The live-service game gets topical with a joke referencing July's BSOD disaster
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.
However, there are more specific instructions directed at members of the Ministry of Science’s IT department: Instructions to Service Technicians: to bring systems back online, please manually reboot each affected computer 15 times. This is all, of course, a reference to the Crowdstrike security software update that caused Microsoft computers around the world to BSOD , with no simple recovery option.
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