This event is EXACTLY what Helldivers 2 needs

I think the Meridia event was pretty dang good and should be the standard for all future Helldivers 2 events. If they are able to build on what they have here, we could have some truly special events in the future.
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[@jovifidelis]

The really thing that helldivers 2 needs is being able to sell everywhere.

[@iceicebabie]

Hands down that will do more than anything else. Game desperately needs widespread availability if we want any long term survival of this game

[@itseasymode]

That's facts, but sadly Arrowhead can't do anything about that. They did well here. Now it's time for Sony to show up.

[@DerekCooper_]

Cross save PLEASE!!! 🙏 🙏🙏 (My laptop can barely run on min settings, but I’m almost level 40 and don’t want to restart)

[@memelord8611]

SIX DOLLAR SHRIMP SPECIAL ​@@feetyeet8538

[@RndmAnvgr777]

​@@feetyeet8538Ok. But what does that have to do with HD2? Peddle your wares elsewhere.

[@UNSSC01]

Fun fact, the black hole music track is actually the illuminate battle theme really really slowed down

[@Br0ck3n]

Uh, oh

[@clumsycaden5708]

Source? (Nvm I found it)

[@UNSSC01]

@@clumsycaden5708 the black hole

[@raptorbrotherhood766]

Ah shit, here we go again

[@themarlboromandalorian]

Yeah people keep saying this but don't cite a source. I'd appreciate it if you didn't keep spreading this information without proof. Frickin' sheep.

[@samusrox]

I actually genuinely loved how stupid some of the thing happening were nothing lightens my day as much as flying halfway across the map because a bile titan looked at me

[@tenyearsinthejoint1]

Or get sent flying cause you stepped on a specific pebble. It's so hard to enjoy this game with all the bugs

[@MF_Loomy]

See I find bugs like that hilarious personally and adds to the charm

[@thatonesavage2639]

@@tenyearsinthejoint1 BUGS WHERE WHERE?!?!?!?

[@ZetaTheProtogen-ht1op]

The helldivers universe is like watching jackass on repeat and I love it

[@VollKaracho209]

That was the toughest sentence I've had to read in a while.

[@ronokoplhatake7463]

The mission was frustrating at first but then it soon became one of my favorite missions since it made players use different stratagems then just "the meta build". Ive never seen anyone use the orbital EMS before and on this mission it was actually really usefull

[@SafiExists]

I agree

[@itseasymode]

Same with the supply backpack and stun grenades!

[@taitcarrillo8926]

Dude. Preach!!!! This game definitely has a balance issue, but it’s not as bad as people make it out to be. I’ve used almost every stratagem, genuinely there’s a time and place for all of them.

[@theSixPathsOfTrains]

I stopped trying it until it got fixed to actually be able complete it then it was much better. And I'm glad they went ahead and gave us the win for lost time since we had to wait like 24 hours

[@Vietnow15]

Same, I never even uses a stun grenade before that mission

[@zv7eket3]

First time I extracted on the dark fluid mission, I was surprised by the shriekers coming out of their holes. It felt like I'm really in the movie

[@drakevoidwalker]

Super Earth researchers: "THEY FLY NO?! 😱" Helldivers: "they fly now 😐"

[@jalontf2]

I really liked how they did the Emergency jump thing when I logged in yesterday. What a rush of excitement and confusion - really made the ship feel more connected to actual events.

[@Grimm196]

I missed that, I was over fighting the Automatons when that happened

[@hogypogys7960]

THIS IS THE HELLDIVERS CONTENT WE NEED

[@itseasymode]

FOR SUPER EARTH! 🦅

[@Mowgli715]

what it needs is more gun fixes + additions.

[@miemsliva4464]

​@@Mowgli715 The originsl poster is right

[@cri-rn5yr]

For cyberstan!!!

