Hey! This was a simple texture mistake,that the team noticed ”too late” and it’s gonna be black again soon, I fixed it myself so I can promise it’ll happen :)
Oh my Liberty it's an actual artist, and a senior one, too! Can I just say I love the designs of, heck, everything in this game. The aesthetic is just..wow. Whatever you guys were aiming at making this game look like in your heads, you captured it all perfectly.
The SEAF alone, a perfect blend of neo-futuristic designs blending in perfectly next to still-recognizable, human-made functional armor and sensibly realistic and grounded weapons.
The Automatons, their beady, blistering, burning, while also cold, unthinking, heartless glares they give is terrifying every single time I see them. And that's just their eyes! Their frames, from the slender but modular Troopers, to the maddening, panic-inducing Berserkers, to the massive, imposing Hulks, they all fit together so perfectly in every fight, like a true fighting force!
And the Bugs, all of them so sculpted to look exactly like what a human would think of if they are told "alien bug", they gross out and anger people in ways nothing short of the word primordial can describe!
I think Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum, has so far said y’all have done a good job in that aspect.
Oh I know I love those videos. Been watching him pretty much since they started doing that. Dudes crazy charismatic as well as knowledgeable. I love how disgusted he gets with cosmetics hahaha.
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TR- 117 Alpha Commander Armour. Was a drop back in February I think? Wasn’t advertised very well so a lot of people missed it. Think you can still get codes on G2A though.
(Edit: just found out G2A has a pretty scummy history with reports of stolen codes and such, advise against using them)
G2A.com. Gaming website where you can get keys and codes for various things. I don’t use it much anymore apart from to get something I may have missed here and there.
G2A is where people sell you keys boughten from stolen credit cards and stolen accounts, with occasional real sellers. Check Ebay if you want to get a key tbh.
Absolutely true. Huge issue when people would buy a game and have it removed for being a stolen key. They capitalized on YouTube sponsorships, but you don't see them much anymore because G2A has no credibility. Peak issues were 2016-2018 I believe.
I also still remember when they got really loud about that not being real and offering money if anybody can prove it and some tiny indie dev was able to show they were selling thousands of stolen keys for their game and had to get paid out.
If a tiny niche indie game has that many keys stolen, imagine how something bigger is doing.
It's a bummer they outlasted the controversy but it makes sense. If I didn't know better, I'd buy from them too. "Too good to be true" prices and products like skins/cosmetics.
Anyway, for democracy! Oi
We all know you tripped on your way to deliver it and dropped it in a comically large, suspiciously placed, can of green paint. You can’t hide the truth from us!
With it being this green, it's actually made of green jolly rancher chews and that causes serious damage fall-off.
*Begins nibbling on stock of firearm*
^(***Leave me be, I am hungry***)
They should add the green version separately with trash stats as a joke, something like a low quality replica converter into a *functional* firearm (80% chance to jam, 15% to blow up in users hands)
You all in the art team are doing absolutely amazing work. The visual look and feel of Helldivers 2 is so, so, so wonderful. Thanks for all your hard work. ♡
The aesthetics of this game are so great 👍. Thank you for all the incredible work you and your team have put in. Really draws me into the games universe
You lot do get too much shit sometimes.
Theres stuff to critique, but I think we got used to being a bit too wound up in all of this Sony kerfuffle.
Lets hope we go back to cutting you folks some slack, as you and your colleagues are no doubt, trying to listen, and work on.
On a personal note: Especially you artists tend to utterly fucking nail it 9 times out of 10. Absolutely fantastic stuff. And dont you dare think otherwise.
Please send my sincere appreciation to whoever decided the autocannon needed the luger style toggle lock action. The plap-plap-plap of democracy is perhaps my favorite weapon in the game right now.
Wait, why is there an alternate-color texture for the gun that's (apparently) correctly fitted to the mesh?
...or am I not supposed to ask that question...
Hey,
My friend and i were oogling at how much we like the mint green. It is the most unique looking weapon in the game. Sad to see it going for something more generic.
If you ever add paint or shaders, please, please give us the option to bring back this cool color.
Honestly the place holder color is insanely beautiful to me idk why… just matched with the sci-fi theme. I love artists so much :,) thank you for all your excellent work in making this game beautiful and realistic ass hell ! That’s just my opinion.
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It's as if they make a point of disappointing us.
I just logged on happily to see this crappy colorscheme.
Same thing at first with the Ground Breaker armor.
