With Helldivers 2’s server woes lastly straightened out, Arrowhead Studios stated earlier this week that it could now shift its focus to cooler issues, together with—speculatively—playable mechs. These towers of cell mayhem could also be nearer to becoming a member of the fray than we understand, as a video exhibiting one in motion has now leaked onto Reddit.
There is not any query that mechs are coming to Helldivers 2. They have been current within the first sport, and the “Report for Obligation” trailer that dropped in February options one very prominently, captioned with the message “coming quickly after launch.”
But when this leaked video is legit—and it certain appears that strategy to me—the mighty machines could also be coming loads earlier than most of us anticipated.
The leaker, fozzye18, stated he wasn’t chargeable for bringing the mechs into the sport, however simply occurred to hitch a sport with a participant who was “exhibiting us new issues to get pleasure from.” One sharp-eyed redditor famous that you may really see two mechs within the video, the one being utilized by the participant and one other, seen for only a second or two, within the background.
Mechs… get pleasure from from r/Helldivers
They’re apparently various kinds of mechs in motion right here: redditor VegetableWater4099 stated the one within the Helldivers 2 trailer was an EXO 44, whereas the one within the foreground of this leaked video is an EXO 48. The mech within the background is simply too vague to make out, however the salient level is that if the evaluation is right, it means we’ll have entry to multiple sort of mech within the sport. Fozzye18 confirmed that the participant with entry to this candy new {hardware} “spawned in a number of sorts of mech” whereas they have been enjoying.
And it is apparently not simply mechs which might be already practical within the sport. Fozzye18 stated the participant spawning the mechs additionally appeared to have entry to “new weapons like an vitality RPG coming, a meteorite that hits just like the nuke, a bunch of Helldivers you possibly can name in to help you (NPCs) and extra.”
The looks of the massive stompy machines within the stay sport has sparked all kinds of pleasure and no small quantity of hypothesis as to the way it received there within the first place. Some gamers assume these things is already sitting hidden within the code, ready to be rolled out into future updates, a concept that is not less than a bit of bit strengthened by dataminers who declare to have discovered an array of unused strategems within the sport recordsdata, together with one which appears notably related now: “-DropoffCombatWalker.”
A couple of gamers have additionally questioned if this is not the work of a hacker, however of Arrowhead builders, who’re spawning the brand new {hardware} in random video games as a way to concurrently take a look at it in a stay atmosphere and crank up the hype. This appears unlikely, however with the sport grasp instruments Arrowhead has described, which give the developer the power to affect matches straight, it is one thing that might occur.
Whoever it was, it seems like they have been having a great time. “He was simply exhibiting me all of the stuff he was pulling out of the recordsdata he had so I’m uncertain if he was a hacker or a dev however he appeared tremendous excited to point out us,” fozzye18 wrote. “Till my sport crashed from all the pieces being loaded in after which I couldn’t discover his username once more.”
Neither Arrowhead nor its CEO, Johan Pilestedt—a reasonably common presence on Twitter—have commented on the leaked video but, however I’ve reached out for extra data and can replace if I obtain a reply.