The director of Helldivers 2 has confirmed that the community's answer to the question 'Are we the baddies?' is probably a resounding 'yes', as the original pitch for the game was shaped in no small part by Star Wars stormtroopers.
Speaking at the Nordic Game conference in Sweden, former CEO Johan Pilestedt showed off the original pitch for Helldivers, which describes the game as "a co-op action shooter where players are put in the shoes of 'evil side' grunts of pop culture." From there, the game asks how far you might make it in an 80s-style action movie without plot armor to protect you.