[@steelman6403]

@@Mowgli715 I feel like he more meant in youtube content seeing it has gone to shit

[@WisdomThumbs]

I got to do one last Meridia mission inside the wormhole, after getting forcibly FTL-jumped. We went into the hole, won one last time, and escaped. One of the top five things I’ve ever gotten to do in gaming (and I beat lagswitching map escapers in Gears of War 2 one time, so that’s saying something). The dark fluid mission had the best maps and the best challenges in all HD2 so far. Started on level 8, never lost, but it always came down to the wire and took teamwork.

[@shotameipariani4985]

I don't think the creepy sounds are coming from the black hole itself. Black holes cannot produce any sound cause sound does not travel in space. It's most likely a sound of ship's metal parts struggling against the black hole's immense gravity

[@bobbymoore8030]

This is most likely the case. That's assuming the dev team knows this. 😁

[@ursteamfriend]

Because it's not a black hole, diver...

[@thomaspesquet2389]

Portal

[@gregspecker5327]

Actually. Nasa released a high-pitched tone from a weird frequency that they claimed was from a black hole. They slowed it down and that's the exact sound it made. But who knows

[@feetyeet8538]

Jesus is the only way to heaven Being a good person won’t get you there. “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” ‭‭John‬ ‭14‬:‭6‬ ‭ESV Repent from your sin(disobedience to God) and turn to God and follow Him so that you will be saved “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” ‭‭1 John‬ ‭1‬:‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭13‬:‭3‬ ‭ESV

[@Tanksnstuffs]

I love how a game-breaking bug was fixed in 24 hours but payday 3 couldn't be fixed for months

[@user-zx5kl2mm8d-Anon]

and also made into a lore-bit

[@Sharsis8]

I hope that shriekers and stalkers become part of bug breaches going forward rather than charges or bile titans. Mixes things up a little.

[@sarcasm-83]

Oh God that'd be horrible D: I mean, if stalkers popped up from every bug breach... Though I wouldn't mind if there was some very small chance that they do, but overall I'd hate not being able to get rid of stalkers during a mission and that is always the first thing I do, find their lair and shut it, if I see a stalker. One mission had a cool scare though when I had already closed the lair and saw another stalker... turns out there were 2 lairs. Shriekers I don't mind if they'd be in bug breaches, but for stalkers, I'd hope it was a very low chance.

[@Sharsis8]

@@sarcasm-83 they're considered a heavy unit like chargers, so it would be cool just to mix up the spawns a bit more, you know? Keep that sense of unknown danger when dropping into a mission.

[@arthurtwa]

I only managed to play a couple of missions of the dark dluid because of work. I left an operation half made and a friend joined me AFTER the olaned was gone. We'd like to think we went in the surface of Meridia in the past. While we were admiring the view, we heard the whaley sounds, combined with something like the sound of wind howling. At times, I thought it was a lament from a thousand criatures dying in a time-loop. Very disturbing. And I loved it.

[@Thegreatercheese]

The black hole sounds is actually the Illuminate battle theme slowed wayy down and distorted.

[@emojothejojo]

That doesn't look like a blackhole that would be from Meridia. It is way too big, has no accretion disc, or Proton shell and has purple energy, some people say its just a design choice by arrowhead but given the attention to detail arrowhead puts into helldivers 2 it probably means it isn't a blackhole

[@mega6076]

It's big because of the dark fluid which I assume converts dark matter to mass or something

[@mega6076]

It has no accretion disk because there's not much orbiting it

[@bored8321]

It's definitely a gate... something else is gonna come, and it's gonna to be worse

[@emojothejojo]

​@@mega6076that could be a reasonable explanation

[@carlmain2043]

@@mega6076 another explanation could be that it isnt a black hole but a wormhole instead, something that cannot be manmade with what we have in reality because we lack a exotic matter consistent of negative mass. sound familiar? also trillions of fuel cells aka bugs squished into potential singularity causing potential black hole to expand because of additional theoretical energy or somesuch, not exactly too well read on this topic myself atm

[@Underground3]

I had more fun with that temporary dark fluid jump pack then I had with the released of the emancipator exosuit.

