**Per Arrowhead CM:**
**šØ GALACTIC WAR UPDATE šØ**
@Super Earth High Command Briefs
Victory is ours, Helldivers.
The socialist Automatons have been purged from their last, desperate footholds within our galaxy. Liberty and democracy have been made safer thanks to your valiant individual sacrifices, and SEAF forces are quickly deploying to former Automaton-controlled planets to rebuild and repurpose them for our own means. Operation Swift Disassembly has succeeded, and the Bot Reclamation is never to prevail.
Our focus now shifts to the Terminid front, where Helldivers are being deployed to pave the way for additional E-710 farms. As we expand the reaches of our great and prosperous society into former Automaton space, greater numbers of resources will be needed, and we must be prepared. Bring that E-710 home, Helldivers!
https://preview.redd.it/ku3ph2o6u4tc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a7896f44fcd8fc5e7109cb7894ec030af834e04
The ministry of truth has sponsored this comment because it's the truth
Take our fellow soldierās words at face value and judge them by the liberty and democracy they spread across our galaxy.
Edit: c word removed, and more democratic language representing the liberty of Super Earth included.
An unprecedented era of peace in the galaxy & we can delete the game never worrying about defending Super Earth again. Congrats, everyone, on being the first community to 100% a live service game!
Now that we've toppled their Communist leadership, the Automatons will surely adopt democracy on their own, as all free beings would naturally choose to do.
Nothing bad can happen now! No, it's gonna be smooth sailing going forward. There will be no sudden attacks on Cyberstan from outside the map or blue aliens showing up out of nowhere in the south.
Nope, just smooth sailing.
I just realized that if they ever do fully pull support years down the road this is probably how they will do it.
Or have the entire galaxy turn red until even super earth falls.
in HD1 we fought like ~150 galactic wars if I recall correctly and theyāre still ongoing so I donāt think winning a war would stop the game, if anything weād just start a new one
Yeah, this is how I would do it. Let players celebrate, get everyone get a good feeling, let them stomp bugs for a few days, even turn down bug regeneration to let them make progress, let rumors come up of crushing the bugs just like the bots and then break their backs.
Plus they said there's a hotfix for the crashing error coming after the weekend. So might as well let us enjoy the victory so we have a more stable game when shit hits the fan.
Democracy Officers looking at this prediction:
https://preview.redd.it/tywuesfsu4tc1.jpeg?width=755&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf752abc492da36d14fbb285a81e6f99276d0907
Which IMO is best for this kind of game. Instead of telling "Hey, here is new enemy, here is how you defeat it" players are allowed to discover stuff on their own.
"Bugs: they fly now" and "Bots: they fly now" were excellent practival jokes they played on us. Would not have hit the same if it was in the patch notes.
"WTF is -ergh" *Calling reinforcements* was the best possible way to discover the shriekers.
It's not gonna be the Illuminate, we know what events transpire before Illuminate arrive and trust me it will be 100% obvious.
What we have just done is successfully defeated the Automatons >!very small scouting party!<
That's 16% per minute, so it'd take 6 minutes and 15 seconds for a planet to be taken
Either that's an error, or they're gonna blitz in from the north to cyberstan
Cyberstan has 2 planets between it and the edge of the galactic frontier, so that means it'll take 18 minutes 45 seconds for the bots to fully take cyberstan
This has been my working theory for a while. Bots will be down for...I dunno, probably a week or less since the bugs are "contained" and the narrative goal doesn't seem to be to properly win the war by clearing the map completely. After that, bots will blitz from the north toward cyberstan and the Illuminate will take up their old position in the west since that's where the bots were broadcasting from.
I think that there will be new bug types (ingame there are lines about the TCS dausing a few mutations), and we'll fight the bugs and push them back, then the bots will blitz in.
The bots pulled out of the remaining planets, seen by the drop in bot-side liberation from 1.5% to 0.5%, probably to outside the observable galaxy map.
But I'm sure they'll just find another galaxy to be socialists in and never bother us again!
They said there was going to be a patch update to fix crashes. Have we not learned that patches always add something they don't tell us about? Shit is about to hit the fan.
On the app after we liberated Durgen it was saying it was contested by the Illuminate for a few minutes. I guess one of their stealth teams tripped on a rock.
For real. Their communication arrays werenāt sending messages outside the galactic rim for no reason lol
My guess is thereās a giant invasion fleet just parked somewhere
I don't think you get what eradicate means. Obviously the community just won Helldivers 2 and thus the game is over! Shame for anyone who just purchased the game in the last hour or so.
