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.

[@CauseOfBSOD]

0:21 this would have been way cooler if the jump animation showed every super destroyer on the system jumping with you

[@fr0stra1d]

Honestly though, that would’ve been a pain in the ass for the devs though, and kind of a shame that it only gets used once or twice after that

[@temisaqw]

@@fr0stra1d if they make it like the hords of creatures in the warhammer game to keep it running good, and create a lot of events and 'interest points' like this one, it will be used a lot more

[@gosalie]

and a bit of cinematic where the planet slowly shrinking and super destroyer getting sucked in with tremors and barely made it out alive

[@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."

[@realDonaIdTruck]

Broooo

[@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

[@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.

[@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*

[@spinningredchair8092]

Fun fact. The sound that plays while around Meridia, is the Illuminate Combat theme slowed down.

[@OfficialDoctorHawk]

Ooh, foreshadowing

[@nickkohlmann]

Interesting!

[@Karma-cj1wu]

Well rn its closer than ever

[@criminal7592]

WELL WELL WELL

[@The_Artist_Official]

HOW THE TURNTABLES on a planet that’s not even close to Meridia

[@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.

[@nabieladrian]

0:36 "... in order to protect Super Earth's investment in this vessel." You just happened to be onboard alongside the rescue 😂

[@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

[@Justin-pe9cl]

I’d be pissed.

[@The_Artist_Official]

No wonder they decided to invade… again…

[@Gabstermi]

The Illuminates seeing a super colony at the sky of their homeworld: dafuq?

[@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

[@TheGoofiestlilgoober]

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

[@breldredtheemperor]

Same with me! I was screaming like crazy.

[@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

[@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.

[@Mocha2woopah]

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😂

[@doodlehates_uttp]

Maybe pelican 1 showed up just in time

[@Justin-pe9cl]

@@contrapasso1539That’s a wormhole. This is a blackhole.

[@HighDiver5555]

“FTL jump to SUPER EARTH” goes so hard

[@kanicshep]

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

[@chairedge]

You can do this by playing the tutorial and closing the game while in it

[@Mrmashedpotato79]

Remember I was sat in a group with 3 random strangers a solid 15 years older than me. We had just finished our final dive , constantly looking at the liberation progress through the dive, when we got back to our destroyers we sat and watched as we were teleported away to super earth, and then when we got to meridia, we were all to shocked to say anything. Nothing was said for a solid 30 seconds until someone said. “Holy fucking shit” and then we all chimed in. Probably my favorite memory of the game since I never got to dive on the creek

[@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

[@acidarab93]

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

[@Justin-pe9cl]

Well the dark fluid is their technology.

[@oklahomakidz]

Keep your voice down diver, Someone could turn you in for treason! Just get ready for what's next.

[@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.

[@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

[@Gee-bg2rv]

​@MLPIceberg honestly illuminates will probably come with a big patch or update so we'll probably know if we get a suspiciously bigger update than usual one of these days

[@donfazule6679]

I remeber being there. One of the squads with boots still on the ground till the last possible second. By the time we extracted the planet was already collapsing

[@Dostoron]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@thefaceofabsurdity]

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

[@SpyTF2Real]

It is

[@chewyblazer]

See this is what I’m talking about, THIS is what Helldivers 2 needs more of. More moments of “bro you should’ve been there and great epic battles that have massive effects on the storyline.

[@SkollAncrath]

Gaellivare battle, at the end of the DSS & Jet Brigade storylines, was supposed to be one of those. But the bad implementation of the DSS ruined it. Swift Disassembly and Valiant Enclosure were great operations. Things got a bit stale after Meridia, but I have high hopes towards the future specially after Calypso.

[@adobyi]

I know that there’s no point in getting scientific in a game like this but a black hole that size would absorb all surrounding planets. Meridia is roughly the same size as Mars in helldivers, Mars has a surface area of 4,222 miles (6.39 × 10^23 kg in total mass) collapsing something with this mass would result in a black hole with a radius of 9.49 × 10 ^4 m, which is just about a millimeter. A black hole the size of Mars would need a mass of approximately 10 times the mass of our Sun, therefore absolutely nothing in any of the nearby sectors would be left. TLDR: The Meridian Black Hole should be smaller than a pea. Otherwise it would wipe out all of the surrounding galaxy at it’s current size. That thing is a wormhole.

[@Randomstuffsorsomething]

My guess is that the rest of the Illuminate fleet will come from there. It makes sense just by how they were moving towards it

[@cheeseoutlet]

@@Randomstuffsorsomething And the fact that the black hole is changing too with all the swirling anomalies around it. Pretty much confirms that its a wormhole

[@homelessman6662]

Standing guard watching as we speak. I’m not sure if it’s because of my lack of sleep, but I’m 99% sure that I’m seeing the purple ring around it slowly growing more and more I think by getting rid of the supercolony, that we have just summoned in a far worse nightmare than any bug on steroids…

[@milesparalysis9341]

If you look at the black hole then vs now it’s literally changed drastically

[@ugandalorian495]

I remember being in the middle of a mission and then immediately being pulled out then I come back to it and back meteorites everywhere

[@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.

[@d00mj8]

bro is writing lore for helldivers 2 💀💀💀

[@1ztype343]

@@d00mj8 and that shit fire (this canonically happened)

[@Magothys]

Why couldn't it have been Hellmire? :(

[@buggy_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

[@buggy_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.

[@JCTBomb]

Damnnn… that bright purple on the ship is gorgeous. Absolutely stunning visuals

[@Tac6497]

I will never forget the sheer panick I had being told to make an emergency FTL jump with mere seconds to do so

[@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

[@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.

