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Helldivers 2 director says the new Illuminate update is for the most hardcore players: "You can’t match everyone’s needs"

Casuals, watch out

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Now that the Illuminate faction's arrived, Helldivers 2 is "finally the three-front battle of the galactic war" fans have been "waiting for"

Arrowhead leads chat to us about the game's new "very different" experience

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Helldivers 2 boss hopes Illuminates will be a 'tremendous challenge' for hardened vets of the galactic war

We're gonna need a lot of medals to send to a lot of families.

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Helldivers 2 Omens of Tyranny gives players everything they've been asking for - melee weapons, cars, and a third faction that's back with a vengeance

The Illuminates are finally here

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Arrowhead boss sees Helldivers 2 players pulling off 'gambits,' loves it, and 'wants to keep investing in' community war tactics

"That's where the galactic war shines."

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'Joel is now a team of people working together': Helldivers 2's game master has evolved into a hivemind

Arrowhead boss Johan Pilestedt updates us on Joel's war antics, and how Helldivers 2 will continue evolving with the community in its second year.

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Illuminates invade! Helldivers 2's biggest update yet drops today with a new alien faction and four-person vehicle

We got a tour of Omens of Tyranny with Arrowhead's Johan Pilestedt: Here's what to expect when you answer democracy's call.

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Helldivers 2's departing CM reflects on being the mouthpiece for Super Earth as the game went galactic: 'Crazy, mostly in a good way'

"You rarely plan for a global phenomenon."

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Helldivers 2 claws its way back to "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam after Arrowhead puts the focus back on having fun, with over 13,000 positive reviews in the past week alone

Democracy is back on the menu

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Helldivers 2 hits 'Overwhelmingly Positive' recent reviews on Steam, losing 2,225 negative reviews and gaining over 29,000 positive ones in the past month

A fleet of thumbs, pointed gloriously towards the sky.

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"There were things I wanted to say that I sometimes couldn't": Helldivers 2 community manager signs off from being a High Command spokesperson, says the shooter "has a bright future"

"The show goes on, just without me"

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Mysterious Helldivers 2 update drops an Illuminate teaser so obvious that it's downright suspicious: "I wouldn't be surprised if they were just trolling us"

Are the Illuminate finally coming back?

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Helldivers 2 creative director once said transmog "doesn't make sense" for the shooter, but has now confirmed Arrowhead is "looking into" armor color customization

This could be huge for Super Earth's most fashion-conscious soldiers

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Helldivers 2 players endure sarcastic propaganda that commends their 'undeniable tactical brilliance' after the 'blob' abandons a nearly-won objective for basically no reason

Democracy in action.

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As Helldivers 2's new Democracy Space Station guns down the divers who helped build it, one dev says Arrowhead need to "own that and adapt" but warns that "things are rarely crap or fantastic" at first

"We need to own that and adapt"

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After a transformative 'buff everything' patch, Helldivers 2's bottom barrel guns are the new top dogs

The weirdest guns are also the best guns.

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Uh oh—Helldivers 2's state-owned missile platform players voted into existence is blowing them up, with Arrowhead giving players free shield generators while it figures out what happened

Voting for the "leopards blew up my face" party.

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From Warhammer 40K to Star Wars, Helldivers 2 creative director "would love to do a take on" loads of IP, but doing them all would be a "not Helldivers" experience

He clarifies that his ideas are "just musings," with "nothing decided yet"

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Helldivers 2's Joel gives cruelest Major Order yet as High Command eyes "disenfranchised families" as "cheap labor" to work on the dangerously sketchy new superweapon

Fight for what's right, or whatever Joel tells you to fight for, I guess

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Helldivers 2 players are calling the absolutely brutal new major order "unwinnable," but at least they have the new WW1 gun and its melee bayonet to help them out

Freedom fighters have less than six days to liberate three planets and defend against five robot attacks

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Helldivers 2 gave players a deliberately awful, crusty rifle from 1903 but they love it because they can bayonet charge bugs like sci-fi Waterloo

The developers at Arrowhead are up to their old tricks.

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Helldivers 2 celebrates Liberty Day with the gift of a returning beloved weapon, and all you have to do to get it is complete a Major Order only a traitor could fail

To celebrate Liberty Day, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios is bringing gear from the original game to the sequel.

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A Helldivers 2 player wrote a whole essay on how it feels to fight bots and almost nobody noticed, but one of the lead devs has responded with an essay of their own

Arrowhead plans to look "more properly" into "how tanky or deadly" bots should be

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Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station may have been dominating our Major Orders for the last month, but Arrowhead still isn't "going into the details" on it yet

Like the rest of the game, the DSS will "most likely change and evolve over time"

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A Helldivers 2 Xbox release is "not up to" Arrowhead but to Sony and Phil Spencer to "duke out" - but if Sony says no, that's it

It could "hypothetically" happen if "both partners think it would benefit them"

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