Seized by the spirit of democracy, Helldivers 2 CEO holds an impromptu workshop on how one can enhance the sport’s host-based kick system: ‘there’s all the time a greater resolution’

Helldivers 2’s programs aren’t excellent—and whereas I’ve not had this downside usually myself, sufficient gamers have complained about receiving unjust boots from their video games that there could be room for enchancment.

In case you are unaware, the sport’s present system for coping with downside 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.

In the case of positives, this technique lets of us rapidly and effectively take care of troublemakers—the gradual means of a vote kick can take some time, throughout which a team-killing menace may set your entire crew on the backfoot, or lock in an extraction earlier than your squad’s able to depart. 

On the destructive facet, this technique lets draconic dictators punt of us who do not deserve it, moments earlier than extraction. It additionally lets the host play choose, jury, and executioner, kicking their fellow helldivers primarily based 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 onerous to resolve—now we have some concepts however no conclusion.” In a transfer that will 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’ve gotten a design suggestion for how one can enhance this expertise?”

This is a couple of recommendations by gamers which bought the nod of approval from the person himself:

All in all, quite a lot of very tasty spaghetti is being thrown on the wall, right here.

Nonetheless, Pilestedt does acknowledge that the present system has its perks. When talking to a participant 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 now we have the system now we have. The host is the proprietor of the sport. It is their operation they usually 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 feel loads of these recommendations could possibly be layered on prime of it. Particularly, 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 an important concept on paper, however they have an inclination 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, however it’s good to control the longer term.

Pilestedt ended the impromptu city corridor by thanking everybody who chipped in: “This can be a fairly cool factor, the whole group coming collectively to debate a tough to resolve downside. Regardless that vote kick is the simplest, it has some downsides and there may be all the time a greater resolution.”