The Battle for Super Earth is raging in Helldivers 2While players fight to hold the invasive illumination fleet. A new controversy surrounding the invasion, however, has led to a certain frustration and a new flow of negative criticisms.
To prepare the field, the last update for Helldivers 2 – Heart of democracy – brought months and months of construction of the scenario. The meridian singularity, a black hole formed during an operation against the terminides, had been thrown towards the super earth like the tip of the lance for an illuminated invasion. The “Super Host” fleet flooded through the medal hole and on Super Earth, transforming the planet into a battlefield.
In the days that followed the update, the players fought to hold the different mega cities of Super Earth, which correspond to the big cities of real life. York Supreme, for example, corresponds roughly to New York and Buenos Aires. While the invasion continued, more and more cities have fallen; To date, only equality on sea (Shanghai) and the capital of Super Earth, Prosperity City (Stockholm) remain standing.
While the invasion has approached what looks like the end of the game, a plot arrived. Helldivers’ players tend to “enter the character” and play the main orders, gathering behind different causes and calls to try to beat each new challenge that the developer arches them. Some, for example, have stopped playing games on Super Earth to contribute to a new effort in another sector against the automatic forces, which finally brought the DSS – a large military orbital space station – Back to Super Earth To help with defensive efforts.
With the enlightenment which is gaining ground and taking mega cities, efforts have rallied behind equality on the sea to make a last stand. In the midst of all this, there was a feeling of camaraderie extended in nations; While more and more players were spread out to increase the percentage of equality on the sea and maintain it against the large host, the memes and support have flooded. Even if the efforts focused on the city enlightenment, the players kept and continued to dive.
All this was quite comforting and exciting, the kind of emerging story that Helldivers 2 is quite capable of forging in its greatest moments; Where developers ‘scenarios, players’ investment and community efforts lead to really brilliant moments in cooperative war theater.
But equality on sea has never reached 100%. From there, the situation becomes a little more complex and much more difficult.
While the players have made a concerted effort to maintain equality on the sea against the continuous assault, the current arc closed with the percentage of cities counter at 99.9783% (keep this number in mind). Most major orders and operations in Helldivers concern completion, a binary state or bankruptcy. As some have pointed out, however, there may be confusion on what the percentage of the counter meant in the defense of Super Earth. Rather than “freeing” a city and reproducing it, players hold it. He will therefore think that the Helldivers may not be able to “100%” of the defense, because the enlightenment continues to invade.
This, alongside theories that war is shrinking to an ultimate force test in the capital of Super Earth City, seems to be the main engine behind a new influx of negative steam critics. To date, approximately 2,312 negative criticisms of Helldivers were submitted to Steam During the last 24 hours compared to 324 positives.
Many negative criticisms are in Chinese, and although the machine translation does not seem exact enough to quote, there are recurring points that can easily be gleaned: frustration concerning the driving of the story, the perception of a thumb on the scale of the arrow head and the repetition notices of “99.9783%”.
Here we go again! pic.twitter.com/z86puakvkd
– Helldivers now (@helldivers_now) May 29, 2025
Now it is important to keep all of this in context. Yes, there is a new series of negative criticisms on the game, and this is obviously a higher amount than the average net of criticism. It is also still, at the moment, in comparison with the bombardment of more infamous review of Helldivers 2 from May 2024, where thousands and thousands of negative examinations flooded the PSN requirements.
Players are largely naturally frustrated. This should be a peak in the story of Helldivers 2, because both the culmination of a longtime scenario and one of the cooler moments in the Arrowhead game has concocted. I spent time diving on Super Earth, and it’s really an incredible feat. Arrowhead has nailed the feeling of holding in these mega cities as massive and terrifying illumination forces that are unleashed, causing free destruction.
And because a large part of this is completely linked to national identity, the previous feeling of international camaraderie has also been a little contaminated. Even if the players, mods and fans accounts have exhorsed players has do not get caught In the controversy, he put a bad taste on this differently incredible moment.
When writing these lines, Helldivers still holds in the mega cities of equality on the sea and the prosperity city, the first holding the higher percentage. It seems that the Battle of Super Earth enters its final phase, and the current order is simple: hold Super Earth. Hopefully the players will always be able to hold on, seize victory and celebrate the good in all of this.
Eric is an independent writer for IGN.
