A member of Helldivers 2‘s group may need simply unearthed the weird bug behind a problem that is been main PC people to consider their keyboards could be defective. Yup, should you’ve ever had your helldiver immediately gradual from a dash to a jog with out you doing something, it seems they might properly simply be feeling the results of another person’s stim.
Whereas some gamers have been busy investigating this, they have been taking day out from the newest Main Order, which duties people with following up their valiant efforts in saving these poor Tremendous Earth youngsters by, uh, killing some child Terminids. Come on, cease feeling conflicted and get em’ in your sights.
The one who appears to be like as if they’ve blown this case broad open claims to have “labored within the video games business for 20+ years” and did it simply as an apart on the finish of a prolonged publish on the Helldivers 2 subreddit outlining why they’ve discovered the sport’s lifespan to this point fairly fascinating when it comes to the problems which have cropped up.
“I will depart one closing bug with you that I have never heard anybody name out,” they wrote, “Go right into a recreation with a buddy, injure your self so you may have like 1 / 4 well being. Have your buddy begin to dash after which use a stim. Yup, should you stim whereas anybody is sprinting it’ll cease them from sprinting. Because of this you retain slowing down whereas sprinting randomly.”
Whereas trusting somebody not engaged on the sport to have precisely unearthed the precise motive behind one thing that is beforehand had legions of hardcores pondering their keyboards could be guilty may look like an extended shot, some gamers have shortly examined it out and offered a little bit of proof to again up the poster’s declare.
“Each gamers on PC, didn’t decelerate a participant sprinting with controller, however did gradual them down once they switched to mouse and keyboard,” person MikeAmelung defined relating to the clip above, which positively appears to be like wish to confirms the idea that folk in your squad injecting stims is what causes the animation to momentarily change to a light-weight jog, then instantly be restored to the dash the participant is pushing the enter for.
Whereas some have theorised that elements like the gap between you and the participant injecting the stim and whether or not you are serving as a bunch may additionally play into whether or not you are affected, this positively appears to be like like one thing Arrowhead’ll wish to add to its record of issues to look into.
Additionally, in case you missed it, the studio’s CEO has just lately outlined that it is go no plans to create a devoted co-op story mode for Helldivers 2, since that’d be akin to creating an entire new recreation when it comes to effort required.