Helldivers 2 lead says the game's balance problems were "a leadership issue more than anything" and the new buff patch was made by "the same people" who made the nerfs
Johan Pilestedt says Helldivers 2's low moments are due to a lack of cohesion in the studio
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Helldivers 2game director and Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt says a lack of cohesion and leadership issues are to blame for the backlash from the community following the controversialEscalation of Freedomupdate. For that reason, the devs behind the recent buff patch are the same devs who worked on the nerfs that are now being fixed.
Althoughthe first big patch of Arrowhead’s 60-day comeback strategy has been a major hit with freedom fighters,Pilestedt recently took to Redditto engage directly with that ever-vocal corner of the Helldivers community. In response to a player who thought Pilestedt was trying to “shift the blame on the dev team as if you weren’t the person in charge,” Pilestedt had this to say:
“Hey, thank you for the feedback. Not my intention to do so! There are plenty of talented developers at the …
