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Superbad Timing | UPDATE: With Super Earth on the line, Helldivers 2's developed a glitch that's stopping speedy-inputting players' stratagems from working, but Arrowhead says it'll be fixed "ASAP"

"WE ARE LITERALLY FIGHTING FOR SUPER EARTH AND WE GET THIS!?"

May 30, 2025 Mark Warren

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More Hellbombing | With the Illuminate now on the verge of defeat, Helldivers 2 was just hit with a fresh barrage of Steam review bombing apparently rooted in a Galactic War comms mix-up

Some players seemingly got really into the battle for Equality-On-Sea, and I'd not like to be the person who informs them Super Earth's prez just died.

May 30, 2025 Mark Warren

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Best Bugs? | Only two cities are still standing in Helldivers 2's battle for Super Earth, and Arrowhead's kicked off an extra mission that might heal the player base's biggest divide

Unless it somehow ends up failing, in which case we might have to add an inter-Helldiver civil war to the mix.

May 29, 2025 Mark Warren

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The Last Stand | "This is the endgame" Helldivers 2's battle for Super Earth has entered its "final phase", with agonising failure triggering an "all-out assault" on the final four cities

Meanwhile, the game's latest patch has delivered one of the most popular armour passive changes I can recall.

May 27, 2025 Mark Warren

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Sad Eagle Scream | Eagleopolis has fallen despite Helldivers 2 players slapping up 2.5 billion squids for an opening victory in the battle for Super Earth, leaving six Mega Cities to defend

"To unleash the flames of Justice and triumph over Tyranny, we must battle through the inferno before us."

May 23, 2025 Mark Warren

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Surfer Earth | Helldivers 2 players struggled with Heart of Democracy's massive flying Illuminate Leviathans at first, so naturally they're now surfing them through Super Earth's skies

"They might as well give up now with all the aura we're farming."

May 22, 2025 Mark Warren

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Super Stonks | Helldivers 2's Heart of Democracy update delivers the game's highest Steam player count since its initial post-release hot streak began to wane, as battle rages on Super Earth

"It’s all you folks and your amazing support."

May 21, 2025 Mark Warren

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Number Twos | "Protec the lil' uns!" As Helldivers 2's CEO takes a victory lap around the latrines, players have already fallen in love with their new SEAF buddies

"What's the pant situation soldiers????"

May 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Purple Alert | UPDATE: "All eyes now turn to Liberty's Heart" Helldivers 2's big battle for Super Earth is here, as the Heart of Democracy update brings an Illuminate "Great Host" invasion

At least the divers' latest heroic stand means there's been time to fortify the Mega Cities and call in some reinforcements.

May 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Mech or Break | Phew, Helldivers 2 just got an "emergency hotfix" to tackle a mission-ruining glitch that's been letting people spam crash-inducing mech swarms

Things had gotten so bad clips of the exploit had been banned from the Helldivers 2 subreddit.

May 16, 2025 Mark Warren

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Bright Future | Helldivers 2 is still Arrowhead's "main focus", as its CEO suggests work on its next game will kick off "later this year" with "freedom to explore some really cool concepts"

"A very, very small team will spin up something later this year and go at it sloowly."

May 15, 2025 Mark Warren

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Every Little Helps | As Super Earth beckons, Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead is making a key Galactic War system change to help out "the casual diver who only has time for a mission a day"

Also, there's a new character in the Super Earth drama - Major Truth.

May 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Illumi-nother One? | Helldivers 2's upcoming battle for Super Earth might be part of another big update, alleged PlayStation leak suggests, but Arrowhead's CEO is keeping his lips sealed

May 20 could be another seismic day in the Galactic War, if this apparent leak turns out to be accurate.

May 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Hot To Go | Helldivers 2's massive Illuminate invasion day patch, 01.003.000, brings a bunch of fresh weapon balancing as Arrowhead totally revamps gun accuracy and flamethrower damage

A patch so beefy that HD2 director Johan Pilestedt's made mid-sabbatical cameo just to go through the notes.

May 13, 2025 Mark Warren

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It's Happening! | Fetch the loo roll: Helldivers 2's next big twist is here, as "the full Illuminate fleet is emerging from the Meridia Singularity"

"Nothing is safe - not even the Heart of Democracy itself."

May 13, 2025 Mark Warren

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Honeydivers | Helldivers 2 code-crackers are still desperately grappling with Arrowhead's Station-81 mystery, but at least they've got a "Bee Theory"

"Satcom has lost all hope in the Helldivers".

May 12, 2025 Mark Warren

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It's Happening | Action stations: Helldivers 2's next big Galactic War twist looks to be kicking off with a huge "STATION-81" tease and livestream

It finally seems to be that brown trousers time that Shams Jorjani teased.