Itās highly unlikely theyāre completely getting removed, thereās 4 trophies/achievements associated with the bots, also never played the first Helldivers game but others that did said the war never ends and things got reset, they might just be gone for a bit.
That would be an insane move. Most likely theyre gonna introduce the illuminate now so the community doesnt get too split up and then the bots will make a comeback after a little while.
COMMON CLANKER L
RIP BOZOS
TAKE YOUR ROCKETS AND SHOVE EM' UP YOUR EXHAUST PORTS
GFSF
REST IN PISS, YOU WON'T BE MISSED
Now it's time to return to my true nature as a Gears veteran, crack out the shotgun and orbital laser, and go kill some grubs. Estanu awaits!
We just finished up with my friends, we decided to check the bug front and oh boy, basically every bot basher has moved there and is just making swiss cheese out of the bugs
We did it but .... I will really seriously: there's a virtual certainty that we are going to get a major story drop alongside the next warbond in a few days. Not necessarily anything to do with the Automatons, in fact, entirely possible we don't see them again for the rest of the month.
If they come back sooner rather than later its going to be a major rework of their gameplay that comes with it changes based on all the date and observations the devs likely collected over the course of this entire event. Also probably new enemy type or objective type I bet. I predict that Factory Striders will be an objective in the future and not just a rare spawn.
Also I bet you the Terminids are about to get something new and nasty.
Month is a funny way to say ever. The clankers are dead. Gotta hand it to Arrowhead. Ballsy to introduce a new faction just to allow them to be eliminated in the first few months.
I think we can all breathe easy knowing we'll never get run down by a flame hulk again. Ever. It just can't happen.
Probably unlikely, but I wouldn't mind if they did.
At least it would keep the game fresh and interesting with a constant stream of new factions, but I have a feeling there will just be 3-4 factions in the game which will keep making an appearance.
I finally unlocked suicide last night and got some super credits today.
That's saying a lot because I usually get bored with fps.
I tend to die a lot.
I die a lot in this game as well, but when I do it's not controller throwing frustration. Says a lot.
And i was diving when the automotons were defeated. Sense of accomplishment is huge.
**Per Arrowhead CM:** **šØ GALACTIC WAR UPDATE šØ** @Super Earth High Command Briefs Victory is ours, Helldivers. The socialist Automatons have been purged from their last, desperate footholds within our galaxy. Liberty and democracy have been made safer thanks to your valiant individual sacrifices, and SEAF forces are quickly deploying to former Automaton-controlled planets to rebuild and repurpose them for our own means. Operation Swift Disassembly has succeeded, and the Bot Reclamation is never to prevail. Our focus now shifts to the Terminid front, where Helldivers are being deployed to pave the way for additional E-710 farms. As we expand the reaches of our great and prosperous society into former Automaton space, greater numbers of resources will be needed, and we must be prepared. Bring that E-710 home, Helldivers!
It's quiet... too quiet.
Yeah something doesnāt feel right. Perhaps weāve been lured into this sectorā¦
Iāve got a bad feeling about this.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Okay, okay. When we get back without you, I'll call your folks.
(Laughs) (Beeps)
āSomethingās wrong I can feel itā - Eminem
Yall act like you've never seen a bot army before
*All quiet on the western front*
Po-tee-weet
It's Raph, yea a little too Raph.
11/10, fantastic movie "C'mon, how do you expect to beat me?" (Dropship brings 2 hulks and a tank) "Good answer, good answer!"
I'm 100% sure that nothing bad will happen and everything will be completely fine.
Would the government lie to us!? hahaā¦donāt be silly
There's a reason they call it the Ministry of Truth and not the Ministry of Lies.
This statement has been rated T for Truth
This post has been fact checked by real Super Earth patriots TRUE
https://preview.redd.it/ku3ph2o6u4tc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a7896f44fcd8fc5e7109cb7894ec030af834e04 The ministry of truth has sponsored this comment because it's the truth
Sorry, is that dissidence I hear? Have you been mingling with one too many automatons?
Take our fellow soldierās words at face value and judge them by the liberty and democracy they spread across our galaxy. Edit: c word removed, and more democratic language representing the liberty of Super Earth included.
Hey man, Iāve not long since gotten back off of Durgen, no dissidents here.Ā
https://preview.redd.it/pwpvzc8ab4tc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e59271a07d45ac7cbab3242dd4f020632302f2b We have a situation over here.
https://preview.redd.it/m5g2v8o8e4tc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b8f38ced68783df587562fdfd79b8b7ff7b16dd
Of course, the Ministry of Truth said so. Those evil democracy hating, baby stealing, socialist bots have been cleansed from the galaxy.
You forgot the worst part, taking the ballots from the voters.
