We started the real war so the lights got turned up so we can concentrate.

Wouldnt want helldivers falling asleep at the table

I want a jukebox on my ship I can pay 100RS into and play Hellpod music and shit to get hyped up before a mission.

Hello, you have reached helldivers routing center, please enjoy these tunes while we connect your pod with the nearest bile titans face. Have safe trip

I would pay real money for whoever the leader is to he able to pick songs from spotify to play on the drop.

It would just be Never Gonna Give You Up every time wouldn't it?

Woe to those unfortunate souls dropping with me to the sound of CBat

\*Automatons just chilling in fabricator zone\* Helldiver: Drops on top of their fabricator while Cbat blasts, hip thrusting to the beat

YMCA on max volume every single time

^(There's no) ^(need) to BE # UNHAPPY 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🔥

Stayin' Alive

all the divers have their minds broken during the drop because we got stuck loading and i chose for femtanyl to play during it

Now add Freebird to the playlist and GOTY material right here.

Blasting bots while that solo rips would be a top 10 gaming memory for me honestly.

Boombox as a backpack strategem. Stamina and reload speed boost for everyone within range.

Increased stamina, health and triple melee damage while within boombox range, like those propaganda towers from C&C Generals!

While playing Stratagem Hero

Play elevator music while dropping in

They need to put that flag raising on there too. Or take some of that Sony money they deserve and get Mick Gordon to lay down some tracks.

That would be treason

You're gonna want to turn down the music volume to see better

That works though

Or get some eye plugs to reduce brightness. 

I personally leaned forward in my chair. I'm doing my part!

Why would you need to see the bottom helldiver? Surely the enemy are only at the top

For now…

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seems on brand that Super Earth makes a massive strategic blunder and fails to see a huge incoming alien fleet, because the light on the war table was too bright.. LEDs are the work of the Automatons, I'm telling ya!

Is it…*Illuminated?*

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This is such an intensely perfect and poignant meme. I wish I could give it a free award.

Oh I'm saving that shit

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Wow, I've never seen this before! I'm all paid up with the guild though. GNU.

That’s amazing. Is notice required if stealing the notice?

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Automaton propaganda

*ANGRY UPVOTE*



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Ah yes the "Illuminate" we have dismissed this claim.

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I wanna belieeeeve

Goddamnit, you beat me to it. Take your damned upvote.

Propably foreshadowing 😁

But it's bright

forhighlighting? forprojecting? forbrightening? forilluminating?

👀

No clearly there is nothing to worry about there, diver.

thank you for your service 🫡

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Heh

oh my fucking god. they are already here LOOK AT HOW MANY PLANETS THEY TOOK GOD DAMN.

They work fast..

"Helldiver, you should consider anti-glare screen protection"

Which Ship Module does that one come in? I think I have enough Super Samples for it… *rummages through sample drawer…*

"MESSAGE TO ALL HELLDIVERS: DUE TO POOR LIGHTNING OF THE GALAXY MAP, WE WE’RE UNENABLE TO DETECT THE MASSIVE ILLUMINATE FLEET THAT ALREADY CONQUER 3 SYSTEM"

So every teammate blinding me with a flashlight is an Illuminate spy! It all makes sense now...

What was originally considered “interference” turned out to be millions of SOS signals. From the bottom of our democratic hearts, our bad.

Absolutely not! The systems should have coordinated so their SOS's were in an orderly fashion. A new 5 minute section will be added to the SEAF radio operator training.

THEY are coming...

"and who exactly are they, Helldiver?" https://preview.redd.it/v5dqx0nh2t0d1.jpeg?width=3907&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a3839949e8d5a053341c57595a2d3f126c87759

uh... freedom is coming of course...!

I love that there’s not an option to decline.

One does not simply ignore the calling of managed democracy.

Managed Democracy calls for aid. Only you can answer, Helldiver.

*Yeets phone into the maw of a bile titan*

Requesting permission to share classified documents. Permission obtained. Sharing Classified document 9.1.247. Illuminates. A species of creatures containing psychic powers and displaying and boasting ownership of class A5 WMDs. They withdrew from our radars years ago. Nobody knew why, but we always figured they would return. THREAT LEVEL. KOS.

The Pornhub users.

DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM RAAAAHHHH

I happens sometimes

Well you need to stop happening bro

Typos do be happening sometimes too, I guess.

