Helldivers 2 creative director says it’s a better, sillier world when physics bugs can kill players for jumping past the wrong lamppost: ‘Realism can suck it’ | Gaming

The Helldivers face an overwhelmingly hostile galaxy. Each deployment means risking mortal peril, whether by way of armor-shredding Terminid talons or the steel onslaught of the Automaton menace. Some of Super Earth’s soldiers, however, fall prey to a more subtle killer: the physics glitch, a merciless enemy that’s happy to pulverize a Helldiver as punishment for tripping over the wrong bit of terrain. It’s an insidious foe, but it also happens to be very funny—funny enough that Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt thinks it’s probably a net positive for everyone if it’s left unaddressed.

Earlier this week, redditor 0_2AL uploaded a clip from Helldivers 2 showing the spectacular failure of their attempt at navigating level geometry (via GamesRadar). While trying to run…