Helldivers 2 players get revenge on Automatons, take back Malevelon Creek

After a brutal defeat at Malevelon Creek in early March, the Helldivers have apparently gotten some much-needed redemption. On Monday, Helldivers 2 players obtained a significant order to liberate Malevelon Creek from the Automaton menace, and inside hours, they received.

The main order gave players 24 hours to liberate the planet, which was nonetheless underneath the management of the Automatons’ “illegal occupation” after the earlier defeat. And successful would internet all players 35 medals — a good reward for a brief main order like this one. The builders knew this may rile up the participant base too, with the next textual content:

A number of weeks in the past, our residents watched in horror as Malevelon Creek fell to the Automatons. Hundreds of thousands of valiant heroes perished trying to defend it. For too lengthy, the bots have maintained their unlawful occupation, desecrating the reminiscence of the fallen by quickly depleting the planet’s exceptionally wealthy rhodium deposits. This travesty might be allowed to proceed not.

Take vengeance and honor our heroes. Finish the theft of worthwhile minerals. Liberate Malevelon Creek.

Since that preliminary defeat, “Malevelon Creek” has grow to be a shorthand throughout the Helldivers neighborhood for trauma and loss — the neighborhood’s “Robot Vietnam,” because it’s been referred to as. I’ve seen movies of individuals (jokingly) breaking down on the mere point out of the planet. The unique assault was tough, as players bought steamrolled by the Automatons. Folks had been taken off guard by how completely different it was to combat them than the Terminids, and the way troublesome a few of the enemy varieties had been to destroy.

The earlier combat was among the many first battles with the Automatons after the sport launched, and it was the participant base’s first main loss after efficiently liberating planets from Terminid bugs. The sport tasked players with going back to Terminid missions after the failure earlier than ordering them to return to Automaton house final week. That resulted within the lack of Tibit, residence to many manufacturing services within the Helldivers universe.

What’s subsequent for Helldivers 2? The success is simply the beginning of one other main order issued Monday, which specifies that players should liberate three planets within the Severin Sector: Malevelon Creek, Draupnir, and Ubanea (on the time of this writing, solely Ubanea remains to be underneath Automaton management). Players on Reddit have additionally noticed what look like massive cloaked ships over Automaton planets.

Though this all begs the query: Is that this actual? It’s April Fools’ Day, in spite of everything, and with the revelation {that a} recreation grasp named “Joel” is transferring the tides of the battle in real-time, it’s important to surprise if that is going to explode in all people’s faces. Additionally, why did the Automatons fall so simply this time? Was it as a result of players now have methods to reach these fights or did the builders do one thing to make them much less difficult? If the key orders and occasions since Helldivers 2’s launch have been any indication, the builders prefer to have enjoyable with the participant base, and something can occur.