Helldivers 2 Developer Admits That Everyone in the Studio Works on Weapon Balancing, and It Shows
A dev from Helldivers 2 said Arrowhead doesn’t have a separate balance squad — the whole studio chips in. Players often assume there’s a neat little team whose sole job is to tweak damage numbers; apparently that’s not how things roll internally.
Balancing, the dev added, is done by the same people who design the weapons (devs, QA, PMs, etc. all pitch in). No one at Arrowhead can push a change alone — every tweak goes through group discussion and needs mgr approval before it lands in the live build. It’s a slower, more communal workflow than some might expect — messy at times, intentional at others — and it shows up in how the arsenal evolves.