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Helldivers 2 only became a live-service game halfway through development, but 'feels like what live service was born to do' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I've read the article, but in no way it's made clear what the life service element of their game entails.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's an overarching metagame of the war between humanity and the alien bugs/murderbots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That was part of HD1, wasn't it? So probably not that, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It's that + content drops being tied to in game story\metagame elements, and much better communication with the community than the previous game.