Helldivers 2 dev acknowledges new Fortnite season feels very “we have Helldivers at home”

Similarities principally stem from gamers believing Epic’s new bugs, The Swarm, Queen, and Bomber, resemble the Terminids from HD2. There’s additionally emotes and references that look eerily like Helldivers, and even Epic Video games’ blog post sounds much like a Main Order for HD2.

The Fortnite trailer is flooded with Helldivers 2 within the feedback, with many replies echoing sentiments resembling “Tremendous Earth ought to deploy some Helldivers for this bug infestation”. With folks noticing the similarities, it’s solely pure that the builders have been requested concerning the comparisons.

On Discord, Arrowhead CEO, Shams Jorjani, was requested, “You having fun with the brand new Fortnite season it appears eerily acquainted”. In response, Jorjani acknowledged, “It feels very democratic”. Although Jorjani is conscious of the similarities, he additionally admitted he doesn’t play Fortnite as a result of “The constructing does my head in” and he solely performs “Helldivers and Battlefield”.

Along with Shams Jorjani, group supervisor, Baskinator, was requested about Fortnite’s new season. Baskinator mentioned, “hmmm… it’s giving ‘we’ve helldivers at dwelling’”.

Relating to whether or not Arrowhead are involved it “would possibly have an effect on participant numbers,” Baskinator mentioned, “I’m not fearful. Fortnite is Fortnite, Helldivers is Helldivers”. The group supervisor additionally mentioned, “If the kings of online game drip suppose our drip is cool sufficient to… encourage them… then that’s tremendous cool. However our video games couldn’t be extra completely different from each other. There’s room for us all on the king’s desk”.

It’s fascinating to see Arrowhead acknowledge the similarities gamers are observing and being principally cool with it. A number of Fortnite gamers have known as for an official collaboration, however Fortnite entering into the world of Helldivers 2 could be very unlikely as Arrowhead has beforehand dismissed the idea along with Star Wars. As for Helldivers 2 skins becoming a member of Fortnite, now could be the opportune second, however leakers resembling ShiinaBR have identified “there’s actually no indicators of it anyplace”.

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