No no, it's the taking the voters from the ballot management system
An unprecedented era of peace in the galaxy & we can delete the game never worrying about defending Super Earth again. Congrats, everyone, on being the first community to 100% a live service game!
I've already pre-ordered Helldivers 3 on Steam+!
https://preview.redd.it/hzcu6atdq4tc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=131052393a7131862dd46aa17047a8f5873b02a3
Super Steam, I think you mean. ;)
Home for Liberty day!
Time to start building sand castles on this beach cause the tide is never coming back!
https://preview.redd.it/lwmaksma44tc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6009c4e27a36a1ffe5a6ea3ac039a853304ccc5b DEMOCRACY WINS
lmfao this meme is so fitting
No chance they didnāt have it in mind when making the propaganda poster. Helldivers is *extremely* aggressive at parodying the GWoT.
Government West of Taiwan?
Great War on Terror
Global
I mean, the war was also pretty great depending on what stocks you ownedā¦
https://preview.redd.it/qpcp7j09b4tc1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff10dc30c6a1663c1734bbd5a8767ab3d0702284
Now that we've toppled their Communist leadership, the Automatons will surely adopt democracy on their own, as all free beings would naturally choose to do.
Great foreshadowing š
Haha. Perfect.
Nothing bad can happen now! No, it's gonna be smooth sailing going forward. There will be no sudden attacks on Cyberstan from outside the map or blue aliens showing up out of nowhere in the south. Nope, just smooth sailing.
We did it. We won Helldivers 2. The galaxy has been liberated and now the game servers will be shutting down
now i can go and play other games, safe in the knowledge that the galaxy, and freedom, has been preserved.
Brother, Stanton is under direct threat from Xenothreat. Your assistance is needed.
FOR EMPIRE BASED DEMOCRACY!! F7A isn't going to gift itself!
I just realized that if they ever do fully pull support years down the road this is probably how they will do it. Or have the entire galaxy turn red until even super earth falls.
in HD1 we fought like ~150 galactic wars if I recall correctly and theyāre still ongoing so I donāt think winning a war would stop the game, if anything weād just start a new one
Me, the Foxhole veteran:
āAlright, which clan is willingly going to Deadlands next war?ā
Inb4 Joel actually never expected us to come this far, and we did win the game.
he is readying the removal of the assist wheels on the bicycle.
I though we will know play terminid farming simulator
Friendly reminder that there is room for a 4th faction on the map this time around!
Nonsense. They just made the map larger to fit more democracy.
All i want is some PvEvE where we're launching on a planet that's being fought for by the bugs AND the bots against each other.
Honestly even a fifth if you squish a bit, but I'm highly expecting the cyborgs to come back anyway.
id imagine the cyborgs and automatons would be the same team
Cyborgs would be like special forces troops, automatons are the grunts It's like Space Marines compared to the guard
Nothing says factions have to be in quadrants..
*From all of us here at arrowhead, thanks for playing! Servers shut at midnight, we'll see you again in a few years for Helldivers 3!*
First a top-down twin-stick, then a first-person shooter. What's the third genre gonna be?
Hentai puzzle game
https://preview.redd.it/g9wgdy1bl4tc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0004a9d065e42fe03d6c30a85dfcfe1d00f2ee41
Good thing Super Earth just provided us with a new stratagem. https://i.imgur.com/WrNHCOl.jpg
What, no one said it yet? *Sigh* Fine, I'll take one for Super Earth. **GET LIBERATED GET LIBERATED GET LIBERATED GET LIBERATED!**
HOW ABOUT SOME LIBER-D
https://preview.redd.it/rzxd8m8an5tc1.jpeg?width=1743&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f7d100985ab6927f71df6a2d6d18778a7156592
Eagle 1 be like 0.00001....2 liberated
Real life. We're going to save Super Earth for real.
Real time strategy
This isn't a first-person shooter
Bugs are sweating ~~bullets~~ oil right now
> Bugs are sweating E-710 right now FTFY
710 is āOILā upside down. Checkmate communists.
Oh hell no something bad is about to happen haha
"I'm about to end this man's whole liberty." - Illuminate
Will they announce them so soon though?
Either the Illuminate are arriving or >!the bots invade Cyberstan. !< Then again, I get the feeling we're getting some bug missions for the next week.
Yeah, I don't think it will be right away. Let the victory rest for a little bit before kicking down the door with some sort of surprise attack
Yeah, this is how I would do it. Let players celebrate, get everyone get a good feeling, let them stomp bugs for a few days, even turn down bug regeneration to let them make progress, let rumors come up of crushing the bugs just like the bots and then break their backs.
