Summary
- Helldivers 2 developer challenges players to kill 1.5 billion enemies or face forced inclusion of Anti-Tank Mine Stratagem.
- Players must coordinate to unlock stratagems in Helldivers 2, emphasizing teamwork and special abilities in frenetic combat.
- Arrowhead Game Studios challenges community by offering an almost impossible task to force in-game meme into play.
Developer Arrowhead Game Studios has issued the latest Helldivers 2 Major Order, requiring players to kill 1.5 billion enemies within four days; otherwise, the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mine Stratagem will be forcibly added to the Helldivers' repertoire. This directive comes as a surprise to many, as players have been actively avoiding unlocking this stratagem. It appears the Helldivers 2 developer has had enough and is now posing a substantial challenge to ensure the mines are unlocked.
Helldivers 2 is a cooperative third-person shooter game developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Released in February 2024, it continues the chaotic and humorous action of its predecessor, Helldivers. The game features frenetic combat on hostile planets, with missions ranging from hive exterminations to complex code recovery tasks. Helldivers 2 emphasizes teamwork, as players must coordinate strategies and use special abilities called Stratagems to succeed.
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In a Twitter post, Arrowhead Game Studios explained to players about the new “Efficacy Review” of the currently available Mine Stratagems. If the targeted number of 1.5 billion enemies is eliminated within 4 days, the current Mine Stratagems will be deemed sufficient. However, if the target is not reached, the Anti-Tank Mines will be added to the Helldivers' arsenal. Usually, Helldivers 2 players need to kill a certain number of enemies to unlock new stratagems. This time, players face the unique challenge of fighting enemies to avoid unlocking a stratagem.
Helldivers 2's Latest Major Order
This curious challenge has its roots in player decisions from earlier in the year. In April, Helldivers 2 players had to choose between liberating two planets, and they avoided the one that offered the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines as a reward. In June’s challenge, players again opted against the mines. It seems that avoiding the mines has become a meme within the Helldivers 2 community. Now, the developers are leaning into this meme, offering an almost impossible challenge to force the mines into play.
The Helldivers 2 stratagems are special abilities and equipment that players can deploy during missions to support their squad and complete objectives. These include offensive, defensive, and utility options. Stratagems are unlocked and upgraded with Requisition Slips, earned by completing missions or found in-game. Players also earn XP to level up and unlock new stratagems. All rewards are shared equally among team members.
After avoiding it for months, Helldivers 2 players will now have to grapple with this new Major Order. It remains to be seen whether they can overcome the challenge and avoid acquiring the anti-tank mines or if they will need to incorporate this new stratagem into their gameplay.
Helldivers 2
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 83 /100 Critics Rec: 91%
- Released
- February 8, 2024
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, In-Game Purchases, Users Interact
- Developer(s)
- Arrowhead Game Studios, Nixxes
- Publisher(s)
- Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation Publishing
WHERE TO PLAY
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
URGENT BROADCAST – SUPER EARTH ARMED FORCES
Freedom. Peace. Democracy. Your Super Earth-born rights. The key pillars of our civilization. Of our very existence. But the war rages on. And everything is once again under threat.
Join the greatest military force the galaxy has ever seen and make this a safe and free place to live.
BECOME A LEGEND
You will be assembled into squads of up to four Helldivers and assigned strategic missions. Watch each other’s back – friendly fire is an unfortunate certainty of war, but victory without teamwork is impossible.
LOADOUTS
Rain down freedom from above, sneak through enemy territory, or grit your teeth and charge head-first into the jaws of combat. How you deliver liberty is your choice; you’ll have access to a wide array of explosive firepower, life-saving armor and battle-changing stratagems… the jewel in every Helldiver’s arsenal.
REQUISITION
Super Earth recognises your hard work with valuable Requisition. Use it to access different rewards that benefit you, your squad, your destroyer ship and our overall war effort.
THREATS
Everything on every planet wants you dead. That’s what we’re dealing with. Each enemy has distinct and unpredictable characteristics, tactics, and behavior – but they all fight ferociously and without fear or morality.
THE GALACTIC WAR
Capturing enemy planets, defending against invasions, and completing missions will contribute to our overall effort. This war will be won or lost depending on the actions of everyone involved.
We stand together, or we fall apart.
- Multiplayer
- Online Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
- All platforms
- Franchise
- Helldivers
- Number of Players
- 1-4 players (online)
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
- Genre(s)
- Third-Person Shooter, Extraction Shooter, Action, Science Fiction
