Helldivers 2 friends, the wait is finally over! After all the speculation, Team Light has emerged as part of a new major update for the game – Omen of Tyranny. It really got everyone's attention, causing the game to immediately hit its highest number of Steam players in about six months.
Yes, it turns out that Arrowhead's shameless update of a Helldivers 2 repository called “gameplay_illustrates” last month – which naturally sparked a flurry of speculation and SteamDB attention – is worth keeping an eye on after all. Man, it feels like so long ago that we were all staring into the Meridian Black Hole waiting for the original Hellraiser's big bad to crawl out.
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But now, they're here, and Arrowhead is marking the occasion by deploying a special Emergency Grand Order, letting players fight for the planet Calypso. You know this is an important command because the tweet in question is in all caps.
Many have responded – Hellraiser 2 peaked at 133,324 players on the platform last night, according to SteamDB. This looks to be the highest number recorded on Steam since late April this year, when the game was hovering around the 139,000 mark, but fell below that number heading into May. This resulted in the game being review bombed.
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Now, it's worth noting that while the PSN link “hooha” probably didn't help, around that time the game was already in the process of the natural gradual decline in player numbers that online games like this often experience after their initial popularity. situation. Immediately after publishing. So, in the months between then and now, Helldivers 2 hasn't had a real player count crisis, and things have basically settled into a rhythm with a decent number of hardcore players (usually between 70,000 and 25,000 in between) stick with it while others take a break and wait to be lured back by big, exciting updates like this.
Regardless, what can you expect as you join the ranks of returning soldiers and new recruits? Well, as detailed in the updated PlayStation blog for Omen of Tyranny and in the trailer above, the Light Ones are “advanced, highly intelligent beings with powerful technology that act like a form of dark magic to ordinary citizens “.
Their mind-controlled super-citizens are called “non-voters” because in case you didn't know, Helldiver 2 is an absolute satire and it's your job to help figure out the “dark purpose” behind this brainwashing . To help you do this, the update also introduces the Fast Reconnaissance Vehicle, or FRV – Helldivers 2's first drivable car – which you'll be able to unlock through the main order and should help you navigate your new town Destroy hordes of enemies. will fight hard
How happy are you that the Light One finally appears in Helldiver 2? Let us know below!
