Helldivers 2 - You won’t believe this actually happened!

[@brennr8792]

"fantasy first" constant changes for "realism" yah okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkay Johan

[@DirtyDanRichards]

His words have aged like milk.

[@convergence1point]

@DirtyDanRichards *opens the expired carton and pours out curdled milk chunks* yup, 100% Cant wait for all the commentators to review this dumpster fire now after the “escalation of failure”

[@Lxx00Jxx00]

kudos for sony and for arrowhead for being able to understand and invest in a project

[@Rayn-117]

a game for no one is a game for no one and arrowhead keeps nerfing things based off popularity. once the people who love the game and are begging for a better direction leave, the glazers will leave too since they just like doing what is popular. then that last 7% of the remaining players will also disappear

[@MoudYoussef]

I wish all good luck and fortune to Johan, Arrowhead and all game developers who are working with fundamentals, respect, and a sense of responsibility towards themselves, their work and their fans. I wish Helldivers becomes the greatest game ever simply because of all the important points Pilestedt spoke about and how much these points do make a great game/hobby. Finally Helldivers, Salute.

[@nubbyfresh5623]

FOR SUPER-EARTH!

[@goblincavefullfrontal6943]

Well, it turns out, a game for no one is a game for no one

[@DoctorMacArthur]

A game balanced by Alexus is a game for no one.

[@MrJohannson]

The dude plays on Trivial. And probably on a dev build only to boot.

[@lukeludwig1055]

Man balances based on lvl 3 difficulty and forgets that it goes to 9 🤣

[@fel12145]

Well...This really aged poorly

[@jimcarrey2866]

This industry needs more people like this guy and a little bit less of suits

[@professormilly2021]

If I were Sony I would've tried my hardest to make him the chief creator or whatever of the entire live service department of PlayStation.

[@destebangm11216]

Yeah specially now that naughty dog's game got completeky caccelled and bungie is not doing that good right now

[@tranvinhnhat1289]

@@destebangm11216you mean naught dogs live service game

[@destebangm11216]

@@tranvinhnhat1289 yew

[@destebangm11216]

@@tranvinhnhat1289 yes

[@lukeludwig1055]

Lol, the head of sony is evil, they’re probably questioning how to get rid of this man. Hes too honest and genuine and not money hungry enough to be at sony

[@lukeludwig1055]

They forget that a game for no one is still a game for no one. Game is heading towards irrelevancy.

[@lukeludwig1055]

After watching this, it seems Johan is a genuine and honest guy, with a good vision for the game. It seems that there is a separation between him and what the other devs are doing. This is made exceptionally obvious when the balance team (Alexus) completely destroys the “fantasy” of a certain playstyle because too many people are choosing that playstyle.

[@lukeludwig1055]

So, Still holding out a smidgen amount of hope that he will be able to turn helldivers 2 around

[@ShahabSheikhzadeh]

I'm amazed they did a whole talk and did not address this issue. And to say nothing of the person with their question at the very end saying the 500 kg bomb is 'so much fun' without being honest about how broken it is. Insane that this is being praised.

[@amaterasueternal]

This is painful to read just a few months later, the game is on the brink of irrelevancy.

[@cpttetris5645]

I get it that he wanted to focus on the positive sides, but it's kind of disingenuous to say that they are doing a live-service game right, when HD2 playercount has dropped from 200k to 30k-40k in a single month. Where have the players gone?

[@eskeladder7751]

Exactly, Ive been holding on for the better part of the last month but even then i am getting absolutely tired of nothing good happening. Cant get any of my friends to play this game anymore as well. It was just 1 month ago that servers were still full with 400k players and now its almost a ghost town

[@mckenleymason1212]

There's over 100k playing concurrently if you include PS5 players and PC players.

[@artvandalleigh7894]

Player counts are rising, albeit slowly, following the PSN debacle. I don't think he's "focusing on the positive side" for any reason besides the fact that this isn't marketing; this is a presentation at a game developers conference.

[@ShahabSheikhzadeh]

The modern version of the commercial 'Where's the beef?' Instead, it's 'Where's the fun?'

[@TookyG]

This dude has absolutely no clue about why Helldivers 2 was as popular as it was. No clue. Not a single person thought they were buying some "realistic" game.

[@Alias03]

After watching that whole presentation and that's the conclusion you came to im convinced you have no idea what Helldivers is.

[@Kanielwhiskey]

Truly a good take to making their game they have. However it does seem from the community member standpoint that the communication with developers is insufficient at times. Perhaps there should be some dev-blogs, lives and development videos coming from the team for the community to feel that devs are present and listening constantly not leaving players behind. The problem is more prevalent now as the community does a second outcry and doesnt understand the motives behind some changes or decisions

[@miltonr87]

Keep working ❤

[@PorcoWest]

comment for the algo gods and to say what a great talk.

[@NordicGame]

Thanks!!

[@Kara_Pabuc]

Well, there's a huge toxic community festered on KZbin about this game unfortunately. So called content creators talks all the stupid shit about the game and this effects peoples perception. You can see this on this video's comments. These moronic content creators play the game at the hardest difficulty and then complain everything about the game, but it's clear as day that you need to fail at those difficulties. They are not meant to be completed. You're the bad guy and an unimportant bad guy. Not a hero. If this doesn't appeal to you, maybe do not play the game, eh.

[@xana3961]

Why would you make a game where the goal for every player is to lose? Why go through the effort of programming something that you don't want people to engage with?

[@onerimeuse]

​@@xana3961because winning in this game is "mission complete". Not "surviving and extracting". Thst should be clear by the order and value of things in the win screen. But then, it should also be clear thst the intro is satire, the back of the box shoes a stratagem as the "over powered weapon", and that brainwashed highschoolers with 20 minutes of training aren't Spartans, they're cannon fodder. And yet, despite that, your team drill doesn't get it. The game is balanced around 6. 6 gives you 100% or everything after a mission. Everything after that is meant as alternative and progressively more difficult missions. Hell, difficulty 7 is very clearly named "suicide mission". But hey, again with the critical thinking stuff 😏