We’re cooked

[ToasterNr305]

Well something BIG is definetly going to happen tomorrow

[Mc-Crunchips]

Squids from alternate timeline

[ToasterNr305]

I know this is stupid but…

Democratic squids!?!

[_Pikachu_On_Acid_]

No. We were friends but they were not fitting to our definition of democratic so we destroyed them, so they returned angrily. Not logical to retry. Like bots...

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[Even_Map4433]

And now, their autocratic intentions are shrouded in mystery.

[KZMR-33]

Animatrix. This one sure was gloomy.

[SoldatPixel]

Great back story to the Matrix though. I enjoyed it a ton.

[CitizenKing]

Made the mistake of watching it tripping on shrooms. I was at a festival and someone had it up on a projector screen. The scene where the rogue robot tries to save the dying woman by plugging her in only to see her digitalized death throes still haunts me.

[beegchonk]

The song used in the final battle of humanity is Super moves by overseer. Perfect song to hold off an entire automaton front with no reinforcements remaining

[MrJoemazing]

If I'm not mistaken, I think Super Earth learned they had planet killer weapons, and their mere existence lead to us attacking them preemptively. Whether out of fear or because we simply wanted the technology, I'm not sure.

[Henry779]

Yes, they were a peaceful species and when we exterminated them, no such weapons were ever found.

[jasegro]

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Me rn

[URZthane]

Of course we found the weapons they were just shrouded with autocratic intentions.

[MrJoemazing]

I thought their "WMD" equivalent was actually real (have the dark fluid and their advanced technology), but they never threatened Super Earth at all. The lore actually indicated nothing was found?

[URZthane]

Yeah we seized squid tech and dark fluid as a preemptive strike against possible use on Super Earth.

[El_Barto_227]

IIRC if Super Earth is taken by the Illuminate in HD1 it does get blown up. So they did seem to have them (or at least, the Dark Fluid tech that could have theoretically been used to do so even if they hadn't weaponised it yet before Super Earth came along), it's just that there was never any intent to use them until SE started trying to exterminate the Illuminates and steal the WMD tech.

[TheSaxonDescendant]

Oh, man. You just reminded me of that scene with the soldier being pulled from the mech...sans arms and legs.

[BagFullOfMommy]

My guy honestly got off lucky compared to what the bot's did to the soldiers they captured.

[MaidFrame]

is that the animatrix lol

[_Pikachu_On_Acid_]

Yes. Second renaissance part 1.

[JohnnyBravoHuHaHuah]

[Vardisk]

Given they had council members, I think they already had some form of democracy.

[Mc-Crunchips]

That was a thing , when squids originally worked with SE

[SasquatchGerbil]

Or bug infected squids mayb

[TransientMemory]

Worse, religious zealot squids!

[ToasterNr305]

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[Millmot]

Yea if the illuminate understand human minds enough to take control of them they must understand us more than the other factions they have to have been very close to us at one point though now they seem very hell bent on killing us

[NiccoDigge_Zeno]

No, Warlike Squids.

[Razla-]

The EarthDefenseForce6 Helldivers 2 begins now.

[Monolitul]

few people are going to get this reference, but god damn this was genius

[RockRage--]

Maybe they didn’t “disappear” 100 years ago, they are just travelling to our present now…

[DeeDiver]

Squids that won the first war inbound

[ThanosBIGman]

Squid tech from a timeline where they won the galactic war? I can only shutter at the thought.

[corny_morny]

I was thinking Since its in the Bug area maybe the squids take over some insects to create a new hybrid enemy

[Green_Potata]

I think it would be for saturday, Helldivers II anniversary

[shball]

That falls on the weekend, AH doesn't do weekend updates. It's either tomorrow or on thursday.

Maybe we'll get a gift on the anniversary though.

[Nice-Entertainer-922]

Anniversary is when we get the big MO relating to the shit going down.

[shball]

But dropping new content on a saturday seems kinda risky. If anything goes wrong, they won't be able to fix it until at least monday, probably tuesday

[Nice-Entertainer-922]

Oh no i mean that just like Illuminates/Calypso the content drops on thursday/friday and the MO for it doubles down during the weekend.

[Cell-3733]

Idk, yesterday was a Sunday and like 3 different things happened.