[@tysawyer4502]

The glitches were disheartning and i get the frustration with that. But people. After the patch this mission was so good. We were on a SUPER COLONY. YES THERE WERE ALOT OF BUGS.

[@Manny-Prime]

Now, theres a timeline where we didnt do this and are seeing some wild shit

[@therandomcommenter6629]

There's the leak for it on KZbin it's really great that the devs have both timelines set up

[@TyroTyro_]

@@therandomcommenter6629 do you have the video link or channel name? i cant find it

[@therandomcommenter6629]

@@TyroTyro_ (leak) illuminate are coming dark fluid helldivers - 2 is the video title give me a minute I'll get the channel

[@therandomcommenter6629]

@@TyroTyro_ hightierian

[@TyroTyro_]

@@therandomcommenter6629 thanks

[@Prindlco]

I fought to defend meridia for days. Then I had to leave for vacation, and missed the dark matter missions 😢

[@ActNasty5]

Fr wtf i was grinding and then just took a couple days off and i missed a whole event???😂

[@ReachOutToMe]

Same! Spent days defending Meridia then missed the event completely!

[@skilledspacepolice6003]

The sound of a black hole is probably the metal of the ship squaking under the gravitational stress

[@OctagonalSquare]

The black hole sounds have already been found to be the illuminate theme from the game files but slowed down and made from creaking and groaning sounds

[@Degarth]

Any sound would have to be outside the black hole. And Soundwave can't propagate in space so any sound is coming.....FROM INSIDE THE SHIP!!!!!

[@valentine7455]

That's true in real life but I don't think it's necessarily that deep, your ship makes a thwump noise when you ftl

[@lukemehalick370]

It's not a black hole. It was supposed to be, but it's WAY TOO BIG for the size of the planet we turned into a "black hole." It's a worm hole. SE thought they messed up, but trust me. They did it perfectly. Blue bois boys!

[@assassinunknown6664]

@@lukemehalick370 I’m pretty sure that it was supposed to be compressed into a tiny black hole but like the democracy officer said, we didn’t really know what it was or how it worked.

[@JacobKusisto]

I feel like this kind of mission COULD have been kept with some slight tweaks and relabeling. Like instead of the mission being injecting dark fluid, it would have been scanning/mapping terminid hive tunnels in densly concentrated areas of terminids.

[@assassinunknown6664]

So the geological survey mission?

[@JacobKusisto]

@assassinunknown6664 basically but with the shreikers after the completion and the unique environment

[@40yearoldninja61]

It was like a D&D puzzle. It was hard, but doable, and had many more than one way to solve it.

[@unimportant719]

It was broken and bugged and forced players to brute force it through stunkaxxing, not exactly the best for your great Climatic fight I unfortunately have not tried the fixed version stopped at the broken one

[@lazydazedronenmontana2428]

I still think they should do eight person raids.

[@komakozeee]

their game cant handle people running 2 mechs let alone 8 players lol

[@4000ThousandSmiley]

They already said that they have a hard time making people use more mech since the game will become more unstable that's why we have limited uses so having 8 people raid is just too much ATM especially on a non supported engine.

[@jrosa__]

What you hear is the actual sound of a Black hole recorded by NASA.

[@philippvoid1800]

right. because black holes make sounds... in space

[@carlmain2043]

@@philippvoid1800 its a real thing, though not sound in the traditional sense. black holes produce something called gravitational waves that can be picked up by specialized equipment, the info of which then can be transformed into for human audible audio ranges for a *estimation* of what a black hole would sound like if said sound could travel through space take with huge grain of salt as i am not a prof or anything of the sort on the topic, just someone that has been sent on a deepdive on black/wormhole theories and studies because of this ingame event

[@Tanksnstuffs]

Nope. It sounds really simular though, and black holes does NOT look like this. It is, most likely, a wormhole.

