As fun as the game is no quality assurance was done

[SlimGrady]

how does a game release with:
- 3 armor classes but no actual "Armor"
- crashing when you ADS? (fixed 2 times now)
- crashing when pressing O or ESC?
- crashing when you equip MP-98 Knight?
how does this happen, like how. aiming is a integral part of a shooter and the crash was a common crash that persisted through a patch labeled as fixing it. I cant believe they weren't aware of it.

Coming from helldivers 1 they knocked this game out of the park. The optimization is really good, and the game looks stunning. Game play is hard to beat and the future looks bright but my god some of these bugs would make you believe that there was no QA team.

[什么都干只会害了我]

but yeah, sure you still love her

[Madder Red]

Apparently the whole game is running on abandonware. Which is a strange choice, to say the least https://www.pcgamer.com/helldivers-2-engine-bitsquid-autodesk-stingray/

Quote:
"You've heard of Unreal Engine and Unity, two engine juggernauts that power most of your Steam library, but you've probably never heard of Bitsquid. It was an obscure game engine used in a handful of notable Swedish indies of the early 2010s. In 2014, Autodesk bought Bitsquid, renamed it Autodesk Stingray, then discontinued it in 2018.

One of the last games released using Stingray was Fatshark's Warhammer 40,000: Darktide in 2022. The newest Stingray game is Helldivers 2."

Further reading https://80.lv/articles/helldivers-ii-was-built-on-an-archaic-engine-that-you-can-t-access-anymore/
Tl;dr basically you have to be a specialised in bitsquid to do anything to begin with, so the amount of people actually able to do ANYTHING is like a minority of a minority. Most studios use common and easy to access engines, this is like the Temple OS of game engines

[LemonSoda]

why would you want them to get rid of the bugs?
that's one less enemy faction

[Squidvasion]

iunno

[St0rmFury]

Originally posted by Madder Red:

Apparently the whole game is running on abandonware. Which is a strange choice, to say the least https://www.pcgamer.com/helldivers-2-engine-bitsquid-autodesk-stingray/

"You've heard of Unreal Engine and Unity, two engine juggernauts that power most of your Steam library, but you've probably never heard of Bitsquid. It was an obscure game engine used in a handful of notable Swedish indies of the early 2010s. In 2014, Autodesk bought Bitsquid, renamed it Autodesk Stingray, then discontinued it in 2018.

One of the last games released using Stingray was Fatshark's Warhammer 40,000: Darktide in 2022. The newest Stingray game is Helldivers 2."

I read the engine was made in Sweden.