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Kaan Serin

Arrowhead reveals the Helldivers 2 ideas left on its cutting room floor, from 5-player squads to low-gravity planets and a whole new armor system

Helldivers 2 screenshot showing a fully geared/armored diver standing with gun in hand as three jets soar the skies behind him.

Arrowhead Game Studios' first swing at a big live service shooter was pretty much a homerun - Helldivers 2 was not only was it one of last year's best-selling games, it was also one of the most uncontroversially fun shooters in ages, despite some wonky updates. But Arrowhead still has even more cool ideas it had to leave on the cutting room floor.

Head of product testing Patrik 'Fluffy' Lasota said as much during the game's first anniversary livestream, where he revealed that developers toyed around and then shelved planets with lower gravity. So, theoretically, our divers could be floating around and long-jumping away from flying bugs.

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