Earlier this week, we brought you word of a dangerous paranoia sweeping the ranks of Helldivers 2 players who, perhaps not getting enough sleep, have convinced themselves that operatives of an alien faction known as The Illuminate already walk among us. Well, if that sounds ridiculous, you'd best sit down for this next one: For the first time in recorded history, footage of so-called "flying bugs" has been captured, a rare mutation allowing Super Earth's oldest enemy to take to the skies, presenting Managed Democracy with an all-new threat — from above.
Super Earth High Command recently tasked Helldivers with activating massive Termicide Towers across the galaxy, a mission which was easily accomplished. Citizens have praised the foresight and care with which the benevolent government avoided potentially far worse mutations from occurring through liberal use of the program, which is already being hailed as a resounding success. Helldivers were deployed en masse to the Barrier Planets of Erata Prime, Fenrir III, Meridia, and Turing, dying in their thousands to protect your way of life and to pump out precious Termicide Gas, which we are assured is not capable of causing mutations within Bug populations.
The Ministry of Truth has reiterated that this is the first such confirmed sighting, discounting earlier and unconfirmed reports from insect sympathisers; Independent intergalactic news outlet Strohmann has the exclusive footage. Please be advised viewers who value their freedom and liberty may find the following scenes distressing:
Would you like to know more? Helldivers 2's most recent patch has introduced some entirely new bugs, this time of a technical kind, but thankfully, a fix is on the way. On the sales front, developer Arrowhead has to be happy with the game's financial performance, as Helldivers 2 is currently dominating US and UK sales charts.
Have you ever seen anything that could be considered a flying bug? Describe such incidents in the carefully monitored comments section below without repercussions.
[source twitter.com]
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Man i hope this game lives for a long time. The community and general atmosphere just seems so cool. I want to get into it some day
Give me flying bugs over chargers anyday. Just not flying charging bugs 😭
I haven't played this and probably won't, but they seem to be doing gaas right, seems very cool how they're introducing new Factions, enemies and mechs etc...Hope they've got enough of this content for a few years
@Kidfunkadelic83 Don't give them ideas! We need a democracy officer over here!
Would you like to know more? Nice starship troopers reference.
Came across these last night, while watching the skys i got killed by a pack of hunters, these bugs dont miss a trick!!!
@Vorflynn I am unfortunate not to have come across them yet but I have them firmly in my sights, are the aggressive or did they not attack you before the hunters?
For democracy my friend ✊
@Kidfunkadelic83 I got taken out by one last night in a fashion you're kind of suggesting... I shot it mid dive, then it's corpse cannoned into me and completely smooshed my feeble body.
@Mostik they are when you get in proximity. They have nests. It looks like a cluster of spore spewers, and clearing it is classed as a secondary. You need a hellbomb or orbital laser. Just don't deploy the hellbomb too close to the structures, or they get stuck on the rim of the mushroom bits on the way down, which means you can't arm it hahah
@AhabSpampurse ive never come across one yet. Are they newly introduced or are they just on the higher difficulties. I have been playing on extreme mind you?
@Kidfunkadelic83 they'll be on the mid tier. I've been playing on Hellmire and those general "scorched" planets. You'll definitely run into them on extreme.
We all knew it was inevitable
@AhabSpampurse Brilliant, I will hunt these down and save democracy! Thanks for the tip, sounds like the orbital laser is the safest option!!
Appreciate this might have gone over a few heads, but Strohmann means Strawman in Swedish if I'm not mistaken. Not a very fitting name for a completely independent and non-government-aligned news organization, whose news you absolutely must trust.
@Kidfunkadelic83 Too late. I've seen a clip (on Reddit I think) of a charger and shrieker (I think that's what they're being called) models becoming stuck to one another, and when the shrieker flapped its wings the charger took off. It was terrifying. I think it was a glitch, and not a deliberate tactic by the bugs to drop chargers on our heads.
I was on a match with flying bugs last week 👀. Loads of health they did a load of damage and were real hard to hit. Not as game ruining as hunters but not far off
“They fly now!” I love the success of this game adding new challenges to keep it fresh. So tempted to get into this game soon.
@Kidfunkadelic83 Chargers are easy to kill. These things, not so much. Yet. 😄
@Mostik they are agressive and dive bomb you but when you are looking up at them you arent watching the ground.
@StrickenBiged Last night I had that happen in game. One of them mounted a charger and seemed to become one with it. Was not sure if it was a glitch or not, although the charger did not take off as it only needed to run forward to obliterate me.
We failed the new order earlier but we think it was ment to happen to then get the flying bugs to come out of their nests. Since before the failed New Order it was too enable the Gas towers which the community achieved but then the flying bugs came out of nowhere.
They only seems to appear on difficulty 4 I've seen they are as annoying as Chargers that show up from behind you. I wish they would make a new Eagle strategem that swoops in and fires air to air missiles to kill them all in one wave. Be cool to have some ones
@Nakatomi_Uk they are on extreme as well, so not only on diff 4
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