The radioactive mud is simply beginning to decide on the fracas that was the Helldivers 2 PSN account-linking debacle, however you may really feel the collective sigh of reduction from gamers and builders alike now that Sony has relented and dropped the requirement. As peace has as soon as once more unfold throughout the land, some Helldivers 2 gamers have urged a cape design commemorating the occasion, emblazoned with a sample based mostly on the large spike in detrimental Steam evaluations that in the end introduced the entire thing to a head.
Arrowhead CEO (and Helldivers 2 artistic director) Johan Pilestedt shared one clip he’d seen a neighborhood member publish, that includes three vertical crimson traces on a blue background – immediately recognizable to anybody within the know as a sudden inflow of detrimental Steam evaluations, identical to the sort the co-op sport obtained this previous week.
“The unintended cape design is fairly cool,” he admitted.
One other design, this one given the complete mockup therapy, encompasses a navy blue background with the “current evaluations” graph, this time together with the redemptive blue spike of optimistic evaluations, which have been coming in because the announcement that Sony had reversed course on the requirement to hyperlink a PSN account to be able to play Helldivers 2 on PC.
Different designs add the Helldivers cranium brand and different components, together with bombs on the top of the crimson bars indicating detrimental evaluations.
It’s genuinely tough to provide you with a comparable occasion up to now 20 years of video games – a breakout hit getting this massive, then going through such an enormous backlash three months after launch, and eventually correcting course and (hopefully) residing fortunately ever after. So whether or not there’s a commemorative cape made for the event or not, it’ll be one we keep in mind for fairly a while.
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