The moment Meridia collapsed into a black hole - Helldivers 2

[@JD-ds5qs]

As one KZbin comment said: It'd be cool if this also affected players who were in the middle of a mission. imagine you were in the middle of a mission having yet to complete the objective, then suddenly an extract vehicle flies in, urgently telling you to get the FUCK in the extract or be spaghettified.

[@Motionlesscapture]

Yeah lol

[@Jm_Corda]

That would be great and of course failing the extraction would mean to get sucked in the black hole with millions of bugs

[@You_Ate_My_Soap]

It would be cool but it would not be worth the money go program such thing. The emergency ftl jump was a great excuse for not showing the explosion, as the players can be left to imagine it

[@seriousdraw]

@@Jm_Corda Sure, but nobody made it home from that mission anyway... damn shriekers...

[@jallen1425]

Would they really extract at that point? Hell Divers are expendable assets after all why waste the time and risk the transports when you can just make more Hell Divers? A lot cheaper than building more transports.

[@acidarab93]

Illuminates confirmed. That's no black hole, it's a fucking wormhole.

[@thelounge9845]

Happy to report that me and the boys were here for this 💪

[@Baptisteog18]

It was a nightmare to disperse the dark fluid into the planet. Hell it was even harder to escape if you were successful since a massive amount of shriekers would attack you while waiting for the pelican to land.

[@GODZILLAmonsoon]

i’ve been uh… off duty for a while. what the _fuck_ did I miss

[@paulmccluskey3466]

I hadn’t played for a couple of days and when I came back was confronted with the black hole. A very cool moment! Hope they bust out some supernovas or something next

[@Reaper1722]

1:41 “We did it Patrick!! We saved Meridia!!”

[@Ells-r5w]

“Saved”

[@julibean5125]

@@Ells-r5w Well there are no more bad guys, are they?

[@BatDrass]

Meridia is free asf

[@Mr.Microwave-ws9os]

@@Ells-r5w i mean... we did liberate it

[@ludvigwatte4924]

​@@BatDrass Free of all molecular bonds

[@samalu6371]

Bro i was gone for one day man💀

[@rameezahmed3863]

The day of school you miss is the day all the lore defining events go down lol

[@pringusdingus]

Expect to be arrested on desertion charges

[@TheCommando626]

@@pringusdingus😂😂😂

[@Bosssauce11611]

Hell divers never rest

[@thedabbingender9955]

I take a small break from Helldivers and this happens. *Sigh*

[@Ki_Adi_Mundi]

One thing I noticed while watching Super Earth is that the other ships still fire on the planet as if mission are taking place...

[@mati99ish]

They are shooting at dissidents

[@cheeseoutlet]

Dissidents getting the hard shaft of democracy

[@qwertyuiopqwerty112]

Training missions gents

[@seehams2643]

those who want to return to civilian life are stored and transported back to Super earth ... like that?

[@vanthursday]

Those are new recruits during tutorials

[@rossalbane7743]

Would have been really cool if the moment this event triggered all Helldivers on the surface had their missions cancelled with an emergency extraction countdown timer. Maybe frequent tremors during it too

[@nowaaaaaaayyy]

...I'm not sure they got warned at all 😬. Would have been cool to be in a mission then the world just implodes

[@Solaris2156]

If you were doing a mission, You had a connection error pop up on the screen and get sent back to your ship alone. Then this would happen.

[@zeroneutral]

Clones are expendable.

[@Fatalitix3]

@@zeroneutral They are not clones

[@GrimblyGaming]

@@Fatalitix3 Helldivers are expendable.

[@legionofmetal9968]

"The crew was forced to make an emergency jump without your authorisation" Bro. I was stood on the bridge next to the glass.

[@zaccampa4055]

They could have just asked lol

[@o5-v877]

@@zaccampa4055 Can we please gtfo so we don't get fkn destroyed by a black hole ? Helldiver: no ... this is the way

[@intergalactichumanempire9759]

I assume it's part of emergency protocol. "If the planet begins to destabilize, warp back to Super Earth."

[@QuentinB20]

Thanks for uploading, missed the live event but it’s a sight to behold.

[@Astreon123]

You litterally cannot miss it

[@ArifRWinandar]

It isn't really live, if your last mission was on Meridia then when you log back in this sequence will automatically play.

[@noynayru]

You cant miss it youll see it next time you play

[@akjackhd5804]

@@noynayru he meant the emergency FTL jump fellas, you can miss that if you didn't have a on-going operation at meridia, in turn he missed that which is pretty sad since the ship even turns to a alert status and has red lights active everywhere when it happens, pretty cool stuff.

