“The Supercolony has been destroyed. In its place, a beautiful black hole remains, drawing in every Terminid spore within several billion kilometers,” a message from Super Earth reads. Helldivers 2 players have officially completed the latest major order to destroy Meridia. The planet was pumped full of Dark Fluid and is no more. As Super Earth cheers the Helldivers’ victory, a special compliment is sent out to Arrowhead Game Studios for having the courage to create such a wonderful MO and sacrificing a planet.
At the time of completing the major order, those who were in their ships had an emergency jump to Super Earth. During this time, a cutscene played out showing the ship jump to the home base. Traveling back to the Meridia system now lets players see the massive black hole for themselves. Reddit user Interjessing-Salary managed to capture the event as the planet was destroyed and the emergency jump was initiated.
All over social media, shots of the black hole are being shared and many are praising Arrowhead for going through with the destruction of the Supercolony and the planet. Reddit user AHolySandwich took the time to post their sentiments about the mission saying, “The immersion something like this provides is incredible. I was in a mission when the order was completed, and let me tell you; extracting to the Super Destroyer to be met with a huge black hole just sitting outside the windows followed by an emergency FTL jump to Super Earth makes the storytelling portion of this game feel so good.”
A user commented on the post saying, “Going back and seeing the black hole in Meridia’s place was pretty awesome.” Another user said, “I was next door working to save Fenrir III since I saw the majority of Meridia were nearing completion. Coming back from a mission with the random squad to that alert was beautiful. It even made me FTL to Super Earth temporarily before I viewed the Super Earth broadcast.”
Other users like Chimney-Imp shared images of the black hole as seen from the Meridia system. Many are now nervous as to what will come from the black hole. Many have commented saying the Illuminate will be here soon with memes popping up of Illuminate enemies coming through the black hole. Some are referring to it as a portal with one saying, “We just sent them a bunch of E-710.” Another user said, “I swear, if this isn’t the intro to the squids, I’m gonna write a not-very-democratic Reddit comment!”
We will be getting a new patch in the coming weeks. Part of this patch will focus on balancing the weapons that Arrowhead nerfed since launch, but Twinbeard made sure to say that this isn’t the “mother of all patches.” It is unclear if this patch will introduce the Illuminate or if it will take a while longer for them to come in. Either way, players are excited.