A member of Helldivers 2‘s group may need simply unearthed the weird bug behind a difficulty that is been main PC of us to imagine their keyboards is perhaps defective. Yup, for those who’ve ever had your helldiver all of a sudden sluggish from a dash to a jog with out you doing something, it seems they could nicely simply be feeling the results of another person’s stim.
Whereas some gamers have been busy investigating this, they have been taking trip from the newest Main Order, which duties of us with following up their valiant efforts in saving these poor Tremendous Earth children by, uh, killing some child Terminids. Come on, cease feeling conflicted and get em’ in your sights.
The one that seems to be as if they’ve blown this case broad open claims to have “labored within the video games business for 20+ years” and did it simply as an apart on the finish of a prolonged put up on the Helldivers 2 subreddit outlining why they’ve discovered the sport’s lifespan up to now fairly fascinating by way of the problems which have cropped up.
“I am going to depart one last bug with you that I have never heard anybody name out,” they wrote, “Go right into a recreation with a good friend, injure your self so you will have like 1 / 4 well being. Have your good friend begin to dash after which use a stim. Yup, for those who stim whereas anybody is sprinting it would cease them from sprinting. Because of this you retain slowing down whereas sprinting randomly.”
Whereas trusting somebody not engaged on the sport to have precisely unearthed the precise cause behind one thing that is beforehand had legions of hardcores considering their keyboards is perhaps guilty would possibly look like a protracted shot, some gamers have rapidly examined it out and offered a little bit of proof to again up the poster’s declare.
“Each gamers on PC, didn’t decelerate a participant sprinting with controller, however did sluggish them down once they switched to mouse and keyboard,” consumer MikeAmelung defined relating to the clip above, which undoubtedly seems to be prefer to confirms the idea that people in your squad injecting stims is what causes the animation to momentarily swap to a lightweight jog, then instantly be restored to the dash the participant is pushing the enter for.
Whereas some have theorised that components like the space between you and the participant injecting the stim and whether or not you are serving as a number may also play into whether or not you are affected, this undoubtedly seems to be like one thing Arrowhead’ll need to add to its listing of issues to look into.
Additionally, in case you missed it, the studio’s CEO has just lately outlined that it is go no plans to create a devoted co-op story mode for Helldivers 2, since that’d be akin to creating a complete new recreation by way of effort required.