve tried, for Pete’s sake.
Additionally, if you happen to’ve been having points with loadouts not working correctly, it seems like Arrowhead’s investgating these too, in response to CEO Johan Pilestedt, in order that’s good.
Given how rapidly the studio’s managed to repair plenty of Helldivers 2’s points thus far, hopefully these ones will not afflict you for an excessive amount of longer, so you may carry on plugging away within the Galactic Warfare.