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Helldivers 2 Unleashes Galactic Emergency Update as Illuminate Forces Invade Super Earth

Arrowhead Game Studios confirms the largest escalation in the game’s history, with elite enemy units breaching defenses to target humanity's homeworld.

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A Helldiver from Helldivers 2 seeing the ruination of Super Earth in the visor of their helmet.
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Overview

  • The Galactic Emergency update confirms a full-scale Illuminate invasion emerging from the Meridian singularity and bypassing Super Earth's outer defenses.
  • High Command’s emergency broadcast warns that planetary defenses are overwhelmed, marking the most significant escalation since the game’s launch.
  • New elite Illuminate units introduced include Stingrays, Crescent Overseers, and Fleshmobs, described as failed experiments made from Voteless parts.
  • The invasion fulfills long-standing community theories stemming from the June 2024 black hole event, which created the Meridian singularity.
  • A weekend ARG event foreshadowed the update with a “SPACETIME FLUCTUATION DETECTED” message, hinting at the impending catastrophe.