Author: [email protected] (Morgan Park)
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The winners and losers of today’s Helldivers 2 patch: Snipers rule, Sluggers drool
Amidst all the wild stuff happening with AT-AT walkers that spawn robots and cloaked ships hiding in plain sight, Arrowhead decided today was a good day to drop a huge Helldivers 2 balancing patch. The changes aren’t as dramatic as last month’s divisive Railgun nerf, but for this diver, they’re already more meaningful. Arrowhead put…
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Arrowhead sneaks two huge enemies into Helldivers 2’s latest patch: gigantic AT-AT walkers and swarming gunships
This is not a drill: Following Helldivers 2’s latest balancing patch and, hours before that, sightings of mysterious motherships, two new threats have appeared on Automaton planets. The largest is the Factory Strider, a colossal, four-legged walker that represents a new class of enemy in the robot wars. Second are gunships, quick-moving variants of the…
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‘April 1st will forever be a day of victory and remembrance’: Super Earth congratulates Helldivers 2 community after taking back Malevelon Creek, but the timing sure is suspicious
Victory is ours… already? Just hours after Super Earth initiated a major order to finally, once and for all, liberate community-favorite planet Malevalon Creek, Helldivers 2 players have delivered. Our greatest defeat can now be celebrated as one of our greatest achievements. The news became official with an in-game dispatch, as well as a rare…
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We celebrated too soon: Helldivers 2 players spot massive cloaked gunships in the skies above Automaton planets
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(Image credit: Firestorm_361 via Reddit) Whatever you do, don’t look up. Following today’s triumphant victory at Malevelon Creek, Helldivers players are making alarming discoveries on Automaton planets. Lurking in the skies are what appear to be massive, cloaked gunships lying in wait. In wait for what? I’m terrified to find out. The development first reached…
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Content Warning, a free co-op horror game where you go viral on SpookTube or die trying, is rapidly climbing the Steam charts
The best April Fools jokes, in my book, are the ones you can play. Landfall, the studio behind Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, is arguably the king of the gag game, with past playable goofs including PUBG parody Totally Accurate Battlegrounds and horse drifting racer Knightfall. For 2024, faux Lethal Company is on the menu with…
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They fly now too? Helldivers 2 warns players that Automatons are developing ‘aerial gunships,’ so Super Earth is countering with ‘our most effective anti-air weaponry’
It was bad enough when Helldivers 2’s bugs started to fly, but the latest Super Earth intel suggests something far scarier than Shriekers is on the horizon: Automaton aerial gunships. That’s according to the latest dispatch from Super Earth in the wake of Troost’s liberation. The Helldivers community got the job done in record time,…
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I found Fake Joel, the viral Helldivers 2 hacker who rains unreleased vehicles from the sky and says players pay him to skip the grind
This week, a clip allegedly depicting Helldivers 2 game master Joel entering a player’s match, spawning an unreleased vehicle, and then leaving so he can “get back to work” garnered over a million views on Twitter. While many believed the video was yet another tactic by Arrowhead to sneak new features into the game, all…
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‘Such a democratic weapon it makes me cry’: Helldivers 2 players salute the Quasar Cannon, Super Earth’s new heavy armor god gun
It feels like only yesterday that I complained that Helldivers 2 doesn’t have enough guns that rule against Automatons. Clearly Arrowhead heard my pleas, because in a surprise update this morning, two new support weapons arrived in the Super Earth arsenal: the MG-101 Heavy Machine Gun, and the true talk of the town, LAS-99 Quasar…
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Why do Helldivers 2 players like bugs more than robots?
It’s hard to imagine that videogames can get better in 2024 than Helldivers 2. Arrowhead’s unexpectedly gigantic shooter really is the whole co-op package—excellent shooting that marries simulation and simplicity, skyscraper-sized threats challenged by god-killing weapons, and a meta narrative that keeps us engaged without enforcing its will. It’s a rare shooter that lets its…
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Helldivers 2 CEO spills the beans on an unreleased ‘heavy machine gun’ with a tripod before immediately correcting himself: ‘Never mind. There’s so such thing as HMG’
Like a moth to a flame, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt can’t help but tease the future of Helldivers 2 whenever he logs on to Twitter. Today, after penning a cryptic tweet about giving Super Earth citizens “more officially regulated and mandated freedom,” Pilestedt replied to one fan’s concept for a tripod-equipped minigun with a curious…