Unlike its predecessor,Helldivers 2does not have three whole races of villainous, anti-democratic enemies to contend against. Notably, the first game’s Illuminate aliens have been suspiciously absent from the galactic playground so far, though some players claim there’s something amiss in that regard.
More specifically,Helldivers 2‘s Super Earth has been doing quite well for itself as of late, with anall-new batch of killing implementshaving recently come out, and the ongoing efforts todisperse massive amounts of Termicidein select regions of the galaxy. Amidst these successes,someplayers have been getting killed in extremely suspicious ways, to the point that many now believe the Illuminate faction are behind these attacks.
These alleged assassinations have been the talk of the proverbial town for the past couple of days, with little more than unsubstantiated claims andlow-quality screenshotsto provide veracity for them. That’s all changed as of late, though, with Helldivers indervyne and Proximis posting videos of their fellow players getting splashed across the battlefield by strange blue energy projectiles.
Are Helldivers 2 players being killed by Illuminate snipers?
Sightings of strangely precise blue projectiles taking down Helldivers fromreallyfar away are getting more and more common as of late, and though we don’t have hard data to go on, it’s not hard to see why it’d be easy to blamethe Illuminatefor these killings. The Illuminate werean extremely high-techHelldiversfactionof aliens that relied mainly on stealth, teleportation, and blue laser-based weaponry to dish out punishment. The parallels with the recent wave of assassinations are hard to argue. On the other hand, some do think this is justswamp gas, as it were.
“This is clearly just an atmospheric discharge,”says Helldiver Jupiter67. “Draupnir is known for its inclement weather and lightning-baked surfaces. There are even transparent voltfish that resonate with electromagnetism as they drift through the air. Nothing to see here. Swamp gas, surely. Swamp gas.”
Some of the most common theories as to what on Super Earth is going on include ricochet takedowns from Autocannon and Anti-Materiel Rifle support weapons, environmental damage from the various elemental flowers and thingamabobs strewn across some levels, and swamp gas.Definitelynot the slow encroachment from one of Super Earth’s most potent enemies.
On a similar note,the recent onset of planetary tremorsisdefinitelynot a sign that evolved Hive Lord Terminids are about to surface. Further,Helldivers have most assuredlynotcome across flying Terminidinfesting certain settled systems.
On the off chance that things are, in fact, ramping up for Super Earth, and that Illuminate assassinsarepopping up to disperse Helldiver forces from the shadows, at we now have mechs to defend ourselves with.Chunky, defensive, powerful mechs.