[@TheWerttyFiles]

@@TanksnstuffsYeah, just given the foreshadowing of using the Illuminate tech to create it and the music stuff... it's looking like that "Black Hole" might open the door for a 3rd faction....

[@MrShinydude]

The difficulty was fine, but getting scammed out of a successful extraction by an invisible wall was very frustrating, and the spawns on top of the objective caused 2 rage uninstalls in my friend group. The enemy spawn problem probably wouldn't have been as much of an issue for people if it wasn't a "last straw" kind of situation where months of frustration with nothing but words to indicate improvement preceeded it. Either way, my count of friends active in the game has now dropped below the amount needed for a full squad QQ. I liked the frantic challenge of the mission tbh, but the initial spawn bug did also sadly kill most of my enjoyment/motivation of it. It was somewhat satisfying to come up with a dumb meme strat (spamming stun grenades), but that satisfaction was severely muted by feeling like stun grenades would probably get nerfed for being a useful tool instead of the actual problem getting addressed.

[@blankiito3658]

It was a fun event but it was too hard for low level. At level 1 you get the same shrieker spawn that if you play on 9's. To be fair, it worked well on 9's because the incendiary breaker is a 'bit' broken vs shireker, a weapon that new / low level often don't have.

[@professorflash3278]

It doesnt matter, once you done drilling dark fluid, ít still count as a win. And these lost cadets is acceptable

[@bryansmith2859]

To get an OMG moment you need something like this to really make the player run for their life. Seemed super effective at creating that feeling and it was mostly survivable if you just run in circles and stim. It was a short event and if you didn’t like it there were alternative missions. You can’t please everybody and have creative engagement.

[@blankiito3658]

@@professorflash3278 Yeah the event was good and it was a good thing for the game. but it was a lot harder for people without stun grenade at start (ems help but is not as powerful as spam stun) for the first part before the update (24h patch was quick but 1/3 of the event) and team with 0 breaker. Because if you did 10 missions and got 0 extraction, at least in my case, my « ptsd » would kick in. I hope they give player more choose about selection / make custom map. For example replay this mission, or even launch it vs bot etc

[@SparklingWater.269]

It was my first mission as a Helldiver Cadet fresh from off from training ...which became my last mission as a Helldiver Cadet

[@Paradox1012]

​@@SparklingWater.269 as in, you died in lore or as in you didn't want to play anymore?.lol

[@Grimm9890]

i think people are saying that its not a black hole but a wormhole (not sure what a wormhole can do but im sure something will happend with it)

[@Lt.arkantos7097]

It would be amazing if we get some missions that are more design to shows how we advance on the war, like sieges on termind colonies or bot fortresses/bases, and maybe get 8 player missions for more chaos? Edit: Maybe get limited time stratagems like tanks

[@thehatebringer8005]

I heard the sounds at the black hole but i just figured it was the ship under stress from the force of the black hole after all that did not seem like a safe distance from that black hole considering you could see debris flying past you straight at the thing

[@adriancollado9275]

I hope they add a dope mission for the bots also. I feel like an offensive towards Cyberstan wouldn’t be successful because unfortunately many people feel the bots are much harder than the bugs. So adding a new obj, enemy, or stratagem will do the trick hopefully but we’ll see.

[@TheNightOwl11683]

After Meridia, I beg to differ on that sentiment

[@adriancollado9275]

@@TheNightOwl11683 fair meridia was kind of the terminid fronts Malevelon Creek.

[@Paradox1012]

Bots are only harder than bugs on surface. Bots have reliable patterns and weakspots you can exploit ,meaning you can kill them in a verity of ways with a verity of stratagems. Bugs have units where you are funneled into killing them a specefic way and its why i like them less.

[@ramepstein1432]

The towers + eggs mission was my favorite mission in the game... Different landscape, more structures, short! I miss it and hope it will be back

[@mr_LOLZ78]

i had been looking for a channel that makes good helldivers update and news videos and you seemed to come at just the right time. keep on serving democracy and you have definetly earned a new sub

[@RockingAndStoning]

I just learned those canisters were also jump-packs. Never knew.

