Mere hours after liberating Malevelon Creek, Helldivers 2 gamers have a new menace to take care of: mysterious cloaked ships.
Players took to social media and boards to put up screenshots displaying what seem like huge ships in orbit round Automaton planets. Redditor infinity__cube seems to be the primary Helldiver to have reported a sighting, however (*2*) have emerged since. The proof is irrefutable: the cloaked ships are there, however they look like mendacity in wait.
Yesterday, April 1, developer Arrowhead delivered a new Major Order to Helldivers 2 gamers, giving them a 24-hour window to lastly take back Malevelon Creek, the Automaton map dubbed ‘Space Vietnam’ by followers. The planet was liberated in only about five hours.
Now, with a new Major Order in place to fend off the Automaton counterattack, the mysterious ships have popped up within the sky throughout Automaton planets.
Cloaked large ships over Automaton worlds ?!! pic.twitter.com/k3yNlqfGRT
— Helldivers 2 Media (@Helldiversmedia) April 1, 2024
But what might they be? There are a quantity of theories, together with a fairly boring rationalization that they’re a visible bug related to the prevailing Super-Destroyer ships. More thrilling is the suggestion they’re Illuminate ships. The Illuminate are a third alien faction most Helldivers 2 players believe are on their way to the game.
Perhaps they’re proof that the Automatons’ true may is looming over the horizon, able to pounce now that the terrifying alien robots have been sufficiently angered. If that’s the case, maybe these ships mark the arrival of new Automaton aerial gunships, which have been signaled in taste textual content from a just lately accomplished Major Order. Players are already speculating that these aerial gunships, if real, will trigger Helldivers even more issues by intermittently firing on the battlefield. That received’t be annoying in any respect.
— Tukenfarben (@tukenfarben) April 2, 2024
This is all half of Helldivers 2’s fascinating Galactic War, a meta narrative steered by Game Master Joel. Amid the push and pull of planets, new Stratagems are made available to players, with the promise of more to come back. If you’re in search of more on Helldivers 2, take a look at IGN’s function on the Let Me Solo Her of Helldivers 2, a participant who has answered over 100 SOS Beacons as half of a mission to help others.
Helldivers 2 has develop into one of the shock hits of 2024 since launching in February, topping the charts on Steam and reportedly selling around three million copies. According to no less than one analyst, it's still growing. Check out IGN's Helldivers 2 review to seek out out why it's going down so effectively.
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