It’s all however sure by now that Helldivers 2 may finally play host to most, if not all the unique Helldivers‘ content material. The Illuminate faction, actually, is the most important cog that’s lacking from the machine, however the stage for his or her return is already set in line with the sport’s API.

Notably, whereas the Automatons at the moment are fielding immensely highly effective cell bot factories and the Terminid bugs have taken to the skies, we’ve heard nearly nothing in regards to the Illuminates thus far. If you happen to disregard all of the mysterious Helldiver deaths and blue laser assaults, that’s. Hypothesis is, in fact, all we’ve received thus far, however one of many web sites that retains observe of Tremendous Earth’s galactic battle effort by way of the Helldivers 2 API has logged over two dozen lifeless Illuminates on – await it – Tremendous Earth itself. And Cyberstan, too, for that matter, which may be very curious certainly.

Helldivers 2 is already counting Illuminate deaths

Based on HD2Galaxy, a third-party Helldivers 2 Provide Line web site, Tremendous Earth has performed host to 16 lifeless Illuminates thus far. Equally, Cyberstan has received 12 lifeless Illuminates logged as of early April. There’s no actual clarification for this data to talk of, however the mere proven fact that Illuminate kills are tracked by the sport’s API tells us two issues:

• Illuminates are most positively coming.
• The developer, Arrowhead, is doing one thing with the Illuminate faction on the dwell server.

Notice, too, that Helldiver forces haven’t but been deployed on both Tremendous Earth or Cyberstan, which implies gamers haven’t but seen them in motion. Nearly something may very well be happening there, and Arrowhead could also be testing issues out within the backend, earlier than the preventing begins correct.

Since Helldivers 2 locations heavy emphasis on reactive, live-action narrative growth the place gamers make their decisions as they go, one of many explanations for these unusual lifeless Illuminates is that the faction might have despatched out choices of peace to each Cyberstand and Tremendous Earth. Choices that have been refused with excessive prejudice. That, nevertheless, is only a principle in the interim, and we’ll must see how the narrative surrounding the Illuminate develops within the coming months.

We shouldn’t anticipate Arrowhead to plainly announce the discharge of a complete new faction in Helldivers 2, be aware. To date, the developer has been having fun with its capability to stealthily introduce giant batches of content material to the sport in a method that gamers are first uncovered to new enemy items as they deploy onto new operations. It’s a really thrilling tackle the basic live-service method, so there’s a lot that may very well be completed with the Illuminates’ seemingly inevitable arrival to the galactic battle entrance.