Helldivers 2 has been in a little bit of a quiet interval recently, 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 previous factor, with an unlucky milestone the sport’s hit PC playerbase-wise having prompted some debate as as to whether issues may be getting a bit too static.
Whereas the change in how Arrowhead’s approached fixing points and deploying new content material within the recreation obtained lots of preliminary help, the outcomes have been a bit blended in follow, with some gear and upgrades particularly – the spear’s a giant instance – seeing a gradual stream of issues afflict them, even after beforehand recieving fixes. Arrowhead continues to work onerous to whack issues as they crop up, however you possibly can sort 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 just 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 positively is not that irregular – the sport’s participant numbers on the platform have been regularly coming down since that time, having final hit the 200,000 mark in late April.
This does not essentially imply Arrowhead’s completed something incorrect, even when the complete discourse brought on by Sony close to account linking most likely did not assist issues. In all probability, lots of it is merely right down to the character of individuals’s taking part in habits – positive, some people will stick to one recreation long-term no matter what’s occurring, however most individuals, no less than to a level, hop from factor to factor pretty recurrently, be these issues new releases, older video games they need to replay, or current 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 huge modifications because the final spherical of balancing tweaks and the Viper Commandos warbond has some gamers questioning whether or not it may be well worth the studio switching this up a bit in an effort to try to preserve them extra engaged.
In response a put up on the topic on the sport’s subreddit, you may discover about a good cut up between people who reckon sticking with the fixes to assist set up a extra steady base for future additions remains to be the important thing, and others who reckon an injection of content material must arrive quickly. Naturally, there is no consensus as to what this new content material needs to be if huge stuff like factions are out of the query, with every little thing 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 in the meanwhile? Is there something that you simply’re ready for earlier than you dive again in should you’ve put it down in previous few months? Tell us beneath!