Community Update: June 2024

Liberty’s greetings, Helldivers!

Welcome to a new series of community-focused updates on Helldivers 2! Our hope is that we can use these to tell you about the Galactic War happenings, our favorite moments and events, and some of the development plans we have for the game.

THE WAR REPORT

Let’s recap the last couple of months on the warfront. May marked the moment that Helldivers met the Terminid Supercolony on Meridia. The first major order involving the spore outbreak was a hard lesson learned for us all, and we saw the Terminid infestation spread to more planets, interfering in the lives of good hearted Super Earth citizens.

The Helldivers briefly turned their attention to the Automaton front in an attempt to secure resources and decommission a whopping 2 billion bots. This operation did not succeed, and Helldivers were again denied access to the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines, making the ensuing conflicts an even bigger challenge.

Taking advantage of our weakened condition, the Automatons stepped up their invasion, and the Meridian Supercolony kicked into high gear spreading Terminids in greater and greater numbers. This has been called The Second Galactic War, and Helldivers now had to protect our new recruit training facilities to help us get enough boots on the ground and secure our enduring liberty on both fronts.

In addition to new recruits, we also liberated a new exosuit: The EXO-49 Emancipator. A Helldiver is nothing without good tools of destruction.

Armed to the teeth and with fresh meat in our ranks, the Helldivers were finally ready to take on the Supercolony with Operation: Enduring Peace, a two phase order in which our heroes deployed a new, experimental substance called Dark Fluid–a permanent solution for the Terminid Supercolony on Meridia.

The Helldivers secured enough Dark Fluid to stop the spread of the Terminids. But this meant also destroying the planet in the process, with the Dark Fluid triggering planetary implosion and creating a black hole.

Now this ominous reminder sits in Meridia’s place. What does the future hold for the Helldivers? For Super Earth?

For the time being, the Helldivers should continue to refocus their efforts on the Automatons. SEAF Cyberwarfare Specialists have discovered that the Automatons are planning a massive terraforming project on Cyberstan. Obviously, we cannot allow them to continue with this plan. Now with the Terminid Supercolony destroyed, it's finally time to launch a counteroffensive against them to dismantle their unjust and illegal occupation.

THE WAR TABLE

Next up, let’s talk about our favorite moments from the Galactic War. We chatted with Game Master Joel about some of the amazing feats of strength and determination from our players, and while it’s hard to narrow it down to just a few highlights, we definitely have some standouts.

Here are a few of our favorite moments from Helldivers 2 in the last month:

• 2 Billion Bots Helldivers were tasked with killing 2 billion bots and they made it 78% to that goal. You might wonder why we’d include a failure as a highlight, but it’s important to remember that our failures light the fires that forge our victories. Besides, it was still an impressive display, and gave us valuable data on how our Helldivers accomplish goals together. This also marked the official start of “The Second Galactic War,” setting the stage for the events that followed.

• Varylia 5 x Angel’s Venture The Helldivers liberated Varylia 5 in order to secure the new EXO-49 Emancipator exosuit, but the seriously impressive part of that display was that our players