With Helldivers 2’s server woes lastly straightened out, Arrowhead Studios stated earlier this week that it will possibly now shift its focus to cooler issues, together with—speculatively—playable mechs. These towers of cellular mayhem could also be nearer to becoming a member of the fray than we notice, as a video displaying one in motion has now leaked onto Reddit.
There is no query that mechs are coming to Helldivers 2. They had been current within the first sport, and the “Report for Responsibility” 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 positive appears that option to me—the mighty machines could also be coming so much ahead of most of us anticipated.
The leaker, fozzye18, stated he wasn’t chargeable for bringing the mechs into the sport, however simply occurred to affix a sport with a participant who was “displaying us new issues to get pleasure from.” One sharp-eyed redditor famous that you could truly 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 appropriate, it means we’ll have entry to multiple form of mech within the sport. Fozzye18 confirmed that the participant with entry to this candy new {hardware} “spawned in a number of varieties of mech” whereas they had been enjoying.
And it is apparently not simply mechs which are already practical within the sport. Fozzye18 stated the participant spawning the mechs additionally appeared to have entry to “new weapons like an power RPG coming, a meteorite that hits just like the nuke, a gaggle of Helldivers you’ll be able to name in to assist you (NPCs) and extra.”
The looks of the massive stompy machines within the reside sport has sparked all types of pleasure and no small quantity of hypothesis as to the way it received there within the first place. Some gamers suppose these things is already sitting hidden within the code, ready to be rolled out into future updates, a principle that is not less than somewhat bit bolstered by dataminers who declare to have discovered an array of unused strategems within the sport information, together with one which appears notably related now: “-DropoffCombatWalker.”
A number of gamers have additionally puzzled 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 reside atmosphere and crank up the hype. This appears unlikely, however with the sport grasp instruments Arrowhead has described, which give the developer the flexibility to affect matches immediately, it is one thing that would occur.
Whoever it was, it seems like they had been having a great time. “He was simply displaying me all of the stuff he was pulling out of the information 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 every little thing being loaded in after which I couldn’t discover his username once more.”
Neither Arrowhead nor its CEO, Johan Pilestedt—a fairly common presence on Twitter—have commented on the leaked video but, however I’ve reached out for extra info and can replace if I obtain a reply.