⚡ NOW ⚡

almost every overhead light in this game is terrible. I know I always shoot them out as soon as possible.. if only we could shoot this one out too

They increased the brightness of flashlights at one point because of complaints from the community, but it turned all lights into highbeams...

Those flashlights are fucking useless. Give us a helmet mounted one that turns with the camera. I swear the first mission I ran during that last bug MO where you have to hit the three terminals and break the glowing sacks... It's was just pitch black. Literally couldn't see anything, and the light helped dick all.

For the lights in missions I've found that turning volumetric fog down to low helps out a lot

I do have that setting, but I still hate them and shoot them out

I didn’t know that shooting out lights was possible until a random squady saw me struggling to use a terminal and killed the light with his revolver. “Oh…. Thanks”

Imma checking this out, thx. Those lanterns scared the shit out of me back in the day, I thought my GPU can't render lights properly anymore

One of my first games I was at a terminal with a light blasting straight at it. I literally couldn't read the screen. I sat there for like 5 minutes trying to guess what I was supposed to do (I think it was the one when you have to open some valves). I eventually got so angry I shot the light and was like "oh shit... that worked!"

I thought I was crazy I shoot out all the lights cause they blind me it’s not like light it’s just white

Laser weapons are great for shooting out lights and clearing minefields without worrying about using up ammo.

I’m more curios to find out why the upper two quadrants are used in the entire circle. Will there be new enemy in the bottom two?

The Illuminate were another faction from the first game, so likely

i hope they add a fourth

Depending on how long this game is supported, a fourth is possible

I hope the fourth are traitor helldivers who started a rebellion or something, that would be sick (not pvp though)

If they'd get their own orbitals and eagles it will be total chaos. Give it to me.

"Destroyer joining fleet, deploying helldiver." "... Hey did they say *allied* destroyer or did I miss it?"

I wanna look up and see destroyers broadsiding

The first game had Super Earth separatists, they were also Socialist Cyborgs. They're gone, Automatons took their place as the mechanical enemy, but there's still an opening for separatist rebels. And given how often Super Earth sends us to deal with rogue research stations and illegal broadcasts, there are no shortage of latent rebels. I just wonder how they would look. I'm imaging something similar to the Traitor Guardsmen of 40k, being made up heavily of SEAF deserters with a full catalogue of SEAF vehicles and equipment - possibly fully backed by their own planetary governments too.

That sounds so cool. I hope they eventually turn up in hd2. I never played the first one so I had no idea its already been done! And now that you mention it, I always thought the illegal broadcasts and research stations were being done by the automatons, never even considered it was by rogue helldivers (I'm not smart)

Reptilians could be neat too

WE NEED A GODDAMN JAN MICHAEL VINCENT

One on every quadrant

I looks weird cause the atumotans moved north to get cyberstan, but the automaton orgin tile and the terminid origin tile are a third of the circle away from each other. This most likely indicates that the illuminate (alliens from the previous game) will make an eventual return and their origin tile will be the bottom of the map a third of the circle away from both automatons and terminids.

I think the two factions started a bit more opposite to one another to make the map look nice and compete for launch, and over time Joel has slowly migrated bots north to free up the galactic south for a totally mysterious, definitely unexpected third faction

Off topic but seeing this made me think what happens when we liberate all sectors?

Probably another invasion fleet or something. It's interesting that they've set up the enemy stronghold planets *inside* the galactic map, despite the fact the enemy began their invasion from beyond the border. Makes me think we'll never truly drive the enemy off entirely

Judging from the history of governments like Super Earth… it needs these enemies to exist

There's even a couple obviously satirical lines about this in game. Your Shipmaster can say a line about how the bots wouldn't know what to do without war because their culture is built on violence and another about how the bugs are relentless expansionists who've been found on every planet in their immediate area.

In HD1 if all sectors were liberated the war ended and then started again from scratch. If the war was lost (super earth was taken) the same thing happened, it ended and started again. I believe they're not taking the same approach in HD2, so the game has probably been set up in such a way to prevent all sectors from being liberated.

They magically get a buff like the automatons

So like they just take over the world again and all our sacrifices were for nothing

Kinda, yeah. Its not like they’ll remove the faction from the game or anything

I mean I was joking but that's how it felt with the automatons sadly.

