Helldivers 2’s long-awaited third enemy faction instant seems on in-sport scheme

Helldiver 2’s long-awaited third enemy faction, the Illuminate – beforehand seen in Helldivers 1, but restful conspicuously absent from its sequel – has instant appeared in-sport. Which hasn’t stopped developer Arrowhead Game Studios from declaring the incident to be “false news”.

Gamers began reporting unfamiliar sightings across Helldivers 2‘s Galactic Battle scheme (thanks PC Gamer) earlier nowadays, starting with a mysterious cluster of crimson sectors the build avid gamers had beforehand most attention-grabbing seen crimson for Automaton incursions and orange for Terminids.

If it’s come-incontrovertible proof of an Illuminate presence you’re after, even though, then scrutinize no extra than the little crimson image avid gamers found out when rolling over one amongst the mysterious unusual crimson sectors – a image long-time followers will in an instant recognise because the circle-in-a-circle intention representing the Illuminate faction in Helldivers 1.

Sadly for avid gamers hoping for solutions, developer Arrowhead’s instantaneous response became to accelerate up the in-sport lore machine and luxuriate in its Colossal Earth Armed Forces High Explain forget all of the thing as a “present server outage” ended in by a lost Comms Technician decomposing in a server farm somewhere. It be a generally cheeky response from the studio, but it completely’s impossible to articulate if Arrowhead in actuality is teasing the Illuminate’s forthcoming arrival (it surely has manufacture right here), or if all of the incident in actuality became an unintended glitch.

Over on social media, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani has answered to reviews of present Illuminate sighting with two words: “false news”. That, useless to pronounce, brings to thoughts the time Arrowhead chief inventive officer Johan Pilestedt brushed off avid gamers who’d claimed to luxuriate in seen flying Terminids in-sport as nothing but “worm sympathesers”, insisting “bugs can’t fly” – shortly prior to their arrival became made real.

Hints the Illuminate will shortly be making a honest Helldivers 2 debut comes as Arrowhead continues to grapple with the fallout from August’s valuable Escalation of Freedom substitute. Gamers were in particular unhappy with one of the most important adjustments made as phase of the pa