Helldivers 2’s programs aren’t excellent—and whereas I’ve not had this drawback usually myself, sufficient gamers have complained about receiving unjust boots from their video games that there may be room for enchancment.
In case you are unaware, the sport’s present system for coping with drawback gamers is to offer the host unilateral management over who stays and who will get despatched to their nearest democratic officer for re-education. Which has its ups and downs.
Relating to positives, this method lets people rapidly and effectively cope with troublemakers—the sluggish strategy of a vote kick can take some time, throughout which a team-killing menace might set your entire crew on the backfoot, or lock in an extraction earlier than your squad’s able to depart.
On the damaging aspect, this method lets draconic dictators punt people who do not deserve it, moments earlier than extraction. It additionally lets the host play choose, jury, and executioner, kicking their fellow helldivers based mostly on arbitrary nonsense like meta stratagems and weapons. CEO Johan Pilestedt says as a lot, retweeting a pettily-kicked sufferer late final week (thanks, GamesRadar).
“That is so shitty,” writes Pilestedt. “Additionally very laborious to unravel—we have now some concepts however no conclusion.” In a transfer that might make me query his allegiance with the bugs, have been I not assured of his patriotism by this level, Pilestedt then calls upon the “hive thoughts … do you have got a design suggestion for how one can enhance this expertise?”
Here is a couple of ideas by gamers which obtained the nod of approval from the person himself:
All in all, a number of very tasty spaghetti is being thrown on the wall, right here.
Nonetheless, Pilestedt does acknowledge that the present system has its perks. When chatting with a player voicing their concern over groups of trolling gamers, who could be naturally resistant to a vote kick system with a two-person majority, Pilested notes: “that is why we have now the system we have now. The host is the proprietor of the sport. It is their operation and so they resolve. Kinda like coming over to somebody’s home.”
I personally do not see a lot of an issue with the system as-is, however I believe loads of these ideas could possibly be layered on high of it. Specifically, highlighting a participant who just lately kicked you and partial rewards could possibly be added to the present system, augmenting the “my home, my guidelines” strategy.
Matchmaking filters, in the meantime, are a fantastic thought on paper, however they have a tendency to separate the participant pool in methods that may ramp up queue occasions—not one thing Helldivers 2 wants to fret about proper now, after all, but it surely’s good to regulate the long run.
Pilestedt ended the impromptu city corridor by thanking everyone who chipped in: “This can be a fairly cool factor, your complete neighborhood coming collectively to debate a tough to unravel drawback. Though vote kick is the simplest, it has some downsides and there’s all the time a greater answer.”