UPDATE (07/02/25, 4:05 PM GMT): Helldivers 2’s subsequent main order has now gone reside, and it brings excellent news. Because of the divers’ efforts within the Gloom, Tremendous Earth has what it must “start to ascertain a blockade round Meridia, and thru that, cut back the quantity of Darkish Power that’s amassing on the singularity and giving it momentum”.
With the intention to assist that, gamers have been tasked with killing a metric tonne of bugs and bots – a billion automatons, six million shredder tanks, 1.5 billion terminids, and eight million bile titans to be actual. So, be sure to pack loads of ammo.
Helldivers 2 gamers have just lately closed out one other main order, and whereas it led to success on the Automaton finish, of us could not rack up sufficient defeats of Illuminate assaults in time to fulfill the second ingredient of it, which means a blended end result.
The result’s trying prefer it might be unhealthy information for the planet Moradesh, because the Meridian Singularity is ready to proceed on its path of destruction in the direction of Tremendous Earth – the Helldivers’ house world. In the meantime, a reasonably sizeable group of gamers are petitioning Arrowhead to alter the way in which the Illuminate battle works so as to give them ore chanbce of combating again.
To start with, the doable hazard to that planet. Primarily based on what gamers have noticed when trying on the singularity eariler at this time, it is trying prefer it’s constructing as much as do a factor quickly – I might assume when the subsequent MO is deployed.
Given the final order briefing particularly stated Moradesh is the subsequent planet in peril, I might get able to evacuate any kin your diver may need there.
In the meantime, following that final defeat, one participant’s letter to Arrowhead by way of the Helldivers 2 subreddit, which because the studio to change up the way it’s dealing with The Illuminate within the Galactic Conflict, has amassed over 2.5k upvotes. Principally, it argues in favour of a pernament Illuminate entrance that is extra like what the Terminids and Automatons have, slightly than gamers being tasked with warding off suprise Illuminate assaults that solely pop up on the map for a restricted time – throughout which of us could also be off doing stuff in the true lives.
“I think about the HD2 playerbase is definitely college-aged or older on the very least,” wrote the submit creator, consumer SL1Fun, “This implies between college and work, it is not possible for the playerbase at giant to maintain up with the rotating Squid raids. I seen this personally when doing MO dives on solely Squids over the previous few days: every time I might play, the Squid raids had been already midway over, and that is not together with those I flat-out missed. The brief time restrict simply makes these incompatible with the very fact now we have to work.”
This, they purpose, is which Arrowhead ought to flip the Illuminate menace into “an precise entrance” that’ll enable gamers to interact with these main orders in a extra versatile vogue with out risking lacking something.
Do you agree, or do you assume that a part of the attraction of continually evolving and altering Galactic Conflict is the concept that bigf stiff can transpire whenever you’re AFK, making it a lot harder for the group to win each MO? Tell us in case you’ve misplaced depend under.