[@Gallic_Gabagool]

​@@akjackhd5804it does the red light thing again if you travel to the blackhole

[@gladteer873]

Meridia is finally liberated

[@human610]

Liberated from existence

[@rmngrnk6752]

As usualy after democracy 😂

[@traveler4653]

More like delete from existence

[@mitchconner403]

Helldiver 2 looks at Destiny 👀 Nice idea, would be a shame if someone took it.

[@LadyLambkins]

Free from tyranny, as Democracy intended.

[@rerako4755]

The best part is when you log back in and the ship is in danger of being sucked into the blackhole.

[@ryanalving3785]

Yeah

[@dirtegarbage]

You get warped to Turing

[@sampaint1338]

@@dirtegarbage got sent to super earth haha

[@Jacob-fisher]

I logged in and was immediately on super earth I joined to late

[@breldredtheemperor]

Same with me! I was screaming like crazy.

[@chasegoetz6069]

For those worried about it, you can still see it you just gotta log on and they’ll give you the emergency jump and everything

[@WerWe-sy9wp]

Only if you were orbiting Meridia before it happened

[@chasegoetz6069]

@@WerWe-sy9wp I mean I was so..?

[@Lrzmsibelts]

Yea my ship is still there, when I come back I probably get the same thing.

[@Sychyov]

​@@WerWe-sy9wpYou can still jump to Meridia. However, you cannot jump back to Super Earth, unfortunately.

[@N.E.O.832]

the poor helldivers that were still in meridia we salute you all

[@Serviner]

The planet broke before the Helldivers did!

[@Conundrum191]

@@Serviner Technically they ARE still IN Meridia....

[@contrapasso1539]

​@@Conundrum191given the string theory, they might just be in another part of the universe now, spreading democracy as a frozen lollipop😂

[@Magothys]

Why couldn't it have been Hellmire? :(

[@momma_bal]

Yeah! Hellmire is ... Hell.

[@anthonygerling6365]

Lol agreed. That place is a shithole

[@bruhgod123]

The bug sympathizers rigged the termicide to ruin Meridia.

[@micahthezilla9432]

Plenty other planets with the same climate as Hellmire

[@momma_bal]

@@micahthezilla9432 true true but Hellmire is one of the more known ones so it has more of an effect on us. Personally I have a grudge against it Hellmire since my first mission was on Hellmire.

[@ParanoidCarrot]

when i logged in today i was in orbit of meridian and it did that to me. it was so cool to see my ship facing the blackhole before the emergency jump

[@remigijusdulke655]

shit i just realized one thing if the illuminates appear from that hole theres a risk they cut us off from e-710

[@distorbed6961]

Helldiver if the ministry of truth says the illuminate are dead they are dead if you continue to talk about these extinct creatures as if they are alive i will have to report this to the democracy officer

[@MLPIceberg]

That might (key word "might") be the plan/intent. I don't play anymore, but I am wholeheartedly keeping tabs on the game. I wanna know if the Illuminate will come back or not.

[@newbplaygames]

@@MLPIceberg we did used it's dark fluid to destroy meridia so of course they will in anytime soon

[@thelounge9845]

A buddy of mine tipped me off to the subtle fact that E-710 is just oil spelled in upside down numbers

[@stars227]

@@thelounge9845 Is that treason I hear?

[@kanicshep]

I made sure to get a screen shot of my super destroyer over Super Earth, because that was a rare opportunity

[@remygallardo7364]

The best part is we know what black holes look like and this looks far more like a portal than a black hole.

Because i bet you its a portal to bring in the Illuminates

[@MrResin-xk2mf]

You’ve been reported to the Democracy Officers. They’ll be with you shortly

[@Waddlington]

yeah classic shit dev team, they cant even get nerfs right i doubt theyd get a black hole right

[@samssa7813]

@@Waddlington my guy, its on purpose.

[@ysammo214]

Wdym. Have they done black holes before?

[@FrigidNinja78]

The Illuminate faction waking up the next day, to a terminid super colony on their doorstep lol.

[@mailcs06]

And a portal spewing out a massive cloud of terminid spores

[@keaton718]

So they deleted the whole planet?

[@AlexanderFrost]

Yep, Meridia is gone. You can still go there and look at the Black Hole though.

[@jaimesolano5223]

Something sounds funny when you go to the black hole when you get on hear the sounds

[@MotokoKaiousei]

Not deleted. Pacified.

