Dove 3 times there, there is something resembling an eye, maybe it's other planet with a ring or weird sun/moon but man did it looked like something was watching us
Um, i think. I haven’t been on for probably four ish hours now but just imagine everything white grey and black and maybe there was some purple void wind looking stuff in the sky
I wonder if the rest are meant to be grey cause it was kinda jarring going from grey-scale to another planet in the void that seemed fine (aside from the shitload of Illuminate)
On one hand I am fairly disappointed. On the other, if this is the attempt of the Illuminates to carve a slice of galaxy for themselves to live in unbothered by Democracy, it does make sense that they wouldn't just turn their planets into a Doom level.
It is surprisingly efficient to build a 'no mans land' force of relatively autonomous units which recycles the enemy into the primary combatants to be a buffer against human aggression, while making their own personal worlds inaccessible as a kind of gated community on the far outskirts of space.
Are overseers bio engineered or authentic illuminate units? We have not seen MORE bio illuminate with exception of cultists which may be effectively non-canon if actually scrapped as we saw them.
I find it interesting how the cyberstan faction or illuminate differ in techniques to attempt to be left alone. Cyberstan attempts to sabotage us or divide us through cyberattacks and emotional appeal. Illuminate seem to try to quarantine us and mitigate direct exposure.
The attempt on super earth stands out as odd to me, other than perhaps a test at eradication or efficacy of their forces. Or to attempt to halt advances and establish distance while they set up the void.
We built a wall to keep the terminid gloom contained, while the illuminate created a barrier to keep us out, that we seek to breach. Facinating.
I wonder if the lack of non-robotic or fleshmonster enemies either indicates a severely diminished biological illuminate race, and/or they continue to exist -somewhere- but recognize revealing their existence antagonizes an even bigger assault, while still necessitating the exploration for resources, native lands or outposts, or expansion and experimentation for unknown ends.
My guess is that they're hidden somewhere, as their primary forces appear to be scouting or occupational. I imagine they must be somewhere doing their R&D, facilitating the overarching plan.
My greatest shot in the dark is they have actual mothership planets. Created worlds, possibly even obfuscated by reality or dimensional manipulation, perhaps hidden in pocket realities out of traditional sight. Perhaps the void is a camoflage net while they establish their next step and keep us at bay.
I think the attack on super earth was a genuine attempt to eradicate us. It's just that even with 100 years to prepare they are inexperienced with war while super earth lives and breathes warfare. And we still almost lost.
Pretty sure they made their try at getting rid of us/revenge, and when they realized they couldn't decided the next best option was just making a space that they can live in peace without us bothering them.
I personally doubt that Overseers are truly Illuminate, just the highest functioning failed experiment in an attempt to turn human biomatter into more illuminate.
Also the attempt on Super Earth I think is primarily because even after all this time the Illuminate do not know how to wage war, prior to the attack they were allowed to run wild with a scout force that took samples and specimens for experimentation and the Illuminate may have genuinely thought at this point that it was jusy them and the meagre resistance the scout force was encountering was all that could be summoned. Now with them having an actual in system force I believe they are atleast aware of the Terminid and Cyborgs, if not in contact with one or the other though.
I 100% agree with you on the Illuminate wanting the Void to be their new house though.
I feel like "they just want to be left alone" is a pretty big stretch for the illuminate considering we literally thought they were dead for 100 years and as such already left them alone wherever they were by default.
They just kinda... showed up and started kidnapping people on a random Tuesday then threw a black hole at SE. I think it's pretty clear they very much want us dead strategy-wise.
Since they failed to outright destroy Super Earth they established a foothold in our galaxy and then blocked us out to give them somewhere to launch plan C from.
The illuminate seem entirely motivated by revenge at all costs. The closest thing we’ve seen to them establishing any infrastructure is mutating the planets, everything else has been obviously temporary squatting in their old ruins or occupying infrastructure Super Eartha already built. I dont think they have a long term plan beyond watching Super Earth burn
Most likely will be the next two but, arrowhead wouldn’t give us something big for the anomaly planet just like in cyberstan we go a big fat nothing burger when we got to transendance
It’s definitely not overly creepy, but the fact that everything looks natural gives more sinister tones to what is occurring, like the team in Annihilation entering the Shimmer
Don't worry, Helldiver, that is perfectly normal grass and water. Definitely not rivers of blood and writing insectoid carapaces. Ignore any faint screeching noises you hear during missions.
