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- I feel that the main orders for Helldivers 2 are different – cold, sharp, and unsettling.
- Illuminates could be making an important comeback in Helldivers 2.
- Players suspect that the new mission is a prelude to the Illuminated, focusing on creepy locations and suspicious details.
Arrowhead Game Studios dropped a new major order with Helldivers 2, but it doesn’t feel like business as usual.
The tone is cold and sharp. We’re not just killing bugs anymore – we’re fighting something new. Arrowhead knows that.
Between “mutated end,” “unprovocated assaults in savages,” and the suspect’s “scientific expedition,” the text lies on the wall.
The Illuminations could return, and this time I’m playing a long game.
The latest major orders for Helldivers 2 speak in code
A new major order titled “Defend against Terminids” is currently live and will task you by clearing the shadowy region at the edge of the mutated terminal that emerges from the darkness – the super-earth control space.
“It defends the sudden, unprovoked onslaught from the darkness. Predator tension and reports of failed scientific expeditions have ultimately been ruled out as a cause.”
Veteran Heldivar will tell you that the phrase is not correct. The emphasis is on what’s not happening. The terminal has been “mutated” but despite being an obvious suspect, it is said that the tension in the predator is not a reason.
And then there’s the kicker. The expedition was “finally excluded.” When was Super Earth interested in a definitive investigation? When the sentence becomes ambiguous and the adjective becomes dramatic, it is usually a smokescreen.
And in Helldivers 2, smoke means something is burning underneath it. One Redditor frankly summed it up:
“It feels like a lighting prelude. Arrowhead has done this dance before.”
Why players think this is the first move in the Illumination
The eerie sounding location at the edge of a known galaxy called darkness is already a red flag. It is associated with past losses, strange techniques, and enemy activity that is not suitable for either terminating or automata behavior.
Even the tensions of predators themselves are suspicious. It was last seen near the science centre and was linked to a previous reconnaissance mission that probably didn’t reclaim it. Can these mutations be seeded? If it’s not a light that softens the ground, what?
And this is a big tel.
Most major orders are simple about the enemy, but this is different. It names the mutated ends, but the tone with a questionable focus on the “excluded” expedition remains in something much larger lurking in the background.
Arrowhead loves to build suspense, and for now the tension is at its breaking point.
“If this weren’t lighting expectations, Arrowhead would have accidentally fulfilled the most suspicious mission in franchise history.”
Helldivers 2 Community Engagement is inexplicable enough to keep the hype alive. CEO Shams Jorjani recently addressed concerns, noting that he was actively working on “a lot is moving.”
This is not random. This is not a filler. This is an arrowhead that slowly turns the wheels towards the war we are trying to fight.
When is the only question left?