[@virajl5754]

I really wish that this is where they added the hive lord, I've been super hyped for it and a SUPER COLONY would be the perfect place to find one.

[@MsMrapplepie]

Honestly, seeing the black hole kind of reminds me of being on the Normandy back in mass effect 2

[@CashsCoffee]

tying the bug fix into the story was a great move from the devs🤝

[@aurum262]

I saw another video which claimed those whale sounds are a slowed down version of the bass line for the Illuminate theme from HD1. So either yes the Meridia black hole will catalyze the Illuminate’s return or Arrowhead are deliberately misleading the community theorycrafters as a joke. Or, because the internet, the video could have been made up, I suppose.

[@akjackhd5804]

1:34 this is SO well put i love it, YES this is why i don't see major orders no matter their size as "filler order" those who say "oh its another filler" don't get that any order has a long term affect that stretched into the future of the story, we screw up, we screw up for long term!

[@honorguard7616]

Like with the AT mines

[@akjackhd5804]

@@honorguard7616 yeah, just like with the mines, but we knew the risks involved.

[@metalingusbalor]

Yup! Me and my son listened to the eerie sound in the black hole and we are excited for the Illuminate coming soon.

[@blardraki5305]

The problem with that new mission is not having friends for that mission it becomes impossible to extract and needed a tiny grace period for solo players to even push the buttons before you just die

[@honorguard7616]

Did it with randoms, but I feel this is a type of mission to require more than one diver

[@lustyargonian4785]

Very underrated content I’m glad to see some newer more interesting and less yappy helldivers KZbinrs are showing up on my feed.

[@sarcasm-83]

It wasn't terrible at the end and I kinda loved blasting away with the dark fluid jetpack and then trying to pick a moment to start the drill and try to delay it's destruction just enough... but at the same time, "gold standard" seems pushing it with how much they could have done, instead of just re-purposing the same drill as geo survey and us using 3 tiny same drills to inject dark fluid. I would have liked different things to keep it a bit more varied. What if at the start a dark fluid dispenser station of some sort was dropped at the center of the map and we'd then have to do multiple stages, like throw dark fluid grenades or bombs into the bugholes on the map.. could be similar mechanic as carrying the SSD that you can only use a sidearm while carrying and when you throw it, it seals the bughole. Somewhat easily do-able mechanic that would still feel new. Then do the drilling to "send out a small autonomous drill into the ground that will keep on burrowing down once successful, to open up a way for the dark fluid to seep deep into the core" and then as a finale, have a Pelican come hover over one of the big holes on the map and straight up start dumping dark liquid into it to fill their tunnels + that core drill hole (in a similar fashion to how they collect the oil with the hose in the other mission type) while we have to defend the pelican from slowly growing number of shriekers emerging from the hole, as well as desperate hunters jumping at it trying to stop it, then it extracts at the nick of time when the shriekers are at the peak crowd and we go for a hot extract attempt... OR have to jump-pack into that hovering pelican for a big finish! I think it would have been a lot less monotonous than doing 3 same drills again and again.

[@star_play5403]

you should have more subs this was a great video love it

[@LauftFafa]

technically thats not a blackhole but a gate. lore wise the blackliquid is used to fissure space , it create stable gates .a blackhole in other hand is more of a highly concentrated matter that fold space and time around it with the theory of it being an actual hole in space time debunked in past few years.

[@izzetfactory7828]

This event shows why people love helldivers and simultaneously why people hate helldivers We love it because its a story and universe that we change daily We hate it because its disgustingly obvious that the devs do not play the game and let flaws like letting bile titans spawn under the drill or the phantom objective that everyone failed happen

[@grrrund]

Dude, thank you.

