Honestly the funniest thing I've seen in the game so far lmao
Someone on the dev team is cool
The original Helldivers came about because the devs read Edward Snowden’s book and started memeing around the office about US propaganda and foreign policy
Was in an interview with the CEO on a Milsim gamer channel: https://youtu.be/FJs_kqHrzzQ?si=3Zy-kgXDPXLF8qxm
I don’t have a timestamp sorry, on my phone atm
I got you on the timestamp. https://youtu.be/FJs_kqHrzzQ?t=1594
Very good info, thank you for this.
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I remember listening to the litrpg fantasy series He Who Fights with Monsters and I vividly remember when the author started using "Authoritarian" as a visual aesthetic unironically. Like saying "The costume was more like a uniform, and had authoritarian elements," or something like that and it was just so... ugh. When the author wasn't writing about "real world" politics, it was an otherwise interesting read which is saying something about the genre.
It's just so funny, it's a totally normal floodlight on the wall of a base. I was like "Why does this have an interact? Can I aim it?" and was greeted with "evil commie lights". Nearly fell off my chair.
Someone on the team is apeing the way the US calls even innocuous things China does authoritarian and it's really funny to me.
It plays into my idea that the whole thing is virtual displays, and we have no idea what things look like outside our helmets.
I thought that might be a possibility, Black Mirror did it, but then what does it look like to the civilians running around?
Helldivers 2, you play fascist space americans, one of the enemy factions are robot communists, this was on a floodlight in one of the bases I cleared.
Gotcha, that's what I figured but I wasn't sure. Been thinking about picking it up.
It is very silly. Be prepared to die a lot and accept that dying multiple times is quite clearly supposed to happen in every mission.
I think a lot of
types are struggling to deal with the fact they die so much.Yeah, people don't understand that retreating and having a safe exit is part of the game. You actually have to think tactically with all the explosions, you can't just run forward and shoot. It plays way more like Squad than Call of Duty, despite having airdrops like call of duty. Having the ability for anybody to call in an airstrike is powerful.
I know nothing about Helldivers so forgive me if Im talking out of my ass, but are the robots communists or are the robots controlled by communists? I hope its latter because the idea of being forced to ram your face pointlessly into an army of communist machines while knowing full well that the average person in that society is just
while the game says all the same anti-communist stuff from real life about this obviously wonderful society to justify you fighting this pointless war would be amazing. Maybe the robots should do a reverse liberty prime and spout communist propaganda.I'm not well steeped in the lore, but basically humans created the "automatons" forebears, can't remember their names, and when they developed sentience, they declared independence and created a socialist state, which kicked off a big war.
From getting some tiktoks of Helldivers 1 lore, the Cyborgs are the precursor to the Automatons and have basically been entombed on Cyberstan (lmao), which is where they sought to be a free, independent socialist society of augmented humans and any others rejecting the fascism of Super Earth.
Helldivers 2 is apparently 100 years after, and there's suspicions that the Automatons aren't just a collective of killing machines making a beeline towards Super Earth - the forcibly-augmented/fully robotic have some level of sentience and are apparently mounting a liberation campaign on Cyberstan by travelling around the periphery.
also apparently the bugs literally produce oil and were bred for this purpose lmao
The robots are controlled by the communist androids, you never see androids in game.
you never see androids in game.
None of the people I watch play the game seemed to know about them so that needs to change. People knowing about the androids is a gateway to making the satire good in a way starship troopers could never hope to be. I cannot stress how much having a clear and relatable good example faction in the setting screws with the type of "lol grimdark everyone bad" thought terminating cliche people use to dissolve the satire of things like this into nothing.
Best you'd get would be a cutscene, the game is a bunch of randomly generated missions with no real interconnecting story other than "there is a war". All of the satire is set-dressing.
They don't understand Freedom or Patriotism, and that makes them filthy communists, and that's why we need to send thousands of our bravest/most loyal men to spill oil on a faraway planet. To protect Our Way of Life. Trying to understand these machines is a fool's errand and if you insist on continuing, I might have to report you to the nearest Democracy Officer for being an automaton sympathizer.
The Cyborgs were communists. Humans created the Cyborgs and then they rebelled as communists. Humanity canonically won the war against them in the first game and now the Cyborgs are imprisoned on a mining planet called Cyberstan.
The Automatons were created by the Cyborgs and hold the same ideology. At least that's what we're told, I see no reason to believe otherwise.
The current theory going is that the Automatons are fighting towards Cyberstan to free the Cyborgs, who will then presumably join them as part of the faction.
They wear capes. Earth is called "Super Earth". Their propaganda is that the Helldivers are superheros.
Yes the capes have skulls on them.
I don't know I don't think it's supposed to be entirely logical. Rule of cool I think?
The first time I saw this in game I laughed so fuckin hard.
When I heard of the game I immediately thought of Foxhole, but without all of the fun of building a war economy by hand
Tankie lighting for my tankie room inside my tankie bunker
