It has been a tough few days for Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead. Seemingly blindsided by Sony’s try to revive the requirement for Steam gamers to hyperlink their sport to a PlayStation Community account (which was suspended at launch as a result of sport’s intensive technical points), the studio has seen its sport topic to a ferocious overview bombing marketing campaign, with its latest overview rating dropping to an “Overwhelmingly Destructive” ranking.
Now although, the disaster is over. Sony has walked again its plans to drive PSN accounts onto Steam gamers, and people detrimental steam evaluations are slowly being flipped to optimistic (although the sport’s latest overview ranking stays at “Principally Destructive”). It appears Arrowhead hasn’t misplaced its sense of humour over the debacle both. Following up a tweet about how “impressed” he was by the willpower of the Helldivers 2 group, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt shared an “unintentional” cape design primarily based on the sport’s latest avalanche of detrimental evaluations.
Additionally, the unintentional cape design is fairly cool. From a group member. pic.twitter.com/7LQZA6RekwMay 6, 2024
Created by a group member, the cape ‘design’ is predicated upon the three crimson traces from Helldivers 2’s latest evaluations graph, which, when remoted from the remainder of the graph towards Steam’s blueish background, appears similar to the form of cape usually worn by Helldivers 2’s fascist cannon fodder. Sharing the cape design, Pilestedt remarked that it was “fairly cool”.
Already in a jubilant mode having satisfied Sony to reverse course, the Helldivers 2 group is of course all for the cape design changing into an actual factor. “Do it Pilestedt, it could be a genius play!” wrote reddit consumer Connect_Atmosphere80 on Reddit, whereas ObsidianFireg commented “I’d put on it could you?” Some group members have even been sharing their very own designed primarily based on the overview graph, reminiscent of this one on reddit, and one other under shared in reply to Pilestedt’s tweet.
It definitely would not be atypical of Arrowhead to include the design into Helldivers 2, though it could be equally comprehensible in the event that they did not wish to encourage the group an excessive amount of. Sony may need fumbled the ball on this case, however fan outrage and entitlement can undoubtedly trigger issues of its personal. Even this occasion noticed some disagreeable negative effects outdoors of Helldivers 2, with gamers overview bombing Arrowhead’s different video games on Steam, together with the unique Helldivers, which haven’t any necessities for a PSN account in any respect.
That stated, the group has been as vociferous its optimistic response to Sony’s change of stance because it was in its preliminary anger, with each Steam reviewers and reddit customers urging gamers to flip their overview scores again to optimistic. “Gotta get the evaluations again! Cmon helldivers!” wrote one Steam reviewer, whereas Reddit consumer MuffinLordGuardian posted “Do not forget to vary your Steam evaluations again to optimistic.” Certainly, if Arrowhead was going to commemorate this weird second in Helldivers 2 historical past, maybe a cape primarily based upon a restored optimistic ranking can be a greater tribute.