Whereas Helldivers 2 artistic director Johan Pilestedt has introduced that he can be taking a sabbatical from engaged on the sport, Arrowhead Recreation Studios itself desires to reassure followers that it could actually preserve the title alive in the meanwhile.
On the official Helldivers 2 Discord channel, studio CEO Shams Jorjani needed to reassure followers of the sport by saying that improvement on the title will proceed “so long as individuals play”. He additionally mentioned that work on the sport gained’t cease even when it has to go on for 10 extra years.
“So long as individuals play, pay and we are able to construct a enterprise case round it, we’ll assist it to hell and again,” mentioned Jorjani, in keeping with GamesRadar. “If we are able to preserve it going for 10 years we’ll.”
Jorjani went on to speak about Pilestedt’s break from improvement, and the way it gained’t do a lot to have an effect on the tempo of improvement on Helldivers 2 transferring ahead, for the reason that title has been headed up by Mikael Eriksson for the previous couple of years.
“The lead for the sport is Mikael Eriksson and has been for the previous couple of years,” defined Jorjani. “Johan’s function as a senior artistic is to assist all our initiatives. So he’ll completely nonetheless be concerned – in the identical approach he’s been the previous yr – provides enter on high-level plans and collaborates with designers on some stuff.” As Jorjani states, “The overwhelming majority of Helldivers is a crew effort – it’s not one Jesus determine.”
Whereas Pilestedt was essential in key artistic areas of Helldivers and its sequel, Jorjani mentioned that there have been many others on the studio that helped in getting the sport developed.
The title doesn’t appear to be in any hazard of dropping gamers, nevertheless. The sport wrapped up its first calendar yr by getting greater than 15 million gamers. Relating to arduous gross sales information, it had offered 12 million copies again in Might 2024.
Pilestedt introduced his sabbatical earlier this week, stating that he wanted the break after having labored on the Helldivers franchise nearly continuous since 2013.
“11 years of working “across the clock” on the identical IP has made me put aside household, pals and my beautiful spouse… and myself,” posted Pilestedt when he introduced his sabbatical. “I’m going to take a while now to redeem what was misplaced from all of people who supported me for over a decade.”
Pilestedt’s sabbatical may contain a pleasant trip, however he nearly instantly kicked it off by internet hosting a sport jam together with his pals from the studio. Whereas the sport itself didn’t prove too nice, Pilestedt did point out that the crew loved it, and that typically the journey itself is the vacation spot.
Relating to Helldivers 2 itself, the title just lately bought an replace that introduced fixes for crashes associated to Illuminate missions. This features a repair for a crash associated to Illuminate ships despawning, in addition to jittering from gamers attempting to make use of ADS with a scoped weapon.
Helldivers 2 is accessible on PC and PS5. For extra particulars on the title, take a look at our evaluate from again when it first got here out.