Helldivers 2 - CEO Speaks on Vehicles, Roadmap & Dev News!

Hey, let's talk Helldivers 2 News & Latest Update! Arrowhead Speaks on Vehicle Stratagem, Illuminate, Roadmap, Crossover, Map Skins, Terminid, Automaton.
0:00 What to Expect
0:22 Vehicles
1:41 Devs Got Their Own Roadmap
2:39 Progression System
4:15 Big News
4:43 Crossovers
5:31 Warhammer Collaboration
6:46 Super Destroyer Pattern
7:42 CCO Thoughts
8:14 Map Skins
9:00 Arrowhead on Balance
9:23 Difficult Challenges
10:27 Warbond Extended to 6 Weeks
11:24 Devs Are Listening to Us
12:07 Philosophy
13:13 Illuminate
13:32 This Is Not Bad At All
14:50 Top Comments
16:16 Make Sure You Do This
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🎮 What's this game? The Devs Wrote "
HELLDIVERS™ 2 is a 3rd person squad-based shooter that sees the elite forces of the Helldivers battling to win an intergalactic struggle to rid the galaxy of the rising alien threats. From a 3rd person perspective, players use a variety of weapons (pistols, machine guns, flamethrowers) and stratagems (turrets, airstrikes, etc.) to shoot and kill the alien threats. Players can also aim down the sights for a more accurate 1st person camera view. Combat is accompanied by frequent sprays of blood and dismemberment as players exterminate the alien forces or players and squad mates are hit by environmental explosions or friendly fire. Enemy encampments and battlefield environments depict bloodstains and dismembered corpses.
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[GlitchUnlimited]

I've seen a a lot of comments on the crossovers. A few of you want it and few of you don't? Anyone want to chime in below this comment and let me know why? I'd love to have a great conversation about it.

[johnnybgoode]

they should do a crossover with the Illuminate

[Mikkeru]

"Vehicles from soon" Press X for Doubt

[PowerPig]

I'm not for a crossover. They should focus on more helldivers content.

[dissolution]

Maybe I'm weird, but I have absolutely zero desire for any cross-over of any kind. Cross-overs nearly always leave a bad taste in my mouth, as a fan of such games as "Magic the Gathering": It's very easy to slide into the depths of absolute tonal and story incoherence when you start incorporating icons from other settings. And it's especially difficult to stop once you've done it once and you realize the money's good. I don't want to be forced to watch as Master Chief, Thanos and Yoshi get into the hellpods next to mine. Leave that to clientside mods and Fortnite, let those of us who enjoy immersion and the Helldivers setting be. Just my two cents.

[El_Sparky]

“Starship Troopers crossover”
Me: … … this game IS Starship Troopers!

Would you like to know more?

[knightofwarc]

I think the DSS needs to give use Planetary Orbital Laser, or Give use more than 3 uses. Love to see something where we can get more samples faster. Helmets need a Night Vision or Thermal ability.

[lordcola-]

I am pretty confident the 3 coming soon are going to be:
-weapon customization
-color theme changing for armors
-the illuminate

[Moodyman]

DSS needs to give a blanket passive buffs to liberation/defending planets when the abilities aren't active. It'll make it more useful when things are on cool down.

[ptriplett]

Regarding skins and crossovers, i think they don't want to be like call of duty add wacky and borderline stupid crossover just for money

[swordsman_messer]

Personally would like to see the ability to change between a Super Destroyer, a Heavy Cruiser/Fast Battleship, a Strike Carrier, or an Assault Ship, with each style having a unique profile and changing how stratagems work.

For example, Fast Carriers and Assault Ships have lower cooldowns for Eagle stratagems, but Carriers track Eagle stratagems individually and with more charges, while Assault Ships have lower cooldowns for Support Weapons and Sentries, as well as 4 mech calls per mission.

Or, the Battleship has longer/wider heavy barrages, the Cruiser has inherent targeting to make all Orbitals track enemies near where the Stratagem ball lands for increased accuracy, while the basic Destroyer is a Jack of all trades.

Edited cause I forgot to add; you can change what kind of ship you got every 4 hours for a good amount of requisition and common/rare samples, with an exchange for Super Uranium samples to cover deficiencies if needed.

[patrickc]

Helldivers 2 is a great and fun game and is unlike any game I've played. That being said, I feel like the DSS killed all the momentum built up over the past few months.

I know they're working on it and it has potential, but I just don't understand how some of these things weren't ironed out. Verdun Simulator on day one, the cooldowns making it combat ineffective for a few days, or little things like shorter cooldowns/free strategems (other than the shield) not being something to balance said cooldowns.

It will work, just frustrating that it launched poorly. I can't wait for us to look back in time at this as a small bump in the road, but we are not there yet.

[mikebuz]

considering the supposed reason they don't let us have 2 mechs is for performance issues, i wouldn't be surprised if there's a couples devs who bang their head against their desks trying to find out how to optimize the vehicle performance.

[PatrickF.Fitzsimmons]

Helldiver players are sitting in desert under a drip tray hoping for rain.

[Medkips]

All i want is a mobility scooter so my chunky bunions in heavy armor can keep up with the boys

[stellataylor]

5:07 Glitch I don’t get what you mean. The article just said they *wouldn’t* do a power rangers crossover. They mentioned it as an example of what would be difficult and different from the game’s atmosphere.

[RalphPL]

These crossovers sound actually stupid. They should invest their time in building their own IP, not going into collaborations.

[MistaBaze]

Been so long I’ve stopped caring about vehicles and now they’ve managed to make me not care about MOs even more. Kinda tired of them messing up then groveling for more time and forgiveness.

[jalontf]

Here's a pretty fun loadout to always be blowing things up...

Heavy explosive resist armor
Dominator/Dagger/Gas Grenades (swap dagger for grenade pistol if fighting Bugs)

-Commando
-EATs
-Machine Gun Sentry
-Rocket Sentry

[pedrocapelari]

It would be cool to see a squad of chaos divers as enemies in a random part of the map, holding supplies or samples as a side objective!