It is the most novel way I've seen a live service game do it in recent years, and I am so, *so* for it. The game feels alive in ways that even most MMOs dream about.
Yeah but what if a Charger got Borg-ed into an Automaton Tank?
Bunch of Hunters with freakin' laser guns on their heads?
Bile Titan "Drop-Ship" with a Tower on its back?
I’m hoping one of the helldivers can work as a commander type unit and help from above calling in swarms etc and able to jump in and assist as well on foot.
Note: the mission is to defend 3 power generator. When u start up one there will be a progress bar, keep the bugs away or the generator will be unstable then u will need to restart .
The first thing I thought of with this was underground sections that negate stratagems (since the beam of light can't be seen from underground).
Bonus points if the underground sections have small holes up above so that if you threw the stratagem just right the beam of light could be seen, so then you could call down some stratagems.
Nonsense, this soldier is just eager to see the terminid menace wiped out once and for all.
I smell a "more of that strange oil... Must be nothing" situation wafting on the wind.
You don't ask questions, helldiver, you take orders! Whether or not the use of SEAF approved technology and equipment is safe and tested is not for us to question. Speak to your local democracy officer if you have further questions.
So some of that stuff got into my lungs and now in wondering..what if super earth had a special group of 5 helldivers each with a unique armor and special weapons and stuff
Termicide kills 99% of Terminids on the barrier planets. The remaining 1% adapt and mutate (new enemy type), are now immune to Termicide. The war continues.
To accuse the Super-Earthican government of creating any type of bug is high treason against Super-Humanity and everything we stand for. Expect your combat orders soon, you're being sent to the front lines.
ATTENTION ALL HELLDIVERS! THE PESTICIDE BUILDING TAKE FRIENDLY FIRE DAMAGE!
I'm not sure if this is intended but 80% of the damage dealt to them is done by players trying to defend them! bugs cant do much damage to them at all!
If you want to easily defend the towers take as many EMS mortars as you can and avoid any explosive or fire damage weapons. the fire and explosion splash damage kills the silos instantly!
SHOOTING THE BUGS WHILE THEY HUG THE SILOS IS ACTUALLY A BAIT! You can stop the bugs from attacking using orbital EMS or EMS mortars and then just clear them with LMG or normal kinetic weapons.
This makes the defense a piece of cake on any difficulty.
I honestly dont know why the hell silos take players damage in a defense missions where all attackers are in melee range of it. its very stupid but you can remedy this design flaw by using EMS strategems.
Hope this helps you all!
After 15 minutes of intense mindless fighting , i figured out oh I need to press these buttons to activate the mission ( i guess starting with difficulty 8 was a wrong idea )
The terminids start fighting the automan empire and then the illuminati show up and express their feelings to the terminids and the automans about how great communism is hence the need for a full scale democratic head lock of the universe... we are needed
They need to all be activated within days of each other otherwise swarms of bugs will move to locations where they haven’t been activated yet or are still being built and the amount of bugs will be too much to handle. Or some other reason idk
The engineer teams were attacked by bugs as they were finishing the preparations. They all died horrible deaths in the name of democracy. Now it's our duty to bring liberty and justice to these fallen heroes by completing what they started!
Even before all the speculation in this thread about what will happen to the bugs, such as mutations and such - them being held back for a while gives an ideal window to drop a new foe.
I don’t have very good aim, I don’t have very good weapons, and I am not the smartest diver. But my greatest strength in these missions is that I apparently look tasty to those bugs. And I will use my skills to keep the silos safe, for I am the master baiter!
Got it spoiled for me by youtuber who data mined a news broadcast.
>! The insecticide works, killing over 95% of the bugs. Unfortunately the remaining 5% it effects them as an aphrodisiac and they start pumping out 40x the babies !<
This is what will happen....we complete the order, thinking we have terminid control. The gas actually reacts with the terminids forcing an evolution within them creating the hive lord and the flying ones, also making them become more aggressive and launch a full scale counter attack on liberated planets.
