Certainly one of Helldivers 2’s extra distinctive options is the presence of a human Recreation Grasp who orchestrates its galaxy-spanning battle. Nonetheless, it appears to be a difficult job, as Arrowhead Recreation Studios wanted to deploy “emergency” help to deal with the sport’s large participant base.
Final week, Arrowhead revealed that it employs a Recreation Grasp named Joel to supervise Helldivers 2’s galactic battle. His function resembles a D&D Dungeon Grasp, crafting the story across the gamers’ actions. Nonetheless, DMing for half one million gamers is a tall order. As GamesRadar reported, Arrowhead’s neighborhood supervisor, Baskinator, mentioned the studio needed to dispatch extra personnel to assist handle the workload.
“Sounds extremely daunting when it’s important to juggle the expectations set by the roadmap/dev studio vs what the 500K+ energetic gamers need and do,” mentioned one Discord consumer. “Sure, completely,” Baskinator responded. “That’s why we’ve accomplished an emergency enlargement to the GM’s crew. He’s just one man, and he was simply not sleeping. I bear in mind over the launch weekend, he was sending me messages at 4 AM as a result of we had been the one ones nonetheless awake.”
Helldiver’s 2 was a a lot greater hit than both Arrowhead or Sony anticipated and suffered from overcrowded servers at launch. Provided that, it’s unsurprising that the sport’s DM was swamped within the days following launch.
“Sadly, our scope was a lot narrower at launch,” the neighborhood supervisor defined. “We anticipated fewer gamers and simpler means and strategies of communication.”
As for the specifics of how Helldivers 2’s GM system works, Arrowhead hasn’t gone into an excessive amount of element. Nonetheless, Baskinator mentioned her job consists of relaying participant suggestions to Joel and his crew. The neighborhood supervisor additionally talked about plans to offer “deep dives” into the GM system. This consists of letting Joel handle the neighborhood immediately.