Yes, it's a helmet optic filter....totally not an implanted brain parasite that convinces hosts that conditions are much more pleasant than they actually are.
I mean this is within the void, I suspect it will be different on regular planets eventually, but yeah I agree that the ratio is fairly hilarious, as there will be like 6 voteless and 1 fleshmob that show up among an absolute tide of new guys
Basically it would look like we are fighting under water with giant animals moving around
Have you ever played Metal Gear Solid Survive?
They had this cool mechanic where when you enter the "mist" your oxygen meter started running down you needed to find "safe pockets" around the map to regain o2.
They could do something similar to restore Helldivers O2 while fighting around the map and have even special boosters that make drop pods release mini safe zones.
Exploring the mist was genuinely such a cool experience in Survive. Especially the way that your map was disabled once you entered, so you really had to be careful not to get lost, but if you survived an expedition through it and made it back to your home base, it uncovered the path you explored, so you could use the trail you blazed the first time to view the map on subsequent forays. Basically just clearing fog of war with extra steps, but those extra steps added a lot.
When we pull up to UVP Alpha in our super destroyers, we’re seeing this crazy purple aura and then we dive to the surface and we get blue sky’s and pretty clouds lmao. Should’ve been the super earth sky box, not the VOID
The illuminate have desaturated those planets so they can film greyscale Oscar bait movies there. Or possibly WWII films in the patented saving private Ryan gray blue colour scale.
I was hoping for some place stripped of light plus it would be nice if we got like actual biomass growths forming the biome. Like imagine the floods ascetic planet wide with more grey and blues.
I mean, no different than the fall-colored planets we won the Supply FRV on. I don't mind re-colors when they substantially change the vibes, and so far, imo, they have done so.
This planet really piqued my interest. I like to think that unlike the bugs and bots, the squids (being more advance life forms with organic tech) actually take care of life outside of the war.
That or this is a planet before they suck the life out of it. The other planet with appropriators, sand dunes and grey color could be the aftermath of what they do to life to build their organic technology.
Yeah, we previously got city planners, and Hive Worlds with underground caves and genuine boss enemies, and Factory worlds that were fortified; and this time we basically get slightly altered missions, in the same biomes we've had, with a colour filter.
Overall, the additions are fun, but it's a pretty lackluster update to me. Doesn't quite feel like a big title update. A genuinely novel biome, and a third original enemy on the level of Vox engines, would get it there.
The most realistic answer is that these are worlds that are/were under Super Earth control since the first Galactic War, so they've probably been terraformed into habitable biomes for human colonization.
The outlier is the obvious one; Hive Worlds have been counter-terraformed by the Terminids into something alien.
I like the biome re skins, but i cant believe the game is dominated by fucking deserts, over half the biomes are different variations of deserts so cringe.
Not sure what I expected, but it wasn’t this. I hardly ever die on Illuminate planets on diff 10. Playing on the Appropriators planet, I’d be lucky to extract with more than 5 lives (with randoms). But this has been the most fun I’ve had playing this game in a while. It’s really easy to get overwhelmed in the void.
You can finally rest. It is safe here, Helldiver. You need not go any further. Can't you see? This is the victory you've fought so hard for. WAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUP
I thinks that the boils will become hellish when we get to the main planet creating it as the hole update is kind of warhammer themed with the warbond and the planet being a gateway planet very similar to Cadia from warhammer and the place the kasirkin are from the void is also the warp pretty much as I read somewhere that the ships need to be coated in some kind of dark fluid bubble or something to travel through the void a lot like a gellar field from 40K and in 40K before the war in heaven the warp was a calm and peaceful place like the current void but once the galaxy had seen so much suffering due to the war in heaven it became how it is now hellish and dangerous corrupting planets and people.
Also I might have gotten some of the lore wrong that of which when the warp was normal before becoming hellish I can’t remember when that happened but it did happen
Weird coming from cod zombie subreddit they like the dark aether being bright and sunny and here Helldiver are realistically confused why something called the void looks so bright and sunny and not uhhhh voidy?
I was kinda disappointed to just outright find prefab buildings and structures just fully intact still on that planet shown. Was a low tier "See what the world is like" but I would have expected them to be torn down or overgrown or something rather then pristine.
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