Latest Helldivers 2 Update Focuses On The Illuminate And Brings New Missions To Super Earth Colonies

When it comes to the Helldivers series, the release of Helldivers 2 brought a new found wave of attention to the IP. As of May 2024, Helldivers 2 sold a total of 12 million units between both PlayStation & PC. In a more in-depth report, it was revealed that the PC version specifically outweighs the console version in terms of its overall population.

However, the game did face a fallout in its users once the initial hype for Helldivers 2 did cease. By June 2024, Helldivers 2 lobbies were reduced by roughly 90 percent by comparison of its initial concurrent player count.But, that did not stop Arrowhead Game Studios with support for Helldivers 2. In August this summer, the team welcomed the first major update to the game in the form of Escalation of Freedom.

Now this past week, Helldivers 2 continues its post-launch roadmap with the next major update – Omens of Tyranny. You can watch the launch trailer in the video below:

“Missing for almost a century, the Illuminate will challenge our recruits more than the other factions they have faced. They are advanced, highly-intelligent beings wielding powerful technology that appears to average citizens like a kind of dark magic. At the end of the First Galactic War, the Helldivers worked together to eradicate the Illuminate. We believed we were successful, and for nearly 100 years, we have lived in relative peace, holding the Terminid and Automaton threats at bay. Thanks to our continued recruitment and training of new Helldivers, we have held these two fronts with complete, unmitigated success.”

Social Media manager Katherine Baskin continues: “But now the Illuminate have emerged seemingly out of nowhere. Even though we don’t know the true origin of the invasion, we have no choice now but to suppress three factions in the Galactic War. […] The intentions behind the Illuminate invasion are still unclear. Right now, they remain as smaller bands of insurgents, staging attacks, building mysterious structures, and abducting citizens before disappearing again. It’s up to us to stop them from getting their totalitarian tentacles any deeper into Super Earth’s domain.”

Adding: “Our colonies are being ravaged by these invaders, turning our once bright and sunny streets filled with smiling citizens into dark ruins, overrun by Voteless and Illuminate. Arm yourselves with your trusted tools of destruction and rid our colonies of this scum. But it won’t be easy. Gone are the wide-open spaces that Helldivers are accustomed to fighting in. Cities mean closer quarters, dark alleys, and forked paths where one wrong turn means meeting a horde of Voteless to liberate. You’ll need your best and brightest squad to navigate them carefully.”

How excited are you for this latest Helldivers 2 update?

Helldivers 2 is out now for PlayStation 5 & PC.

Source: PlayStation Blog