Helldivers 2 Kicks off Major Order to Liberate Exosuit Manufacturing Planet

With the current Major Order looking all but complete, Helldivers 2 players are attempting to rally their fellow soldiers to the fight on Mantes. The issue, though, is that plenty of people don't fancy the fight against the Automatons.

A Helldivers 2 player has come up with a fun way to troll toxic teammates in-game. Helldivers 2 often requires players to work together with strangers, so it’s no fun when toxic players try to ruin the fun.

Players all across the known galaxy converge on certain planets under the name of spreading Managed Democracy in the game Through immersive and organic storytelling reminiscent of the enigmatic gamemaster known as Joel shapes the greater narrative of the game as players contend with hordes of bugs and bots. One way Arrowhead Game Studios directs story efforts is by issuing Major Orders. These missions direct the overall strategy and aims of the playerbase.

After denials by Arrowhead Game Studios CEO and director Johann Pilestedt that Helldivers 2 has flying bugs—playfully dismissing it as propaganda by “bug sympathizers”—the studio boss has now acknowledged that “most bugs fly” and that the arrival of flying bugs was only ever a matter of time.

Swen Vincke, director of Baldur's Gate 3 and founder of developer Larian Studios, used the opportunity afforded by winning big at the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) to blame the industry's current state on rampant corporate greed, a sentiment we can get behind. Plenty of developers made their voices heard at the Independent Games Festival Awards and Games Developers Choice Awards (held as part of GDC). Still, Vincke directed his ire at a specific part of the industry: publishers, those companies that proliferate games and allow them to reach a wider audience, for a price.

Arrowhead Game Studios is currently investigating an issue with Helldivers 2 crashes that many players have been reporting in late March. The studio suspects the problem to be related to the latest Helldivers 2 patch, as well as select weapons.

Helldivers 2 has taken the world by storm ever since its launch in early February, so it’s no surprise that the game is continuing to top sales charts all over the world. Circana (formerly known as the NPD Group) recently released the data for software and hardware sales in the US for the month of February (via analyst Mat Piscatella on Twitter), and Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony’s co-op shooter has topped those charts.

Arrowhead Game Studios has released a new patch for Helldivers 2, addressing issues with the recently introduced EXO-45 Patriot exosuit and Planetary Hazards. The latter has seen some changes to its spawn rates, and players should see less of them during missions.

Developer Arrowhead Game Studios has swiftly addressed a long-standing issue involving a problem with difficulty levels affecting a staggering 1.3 million Helldivers 2 players. This issue was preventing players from unlocking difficulties normally; however, the Helldivers 2 developer was able to rectify it through a manual progression fix. Nonetheless, the resolution process is not yet complete.

Helldivers 2 has released Patch 1.000.103 for the game, rebalancing the spawn rates of meteor showers, among a bunch of other fixes. Arrowhead Game Studios has an enormous hit on its hands with Helldivers 2, and the release of new patches helps to keep the momentum going.

The Helldivers 2 player community thinks that a new enemy type is being teased by developer Arrowhead Game Studios. The latest development in the Helldivers 2 in-game galactic war has some players speculating about what the studio has planned for the soldiers of Super Earth.

E3 is comfortably six feet under at this point, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be bereft of video game shenanigans this summer. Host Geoff Keighley has announced that his Summer Game Fest event will return on Friday, 7th June at 5PM PT/5PM ET/10PM BST. It’ll be broadcast live from the YouTube Theatre in glitzy Los Angeles.