BLAME JOEL

HELLDIVERS 2 is controlled by one mysterious man

Helldivers 2’s galactic war is much more than a mission selector. In a short time, players have become invested in the status of their favourite planets and reacted to gains and losses in a sector’s liberation. The simulated conflict has become an unexpected focal point of the Helldivers 2 experience. Unexpected to players, that is. To developer Arrowhead Game Studios, the war is a product of planning and storytelling by a specific behind-thescenes individual pulling the strings: what Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt described to PC PowerPlay as Helldivers 2’s ‘dungeon master’. “We have an actual person with the job title of game master,” Pilestedt told PC PowerPlay. His name is Joel, and he takes his job very seriously. “We have a lot of systems built into the game where the game master…

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