Helldivers 2 inventive director Johan Pilestedt has tweeted that he is taking a “sabbatical” from engaged on the sport with a purpose to get a much-needed break following a few decade straight of helldiving. He is coming again by means of, and says he’ll begin engaged on Arrowhead’s subsequent sport when he does.
Whereas he is been a key determine when it comes to Helldivers 2 for the reason that starting, usually utilizing social media and Discord to speak to gamers instantly about adjustments and issues they’d wish to see from the sport, this is not the primary time Pilestedt’s opted to modify up the position he is taking part in on the studio. Again in Might final 12 months, he switched to being chief inventive officer after handing the CEO reigns to Shams Jorjani, with a purpose to focus extra intently on serving to develop HD2.
Now, although, he is determined to step again and take “a sabbatical for some time”, so as to have the ability to spend extra time having fun with his life exterior of sport growth.
“I do know a number of you will suppose ‘por qué?’ – nicely, when you have loved Helldivers 2 for nearly a 12 months, I’ve been dwelling it since early 2016, and with [the original] Helldivers it is since 2013,” Pilestedt defined, “11 years of working ‘across the clock’ on the identical IP has made me put aside household, pals and my pretty spouse… and myself. I’m going to take a while now to redeem what was misplaced from all of those who supported me for over a decade.”
He added: “I’m positive my pals at Arrowhead will do their utmost within the meantime to ship wonderful stuff to Helldivers 2. After I’m again – I’ll begin engaged on the subsequent Arrowhead sport.”
Naturally, the Helldivers 2 neighborhood’s been fast to thank Pilestedt for all he is achieved for the sport and collection to date, with Reddit being stuffed with threads of gamers providing a Tremendous Earth salute to the developer. Although, some are a bit involved about how Arrowhead will fill the inventive management void Pilestedt might go away when it comes to Helldivers 2 whereas he is away, particularly because it appears like he’ll be choosing up a brand new mission when he returns.
For now, we’ll simply have to attend and see, however to date Pilestedt’s sabbatical seemingly is not seeing him take a break from sport growth utterly – about two hours after saying it, he revealed that he is kicked it off by attending a sport jam with Arrowhead’s most senior employees.
“Generally, you’ve got simply received to reconnect with your self and your bros,” he mentioned of the jam in a reply, “The journey is typically the objective.” Very philosopical, that is positively a person on sabbatical.