[@MrPieguyDaBoss]

some of the sounds I hear from the black hole i thought were just ship creekings as if the thrusters are really working hard against the gravitational pull of the hole it would have been cooler to have a time limit when looking at ex meridia

[@DMBramblett]

I liked the mission but only had a chance to play it once. By the time I could log back in, it was gone. "I'm not playing this game to level up anymore." Cool for you. I only get to play occasionally. I still have a ton of crap to unlock.

[@teemuhella1511]

When they fixed the spawning bug this mission quickly became my favorite. It is intense from start to finish and your success is not guaranteed. Strategies differ from the usual META and MECHs are super valuable. No other mission comes even close how good this is.

[@THE_RAMALAMADINGDONG]

Man I FUCKIN LOVED that mission I actually figured out how to extract on lvl 4 difficulty playing solo ! Shit drastically changed at level 5 lol ...

[@ArtistiCarnage]

These dark fluid missions changed the meta, these hard defense missions are my favorite so far! Can’t wait to play again

[@YellowSnowEnjoyer]

On an unrelated note, awesome content!

[@dukeynukey6725]

Loved the meridia mission, the total chaos and insanity lead to entertaining stupidity, and seeing the shrieker spam for the first time got the most amused "wtf" outta me We definitely need more like this

[@quadrallater]

Thank you for making some positive content. Also like your emancipator video. When we 1st got it I played all day with it on bots and loved it went on the discord and KZbin to see what people thought and it was still horrible doom and gloom. I genuinely love this game and truthfully the only thing that's gotten close to ruining it is people's attitudes

[@rocketzzs]

Apparently, the black hole isn't even a black hole, since it's missing a bunch of key parts (rings and stuff) that make up an actual black hole. So it's entirely possible that what we're seeing is a wormhole, not a black hole. (Correct me if i'm wrong :P) We're screwed.

[@billnyetherussianspy3187]

Well there's no rings and stuff like that because it already has consumed the matter around it.

[@Br0ck3n]

*SPACE WIZARDS*

[@superiornicholas412]

⁠@@billnyetherussianspy3187 It can’t just consume everything in the system in just a day. Plus black holes have the same gravitational force as a star so if anything planets would be orbiting that black hole.

[@derekmccloud6333]

I'm a sucker for vibes in games. Give me a beautiful landscape with immersive sound design and I'll just bask in it. The Meridia black hole has IMMACULATE vibes. It's hauntingly beautiful, and the sound design really creates a sense of unease as you almost feel the hull of the ship creaking and straining under the oppressive gravity of the massive black hole. Add in the knowledge that you just walked in a planet that used to be there and it's just *mwah* perfect

[@mustar2136]

7:44 The first thing i noticed about it was this. I even told my friend "It sounds like the kraken from Sea of Thieves", and idk how did i not make the connection until today...

[@RandomCanEHdian]

Did anyone else have tons of fun on these missions BEFORE the "fix"? After the update, it was flat-out impossible. Post-update enemy numbers, on the same difficulty, easily tripled or quadrupled. One drill deployment resulted in FOUR SIMULTANEOUS BILE TITANS. After two tries, we stopped playing this all together, as it wasn't winnable.

[@sarcasm-83]

Overall I've felt like there's a ton of inconsistency on how missions feel lately... during the past few weeks, I mean. Most seem fine, but every now and then there's just a huge influx of everything and when that happens, the entire mission just feels completely hopeless and results in constant mobbing and fighting to the point where you can't keep killing fast enough. One of the biggest wtf moment from one of these occasions was an extraction mission where we were still defending at the first broken gate when all of a sudden the bugs opened a bughole at the top level next to the generators we need to defend, BEHIND US where no enemy had even gotten. Two titans came out from there and it was a loss then and there. I wonder if that is the patrol bug thing where things just go crazy that they are going to revert, or something else....

[@RandomCanEHdian]

@@sarcasm-83 last night I had two eradicate missions where we only had 200 enemies to deal with, often going more than 30s without an engagement. Something's bugged

[@sarcasm-83]

@@RandomCanEHdian Yeah true, forgot to mention that then all of a sudden there can be those kinds of missions that are just too damn calm. So yeah, I think so too...

