Yee-naw: Helldivers 2’s director seems to be riding with Arrowhead’s controversial anti-cowboy hat stance, boldly declaring “people don’t wear hats on helmets”

As you is perhaps conscious (we have banged on about it a bit already this week) Helldivers 2 acquired a cowboy-themed Warbond dubbed Borderline Justice yesterday. It has no cowboy hat, as a result of Arrowhead does not reckon that such headgear suits throughout the Helldiver uniform restrictions.

Loads of gamers do not agree with that assessement – a few of them have even stormed out of the official gear saloon to pick up a mod that’ll allow them to staff the brand new armours with a ten-gallon hat. Now, at present on sabbatical Helldivers 2 director and chief inventive officer Johan Pilestedt has provided his personal view on the state of affairs through a twitter thread despatched whereas he is at GDC saying things during panels.

Having requested gamers for his or her ideas on the Borderline Justice gear, the dev was naturally shortly requested by a number of folks the place the Warbond’s cowboy hat is, or whether or not the sport might be getting one in some unspecified time in the future down the road.

“I do not know – have not heard the design convo. However I feel it crossed the road of what the Helldivers are. Which I agree with,” he wrote in a single reply, “I’ll ask the staff subsequent time I pop by the workplace.” One other participant acquired a barely totally different response from Pilestedt: “I agree that it might be superior, however I feel it might break the fantasy of Helldivers…folks do not put on hats on helmets.”

A lot of gamers have been a bit exasperated by that final bit, and have been attempting to remind the dev that the beret from the PH-9 Predators armour in last year’s Viper Commandos Warbond can also be a hat on prime of a helmet, and acquired previous these strict uniform regs. I suppose it will depend on your definition of suitably military-ish hats. Do cowboys go to struggle, and is a cavalry hat a unique factor?

Regardless, one factor Pilestedt did counsel is perhaps coming within the fiuture duuring that thread sounds fairly cool. “[A] perk that permits folks to take sidearms as main AND wield them akimbo…”, he wrote, “Sadly a bit an excessive amount of work to make the animations, however perhaps someday sooner or later?”

Do you waltz round rocking a hat in your helmet in actual life? Which helmet are you referring in your reply? Tell us beneath!