As you is perhaps conscious (we have banged on about it a bit already this week) Helldivers 2 acquired a cowboy-themed Warbond dubbed Borderline Justice yesterday. It has no cowboy hat, as a result of Arrowhead would not reckon that such headgear suits inside the Helldiver uniform restrictions.
Lots of gamers do not agree with that assessement – a few of them have even stormed out of the official gear saloon to choose up a mod that’ll allow them to workforce the brand new armours with a ten-gallon hat. Now, at present on sabbatical Helldivers 2 director and chief inventive officer Johan Pilestedt has provided his personal view on the state of affairs by way of a twitter thread despatched whereas he is at GDC saying issues throughout panels.
Having requested gamers for his or her ideas on the Borderline Justice gear, the dev was naturally rapidly requested by a number of folks the place the Warbond’s cowboy hat is, or whether or not the sport will probably be getting one in some unspecified time in the future down the road.
“I do not know – have not heard the design convo. However I believe it crossed the road of what the Helldivers are. Which I agree with,” he wrote in a single reply, “I’ll ask the workforce subsequent time I pop by the workplace.” One other participant acquired a barely totally different response from Pilestedt: “I agree that it could be superior, however I believe it could break the fantasy of Helldivers…folks do not put on hats on helmets.”
Numerous gamers have been a bit exasperated by that final bit, and have been attempting to remind the dev that the beret from the PH-9 Predators armour in final yr’s Viper Commandos Warbond can be a hat on high of a helmet, and acquired previous these strict uniform regs. I suppose it will depend on your definition of suitably military-ish hats. Do cowboys go to warfare, and is a cavalry hat a special factor?
Regardless, one factor Pilestedt did recommend is perhaps coming within the fiuture duuring that thread sounds fairly cool. “[A] perk that enables folks to take sidearms as major AND wield them akimbo…”, he wrote, “Sadly a bit an excessive amount of work to make the animations, however possibly someday sooner or later?”
Do you waltz round rocking a hat in your helmet in actual life? Which helmet are you referring in your reply? Tell us beneath!
