For many of this week, Helldivers 2 gamers have been reporting signings of blue lasers and beams throughout missions. Generally, these beams go over them harmlessly, whereas they act like sniper hearth and kill others.

The frequent thread is that these beams are blue, which no enemy faction within the recreation presently fires. After a lot debate about how this could possibly be the return of the Illuminate faction, Arrowhead Recreation Studios’ CEO has stepped as much as resolve the matter, stating, “Blue beams aren’t actual, it may well’t damage you.”

Johan Pilestedt’s submit on Twitter does little or no to consolation the tons of of Helldivers presently preventing to push again the enemies of Tremendous Earth. Even after a significant victory in efficiently establishing the Termicide Towers throughout each barrier planet to carry again the Terminid swarm, these blue lasers have gamers anxious.

What’s the Illuminate?

On the time of writing, it’s unattainable to say what these blue lasers are and what they imply for the way forward for Helldivers 2. Nevertheless, some veteran gamers acknowledge the laser hearth from the primary recreation, that of the Illuminate. This highly effective foe is a sophisticated alien civilization that’s bought eyes for Tremendous Earth and a ton of firepower to again itself up.

Some gamers have even captured footage of the blue lasers regarded as coming from the Illuminate and shared them. This one from Lifeless demonstrates how they goal at gamers in an try to kill them. Nevertheless, there’s no signal of the place the pictures had been fired from, indicating that they could possibly be stealth sniper models of some kind.

Within the first recreation, the Illuminate had been aquatic creatures who had taken their first steps towards interstellar journey and rapidly constructed a posh community for journey. Tremendous Earth observed their highly effective weapons and couldn’t ignore them, so went on the assault. Their forces are made up of machines with a distinctly oceanic design. Drones and machines had been constructed to discover and thrive underwater or in area as a substitute of on land.

Given how the tough story in Helldivers 2 has advanced for the reason that recreation’s launch and this latest submit from the developer’s CEO, I believe the Illuminate is sort of definitely on the way in which. My wager is that we see repercussions from the Termicide Tower deployment in just a few months, so a brand new enemy faction can be a stunning distraction to make us neglect about that ecological catastrophe.

Previous to this writing, gamers accomplished the newest Main Order, so we’ll should see if that unlocked the faction instantly or if there are extra Main Orders on the way in which for blue lasers to intervene with earlier than the alien menace is absolutely revealed. I can already really feel the group itching to have a brand new group of planets to dive into.