Whereas there’s nonetheless very a lot an MO to be getting on with in Helldivers 2 – in reality, the newest one is ready to finish in simply over an hour’s time as of writing – one discovery has been attracting plenty of consideration locally over the previous day or so. It is the lifesaving mid-fall emote, and even Arrowhead’s CEO thinks it is cool.
As we reported yesterday, whereas the power to emote whereas flying via the air has been a recognized factor within the sport for a number of months, the truth that making your diver go inflexible by adopting a pose like doing a salute or providing a hug can seemigly lower the quantity of fall harm you are taking by a big quantity wasn’t.
Naturally, as a result of that is such a humorous strategy to keep away from having your ragdolling soldier die after they splat again onto the floor, gamers on Reddit have urged Arrowhead to not patch it out of the sport in a future replace, even whether it is technically an instance of a system not doing what it ought to.
The excellent news for many who’ve been stressing about dropping the power to outlive plummeting from obscene heights simply by displaying your patriotic fervour as you do is that Arrowhead’s CEO himself is in your facet on this debate. “Can we please, please maintain this?”, Shams Jorjani has requested of the studio’s builders in a tweet responding to a clip of the phenomenon in motion.
“We’ll add inflatable bouncy luggage that deploy from underneath your arm pits or some s**t if we have now to,” he added in a reply, “C’mon! We’ve got the expertise – the place there is a will there is a approach!”
Another person within the replies requested Jorjani whether or not, because the bigwig presently accountable for the studio, that is one thing he might technically simply inform the builders to do and never give them a alternative within the matter. Being man, he merely answered: “What a horrible strategy to run a gaming studio full of good & inventive individuals.”
The CEO additionally took the oppotunity to jokingly inform one other participant chjeekily utilizing this as an opportinity to ask for the power to make use of each of the mechs presently within the sport directly – which appears a bit like overkill – that their request is a surefire strategy to probably persuade the studio to nerf the mechs as an alternative as a gag.
Be sure to remain tuned for updates on what’s taking place in Helldivers Galactic Conflict – particularly because it seems very very similar to Tremendous Earth is on observe to finish the present step in incomes that highly effective interplanetary battle station.