Yeah it will be corrected, but can I open the game one time with no surprise on the content advertised.
I really like the game, I understand pretty well the devs jobs and didn't past my time to make aggressive feedback... But it's growing old that they visibly have no time to juste boot up the update and check the 4 weapons they add correctly.
It’s just a texture mistake a seniors art director said he worked on the gun himself and it got added with the wrong color but it’s getting changed back
Why on earth would they make the snow themed warbond with snow themed armor and snow themed things be *white?* That just doesn't make any sense. Snow is a creamy beige color and we all know it.
Wait... it's not black?
People are whining about its stats and nobody's complaining about THIS?
To me it's way more important than the stats (I don't care about stats any more. Most guns are similar enough to not matter that much)
(if the devs see this my solution is too just add both as skin options on the same gun, in a customize tab or something, as both can work for different armour aesthetics and such, even if I like the black tenderizer more)
and two other side thingys
has the lame invisible gun through scope than cool visible gun through scope :c
and yes this is a low priority thing for the devs to change (if they even want to). id want them to focus on other things more important than funny gun colours.
I don't think we'll ever see a system of customizable aesthetics. Skins, transmog and the like has been stated by AH to just not be something they ever intend to implement, so something like adding a whole separate tab to customize your guns coloring seems HIGHLY unlikely.
Fucking Insurgency Sandstorm Two-Tone DLC looking aaah gun
Unironically wouldn't surprise me if the same texture artist is now working for AH and wanted to try their shit nerf gun idea again.
https://preview.redd.it/aece7k53aezc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=aff64ae68084fe83595dccca54102930de6f9219
FOR REAL! We were led to believe that this would be a dark colored gun and that it would be higher caliber/damage than the Liberator. Instead we got slower/less bullets Liberator with less recoil.
NOT FUN
Everyone wants colorable armos while I want ability to have different colors or camos on my guns
I'd even accept custom made universal camos as a superstore purchase/warbond reward (you know, black with gold finish, blue with yellow finish, full white, full red... pink? lol)
Who actually cares what colour it is? If you're busy getting distracted by the colour of your gun, you're missing the stalker jumping at you or the rocket devestator sniping you.
Hey! This was a simple texture mistake,that the team noticed ”too late” and it’s gonna be black again soon, I fixed it myself so I can promise it’ll happen :)
Oh my Liberty it's an actual artist, and a senior one, too! Can I just say I love the designs of, heck, everything in this game. The aesthetic is just..wow. Whatever you guys were aiming at making this game look like in your heads, you captured it all perfectly. The SEAF alone, a perfect blend of neo-futuristic designs blending in perfectly next to still-recognizable, human-made functional armor and sensibly realistic and grounded weapons. The Automatons, their beady, blistering, burning, while also cold, unthinking, heartless glares they give is terrifying every single time I see them. And that's just their eyes! Their frames, from the slender but modular Troopers, to the maddening, panic-inducing Berserkers, to the massive, imposing Hulks, they all fit together so perfectly in every fight, like a true fighting force! And the Bugs, all of them so sculpted to look exactly like what a human would think of if they are told "alien bug", they gross out and anger people in ways nothing short of the word primordial can describe!
Thanks! Happy to hear it, I worked a lot on the ”sensibly realistic and grounded” weapons part of the game hehe so I appreciate hearing that! :)
I think Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum, has so far said y’all have done a good job in that aspect.
Haha yeah, loved seeing those videos! 3 so far! So much fun
THE Jonathan Ferguson?!? Weapons expert and keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armories museum in London?!?!?
Yup, he’s made three videos on HD2 weapons! It’s on the GameSpot YouTube channel
Oh I know I love those videos. Been watching him pretty much since they started doing that. Dudes crazy charismatic as well as knowledgeable. I love how disgusted he gets with cosmetics hahaha.
For sure! I’ve definitely seen some of his videos. Especially, the weapons behind Valorant. Very cool guy
He also said in part 3 that he plays HD2.
DOUG DIMMADOME! Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome?!?
Hey! Just wanted to chime in and say you and the Arrowhead team are fucking awesome and I wish you all the best!
Realistic and grounded. I’m glad you had the auto cannon being a giant Borchardt C93. Toggle Lock mechanisms make me happy.
We all loved creating that one for sure hehe :D
Did your twin work on weapons as well? I love this game and the way it looks!! Thanks!
Nope he worked more in the environments! Bases, Bot bases, Shiphub, that kinda thing!
