“Weapons Should Be Powerful” Helldivers 2 CCO Takes the Players’ Side

The players are celebrating Pilestedt’s (former Arrowhead CEO, now CCO) return to social media. He gave an impromptu Q&A on Discord while waiting to board the plane from Gamescom on August 22. Among other things, the CCO joked about the Flamethrower and agreed with Helldivers 2 players that the weapons should be more powerful.

The CCO Surprised the Helldivers With a Statement About the Flamethrower

In a lengthy Q&A, the CCO addressed many issues, starting with the despised nerf to the fan-favorite Flamethrower. As a reminder, Pilestedt was on vacation at the time of the unfortunate update. Now, the CCO stated: “I read about it on Facebook when at a family dinner during vacation. I understand what it aimed to do, but it was not iterated upon enough and the vfx looks like TF1”.

The players found the comparison to TF1 hilarious, but disturbingly accurate. To those of you too young to remember, TF1, or Team Fortress, was a FPS released back in 1999. Most players who do remember the game found it funny that Pilestedt didn’t even compare the Helldivers 2 flamethrower to the one in the second installment of TF, but the first.

Of course, many players pointed out they expected the CCO to have approved the changes, so they were left confused as to who made decisions. Suikanen offered a possible explanation. They noted: “Sweden is known for its political culture of hashing things out, prolonged discussion until a consensus is reached. Jorjani’s and Pilestedt’s numerous comments on how they will “discuss X internally” kinda hints that this is also part of Arrowhead’s culture, for better or worse”.

Powerful Weapons Should Be the Main Attraction in Helldivers 2

The CCO also mentioned the now-infamous Helldivers 2 box that promised the players powerful weapons. The quote from the box was actually used a lot by players to point out the devs were missing the point of the game with the recent update.

Surprisingly, Pilestedt completely agreed with them. He said: “Yeah, agree – weapons should feel powerful – as it says on the box”. Players truly appreciated this gesture and called it a bold move, as some might interpret the statement as an insult to AH devs.

Other players just expressed their wishes for a better future for Helldivers 2. NorthInium noted: “I mean I am all for the grunt fantasy. I don’t mind dying and having to fight against overwhelming odds. Just give me some good weapons and good strategems. And, let me use the terrain to create advantages. Boom, the game would at least for me be fun again”.

We can only assume that there is a miscommunication issue in Arrowhead, but they are surely aware of it, especially after recent updates. Let’s hope they manage to deal with it and give the players what they want. Hopefully, the devs will deliver some more buffs soon. In the meantime, hang in there, if the game is starting to feel overwhelming, maybe take a break, as no one should go through burnout. The community will be more than happy to welcome you back with buffed weapons.