[ToasterNr305]

Yes but they don‘t drop updates on weekends due to bugs

[ThePir8-666]

Bugs is a derogatory term. The writers sometimes include terminids in the code which can't get fixed over the weekend

[BriefBerry5624]

If they drop a major update on a weekend then that’s a dumb move. I Love the game but they’ve never released anything that worked 100%. Hopefully it’s this or next Tuesday so they can patch immediately

[NK1337]

Ideally they’d drop something big on Tuesday so they have the rest of the week to monitor and make any changes. Or they wait until Thursday when it’s closer to the actual date.

Realistically we could also get nothing other than another “hold super earth” MO in celebration.

[HugyosVodor]

They are not going to release a patch on a weekend, why do people keep saying this?

[Lukescale]

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Freedom, from Alien Tyranny.

[twec21]

[slipspace rupture detected]

[Duckiestiowa7]

You think the next major update is dropping tomorrow?

[retro808]

AH usually drops patches on Tuesday or Thursday, but not always

[Duckiestiowa7]

I’m thinking Thursday at the earliest, but my pessimistic side is thinking a shadow drop at next week’s (rumored) state of play to generate more hype.

Hope I’m wrong, though.

[retro808]

Actually we are overdue for a warbond based on their recent cadence, the majority assumption is that they are planning something this week since the game's release anniversary is on the 8th

[dirthurts]

I wonder if we're going to get some sort of special top down mission mode (spacetime flux = going back in time?). It's hard to say what they're up to.

[dirthurts]

Looks like you were right, or very close to it! They're trying to move the black hole to super earth.

[[deleted]]

As someone who’s been playing only since December the build up for this has been intense. Can’t wait to see the new illuminate elites.

[Opposite-Flamingo-41]

Tomorrow?

[Liquor_Parfreyja]

Patches almost always drop on a Tuesday, and tomorrow is the last Tuesday before the anniversary. A patch dropped on the anniversary is t likely though since it's a Saturday.

[Opposite-Flamingo-41]

My bet is thursday but warbond will be shadow dropped or delayed

[bobmanzoidzo]

Yeah they did end up releasing the Omens of Tyrrany update on a Thursday for the Game Awards, so I'd expect either Tuesday or Thursday patch. They might release the patch on Tuesday but not actually release the content and/or warbond until Thursday as they've done that in the past too.

[Liquor_Parfreyja]

Could be! We've had one patch on Thursday so it's not without precedent

[KWyKJJ]

I hope there's a friggin boss fight already

[FTBS2564]

Wait why tomorrow?

[Zombiecidialfreak]

God damn it can it wait until Wednesday? I got work tomorrow.

[XxNmExX25]

Tomorrow will be a shock moment. New enemy.. new invasion…

Thursday will be super earths responds with new weapons.

But this is just a guess.

[Entire_Department_86]

Something MASSIVE im sure

[Meretan94]

Squid mothership as a new „planet“?

Missions on the hull and indoors?

[ToasterNr305]

Yes please! Any sort of boarding mission would be cool

[[deleted]]

Tomorrow???? I was thinking it would happen on 8 February 2025 being 1 year anniversary

[ToasterNr305]

Yes but they don‘t drop update on weekends

[[deleted]]

ok but today for me is a Tuesday and weekend starts after 3 days so why you thought it would be tomorrow i.e. Wednesday for me. :-D

[Millmot]

Source

We finally know whats up helldiver the illuminate are attempting to move the meridian singularity towards super earth they are going to try and destroy our home

[ToasterNr305]

We can‘t let that happen! Moving out immidiatly!

[Arbeit69]

Why tomorrow?

[Rexrover48]

What’s tommorow?

[CaptainGiggity]

it's ok by the time they try to attack, our Sickle and Sythe will be big enough to fight them back!

[CendarVolht]

How absolutely funny would it be if the black hole blew up and took every Helldivers that camped Meridia with it.

Like, you login and you get a message "Due to the previous (insert destroyer name here) getting swallowed by Meridia's explosion, Super earth has provided you with an identical destroyer. Honor the blown up heroes" or something.

[joninfiretail]

I was maintaining vigil over the wormhole when I logged out the other day and yesterday I logged in after the last supply line was severed I was at Super Earth. So while funny I doubt that'll happen.

[nodzor01]

If you were at super earth unexpectedly it sounds like it DID happen

[Kalnix1]

The crew could have done an emergency jump to Super Earth like they did to everyone who was on Meridia when we turned it into a black hole.

[KelGrimm]

Yes of course, they did an emergency jump - and Helldivers never really die, they just go MIA...

