The new Helldivers 2 major order has some major issues, as the super colony of Meridia proves a little too super

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Man screaming in Helldivers 2 intro cinematic

The same dark fluidthat spaghettified some scientistsin Helldivers 2 is now being used to obliterate a Terminid supercolony, as per the most recent major order. However, there’s a problem—the bespoke dark fluid missions are, uh, they’re really hard. Cruel, even. And I don’t mean hard in a “git gud” or “just play a lower difficulty” way, I mean in the way where something’s clearly gone wrong.

Here’s how one of these missions is supposed to play out: You and three other unlucky sods drop into Meridia, a supercolony in need of its own spaghettification. You call in a dark fluid backpack (that can also be used as a jetpack, which is fun) and haul ass to get to a drill site. Call in a drill, defend it, then extract.

Except the Terminids really don’t want you to be there—which is fair enough, sure. It’s a super colony of the buggers. I’d be on-board with a ramp-up in difficulty for these very solid thematic reasons, only—bug breaches, where Terminids pour out of an improvised hole, appear to have zero restrictions as to where they can spawn.

Don’t believe me? Here’s a screenshot I took myself, with some circles for pointers. Notice where the drill is, now notice where the breach is. You’re beginning to see the problem.

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An image depicting a drill and a bug breach in Helldivers 2, unfairly close to one another.

“You can’t tell people to ‘just lower their difficulties’ if the level 1 missions spawns 100 shriekers on their head. That’s just crappy advice,” writes oneparticularly peeved diverin a thread with over 6,800 upvotes at the time of writing.Another playerwrites:

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“We’re all very experienced, I personally have 350+ hours in [the game] … The bug breaches spawn RIGHT on the tectonic drill. Clearly, the environment was designed to have three choke points from which bugs were supposed to come. How is ANYONE supposed to defend this, when EVERY time you load the dark fluid in the drill, the breaches appear with tons of hive guards, chargers and titans, that can basically one shot the drill? What was the design philosophy behind that?”

Fortunately, it seems like the spawn rates aren’t, in fact, intended: “Thank you to everyone that made us aware of the spawning bug in the current Major Order,” writes community manager Baskinator. “A hotfix is currently being worked on for that issue and will be deployed as soon as possible. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s available.”

(Image credit: The Helldivers 2 Discord.)

A Discord message that reads: “Thank you to everyone that made us aware of the spawning bug in the current Major Order. A hotfix is currently being worked on for that issue and will be deployed as soon as possible. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s available. :3diverSalute:"

Honestly, it’s a hard time for Helldivers 2 right now. Since the recentPSN community dramaand theicy receptionof its latest Warbond, the studio’s been struggling to get back the goodwill it’d earned at launch—despite moves fromformer CEO Johan Pilestedtto get hands-on with balance adjustments and the game’s future. The studio really needed a win, but this doesn’t appear to be it.

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