Helldivers 2 Game Director Mikael Eriksson has claimed that the game is "starting to break at the seams" thanks to prioritization choices made during development. Eriksson's comments came during a recent Helldivers 2 Q&A, in which he answered many of fans' most prominent questions.
Despite flying out the gate to massive success in early 2024, the live-service elements of Helldivers 2 have been rocky to say the least. Developer Arrowhead Game Studios has focused on adding new content for players to enjoy, but that has come with a price. Helldivers 2 now has enormous performance problems for many players, which the developer claims may take many months to solve. This means that finding a balance between new content and fixing performance is becoming increasingly trickier for Arrowhead.
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Helldivers 2 is 'Paying the Price' For Development Choices
According to Game Director Mikael Eriksson in a YouTube Q&A, "there have been signs here all along... The calls are coming from inside of the house. Now we're paying the price a little bit for this. So that is why we're so focused right now on addressing this and rethinking a little bit about how we're developing the game in this live-service environment." While the Helldivers 2 developer already has promising updates on some areas of optimization, the job is far from done.
"We keep getting away with things that we really shouldn't be getting away with," Eriksson admitted. "And since we do keep getting away with it, we sort of just get used to it, and then we just keep developing the game as we normally do... Like where we are where we're at right now... We've been starting to break at the seams, and it's not just in one place, unfortunately. It's in many different places at once."
Eriksson does take his share of the blame for Helldivers 2's ongoing predicament, saying, "This is, you know, in large part on me, that we have focused too much... On making new things, and just not enough on fixing the issues that we have. That is now something that we're rethinking."
According to Eriksson, Helldivers 2 plans to release updates every two weeks to combat its most significant problems. Given the game still maintains a strong community, there's still tons of potential for Helldivers 2 to have a very bright future. Hoepfully, Arrowhead Game Studios can get it right over the next few months.
Helldivers 2
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 83 /100 Critics Rec: 91%
- Released
- February 8, 2024
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, In-Game Purchases, Users Interact
- Developer(s)
- Arrowhead Game Studios, Nixxes
- Publisher(s)
- Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation Publishing
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- Third-Person Shooter, Extraction Shooter, Action, Science Fiction
