HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

For the first few months, Helldivers 2 could do no wrong. Spectacular, funny, and unlike any of its other multiplayer rivals, Arrowhead's shooter only started to wobble around May 2024, when it was first announced that players would have to link their accounts to the Playstation Network. While that stipulation was eventually dropped, the initial damage to Helldivers 2's reputation was already done. Successive balancing updates, which overengineered and flattened out some of the game's most-loved weapons, caused further dismay - from 458,000 concurrent players at launch, just five months later, Helldivers 2 was down to an all-time low of 47,000. But now, thanks to the new Heart of Democracy update, things suddenly look extremely bright.

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Well, Helldivers 2's Heart of Democracy update has definitely succeeded in filling some pants with poop. The Galactic War arriving on the streets of Super Earth has propelled the game to its highest Steam player numbers since April 2024.

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Helldivers 2's Galactic War arrived on Super Earth earlier today, with the Heart of Democracy update deploying the divers on their first missions to defend the mega cities of their home planet. So far, it's all going down well with players, especially one new feature - the AI SEAF squads.

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This is it, everybody. This is the big one. After more than 12 months of fighting across the Helldivers 2 galaxy, the war to protect democracy has finally breached the bastion that is - or was - Super Earth. Battlefield 6 might be on the way. Rival multiplayer shooters like Delta Force and Tarkov are still going strong. But with the new Helldivers 2 update, Arrowhead has just hit the biggest, reddest button. The Illuminate are on our home turf. There are new teammates, mechanics, and weapon customization tools. If you've gone AWOL from the galactic war, it's time to take up arms and march back to the Helldivers 2 frontline.

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After many months of dogged campaigning in the face of zealotry, atrocity and propaganda about fake WMDs, the heroic avatars of the Illuminate have finally invaded Super-Earth. In just a few short days, the humans and their fanatical and clownish "Helldiver" enforcers may be wiped from the face of the galaxy, ushering in a brave new era in which the surviving bots, bugs and squids link clamps, mandibles and tentacles and dance around singing. You ever hear an Illuminate sing? Literally mind-blowing.

All of which is to say that Helldivers 2's Heart Of Democracy update is upon us, following teasers earlier this month. It lets the game's sordid playerbase of perfidious human stormtroopers blow the shit out of some ace nano-tech molluscs on the streets of planet Earth. The new Earth maps are also full of NPC human soldiers who can be left to fight for themselves or enlisted as cannon fodder. There are crowds of panicking civilians, too. The PlayStation blog post announcing the update's release suggests that you'll be "punished" for accidentally shooting them, but that's not the impression given by the below orgiastic trailer.

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