The Greatest Enemy in Helldivers 2 Isn’t the Bugs or the Robots — It’s Farmers

The community has never shied away from tackling the Galactic War with gusto, but when taking a step back to look at the overall picture, some of the current efforts of Super Earth's soldiers might actually be poised to backfire. Although individual objectives can vary, the basic prerogatives of are always simple enough. Terminids and Automatons must be defeated at all costs, a necessary step in ensuring the safety and spread of Managed Democracy throughout the galaxy.

The Helldivers 2 community is a fun place, especially when players remain as enthusiastic about the prosperity of Super Earth on social media as a real Helldiver would out on Erata Prime. There's no doubt the developers encourage this, with game director Johan Pilestedt recently branding the footage of flying Terminids as "propaganda from bug sympathizers" and refusing to acknowledge their existence.

The solo dev behind the indie poker roguelike Balatro is disappointed over how games with "actual gambling mechanics" are given age ratings, after seeing their own game's rating skyrocket due to gambling-related concerns. This came despite the fact that Balatro doesn't actually feature gambling, and the developer is strictly against it. 

Although is, for the most part, a game that's easy to learn in terms of moment-to-moment gameplay, the exact workings of the galaxy-spanning war for liberation that the game centers its overarching progression around can be a little harder to intuit. Pitting players against (at the moment) two different factions on separate fronts of an unending war, centers much of its overarching narrative and gameplay progression around liberating and occasionally defending planets from Terminids and Automatons, with Major Orders designating specific objectives for the entire playerbase to achieve over periods of time.

Dragon's Dogma 2's character creator is now out in the wild, giving us full scope to experiment and bask in the glory of how many options this thing has, and seriously, there's a lot. 

The latest Gift Set from coincides with the release of the expansion, keeping the tradition that started with last year that sees a Gift Set release alongside a new expansion. This Gift Set is more like the first, as it includes two oversized foil cards and four booster packs, among other items, rather than featuring several exclusive cards like the D100 Gift Set for did.

Today's Helldivers 2 update was huge, and it's a particularly exciting day for anyone who likes their Chargers extra crispy. Amongst the list of balance changes, the FLAM-40 Flamethrower has been given a significant buff, which has already proven to be highly effective against the shooter's foes. 

Dragon's Dogma 2's release is right around the corner, and given that it's launching over a decade after its predecessor, there's no doubt that plenty of us are excited to see what the sequel has in store. 

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fans are no strangers to innovating on the battlefield, but one player has made calling in support from Stratagems easier than ever before. After dropping down onto whatever besieged planet catches their attention, Helldivers are provided access to a range of Stratagems that involve plugging in a series of inputs for their orbiting Destroyer to send down equipment, supplies, and even deadly explosives. In the heat of battle, that process can be rather difficult, but fortunately, for some players, it just got much simpler.

In , facing off against the Automatons is a terrifying experience, but each unit can strike different levels of fear into Helldivers. The insect Terminid faction fits into the horror sci-fi theme goes for, but the Automatons feel like the perfect fit. These endlessly mass-produced robots have given Helldivers their fair share of trouble, especially with an invasion shortly after launch that was so brutal it required a nerf for a specific type of mission. So far, it would seem the consensus is that, while both factions are far from easy, the Automatons are the more difficult fight.

The developer of Limbo and Inside has revealed two new pieces of art for its long-gestating third game.