Well, Helldivers, it seems that the battles against Terminids and Automatons aren't just randomly generated. As it turns out, there is a man behind the number and intensity of enemy forces that try to overtake the territories players have been trying to liberate, and his name is Joel.

Joel the Helldivers 2 Game Master

Those who are too busy fighting for Super Earth might not have the time to think about how enemies even spawn. The general idea is that it's already part of how the game simply works, but that's not the case. There's a man behind it all called the Game Master.

This whole time, there has been an all-powerful developer called Joel who is in charge of several aspects of the game, which includes the areas that players have liberated and how they can be lost again if not fought for continuously.

As you know, Helldivers 2 was developed by Arrowhead Game Studio. Joel is among the developers who helped make the game the way it is, and continues to do so by controlling enemy reinforcements that arrive or spawn at different battlefronts.

Arrowhead Game CEO Johan Pilestedt said that they have "a lot of systems built into the game where the Game Master has a lot of control over the play experience. It's something that we're continuously evolving based on what's happening in the game," as per Kotaku.

Joel is the man behind the missions that players can accept, which would lead them to planets that need defense or offense. These also come in the form of daily challenges that provide players the opportunity to earn well-deserved XPs.

The mentioned developer, Joel, would sometimes even wake up in the middle of the night just to "give the Automatons a bit of reinforcements" so that players won't liberate a planet too quickly. And if they were too slow, then the planet would be overrun by enemies again.

Such is the outcome for Malevelon Creek. It is one of the most popular battlegrounds in the game, and even though players have been working together to rid the planet of invaders, it has been taken over by Automatons.

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Freedom Never Sleeps!

Helldivers 2 has been the talk of the game community for a while now, and it is one of the few instances where almost everyone just wants to work together for the sake of Super Earth, as well as fight in the name of managed democracy and liberty.

It's not every day that you find an entire player base mourning the loss of a fictional planet, but that's what's happening as Malevelon Creek was lost to the Automatons. If you look through Helldivers forums and groups, there are countless memes about the fall of Malevelon Creek.

Of course, players are already storming the planet to gain some ground. With the fall of the planet, the Severin Sector is back to 0% liberation. As of writing, there are over 300,000 active players on Steam alone.

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