“The President of Tremendous Earth has been killed in motion by the Illuminate through the fall of Prosperity Metropolis.” That was the message that greeted Helldivers 2 gamers once they logged on final night time in a single final bid to repel their invading squid-like foes. Some truthers assume the hit was inside job. When the mud settled Friday morning, the battle to avoid wasting Tremendous Earth was over and gamers had succeeded in successful the extraction shooter’s greatest showdown because it launched. Pus they bought a brand new battle station to have fun.
“The devastation wrought upon our house is immense,” learn the newest in-game dispatch from Arrowhead Recreation Studios. “Solely two Mega Cities stay standing: Prosperity Metropolis and Equality-on-Sea. The rest have been vacated by the enemy, having suffered catastrophic injury at their arms.” New Main Orders are nonetheless pending, however within the meantime gamers get to vote on the place to maneuver the brand new DSS battle station that aided within the combat, and that gives additional army bonuses to Helldivers preventing on no matter planet it orbits.
For anybody who missed the final two weeks, a quick collection of entries on the Galactic Map recaps the occasions from the Illuminate’s arrival and torching of Mars and different planets, all through gamers’ epic final stand to guard Equality-on-Sea (Helldivers’ model of Shanghai). A whole lot of inventive army techniques had been improvised and deployed to take down the large invading Leviathan ships, and a wave of adverse Steam opinions, purportedly from Chinese language gamers indignant, on account of a possible mistranslation, about why they couldn’t appear to totally liberate Equality-on-Sea, seems to have subsided.
What occurs subsequent is anybody’s guess. Arrowhead Recreation Studios may take a while earlier than kicking off no matter it has deliberate to let gamers catch their breath. Perhaps the event workforce is lining up a revenge marketing campaign, or perhaps there’s nonetheless one other shoe to drop and Tremendous Earth isn’t fairly within the clear in any case. A brand new president? On this financial system? Perhaps they’re simply an Illuminate plant in any case, prepared to manage Tremendous Earth from inside. The fantastic thing about Helldivers 2’s fascist area satire is that nothing is ever fairly out of the query.
Might kicked off certainly one of Helldivers 2’s greatest steadiness patches and content material updates in a while, together with a brand new Warbond battle cross with extra melee weapons and the power to stage up and customise a lot of the shooter’s weapons. I wouldn’t guess on some other huge updates anytime quickly. That mentioned, Summer time Recreation Fest is simply across the nook and Arrowhead used host Geoff Keighley’s final huge gaming showcase to announce the addition of the Illuminate to the fray. Who is aware of what’s in retailer for the second half of Helldivers 2’s second 12 months?
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