A brand new Helldivers 2 Main Order has upped the ante within the ongoing battle towards the Automatons, sending gamers straight again to Malevelon Creek in a push to destroy a serious bot manufacturing unit. However this order has come amidst a suspiciously quiet second on the western warfare entrance, and I am extra satisfied than ever that we’re simply within the eye of the storm.
The Automatons presently have only one sector left within the western theater, and gamers are presently dominating it too. There isn’t any means on this Earth – this Tremendous Earth – that Recreation Grasp Joel goes to let this operation go off with out a hitch. For starters, let’s take a look at the conclusion from the earlier Main Order. A brand new in-game discover reads:Â
“OP Swift Disassembly, Part 1 – Accomplished.
“The Automaton Comms Array on Troost has been decommissioned. Surprisingly, it seems to have been broadcasting outdoors the Galactic Frontier. Analysts are working to find out extra.
“Nonetheless, we did uncover a Transmission containing blueprints for a brand new Automaton sort: aerial gunships. With this advance warning, our hardworking manufacturing unit laborers have been instructed to speed up manufacturing of our handiest anti-air weaponry.”
A separate message appears to point that this accelerated anti-air weaponry is certainly a reference to the newly launched heavy machine gun and Quasar Cannon, with the latter being particularly potent towards bot dropships. However that is not the essential half right here.Â
The bots had been broadcasting a message, seemingly tied to the prophesied “Reclamation,” to an exterior sector? That’s to say, an space of house that is not on the present Galactic Struggle map? And we intercepted blueprints for a brand new sort of bot? That ain’t good, of us. For as soon as I want the decision was coming from inside the home.Â
This is a bit more interpretive on my half, however I am additionally undecided it is a coincidence that Arrowhead has referred to as us again to Malevelon Creek proper now, both. The devs had been speaking up the Creek earlier than the most recent Main Order even dropped, and given its popularity, it might be a fantastic staging floor for a major narrative beat within the Automaton warfare – like, say, a sudden inflow of bots packing new toys of their very own.Â
After weeks of bug-stomping, the pendulum has clearly swung again to the bots for the approaching days. “The time has come to rid ourselves of the Automaton irritant as soon as and for all,” my ship’s co-pilot tells me as I log in at present. Daring phrases, soldier, however I’ve a sense we must always all anticipate the sudden proper now.
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