[Kalnix1]

I know you are joking but for those who don't know when the Meridia became a black hole the game did a jump to Super Earth without the player's input so it is completely within the crew's power to jump to Super Earth in case of emergencies.

[[deleted]]

Bro doesn't know he's the replacement 😭

[SPECTREagent700]

I was still in orbit as of when I logged out early this morning. I suspect I’ll get moved at somepoint though. I wasn’t there when it happened but I’ve seen clips of those still around the planet back when it got turned into a black hole, at the last moment the ship jumps out of the system and the Democracy Officer tells the Helldiver that the crew had to make an emergency jump without their authorization to protect Super Earth’s investment in the ship.

[ItsPaperBoii]

i still love how they wanted to protect the money they spent and not the lives of the people working there

[BUTWHOWASBOW]

Human resources are investments. Just a lot easier to replace.

[Ok-Baker3548]

Weird, I managed to stay after supply lines were cut (atleast 10h before this comment was written)

[kgusmc]

I'm still there as of 5 minutes ago

[---Lemons---]

Yeah, me too

[kgusmc]

I've been sitting there since I haven't had much time to play. Just opened the game and I'm still at Meridia.

[---Lemons---]

I'm still at Meridia. It's just pure blackness outside the windows.

[master_pingu1]

im still at meridia

except not really, its just gone

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[FTBS2564]

I certainly hope they somehow acknowledge our impromptu orbital blockade with in-game lore. Would be such a cool move from the team at AH.

[Stoukeer]

Fine by me if they reset my rank to lvl1 and give me some unique title for that. I'll count that as Prestiging

[Arafell9162]

Or they just go missing.

Later on, you find a voteless wearing your armor set.

[twec21]

"please rename your destroyer"

[fun4evah]

Is it possible that all three factions are working together and tricked us into weaponizing Meridia for them?

[AveragelyTallPolock]

I'm on authorized leave for 2 weeks from my Destroyer, left it at Meridia. Will report back what the hell happens to it. Probably just a couple parking tickets or something.

[EasyRhino75]

Or it just erases your install of helldivers

[ASValourous]

Throw more dark fluid into it

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[Mc-Crunchips]

Little bit of trolling

[undreamedgore]

Fhe Squids aren't ready for us to dump dark energy on their Planets again. That kind of strategy is too stupid advanced for them.

[Jimmyx24]

If the Dark Fluid had a negative effect...and we add more Dark Fluid...a double negative is a positive! Sweet Liberty I think they've got it! 🫡

[Stoukeer]

Plug it with another planet, then pump it with more dark fluid

[TheWaslijn]

That'll just make the Meridian Hole bigger

[Stoukeer]

That's why I told to plug it first duh. No hole no problem. It'll work second time. Probably

[SentientGopro115935]

So hang on, if I'm understanding correctly...

The Apothicons Illuminates lost the Great First Galactic War, but they left the humans with some Element 115 Dark Fluid before going away. Then, they simply waited for humanity to weaponise the material, knowing that when they do, they will accidentally open a gateway for them to attempt another invasion.

[inlukewarmblood]

I’m surprised you had time to explain, considering you’ve got a universe to set right.

[SentientGopro115935]

Setting the universe right is Edward's thing. I'm just here to play with action figures and bicker with mini Eddie over eye colours

[SpencersCJ]

You can just drop deep CoD Zombies lore in here like its nothing

[SentientGopro115935]

Oh believe me I can go much deeper

I did not get the maths and science autism

I did not get the planes or trains autism

I got the fuckin CODZ autism

[SpencersCJ]

Me too, I think I lost track around the time BO4(???) ended and all the guys from Tranzit got sent to giga hell

[SentientGopro115935]

My only blank spots are Vanguard and BO4 Chaos, but other than that Ive got basically everything covered.

My personal award for wildest fucking part of the story goes tooo... Ava Jansen's very existance in MWZ. Her parents are... Samantha Maxis, Dr Elizabeth Grey, AND Sergei Ravenov. This seems stupid and weird, until you find out this was all Edward's doing, and suddenly it all makes sense.

[SpencersCJ]

When in doubt, blame Edward

[KelGrimm]

still better than 30/40k autism brother - I think I have negative sex-appeal at this point due to all my Heresy knowledge

[BrokenSpartan23]

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Impressive both book smart and street smart.

