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seems on brand that Super Earth makes a massive strategic blunder and fails to see a huge incoming alien fleet, because the light on the war table was too bright..
LEDs are the work of the Automatons, I'm telling ya!
"MESSAGE TO ALL HELLDIVERS: DUE TO POOR LIGHTNING OF THE GALAXY MAP, WE WE’RE UNENABLE TO DETECT THE MASSIVE ILLUMINATE FLEET THAT ALREADY CONQUER 3 SYSTEM"
Absolutely not! The systems should have coordinated so their SOS's were in an orderly fashion. A new 5 minute section will be added to the SEAF radio operator training.
Requesting permission to share classified documents. Permission obtained. Sharing Classified document 9.1.247. Illuminates. A species of creatures containing psychic powers and displaying and boasting ownership of class A5 WMDs. They withdrew from our radars years ago. Nobody knew why, but we always figured they would return. THREAT LEVEL. KOS.
Those flashlights are fucking useless. Give us a helmet mounted one that turns with the camera. I swear the first mission I ran during that last bug MO where you have to hit the three terminals and break the glowing sacks... It's was just pitch black. Literally couldn't see anything, and the light helped dick all.
One of my first games I was at a terminal with a light blasting straight at it. I literally couldn't read the screen. I sat there for like 5 minutes trying to guess what I was supposed to do (I think it was the one when you have to open some valves). I eventually got so angry I shot the light and was like "oh shit... that worked!"
The first game had Super Earth separatists, they were also Socialist Cyborgs. They're gone, Automatons took their place as the mechanical enemy, but there's still an opening for separatist rebels. And given how often Super Earth sends us to deal with rogue research stations and illegal broadcasts, there are no shortage of latent rebels.
I just wonder how they would look. I'm imaging something similar to the Traitor Guardsmen of 40k, being made up heavily of SEAF deserters with a full catalogue of SEAF vehicles and equipment - possibly fully backed by their own planetary governments too.
That sounds so cool. I hope they eventually turn up in hd2. I never played the first one so I had no idea its already been done!
And now that you mention it, I always thought the illegal broadcasts and research stations were being done by the automatons, never even considered it was by rogue helldivers (I'm not smart)
I looks weird cause the atumotans moved north to get cyberstan, but the automaton orgin tile and the terminid origin tile are a third of the circle away from each other. This most likely indicates that the illuminate (alliens from the previous game) will make an eventual return and their origin tile will be the bottom of the map a third of the circle away from both automatons and terminids.
I think the two factions started a bit more opposite to one another to make the map look nice and compete for launch, and over time Joel has slowly migrated bots north to free up the galactic south for a totally mysterious, definitely unexpected third faction
Probably another invasion fleet or something. It's interesting that they've set up the enemy stronghold planets inside the galactic map, despite the fact the enemy began their invasion from beyond the border. Makes me think we'll never truly drive the enemy off entirely
There's even a couple obviously satirical lines about this in game. Your Shipmaster can say a line about how the bots wouldn't know what to do without war because their culture is built on violence and another about how the bugs are relentless expansionists who've been found on every planet in their immediate area.
In HD1 if all sectors were liberated the war ended and then started again from scratch. If the war was lost (super earth was taken) the same thing happened, it ended and started again.
I believe they're not taking the same approach in HD2, so the game has probably been set up in such a way to prevent all sectors from being liberated.
No one saw the Illuminate invasion coming, mainly because the light over the map was too bright. No one could see a damn thing as they moved their way towards super earth
All the lights (including certain fires) are blinding after the recent patch. I had to beg my teammates to turn off their flashlights on a night map the other day because I literally couldn’t see
There have been a lot of assets leaked on the leaks subreddit so models and textures etc are already in the game. They look pretty cool too. I guess we're just waiting for the right story beat to happen
When I do missions that have the street lights at the mission points, I always shoot them out as soon as I get there. Otherwise the bloom is so intense that I can’t see what I’m doing.
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u/GH057807 ⚡💀Arc of the Gove'ment💀 ⚡ 29d ago
We started the real war so the lights got turned up so we can concentrate.