The Cyborgs are coming back to Helldivers 2—meanwhile, poor Arrowhead can't make it through a single deep-dive video without getting hacked

A horde of automaton bots from Helldivers 2 marchers mercilessly on.

(Image credit: Arrowhead Games)

Helldivers 2 is taking players back to Cyberstan and, as part of this little road trip (note: horrific, bloody war with death tolls in the millions) has been drumming up hype for it on social media by pretending to get hacked by the Automaton fleet.

This morning, confirmation dropped that as part of this event, the Cyborgs are indeed making a return. In a recent video posted to the game's YouTube channel titled "Hello World" in binary, the once-thought-destroyed Cyborg legion speaks:

01001000 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001100 01000100 - YouTube

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"Freedom. You enslaved us in the name of freedom. You tried to eradicate us in the name of freedom. We endured. We survived. We are the Cyborg legion. And now we are free. Leave us and there will be peace. Else be annihilated."

As for why this is a big deal: The game's current Automaton faction can be thought of as the Cyborg's vengeful children, emerging out of the dust of an enslaved Cyberstan to avenge their creators. The Cyborgs themselves are political dissidents who tried to break off from Super Earth and were, y'know, not allowed to do that.

Also, I've been informed by my local democracy officer that you are to read the above paragraph no more than once for educational purposes, and that any repeat viewings are to be immediately reported to your nearest Super Earth patriot management team.

All in all, it seems like the Cyborgs are fed up. So fed up in fact that in both deep-dive videos, Arrowhead's poor besieged developers can't make it through a single video without getting hacked.

Helldivers 2 - Attack on Cyberstan Deep Dive - YouTube

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Still, before the Cyborg Legion overtakes the deep-dive, there are some pretty promising signs—including a galactic war event where players have to forge a path through the cities of Cyberstan, as well as some killer-looking megafactories we'll presumably get to blow up with beautifully explosive democracy. Guess we know why we've got the tank, now.

Harvey's history with games started when he first begged his parents for a World of Warcraft subscription aged 12, though he's since been cursed with Final Fantasy 14-brain and a huge crush on G'raha Tia. He made his start as a freelancer, writing for websites like Techradar, The Escapist, Dicebreaker, The Gamer, Into the Spine—and of course, PC Gamer. He'll sink his teeth into anything that looks interesting, though he has a soft spot for RPGs, soulslikes, roguelikes, deckbuilders, MMOs, and weird indie titles. He also plays a shelf load of TTRPGs in his offline time. Don't ask him what his favourite system is, he has too many.

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