Let’s simply pause and take inventory of how a lot has occurred in everybody’s favourite new co-op shooter, Helldivers 2, because it launched a month in the past: the primary gamers dropped in to discover a bug-infested galaxy, shortly discovered there have been additionally killer robots on the opposite aspect of stated galaxy, fought for a planet they believed was their very personal Vietnam and misplaced, bounced again to be able to seize the technique of exosuit manufacturing, received, unlocked mechs, survived their first meta upheaval, fell sufferer to a planetary hazard or two, and are most lately preventing to exterminate the bugs in a sector for good. That’s loads of motion and back-and-forth over the span of a comparatively brief time period, and issues present no indicators of letting up, as gamers at the moment are encountering a hard new adversary on the frontlines.
Simply as Helldivers 2 gamers started liberating the Umlaut Sector, a collection of planets with pesticide-spewing towers known as the Terminid Management System that may purportedly wipe out the bugs threatening Tremendous Earth, Arrowhead Recreation Studios has rolled out their newest shock to unsuspecting gamers and launched flying bugs. Or did they?
Arrowhead’s CEO Johan Pilestedt has taken a enjoyable strategy to the rollout by refuting its veracity. Sometimes the primary individual to rally the “troops” to an in-game trigger, it’s an admittedly humorous reversal to now play dumb and obscure the truth that the enemy forces of Helldivers 2 are both evolving or revealing new threats we didn’t find out about to be able to preserve morale.
The neighborhood is, as ever, taking part in alongside and “reporting” any indicators of flying enemies to the Ministry of Reality, whereas others are confronting Pilestedt with the reality and being shot down. One of the best of those are the examples of flying bugs on Helldivers 2’s promotional paintings, which Pilestedt is now claiming are doctored photographs. As one Redditor succinctly places it, “How 1984 of them.”
Sadly for Pilestedt’s tried misinformation marketing campaign, we do have no less than just a few confirmations that the bugs have certainly sprouted wings and are each bit the troublesome bastards we imagined them being. After all they’d evolve simply as we began studying the right way to battle these items. Now to search out the proper loadout to take out Chargers and these winged abominations…