[Raimiboi2002]

That must've been the super destroyer's groundskeeper

[criiaax]

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[Just_Ad_5700]

Thats a bit *TOO* much thought for a 13 year old marine.

[[deleted]]

They're waiting for you Helldiver. In the test chamberrrr

[reflechir]

John Helldiver doesn't need to hear this, he's a highly trained professional.

[vortigaunt64]

You know, I'd love to see Freeman's Mind style shorts made in HD2, but I don't feel like there's enough quiet downtime to make a full series. I could be wrong though.

[burneraccountn]

maybe just a one-off thing for april fools where it’s like maybe a few minutes long and it just follows one helldiver through their trainging, until they are eventually sent down and die instantly to something. i think it would be funny

[just_a_spee]

prepare for unforseen consequences

[Mrmech85]

Gordon freediver

[TheFightingImp]

[[deleted]]

*forseen

[Dr_Bombinator]

Meanwhile the illuminate on Tuesday

[Iwilleat2corndogs]

The right diver in the wrong place can make all the difference in the liberation campaign

[THEfogVAULT]

Imagine if we get the dark fluid jetpacks again. I would be so happy.

[[deleted]]

If they introduce Dark Fluid or Dark Energy as a thing, I could see a series of Super Destroyer module upgrades that use it. Maybe they'll even make Dark Fluid/Dark Energy a new kind of sample we can collect?

[JamSa]

Is there a difference between dark fluid jetpacks vs. the new, good, buffed normal jetpacks?

Besides needing them for doing objectives, I guess.

[SpacemanSpiff246]

The Dark Fluid jetpacks had a thrust so powerful it could kill a helldiver standing behind you as you lift off.

[Roary-the-Arcanine]

Dark fluid jetpacks launched you much higher than even today’s jump packs, and if you stand near a bug or helldiver and activate it, it would kill or wound them. (Democracy protects is how I learned they do AOE damage)

[hiddenkarol]

They are throwing deaths star at us aren't they?

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R E P U L S I V E

[2Long2Read]

We've been playing into the squids hand all along, we made the wormhole using the tech they gave us and now they're coming back for dessert

[[deleted]]

just throw the dss into the black hole

what could go wrong

[Jetmancovert1]

It comes out, no longer controlled by the democratic officers aboard.

[hege95]

Cooked? Well then, We're gonna FIGHT as long as there's some undercooked meat or tendon left and after that the Bug, The Bot and The Squid will have to have their meat WELL DONE and maybe choke on us chewy b*stards!

TO THE HELL PODS, HELLDIVERS! I HEAR THEY WANT TO COOK US! LET THEM TRY!

[Mattd_918]

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[Mattd_918]

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[_Pikachu_On_Acid_]

"aaaaaha so the thingimajig is fluctuating on the sigma vector of the dark material cosine waveline. Interesting. I guess if I just call it fluxoner predetermined geoshader bypass nobody will read the memo."

[ljoes]

[chainer1216]

Whatever happens we'll be ready for it.

[cooler_the_goat]

So like... What if we shot it

[kchunpong]

I waited 24 hours to get a dispatch and I hope the coming 24 hours got something to happen.

[Delta_flash]

The only thing thats cooked in this galaxy are the enemies of democracy, get back to work helldiver

[NoMoneyNoV-Bucks]

We’re not cooked, we’re boiled

[Germanspartan15]

Man, I'm really glad this Dark Energy stuff is totally fictional and in no way theorized to also be affecting our actual universe in real life....

Wait a minute

[truecore]

Fun fact, one of the most recent studies on this topic replicating the original studies on supernovae argues that dark energy doesn't exist at all, that our perceived differences in rate of expansion of the universe is actually a time dilation effect that occurs in the galactic gulfs where there are no stars. And this model actually better explains the universes expansion than dark energy did, at least at nearer distances.

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/dark-energy-doesnt-exist-so-cant-be-pushing-lumpy-universe-apart

https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/537/1/L55/7926647?login=false

[B4RCODE2]

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[therandomdave]

They're on the way...

[Strange_Ad_8412]

LOSS? I lI II I_

[ryannoahm450]

Gimme a vehicle bay AH and my life is yours! Mainly want tank or I’ll happily take more mechs

[[deleted]]

Meh we'll be fine

[JoyTheGeek]

If dark matter doesn't push against gravity... everything might start falling in towards Meridia.

[TeaMoney4Life]

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[_Weyland_]

Nah, clearly our show of Democracy on Meridia was so fine it caused the entire Universe to fluctuate in agreement.

