Helldivers 2 CEO spills the beans on an unreleased ‘heavy machine gun’ with a tripod earlier than instantly correcting himself: ‘By no means thoughts. There’s so such factor as HMG’

Like a moth to a flame, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt can not help however tease the way forward for Helldivers 2 every time he logs on to Twitter.

Right this moment, after penning a cryptic tweet about giving Tremendous Earth residents “extra formally regulated and mandated freedom,” Pilestedt replied to at least one fan’s idea for a tripod-equipped minigun with a curious perception into a special, unreleased Helldivers 2 gun.

“Gatling weapons as assist weapons are cool, however provided that they precisely symbolize the insane recoil. We might, however it’ll require some actual cool mechanics,” Pilestedt replied to at least one fan.

“You can add a deployable tripod which means to kill recoil, you kill your personal capacity to maneuver, 3 second deploy time, 3 seconds to pack it up,” responded Twitter person FedNet23. “If you’re in undeployed mode, recoil ought to be savage until a 2nd participant helps you retain it steady holding a 2nd rail.”

“This was the thought for the HMG,” Pilestedt wrote again, earlier than instantly tweeting: “Nevermind. There isn’t any such factor as HMG.”

Whereas Pilestedt does not make clear what “HMG” stands for, he is possible referring to a heavy machine gun that does not at the moment exist in Helldivers. Properly, it does not exist anymore. This isn’t the primary time such a weapon has come up—through the very first hours of Helldivers 2’s launch in February, a number of gamers reported seeing a “MG101 Heavy Machine Gun” assist weapon stratagem within the unlocks menu. Just a few hours later, it apparently disappeared, however not earlier than they snapped a screenshot of its in-game description. In accordance with that description, the HMG is “a really highly effective however difficult-to-wield machine gun with intense recoil.” It could have unlocked at degree 12, between the Autocannon and the Railgun.

We are able to solely see the again of the HMG within the deleted in-game description, however its look traces up completely with one other bizarre icon that is disappeared from the sport in current updates. For a couple of weeks in Helldivers 2, the common machine gun was represented on the map with an icon that regarded nothing prefer it. As captured by one Reddit person, the mismatched icon depicts a bigger gun with a spherical prime and a tripod. Sounds loads just like the idea Pilestedt shared.

MG-101 stratagem eliminated mere hours after launch? from r/Helldivers

So when will the HMG see the sunshine of day? It is unusual that the weapon was yanked from our clutches hours after the sport went dwell. And I am unable to assist however discover Pilestedt talked in regards to the tripod idea up to now tense—has the HMG been scrapped altogether, or will it return in a special kind?

I can see it entering into a couple of fascinating instructions. If the “heavy” machine gun might pierce heavy armor, like that of a Charger or Hulk, that’d immediately make it essentially the most highly effective computerized gun within the sport. It’d make sense if such a beefy gun was uncontrollable from the hip. Perhaps followers are onto one thing with requiring a second helldiver to melt the recoil.

Bizarre machine gun icon from r/Helldivers

With Helldivers 2’s galactic battle in a lull after consecutive chaotic weeks, there’s loads of hypothesis about the way forward for the sport going round. The continued leaking of unreleased APCs and buggies into public matches might counsel we’ll get our first autos quickly sufficient, however sport grasp Joel in all probability will not be there to hand-deliver them.