Helldivers 2 Major Order says if we liberate all Automaton-held planets, we’ll wipe them out “once and for all” — but I don’t buy it
Liberate Tibit, Durgen, and Maia, and we’ll (supposedly) beat the bots for good.
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After well over a week of brutal fighting across many planets in the Xzar and Severin Sectors, Operation Swift Disassembly is soon coming to an end inHelldivers 2. Following Super Earth’s successfuldefense of Malevelon Creek, Ubanea, and Draupnir against Automaton counterattack, players are poised to boot the bot menace from the galaxy completely — and that’s precisely what the new Major Order from the top brass is directing them to do. If the Helldivers can liberate Tibit, Durgen, and Maia by early Monday morning, they’ll “completely destroy the Automaton Legion.”
The full brief from Super Earth High Command details the situation in full. “OP SWIFT DISASSEMBLY, PHASE IV (FINAL): ANNIHILATION. All Helldivers are ordered to make an all-out push to completely destroy the Automaton Legion. Despite the enemy’s losses, Automaton messages still include references to ‘The Reclamation.’ They must be annihilated before this plan can be carried out,” it reads. “Countless Helldivers gave their lives to acquire this opportunity. Do not let their sacrifices be in vain. Protect our way of life. Destroy the Automatons at any cost.”
As my Democracy Officer says, the chance to eradicate the bots “once and for all” is an exciting one. But — and please don’t report me to the Ministry of Truth for saying this — it’s obvious that their defeat here won’t be final. In-game text has made it clear it’s not known where the Automatons actually came from, and recently, they’ve been broadcasting to sectors outside of known space. And let’s be honest, there’s no way something as ominous as “The Reclamation” refers to the small-scale counterattacks we’ve been thwarting.
What I suspect will happen is that we’ll succeed at taking the Automatons outtemporarily, only for them to return in a week or two and initiate a massive counteroffensive with reinforcements from the unknown regions.Players have been catching glimpses of cloaked warshipsin orbit near Automaton planets, after all, and these may be massing troops and materiel in preparation for the assault.
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Surely,thisis what “The Reclamation” refers to — and one of its targets is likely Cyberstan, a planet in the northwestern Valdis Sector. Cyberstan is the homeworld of the Cyborg race from the first Helldivers game, which is suspected to be the creator of the Automaton Legion since both factions share unit types. The bots even mention the planet in thewar chantsyou can hear them perform while marching, so I wouldn’t be surprised if taking Cyberstan was the primary objective of the looming operation.
The Democracy Officer on-board your ship mentions the “half-human, half-robot” Cyborgs were defeated in the first Galactic War after Helldivers sealed them in the mines beneath Cyberstan’s surface, which strongly implies they’ll be freed if the Automatons can capture the world. Only Liberty knows what comes next if that happens, but I’d bet all my Super Credits that it’sprobably something very bad.
In any event, all we can do for now is finish off the Automatons wedoknow about and make sure future enemy reinforcements don’t have a beachhead to take advantage of. Liberating Tibit, Durgen, and Maia won’t be an easy fight — the bots are fieldingnew AT-AT style Factory Strider walkers and swarms of gunships— but given all the blood and oil that’s been spilled to get us this far, I doubt Super Earth’s finest space marines will fail to rise to the challenge now.
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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).
