The Helldivers 2 neighborhood was left in tatters after fan-favorite planet Malevelon Creek, dubbed ‘House Vietnam’ by gamers, lastly fell to the Automatons.
The neighborhood reacted in horror in a single day as they found Malevelon Creek with the dreaded ‘0% Liberated’ flag, and, much more devastating, a ‘Planet Misplaced’ retreat order. This made the planet inaccessible, and gamers have even reported getting booted from its floor mid-mission.
Malevelon Creek is extensively thought of as Helldivers 2’s finest planet. It sees gamers go up towards Automatons — Terminator-style killer robots – in an atmospheric atmosphere clearly impressed by iconic imagery from Vietnam warfare motion pictures. Its eternally twilight forest biome is creepy, awe-inspiring, and, when you’re doing effectively, greater than somewhat heroic.
But in a single day, Malevelon Creek fell in a shock twist in the ongoing meta narrative that makes up Helldivers 2’s Galactic Battle. Right here, Tremendous Earth and the alien enemy wrestle for management over complete sectors of the galaxy as gamers battle to finish operations (units of missions) and positively contribute to every planet’s liberation standing.
Here is a snippet of the response to the fall of Malevelon Creek:
We have misplaced Malevelon Creek.
The Automatons gained.. pic.twitter.com/xut96CP7Pg
— 『ʀᴀᴢᴏʀ』 (@Razor_VRC) February 27, 2024
we misplaced malevelon creek pic.twitter.com/nGGmPzd9vi
— Sara (@Sarapocalypse) February 28, 2024
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[Unknown] on Malevelon Creek, having missed the final Pelican out after the planet fell, requesting the remaining Destroyers in the system glass his grid sq. earlier than warping out.
We are going to return. pic.twitter.com/pJvLAd5qq8
— Shadz (@Shadzey1) February 28, 2024
Malevelon Creek fell… it was all for nothing… pic.twitter.com/YJxvE6jFZS
— B0l (@Bolverk15) February 28, 2024
In the meantime, on what’s left of Malevelon Creek… pic.twitter.com/32p3ZKTMB8
— Chillton 🪶 (@The_Chillton) February 28, 2024
malevelon creek fell lower than an hour in the past o7 pic.twitter.com/G7OzP8n4re
— sen (@tailsinge) February 27, 2024
⚡️BREAKING: HELLDIVERS EVACUATED THE EMBASSY ON MALEVELON CREEK, TOTAL HELLDIVER PULLOUT ANNOUNCED ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/NLw0JovKwf
— Winters 🐺👻|| VIdiot (@Thee_marked_one) February 28, 2024
It really is the saddest of days #HelldiversII #HELLDIVER2 pic.twitter.com/IUf8sRkugu
— Helldivers Alerts (@HelldiversAlert) February 28, 2024
Nonetheless, as of this morning, the fightback has begun. IGN has verified a tiny proportion pushback on Malevelon Creek as gamers work to wrestle management away from the Automatons. Malevelon Creek is playable as soon as once more.
Helldivers 2’s galactic warfare is a single, ongoing meta narrative followers have had enjoyable role-playing with since the recreation’s explosive launch. Presently there are not any significant rewards straight tied to the liberation of sectors (all gamers get 12,500 Requisition if eight defend campaigns are gained towards the Automatons, but that is not a lot of an incentive), so it’s all only a bit of enjoyable. And it’s not completely clear that gamers really management this narrative via their actions, with developer Arrowhead finally pulling the strings as the live-service develops. Nonetheless, maybe greater than any beforehand misplaced planet, the fall of Malevelon Creek actually damage.
Now Arrowhead seems to have sorted out Helldivers 2’s server points, it has time to return to its authentic post-launch plan, so hopefully we’ll get an concept of what to anticipate in phrases of new content material quickly. In the event you’re taking part in, be sure you try IGN’s complete Helldivers 2 information.
Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You’ll be able to attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.