In the event you puzzled why it price making such a fuss to avoid wasting Tremendous Earth from the Illuminate in Helldivers 2 not too way back, you may want to try the sport’s newest Galactic Warfare twist. A contemporary main order has gamers embarking to cities that the squids have twisted of their picture, and so they’re a sight to behold.
City warfare’s the factor within the shooter in the mean time, with the divers having simply resisted a massive bug invasion of a bunch of cities. Now, they’re dropping in to attempt to save harmless residents which may have already got been, uh, squidified.
As outlined in the order’s briefing, it has been found that the Illuminate who survived the invasion’s defeat have managed to take over two planets and rework their cities into locations that look match for a Xenomorph hen do. Alairt III and Alamak VII are the worlds in query.
As outlined within the order’s briefing,
“Comparative topography confirms preliminary intel: our metropolises seem to have undergone unsanctioned re-engineering,” the briefing says, “The destiny of the tens of millions trapped inside these altered cityscapes is unknown. Their conversion into hostile organic belongings is possible; they’re thought of compromised till confirmed in any other case.”
These trapped residents appear to have been encased within the banks of pod-looking buildings gamers who’ve already dropped in have discovered littering the place, usually propped up in rows in opposition to the edges of ruined skyscrapers. Some people additionally reckon they’ve run into buildings that resemble the Illuminate beacons from the primary Helldivers.
A pleasant easter egg if that’s the case, but additionally possibly a little bit of foreshadowing that the squids have tried to name in some reinforcements following their failure to destroy or seize the Helldivers’ residence planet. One factor’s for certain, whereas no new enemies have include the primary deployment of Illuminatified cities, it does appear to be Arrowhead have gotten nicely and really again into the swing of repeatedly discovering fascinating methods to modify issues up on gamers.
There are a number of complaints about issues feeling a tad repetitive within the Reddit threads I’ve scanned, however they’re few and much between. Environments that provide visually fascinating twists have lengthy been an ace up HD2’s sleeve when it comes to maintaining issues contemporary between the large updates – good day, memed-to-death Malevelon Creek – so it is cool to see the devs leaning into that once more.
It is also becoming to be preventing the Illuminate once more after this morning’s patch added in a free cape that commemorates the final massive victory over them. Simply possibly do not put down your gun and use emotes to level that out when you’re in Leviathan firing vary.