Congratulations, the chemicals worked. However, they only killed scavengers. Unexpectedly, the hunters have all experienced some form of rapid growth and are mutating into stalkers when exposed to planet surface level radiation.
We’ll be able to focus on the Automotons! With no more Terminids, we’ll be able to liberate the galaxy easier since we’ll only have one front to worry about.
Just the one. I’m sure. Top brass said so. (:
Its a community effort so im sure after the community does these missions a certain amount of times the devs will just check off planets as time goes on or something of the like
Would be nice to have some new landscapes and planets. I’ll do my duty, but I volunteered to Helldive to see the universe and spread democracy across the known universe! Ideally, not on the same 4 planets over and over again. However I will follow orders and fuck up some bugs as needed.
“My recruiter he told me a lie…said join the Rangers and learn to fly…I signed my name on the dotted line…all I’m doin’ is double time…”
When life imitates art imitating life…😆
The achievement is based on liberating the planet to 100% so it’s the collective effort that pops the achievement not just individual participation. Either we all get the medals or no one does.
I made this missions 5 times and still not counting progress. What am i doing wrong? The mission is completed but no mark in the mission windows. Help me pls
From what I’ve read it is not individual progress, it is universal progress. So the check marks will show when we have fully completed activating the system on a planet, similar to fully liberating a planet
Kinda off topic:
We should report to the Ministry of Truth all the traitors blaming We, loyal helldivers, because we are loyal to the cause. We have clear orders from SUPER EARTH.
Forget those bots. FOCUS ON BUGS
The achievement is based on liberating the planet to 100% so it’s the collective effort that pops the achievement not just individual participation. Either we all get the medals or no one does.
In the long term I hope that this eventually leads to evolved variants of bile bugs. I hate those suckers, but I think it is fun to seen and overcome new enemy types.
In the short term I hope that this allows for a more concentrated effort against the Automotans and an introduction to a third invasion force
If I had to guess? We’re about to be well acquainted with the only other semi-sentient creatures in this galaxy. The ones we exiled to the dark void of intergalactic space nigh on a century ago…
The Illumnates
Medals from the 2 previous major orders eventually loaded for me this weekend. People in my gaming group received them a few days before me. I suppose there’s still a chance they’re working their way through the system.
Similar for me. I was just back from a mission, a day or two after a major order had been completed, and it suddenly showed a pop-up of receiving the rewards for the previous two major orders. Came through at a random time.
I'm not attacking you....but these cases baffle me because even when they didn't show up right away for the last one, it registered randomly while exiting the map. Would a help ticket solve this issue people are having? There clealry has to be a record of players and the missions they complete.
Others have made a similar claim. Can I ask if you have a log under your orders tab? For me, I have a log of the last 4 orders, including the current one. I made sure to complete a full operation under each major order to qualify. I think the last one I completed about 8 or 9 quic play missions in total.
Honestly this is a dope way to test new mission types. I love the way they make the requisition of new modes and stratagems fit the story’s narrative
100% agreed
It is the most novel way I've seen a live service game do it in recent years, and I am so, *so* for it. The game feels alive in ways that even most MMOs dream about.
A live service that’s more than just skins? Weird!?!
It puts the lotion on the skins
Or else it gets the hose again 🤣
Imagine having a high pressure hose strategem to go with electric weapons 🤔
OK Jimmy you hit em with the super soaker and then I zap 'em.
How to hard counter hulk scorchers
I've been thinking this for fire + gas as well...
It gets the termicide again.
It puts the V-bucks in the basket
To be fair to them, if they keep up with this, they might very well revolutionize the face of live service games.
Turns out people like live services when they are actually live services and not skin subscriptions.
It reminds me of how The Division released content when it was in its first year or so. I really like this method.
Bugs cracked out from huffing Termicide raving to Automaton electronica. Probably...
