Helldivers 2‘s Galactic Struggle has made its approach again to the notorious Malevelon Creek simply in time for the one 12 months anniversary of the fierce preventing that led the planet – dubbed Robotic Vietnam by gamers – getting its personal memorial day canonized into the sport’s lore.
Yep, as people have been speculating last week, The Creek is again as a significant order focus, with the mission having loads of call-backs to the battle on it last year, which has since generated infinite memes throughout the HD2 group. Mainly, vets who fought in that battle maintain telling newer gamers that they weren’t there, man.
Anyway, now the planet’s being battled for once more, as an Automaton assault led by flamethrower toting bots known as the Incineration Corps threatens to focus on it.
“This hallowed floor is the resting place of many, many courageous Helldivers whose final sacrifices freed the planet from the Automatons early within the struggle,” Arrowhead wrote in its briefing for this main order, “Now, the enemy seeks to defile their graves—clearly having calculated that seizing the planet on the upcoming Malevelon Creek Memorial Day would end result within the best web desecration.”
So, as of writing, gamers have simply over 5 days and two hours left to safe Malevelon Creek and maintain it beneath Tremendous Earth management “by any means needed”, with the preventing not fairly having reached the famed planet but. As a substitute, the battle’s at present raging on Popli IX within the Xzar system that neighbours the Creek’s system – that being the Severin Sector.
Arrowhead’s additionally dished out a brand new stratagem to everybody which may assist you to in case you’re dropping in to assist maintain off the bots. It is the E/GL-21 Grenadier Battlement, and it drops in to deploy you a barricade you may take cowl behind, or in a single case up to now, host some type of Illuminate Voteless mosh pit.
It is also price noting that in case you’ve been struggling to play Helldivers 2 with out subject on PC because the final patch, 01.002.200, Arrowhead group supervisor Katherine ‘Baskinator’ Baskin has introduced by way of the sport’s Discord that its devs are “at present engaged on a repair” for an “AVX2 subject”. This subject seems to be associated to a change to how the sport does AI calculations.
For now, it seems to be PC-specific and primarily affecting these making an attempt to run the sport on machines with older CPUs that could be beneath its listed minimum recommended system requirements. Nevertheless, some gamers with up-to-date {hardware} are also reporting noticing a performance diference in higher-difficulty missions that is extra pronounced than the “slight trade-off” Arrowhead indicated within the notes.
Are you diving in to assist defend The Creek and have you ever been working into any points with Helldivers 2 since that final patch? Tell us under!