Arrowhead’s hit title Helldivers 2 has a ‘Game Master’ feature in which a single developer at the studio is controlling the galactic war. On X, Arrowhead’s Creative Director and CEO Johan Pilestedt has provided additional details.
Last month, Arrowhead and Sony revealed that the Helldivers sequel featured a game master feature, allowing for co-op fights to be coordinated in real-time. In a new interview with PCGamer, CEO Johan Pilestedt talked about this feature, revealing that there’s an actual person (called Joel) at Arrowhead controlling the war – the feature takes a lot of inspiration from the dungeon master as seen in Dungeon & Dragons. “We have an actual person with the job title of Game Master,” Pilestedt said. “His name is Joel, and he takes his job very seriously”. The Creative Director added, “It’s the same format when you build that for millions of players, it’s just that you can’t get as personal with every individual. But you can still do the same twists and turns.”
Following this interview, Pilestedt has now taken to X to further talk about the Game Master feature and the abilities of this person, revealing that planets can be reinforced. In addition, temporary equipment can be given to the community if the Game Master wishes to.
“As a follow up on Game Master abilities, the majority of the role is to choose which major order takes place, what daily is active and decide where the enemies attack”, the CEO explained on X. “The war fought and liberation of planets – that’s all you!”
Pilestedt continued, “We can also reinforce planets if needed and give temporary equipment to the entire community! …and other stuff we haven’t revealed yet.”
Interesting stuff for sure, and we can’t wait to take another dive. We need more men!
Helldivers 2 is available globally now for PC and PlayStation 5. As covered some days ago, the game has already sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
