Helldivers 2's engine was "discontinued" 6 years ago: "Our crazy engineers had to do everything, with no support"
Feb. 23, 2024Helldivers 2 lead reveals the shooter was built on an engine that no longer exists
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Helldivers 2 is the new must-play shooter in town, and it turns out the engine it was built on is already extinct.
Responding to 80 Level’s article on Twitter, creative director and Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt confirmed that the team did, in fact, build its latest game using an engine that effectively no longer exists, and explained the difficulties that arose as a result. “This is true,” he says. “Our crazy engineers had to do everything, with no support to build the game to parity with other engines.”
He adds that the team had already begun to create Helldivers 2 using Autodesk Stingray before it was no more. “And yes. The project started before it was discontinued,” he writes.
Now in the hands of players, Helldivers 2 has proven to be so popularit’s managed to surpass the PC concurrent player numbers of heavyweights like Destiny 2 and GTA 5. Arrowhead has admitted it’s"struggling to keep up"with the game’s colossal player count and has repeatedly been raising the player cap to help with server stability.
In ourHelldivers 2 review, we found the game to be a “fiercely challenging and visually breathtaking cooperative shooter where failure is funny and success feels magnificent,” though “there’s a sense the game’s full potential is yet to be realized.”
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