In a recent Reddit interaction, Helldivers 2's director Johan Pilestedt explained the design of the helmets featuring circles on their backs. These circles were intended to represent a connection to an oxygen supply during descent from the Hellpod, but the necessary animation to depict this connection was not completed. As a result, players are left to assume their characters are holding their breath while facing the perilous environments of the game. Discussion around potential updates and animations also emerged from the Reddit thread.
When the Helldiver emerges from the Hellpod a connecting hose was supposed to disconnect to explain it, but we didn't have time to make the animation for it.
Damn, as if just hurtling through orbit towards a hostile world littered with baddies and hazards that'd love to rip you to shreds wasn't pant-shittingly scary on its own.
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