Helldivers 2 director Pilestedt pops up mid-sabbatical to reveal that dropping onto planets is more terrifying than any of us realised, because of a missing animation

"Wait, I didn't person to clasp my enactment until I landed?"

It's not often Helldivers 2's manager pops up connected Reddit to dispense a spot of absorbing penetration astatine the moment, since he's inactive connected sabbatical from developer Arrowhead. However, Johan Pilestedt's conscionable made a little cameo connected Reddit to uncover the crushed which a clump of the game's helmets boast akin circles connected their backs.

I'm not saying this is simply a motion folks person excessively overmuch clip to spell disconnected connected weird tangents present that the Meridian Singlularity's crushed to a halt and truthful isn't a nonstop menace to Super Earth, but it mightiness be. Ah well, there's new worldly coming soon.

Pilestedt was summoned by a subordinate connected the game's subreddit asking the precise important question I alluded to above, adjacent providing screenshot grounds of these mysterious ellipse designs connected a clump of encephalon buckets successful their collection.

The crushed they exist, arsenic it turns out, is the tiny substance of your diver being capable to breathe. Providing an oxygen proviso to your worker during planetfall - erstwhile they hop successful their pod and descend into conflict - was the volition the devs had erstwhile they added these circles.

"When the Helldiver emerges from the Hellpod a connecting hose was expected to disconnect to explicate it, but we didn't person clip to marque the animation for it," the manager explained. So, speechmaking betwixt the lines, since that connecting hose animation didn't marque it, there's thing in-game really connecting your diver's helmet to their pod's aerial supply, meaning they indispensable conscionable beryllium holding their breath.

Damn, arsenic if conscionable hurtling done orbit towards a hostile satellite littered with baddies and hazards that'd emotion to rip you to shreds wasn't pant-shittingly scary connected its own. These mediocre fascist Super Earth soldiers, you astir consciousness atrocious for 'em.

Anyway, folks people past asked if the devs person clip to adhd this animation successful present the game's out, starring Pilestedt to respond: "Actually determination is truthful overmuch the squad is moving on. I deliberation we person little clip than earlier release, since we present privation to merchandise large updates ever truthful often to support the crippled fresh!"

I conjecture everyone's conscionable gonna person to support doing lung capableness exercises until Arrowhead tin spare a minute. Had you ever wondered astir those helmet details? Let america cognize below!