He makes life difficult for players from time to time.
The war to save humanity, waged by players in the cooperative action game Helldivers 2, is not only against monsters controlled by AI. From time to time, players have to deal with the will of one of the developers, Joel.
Joel, explains Arrowhead studio head Johan Pilestedt, is the sole gamemaster of Helldivers 2. He monitors the progress of the galactic conflict and intervenes in it from time to time.
Johann Pilestedt
head of Arrowhead studio
We have a person with the title “gamemaster”. There are a lot of systems in the game where the gamemaster can greatly influence the gaming experience. And there are things in the roadmap that we would like to keep secret for now, because we want to please and surprise.
For example, Johan explains, it may turn out that players take over one of the planets too easily. In this case, Joel can intervene and send reinforcements to the opponents so that the battle for the planet drags on.
Sometimes the game master also acts on the side of the players. For example, the developers did not expect that the first Terminid planet would be captured so quickly, and did not prepare anything special; Joel intervened and gave the players a free stratagem.
The developers are not yet ready to tell what opportunities the gamemaster will have in the future and how often Joel will intervene in the course of the war.
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