New Helldivers 2 Major Order brings back an iconic character to tell players to blow up an entire planet using the Dark Fluid that "spaghettified" people last week

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This "well understood alien superweapon" doesn't seem well understood at all

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Craig Lee Thomas, the familiar voice and anguished face we all recognize from the now-iconic Helldivers 2 opening cinematic, has announced a new Major Order, and the stakes couldn't be higher.

Thomas isn't actually seen in the video, but you can't mistake that democracy loving voice. In a new Helldivers 2 call-to-action, freedom fighters are tasked with the elimination of the Terminid Supercolony currently occupying Meridia. Sadly, High Command has determined Meridia to be beyond saving and thus, the latest Major Order, if successful, will result in the complete and irreversible destruction of the planet Meridia.

Even more harrowing, the weapon we're being asked to use in the new Major Order is some sort of chemically unstable material that just last week resulted in the "spaghettification" of 12 Super Earth scientists. I don't know about y'all, but there's a line in terms of how far I'll go to defend democracy, and it's definitely somewhere in the orbit of my own spaghettification.

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Regardless, brave soldiers can dive into the new Major Order now and start deploying partial payloads of this "well understood alien superweapon" across various points on the surface of Meridia. "Once a critical mass is reached, the Dark Fluid will accrete into a superdense mass, triggering total planetary implosion," reads the latest directive. "The Supercolony, and its hyper-reproductive Terminids, will be destroyed.

"Speed is critical. Technicians at the Moradesh Research Facility are working nonstop to convert raw Dark Fluid into weaponized payloads for this operation. This high output cannot be maintained for long, even with safety and sleep protocols optimized for productivity."

Speaking of weapons, Helldivers 2's new CEO recently admitted, "we don't think weapons are as fun as they could be," but also "I don't think it's reasonable to threaten people over weapon inbalance."

Jordan Gerblick
Jordan Gerblick
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After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.