Arrowhead Sport Studios has loved handing down some powerful and consequential main orders for the Helldivers 2 neighborhood to beat, however its newest could be one among its thorniest but. You see, main orders are inclined to focus the whole lot of the participant base on a single goal or set of targets, resembling killing billions of bugs, wiping out the robotic Automatons, or liberating an embattled planet. Everybody contributes to a single milestone and will get rewarded for it upon completion. In any other case, everybody fails, however a minimum of they fail collectively. Now, for the primary time, Helldivers 2 gamers want to select between liberating two completely different planets, and selecting one over the opposite will solely unlock one among two stratagems for the neighborhood.
To be clear, the most recent main order costs gamers with liberating each Choohee and Penta, however in accordance with Helldivers 2’s narrative, solely the stratagem of the primary one to be liberated shall be salvageable. First, gamers must liberate Lesath, a planet in the identical cluster as Choohee and Penta, at which level the opposite two planets shall be obtainable for gamers to struggle over. At that time, the actual wrestle will start. If the neighborhood liberates Choohee first, they are going to unlock the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines as a stratagem to name upon in the course of a mission. In the event that they choose to free Penta first as an alternative, everybody within the recreation will obtain the RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher. Whereas the neighborhood isn’t totally in tandem and on the identical web page, that is the primary time the builders have ever deliberately cut up them.
Discussions are already underway throughout numerous Helldivers boards, and issues are extra heated than I figured they’d be. When given the selection between an lively and passive weapon, such because the distinction between a rocket launcher you shoot and mines you place in ready, I feel most people defer to the lively weapon. Taking a look at among the replies to the Helldivers tweet, sentiment gave the impression to be trending in that path, however elsewhere, impassioned gamers are making the case for the choice, and each have some factors.
On one hand, the airburst rocket launcher could possibly be an efficient anti-air weapon, which might turn out to be useful in opposition to the flying bugs and robotic gunships that now plague Helldivers 2 gamers. However, mines are actually good at taking out closely armored floor models, which gamers would possibly want when their focus inevitably swings again to the Automatons and their extremely beefy tanks and walkers. Having extra mines would possibly assist when taking out swarms of bugs or when clearing out their nests too, so there’s ok cause for gamers to go both method on this main order. Sadly for Helldivers 2 gamers, the selection isn’t so reduce and dry.
In a neat gesture, gamers will be capable to drop into both planet and trial their respective “experimental stratagems” to make the selection ever so barely simpler. There’s additionally just a few days on the clock till the main order expires, so there’s loads of time to bounce between each planets attempting out the brand new stratagems.
As a video games journalist, I should encourage you all to do your due diligence and analysis the merchandise with the intention to make an knowledgeable buy. Godspeed y’all. Give ‘em hell down there and bear in mind to decide on properly.
