Gamers in Helldivers 2 have been battling in what they believed was an actual galactic warfare towards the Terminids and Automatons since early February 2024. Nevertheless, Tremendous Earth just lately revealed that all the pieces up till Might 15, 2024, was an elaborate particular operation, and the Second Galactic Struggle has solely simply begun.

This revelation dropped on the Helldivers 2 Discord server the place Baskinator, talking on Tremendous Earth’s behalf, defined, “After 5 days of intense decommissioning of Automatons into scrap steel to be used in superior anti-tank mines, the Helldivers got here 78% in the direction of the acknowledged purpose of two billion lifeless bots. Which means that the brand new stratagem will proceed to elude the Helldiver arsenal for now…”

“The warfare now escalates into what’s formally referred to as “The Second Galactic Struggle.” All battle main as much as this was merely an elaborate particular operation. New recruits are being skilled to bolster the ranks of SEAF, and the Helldivers are tasked with guarding these coaching amenities so that every recruit could be given their rigorous 72-hour primary coaching.”

This announcement adopted two failed Main Orders, the most important of which was to kill 2 billion Automatons. Helldivers had beforehand been tasked with killing 2 million Terminids, a Main Order the neighborhood accomplished in a matter of hours. That Main Order moved rapidly due to a problem that sped up the Terminid kill counter. However the success was a win gamers wanted after organizing exterior of the sport to battle with Sony over PSN account linking.

Exterior of the very actual battle between Sony and the Helldivers 2 neighborhood, it appears to be like like that was Tremendous Earth’s plan for us all alongside.

After failing the latest Main Order, Tremendous Earth put out a name for extra Helldiver recruits, asking each citizen to step as much as assist in the Second Galactic Struggle. In keeping with an in-universe information report, nearly 100% of residents signed as much as both be Helldivers or assist make weapons to contribute to the trigger.

I fought the Automatons for that Main Order, as I’m certain most Helldivers did. We sacrificed so many our bodies, stratagems, and weapons in that battle, but it surely felt prefer it was by no means actually one we might win. Whereas I would get a go to from Tremendous Earth authorities for saying this, I believe your complete Main Order was a ruse to spice up Helldiver numbers.

Give it some thought. Tremendous Earth solely advantages from extra residents signing up as a result of they’ve a set charge of pay. It helps Main Orders transfer sooner and will get oil manufacturing up and operating on extra planets whereas managed democracy spreads to extra corners of the galaxy.

By handing us an inconceivable mission and watching as we fail to hit our purpose as Helldiver our bodies pile up on planets Tremendous Earth has misplaced, it conjures up much more residents to battle. Even exterior of the sport, this Main Order made Helldivers 2 really feel like not sufficient folks have been enjoying it, which made me wish to recruit my pals.

Whereas this would possibly sound fairly underhanded of Tremendous Earth, it’s not too removed from what occurred throughout our personal World Wars. Within the UK, conscription initially solely requested younger males to enroll to battle, however the scope widened tremendously through the years, in order we approached the tip of the warfare, even pensioners have been heading out to the entrance strains.

This appears like insanity at this time, but it surely was pushed, partially, by desperation for extra our bodies to throw at what appeared like an insurmountable enemy heading our means. That’s why I’m nearly sure Tremendous Earth by no means supposed for us to kill 2 billion Automatons. Making the machine menace look larger and scarier and exhausting Helldivers even additional was designed to drive recruitment, and it achieved the specified end result.

As soon as once more, I’m floored by the dynamic Helldivers 2 story’s skill to copy life and historical past by way of a satirical lens, which solely makes me wish to play it extra. I’m pushing to assist the brand new fictional recruits by way of their 72 hours of primary coaching to allow them to throw their fleshy our bodies towards the would possibly of the Automaton and Termind forces, and so ought to each different democracy-loving Helldiver.