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Well, it looks like we know what that meme from earlier in the week was about—and a surprisingly accurate use of one, to boot. Helldivers 2 players are faced with a choice for their next major order: mines or rockets. MAJOR ORDER: Helldivers, it’s time to choose between liberating Choohe or Penta. Depending on your […]

With only hours to go, things were not looking good for Helldivers 2’s latest major order. These come down from on-high with regularity, and shape the game’s ongoing galactic war: in this case, Super Earth tasked the Helldivers with successfully liberating 10 planets from enemy takeover. Earlier in the week things looked a bit grim, […]

Helldivers 2 players are normal about the Eagle-1 pilot—otherwise known as that charmingly-voiced lady who helps you dispense liberty from the cockpit of her fighter jet with lines such as “Administering Freedom!”, “Democracy’s on its way!” and “Got ’em!” Eagle-1’s cheery disposition, confident attitude, and distant nature has quickly elevated her to “best girl” status […]

Stop me if you’ve heard one of these lines of propaganda before. Bugs can’t fly. The Automatons haven’t developed aerial gunships yet. There’s no such thing as a heavy machine gun. These images from the surface of Mars are just “seasonal eruptions of carbon dioxide gas,” not thousands of alien spiders gathering for an imminent […]

First reported by GamesRadar, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has politely requested that players refrain from killing their teammates who are wearing the fancy blue preorder armor, no matter how much you may want to stick it to those nerds and their silly little outfits. The SUMY Corporation froyo salesman armor was a preorder bonus for […]

Helldivers 2 devs have proven before that they aren’t above a little trolling—proclaiming that bugs can’t fly (they can), that there are no such things as heavy machine guns (there are) and that blue lasers aren’t real (jury’s still out on that one). Super Earth propagandists have apparently discovered new and creative ways to mess […]

The ever-marching galactic war campaign of Helldivers 2 is impressive, so much so that it’s a little difficult to follow, though the sense of FOMO is there for the right reasons, that being “I’m missing out on a cool, emergent, player-driven story”. Well, that’s the idea at least—right now, the community’s a little bummed out. […]

Less than three days remain on Helldivers 2’s latest major order, and the projections are grim. Super Earth has tasked the community with successfully defending 10 planets from enemy takeover, but over the weekend, we barely managed three. With a handful of new defense missions opening just hours ago, it’s looking like this major order […]

Less than three days remain on Helldivers 2’s latest major order, and the projections are grim. Super Earth has tasked the community with successfully defending 10 planets from enemy takeover, but over the weekend, we barely managed three. With a handful of new defense missions opening just hours ago, it’s looking like this major order […]

We weren’t quite sure what to make of Mecha Break when it was unveiled at last year’s Game Awards⁠—is this a story-heavy challenger to Armored Core’s throne, or something else entirely? After a gameplay reveal earlier this year and a conversation through a translator with developer Amazing Seasun’s CEO, Kris Kwok, I got the skinny […]

The Martale Gambit is on. As the Helldivers 2 community comes together to counter the Automaton’s latest advances in the Andromeda sector, an unconventional idea has emerged that utilizes a hidden mechanic in the galactic war simulation. If it works, Super Earth would be able to liberate two planets simultaneously, including one with an ongoing […]

A huge part of Helldivers 2’s appeal is the game’s ongoing galactic war, a push-and-pull conflict between the players and the enemy factions that sees planets liberated, territory lost, and casualties on a multi-planetary scale. The conflict is guided and shaped by major orders, which identify targets and offer rewards, with yesterday’s example being a […]

Yesterday, Helldivers 2 players were presented with the simple yet daunting task of killing 2 billion Terminids as part of the newest Major Order. Some soldiers voiced concern over getting the task done within a week, but it seems as if they had nothing to worry about.  The notification went through this morning that this […]

While everyone in my circles booted up Helldivers 2 last week excited to unlock the exploding crossbow, grenade pistol, and the wild micro-missile-firing Eruptor, my eyes were locked on a different prize. Resting comfortably on the first page of the Democratic Detonation warbond is a new rifle that sticks out: the BR-14 Adjudicator. It’s the […]

The latest Major Order for Helldivers 2 has just dropped and, while I think killing 2 billion bugs in a week sounds slightly excessive, it seems as if this is no challenge at all for the dedicated Divers hellbent on spreading democracy.  Now the Automaton invasion has slowed down, the next directive is to refill […]

