Helldivers 2 Heart of Democracy Update Finally Brings the Illuminate Invasion to the Streets of Super Earth

Helldivers 2 yet has Super Earth maps to combat connected arsenic portion of the Heart of Democracy large update.

As had leaked past week, the Heart of Democracy update — retired present crossed PC and PlayStation 5 — sees the Illuminate penetration scope Super Earth. You tin present prime missions connected our location satellite successful Mega Cities and combat backmost alongside SEAF soldiers.

The metropolis biomes see operations that enactment towards liberating the cities, which, developer Arrowhead said, person “a important interaction connected planetary campaigns.” This is simply a portion of Helldivers 2’s ongoing Galactic War, a community-driven meta communicative that Arrowhead orchestrates down the scenes.

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Here’s the authoritative blurb, per the PlayStation Blog:

The Helldivers are tasked with a caller objective: to repel the Illuminate penetration by gaining crushed implicit the squids arsenic they combat to power areas wherever the fleet is landing. It won’t beryllium a locomotion successful the park, divers. Like a crippled of intergalactic tug-of-war, you volition conflict against the incoming forces, gaining and losing power quickly.

You tin activate Planetary Defense Cannons and instrumentality down the Illuminate fleet, arsenic shown successful the trailer. And, arsenic mentioned, SEAF troops volition assistance articulation the combat to support the cities. These tiny squads volition combat enemies connected their own, oregon they tin beryllium ordered to travel Helldivers and supply impermanent backup arsenic you navigate toward objectives. You do, however, request to beryllium mindful of civilians who are inactive roaming the streets; Helldivers 2 is arsenic overmuch astir affable occurrence absorption arsenic it is blowing aliens up.

The Heart of Democracy update is portion of Arrowhead's semipermanent committment to keeping Helldivers 2 going for years to travel pursuing its record-breaking motorboat past year.

Last week, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani addressed subordinate interest that the workplace mightiness permission the crippled down to absorption connected its adjacent project, dubbed "Game 6."

"Nah. It's ALL Helldivers 2 for now," helium insisted. "A very, precise tiny squad volition rotation up thing aboriginal this twelvemonth and spell astatine it sloowly. Helldivers is our main absorption and volition beryllium for a loooong time."

So, however agelong does Jorjani expect contented updates for Helldivers 2 to last?

"As agelong arsenic you folks support playing and buying Super Credits we tin support it going," Jorjani said, pointing to Helldivers 2's virtual currency that's utilized to bargain Premium Warbonds. "Last summertime we were kinda screwing the pooch truthful it looked similar we wouldn't beryllium capable to support the bid going for a agelong clip - but we turned the vessel around, you enactment america a batch truthful it's looking bright."

Accompanying the merchandise of Heart of Democracy is update 01.003.002. Patch notes below.

Helldivers 2 update 01.003.002 spot notes:

Fixes

Resolved Top Priority issues:

• Attempting to acquisition a Master of Ceremony point successful the Super Store erstwhile connected PlayStation 5 portion utilizing the "Quality" ocular mounting volition nary longer alteration page

Crash Fixes, Hangs and Soft-locks:

• Fixed a clang that could hap erstwhile trying to participate the Weapon Customization paper connected definite weapons
• Fixed clang that could hap erstwhile sidesplitting illuminates that were astir to spawn

Weapons and Stratagems

• Fix drone's not returning to backpack correctly

Miscellaneous Fixes

• Fixed an contented wherever Stingray strafing onslaught sounds could get stuck for a while
• Fixed corpses of immoderate enemies sometimes sending players flying crossed the map

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