The newest Helldivers 2 replace is the most important but, and followers are sad with its stability modifications and flamethrower nerfs designed to make liberal software of cleaning flame much less overwhelmingly fashionable. Whereas many gamers are eagerly awaiting extra buffs from Arrowhead, I’m excited for an entire different purpose: There’s an enormous cloud of Terminid spores known as the Gloom, and I can’t wait to see what huge scary bugs emerge from the slowly creating Terminid Management System storyline.
You would possibly say, “However Cass! Arrowhead simply added new enemies, just like the Impaler! Doesn’t that scratch your itch for giant bug mayhem?”
I just like the Impaler simply high quality. This huge, Charger-looking beast will cut up open its face plates, planting them into the bottom and spawning tentacles in all places you go. It’s pretty balanced; you’ll be able to kill it with something that’d one-shot a Charger, or look ahead to its face to open up so you’ll be able to shoot inside.
I wish to think about an alternate actuality the place I noticed my first Impaler, went, “Huh, that Charger appears form of torpid,” after which began screaming as tentacles sprouted round me. However I learn in regards to the Impaler and its tough ways properly upfront, on a Sony weblog, as an alternative of encountering one within the wild.
One thing I like about Helldivers 2 is the unreliable standpoint; all of our info comes from Tremendous Earth, who’re textually the unhealthy guys. Different gamers are usually a a lot better supply of knowledge, giving updates from the battleground. Seeing folks put up clips of Automaton ships taking to the skies was chilling, and gave an actual sense of escalation.
Even higher, Tremendous Earth would react to previous revelations by denying all the things — No, there are not any gun-ships or sky Terminids… — till they have been pressured to acknowledge it as a result of new enemy’s overwhelming presence, by which case they’d say there had at all times been flying Terminids and large bot ships, and it doesn’t even matter, as a result of they’re so weak and pitiful.
In previous patches, seeing new threats emerge organically on the battlefield was a thrill. I hope we proceed to see these sorts of slow-burn threats. It encourages a way of neighborhood, as gamers share threats with each other. Helldivers 2 can be in a considerably distinctive scenario; since propaganda from our in-game superiors is such a core a part of the setting, it is smart to have the sport actively gaslight gamers about new enemies and updates.
There’s nonetheless loads of room for these sorts of surprises to emerge, what with the black gap we left behind on Meridia and rumors of a 3rd faction approaching. As Helldivers 2 continues, I hope Arrowhead doesn’t shift to sharing upcoming surprises in weblog posts and promotional supplies. I wish to be completely shocked as these new enemies present up and switch my poor Helldiver into chunky salsa; it retains issues recent.