Helldivers 2’s New Major Order May Be Buttering Bugdivers…

A new dawn rises in Helldivers 2 as the live-service sci-fi shooter’s most recent Major Order, with a lot of heavy lifting on Arrowhead’s part and the Order itself coming down to the wire, was won. The Automatons’ Factory Striders were the last enemy units to be slain in a laundry list of required kills across all three factions, with the Illuminate’s Leviathans only capable of being conquered due to the developer dramatically lowering the mandated number that players needed to kill. A win is a win, however, and the next Major Order has already been thrust at the mighty Helldivers.

This new MO in Helldivers 2 is another microscopic lens on a singular enemy faction, the Terminids, who’ve gone for quite a while now without a landmark event or update beyond the bugs’ Gloom and Spore Burst effects. The MO revolves wholly around these thematic elements, specifically in an attempt to “allow development of Gloom-resistant ship shielding,” and the next five days should surely be a treat for Bugdivers. Of course, because the previous MO’s Minor Order and this particular MO share a throughline, there is reason to believe that the bugs may host Helldivers 2’s next monumental update or event.

Thanks to Helldivers 2’s Current Major Order, It’ll Be Clear What Enemy Faction is Favored

Bugdivers, Botdivers, and Squiddivers all rejoice in Helldivers 2's new Major Order, and it'll be neat to see who comes out on top first.

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By Jared Stewart

Helldivers 2’s New Bug-Squashing Major Order Has Potential for a Whole Lot More

Hot take or not, Helldivers 2’s bugs have never been the hardest enemy faction, and the Gloom hasn’t made them particularly frightening, either. The Predator strain is arguably more menacing than the Spore Burst strain, too, especially if players arrive equipped with the Motivational Shocks booster. But, whether players are wary of these sub-faction strains or not, the present Major Order tasks them to venture into the bugs’ territory once more and contend with Spore Burst variants.

Helldivers 2’s current Major Order, with five days left, reads:

Collect Terminid samples and hold key scientific facilities to allow development of Gloom-resistant ship shielding.
- Successfully extract with 30,000,000 Rare Samples in the JIN XI SECTOR.
  - Hold TURING when the order expires.
  - Hold ACHERNAR SECUNDUS when the order expires.
    - Reward: 50 Warbond medals

A whopping 5,168,022 (17.2% completion) rare samples extracted in the Jin Xi sector at the time of this writing seems to prove that this MO is already in the bag, and that’s in no doubt due to how many players are vocal, enthusiastic Bugdivers in Helldivers 2. Interestingly, though, this MO doesn’t appear to be random or arbitrary in the slightest. Indeed, Helldivers 2’s previous Minor Order/Strategic Opportunity is somewhat tethered to the new MO.

Helldivers 2’s latest Minor Order read:

Exterminate Spore Burst Warriors using the designated weaponry to further boost citizen patriotic fervor.
- Kill 5,000,000 Spore Burst Warriors on Fori Prime with the Stalwart.

If players didn’t know any better, one could argue that this Strategic Opportunity was purposefully designed to best prepare players for the subsequent MO. Then, if that’s truly the case, there’s no telling what these piecemeal Terminid tasks may be building up toward, with the likeliest and most thrilling route being a bug event on a scale similar to that of the Illuminate’s Battle of Super Earth.

Of course, the recent flash-in-a-pan attention bots received on Gaellivare and Claorell (reinforced by Helldivers 2’s horrific Incineration Corps) would’ve made it seem sensible that Automatons could host an event of this scope instead.

Therefore, no assurances can be made that one will take precedence over the other. Future updates will inevitably rotate between Helldivers 2’s enemy factions, with either the bots or bugs next in line after the squids had such a momentous heyday recently, and only time will tell which one has drawn the shorter straw.

Helldivers 2’s Control Group Warbond is Itching for an Encore

Helldivers 2’s Control Group Warbond centers its theme around squid technology repurposed by R&D, and there would be no better way for Arrowhead to continue this motif than by embracing bug bio-organics via the xenoentomology center, a plot device nestled at the heart of the current Major Order on Turing. A Terminid Warbond in the same vein would be fascinating if it bore a bug-like aesthetic, for instance, and an associable armor passive could be designed to combat the Predator and Spore Burst Gloom-borne strains.

Meanwhile, weapons could hypothetically allow players to hack-’n-slash with bug claws of their own. The possibilities are limitless for a bug or bot Warbond akin to the squids’ Control Group, and it’ll be neat to see what direction Arrowhead goes with its next purchasable bundle of in-game content and items.

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Released: February 8, 2024
ESRB: Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, In-Game Purchases, Users Interact
Developer(s): Arrowhead Game Studios, Nixxes
Publisher(s): Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation Publishing