Simply as Helldivers 2 tweaked the spawn charges for the sport’s super-armored Terminids, developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios has added a brand new risk — flying bugs. Arrowhead didn’t point out the Terminids with wings within the patch notes from Tuesday, however gamers on social media and boards reported recognizing the creatures in-game. The brand new Terminids are known as Shriekers, and are fairly terrifying as they dive and assault.
Arrowhead warned in Tuesday’s patch notes that the modified Chargers and Bile Titans weren’t reducing problem. However gamers have been unprepared for precisely what we have been in for.
Retaining consistent with Helldivers 2 lore, Arrowhead is denying the existence of the bugs: “Everybody is aware of that ‘Bugs can’t fly,’” CEO Johan Pilestedt posted to X, previously Twitter. “And I’m not alone in considering this. The Ministry of Fact agrees that that is propaganda from bug sympathizers that wish to brainwash good folks. #Lies”
This replace — or propaganda, relying on who you ask — is a part of Helldivers 2’s evolving story. Although the sport doesn’t have a marketing campaign, the storytelling is all over the place: Ranging from the intro and tutorial, Helldivers 2 units up a world of propaganda and unabashed patriotism. The federal government is not fascist! It’s pushing for freedom! As Polygon’s Cass Marshal put it, “We all know precisely what sort of struggle that is, and the way every particular person Helldiver is doomed to get dissolved by bile or exploded by a robotic,” they wrote. “However they don’t know that, and by the point the revelation wears off, the complete factor turns into a splendidly darkish comedy.”
Flying bugs and the denial of all of it is simply one other piece of the Helldivers 2 story. It’s possible you’ll bear in mind the same scenario with the addition of mechs over the previous week.