[@Gabriel_Drake]

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

[@viewer5682]

I remember when me and my cousin were on one of the very last missions of Meridia. After we finished the mission, we came back to the ship to a black hole

[@thelounge9845]

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

[@martinhansen6802]

This was gaming history. We the Creek and Meridia veterans

[@renskivideos]

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

[@tmc_guy4288]

I like how your diver was doing a little dance as if he was going "OH GOD IT'S HAPPENING, EVERYONE REMAINS CALM"

[@hikermrsblood1]

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

[@Westwardbus]

When I’m eating or just wanna chill I go to meridia and just stand by the glass.recently though something about it’s been off like it’s angry or something but I don’t really know

[@magnum_opus1179]

Its a wormhole and something is on the other side that's what

[@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 ?

[@Gr33nreaper101]

“Illuminate FTL signs detected”

[@pocketcomputer4714]

And now, someone is cooking something at the Meridian Singularity

[@jeffreyparkes7558]

I remember I was one of the last Helldivers out of there just as it collapsed, lore goes crazy

[@Haunted_Hunter]

I remember turning off the game, still hovering over meridia, came back the next morning to my ship getting forced to jump away, as I ran to the window to see why this was happening, only to see the planet below no longer be a planet.

[@Valkyrie_3d]

Merida was the last place I logged out for a hiatus and I was super confused logging in to see a black hole lol

[@theabyssaldemon]

Live service games are mind blowing to me. The fact that this just can..happen. No kicking you out the game, update, nothing. Just an immediate change

[@SkeleTonHammer]

I mean, not to kill the magic, but technically the update for these events happens prior to the event. So at some point long before the event happens the developers already threw in the logic for this to occur, and it was just waiting for the right time trigger.

[@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?

[@TheGreatFish23]

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

[@CheeseDoodle]

The longer you stay there the more eerie it becomes. The sounds...

[@Claymireko]

I was there when meridia was liberated, came out of a mission when the alarm went off and the crew jumped to super earth. Very rewarding to know that i did my part to secure managed democracy's endurance.

[@Terriss0421]

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

[@thelittlebeefcake4831]

I was there man…I was there

[@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.

[@4hire565]

Bro!!! Thank you so much!!! I was at work and missed it.

[@felinusfeline5559]

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

[@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.

[@MarkTomczak]

Very cool. :) It was slightly different if you logged out but left yourself in orbit around Meridia... Next time you logged in, you were orbiting the black hole and *then* the emergency jump initiated. I thought that was a nice touch. "Well, let me just get back to my~OH SHIT!"

[@borg4912]

Why am I only learning about this 3 months later

[@iluvcivic98]

I always come back to this video to see a little of the beautiful planet

[@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.

[@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

[@antonfbi7100]

Im proud to say that I was one of the few squads that were on last missions before meridia collapsed

[@RennieAsh]

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

[@cryabouthunting8155]

A Cultured soul this one

[@QHalvorson]

*_Fahkin tosses it into the black hole/wormhole/void_*

[@thedarkestryder2763]

I came back to the game a while after this happened, and was in orbit around the black hole. Pretty cool.

[@DerexArchives]

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

[@N1k4_Gr1v]

There have been some certain strange activities and anomalies at the black hole

[@thegamingdoge2000]

“Dude, bensons gonna be pissed”

[@ultralaggerREV1]

You guys glassed an entire f-ing planet that ended up collapsing on itself

[@xx_6h05t_xx]

the immersion it would add if ever you get to witness this and watch the blackhole and then your graphics card dies and slowly turns your monitor to a whole black screen.

[@cottencodm4948]

6 months later the illuminate have arrived through that very black hole and after researching it, it become a wormhole

[@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

[@ZetsubouGintama]

The planet broke before Helldivers did.

[@lukaszblek3152]

I in the middle of the mission, when it happened. We were not able to extract at all :D

[@morrisdennison8039]

Staring into the infinite void gave me pride as a helldiver

[@Furebel]

We permanently solved the problem!

[@152mmapfsds]

I'm not gonna deny that cooler things could happen. But this is already so cool this is the one time I'm actually fine

[@NandolfBlockbuster]

When I had the emergency jump, Meridia already was a black hole at the back of my ship, the front only had endless space. I must have missed live Meridia by a few minutes.

[@brookschestnut196]

Meridia vets deserve a cape like the Creek vets, we went through hell on that rock and unlike the creek we can’t go back to honor the fallen but instead we just have to remember all we lost while staring into the abyss

[@maxmurphy6932]

Idk if it’s just me but this made me sad. When I was playing with some randoms we went to meridia and just saluted for a minute to honor those who were there when meridia became a black hole

[@xx_w0lf_g0d_xx57]

1:50 Ah yes, casually standing in the event horizon of a black hole

[@diamondreuben6650]

This was the planet of my birth...my family...gone... DAMN THOSE ILLUMINATE, DAMN THOSE TERMINIDS

[@shawnlam3109]

Goddd the music. The first jump to Meridia seems so mournful…

[@Strawhat_beastboy]

Look a lot more eerie now

[@doctorviper2061]

oh so THATS why there was a random black hole in the middle of burning bugs with a flamethrower

[@yirbyvanegas239]

I was there the night , 3 hours before Meridia was gone....it was so damn intense.... I'm happy that we won!

[@InkTheFox]

I had finished a mission run, then turned off my game until the next day, where my ship was immediately counting down for emergency takeoff, as we were about to get sucked in.

[@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

[@vladimirpain3942]

It is amazing how lore is written by players.

[@GODZILLAmonsoon]

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

[@supersavagegodgaming6888]

this live event was so good man meridia was a hell hell

[@Mofock1986]

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

[@Jason-33W]

I logged out before it was officially done and when I got back, the entire space in that area was black/purple and I got to see the black hole.

[@janusn9]

Was there. Was on one of the last teams on the planet before the black hole took effect. Mad cool.