The Helldivers 2 community proves once again that the sun never sets on Super Earth. In the wake of the Illuminate's ghastly invasion of our home planet, divers have spent a week trying and failing to save its megacities from annihilation. All except one.
While it's been an exciting two weeks to play Helldivers 2, the Second Galactic War could not be going worse right now. Eagleopolis and York Supreme have fallen, and for a while, it looked as if resources were spread too thin to outpace the invading forces on the cities that remain.
Some Chinese memes from r/Helldivers
The mini-review bomb (not entirely driven by the EoS debacle, mind you, as I saw plenty of recent reviews complaining about bugs) has eroded the good vibes. Some jerks are getting nasty about the whole thing, as you'd predict. Meanwhile, some self-proclaimed Chinese divers are trying to explain why they feel cheated.
"[The Equality-On-Sea defense campaign] has drawn a lot of attention in the Chinese gaming communities and even outside of the gaming community due to the passion of the Chinese Helldivers, who are now proudly fighting side by side with helldivers coming from everywhere including the US and European countries despite IRL political differences," wrote Reddit user Valkyrie_Yukikaze.
"However, as the campaign has drawn in a lot of attention, there is an influx of new players who did not fully understand the game, who only care about defending the EoS until the final victories. Such excitement did not [go over] well when they found out that EoS can't be completely retaken as it is a defense campaign to finish off the Illuminate invasion fleet. Add on to that, the Chinese translation of the game on the defense percentage makes it seem like the city can be completely taken back from the invasion, which is certainly not helping."
This is just one view on the matter, but that all sounds pretty reasonable to me. I know a few million English-speaking Helldivers who'd be enormously pissed if they believed a weeklong battle had amounted to a rugpull—a review bomb would just be their opening salvo.
Valkyrie_Yukikaze went on to add that they believe Chinese players are also miffed because it appears as if Arrowhead is playing favorites with its megacities, wanting all of them to fall except for Prosperity City, Super Earth's capital, which just happens to be located in Arrowhead's home country of Sweden.
To be clear: This is pretty obviously true. The capital city would be the natural climax for this chapter of Helldivers 2's ongoing story, though Arrowhead has been known to change course based on community action.
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