Helldivers 2 creative director holds surprise Discord Q&A, says "the criticism is valid" and "the worst thing would have been if we f**ked up and no one cared"

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Let’s start with the flamethrower and fire changes thattorched conversations around the Escalation of Freedom update.

“I read about it on Facebook when at a family dinner during vacation,” he replied.

Naturally, this leads to criticism.

Asked about staff morale in the wake of such criticism, Pilestedt said: “It’s hard.

It’s a tricky situation.

The criticism is valid, but it causes low morale, and low morale causes slow development speed.

Talk about a negative spiral.”

The worst thing would have been if we fucked up and no one cared."

These specific points aside, Pilestedt hada lotto say about Helldivers 2, including many up-in-the-air ideas.

I’ve pulled out the standouts below, noting the punch in of question Pilestedt was responding to.