The battle for Tremendous Earth that kicked off with Helldivers 2‘s Coronary heart of Democracy replace concluded final week, with gamers managing to fend off an Illuminate invasion of their residence planet. One of many two cities that ended up holding out in opposition to the hostile squids was Equality-On-Sea, positioned within the in-game map’s model of China, and it is led the shooter to make an area information report within the nation.
As noticed by gamers on the Helldivers 2 subreddit, following the large victory for Tremendous Earth, Chinese language broadcaster Kanka Information’s Good Morning Shanghai anchors fronted a brief phase about these latest developments within the recreation. Primarily based on a translation by a Reddit person with the deal with AtypicalGameMaker (whose profile asserts that they seem to be a Chinese language recreation developer), the report mentioned the protection of Equality-On-Sea, hailing each Chinese language and non-Chinese language gamers for working collectively to guard the town.
For some context, Equality-On-Sea and the Tremendous Earth capital of Prosperity Metropolis had been the one Tremendous Earth cities left standing after the invasion. The protection of the previous induced a little bit of controversy, with a comparatively small variety of gamers assessment bombing Helldivers 2 as a result of they could not push the town’s protection proportion gauge as much as 100%, that means it would be absolutely beneath their management.
Members of the sport’s neighborhood recommended the basis of this was that Equality-On-Sea was positioned in-game the place Shanghai is in the actual world, main Chinese language gamers to take its protection very significantly. An alleged translation mixup with the Chinese language language model of the sport seemingly additionally satisfied these gamers that they might completely liberate the town whereas the battle for Tremendous Earth was nonetheless in progress.
That final bit wasn’t really the case, with the fixed movement of recent Illuminate troops whereas the invasion was ongoing making it not possible to totally safe any mega cities at that stage of proceedings. Cue gamers getting pissed off as they believed their in-game efforts weren’t having a dynamic impact on how the struggle was taking part in out, and a few accusing developer Arrowhead of railroading them into sure outcomes.
The interpretation alludes to this obvious misunderstanding, citing the information anchors as having praised Helldivers 2 gamers for not following Arrowhead’s Galactic Warfare “script” and as an alternative having “fought for their very own story in an honorable method.”
In the meantime, I fairly like the best way the report seems to have described the ultimate levels of the large struggle for Tremendous Earth taking part in out: “Chinese language gamers had been battling the enemies throughout the daytime utilizing their wonderful taking pictures abilities and strategic plans,” the anchors allegedly mentioned, “American gamers took over the nighttime operations, using air drops and firepower to assemble the protection line for Shanghai.
“This nice unity of Chinese language and American netizens got here to a cheerful ending on the thirtieth.” Good.
