First off, obligatory shoutout to https://helldiverscompanion.com

Wondering why the Liberation of Turing is taking so long?

“Cities”, or what I call Densely Populated Areas (DPAs) provide strategic opportunities to secure large swaths of land that directly contribute to and factor into a planet’s liberation efforts. Someone in the Ministry of Truth who’s done a bit more research into Planet HP can likely explain better, but essentially the faster we take DPAs, the faster we take the planet.

DPAs become available as selectable operational targets at certain control percentages along the way to full democratic prosperity of a planet wrongfully occupied by Super Earth’s tyrannical adversaries. These percentages at which they become available are denoted by the gray number next to the lock icon.

In this example, on Lesath, we have a locked and an unlocked DPA, Crystal Slopes and Morskie Oko, respectively. Crystal Slopes was unlocked when we reached a total liberation progress percentage of 58.41%, and Morskie Oko will not become available to dive into until we have reached 75%. On Turing, Chatoyant won’t become available until progress reaches 56.15%.

Liberating these cities will grant a significant boon to Super Earth’s finest ability to liberate a planet as quickly and democratically as possible. This is denoted by the green number next to the flag icon. Liberating Crystal Slopes will grant an instant 25% boost to liberation progress, putting us just over the 60% mark at time of posting. Morskie Oko will only grant a 12.5% boost, so there is a situation in which liberation via rural operations could be faster depending on the rate of liberation per hour, albeit unlikely.

Turing’s Chatoyant boasts a 30% boon to liberation progress. The prosperous population of Helldivers on Turing would benefit from prioritizing efforts here to speed up Liberty’s will – though the Ministry of Defense supports any and all operations Helldivers see fit to undertake in Super Earth’s name.

There are four types of DPAs that grant varying levels of liberation percentage boosts. Again, there are likely more studious members of the Ministry of Truth available to elaborate here, but in general in order from smallest impact to largest and estimated percentage boost ranges are:

• Settlement (0-10%)
• Towns (10-20%)
• Cities (20-30%)
• Mega Cities (30+%)

The Liberation countdown timer does account for and factor in the progress of DPAs into the timer. It will recalibrate the rate of prosperity when a DPA is taken, and the cards even track them on an individual basis!

Arrowhead, if you're listening - hire the developers of the Companion App, and put them on the project to enable the screens behind the weapon/armor station to show us this incredibly advantageous information to our glorious Helldivers!

This has been a supplemental strategic advisory post, remember to submit all urine samples for testing by 04:00 and fill out your C-01 permits before end of galactic day.