[@NoPlotArmor]

I 100% agree, despite all the bugs (literal and figurative) I had so much fun with this mission - The extraction was always such an enjoyable cluster f***

[@goody0813]

Nice take on this.

[@Doom-vz9mm]

Ya theyre definately comn threw the hole bc in the lore they lost super earth galaxy but now theyre always 2 ends to hole a way for them to find theyre way back :)

[@xtigerbotjoe]

The little nook in the rock/cliff face was my safe spot.

[@johnmartin8733]

The sounds you are hearing are actual 'sounds' in space. I don't know the exact science behind it, but there are devices we will point into space, and the devices will send a signal, and return with a 'sound'. You can actually see this on KZbin, and I think it's and insanely cool detail they added. As for the 'sound' of a black hole, I'm not sure if that's every been recorded.

[@phalanx3803]

just cause it was "possible to complete" the mission doesn't mean many people did, rumor has it the succusses rate for this mission was crazy low.

[@matiashamalainen7965]

People were wondering why the major order to kill so many bugs was that tough after failing the previous one. Well, it's exactly because the previous one failed.

[@gehteuchnixan4156]

The first Objective that was completable, was the "Deploy Dark Fluid Container to Surface" which you had to complete in order to see the drill sites! The second one, which never showed up as completed was the "Tectonic Drill" Objective. Another interesting question. While both now count as 100% liberated, why are we still able to travel to Meridia on our own, but not to Super Earth?

[@ankereisenman4824]

I enjoyed how difficult the extraction was. On any mission, extraction is a privilege!

[@infinitekarma4949]

As someone with 350+ hours, this limited time event mission was really fun. It was fairly challenging and even though the drill breaches were annoying, I was able to coordinate with randoms to take them out quickly and efficiently. It was refreshing and gave me a challenge. Most missions nowadays are bland and put me to sleep because its the same old thing and not enough of a challenge for me to stay engaged. I hope we get more difficulties or enemies/modifiers to throw into the mix.

[@lukemehalick370]

Im soooo frigging excited. I dont care if the next patch bugs out and makes every primary disappeare, im fighting some blue bois

[@BigJoeMufferaw784]

I am genuinely disappointed I didn't get to experience this mission. I was away during the time it was available. I hope we get more cool events like this, especially when the illuminate show up

[@Force_Field_Blitz_DestroBlitz]

sadest thing is that i got the breaker 20 mn after the black hole formed and the mass of shriekers got vacumed, this is so sad

[@user-cp4jd9gb3e]

I feel like no one else figured out that the shriekers can’t attack you if you lay down

[@TheCuriosity8]

Calling it now, the final base on cyberstan will transform in to a flying city and escape for the next arc

[@captain.Fallenfire]

Tip i learned this during the fight of meridia if you lay prone on the ground the pesky flyers cant damage you they dive but they dont hit becuas your to close to the ground so even tho this is over remeber this for next time becuas extracting was way easyer

[@XalenPrime]

Would have been better if we got to see the planet sucked into the black hole. That video they made I never saw in game, should have played as a new intro when starting up the game today.

[@NinjonLazarus]

There wasn't, that was only on the Galactic map. When i loged in, the Black hole was there, and my ship had an emergency jump to Super Earth. And i saw some videos on Reddit from poeple who were actually there, when countdown started for the emergency jump, but there were no animation or cutscene for the planet collapsing into the Black hole.

[@TheIronbuster]

i think what you hear is the Ship creaking under the influence of the gravity

[@bloodymucus]

Gatlin and machine gun turrets were a massive help on helldive against the shriekers

[@gwennightsong5532]

To extract I would use eagle smoke strikes. It would make it so the shrieker couldn't attack me and gave me enough time to call evac.

