Automatons
Helldivers 2 gamers have carried out the unattainable, or at the very least what can be unattainable in every other recreation.
After months of waging battle in opposition to Automatons within the Helldivers 2 Galactic Map, the troopers of Tremendous Earth didn’t simply constrain them, however as per the final Main Order, they’ve wiped Automatons utterly off the map. As in, there are not any extra Automaton-controlled planets or areas. Anyplace.
Helldivers 2’s official account celebrated the information with what is sort of a “recreation over, you received” message, full with a George W. Bush “Mission Completed” banner.
Nevertheless, moderately than celebrating, gamers now really feel a way of ominous dread that one thing a lot greater and far worse is coming. And shortly.
Sure, one thing is coming. I joked about how it might be nice if Arrowhead simply rolled credit and shut down the servers, however as an alternative what everybody fears is prone to come to cross, although what type it takes precisely has not been revealed.
The seeds of this have been planted for weeks, the place gamers intercepted communications from Automatons to some place outdoors identified house, speaking about an operation referred to as “The Reclamation.” All proof factors to this being a large-scale assault on the north west of the map to attempt to attain and “reclaim” Cyberstan, the unique dwelling of the Cyborgs who now dwell below democratic oppression (sorry, “liberation”). They’re the progenitors of the Automatons and the thought is that the robots need their mother and father again.
It isn’t totally out of the realm of risk that whereas the Automatons go dormant, this may very well be time to introduce the sport’s third faction, the Illuminate aliens, however the dominant principle remains to be the invasion of Cyberstan arising moderately rapidly. We’re getting one other Terminid-focused marketing campaign for some time after a lot plodding away with the bots, then I guess in every week or two no matter goes to occur, occurs.
Automatons
One of many causes Helldivers 2 is a lot enjoyable is due to precisely what’s happening right here. There are not any roadmaps, nobody can absolutely predict what’s coming subsequent. The thought is that Helldivers gamers themselves are shaping the story whether or not they win or lose assignments, and whereas I’m undecided how a lot Arrowhead is or just isn’t leaning on the scales, it at the very least giving the look of that.
On this case that is simply not one thing we’ve seen within the recreation up to now, the entire elimination of a whole faction from the map. Once more, nobody believes that is everlasting, but it surely’s a reasonably gorgeous growth all the identical that issues may get up to now. As ever, Helldivers 2 continues to rule.
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