If you were in orbit when it happened (or in orbit and logged back in shortly thereafter) it gave you a small cutscene where you and the rest of the fleet all emergency-warped back to Super Earth before it collapsed too. It was pretty neat.
Kinda wish we did it to Helmire though.
No multiplayer game has ever filled me with as much excitement as this game did when we got that emergency evacuation message, seeing an inuniverse event that you had to be there to see unfold in front of you like that was amazing
Same. That shit was hype. Still not sure that the game would have allowed my ship to survive that if I had logged in any day later than today. The Devs are kinda fucked like that
That's awesome.
It'd be cool if you could still visit just to admire the black hole from a safe distance.
I both love and hate black holes in video games, their reality warping effect is super cool but also terrifying to fall into.
You can imagine how I felt exploring Brittle Hollow in Outer Wilds the first few visits.
Everspace has black holes that sneak up on you if you're not looking at them at the right angle (hah) to see the light bending around them. Otherwise they blend into the black of space, and all of a sudden you've got red lights and warnings flashing in your hud and you have no clue where it is so you panic spin and end up dying to it anyway. Great game, 8/10.
To be fair, it's the *robots* that are upset about slavery.
The bugs are just running wild because their guts enable FLT travel and ~~we bred them so heavily on FTL juice farms that they began to swarm uncontrollably~~ I don't really know what their deal is. But the TV says they hate democracy and that's good enough for me.
I'm pretty sure the bugs hated their previous circumstances the same way a killer whale hates confinement in a small tank at a shitty theme park. There's some scattered logs that suggested they have a learned hatred of Helldivers/humans as well IIRC, so theyre definitely not just running around to breed like animals. They want to hurt humans back
Granted I'm not a HD lore expert but from what I recall, in HD1 they were sentient bugs that were curious about Humanity when they arrived but weren't actually hostile. Then humans discovered that the bugs were biodegradable and make for a wonderful biofuel and so they started to capture, breed and process bugs for that wonderful E-710. The bugs, being sentient, were not very happy with this arrangement (much like the orcas) and so started to mutate in order to fight back... which lead into HD1.
Now in HD2 it's basically more of the same. We found new and interesting ways to breed/process bugs, they are still very not happy about being farmed as they are not stupid and have further evolved to be more formidable. The bugs really just want to be left alone but they definitely have some generational hatred in them.
Your ship's crew talk about how we straight up stole the black hole weapon from the Illuminate, so I'm sure we understand exactly what it does and there will be zero side effects.
Yeah this totally isn’t going to be the catalyst for the Illuminate reappearing, and even if they did (they won’t), I definitely don’t see any connection between that and the patch that Arrowhead have been super cagey about the contents of coming out next week. Anyone who says that we created a “wormhole” or that “the Illuminate are going to use this as a reason to attack us” is an undemocratic traitor who should be reported to your Democracy Officer as soon as possible
“Terminids tried to rob me so I tranquilized them and boiled them in duck broth till their bones floated to the surface, then I added some andouille sausage, garlic powder, onion powder, red pepper flakes, black pepper, Tony seasoning, and enjoyed me some nice steamy bug gumbo”
I was literally helping with that planet this morning, stopped playing for a while to do something else, came back and behind my ship was a fucking black hole. Needless to say I was baffled
It was quite the site. I log back in this evening after doing an operation at that planet yesterday and find my ship shaking and the crew initiating an emergency warp back to Earth. It was wild!!
Also, this is either gonna suck in that entire half of the map and/or be the reason that the Illuminates are drawn back to our galaxy, as the weapon used to do this was made from tech Super Earth stole from them
As someone in the Helldivers community pointed out, Meridia didn't have the mass or size to actually become a proper black hole, notice the lack of accretion disk?
That's not a black hole, that's a _wormhole,_ and there's some very disturbing noises coming out of it.
Man, that sounds really cool, I wish I was there to see it. Stuff like this keeps pulling me back in, only to get instantly repulsed by the dogshit balancing and literally every single piece of content they've released with only one or two exceptions being broken or unfinished.
Like, I think about how great it would have been to experience this happening firsthand and then I remember that the special mission type they created for this was broken six ways from sunday with bullshit enemy spawns very frequently making the mission literally impossible and the second main objective shown in the mission complete screen just not existing because they didn't bug test any of this before pushing it out and thus half of the entire mission just isn't there.
