All over the place I’m going, Malevelon Creek follows. It’s in each different Helldivers-related submit I see on Twitter, Reddit, and TikTok. Once I first performed Helldivers 2, the sport was synonymous with this picture of troopers in some barren desert laying waste to killer bugs. Now? Now all I see is that rattling jungle and people godforsaken robots.
For the reason that days it was first dubbed “Robotic Vietnam” due to its jungle-like environs and traumatizing issue, Malevelon Creek has risen in stature to turn out to be Helldivers 2’s most well-known battleground. In honor of that meteoric rise, and the immense narrative that gamers have managed to spin across the planet, Arrowhead Sport Studios has decreed that right now, April 3, 2024, is “Malevelon Creek Memorial Day.” No, you didn’t learn that fallacious: Tremendous-Earth has authorized a day in remembrance of the numerous sacrifices Helldivers 2 gamers have made for the Creek. As a further gesture to commemorate those that paid the last word worth, gamers will obtain a particular cape they will don to recollect their fallen brethren. Now if they might simply give us double XP as some type of hazard pay, I’d be completely happy as a clam.
Malevelon Creek has had a hell of a journey since its early days as a throwaway joke. Gamers merely refused to surrender on it, although profitable mission completions hardly ever affected the planet’s liberation meter. Some gamers, who’ve taken the bit a lot additional than I ever would, principally dwell there, completely taking missions on Malevelon Creek and adopting the identify “Creek Crawlers.” These gamers took it the toughest when the forces of Tremendous-Earth misplaced Malevelon to the Automatons, however they have been additionally those who instantly doubled down when one other offensive was launched on the planet.
The Creek was locked on this brutal back-and-forth for a very long time when earlier this week, gamers lastly took a decisive win and freed the planet for the primary time ever. It was a sight to behold, however the victory celebrations have been brief lived. Quickly afterwards, cloaked ships appeared over Automaton-held planets and inside the day, the robots deployed gunships and big walkers as revenge. First the bugs began flying and now this? You simply know Arrowhead is gearing as much as deploy that third enemy faction to throw some salt within the wound.
So suffice to say, the least Tremendous-Earth may do is host a celebration for its beleaguered forces and throw some capes their means. They’ve acquired it actual unhealthy down there.
