Earlier this week, Helldivers 2’s Automaton menace — thought to have been destroyed for good over the weekend during a successful offensive — returned to the Galactic War en masse, invading Cyberstan and many other planets with a colossal invasion fleet. We’ve got a Major Order to slow its advance as much as we can […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Following what was thought to be their ultimate defeat on Sunday afternoon, Helldivers 2’s Automaton faction has returned to the Galactic War with a massive invasion fleet. “The Reclamation” has begun. The fleet has invaded multiple planets in the northwestern sectors of the galaxy map, including Cyberstan — the homeworld […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Update: A new Major Order has now come in, directing players to head back to the bug front and liberate Hellmire, Estanu, and Crimsica to “clear the way for the construction of new, safer, and more efficient E-710 farms.” The Major Order is set to expire early on Tuesday morning, […]
Read MoreWe recently rolled over into April, and that means it’s time for a new Helldivers 2 Warbond for players to unlock and progress through. Specifically, this month’s fresh battle pass is the Democratic Detonation Warbond, which has been officially announced in a new trailer that shows off all of its major goodies. It’s scheduled to […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Following successful defensive efforts at Malevelon Creek, Ubanea, and Draupnir, the new Helldivers 2 Major Order is directing players to liberate planets Tibit, Durgen, and Maia by early Monday morning. If the Helldivers can achieve this, they’ll boot the Automatons from the Galactic War completely, with the game suggesting they’ll […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Helldivers 2’s latest patch has stealthily added two new Automaton units to the game: the Factory Strider and gunships. The former is a colossal heavily armored six-legged walker with a heavy laser cannon, front-mounted laser miniguns, and the ability to periodically spawn Devastator shock troops. Gunships, meanwhile, spawn from factories […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know In the aftermath of a historic victory against the Automatons on Malevelon Creek, Helldivers 2 players have begun to spot mysterious cloaked warships in orbit above bot-controlled planets. Various screenshots of the vessels are shown or linked to below. Notably, they’re very hard to spot unless they’re visible against a […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Arrowhead Game Studios’ co-op PvE shooter Helldivers 2 has a Galactic War metagame in which players are tasked with attacking or defending specific planets by Major Orders. The game doesn’t explain this, but you can only fight on a world if it’s near one players control. This is called the […]
Read MoreUpdate 4/1/2024 at 11:10 a.m. PT / 2:10 p.m. ET: As I covered originally in the text below, the Helldivers 2 fought for and eventually captured Malevelon Creek this morning for the first time since the co-op shooter’s launch. Now, though, there’s a new Major Order: one to hold the line on the Creek — […]
Read MoreUpdate (4/1/2024): As expected, the Helldivers 2 community has successfully liberated Malevelon Creek just a few hours after the Major Order to take the planet came down from Super Earth High Command. Since significant liberation progress for the hazy jungle world was made over the weekend, it didn’t take long for players to finish the […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know The latest Major Order in Helldivers 2’s Galactic War metagame tasks players with liberating the planet Tibit from the Automatons, but they’ve struggled to open a front on the world due to a lack of focus and coordination. The community in general has been indecisive about where it wants to […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Helldivers 2 players enjoying throwing snowballs on snow covered planets have been warned they need to cut it out as it can crash the game. The developers have acknowledged the issue in the game’s official Discord and hope to have it fixed in “the near future.” In happier news, new […]
Read MoreFor the most part, the way the Galactic War metagame works in Arrowhead Game Studios’ co-op shooter Helldivers 2 is pretty simple. Players both liberate enemy planets and defend Super Earth-controlled ones by completing series of missions called Planetary Operations, with each finished op contributing a small amount to the community’s overall war effort — […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Helldivers 2’s latest Major Order is directing players to free the planets Zagon Prime and Fori Prime from bug infestation by Friday morning, and will reward the community 35 Warbond Medals if it’s accomplished. The catch, though, is that both worlds are currently located behind enemy lines, which makes fighting […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Update: Helldivers have successfully liberated Estanu in well under 24 hours, and as a result, Fori Prime is now available to play on and liberate. This quick victory gives me hope that the community will be able to pull off this Major Order, though freeing it, Hellmire, Nivel 43, and […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Over the last several days, Helldivers 2 players have reported (and posted gameplay footage of) mysterious blue laser beams sailing across or falling from the sky and damaging or killing players. Some argue that these are just munition deflections off of armor that are being seen at off-angles, though if […]
Read MoreMore Helldivers 2 A week after Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios teased the Cutting Edge Premium Warbond for the first time, the new battle pass has gone live in the popular co-op PvE shooter. Like the pair of Warbonds that the game launched with in February, Cutting Edge expands the player’s arsenal with several […]
Read MoreMore Helldivers 2 A week after Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios teased the Cutting Edge Premium Warbond for the first time, the new battle pass has gone live in the popular co-op PvE shooter. Like the pair of Warbonds that the game launched with in February, Cutting Edge expands the player’s arsenal with several […]
Read MoreThe driving force behind the live service nature of Helldivers 2 is its Galactic War, a massive overarching metagame in which players wrestle with enemy Terminid and Automaton factions for control of various planets and sectors. As Major Orders come down from Super Earth’s top brass (AKA, developer Arrowhead Game Studios), Liberty’s finest space marines […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Earlier today, Helldivers 2 got a new patch that nerfed Charger and Bile Titan spawn rates while also reducing the amount of health Charger heads have. However, players have discovered an undocumented addition it brought: new flying Shrieker Terminid bugs that dive players from above and attempt to cut them […]
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