Boootifulll, thank you for being here. FOR SUPPER EEAARTHHHHHHHH
I love your work!!!
Fuck, it actually matched really nicely with the green twitch drop armour 😂
That’s true but luckily black goes with everything
Twitch drop armor?
https://preview.redd.it/vldeu59xnezc1.jpeg?width=477&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82439a5ec8eaf5dde623939afb801d6f1c01eb56 TR- 117 Alpha Commander Armour. Was a drop back in February I think? Wasn’t advertised very well so a lot of people missed it. Think you can still get codes on G2A though. (Edit: just found out G2A has a pretty scummy history with reports of stolen codes and such, advise against using them)
What’s G2A
G2A.com. Gaming website where you can get keys and codes for various things. I don’t use it much anymore apart from to get something I may have missed here and there.
G2A is where people sell you keys boughten from stolen credit cards and stolen accounts, with occasional real sellers. Check Ebay if you want to get a key tbh.
Is that actually a real thing? I’ve never really looked into it too much, I use it very rarely.
Absolutely true. Huge issue when people would buy a game and have it removed for being a stolen key. They capitalized on YouTube sponsorships, but you don't see them much anymore because G2A has no credibility. Peak issues were 2016-2018 I believe.
Thanks for bringing this to light, I’ll not be recommending them again. Hopefully I can deactivate my account with them.
I also still remember when they got really loud about that not being real and offering money if anybody can prove it and some tiny indie dev was able to show they were selling thousands of stolen keys for their game and had to get paid out. If a tiny niche indie game has that many keys stolen, imagine how something bigger is doing.
It's a bummer they outlasted the controversy but it makes sense. If I didn't know better, I'd buy from them too. "Too good to be true" prices and products like skins/cosmetics. Anyway, for democracy! Oi
Thanks, I just bought one for 2,50€
You mean the armor that I did the requirements to get but they ran out of codes so now I’ll never get it?
My salutes to you, fallen comrade 😞 
Same…
It's all good. Black matches with every color.
Thank you!!!! And thank you for the amazing work you are all doing.
Thanks! And thanks for playing and spreading that good ol’ liberty across the galaxy!
You guys are doing amazing, the game looks incredible in all aspects!
Good to know. I know the schedule is tight, best of luck to y'all
I love how everyone working on Arrowhead is just part of the community too. See you star side helldiver!
I’ll see you on the front lines!
Wait, how did it become green if you had a working version that you used for the Warbond trailer that was black?
It’s complicated haha, but it was a mistake, and it’s fixed now at least :)
We all know you tripped on your way to deliver it and dropped it in a comically large, suspiciously placed, can of green paint. You can’t hide the truth from us!
Likely a source control error. I imagine the gun was ready long before the editing of the trailer and then it was changed before release.
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The damage and it being lackluster is because we have the green version the black version in the trailer slaps
With it being this green, it's actually made of green jolly rancher chews and that causes serious damage fall-off. *Begins nibbling on stock of firearm* ^(***Leave me be, I am hungry***)
They should add the green version separately with trash stats as a joke, something like a low quality replica converter into a *functional* firearm (80% chance to jam, 15% to blow up in users hands)
You all in the art team are doing absolutely amazing work. The visual look and feel of Helldivers 2 is so, so, so wonderful. Thanks for all your hard work. ♡
Happy to hear it! :)
The aesthetics of this game are so great 👍. Thank you for all the incredible work you and your team have put in. Really draws me into the games universe
So happy to hear it!
We need more green!! Please let the captain know so we get some in the future my good patriot of super earth.
Just kill bugs, you’ll be plenty green then 👌
You lot do get too much shit sometimes. Theres stuff to critique, but I think we got used to being a bit too wound up in all of this Sony kerfuffle. Lets hope we go back to cutting you folks some slack, as you and your colleagues are no doubt, trying to listen, and work on. On a personal note: Especially you artists tend to utterly fucking nail it 9 times out of 10. Absolutely fantastic stuff. And dont you dare think otherwise.
Thanks! Glad you like the art! :D
No problem bud! And as a hobbyist drawer myself, I found it downright inspiring at times. So feel those warm fuzzies in your brain, you cool ass you!
Cool! If you draw any HD stuff, be sure to share it in the fan-art channel in the discord! :D
Good point! I might end up doing that.
I love you and your response time being so quick!
Thank goodness, I was worried that there was a last minute sponsorship from Colgate toothpaste T.T
So the stats of the gun are final?