May 9, 2025 Mark Warren

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Bayon-ehhh... | Helldivers 2's latest Warbond, Masters of Ceremony, breaks Arrowhead's own ruling on helmets with hats, but it's still left a pretty lukewarm initial impression

"Is it cool, yes. Does it look cool, yes. Is it what I expected, no. Is it underwhelming, yes."

May 8, 2025 Mark Warren

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Hold Stations | "They are coming" Helldivers 2 players reckon their latest mission is the "epilogue" to this act of the Galactic War, and they're ready for another big twist

Some Super Earth soldiers reckon Arrowhead's next press of the LIBCON ONE button could come midway through this order.

May 6, 2025 Mark Warren

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Get Some Air | Helldivers 2 director Pilestedt pops up mid-sabbatical to reveal that dropping onto planets is more terrifying than any of us realised, because of a missing animation

"Wait, I didn't have to hold my breath until I landed?"

May 1, 2025 Mark Warren

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Illumi-no-scoped | Wahey, Helldivers 2 players have finally stopped the Meridian death ball's advance towards Super Earth, and the Illuminate have responded by rage quitting the war for now

I'm sure everyone's about to get an OG Xbox Live-style message full of squid swearing.

April 30, 2025 Mark Warren

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Updates Incoming? | "You’ll be needing them for the fight to come" Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead reveals when it'll announce its next Warbond, and teases "more exciting news" soon

"We know it’s been a while since our last update, fear not - we are cooking!"

April 29, 2025 Mark Warren

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2 vs 1? No Prob | Helldivers 2 players just fended off an attack right on Super Earth's doorstep, but they're still begging Arrowhead to let them fight Illuminate/Terminid tag teams

Also, a dataminer claims an "Illuminate Invasion of Super Earth" is being tested.

April 22, 2025 Mark Warren

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Tech Turnaround? | Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead is "100% aware" the game's performance "ain't great now", but it has "numerous things in motion" and should share details soon

Shams Jorjani also teased that the big Democracy Space Station "has barely scratched its potential" so far.

April 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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No Mist Opps | Helldivers 2 players have just been given a chance to "finally stop the Meridian Wormhole" from exploding more planets, but it means going back into the spooky bug fog

A return to the gloom beckons, and folks seem pretty up for it.

April 11, 2025 Mark Warren

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Illumiwaiting Again | With Malevelon Creek saved again, Helldivers 2 players aren't really mourning another planet having gone pop in the process because they reckon a big update could be imminent

Sorry, Ivis. Hopefully at least a couple of people poured one out for you on Friday night.

April 7, 2025 Mark Warren

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Problem Solved? | Helldivers 2's latest patch is little, but a fix for mission drop-in crashes "on legacy hardware" looks like it could be good news for PC folks struggling to play on older gear

We'll have to see if Arrowhead confirms whether this is part of its efforts to rectify the "AVX2 issue".

April 1, 2025 Mark Warren

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Back In Botlack | A year on from Malevelon Creek's memed-to-death liberation, Helldivers 2 pulls the trigger on sending players back there to stop the bots achieving "greatest net desecration"

Also, if AVX2 issues have suddenly rendered you unable to play on PC since the last patch, Arrowhead says a fix is coming.

March 31, 2025 Mark Warren

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Erupting With Fury | "I'm honestly heartbroken..." Helldivers 2's latest patch upsets lovers of a gun that once caused accidental self-murders so much that they're drawing MS Paint diagrams

If you're still wondering which weapon it is, I have one word for you - shrapnel.

March 26, 2025 Mark Warren

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Return to Robo-nam? | Helldivers 2's Galactic War looks like it could be headed back to the game's most infamous planet, and grizzled vets are wondering what fresh horrors may await

Assuming it happens, are you ready for Malevelon Creek round two?

March 24, 2025 Mark Warren

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Speak For Yourself | Yee-naw: Helldivers 2's director seems to be riding with Arrowhead's controversial anti-cowboy hat stance, boldly declaring "people don't wear hats on helmets"

Johan Pilestedt does say he'll ask the team about its call to deliberately skip over stetsons "next time I pop by the office."

March 21, 2025 Mark Warren

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Yee, I stress, Haw | Helldivers 2's scandalously cowboy hat-less cowboy Warbond is now live, and if you can't bear to be without a Super stetson, a mod can help

Because no person should have to tip air before saddling up their Super Destroyer.

March 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Stop Super Smoothing | "Balance is a myth" reckons Helldivers 2 director Pilestedt, adding that if "you're an idiot" if you view smoothing out all the chaos as "the method for success"

Damn, tell us how you really feel.

March 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Your Call | Helldivers 2 players just held off "insectile Fascism" and the reward is another fun choice: fight "the Incineration Corps" or stop more planets going pop

What look to be uber-tough new bots vs the thing that might blow up Super Earth - with enemies like these...

