Helldivers 2 gamers have sturdy emotions concerning the planets they’re combating to defend within the recreation’s ongoing galactic warfare. First there was Malevelon Creek, which turned a infamous hotspot for gamers, after it was dubbed “Robotic Vietnam” as a result of its flame-spewing robots, jungle setting, and important issue. Even if I’ve described an abject nightmare, gamers developed a little bit of a sentimental attachment to the planet, and its many subsequent rises and falls supplied nice dramatic fodder, to not point out materials for the neighborhood to show into memes. Malevelon Creek turned a celebrated locale, and the builders ultimately gave it a vacation. Now, gamers have developed an intense relationship with one other planet, however issues couldn’t be extra totally different.
You see, Helldivers 2 gamers fucking hate Hellmire.
There has by no means been a shittier planet. Consider the worst doable place on this planet, multiply it a couple of instances, and sprinkle in a few of your least favourite folks, and you continue to wouldn’t come near the ire of us really feel in direction of Hellmire. Hellmire sits clear on the opposite facet of the galaxy from Malevelon Creek, which couldn’t higher encapsulate the huge distinction in how gamers really feel concerning the two. You already know what they do have in frequent although? Fireplace.
Hellmire is a planet held by the bug-like Terminids, and also you’d assume they’d have given up or died off simply having checked out it. Hellmire, not like most planets, is stricken by firestorms, which accurately make the floor appear like a visualization of Hell. Positive, it’s honoring its namesake, however may or not it’s any much less a ache within the ass? It’s not unhealthy sufficient that I usually drop into Hellmire on high-difficulty operations with overwhelming odds and bugs coming out of each doable gap within the planet, however I even have to fret about not catching hearth on a world whose entire deal is the limitless flames scorching it.
Locations like Hellmire are particularly harrowing as a result of a steadiness change (which desperately wants fixing) lately made by Arrowhead Sport Studios elevated the injury of fireside from all sources, making any drop onto the planet a fair higher ordeal.
In the meanwhile, there’s a serious order selling the protection of quite a lot of planets throughout the whole thing of the galaxy. Hellmire is amongst them, and once I checked on its liberation standing earlier as we speak, it was at a paltry quantity. It was a quantity so pathetic (nearly as unhappy because the variety of gamers actively enjoying on Hellmire in the intervening time) that I don’t even need to repeat it right here. By comparability, one other planet in the identical system was nicely on its approach to freedom and having fun with a wholesome focus of gamers. In the meantime, the Helldivers reddit has been flashing with occasional calls to outright “glass” the planet to…remedy?…the issue of its liberation.
Based on the neighborhood, “no one desires Hellmire,” and it’s onerous to argue with the numbers. The overall consensus appears to be very “fuck Hellmire,” which may spell a little bit of a humorous concern for the neighborhood and builders, since Hellmire is such a focus of many strategic pushes. It’s to the purpose the place gamers are steadily joking about simply hitting the bricks and abandoning the planet completely, and it appears to be turning right into a actuality, which could throw a wrench in Arrowhead’s versatile warfare narrative.
Hellmire’s arduousness very a lot looks like the purpose of the planet, but it surely additionally looks like participant sentiment, which has soured a bit within the final a number of months, has seemingly settled on Hellmire as its newest goal. That, and it’s acquired to suck to eat shit to bugs and hearth tornadoes repeatedly. Possibly we’ll see Hellmire fully fall, or perhaps we’ll see Arrowhead alter to the neighborhood’s emotions and pivot away from it for a time. Hopefully, the studio fixes the hearth injury to curb that entire facet of the equation completely. I’m begging you, Arrowhead. My crops are on hearth.