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Helldivers 2's Illuminate massacred 83 million innocent murderers in their first 50 days, and despite moderately feeble backup, things on the squid front seem about to get worse

Sorry, I come bearing bad news. I don't just say that because it involves maths. Ok, maybe I do. Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has shared some stats about the amount of stuff that's died in the Galactic War so far, and it's seemigly come at a bit of an ironic time, with Super Earth looking pretty on-the-ropes in the latest MO.

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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead outlines plans to stop players on its Discord having big arguments about guns using datamined stats, big argument about datamined stats ensues

Never separate a nerd from their big spreadsheets, or there'll be consequences. It's a lesson all of us need to learn sooner or later, and Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has now had to deal with it, with what looks like a pretty benign proposed change regarding the sharing of datamined content on the nerdiest, spreadsheetiest channel of the game's official Discord server having caused a bit of a ruckus.

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Don't worry, Helldivers 2's CEO doesn't anticipate this Galactic War timeout having a major effect on the story going forwards, even if it'll definitely be canon

As you might have heard, Helldivers 2's Galactic War is currently on hiatus, as Arrowhead works to fix a bug with planet liberation rates that's been "harming the game experience".

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UPDATE: Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead pauses the entire Galactic War to fix a key bug that was "harming the game experience", so naturally players have canonized this "winter truce"

UPDATE (28/02/25, 3:50 PM GMT): Arrowhead has now resumed the Galactic War. "We have deployed a fix to our backend which we believe has solved the issue with liberation rates. Players can now make contributions to planet liberation and engage with the Galactic War again," it tweeted.

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"Why you gotta do us like that J.O.E.L?" Helldivers 2 players are trying to have their mines and save those "moderately feeble" kids too, but it seems Arrowhead's game master isn't on board

Helldivers 2 players had a plan. It was ambitious and it was going well. However, it looks like Arrowhead's Galactic War overseer wasn't a fan, as the divers have ended up being rapidly pushed back to nearly square one on a key planet they'd previously captured.

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