Helldivers 2 game 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 controversial Escalation of Freedom update. For that reason, the devs behind the recent buff patch are the same devs who worked on the nerfs that are now being fixed.
Although the first big patch of Arrowhead's 60-day comeback strategy has been a major hit with freedom fighters, Pilestedt recently took to Reddit to 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:
