The world that developer Arrowhead Video games has created with Helldivers 2 is a big a part of its success – its political satire invitations gamers to position play as troopers of Tremendous Earth, as ‘Divers’ spreading Democracy throughout the galaxy, and that’s a serious a part of the enjoyable.
It’s the setting that allowed Arrowhead to border the times main as much as a serious replace of mech fits going stay as gamers needing to first ‘libertate’ Tien Kwan, so mech go well with manufacturing can proceed uninterrupted and be deployed into battle.
On Friday, Arrowhead confirmed that Divers had certainly been profitable in liberating Tien Kwan from the Automatons, and that the EXO-45 Patriot mech fits are actually able to deploy.
In some other stay service recreation, these mechs would’ve rolled out like some other replace. In fact there would’ve been a lore-relevant motive for the replace as there may be right here, however none of them would come with a call-to-action that makes the gamers really feel like they’ve earned the replace.
Attending to stomp round as an enormous robotic tank is in that case the reward gamers get for merely, enjoying the sport extra.
On one hand, sure, Arrowhead is ready up for this sort of weaving of the sport’s meta-narrative in a stay service recreation construction with new gameplay options. Not each stay service recreation can do that, as a result of it simply wouldn’t make sense in the identical manner.
However that doesn’t take away simply how good of a job Arrowhead is doing at executing the narrative of Helldivers 2 being this large, galactic-scale battle the place enemies and gamers combating for Tremendous Earth travel.
Now, with that mentioned, time to go unfold democracy, with the assistance of a mech go well with.
Supply – [Arrowhead Games]