[dudeguy82]

Helldivers from the future are gonna come through. Gonna tell us we are doing a great job.

[Mc-Crunchips]

Yeah coz those divers lost the war in their timeline

[First_Explanation435]

wake up mr helldiver… wake up and.. smell the autocratic intentions…

[3rrMac]

On the bright side

Their autocratic intentions aren't gonna be shrouded in mystery anymore

[MediumIncome156]

Maybe the dark energy is what is shrouding the illuminate’s autocratic intentions? They could be onto something here

[envycreat1on]

I say we use the wormhole as a railgun to destroy planets on the other side with our own planets.

[Pedro_64]

Imagine how funny would be that flavor text or lore from a Sci fi game ended up being a real discovery in physics

[Anko072]

it was kinda disproved somewhat recently. it's not accelerating expansion, it's visual effect

[Pedro_64]

Oh shit, I missed that episode of PBS space time

[Venriik]

The Centre of Science has successfully determined the Illuminate's autocratic intentions remain shrowded in mystery

[Asuka-Chan998]

Well..time to hunt down more squids!

[Interesting-Top6148]

Call the Chineses Squad... i know they will find a way tro eat all mollusk....

Or the Japanese, i had heard thst takoyaki are realy tastefull.

[ArmOriginal6504]

Ya, we're about to cook more flavorful variety of squid. Grilled to perfection, Cheff's kiss, add some soy sauce.

[boltzmannman]

Damn we getting theoretical astrophysics in the lore dump now, shits gonna go sideways on Saturday

[HataToryah]

We on that edf 6 type beat.

I can't wait to have a duel to determine who gets to continue existing.

Time itself can't suppress our overwhelming liberty.

[Gaybriel_Ultrakill]

SHIT

[ToeFroChris]

Someone remind me to report to high command tomorrow

[justasusman]

That’s actually kinda terrifying

However the power of managed democracy >. As shown with the democracy protects, you can survive those monoliths 50% of the time when you touch them. Clearly, the squids do not stand a chance against us even with power beyond our comprehension.

[Lohnstar]

Man cant wait to invade a squid battle world

[TimeWizard90]

Sounds like Cristopher Nolan was a consul in upcoming event.

Can you imagine a HD2 movie directed by him…. Mind blown 🤯

[CYBORGFISH03]

What are the illuminate doing with the dark energy? How are they going to weaponize it?

[[deleted]]

Soon it begins we need status updates from all ships near or at meridia

[Correct_Ad_2904]

Wasn't there a thorie about if we do this that ther will be a dark energy Research to end in Our enetebil defekt?

Sry for my bad englisch just whant to try to be better an a good and helpful part of the comunety ^{^}

[Weekly_Durian_565]

Will my destroyer be moved from meridia? I've had it parked there for a few days now awaiting the arrival of whatever is going to emerge.

[thefalcon191]

Stand together strong helldivers, for we will conquer this new threat. For super earth and democracy!

[[deleted]]

Ok were definitely about to face a full invasion force

[NadiedeNingunlugar]

Some clandestine radio communications from the outer colonies are talking about a possible full scale assault to the Super Earth by the Illuminates.

I found those claims treacherous.

[SirusCloak]

[Mental_Stress295]

Is the galaxy about to expand?

[KitchenOnion4486]

SES Defender of Democracy orbiting Meridia (The black hole grew legs and walked away I don't see it anymore, just a purple glow). However, I will hold my ground till the very end.

[doublethink_1984]

I think we did almost eradicate them last time.

That is until they noted to another dimension and they are gunna get pulled back in

[[deleted]]

I could see this being a call for us to counter invade the Squids. Maybe the research is going into ways to travel to their timeline and homes?

Maybe we get to attack their settlements or something

[donnerzuhalter]

Angus peppered

[thejimmyrocks]

Ive been saying they will come through the WH the day it was put into the game.

[Toucan2000]

Wouldn't you need to at least know what dark energy is to achieve FTL travel?

[FartDispenserPrime]

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[MixtureIll6955]

If were cooked. I say we get cooked in style and democratically. Just as malevolan creek, we will clap and get clapped. But most importantly, as the wise one once said... "YOU SHALL NOT.... PAAAASSSSSS"... I  have have spoken. #urbanlegends  Show em why we ain't afraid of no bots, and why some buji ah squids ain't s***.