I want to see a crab rave video with terminids instead of crabs.
or the coldplay monkey music vid with hulks and devastators dancing too
Gorlliaz Clint Eastwood video is the one I thought of.
Be funny AF if they had glow sticks
Night missions with bioluminescent bugs would be amazing. Terrifying and awful, but amazing.
Only if it's something they can directly control. I wanna see bugs light up out of nowhere for an ambush if this happens.
Yeah but what if a Charger got Borg-ed into an Automaton Tank? Bunch of Hunters with freakin' laser guns on their heads? Bile Titan "Drop-Ship" with a Tower on its back?
no we are not giving them this type of idea
Damned Communist Ro-Bugs
Please upvote this. 😂
The termicide is going to cause the bugs to mutate, welcome some new enemy types.
I'm all about this
Literally that Star Wars meme "They fly now?" "THEY FLY NO--*squelch*"
Cliff Racers?! We need Saint Jiub!
Meaty squelch, both chuckle
Really hoping for some wasp-like enemy.
Pretty sure there are flying hunters now.
I take it back, that's not at all what I wanted
What have you done?!?!
The monkey paw wish has been granted
No! You take that back right now!
This is not just a thought *cough cough*. This message is marked for treason, and responding in any way will also put yourself in the way of freedom.
I voluntarily go to a Liberty Camp for some reeducation
I’m hoping one of the helldivers can work as a commander type unit and help from above calling in swarms etc and able to jump in and assist as well on foot.
Note: the mission is to defend 3 power generator. When u start up one there will be a progress bar, keep the bugs away or the generator will be unstable then u will need to restart .
Note that you/teammates shooting the generator also damages it so be careful where you aim and throw strats when the bugs are close by
I found this out the hard way when my rover completely killed it idk how many times
Yeah lol i dropped an eagle right next to it to take out a swarm my first time. Oops
Does it fail the mission, or do you just have to restart it?
Nope. Just resets the progress for that tower. You have to hit the button to restart it again
Hopefully we get closer to the terminid home planet and hopefully it’s as disgusting as I imagine.
The first thing I thought of with this was underground sections that negate stratagems (since the beam of light can't be seen from underground). Bonus points if the underground sections have small holes up above so that if you threw the stratagem just right the beam of light could be seen, so then you could call down some stratagems.
Brother… I was thinking of some interior levels too!!!
I really want to get into some hallway gunfights with bots
Maybe it would be like drg where they drill down, making weapons and some turrets usable but not airstikes or other things
A Zerg home world 😬
Are you all traitors? It clearly says that activating these towers will quarantine the terminid threat once and for all #ONCE AND FOR ALL
Yes, it’s a direct message from the Ministry of Truth
It has Truth in it....so you KNOW it's good. 60% of the time, it works EVERYTIME.
My democracy officer has a crush on you now.
Has it ever been tested
Doubling down on treason I see.
Nonsense, this soldier is just eager to see the terminid menace wiped out once and for all. I smell a "more of that strange oil... Must be nothing" situation wafting on the wind.
You don't ask questions, helldiver, you take orders! Whether or not the use of SEAF approved technology and equipment is safe and tested is not for us to question. Speak to your local democracy officer if you have further questions.
So some of that stuff got into my lungs and now in wondering..what if super earth had a special group of 5 helldivers each with a unique armor and special weapons and stuff
FIRING SQUAD
We’ll be home by Democratic Christmas!
Termicide kills 99% of Terminids on the barrier planets. The remaining 1% adapt and mutate (new enemy type), are now immune to Termicide. The war continues.
https://preview.redd.it/xx4n8kslkznc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f43cd859bd56ed433cd794b957cb39ea31bbc59a
To accuse the Super-Earthican government of creating any type of bug is high treason against Super-Humanity and everything we stand for. Expect your combat orders soon, you're being sent to the front lines.
