Human versus nature is a timeless and classic struggle, even in far-away sci-fi settings likeHelldivers 2’s galaxy. Even though there are already plenty of unique weather effects in the game, future updates forHelldivers 2still have plenty of room to grow by introducing new weather effects and shaking up some of the existing ones.
Above even the most resilient of enemy types inHelldivers 2that players regularly face, one of the biggest threats to players is often the environmental weather hazards, since these can’t be so easily overcome as most enemies can. So, while addingnew enemies like the Illuminate factionis a highly-requested feature forHelldivers 2, adding new planetary weather types should arguably be just as much of a priority, considering this could prove to be the game’s secret to longevity.
Helldivers 2’s Weather Effects Keep Things Fresh from Mission to Mission
Aside from the overall difficulty level, every mission inHelldivers 2has up to three different kinds of gameplay modifiers: weather, conditions, and operation modifiers. While conditions and operation modifiers mostly alter missions in passive ways, a planet’s weather generally presents a more explicit, physical obstacle for players to deal with.
Changing the difficulty inHelldivers 2will present new operations that typically have different combinations of conditions and operation modifiers, but players will need to change planets to find missions with a different weather type.
Unlike the different enemies and mission types inHelldivers 2, weather poses a unique threat that doesn’t put any hidden restrictions on the type of gear that players can bring into a given mission. Consequently, future updates forHelldivers 2should consider adding new weather effects to the game, especially considering that some planets currently don’t have any.
How Helldivers 2 Could Take Its Weather Effects to the Next Level
Introducing More Weather Effects Based on Different Elements
Given thatHelldivers 2already has Fire tornadoes and the revamped Acid storms fromthe Escalation of Freedom update, it could be a natural progression to introduce new weather effects based on other Elemental damage types in the game, such as Gas and Arc. Focusing on Elemental damage types could potentially inspire new weather effects that pose a much more physical threat than some of the existing weather effects that merely reduce visibility.
Planets with Multiple Weather Effects
However, even beforeHelldivers 2adds more new weather types to the game, there are a few ways that the game could shake things up by modifying some of the existing weather types. Some planets mix a visibility-type weather effect with a damage-type weather effect, but there are little to no planets that combine two different damage-type effects, like Fire tornadoes and meteor showers, so this could be worth exploring. For these kinds of planets there could be specific triggers that change the weather type, such as gradually switching throughout a series of missions in an operation, or switching suddenly mid-mission as the day/night cycle transitions.
Dynamic Weather Effects
These same kinds of dynamic transitions could even work forplanets inHelldivers 2’s galaxythat only feature a single weather effect. As it currently stands, most of the existing weather effects inHelldivers 2are typically all-or-nothing, where a weather effect is either active or inactive without much variation, so experimenting with a more dynamic range could be worthwhile.
Between the major events of the Galactic War gradually adding new enemies and new missions toHelldivers 2, the planetary weather effects are arguably what keeps things fresh on a mission-to-mission basis. Consequently,future updates forHelldivers 2shouldn’t be afraid to get wild by introducing new weather effects, and also taking the existing ones to new extremes, since this feature could ultimately prove to have the biggest impact on the game’s longevity, far beyond what new enemies and mission types could offer.
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