[@GiveMeYoSammich]

That's a beautiful wormhole

[@anonymousman34]

i loved the shreiker spam it gave my braker an anti air role

[@gre3nishsinx0Rgold4]

In just the span of 4 days. There were lots of frustrations on that MO but there were also a lot of players creating a counters specifically for the super colony, then spreading the good ones to everyone in their team. I saw people spamming air burst, incendiary, fire mines, rockets. Just anything to f up the bugs, it was majestic. Felt that sense of camaraderie from the community. I can't wait for the illuminates to show up, I have a score to settle with those bottom feeding space squids. Having played the first game.

[@iamkablam8096]

The first day, I couldn’t join a dark fluid mission for some reason cause it kept saying “error connecting”. The second day, every mission I joined, at least two people would quit mid mission and we would end up failing. But the third day, I connected without issue, got paired with a team that actually had structure and had one of the best gaming experiences I’ve had in a while ❤️

[@fierceraven9269]

100% I agree

[@TomoyaOkazaki13]

i am very impatient with games, i usually just slap the equipment that i find fun and play with it. This event made me try EVERY STRATAGEM I had unlocked to see which worked and which didnt. It was a blast getting wrecked during this long trial and error lol. it was legitimately fun lol. but i can also see why people found it frustrating

[@Gio-vo3ft]

I'd never played on Helldive before, so I basically brought a supply backpack, some sentries, and chased my team around handing out ammo and dropping EATs. And hiding under rocks. That was exciting.

[@Horotoma]

They should do a event where we drop down to Earth, restricted to a parade square and we have to just stand there through some random speech/performance around us and then leave to extract after 5 mins. There will be spectators, camera drones and just general fanfare all around us celebrating the victory. Like that's the entire mission.

[@KaylaFrappys]

"The mission Is hard, but It's not Impossible! Not even close." My guy, I did this at level 1 difficulty with 3 of my friends.. All of us having mechs, and machine gun turrets and hoard clears. AND WE LEGIT ALMOST LOST THE MISSION! Cause of those darn- flying bugs! I dunno WHAT your smokin, but I WANT It.

[@user-tn6ph3ve3u]

We need people to come back to helldivers

[@JoshuaCChan]

What They Thought was a shooting star 0:32 was actually a shining Nuke.

[@Hadfield15]

I loved this mini-event a lot. I was surprised to see the number of online players jump to 120K for it. It reminded me of the black hole event from Fortnite all those years ago

[@theosb7271]

A volley from the breaker incendiary made the shriekers disappear. The eruptor would’ve done even better but someone neutered it.

[@bastiallwin8576]

I liked the schreeker spam Not because im crazy those guys are crazy annoying BUT they made the extraction feel great the whole meridia event was great and the crazy amount of schreekers hunting you down while you try to run away fits so perfectly

[@fendrakowlfdrago5067]

7:50 when i heard those sounds it was like the screams of the damned

[@SibkoDC]

If you watch the blackhole in the trailer they released closely, there are small blue explosions coming from the black hole, which doesn't make sense.....nothing is supposed to be able to escape a blackhole....

[@PrincessKushana]

That mission was deranged. Absolutely loved it.

[@fankgaming7753]

The shrieker spam was easy to deal with. 2 or 3 turrets at the end (gatling or regular machinegun, or both) acted as perfect AA. I really want a mission where we're meant to go into a massive cavern (Massive enough that titans can walk around in them). Holes in the ceiling so at some parts you can use arial stratagems, pushes people to use more mines and turrets. Idk what the mission would BE, but it'd be kinda sick to push underground for bugs.

[@honorguard7616]

Objectives 1. Egg elimination 2. Queen elimination 3. Messing with logistics

[@MuricaRules]

6:38 this is very similar to when Sony said they were reverting the update on PSN and it was insane.

[@The_Murdoch]

Honestly, I was hoping that those on the planet would get like an emergency alert and the ships leave them on the planet and it goes black or something, and they respawn back on the ship.

[@ALph4cro]

Internet in the whole block went out just as the event kicked off...