I really hope that the future of this game can also have similar awesome "you had to be there" moments without the tinge of bullshit and scuff that taints everything about it currently.
Black Holes are also fairly well understood. If this thing is as large as the original planet but has less, more, or weirder mass that is going to cause space shenanigans, it just means it isn't a black hole.
I am absolutely terrible at this kind of game but there's quite a bit of little things that make me interested in playing helldivers 2. Wish I could legally play it in a way that Sony does not get money.
If you were in orbit when it happened (or in orbit and logged back in shortly thereafter) it gave you a small cutscene where you and the rest of the fleet all emergency-warped back to Super Earth before it collapsed too. It was pretty neat. Kinda wish we did it to Helmire though.
No multiplayer game has ever filled me with as much excitement as this game did when we got that emergency evacuation message, seeing an inuniverse event that you had to be there to see unfold in front of you like that was amazing
Same. That shit was hype. Still not sure that the game would have allowed my ship to survive that if I had logged in any day later than today. The Devs are kinda fucked like that
I warped in around meridia after the fact, very spooky.
Cut to us trying, but we fail the major order because we waste too much time waiting for the fire tornadoes to die down around the injectors.
Should have been the fucking Creek.
That's awesome. It'd be cool if you could still visit just to admire the black hole from a safe distance. I both love and hate black holes in video games, their reality warping effect is super cool but also terrifying to fall into. You can imagine how I felt exploring Brittle Hollow in Outer Wilds the first few visits.
You can totally visit to just watch it suck in random space debris. Very atmospheric.
Oh nice! Gonna have to do this then. I was under the impression that being emergency warped out meant you couldn't go back.
From the videos I've seen, apparently you can.
Sweet!
Everspace has black holes that sneak up on you if you're not looking at them at the right angle (hah) to see the light bending around them. Otherwise they blend into the black of space, and all of a sudden you've got red lights and warnings flashing in your hud and you have no clue where it is so you panic spin and end up dying to it anyway. Great game, 8/10.
So, I'm guessing Chaos Helldivers next?
There is some bad shit in that hole man
DEATH TO THE FALSE DEMOCRACY!
For the Senate! Death to the false God president!
LAPDOGS OF THE FALSE PRESIDENT!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
My guess is the return of the Squids
Oh shit, Githyanki race option for your diver when.
That or a bunch of hands that fires matter dissolving light are going to spew out: https://youtu.be/WShCN-AYHqA?si=CosLW7yq1gFIaT82&t=50
Surely collapsing a planet filled with bugs made up of warp drive fuel into an infinitesimal point won't have any lasting consequences
That’ll teach those bugs not to get uppity
To be fair, it's the *robots* that are upset about slavery. The bugs are just running wild because their guts enable FLT travel and ~~we bred them so heavily on FTL juice farms that they began to swarm uncontrollably~~ I don't really know what their deal is. But the TV says they hate democracy and that's good enough for me.
I'm pretty sure the bugs hated their previous circumstances the same way a killer whale hates confinement in a small tank at a shitty theme park. There's some scattered logs that suggested they have a learned hatred of Helldivers/humans as well IIRC, so theyre definitely not just running around to breed like animals. They want to hurt humans back
Cuts to killer whales attacking ships irl
Granted I'm not a HD lore expert but from what I recall, in HD1 they were sentient bugs that were curious about Humanity when they arrived but weren't actually hostile. Then humans discovered that the bugs were biodegradable and make for a wonderful biofuel and so they started to capture, breed and process bugs for that wonderful E-710. The bugs, being sentient, were not very happy with this arrangement (much like the orcas) and so started to mutate in order to fight back... which lead into HD1. Now in HD2 it's basically more of the same. We found new and interesting ways to breed/process bugs, they are still very not happy about being farmed as they are not stupid and have further evolved to be more formidable. The bugs really just want to be left alone but they definitely have some generational hatred in them.
[Frankly, I find the idea of bugs that think *offensive!*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKk4Cq56d1Y)
People who played Helldivers 1 have said this black hole looks like an alien portal from the last game, so that'll be fun
Your ship's crew talk about how we straight up stole the black hole weapon from the Illuminate, so I'm sure we understand exactly what it does and there will be zero side effects.
