Helldivers 2 Stats are Extra Sophisticated than They Seem

Arrowhead Recreation Studios’ CEO Johan Pilestedt just lately revealed that stats in Helldivers 2 are much more sophisticated than the interface would lead gamers to consider. Early variations of the sport supplied gamers with far more detailed info on every weapon’s efficiency. Nonetheless, builders thought it was too advanced for the common participant.

Weapons in Helldivers 2 have 46 hidden stats

Weapons in Arrowhead’s Helldivers 2 have 4 seen stats: Harm, Capability, Recoil, and Hearth Fee. Nonetheless, Pilestedt described these as “tips” that don’t give a full image of the weapon’s efficiency. He revealed on Twitter that there are literally 50 stats in all. Many of those replicate traits of the weapon’s ammunition quite than the gun itself.

Along with the seen stats, every weapon in Helldivers 2 has a hidden Ergonomics rating, which initially appeared alongside the opposite 4. This quantity represents how unwieldy the gun is and governs issues like how lengthy it takes to intention down the sights.

The stats display screen additionally initially had a second web page offering extra info. These embody Reload Time, Hearth Modes, Magazines, and Muzzle Velocity in meters per second. Helldivers 2 additionally initially had a graphic displaying how the weapon’s Recoil impacts its bullet unfold. Even this was a simplification, with Recoil being a mix of 14 hidden values.

In one other tweet, the Helldivers 2 developer defined the mechanics behind Armor Penetration. “Armor pen is a worth between 0 and 10,” he clarified. “If the AP is the same as the enemies [sic] armor worth the harm is 50% if the AP beats the armor you do 100%. If AP is lower than the AV the bullet ricochets.” Nonetheless, even he doesn’t keep in mind what every part does, saying, “I don’t know what the sunshine AP situation is. I feel it may be if AP is 2 or much less. However truthfully I don’t know both.”

He described how Arrowhead tried to strike a stability between offering info and overwhelming Helldivers 2 gamers with an excessive amount of of it. Nonetheless, Pilestedt acknowledges they might have gone too far within the different route. “Yeah,” he wrote, “looking back it might need been a nasty name.”