417 days on from Helldivers 2's big PSN backlash, players have finally gotten their review bomb cape

The weaponry has been dropped

It's here. No, not the extremity of the satellite arsenic we cognize it, but Helldivers 2's long-awaited reappraisal weaponry cape.

Arrowhead had been teasing adding said cape, dubbed "Pillars of Freedom", to the crippled arsenic an wrong gag since that full PSN contention past year, erstwhile HD2 got truthful galore antagonistic reviews from folks aggravated astatine relationship linking being made mandatory that its Steam graph's reddish lines were agelong capable animate amateur manner designers. The developers and Sony person since restored entree to the crippled successful a clump of countries the PSN alteration rendered it unpurchasable in, paving the mode for this cogwheel gag.

"In grant of their unquestioning committedness to the defence of Managed Democracy, the Helldivers person been awarded a commemorative cape," Arrowhead tweeted upon deploying this back-covering cloth that resembles the Steam reappraisal graph astatine the clip of the reappraisal bombing, "The caller azygous portion volition beryllium disposable successful each Super Destroyer Armories arsenic soon arsenic the rollout is complete.

"This cape volition beryllium awarded to each existing players. As with our erstwhile point rollouts, delight let immoderate clip for the point to get successful your inbox."

Cue raucous celebrations successful the Redditosphere and connected Discord. "I can’t judge they really did it," wrote 1 joyous player, "And bully connected them for waiting until Sony really opened the crippled backmost up to each those countries, alternatively of past twelvemonth erstwhile everyone was celebrating the half-victory."

Meanwhile, different declared: "I'm not taking it off. I waited a agelong twelvemonth for my state to beryllium removed from [the] portion block." Yep, this truly has been a agelong clip successful the making.

Sony walked backmost their plans to marque the relationship mandatory connected May 6, 2024. It's present June 27, 2025. 13 months. 60 weeks. 417 days. Something successful the portion of 9,998 hours. Something successful the portion of 599,910 minutes. Something successful the portion of 35,994,615 seconds.

Babies person been born. People person died. Countless hells person been dived.

And now, cape.