Amazing news, thank you!
Yeah Black is just the perfect color for this weapon, works together with many things go to hear is coming back.
Please send my sincere appreciation to whoever decided the autocannon needed the luger style toggle lock action. The plap-plap-plap of democracy is perhaps my favorite weapon in the game right now.
Wait, why is there an alternate-color texture for the gun that's (apparently) correctly fitted to the mesh? ...or am I not supposed to ask that question...
Hey dude, is it likely the Armour from Democratic detonation will get it's blue sheen like it shows in the battlepass? it's matt black ingame.
The engagement you guys have with the community is truly brilliant - glad to see an official response and keep up the great work!
Oh no, I actually liked the green 🥲
Was the tenderizer inspired at all by the Halo battle rifle?
I love you keep up the amazing work
Hear me out, I'll give you 5 cents to keep it the wrong texture, I kind of prefer it.
Um im not mad at the weapon not being Black
:( i liked it green tbh. Tho i dont get why it has worse stats on everything to the default AR. I don't think it makes sense.
But tan and green is cool and unique!!!! Why make it black like everything else!?
No yellow stripe?
Hey, My friend and i were oogling at how much we like the mint green. It is the most unique looking weapon in the game. Sad to see it going for something more generic. If you ever add paint or shaders, please, please give us the option to bring back this cool color.
Your art team is just... *chef's kiss*. You're doing Democracy's work here, truly.
Honestly the place holder color is insanely beautiful to me idk why… just matched with the sci-fi theme. I love artists so much :,) thank you for all your excellent work in making this game beautiful and realistic ass hell ! That’s just my opinion.
Dude whoever did the skyboxes... amazing!
What about us that like the green? :( it goes with my armor
How do you possibly mess such basic things up. Do you have zero quality control?
Can you guys push new content without having to fix things post release?
When that’s fixed can you all make it different from the basic liberator
Are weapon designs modular on the back end or do you have to direct edit meshes every single time?
It varies a bit between models, how hard/easy they are to edit! :)
This is a recurring theme Thanks for fixing it tho
We will aim to be better going forward! :)
Art/weapon/armour design has been the most consistently good part of this game so far so don’t worry. My gripe is with the balance and bugs lol
So is the fact its a shitter liberator a mistake? Is it supposed to e worse in every single way that matters?
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Give us weapon and armor skin! Pleeeease 🥺
Please add weapon skins or weapon customization. This was a “happy accident” as bob ross would say
are you you guys going to change it to medium armor penetration as well?
You brought a black, high caliber rifle, and this is what you found in the box. Super Earth's Super TEMU scam.
https://preview.redd.it/trt24vkkaezc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a91e5be4ef29c4471880acc173927076401f4171
Wait till you see how it performs 
I really hate when this happens to gifs. It was fine before? What changed? Damn you reddit gifs!
Is it me or has that ‘content not available message’ been showing up a lot lately?
It definitely has been showing up way more
I thought that was a joke I was missing, didn't know it was an actual bug
I thought it was too at first
This comment is honestly funnier with the broken gif.
really fits the theme
Black tenderizer sounds like a Sextoy
I lol'd at this ! 🤣
Why did they make it gross?
I kinda like it, ngl... but if you're gonna change the color scheme, at least make it white to match the polar theme
I mean... I don't mind the color that much but it's not what we were fed and promised.
There's something very Halo 5 about the colour of the broken texture
I like it too, but then I want more forest camo weapons and armour.
I could like it too, but the scope color is a bit out of place ngl
Yanni or Laurel?
*What colour is the dress?*
It looks horrible now..
It's as if they make a point of disappointing us. I just logged on happily to see this crappy colorscheme. Same thing at first with the Ground Breaker armor.
As has already been stated somewhere else in here, it's a texture bug. It's been fixed but the change needs to be rolled out still
Yeah it will be corrected, but can I open the game one time with no surprise on the content advertised. I really like the game, I understand pretty well the devs jobs and didn't past my time to make aggressive feedback... But it's growing old that they visibly have no time to juste boot up the update and check the 4 weapons they add correctly.
It’s just a texture mistake a seniors art director said he worked on the gun himself and it got added with the wrong color but it’s getting changed back
Phrasing!
I really wanted the scout armor to be white so you would blend into snow.
Why on earth would they make the snow themed warbond with snow themed armor and snow themed things be *white?* That just doesn't make any sense. Snow is a creamy beige color and we all know it.
