Did you blink during the latter half of July 10, 2024? If so, there’s a good chance you missed the entire Hellraiser 2 main order, as Arrowhead had the guys celebrating getting some battle station plans, and they completed the entire bug-killing goal in record time.
We’ve long known that the forces of super-Earths could kill off numbers of organisms in rapid succession that defy the laws of mathematics, but this is the first time these insect-killing talents have been on such full display.
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“After handling the automaton stress on the X-45 with heroism and style any commando would be proud of, it is time to test their arsenal on the Terminid scum, for the sake of science,” reads the summary of this latest order, and I’m actually just quoting it because you may have missed the chance to actually read it, “The Helldivers are tasked with exterminating the bugs using a variety of weaponry in order to force a controlled but accelerated evolution of the Terminid population.”
And, by the time you read the word “Terminid,” the order—or at least the first part of it—is complete. Kill 100,000,000 bugs, Arrowhead tells the Helldivers, and bam, it’s done. Sorry to the Helldivers who were probably too busy hanging out with your real-life family or friends last night, but mission accomplished.
Reddit has seen posts like: “Guys we’re only just getting started, how did you do this?”, “I just got home”, “I almost wonder if they missed a zero”. The last part and the fact that this is for Terminids seems to be the key, as 100 million bugs is nowhere near as challenging as killing a billion robots. Because this enemy doesn’t usually try to overwhelm you with large numbers of relatively weak enemies, it seems to be less popular than the old bugs.
So now it’s back to waiting for another MO, with some paranoid players thinking that if Arrowhead deliberately designed this to be something people would complete as quickly as they did, then the next order might be explicitly intended to drag their egos back to Super Earth via a particularly difficult task or unexpected surprise.
Did you miss this last fleeting bug-killing routine? Let us know below.