The latest Major Order for Helldivers 2 has just dropped and, while I think killing 2 billion bugs in a week sounds slightly excessive, it seems as if this is no challenge at all for the dedicated Divers hellbent on spreading democracy.  Now the Automaton invasion has slowed down, the next directive is to refill […]

Give players free premium currency, and they will learn how to farm it. Helldivers 2 is set up like lots of other service games, with cosmetics and warbonds purchasable with premium Super Credits, but it’s unique in how easy it is to get its premium bucks for free. You’ll find Super Credits just lying around […]

Free-to-play shooters are generally the domain of PC, but Vigor, developed by Arma studio Bohemia Interactive, is a notable exception. It launched on the Xbox One in 2019, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PS5 in 2020, and Xbox Series X/S in 2021, but through all that time has never been available on PC. Today that […]

Helldivers 2 is one of the most impressive multiplayer games in recent memory—enjoying such a runaway success that you could barely play it for the first handful of weeks, due to chronically overloaded servers. It’s also, unfortunately, a little buggy right now—and I’m not talkin’ Terminids. As highlighted by recent patch notes, damage-over-time effects aren’t […]

Two weeks ago, the Helldivers 2 community was blindsided by a patch that sneakily added Gunships and gigantic AT-AT walkers to Automaton planets. It was a hectic 24 hours as players scrambled to react to the new threats and finally liberate Malevelon Creek. Super Earth prevailed, and while Gunships became a mainstay of Automaton missions, […]

Epic Games has weighed in on the whole underage kids creating user-generated content debacle that saw a Roblox executive in the firing line earlier this month. Speaking to Eurogamer, Saxs Persson—executive vice president of Epic and overseer on features like Fortnite Creators, Lego Fortnite and Unreal Editor For Fortnite—strictly maintained that its own policy on […]

The patriots at Arrowhead Games R&D have been busy working on Helldivers 2 fixes—the latest batch of which just dropped this morning. A bizarre quirk of the game engine that was giving PS5 players (and their squadmates) an unfair advantage has been nixed, restoring weapons-grade equality between the platforms. In case you weren’t aware, here’s […]

The Helldivers 2 community has demonstrated a ravenous appetite for new stuff. Guns, stratagems, suits, helmets, boosters—Arrowhead has kept the update hose spraying these last two months, but that hasn’t stopped players from looking deep within the code to find stuff yet to come. Through datamining, players have discovered unreleased vehicles, guns, and armor pieces […]

It looks like changing the look of your armour to suit your cosmetic needs is out of the question in Helldivers 2, as the CEO of Arrowhead, Johan Pilestedt, has confirmed that transmogrification isn’t on the table.  “We are not doing transmog,” Pilestedt explains in reply to one fan’s suggestion. “It doesn’t make sense—equipment looks […]

Helldivers 2 has emerged as one of the year’s standout titles, not least because it’s been supported post-launch in a highly unusual fashion. The distinctive element is that developer Arrowhead clearly prepared to go full-bore on the game’s promise of an unfolding galactic war by having a whole bunch of significant additions and assets ready […]

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has confirmed that there was a bit of a mixup with the Democratic Detonation warbond that went live yesterday: Somehow, the CE-27 Ground Breaker medium armor rolled off the line with the wrong passive. We noted when the warbond was released that the Ground Breaker armor has the Servo-Assisted […]

Despite the praise I have for it now, Remnant 2’s launch wasn’t pitch-perfect: The game released with some difficult performance issues, which have been slowly improved over time, but it also staggered out of its big red crystal with some mechanical sore spots. A somewhat stingy resource economy, expensive respec costs, and a lack of […]

The R-36 Eruptor is a hell of a democracy spreader.  Available in Helldivers 2’s new Democratic Detonation Warbond, the Erputor is a primary weapon that fires “jet-assisted shells” which explode on impact, and can destroy fabricators, bug nests, gunships, tanks, and other vehicles and structures. Basically, it packs the power of a support weapon stratagem […]

Remnant 2 still has a special place in my heart—which is why I went to bat for it when we were deciding on last year’s best games. It’s a title that suffered in part because it arrived in a year that was absolutely rammed with high-profile releases, but I still think it’s a must-play for […]

Helldivers 2’s new warbond, Democratic Detonation, has just landed—and it’s brought a whole host of fresh goodies for you to get your freedom-loving mitts on, as announced on the game’s official Twitter. Explosive firepower is Taken to a new level with three times the democracy and three times the detonation.The latest Warbond, Democratic Detonation, is […]