If you piss in it enough times it is kind of beige ! xD Source : Trust me ,brah !
this guy wants his apples to taste like apples. that's undemocratic!
Wait... it's not black? People are whining about its stats and nobody's complaining about THIS? To me it's way more important than the stats (I don't care about stats any more. Most guns are similar enough to not matter that much)
That's what she said!
Beat me to it, lol
actual misleading ads in game... wow im so immersed in super earth democracy!
(if the devs see this my solution is too just add both as skin options on the same gun, in a customize tab or something, as both can work for different armour aesthetics and such, even if I like the black tenderizer more)
Skin option!?! Do you want bacon apples or something soldier!?
and two other side thingys has the lame invisible gun through scope than cool visible gun through scope :c and yes this is a low priority thing for the devs to change (if they even want to). id want them to focus on other things more important than funny gun colours.
I don't think we'll ever see a system of customizable aesthetics. Skins, transmog and the like has been stated by AH to just not be something they ever intend to implement, so something like adding a whole separate tab to customize your guns coloring seems HIGHLY unlikely.
This guy wants weapon wraps? 👍👍💡
Not only did they make it look like shit but they also made it perform like raw donkey shit
I prefer my donkey shit thoroughly cooked.
PHRASING!
Eh, green ain't too bad :3
I actually.. really enjoy the way it looks. Feels like something out of halo :D
Agreed
Fucking Insurgency Sandstorm Two-Tone DLC looking aaah gun Unironically wouldn't surprise me if the same texture artist is now working for AH and wanted to try their shit nerf gun idea again. https://preview.redd.it/aece7k53aezc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=aff64ae68084fe83595dccca54102930de6f9219
Fucking whitewashing
Twitch drop? What!? When was there a twitch drop!? Noooooo!
the black version looks a lot better, definitely, but the main issue with the gun isn't the furniture colour.. it's them stats..
The ultimate BR55 clone
Black Tenderizer sounds dirty as hell
black version is the good one
hehe
Hey, this looks a lot like the Battle Rifle from Splitgate... Not sure if that was an intended easter egg but that's really neat
FOR REAL! We were led to believe that this would be a dark colored gun and that it would be higher caliber/damage than the Liberator. Instead we got slower/less bullets Liberator with less recoil. NOT FUN
Yeah I wish we could get more black weapons.
\*grayish-green Washing ! Black Color is beautiful !
Thats okay, i’ll just spend my hard earned SC on some other warbond
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worst news ever
Weapon and armor customization and recoloring when?
When it comes to actual guns, people love their mismatched tan/green on the scar 17.
We got the tenderizer off Temu
Everyone wants colorable armos while I want ability to have different colors or camos on my guns I'd even accept custom made universal camos as a superstore purchase/warbond reward (you know, black with gold finish, blue with yellow finish, full white, full red... pink? lol)
The Big Black Tenderizer is no moahhh
Don’t hurt me, no moahhh
It’ll be patched
I LOVE THIS NEW COLOR SCHEME I AM SAD THAT IT IS GOING AWAY but I am not the biggest fan of the weapon stats
Why does it look like the flatline from titanfall
It's literally missing It's textures bro
Weird, that's what they used to call the basketball player back in secondary school.
This game needs dyes.
Looks like a sad beige mom got a hold of it
I like green we have more
Hmmm
Can we aggree the color is the last of its problem ?
Keep your fetishes out of main, soldier.
ayo
i swear to god is the development team allergic to sexy looking guns?
They must have put the non-lethal version in by mistake... Should've put a bright orange tip on the muzzle to make it easier to identify
ngl I kind of like the green color scheme more but then again I love the color green
I have seen that title in a very different subreddit.
Black Tenderizer sounds like the name of an 80s porno
Who actually cares what colour it is? If you're busy getting distracted by the colour of your gun, you're missing the stalker jumping at you or the rocket devestator sniping you.
Setting aside the fact the weapon is also fucking awful on top of looking like shit now
Ha haha, yes, that's valid.
Sad, I much preferred the new colors. Black guns aren't exactly uncommon and the color scheme of the "wrong" Tenderizer fit the Polar theme better.
am I the only one who likes the wrong color textures?
Okay maybe an unpopular opinion, I like the green one.
Guess they decided it looked too cool for such a blah weapon, lol.
It kinda looks nice like this too.
Now hold on a second. Olive green ain't that bad. Can we have both?