Helldivers 2 gamers starving to choose which armor and capabilities they wield in battle may go starving quickly, as Arrowhead Studios president Johan Pilestedt verified today the studio is “refraining from doing transmog,” much to the neighborhood’s shame.
Pilestedt specified transmog was not something the devs were thinking about contributing to Helldivers 2 in an April 12 reply on X (previously Twitter) to a gamer recommending the cosmetic function. Pilestedt fasted to shoot down any concepts of a cosmetic armor system where you change the appearance of your attire however keep its initial capabilities. “Equipment looks various since it has various results,” the CEO described, “Swapping one for the other resembles having an apple that tastes like bacon or the other method around.” The reaction left no space for analysis: Helldivers 2 has definitely no strategies to permit gamers to look how they desire, and the studio means to keep it that method.
You salute in the colors you get benefits from– otherwise. Screenshot by Dot Esports
Pilestedt is describing simply the chest and leg pieces of Helldivers 2Given that helmets and capes have no real stat benefits, the chest pieces end up being vital to your Diver’s look. For some gamers, this implies using enormous pieces of metal that are tough to suit your style sense without costs Warbond Medals freely. And, if you purchase armor from the Super Credit store, you need to spend another couple of hundred Super Credits for a coordinating helmet. A transmog system might in theory repair the concern of shilling out a great deal of currency to finish the appearance, however it seems like that’s not on the docket and even in the dev’s idea procedure.
This viewpoint provided itself to neighborhood protest, unsurprisingly. The most popular actions have actually fortunately been civil. One gamer saw Pilestedt’s argument and concurred however included that there must maybe be a simpler method to see what capabilities each Diver is giving the battle. Another raised how the armor is “never distinct sufficient” to inform what bonus offers a gamer is obtaining from it alone.
Thinking about that, since today, there are just 8 armor advantages you can have throughout numerous lots chest plates, this is a reasonable argument. A number of pieces of armor appearance completely various from one another, yet sport the very same armor and advantages.
It’s not the statistics that matter in this case. “It does not need to make good sense,” stated an especially Democratic Diver. “Let us look how we wish to spread out handled Democracy, it’s not that deep.” While less analytic, it gets to the heart of the concern: Transmog would make the neighborhood pleased, something the Helldivers 2 group has actually been fantastic at doing so far.
Let’s hope Pilestedt and the rest of the Arrowhead Studios group see this reaction and think about including armor cosmetics of some kind in the future.