Escalation of Freedom, Helldivers 2’s newest replace, hasn’t gone down properly with followers, a lot in order that gamers are protesting by letting the Automatons win.
Final week, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead launched one of many sport’s largest updates shortly, and rapidly gamers felt sad with the nerfs, ensuing within the sport sliding all the way down to a blended score on Steam. Even Arrowhead’s CEO says lots of the devs themselves are sad with how issues have gone down. And whereas these Steam opinions are clearly a method gamers are expressing their frustration, as noticed by GamesRadar, there’s one other, presumably much more drastic tactic being taken up. Evidenced by a well-liked put up on the sport’s subreddit, and the unofficial Helldivers 2 galaxy map, many gamers are merely refusing to take down any Automatons, and now the robotic baddies are getting worryingly near Tremendous Earth.
Let the Bots advance. Let the Tremendous Earth burn.
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“Although it takes the final drop of my blood, I’ll see the galaxy freed as soon as extra and if I cannot put it aside out of your failure Managed Democracy, then let the galaxy burn!” wrote a consumer in Reddit, clearly nonetheless making an attempt to remain in character as many gamers have down for the reason that sport launched earlier this yr. One other consumer even notes that gamers refusing to play ensuing within the bots within the bots encroachment in the direction of Tremendous Earth is definitely fairly “life like” due to the nerfs, saying “Sucky weapons and outclassed artilery lose wars! So, we won’t defend Tremendous Earth as a result of our enemies have higher weapons than us and Tremendous Earth can solely produce crap for us to battle with.”
It is clearly unclear if Arrowhead really accounted for the Automatons making it so near Tremendous Earth, and even presumably efficiently invading the planet, so we’ll need to see how lengthy this goes on for. A hammy clarification as to why the Helldivers instantly win in all probability will not go down too properly, so it is a tight line to stability – let’s hope the devs handle to take care of gamers’ considerations earlier than the conflict is over.