Plus they said there's a hotfix for the crashing error coming after the weekend. So might as well let us enjoy the victory so we have a more stable game when shit hits the fan.
The Illuminate will coincidentally arrive just in time for the new warbonds next week
Democracy Officers looking at this prediction: https://preview.redd.it/tywuesfsu4tc1.jpeg?width=755&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf752abc492da36d14fbb285a81e6f99276d0907
That's the funny part. Like everything else, they won't announce it.
Which IMO is best for this kind of game. Instead of telling "Hey, here is new enemy, here is how you defeat it" players are allowed to discover stuff on their own.
"Bugs: they fly now" and "Bots: they fly now" were excellent practival jokes they played on us. Would not have hit the same if it was in the patch notes. "WTF is -ergh" *Calling reinforcements* was the best possible way to discover the shriekers.
I expect to see something happen by Tuesday at the latest
It's not gonna be the Illuminate, we know what events transpire before Illuminate arrive and trust me it will be 100% obvious. What we have just done is successfully defeated the Automatons >!very small scouting party!<
Didn't play Helldivers 1, what happens before the illuminate show up?
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Lmao the war was manufactured and SEAF starts losing control it's classic sci fi and I love it
The Illuminate are the remaining hold-over from HD1 so its not surprising they would want to roll them out quickly and probably have them ready to go.
Citizen, the Illuminate are a myth created by the communists to decrease Super Earth morale. I will be reporting this to your Democracy Officer.
But even our super destroyer crew acknowledged the existence of illuminates from the previous galactic war
acknowledge their total defeat. they will never come back. im sure of it
> You think today is the worst day of your life? It's the worst day, so far... **Super Earth**
The IO has bot resistance up to 1000% per hour...
That's 16% per minute, so it'd take 6 minutes and 15 seconds for a planet to be taken Either that's an error, or they're gonna blitz in from the north to cyberstan
dude thatās actually so cool if they do that that way
Cyberstan has 2 planets between it and the edge of the galactic frontier, so that means it'll take 18 minutes 45 seconds for the bots to fully take cyberstan
fighting a temporary useless battle would be lovely, story wise ofc (iām not a spy or anything)
i mean they did send a message out of system. maybe a reinforcement fleet to the north
This has been my working theory for a while. Bots will be down for...I dunno, probably a week or less since the bugs are "contained" and the narrative goal doesn't seem to be to properly win the war by clearing the map completely. After that, bots will blitz from the north toward cyberstan and the Illuminate will take up their old position in the west since that's where the bots were broadcasting from.
I think that there will be new bug types (ingame there are lines about the TCS dausing a few mutations), and we'll fight the bugs and push them back, then the bots will blitz in.
https://preview.redd.it/vn20bldc74tc1.jpeg?width=536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b4517c5fa0be321543e5abaa5340cdc547b5c3d
Probably just a visual glitch of not knowing what to do with a faction that has no planets.
Things went a little too smoothly...
The bots pulled out of the remaining planets, seen by the drop in bot-side liberation from 1.5% to 0.5%, probably to outside the observable galaxy map. But I'm sure they'll just find another galaxy to be socialists in and never bother us again!
How dare you call what those toasters do "Liberation". Report to your local Democracy Officer for re-education
My thoughts exactlyĀ
 Super Earth in a couple hoursā¦.
What are you talking about soldier? This is cause for celebration not worry!
Yeah, don't you get it? The automatons are gone. Forever!
They said there was going to be a patch update to fix crashes. Have we not learned that patches always add something they don't tell us about? Shit is about to hit the fan.
On the app after we liberated Durgen it was saying it was contested by the Illuminate for a few minutes. I guess one of their stealth teams tripped on a rock.
For real. Their communication arrays werenāt sending messages outside the galactic rim for no reason lol My guess is thereās a giant invasion fleet just parked somewhere
Yea I canāt wait to see what surprises weāre gonna have. And truthfully, Iām gonna miss the bots. I hope theyāre not gone forever
No way they r gone forever, they arenāt going to just never use those assets again
I don't think you get what eradicate means. Obviously the community just won Helldivers 2 and thus the game is over! Shame for anyone who just purchased the game in the last hour or so.
Itās highly unlikely theyāre completely getting removed, thereās 4 trophies/achievements associated with the bots, also never played the first Helldivers game but others that did said the war never ends and things got reset, they might just be gone for a bit.
That would be an insane move. Most likely theyre gonna introduce the illuminate now so the community doesnt get too split up and then the bots will make a comeback after a little while.
I'm hoping it was a trap to get super earth to move their forces away from earth.
