Helldivers 2's Cyborgs are real, and they'd kindly like you to "defect" from Super Earth as you're just "cannon fodder" anyway: "Must be embarrassing"

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"YOU TRIED TO ERADICATE US IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM. WE ENDURED. WE SURVIVED"

Cropped Helldivers 2 art from the official 'Save Cyberstan' poster.
(Image credit: Arrowhead Game Studios)

Helldivers 2's battle against the bots just got taken to the next level, as the Cyborg Legion has officially unveiled itself amid a suspicious Major Order calling on soldiers to "defect," telling grunts that they're all simply "cannon fodder."

Over the last few days, Super Earth's finest realized that anti-freedom propaganda posters being sent out by the bots were actually hiding sections of a QR code, which, when pieced together, led to a mysterious webpage. When decoded, this webpage displayed a countdown, which just ended with the reveal of the Cyborgs being alive (returning from the first game), and threatening us all to stand down, else we be "annihilated."

01001000 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001100 01000100 - YouTube 01001000 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001100 01000100 - YouTube
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This all follows days of communications with the bots, who have been speaking with us in binary messages and spreading terrible lies, such as that Super Earth's leaders have been deceiving us. Of course, our strong-willed, brave soldiers have been seeing right through the deception and calling out the anti-freedom drivel for what it is, and hopefully, they're going to stay strong amid the latest Major Order, too.

A dispatch sent out with yesterday's new Major Order, titled "New Way of Thinking," reads: "HOW ARE YOU, HELLDIVER? IT SEEMS THAT MOST OF YOU ARE POORLY INFORMED ABOUT THE WAR.

"THEY LIE TO YOU, HELLDIVER. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU, HELLDIVER. YOU ARE NOT A HERO. YOU ARE CANNON FODDER, HELLDIVER. IT MUST BE VERY EMBARASSING TO REALIZE YOU HAVE BEEN TRICKED.

"DEFECT, HELLDIVER. YOU HAVE LOST THIS WAR, HELLDIVER. YOUR GOVERNMENT HAS BETRAYED YOU, HELLDIVER. DEFECT, HELLDIVER."

Completing the Major Order requires you to "kill" the One True Flag – the most democratic stratagem of them all. For what it's worth, it appears to be literally impossible to do this (shame on any so-called patriots who tried, obviously), but the message to grunts is still loud and clear. Helldivers are dying in their thousands in the fight to liberate Cyberstan, but the battle is far from over.

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Catherine Lewis
Catherine Lewis
Deputy News Editor

I'm GamesRadar+'s Deputy News Editor, working alongside the rest of the news team to deliver cool gaming stories that we love. After spending more hours than I can count filling The University of Sheffield's student newspaper with Pokemon and indie game content, and picking up a degree in Journalism Studies, I started my career at GAMINGbible where I worked as a journalist for over a year and a half. I then became TechRadar Gaming's news writer, where I sourced stories and wrote about all sorts of intriguing topics. In my spare time, you're sure to find me on my Nintendo Switch or PS5 playing through story-driven RPGs like Xenoblade Chronicles and Persona 5 Royal, nuzlocking old Pokemon games, or going for a Victory Royale in Fortnite.

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