Live-service games face an extraordinarily tough time battling to maintain their player-base, competing against a dozen similar games, and trying to constantly satisfy impossibly disparate audience—but one benefit that’s all too rarely utilized is the ability to be incredibly topical and reactive. Helldivers 2 is flexing that muscle in the best way, with an in-game gag based on last week’s colossal computing failure that saw a Crowdstrike update bring the planet to a standstill.
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Boot the game, and those brave enough to defend Super Earth’s managed democracy will see a message informing them of a crucial system update.
