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New Helldivers 2 CEO says "we don't think weapons are as fun as they could be," but also "I don't think it's reasonable to threaten people over weapon inbalance"

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Arrowhead's new CEO says that while he agrees some Helldivers 2 weapons aren't "as fun as they could be," he's joined the studio's old CEO in calling out threats made to developers.

One week ago, it was announced that Johan Pilestedt, Arrowhead's CEO, would be stepping down and transitioning to a COO role, to focus primarily on actually making Helldivers 2. At the same time, the departing Pilestedt agreed with players that guns were too weak, armor was too boring, and planets were too repetitive, in a pretty frank admission from a lead developer.

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