March 18, 2025 Mark Warren

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Balancing's Back | Wahey, Helldivers 2's latest update, Patch 01.002.200, buffs a bunch of weapons and stratagems, but some enemy changes should mean you're still in for a fair fight

If you've been waiting for the Eruptor to get heavy armour penetration, today's your lucky day.

March 18, 2025 Mark Warren

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Yee-Helldive | Helldivers 2's latest Warbond, Borderline Justice, lets you be a jetpack-wearing cowboy commando so you can tell the Illuminate this galaxy ain't big enough for multiple factions

There's a squid in my boot!

March 18, 2025 Mark Warren

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It Craved More-adesh | Uh oh, Helldivers 2's Meridia black hole just destroyed another planet: Moradesh is its second victim as it continues to bear down on Super Earth

"You know, I start to think those Illuminate guys don't really like us."

March 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Press Pause | Helldivers 2's Galactic War temporarily grinds to a halt again before coming back online, as Arrowhead deals with another "backend error"

An issue "affecting Galactic War contribution" cropped up this time.

March 10, 2025 Mark Warren

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Can't Squid-ze It In | UPDATE: As Helldivers 2's squid singularity looks like it could be gearing up to make another planet go pop, Super Earth's 30 year olds beg Arrowhead to revamp how Illuminate MOs work

"It's time to introduce [the] squids as an actual front."

March 7, 2025 Mark Warren

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Squidding It | Helldivers 2's Illuminate massacred 83 million innocent murderers in their first 50 days, and despite moderately feeble backup, things on the squid front seem about to get worse

You may need to add to the running total of 275 million hugs given in order to feel a bit better about the war's current state.

March 5, 2025 Mark Warren

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Spreadsheet Hits Fan | Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead outlines plans to stop players on its Discord having big arguments about guns using datamined stats, big argument about datamined stats ensues

The Galactic War's back on, with a focus on that Meridian Singularity, but it's not the only kerfuffle that's been bubbling away in Helldivers land.

March 3, 2025 Mark Warren

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Bile Titan Break | UPDATE: Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead pauses the entire Galactic War to fix a key bug that was "harming the game experience", so naturally players have canonized this "winter truce"

"This is our mistake and we own it."

Feb. 28, 2025 Mark Warren

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Super Stoppage | Don't worry, Helldivers 2's CEO doesn't anticipate this Galactic War timeout having a major effect on the story going forwards, even if it'll definitely be canon

Also, Shams Jorjani's general view on how to approach the conflict's future is to "see how far we can take this baby".

Feb. 28, 2025 Mark Warren

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You're J.O.E.Lking | "Why you gotta do us like that J.O.E.L?" Helldivers 2 players are trying to have their mines and save those "moderately feeble" kids too, but it seems Arrowhead's game master isn't on board

"We worked together for this. That's one of the very things this game is all about. Yet we accomplish it and it's instantly taken away."

Feb. 27, 2025 Mark Warren

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Decisions, Decisions | Helldivers 2's latest mission forces players to re-live one of the toughest choices they've ever made, as it pits "moderately feeble young adults" against gas mines

They're not quite full-blown kids, but still - you know what to do.

Feb. 26, 2025 Mark Warren

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Killing Zone | Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead is in the "very early stages of something new" crossover-wise, and given how the battle in the Gloom is going, players might need it

A billion Terminids have already been slaughtered, but capturing Fori Prime is proving a lot tougher.

Feb. 21, 2025 Mark Warren

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New Predator? | Helldivers 2 players are being ordered to venture into the Gloom and I'm sure the new bugs Arrowhead's teasing in horror flick fashion won't be a problem

Forget that planet-eating black hole for now, apparently, you've got some spore fog to get slapped up in.

Feb. 18, 2025 Mark Warren

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SES Number 23 | Helldivers 2's Illuminate should probably apologise to the bugs, as players very much seem to be taking that nice planet getting ripped apart by a black hole personally

With a bit of help from the bugdivers' well-established ruthless Terminid bloodlust, Super Earth looks to have gone full Michael Jordan on the latest MO.

Feb. 17, 2025 Mark Warren

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RIP Angel's Venture | It's happened: Helldivers 2 players just witnessed the great pac-manning of an entire planet by Meridia's black hole, and Arrowhead's declared a period of super mourning

"Finally the Illuminate, hiding behind their mask of intelligence and sophistication, have revealed what they truly want: carnage."

Feb. 13, 2025 Mark Warren

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War Rages On | "It's never all nerfs or all buffs" Helldivers 2 CEO responds to polarised player views on the latest patch's warbond weapon balancing

Changes to the guns in Super Earth's arsenal continue to be a controversial subject among divers, as you'd expect.

Feb. 12, 2025 Mark Warren

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