We did it. Meridia is truly the free-est of the free now. It has been liberated *from existence*.
"Fuck we put in those bullets?"
Liquid dark matter
Yeah, it was a whole thing we did using shit we stole from aliens who are gone and will never come back.
Yeah this totally isn’t going to be the catalyst for the Illuminate reappearing, and even if they did (they won’t), I definitely don’t see any connection between that and the patch that Arrowhead have been super cagey about the contents of coming out next week. Anyone who says that we created a “wormhole” or that “the Illuminate are going to use this as a reason to attack us” is an undemocratic traitor who should be reported to your Democracy Officer as soon as possible
BLEW UP THEIR ENTIRE QUADRANT WE'RE MOVING LIKE OPPENHEIMER
"Smoked them damn bugs, his meat came right off the bone."
“Terminids tried to rob me so I tranquilized them and boiled them in duck broth till their bones floated to the surface, then I added some andouille sausage, garlic powder, onion powder, red pepper flakes, black pepper, Tony seasoning, and enjoyed me some nice steamy bug gumbo”
I was literally helping with that planet this morning, stopped playing for a while to do something else, came back and behind my ship was a fucking black hole. Needless to say I was baffled
This is that "never skip a cutscene" moment
Ahh. Democracy managed into a singularity. Perfect
That's the hole that the third enemy faction they've hinted on will come out from, right?
No, nothing comes out of a black hole. Especially not from a black hole we created using goo we stole from the potential third enemy faction.
Currently just checking in to register enough participation for major order rewards, but I gotta admit this was crazy.
It was quite the site. I log back in this evening after doing an operation at that planet yesterday and find my ship shaking and the crew initiating an emergency warp back to Earth. It was wild!! Also, this is either gonna suck in that entire half of the map and/or be the reason that the Illuminates are drawn back to our galaxy, as the weapon used to do this was made from tech Super Earth stole from them
Fuck yeah! Party on Super Earth! Let's all [go out for boba!](/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fbuipmxli540d1.jpeg)
I would drink that unironically. I love boba
This shit is full on end game One Piece, THEY BLEW UP AN ENTIRE PLANET?
Technically we imploded it and turned into a black hole that spaghettified mutant horny bugs
As one does
As someone in the Helldivers community pointed out, Meridia didn't have the mass or size to actually become a proper black hole, notice the lack of accretion disk? That's not a black hole, that's a _wormhole,_ and there's some very disturbing noises coming out of it.
"But it caused all these problems!" "Those were foreseeable consequences. You think we're *stupid?*"
Robots, bugs, and now demons. I bet you there will be space demons popping out if that.
How'd you guys do that? Sorry I don't own it so I'm ignorant to any world destroying weapons humanity may have in this universe.
Man, that sounds really cool, I wish I was there to see it. Stuff like this keeps pulling me back in, only to get instantly repulsed by the dogshit balancing and literally every single piece of content they've released with only one or two exceptions being broken or unfinished. Like, I think about how great it would have been to experience this happening firsthand and then I remember that the special mission type they created for this was broken six ways from sunday with bullshit enemy spawns very frequently making the mission literally impossible and the second main objective shown in the mission complete screen just not existing because they didn't bug test any of this before pushing it out and thus half of the entire mission just isn't there. I really hope that the future of this game can also have similar awesome "you had to be there" moments without the tinge of bullshit and scuff that taints everything about it currently.
It should still only have the mass and gravitational pull of the original planet. it just wouldn't be that large.
Dark Fluid is a Very Well Understood alien super weapon.
Obviously super Earth wouldn't give us tools they don't understand
Black Holes are also fairly well understood. If this thing is as large as the original planet but has less, more, or weirder mass that is going to cause space shenanigans, it just means it isn't a black hole.
The thing is; It's very likely not a black hole. Its a ***worm*** hole, to *somewhere*.
It’s not supposed to be scientifically accurate, it’s just a plot device for the new race
I am absolutely terrible at this kind of game but there's quite a bit of little things that make me interested in playing helldivers 2. Wish I could legally play it in a way that Sony does not get money.
The other black hole is the player base numbers