[@Yuri-not_real]

@@jaimesolano5223 yeah it sounds like the illuminate if you ask me

[@orhanefeunal1811]

@@AlexanderFrost oh then let me make joke hippity hoppity that terminid super colony is now my moms spaghetti what do you think ?

[@Dostoron]

i come back from cryosleep and am greeted by the gaping maw of the void, warn a diver next time, folks.

[@mothman6378]

meridia makes me so sad, such a simple yet beautiful planet, forlorn to destruction due to the incompetence of our ex-"greatest minds." may we still prosper, despite such a setback.

[@Kyle-qn8gb]

Termicide was perfectly designed, Helldiver. Nobody could have forseen the bugs mutating to adapt to the chemical. You should contact a representative of the Ministry of Truth if you need further education

[@directcrunch6751]

Sounds like Undemocratic talk if I ever heard it. Keep your ears out, you'll be hearing from the Democracy Officer soon.

[@citricdemon]

treason

[@howdoyoudo5949]

incompetence of our ex-"greatest minds. Is this treason I'm hearing?

[@Baptisteog18]

What’s sad is the number of helldivers that died dispersing the termacide, only, for those of us who survived, to learn that the bugs mutated and adapted to it making them deadlier. I’ll say dispersing that termacide was one of the hardest missions I’ve taken part in.

[@the_sixxness]

My brother and I were on the SES Star of War looking into the abyss. It had been a few months since we had been defrosted. We had seen fighting across the galaxy. Vernon Wells, Malevelon Creek, Menkent, Hellmire, Angels Venture were all full of close calls and pitched battles. But nothing could prepare us for this. The Star of War creaked and groaned is it struggled to stay in place. We watched as the gaping maw in the universe sucked in everything it could around it. It was a dark shade of purple and blotted out the stars around it for some reason. My brother and I stood there staring at it. "I feel sick." The Democracy Officer said as he left the bridge. I looked around to see if anyone was close enough to listen. "There is going to be consequences for this you know." I said to my brother. He was still looking into the void. I could tell even with his helmet on he had a look of concern on his face. "Yes." Was all he could reply.

[@Shinnjid]

all the super destroyers firing down on super earth was the funniest

[@Aurai274]

That is what happens if you don't pay your taxes ig

[@John-qv5ux]

@@Aurai274 When not fighting the Galactic War, Helldivers help collect unpaid taxes for the Super IRS.

[@TheGreatFish23]

you missed one thing standing near the window and doing the hug emote t pose for managed democracy lol

[@Renegade029]

I hopped on after the implosion but I had been fighting on meridia the day before and as I loaded in I saw the massive black hole and then the emergency jump kicked in. It was awesome

[@abyssal-labs]

My ship jumped when their was a black hole their it was epic

[@Azrael178]

It would be cool if ship gave some fanfares when "SUPER EARTH" Is announced.

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

I was on the planet during this. Black stuff started spouting out of the ground, and the whole planet started shaking, like legit tremors started happening. _"THIS MUST BE HOW CADIA MUST'VE FELT!"_

[@Gallic_Gabagool]

Have any proof I haven't heard about this anywhere

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

@@Gallic_Gabagool Nope. Nothing else.

[@bruh_rick]

Love the fact it still says "Super Earth Control" for Meridia when we have no idea wtf we're controlling.

[@WerWe-sy9wp]

Smells like dissidence.

[@Mirvra]

Surely there won't be any lasting consequences for this 😉

[@GalaxyHap]

I remembered the good old days of when Meridia was a planet. However it's now nostalgia to those who made it.

[@ZephyrusAsmodeus]

I logged in just as this happened. Thought I was being hijacked or something, was standing watching the planet just like that, and all of a sudden, we were going to Super Earth.

[@hikermrsblood1]

It’s so terrifyingly beautiful, idk mann, looks cool

[@daiwang8111]

What happen if you enter hellpod while on super earth?

[@legionofmetal9968]

You can't. You need an active mission to activate the use of hell pods. Since super earth is not an active war zone, no missions. Therefore no hell pods. Would be an interesting thought though one day!

[@djsac2513]

Why do I feel like having a black hole constantly consuming bugs and spores, only getting larger, will pose a significant problem for us in the future

[@Mixels]

The combined mass of all the bugs in the universe is peanuts compared to what it takes to create a singularity. It would have a miniscule effect on the event horizon. But a single system doesn't contain enough mass to create a black hole, either. I'm not sure how it's supposed to make sense that that's what we did by injecting one planet with black goo. I get the creeping suspicion there's something Super Earth isn't telling us...