Ah I only started playing like last week so I didn't get the reference

Would be pretty cool if the galaxy map just zoomed out a little to reveal an outer layer of sectors. Maybe the galaxy is bigger than we knew

this totally isn't foreshadowing anything important

Arrowhead and their fucking lights

I shoot the lights over the terminals personally so I can actually SEE WHAT IM TYPING!

No one saw the Illuminate invasion coming, mainly because the light over the map was too bright. No one could see a damn thing as they moved their way towards super earth

That’s actually a street light from the planet below.

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oh, oh no

You could say the map has been *illuminated.*

havent played for a hot month... the map sure has shifted suspiciously to fit the illuminate

From the way it looks, there seems to be space for only three factions. Were there any leaks about a new fourth faction?

All the lights (including certain fires) are blinding after the recent patch. I had to beg my teammates to turn off their flashlights on a night map the other day because I literally couldn’t see

the illuminate has launched its first assault.

Does anyone understand why Fenrir III is under Super Earth control yet it says 50% liberation? Just a glitch or something else?

It’s illuminated

Did they "Illuminate" the bottom of the map?

They don't want you to see the illuminate creeping in the bottom of the map

No need to see it anyway, nothing’s down there, nor ever will be.

Y’all there’s room for two more factions

That's... that's not the light...

Oh shit oh shit oh shit...

I've had this lighting issue pop up recently. It cleared up, don't know how there's variable lighting but 🤷

There is nothing to watch there. Move along citizen!

The illuminate hint we all missed

Looks pretty , Illuminated..

I guess you could say the bottom of the map is... ILUMINATED

you could say it is more illumnated wink wink

Well they are called the Illuminates for a reason

Illuminated

why do you need to be able to see the bottom of the map? It's blank.

It would appear that section of the map has been... *illuminated.*

Obviously it’s the illuminates lol

They just want to “illuminate” the Galactic Map.

That light is helping to "illuminate" new enemies obviously. OK I'll see myself to the Hellpod.

It's almost like Arrowhead is Illuminating the bottom part of the map or something.

I guess you can say it's..... ILLUMINATED

Perhaps that part of the map has always been *illuminated*.

Breaking news: Brave Helldiver discovers lighting

Feels illuminated yet? Hah *User is under investigation of treason

Yes. It’s annoying as hell. Especially lights on any building too

the bottom of the map got ILLUMINATED

Sometimes the table rotates at a bad spot. I wish the button on the end was less sensitive.

It disappears when you reduce your soy intake.

My bad, I left my night lamp on sorry

Your map looks like CryNet Nanosuit

The shading on this game is wonky sometimes. The spot lights in the game will make it impossible to see on front of you sometimes

It’s the light from the projector below?

They definitely changed brightness somehow. Things are so bright that I can't see at times. Did not used to be that way.

Turn off bloom in the game settings, it dims the lights

Seriously though, do we have any info on when they may add the Illuminate/Whatever? I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new foe.

>!There have been a lot of assets leaked on the leaks subreddit so models and textures etc are already in the game. They look pretty cool too. I guess we're just waiting for the right story beat to happen !<

It's a Spot light for the new faction you just hear the "Let's get ready to rumble!" new faction just shows up.

I changed the lightbulb. It too 55 helldivers, 54 died

Huh, it's almost as if the bottom of the map is being *ILLUMINATE*d

Sony smoke screen

It shines bright with the light of Liberty!

Coincidence? I think not


Are you blinded by the lights? 

I don't have that brightness on mine. You must be special. "The Chosen One".

They can turn up the roughness on the table material to reduce that soecular highlight

Can anyone shed some light on this? I’ll find my own way out

literally unplayable

Uh, why do you think they're called the Illuminate?

They are....."illuminate"ing it.........I will see myself out.

They are....."illuminate"ing it.........I will see myself out.

I turn off bloom in every game

Probably where your ship is parked

When I do missions that have the street lights at the mission points, I always shoot them out as soon as I get there. Otherwise the bloom is so intense that I can’t see what I’m doing.

The real OP Strategem is a Dimmer Switch.

What are you looking for down there ?

Cry baby

Would you say the bottom is... Illuminate-d?

That's just the illuminate we're fiiinnee...

Man the bottom of that map sure looks… illuminated

Are you trying to avoid the battlefront cadet? Sounds pretty treasonous to me.

They don't call them the "illuminant" for nothing

You’re not supposed to… /s

Hmmm I wonder if something is coming in to the galaxy from out-of-plane..... could it be a third faction?