Cowardly Helldivers Turn on Malevelon Creek Veterans, Targeting Noble Cape Wearers | Push Square
05.04.2024 - 09:18
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Just yesterday, we brought you word of a commemorative cape being issued to all Helldivers 2 players in honour of the tragic loss and subsequent triumphant liberation of the Automaton-infested meme world, Malevelon Creek. But there's a darker side to this all-too-human story of victory, and what was supposed to be a symbol of remembrance has become a flashpoint for a militant faction in the community; veterans of Malevelon Creek, dubbed «Creekers», are being targeted by cowardly comrades for wearing the Fallen Heroe's Vengeance cape into battle.
To fully appreciate why, you need to understand the strategic situation necessitated by Operation Swift Disassembly, which appears to be on the brink of eradicating the Automatons for good (despite some surprises). But while Major Orders required players to focus on liberating specific planets in line with Super Earth's direct commands, a significant portion of the player population continued to fight to free the symbolic but strategically unimportant Malevolon's Creek. Given the ability to dictate a Galactic War effort, leave it to gamers to repeat the mistakes of terrestrial World Wars.
These «Creekers», honoured by Super Earth and given capes, are seen as being rewarded for their un-Democratic actions, undeniably heroic though they might be. As IGN astutely notes, no evidence suggests any of this has affected the game's meta-narrative so far. Still, watching the community grapple with events as they arise is fascinating. As ever, the Helldivers community continues to produce high-quality memes:
A date which will live in infamy
Remember the Creek
Have you or anyone you know been targeted recently for proudly wearing Fallen Hero's Vengeance? Please document and report even the slightest infraction in the comments section below.
Khayl is Push Square's Australian correspondent, a reporter who regularly catches the competition napping. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
I love this game and I really like the friendly fire because it provides some really,hilarious random lol moments but there is and always going to be that element of those who think it's funny to deliberately disrupt and ruin the game for others. Yes you can kick them but I think that being able to report them for crimes against democracy should carry some kind of stigmata over to their games such as a symbol on their player marking them as a miscreant for a fixed time so that you know an enemy of democracy...a traitor to super earth is amongst you.
Lmao, I did not know this was a thing. Dang.
Didn't everybody get this