[@iamrightoutsideyourwindowhello]

@@Mixels Nonsense! Every single second of worthy news information has been factually checked by our amazing fact checking experts! Everything you hear is completely true.

[@Astro-ex5ye]

@@Mixels erm, ackshually, you can compress any amount of mass into a black hole

[@Mixels]

@@Astro-ex5ye Nah, it's not that simple. There are forces that hold the components of atoms together, that hold atoms together, that repel atoms from each other, etc. To form a self-sustaining singularity, the mass of the singularity must produce sufficient gravitational effect to counteract the strongest of those forces. Otherwise, as soon as the compressing force abates, the compressed mass would explode outward again. Gravity offers continuous compression, but only if mass within a certain volume exceeds a threshold. It takes *a lot* of mass to produce that much gravity though.

[@TobycraftHD1]

How cool would it have been if you could authorise the jump, and if you don't then you get sucked in instantly and then your destroyer is destroyed (You keep all your stuff)

[@felinusfeline5559]

Players who weren't avalible to play when this happened are gonna be pissed.

[@Hetzfs]

I was there when it happen and men I freak out bad XD I didnt know what to think, I even consider that Super earth was under attack and we where call in to rienforce

[@Beast4428]

Aye it is coming like a portal

[@Astro-M0]

Just parked next to the black hole with nothing happening 💀💀

[@Gr33nreaper101]

“Illuminate FTL signs detected”

[@Azrael178]

And of course i couldn't play this last two weeks

[@jamescousins9216]

Hm... didn't Super Earth get their hands on the Illuminate's technology in the last war?

[@cheeseoutlet]

From what I understand, the FTL system, the shields, dark fluid and maybe the lasers are all illuminate technology that Super Earth plundered from the first war

[@RennieAsh]

Alright who took the beacon? _A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON!_

[@OctagonalSquare]

This makes me feel better about missing it. I thought that if you were in orbit, it would show it up close as it collapsed and that would have been sick! But since it was just a change on the map then you have to jump back, I’m okay. Still mad I didn’t have time to play a dark liquid mission, especially after the patch. It took like 10 hours post patch lol

[@Gallic_Gabagool]

Mission was hell anyways, bugs (and teammates...) constantly destroying the drills and forcing you to start over multiple times

[@Waddlington]

jesus christ this was such a let down. someone chucked a shitty cgi circle and called it a day. no cutscene, fkn no dialogue, not even a super earth cutscene or any civilian/worker footage of someone being on meridia when it happened or being extracted just before it happens, theres no gravity to it, no planetary destruction. automatons returning actually felt like something even if it was just a few ships appearing on the map

[@EmptyYEET]

I just started playing Helldivers 2 anf i saw this planet being all black. I went in and saw this beautiful scenery

[@Mofock1986]

i get the feeling a ton of troops where left down on the planet to die

[@matthewc9868]

I remeber i just got off the evac transport. Heard the siren's, raced to bridge and saw that black hole were the planet i was just on was. Crazy day that was.

[@renski8976]

I like the detail of when you travel back to the black hole, the ship creaks because of the gravitational pull the blackhole has.

[@WwZa7]

We permanently solved the problem!

[@johnokeeffe8271]

I’d like to see some cool cinematic movies after a big event like Warzone used to do

[@aksvinss]

Theyve done it pretty well. Even though Meridia collapsed into a blackhole, it would have the same gravity as the mass is still the same, so you can visit it with a safe orbit at about the same distance (in terms of gravitational force) without any problems. But the blast would be lethal though.

[@thegamingdoge2000]

“Dude, bensons gonna be pissed”

[@mr.goochthethird1222]

I woke up there with no context XD

[@Terriss0421]

This scared the shit out of me. I thought the Illuminate were invading Super Earth.

[@shockmatter]

We did it helldivers! We saved Meridia!

[@Bongwell420]

Thank you

[@DereC519]

I love how when you got to super earth there's other players already nuking the shit out of it

[@Fidrogaming]

In my game the black hole was there before they warped us out

[@Moment_in_Time]

As someone that never played helldivers 2...why are yiu a cyberman?

[@alabamapilot244]

Oh. Screw that.

[@Hippiskus]

I was doing one of the final missions on meridia, we extraced and suddenly we hear the alarm and ftl to Super Earth. Great moment

[@Gabriel_Drake]

“In order to protect super earth investments” At least he was honest. 😂

[@jjtao]

We going to ignore the ships outside was still dropping helldivers...

[@shlinkt8449]

If it is truly a wormhole. That means either the Illuminate are busy fighting the bugs, or working with them with their new supercolony.

