Arrowhead is engaged on its follow-up to Helldivers 2, because the studio’s boss asks gamers to deliver their strategies to the desk.
With the surprising success of Helldivers 2, the subsequent sport from developer Arrowhead has to beat the pressures of heightened expectation.
The co-op shooter’s reputation could have wobbled because it launched final 12 months, with some followers bemoaning latest updates, however it’s nonetheless one of many massive success tales of 2024 – particularly contemplating how so few folks had even heard of the primary sport.
If Helldivers 2 had the aspect of shock on its aspect, Arrowhead’s subsequent sport has a harder street in residing as much as the added anticipation. While the previous hasn’t even been out a 12 months, the studio’s inventive director, Johan Pilestedt, has already confirmed plans are afoot for the staff’s subsequent challenge.
In a post on X forward of New Year’s Day, Pilestedt requested gamers for his or her ‘expectations and wishes’ for the studio’s subsequent sport. ‘I’m engaged on the excessive idea, however I’d love to listen to your hypothesis,’ he added.
While he stopped wanting revealing any particulars concerning the idea, Pilestedt did rule out a number of strategies that have been beforehand pitched throughout the studio. After one fan recommended a ‘Star Fox-style sport’, the Arrowhead boss responded by sharing previous idea artwork for an area fight title, named Eagles Of Democracy, that the studio ‘needed to make’.
‘We made a prototype in Unreal,’ he added. ‘It would principally attempt to seize Star Fox. So arcade… however nonetheless simulated.’
In a really particular request, one fan referred to as for a remake of 1990 twin-stick shooter Smash TV. Bizarrely, Pilestedt revealed they’d ‘made an idea for this a very long time in the past’, the place it’s described as a ‘top-down reimagining of the traditional arcade sport’.
As you may anticipate, others merely requested Helldivers 3 or a single participant spin-off, however there was no phrase on if this subsequent challenge can be a continuation of the sequence.
Helldivers started as a top-down shooter earlier than it jumped to third-person within the sequel, so it’s potential a possible follow-up might shift perspective, or course, in some capability. With the success of the sequel, nonetheless, the studio may be hesitant to shake-up the successful method an excessive amount of.
Whatever Arrowhead is engaged on, we in all probability gained’t see something from the challenge for a couple of years but – particularly if the studio continues to assist Helldivers 2 over the approaching years.
Last month, Arrowhead launched a Killzone crossover bundle in Helldivers 2, which included new weapons, armour units, and numerous premium cosmetics.
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