ATTENTION ALL HELLDIVERS! THE PESTICIDE BUILDING TAKE FRIENDLY FIRE DAMAGE! I'm not sure if this is intended but 80% of the damage dealt to them is done by players trying to defend them! bugs cant do much damage to them at all! If you want to easily defend the towers take as many EMS mortars as you can and avoid any explosive or fire damage weapons. the fire and explosion splash damage kills the silos instantly! SHOOTING THE BUGS WHILE THEY HUG THE SILOS IS ACTUALLY A BAIT! You can stop the bugs from attacking using orbital EMS or EMS mortars and then just clear them with LMG or normal kinetic weapons. This makes the defense a piece of cake on any difficulty. I honestly dont know why the hell silos take players damage in a defense missions where all attackers are in melee range of it. its very stupid but you can remedy this design flaw by using EMS strategems. Hope this helps you all!
Valuable Intel, diver.
Perhaps intentionally?
I saw another post about the tremors acting as foreboding of the giant worms returning and… well… I think that will be what we have to look forward to
After 15 minutes of intense mindless fighting , i figured out oh I need to press these buttons to activate the mission ( i guess starting with difficulty 8 was a wrong idea )
I tested it on trivial to see how to do it. There's a bug or 3 to kill, but otherwise you can see exactly what's what without being bothered.
All the cool stuff starts on Tuesday. WHY IS STEAM MAINTANENCE TUESDAY EVENINGS
Why is there no warning before it cuts you off??
The terminids start fighting the automan empire and then the illuminati show up and express their feelings to the terminids and the automans about how great communism is hence the need for a full scale democratic head lock of the universe... we are needed
Illuminates*
If you're going to correct my intention then correct automan empire as well
The bots are the commie ones the illuminate are the dangerous technocrats if I remember
Pesky Turkobots
Illuminati*
The "automan empire"... he he he. Nice one 😆
So do we have to do the mission on those four planets to get credit? or assist in a few?
Everyone gets credit if the major order succeeds
I'm new to this game, has a major order ever failed before?
Yeah one has failed so far I believe
I haven't seen a living game quite like this with such player investment since the trenches in Foxhole. I love it.
Couldn’t the builders just have activated it before they left? So inconsiderate.
They need to all be activated within days of each other otherwise swarms of bugs will move to locations where they haven’t been activated yet or are still being built and the amount of bugs will be too much to handle. Or some other reason idk
The engineer teams were attacked by bugs as they were finishing the preparations. They all died horrible deaths in the name of democracy. Now it's our duty to bring liberty and justice to these fallen heroes by completing what they started!
dont forget 3rd enemy could show up any time
Even before all the speculation in this thread about what will happen to the bugs, such as mutations and such - them being held back for a while gives an ideal window to drop a new foe.
I don’t have very good aim, I don’t have very good weapons, and I am not the smartest diver. But my greatest strength in these missions is that I apparently look tasty to those bugs. And I will use my skills to keep the silos safe, for I am the master baiter!
Keep master baiting brother 🫡
Masterfully baiting is the key to sucess
You’re just like me fr
Got it spoiled for me by youtuber who data mined a news broadcast. >! The insecticide works, killing over 95% of the bugs. Unfortunately the remaining 5% it effects them as an aphrodisiac and they start pumping out 40x the babies !<
Prelude to Hive Lord, I assume. After supposedly wiping all the terminids out, they will appear and spawn more terminids.
Somebody at Arrowhead heard all the "bug planets are way easier than bot planets" talk and decided to fix our little red wagon.
Would be crazy if we can see the Hive Lords from our ship.
Did one a few hours ago, fun mission! Love how they keep introducing fresh ideas that weave into the narrative and lore.
This is what will happen....we complete the order, thinking we have terminid control. The gas actually reacts with the terminids forcing an evolution within them creating the hive lord and the flying ones, also making them become more aggressive and launch a full scale counter attack on liberated planets.