[@UtubeH8tr]

Exterminatus was called. PRAISE THE EMPEROR.

[@ThePatrioticScotsman]

I left this game for a few months, I was sad at the state it was in but my got the sight of that black hole, even through a monitor, was breathtaking

[@temperspace]

Fascinating they need your authorisation, when you are designed to be expendable. You come out of frozen pods, the wall defense missions has you protect rockets filled with pods and have you noticed the crew's names are never the same?

[@FrostiTruth]

I'm just sad it was a PNG and not like an actual black hole. It was eerily still.

[@Ovenmidget]

... a single page comic couldve shown more than this silly ... wtf was this? shouldve made a whole cutscene like 1 min long showing an emergency and your ship doing a FTL.jump, and a whole.planet getting swallowed up like prom night.... NO! that wouldve taken 60 Billion dollars and 5 years, and a studio of 100k engineers to create!

[@KR3OUX]

Yeah it was weird while it happened, I thought there was going to be some sort of supermission on Earth like an invasion, but I mean a black hole is cool too LOL

[@AverageArtz]

It's not a black hole, but a worm hole. From which there might be some.. wierd stuff happening. Maybe it has become a gateway to something... illuminating. Hmm... strange.

[@chiliboy06]

"Mordecai and Rigby, the president's family is spending the day at the park tomorrow. I need you guys to now the lawn." Ten minutes later:

[@dnakatomiuk]

Should have been Hellmire instead but it would have been so much better if loads of ships FTL jumped at the same time especially if your in a group

[@MiGujack3]

I recently launched the game and last time I left I was on that planet. You basically logged in a black hole with the ship lights being dark. I could do a whole operation on the "destroyed" planet. It was funny because we (invited friend) were the only people on the "planet" according to the map. It was fun because I totally missed that biome. I can't follow the dumb MMO lore due to work.

[@TheKrister2]

1:40 I don't know why, but I was expecting a relatively realistic representation of what a black hole looks like, as in the event horizon and bending of light; we have a pretty accurate model for it already. Instead we just got this ugly thing. Truly, very "beautiful."

[@Lazarus_1.0]

If this was a real black hole, it would be the end for super earth and the other factions

[@Zackattack151]

Bro I was on super earth for ONE DAY? And I missed a black hole

[@craigstevens7113]

The biggest black hole since Sony's distribution policy.

[@DarkKnightofIT]

And to think, we might've had to Spaghettify two other planets, had we not disabled the Termicide in time...

[@sandhamitizer9706]

I've been gone for less than a month WHAT HAPPENED

[@AdamWoolnough1981]

Sucessful ftl jump? , looks like a loading screen to a loading screen

[@stephenbyrne2170]

Well since we're here, let's take a pod down to the surface and have a look around then. I'd like to have the opportunity to explore Earth's cities for a-few days.

[@chaywarburton3488]

I choose the worst time to stop playing. All of this happening is so sick! I've been on since day 1, following the story.. but the addiciton is too much. Had to call it and bridle the passion.

[@TheNitroG1]

weird...I also was there when this happened. Though we weren't warped out until after the black hole formed...

[@SpectreDelta516]

It would’ve been cool if a random team of players were just randomly tasking with a mission to deliver a black hole generator or something

[@Solarus07]

"Exterminatus, by order of the Emperor." Hum wrong game sorry.

[@krzysztofkaruzo6899]

if bugs are a source of spaceoil wouldn't make it more sense to keep the planet as one big oil plantation (note for ministry of truth this is not criticizing the decision making of Super Earth strategic command just a question aimed at increasing helldivers tactical capabilities)

[@austinkownacki897]

Wonder if we’ll glass a planet entirely off the map next. And then later the ministry of truth says it never existed in the first place

[@shadowmystery5613]

I don't know but _"Managed Democracy"_ sounds kinda sus and corrupt 🤨

[@zaccampa4055]

This happened when I took a short break and I am pissed I missed it lol I’m never taking another break again!

[@FunhausRyan]

Well that was extremely disappointing, just like the last month of this game...

[@iquahs]

This could have been a cutscene though. Wasted opportunity

[@justinnguyen7782]

Well that’s one way to get the Illuminate’s attention. Also, does anyone feel the compulsion to just throw stratagems into the black hole or is it just me?

[@curtisharvey2330]

I understand the effort-to-result ratio is too high to actually show the planet start to collapse, but this cinematic could have been so much cooler. Would it have been too much just to see the entire armada jump out at the same time?