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

submitted 8 months ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 10 points 8 months ago

This is the most absolutely buck wild and inefficient version of this idea I've ever seen, ever. Director AI's have existed over a decade, and have already been used to solve problems exactly like these. If I was Joel and was woken up at 2am to go drop a couple more bugs on Leedle III I'd tell my entire management team to eat shit and do it themselves. What the fuck. Who came up with this? This is half baked as hell

[-] Goronmon@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Director AI’s have existed over a decade, and have already been used to solve problems exactly like these.

My knowledge of Director AI's is that they control the individual matches, but this is about the campaign as a whole.

This person isn't calling down a dropship on individual players, he's controlling how the campaign progresses at a higher level.

[-] e8d79@feddit.de 10 points 8 months ago

No this is a reasonable approach. Arrowhead are a a rather small company of around 100 people and automating things is easier said than done. They also never anticipated the game to be as successful as it is so at the time it probably wasn't high on the priority list. Now they pay Joel overtime (I hope) and can think about how to implement an automated script to adjust the game.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I agree who the fuck thought this was a good idea? What happens if Joel suddenly kicks the bucket or is injured? Why is this not an automated system that has the option of being manually adjusted? This sounds like a downgrade from L4D.