Summary
If you were hoping to spread democracy and liberation in a cape based onHelldivers 2’sonslaught of negative reviews, then you may be out of luck. That’s becausethe “Review Bomb” capelikely doesn’t exist after all.
Taking to Discord, Helldivers 2’s community manager, Twinbeard, shared that the cape does not exist (thanks GamesRadar+) and that it had been blown out of proportion. That development cameafter the cape had been teased by Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedtjust a few weeks ago.
Here’s what they had to say, in full character no less:
“No, its existence or hypothetical delivery is veiled in clouds. Some say it was spotted on a distant rock on Vernen Wells, while some say it was never made in the first place.”
The Review Bomb Cape Was A Thing, And Now It Isn’t
The idea for the “Review Bomb” cape came after Helldivers 2 experienced an onslaught of negative reviews on Steam during theentire PSN debaclethat happened last month and ended up being taken off sale on Steam in several areas of the world.That issue has since been remedied, and the reviews have mostly gone away, but fans wanted to commemorate the experience in some way.
That’s where the idea of a cape themed after the negative reviews came from. And it wasn’t just a hypothetical idea, either. Former Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt had teased that thestudio was working on a name for the cape on May 6.
That’s not all. As mentioned above, the former CEO and teased it himself along with a potential design. That teaser came just a few days after the initial confirmation that a cape was a work in progress.
Now, it appears that it no longer exists, or that it might never have been a thing in the first place. It’s possible that it’s another piece of the game’s meta-narrative and that it actuallyisa thing, but we won’t know for certain until something concrete is said. For now, though, it’s a bit of a bummer for fans who wanted to commemorate a significant part of the game’s real-life timeline.
The news about the cape is yet another bit of Helldivers 2 information that’s been relegated to Discord. Fanshave taken issue with the amount of information shared solely through Discordand not through in-game PSAs or tutorials, so much so that they’ve asked Arrowhead to remedy the situation.
