"I'll own this screwup": Helldivers 2 studio CEO apologizes for balance comments, admits fire weapon nerfs are "disappointing after we had a similar misstep earlier"
Shams Jorjani says a lot of feedback is still positive and useful for Arrowhead, however
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Arrowhead announced theHelldivers 2 Freedom’s Flame Warbond, which launched yesterday, August 8. As you can probably guess from the headline, it offers plenty of fire-based weapons like new flamethrowers, but just days prior, Arrowhead took significant steps to nerf fire weapons like the Incendiary Breaker in the hugeHelldivers 2 Escalation of Freedomupdate.
At the time, Arrowhead came under scrutiny for seemingly nerfing something that people were having a lot of fun with, which is exactly whatHelldivers 2’s game director apologized forearlier this year. Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani then weighed in on the matter, revealing that theIncendiary Breaker nerf came about because roughly 30% of all Terminid-based missions saw the shotgun being used.
In a new message in the Helldivers 2 Discord channel, Jorjani has apologized for his messaging earlier this …
