Halo has made its way to Helldivers 2, thanks to the endless power and creativity of the game’s modding community. A recent X/Twitter post highlighted how people have managed to create visual mods for the game on PC, but weren’t too happy about it.
However, modders don’t have much to worry about; they’ve got the greenlight from Pilestedt himself, who intervened in time to sort things out.
Halo’s Master Chief and Other Intergalactic Warriors Make It to Helldivers
Have you ever wanted to run around shooting at Automatons while dressed as your favorite super soldier?
You can now, thanks to the power of mods! Thanks to some talented modders out there, the PC Helldivers community has been booming with tons of fun, bizarre, and cool visual mods to try out.
It’s not just Halo either; in the video, we also see Marvel‘s Starlord and Toy Story‘s Buzz Lightyear. Later, when the trio descends to face the Terminids they quickly find out that the enemies were also modded.
The @OfficialPCMR Community is laughing at @ArrowheadGS and @PlayStation while using Mods in #Helldivers2 pic.twitter.com/WJVXpNF0Zc
— JayTechTV 𝕏 (@TheRealJTV4K60) May 8, 2024
Visually, the enemies were an array of things, like the Skibidi Toilet meme, Lightning McQueen from Cars, and the Spiders from Minecraft.
Everyone in the video seemed to be having a blast, laughing their heads off as they tried to fend off the army of Lightning McQueens with Terminid limbs that rapidly advanced toward them.
Unfortunately, the mission was a failure, but well worth a try, especially thanks to the visual mods that were hilarious to watch.
Not everyone felt the same way though; the X/Twitter user who reposted the video was angry at the idea of mods in the game, claiming that the PC community was “laughing at” Arrowhead and PlayStation in a derogatory way.
Pilestedt Is Impressed by the Ability of Modders
When a comment under the post said the mods were “awesome,” the OP didn’t reply with the same energy.
Stating that Sony makes no money off mods, they insinuated that the existence of mods was talking away from Sony’s profitability, and thus hurts the company’s ability to make more games.
Sony makes no money from these mods so there's no money going back into the PlayStation ecosystem to give us more games.
— JayTechTV 𝕏 (@TheRealJTV4K60) May 8, 2024
Pilestedt himself replied to the same post, and as always, he had nothing but nice things to say about it. Calling it “hilarious,” he expresses how impressed he was at the modder’s ability to execute mesh swaps considering that the game’s engine doesn’t really have any robust modding support.
I mean, this is hilarious 😂 I'm impressed by the ability to do these mesh swaps given that the engine has no support for mods.
At some point in life I really want to make a game with proper modding support. I do love modding communities as it's where I got my start as a game…
— Pilestedt (@Pilestedt) May 8, 2024
He continues, stating that one day he’d like to make a game with proper modding support. Interestingly enough, he reveals that modding communities were where he got his start as a game developer!
Agree. The problem comes if it starts impacting other players that want to experience the vanilla game or meta features such as the Galactic War.
— Pilestedt (@Pilestedt) May 8, 2024
Under one of the replies, he clarifies that mods are fine if they don’t impact players who want to experience the vanilla game or meta-features.
Basically, as long as the mods are harmless and don’t affect other players, Pilestedt approves!
Do you agree with Pilestedt’s view on mods? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments below!
