Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead’s CEO has revealed that it basically seems like close to no one - players or developers - involved with the game has been left happy following the deployment of the Escalation of Freedom update and the backlash that’s followed. If you’re out of the loop, the inclusion of some nerfs to fire damage in the update’s changes well and truly reignited the discourse as to whether Arrowhead’s going in the right direction when it comes to its tweaks. Amid all the debate about limiting meta weapons vs just letting people have fun with them, the game’s recent Steam reviews dropped to “mixed” last week , and currently still sit at that mark.
As part of bunch of responses to players on the game’s Discord server over the weekend, seemingly as part of his ongoing efforts to gather plenty of player feedback from numerous places, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani replied to one player asking how the team working on the game has felt about the response it’s gotten following the update. “I haven't spoken to everyone of course - but many of us are disappointed on a few levels,” Jorjani revealed, “On the one hand the update had a bunch of nice stuff that aren't getting talked about. Maybe deservedly so - as many aren't happy with the latest balance round.
I think more broadly it also has us discussing the path ahead and what we can do to avoid this situation again.” The CEO went on to acknowledge that a lot of players have been “fairly” point.