Helldivers 2 has a Dungeons and Dragons-style GM behind the scenes (www.eurogamer.net)

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[-] DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 9 months ago

Comments section is pretty clear who read the article and who is only reacting to the title.

Helldivers 2 has weeks long campaigns where the entire playerbase has to defend certain planets. The "GM" keeps a close eye on progress of this event and manually adjusts it to make sure the campaign doesn't complete too soon.

There isn't some poor motherfucker staring at a screen watching the progress of each individual match spawning more bad guys whenever they feel like it.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago

This continuous evolution has actually seen Joel getting up at unsociable hours to sort out situations when the Helldivers 2 team realised the game wasn't as balanced as it could be. "There have been some sudden moments where maybe one planet was too easy or one was too hard and [Joel] had to get up in the middle of the night to give the Automatons a bit of reinforcement so the players don't take [the planet] too quickly," Pilestedt said.