When Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead abruptly rolled out its mysterious Station-81 teases and livestream late final week, numerous us assumed it’d in a short time result in one thing massive taking place within the Galactic Battle. Nicely, it is now a contemporary week and gamers are nonetheless battling to resolve the ARG, however a minimum of they’ve provide you with some attention-grabbing theories.
For those who’re out of the loop, this Station-81 enterprise has confirmed to contain a bunch of code-cracking by way of devoted channels in Helldivers 2’s official Discord server, with gamers there typing in instructions and the livestream displaying them the place they’re at. There’ve been a bunch of various phases to the puzzle, and it appears people are largely resorting to trial and error by way of spam.
As of writing, the stream reveals the divers engaged on a “Station-82”, with one a part of the display noting that we’re at 75% with regards to datablock recalibration, which I hope’s a superb omen.
To provide you an thought of the way it’s going, a bunch of Arrowhead devs and neighborhood workers have modified their Discord names to “SATCOM” adopted by a quantity, and one in all them responded to a transfer the gamers made within the early hours of at the moment by declaring: “Satcom has misplaced all hope within the Helldivers”. This profile, which appears to belong to a dev known as Daniel Conlon, did do an about face not lengthy after, saying that its religion within the divers had been restored.
Anyway, whereas the divers are still trying to solve the puzzle, a few of them have a minimum of been engaged on theories as to what could happen next in-game, based mostly on this Station-81 enterprise and issues which have occurred within the battle over the previous few months.
I’ve taken a scroll by means of the ARG-solving doc of Helldivers 2 Discord consumer Qwikster_, and in direction of the top of the 48 extremely detailed pages it at present runs for, they’ve laid out 4 or 5 concepts people have been evolving since Moradesh was misplaced to the Meridian Singularity in March, with one seemingly have been disregarded.
There’s the “Pilen V Concept”, which the participant writes is “the most effective principle we’ve got” as of writing, and mainly means that “one thing to do with the principle Illuminate power might occur on Pilen V” as a result of a Repulsive Gravity Discipline Generator is being constructed there. An identical principle involving the planet Alta V has been sidelined for now.
There is a “Code Concept” which argues that “the hex is an in-universe broadcast code for some machine”, a “Numbers Concept” that appears to be based mostly on changing the identical hexes in binary, and at last a “Bee Concept”. For those who hadn’t guessed, the latter’s my favorite.
“It appears AH developer (QA lead Jojo) appears to be very insistent on Bees. Should examine,” learn the notes on this little bit of buzz, “Bees principle comes from him saying, ‘I similar to bees’. ilovebees was the Halo 2 ARG. May additionally doubtlessly be a reference to ‘Beeposting’ in #galactic-war.” Sounds believable, and so they reckon it might in some way level to the planet Calypso because the potential website of an Illuminate comeback.
Will any of that come to move? Who is aware of, but it surely’s one thing attention-grabbing to consider whereas everybody spams these chats to try to resolve this ARG.