The Helldivers 2 universe is a satirical tackle our personal, asking what issues could be like if we took spreading managed democracy and the values that include that way of life to the acute. Nonetheless, Tremendous Earth has simply revealed an in-universe undeniable fact that’s extra harrowing than hilarious.

If you play a mission in Helldivers 2, your squad has a set variety of reinforcements. It’s fairly commonplace as a result of everyone knows that at the least a couple of of our troopers are going to be killed, churned up by the limitless onslaught of Terminids and Automatons. What you won’t contemplate is how a lot these deaths price. Not how a lot the invoice Tremendous Earth foots is, however the invoice the poor Helldiver’s household pays to see no matter’s left of their cherished one.

Lifeless Helldivers are simply one other income stream for the relentless Tremendous Earth

Following maybe essentially the most impactful occasion in Helldivers 2 historical past, the collapse of Meridia right into a black gap, Tremendous Earth put out a message commemorating these courageous troopers who had misplaced their lives combating to make this occur.

The message is ideal as a result of it’s stuffed with sections with choices which might be clearly meant to be chosen from as an alternative of despatched on this type. The purpose that caught out to me is the customary charge for a Helldiver corpse, helmet, or limb that’s normally charged. That is almost definitely as a result of each physique on Meridia was ionized when the black gap was created.

On this one and solely case, Tremendous Earth is waiving the transportation charge so households can see the scraps of their cherished one return from the entrance strains. The remainder of the time, these households are charged for this service, although, which means your partner would possibly get a good pay packet for combating for Tremendous Earth, however all of your financial savings will must be spent bringing items of them again from a hostile alien world simply to bury them.

That is extremely dystopian and matches the Helldivers 2 universe extremely nicely, but it surely simply stood out to me as one thing we will level to that reveals how capitalism actually has gone too far on this universe. Charging Helldivers for brand spanking new gear through the use of a foreign money they will solely earn from battling aliens for Tremendous Earth is one factor, but it surely feels such as you’re taking the piss with an already captive market if you begin charging for repatiration.

I couldn’t let you know how a lot delivering a Helldiver’s had throughout the galaxy prices, however I appeared it up, and repatriation to the UK is about £3,600 and that’s with out house journey, so it’s most likely much more. Contemplating that Tremendous Earth probably set Helldivers an unimaginable goal to spice up recruitment numbers, this all feels so much like a tactic to spice up revenue as an alternative of spreading extra democracy.