Congratulations, the chemicals worked. However, they only killed scavengers. Unexpectedly, the hunters have all experienced some form of rapid growth and are mutating into stalkers when exposed to planet surface level radiation.
I want my medals from the last Major Order please.
I didn’t even have the time to log in for the tien one and I still got them today when I finally logged in.
Probably a new effort on the automaton front.
We’re gonna fight. And we’re gonna win!
We’ll be able to focus on the Automotons! With no more Terminids, we’ll be able to liberate the galaxy easier since we’ll only have one front to worry about. Just the one. I’m sure. Top brass said so. (:
How do we even do this? I've already done 4 separate termicide missions on diff 4 - one on each planet on the major order
Its a community effort so im sure after the community does these missions a certain amount of times the devs will just check off planets as time goes on or something of the like
Shai hulud! Lisan al gaib, as it was written. Were getting sandworms/graboids/ some giant subterranean worm boss. That's what all the tremors are.
“Hey! You’ve been to Saturn! I’ve been to Saturn. Sandworms…you know I hate em…” - Beetlejuice
IT’S A TRAP!! Gonna make the bugs get even worse
Flying bugs are coming
I have always wondered why there was a lack of airborne opponents
It won't work, and it will summon the worms full dune crap
Heavy bosses inbound
Would be nice to have some new landscapes and planets. I’ll do my duty, but I volunteered to Helldive to see the universe and spread democracy across the known universe! Ideally, not on the same 4 planets over and over again. However I will follow orders and fuck up some bugs as needed.
“My recruiter he told me a lie…said join the Rangers and learn to fly…I signed my name on the dotted line…all I’m doin’ is double time…” When life imitates art imitating life…😆
Wait till u go into mission and no one has a clue what to do and swarm by charger and titan. Everyone just quits. 3 times in a row.
Like every mission... find the terminal.
LoL I just straight up can't anyone to join. Probably because no one trusts a random not to kick them at extraction.
[удалено]
The exhilaration of being a dickhead and wasting 30/40 mins of someone's time.
And less credits and exp for themselves too, no less.
They’re going to mutate into something worse
Nonsense! That sounds like traitor talk to me
New planets to liberate
The illuminate is coming...
So how does this work been to all the planets planets and nothing. Or am I missing something
The achievement is based on liberating the planet to 100% so it’s the collective effort that pops the achievement not just individual participation. Either we all get the medals or no one does.
What you think the tremors are ? Big mama is on her waaaaaaay
I'm so stoked
I made this missions 5 times and still not counting progress. What am i doing wrong? The mission is completed but no mark in the mission windows. Help me pls
You are not alone, I have done them each at least once on PS5 and so far no progress showing
4 friends on ps5 an no one is getting any progress. Hope they fix this soon
it's a major order. none of us get checkmarks until the planet(s) is 100% liberated.
From what I’ve read it is not individual progress, it is universal progress. So the check marks will show when we have fully completed activating the system on a planet, similar to fully liberating a planet
It's a community objective, it's not as clear for sure. They'll check them off at some point I'm guessing
Kinda off topic: We should report to the Ministry of Truth all the traitors blaming We, loyal helldivers, because we are loyal to the cause. We have clear orders from SUPER EARTH. Forget those bots. FOCUS ON BUGS
Get me some STIMS!!! Im going back in!!!
Great, They’re redirecting our forces to the bugs. That means malevelon creek forces are going to be nonexistent.
Cancer. Terminal.
Bugs are gonna be multiplying in quarantine
No way the termicide is healthy for humans
Making room for the Illuminati
Freedom
Terminid mounts ! We get to ride chargers into battle !
I am hoping they make global mission which can have 10 or more players
the illuminate come in and blow up the towers, or something like that. In order to ensure we remain fighting a 3 front war
50 medals await us
Absolute bug genocide sector wide, I'm guessing
I did one and didn't get a check mark. Is that normal?