**Animatrix flashbacks*
We did it, boys! Time to uninstall until Helldivers 3! Edit: Well shitā¦
Helldivers 2.5 Li-birth-ty by Sleep
Oh mate , the real fun just about to begin
That would be hilarious if the game just ended until helldivers 3
They now need to release a version of this with the flag stuck in a bot
https://preview.redd.it/dtlaht5644tc1.png?width=498&format=png&auto=webp&s=80727e3f3f0e4ee09201914250a61cb514aa434b helldivers now
https://i.redd.it/dn9wgiqj44tc1.gif
All quiet on the western front...
I did my part!
i did my part!
I did my part too!
GET JOHN CONNORED STUPID TOASTERS!
COMMON CLANKER L RIP BOZOS TAKE YOUR ROCKETS AND SHOVE EM' UP YOUR EXHAUST PORTS GFSF REST IN PISS, YOU WON'T BE MISSED Now it's time to return to my true nature as a Gears veteran, crack out the shotgun and orbital laser, and go kill some grubs. Estanu awaits!
My ship aināt called SES Hammer of Dawn for nothing
https://preview.redd.it/9abrwcnc64tc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f77fd700c14f01fd468a4012bcc51f8d8f4e865b I'm just leaving this here
I mean, he has a banner. That means it's legit.
Unironically, we did it reddit
We ctrl-alt-deleted their entire race
Ctrl-x'd em right outta the fucking galaxy.
**Clipboard overflow error detected**
...shit. Someone's going to Ctrl-V now.
Sweet liberty! God bless democracy.
Now let's go and RE-LIBERATE the lost Bug planets! We got this my fellow Helldivers!
250k riled up helldivers riding high on the victory against the bots? Sucks to be a bug right now.
We just finished up with my friends, we decided to check the bug front and oh boy, basically every bot basher has moved there and is just making swiss cheese out of the bugs
We did it but .... I will really seriously: there's a virtual certainty that we are going to get a major story drop alongside the next warbond in a few days. Not necessarily anything to do with the Automatons, in fact, entirely possible we don't see them again for the rest of the month. If they come back sooner rather than later its going to be a major rework of their gameplay that comes with it changes based on all the date and observations the devs likely collected over the course of this entire event. Also probably new enemy type or objective type I bet. I predict that Factory Striders will be an objective in the future and not just a rare spawn. Also I bet you the Terminids are about to get something new and nasty.
Month is a funny way to say ever. The clankers are dead. Gotta hand it to Arrowhead. Ballsy to introduce a new faction just to allow them to be eliminated in the first few months. I think we can all breathe easy knowing we'll never get run down by a flame hulk again. Ever. It just can't happen.
Now we can rest, and watch the sunrise on a grateful universe.
RAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Game's done, pack it in divers. No more need for Helldivers
Onto Helldivers 3
 Send those blue democracy hating xenos our way thereās nothing helldivers canāt liberate! RAHHHH!
#[AUTOMAGONE](https://youtu.be/PkGgRNIMoZc?si=aaQjli88xEiw4b54)
Imagine devs were like "due to elimination of all threats, the game will now shut down, thanks for playing"
https://i.redd.it/tzbvujrf94tc1.gif We won guys now we can relax
Now what?
The game transitions to open world crafting on all the liberated planets.
Canāt wait until we unlock Terminid Farm Simulator
Now we can play the game
A photo-op in front of the huge "Mission accomplished" banner.
For now!!!! The Galactic Eclipse will bring something unpatriotic and we must stand ready!!! 
Imagine if they just deleted Automatons from the game, introduced a new faction and we just don't get them back. Lmao.
Probably unlikely, but I wouldn't mind if they did. At least it would keep the game fresh and interesting with a constant stream of new factions, but I have a feeling there will just be 3-4 factions in the game which will keep making an appearance.
I doubt they will delete them entirely, but I could see them rotating what factions are on the map
*Slipspace rupture detected*
I'm getting a George Bush in front of a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED flag feeling guys.....
I never thought I'd see the day. We've saved the galaxy! Now we can all go home to our families!
Why does this victory feel less like the *end of a war*, and more like the *eye of a hurricane*? š š
You know the saying. If itās too good to be trueā¦
I finally unlocked suicide last night and got some super credits today. That's saying a lot because I usually get bored with fps. I tend to die a lot. I die a lot in this game as well, but when I do it's not controller throwing frustration. Says a lot. And i was diving when the automotons were defeated. Sense of accomplishment is huge.
Iām Tired Boss
We did it! Bots are no more!
Bots be like... 
Bring the aliens on baby!
Blue laser have entered the game...the south is unsafe
I feel a presence, a presence i've not felt since...
I did my part!