Helldivers 2

Dispatch from Super Earth High Command at 2024-02-30 01:00 UTC

With the long awaited liberation of Troost, Phase 1 of the Automaton recycling effort has successfully been completed. The Trigon sector has been under partial Automaton occupation ever since the socialist toasters first marched in there during the early parts of the Automaton surprise attack way back in mid February. Although the Helldivers initially voiced concerns about fighting the Automatons, they have regardless shown up in force, with well over 70% of all active Helldivers now pushing the metal menace back.

Phase 2 of the operation commenced earlier today with the new objective of decommissioning the Automaton factories located on Tibit. Helldivers were quick to react and lined up on Ubanea to open up Tibit for a direct assault. However, their optimistic plans have received complications as the Automatons have initiated an assault of Draupnir. This world has seen its fair share of back and forth over the course of this Galactic War, and it seems that Draupnir will need to stave off yet another assault. Should the Helldivers fail to hold Draupnir, they jeopardize the gains they have made upon Ubanea. Now it's up to the Helldivers to decide how to best react to this precarious situation.

While a committed and focused Helldiver force could easily push the incursion from Draupnir within a few hours, there is the additional choice of ignoring Draupnir to simply burn down Ubanea before the Draupnir defence fails. This would secure the planet and allow Helldiver forces to push to Tibit early, crippling the production that is fueling the Draupnir offensive. It's risky though; if that gamble fails, the odds of our forces recovering access to Ubanea in time to take down Tibit before the Major Order expires is slim...

Operation Swift Disassembly, Phase 1—Completed

The Automaton Comms Array on Troost has been decommissioned. Strangely, it appears to have been broadcasting outside the Galactic Frontier. Analysts are working to determine more.

However, we did discover a transmission containing blueprints for a new Automaton type: aerial gunships. With this advance warning, our hardworking factory laborers (all age 7 and over) have been instructed to accelerate production of our most effective anti-air weaponry.

New Major Order

Operation Swift Assembly, Phase II: Reduce Non-Sentient Combatant Production. Intel analysis have identified the planet Tibit as the most significant producer of illegal Automaton combatants. Liberating this planet would significantly impact the enemy's capacity to replenish decommissioned socialists. It would also limit further theft of the planet's natural resources from future generations of inarguably sentient humans.

Automaton Counterattack

Intercepted messages indicate bot plans for a significant push. Increased resistance on Automaton planets is anticipated. Socialist bot strike teams have landed on Draupnir, attempting to disrupt our liberation efforts on Obanea.

Front Changes

Defence Campaign on Oshaune has failed and Helldivers on Omicron were forced to strategically fallback to Oshaune to deal with the new infestation. The fascist hive mind deployed a spore outbreak on Fori Prime in an attempt to cut off freedom activities on Oshaune.

One square length is the max distance you can be before you count as a group for patrols, 65 to 75 meters.

Those sneaky, soulless Bots are trying to take Draupnir. To Arms!

Sorry for the thumbnail, it's pulled from helldivers.io.

Front Changes

Vandalon IV has been liberated from the socialist Automaton. The Helldivers only need to liberate Troost to complete Operation Swift Disassembly Phase 1.

An bug spore broke out in Oshaune and is out of control. Helldivers route to Omicron will be cut off soon.

Arsenal Expansion Notice

In order to support the destruction of the socialist Automatons, the Ministry of Defense has fast-tracked new support weapons for immediate distribution.

The LAS-99 Quasar Cannon and MG-101 Heavy Machine Fun are now available for requisition.

00:43-01:57 Bring Correct Equipment

01:58-03:44 Use The Auto-Cannon

03:45-04:32 Exploit Weaknesses

04:33-05:46 Don't Sleep On Gas

05:57-06:33 Use Stealth and Scout Armor

06:34-07:14 Manage Bot Drops

07:15-08:19 Stop Pulling Aggro Often

08:20-08:40 Dismantle Bots

08:41-09:17 Know When TO Use Laser

09:18-10:00 Stop Wasting Reinforcements

10:01-10:41 Coordinate Stratagems

What does everyone think of the new weapons? I'm liking the Quasar against bots in particular because it can take out dropships and heavy enemies, though I'm still getting used to the windup time. I haven't tried the heavy machine gun much, but so far it seems fine, if somewhat ammo-hungry.

Hopefully I’ll wake up to 50 medals, tried to help the cause this evening, had a few ok games. Also had a game where all squad members bailed or disconnected, running solo against bots is stressful AF. I extracted but died as the pelican was arriving and couldn’t find the samples 🤦🏻‍♂️ then I did an Easy (level 31 on PS5) and got a network disconnect… decided that was enough HD2 for one night!

Random note: I avoid the site that won’t be named whenever I can, but I do find the player feedback/discussion to be helpful on that sub. Could we get more discussion style Lemmy posts going in this community? Get the communities thoughts on new weapons, builds, tactics or just appreciation for the game. I love the memes, I really do, this game is perfect meme fodder… but a stickied post to just shoot the shit about HD2 would be great!

It’s addictive to be at work and watch the progress tick up for VANDALON IV and watching us collectively crush the major order. But it’s giving me serious FOMO when I’m in meetings. Hoping we can crush TROOST tonight and tomorrow! Also the new weapons isn’t helping lol

Laser Cannon and Heavy Machine Gun.

Front Changes

Ustotu has been liberated from the socialist Automaton, opening the way to Vandalon IV, and one step closer to completing Operation Swift Disassembly Phase 1.

Oshaune has been liberated from the fascist Terminids, allowing access to Omicron.

The tyrannical bugs overran the Defence Campaign in Hellmire.