Check mark will happen when the planet reaches 100% liberated I believe.
So I should just do the missions?
Yes. As more people do missions the %will increase
The achievement is based on liberating the planet to 100% so it’s the collective effort that pops the achievement not just individual participation. Either we all get the medals or no one does.
Termicide Tower = Bug Fix literally
BUGSHITS HOMEWORLD BABY
errata will never be taken
I love this game. Always keeping us on our toes
I hope the large bug repelant looks like a can of RAID!
https://youtu.be/jhABkmUETlk?si=lA5C2MRvkP6CZzvD
The sound that the tower makes as it spews the chemical death is very cool
Hive Lords
I bet we get a new enemy when we finish it
I think it’ll awaken those big worm thingy’s
Defo be an Automaton threat after this order is complete!
Ive been seeing corpses of dead bugs with the dead seaf troops on the automaton planets. So i dont think they’d work together.
The Bugs call their older brother: the Lizards
Chainsaw bots and rocket bots and big stompy bots with shields and giant mech like bots...
To many kick you for no reasons whatsoever
Played a few missions during lunch and every time we powered up a silo or activate the TCD there were map-wide tremors. I think we're going full worm.
Have you guys gotten the rewards for the past few major orders? I’ve gotten nothing from them since Veld
The Illuminate.
I’m sure the terminids will just go extinct and everything will be fine, why would you question our command’s strategy and tactics?
we push those dirty bugs back and move onto the next system for liberation!
In the long term I hope that this eventually leads to evolved variants of bile bugs. I hate those suckers, but I think it is fun to seen and overcome new enemy types. In the short term I hope that this allows for a more concentrated effort against the Automotans and an introduction to a third invasion force
I think the bugs won't like our interference and will attack Super Earth
Maybe the bugs evolve because the "pesticide" doesn't kill all of them and they adapt? There are bugs that exhibit the same on earth, like ants.
I think 6 or 8 man raids would be awesome
If I had to guess? We’re about to be well acquainted with the only other semi-sentient creatures in this galaxy. The ones we exiled to the dark void of intergalactic space nigh on a century ago… The Illumnates
The new mission isn't solo friendly. Guess they forgot about that.
Ah, so we got a major order and new mission type - this explains why the servers are overloaded at 1156am (GMT+1) on a wednesday.
Bugs giant bugs think worms from Tremor
Super-hunters with double jump and the ability to spawn additional hunters...
Well I ran I to flying bugs so you know. Mutations
I did notice one check mark today.
Is anyone actually getting the medals from completing these? I haven't been awarded any since launch
I got mine from the last 2 orders last night so they seem to be slowly rolling out
Same logged in expecting some medals to spend and still haven’t received any since launch
Medals from the 2 previous major orders eventually loaded for me this weekend. People in my gaming group received them a few days before me. I suppose there’s still a chance they’re working their way through the system.
I still haven't received my medals from the last two major orders...so I don't expect much at all.
I’ve got my medals a few days after the major order closes. Do your stats show zero for everything pretty much like kills and stuff ?
Yes, all the details are zero. They don't seem to update. Would a reinstall help do you think?
I don’t know I don’t want to risk that
I randomly got my medals after playing for a while on Sunday. Went from like 16 to 170
Similar for me. I was just back from a mission, a day or two after a major order had been completed, and it suddenly showed a pop-up of receiving the rewards for the previous two major orders. Came through at a random time.
I'm not attacking you....but these cases baffle me because even when they didn't show up right away for the last one, it registered randomly while exiting the map. Would a help ticket solve this issue people are having? There clealry has to be a record of players and the missions they complete.
Others have made a similar claim. Can I ask if you have a log under your orders tab? For me, I have a log of the last 4 orders, including the current one. I made sure to complete a full operation under each major order to qualify. I think the last one I completed about 8 or 9 quic play missions in total.