It seems we can not go greater than a day or two with out some new Helldivers 2 thriller, because the GM-controlled recreation retains shelling out new dwell story content material involving the playerbase as its pawns, intermixed with new additions to the sport on the identical time. It ain’t the traditional patching course of, that’s for positive.
Within the wake of the profitable deployment of Termicide within the Umlaut sector, two recent mysteries have emerged.
1. Blue beams are actually seen, often, capturing down from the sky. They virtually appear like stratagem calldowns, however as far as we all know, they aren’t that, and gamers are questioning if that is some Automaton ploy and even one thing from a brand new enemy faction on the verge of arriving. Naturally, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt has come out to say each that they aren’t actual, they usually can’t damage you.
2. For a short time frame, there was a single participant that was on Cyberstan, an already liberated planet within the Valdis sector. Even when one thing is underneath Tremendous Earth management, you simply can’t…go there, so everyone seems to be questioning who was there and why, with many speculating it was the GM Joel plotting one thing. If this was one other planet, you possibly may dismiss it as only a bug.
However that is Cyberstan, the homeworld of the Cyborg Nation which has an…fascinating historical past. Right here’s some lore:
“Cyberstan, the Cyborg Nation’s homeworld, is a barren snow-covered wasteland on the galactic fringe. Every time it’s conquered by Tremendous Earth, the Cyborgs are then “democratized” by power, coerced into the voting cubicles by the specter of shedding their civil rights. Tremendous Earth’s Military Tactical Command invariably stations troops on the planet for a interval of 5 years to “maintain the peace and run authorities positions”, after which interval the Cyborgs’ tradition is meant to have transitioned to a “totally democratic” one (by Tremendous Earth requirements). In the meantime, the Tremendous Earth Development Firm (SECC), a authorities contractor, takes over the large forges and industrial complexes of Cyberstan. Finally, inevitably, one other bombing begins this entire cycle anew.”
So, blue beams? Somebody hanging out on Cyberstan? This feels like a set-up for the subsequent main order, and maybe some form of rise up on the planet. So far as we all know, the Automatons are creations or descendants of Cyborgs, and I ponder if we is likely to be getting totally new Cyborg items, if Cyberstan does find yourself being a plot level.
We are going to in all probability know at reset time subsequent week, till then, watch the sky for blue beams and watch Cyberstan for extra Joel sightings, or whoever it’s.
Replace: Apparently, the Cyberstan query got here up actually three years in the past when the sport was posting coded teasers on-line. There was a binary sequence that was deciphered by followers that got here out to:
“We, the collective from Cyberstan, unanimously assert our independence from Tremendous Earth. We have now the fitting to defend our dwelling from the brainwashed Helldivers. Our youngsters, the Automaton, is not going to undergo as we now have underneath the oppression of Tremendous Earth!”
This aligns with the concept the remaining cyborgs are enslaved on Cyberstan, and I ponder if the brand new marketing campaign will imply that their Automaton “kids” will invade that planet and attempt to free them. Then, in fact, you run into the query of whether or not or not Helldivers repel this, which might have two very completely different outcomes. And given the loss on the Creek, it stands to motive that we might be taking a look at some freed Cyborgs someday quickly.
In the meantime, the blue beams may be associated to that, but it surely may be the heralding of the arrival of the Illuminate, a 3rd alien faction that has not but arrived in Helldivers 2, however completely will in some unspecified time in the future. I do surprise if Arrowhead will attempt to strike when the iron is hottest right here and get the Illuminate out earlier than there’s extra participant dropoff, however we’ll see.
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