The wait is lastly over, Helldivers 2 of us! The Illuminate are right here in any case that hypothesis, having arrived as a part of a giant new replace to the sport – Omens of Tyranny. It actually acquired everybody’s consideration, main the sport to instantly hit its highest Steam participant quantity in about six months.
Yep, because it seems, Arrowhead cheekily updating a Helldivers 2 depot dubbed “gameplay_illuminates” final month – one thing which naturally triggered a heap of hypothesis and SteamDB watching – was value taking note of in any case. God, it looks like ages in the past that we had been all simply staring into the Meridia black gap ready for the large bads from the unique Helldivers to come back crawling out.
Now, although, they’re right here, with Arrowhead having commemorating the event by deploying a particular emergency main order that is seeing gamers battle for the planet Calypso. You already know it is an essential order, as a result of the tweet about was in all caps.
Loads of of us have responded to it as properly – in line with SteamDB, Helldivers 2 hit a participant quantity peak of 133,324 on the platform final evening. That appears prefer it’s the largest quantity Steam-wise recorded since late April this 12 months, when the sport was hovering across the 139,000 mark, earlier than dipping under that as we acquired into Might – a month that kicked off with that PlayStation community account linking backlash which led to the sport being review-bombed.
Now, it is essential to notice that whereas the PSN linking hoo-ha in all probability did not assist, round that point the sport was already within the midst of the pure gradual lower in participant depend on-line video games like this usually expertise after their preliminary flurry of recognition instantly following launch. So, it isn’t like Helldivers 2 has had an actual participant depend disaster within the months between then and now, issues had largely simply settled right into a rhythm the place a good quantity of hardcore gamers (usually between 70,000 and 25,000) had been sticking with it, whereas others took a break whereas they waited to be drawn again in by large, thrilling updates like this one.
Anyway, what are you able to count on while you be a part of this inflow of returning and new troopers on the entrance? Nicely, as detailed within the Omens of Tyranny replace’s PlayStation weblog and the trailer above, the Illuminate are “superior, highly-intelligent beings wielding highly effective expertise that seems to common residents like a sort of darkish magic”.
The tremendous residents they’re thoughts controlling are dubbed “The Voteless”, as a result of Helldivers 2’s positively satire in the event you did not know, and it will be your job to assist suss out the “darkish goal” behind this brainwashing. That will help you try this, the replace additionally introduces the Quick Recon Automobile or FRV – Helldivers 2’s first driveable automobile – which you’ll unlock by means of main orders and will provide help to plough by means of the hordes of enemies within the new city areas you may be battling in.
How glad are you that the Illuminate have lastly made their entrance in Helldivers 2? Tell us under!