Helldivers 2’s third enemy faction is perhaps positively presumably in all probability nearly actually about to be launched, as gamers report sightings of the mysterious menace on the sport’s Galactic Conflict map. Growth studio Arrowhead, aka the wonderful authorities of Tremendous Earth, are downplaying the rumours as normal. They’re claiming (through in-game broadcast) that the fleeting look of a bizarre purple blob on the map display screen is definitely the results of fluids leaking from the corpse of a long-dead comms technician, stranded on a server farm someplace. Who to consider? Ah, if solely we had some technique of shedding mild on the experiences. A way of Illuminating the scenario.
In case you did not play the unique Helldivers and subsequently did not get that reference, Helldivers 2’s third faction are just about assured to be the Illuminate, a returning armada of evil squidlikes with Tesla beams and cloaking gadgets and tripod mechas. The path of proof for this begins with an in-game broadcast about Illuminate sightings back in February, which Arrowhead/Tremendous Earth described because the „work of dissidents“. Arrowhead have additionally added weapons to the game which appear designed with Illuminate biology in thoughts. After which there was that Major Order which resulted within the creation of what lore-divers speculate could also be a wormhole to whichever dire dimension the Illuminate at the moment hail from.
To all this, add a brace of „leaked“ character fashions and in-game sightings of unsure provenance. The purple blob on the Galactic Conflict map (which is adorned with the Illuminate iconography of a circle inside a circle) looks as if it would be simpler to manufacture than precise enemy fashions – I’ve simply had a glance and it isn’t displaying up in my sport. However then once more, Arrowhead have formally acknowledged it, with Arrowhead’s CEO Shams Jorjani describing it on Xitter as „faux information“.
I have not performed Helldivers 2 for some time, largely for the standard purpose that like sure species of shark, my journalist mind has to maintain swimming ahead or suffocate, but in addition as a result of I are likely to play solo, and there is a level after which that ceases to be a lot enjoyable as a result of problem. I am additionally getting a bit weary of the Illuminate teasing, which is why we have not lined sure different current hints and rumours – it isn’t fairly Winds-of-Winter-level delayed gratification but it surely’s getting a bit previous.
In different information, Arrowhead just lately announced a new approach to balancing Helldivers 2 after one specific replace upset gamers a lot they began letting the Automatons win. Are you enjoying a lot on the minute?