Helldivers 2 players are fearing for the worst as their progress in liberating three Automaton-held planets for the latest Major Order is flatlining.
Yesterday, April 4, Arrowhead Game Master Joel initiated a new Helldivers 2 Major Order to crush the Automaton forces once and for all. Players were given precisely four days to liberate Tibit, Durgen, and Maia, three Automaton-held planets which are currently all that stands between the bot hordes and total obliteration.
Approximately 28 hours into the Major Order, things aren’t looking great for Super Earth’s forces. According to Helldivers.io, a tracking website which follows real-time data from Helldivers 2, Durgen is currently labelled a stalemate fight between humans and bots, with just over 14,000 players attempting to liberate the planet.
Similarly, Tibit isn’t faring well, with 18,000 soldiers having raised the liberation meter to just 3.15% at the time of writing. The Helldivers 2 data tracking website estimates that it’ll take roughly 10 days for Super Earth’s forces to fully liberate Tibit, time which players obviously don’t have.
The one bright spot might be Maia. At the time of writing, 106,000 players have managed to raise the planet’s liberation meter to an impressive 70%, and the planet should be fully liberated in around 10 hours at this pace. That’s if the Automatons don’t regain ground while European and American players are asleep later today, however.
Some players were already predicting the worst outcome yesterday, just hours after the Major Order to liberate all Automaton planets went into effect. The subreddit post just below, for example, noted that a full 62% of active Helldivers 2 players weren’t able to raise the liberation meter on Maia past 10% for some time. That’s obviously increased a day later, but it’s still not the progress many were hoping for.
I’m sorry but there’s no chance that we’re doing this major order lmfao. 62% of players on the planet with a 2 day liberation estimate from r/Helldivers
Others theorize that Arrowhead and Game Master Joel are setting players up for deliberate failure. “This MO is very intentionally rigged against us, likely for narrative purposes. Whatever the Reclamation is, it’s gonna make the bots much worse – and put them in new spaces for us to fight in. Nobody wants to go back to the Creek, right?,” the player writes, referencing the dreaded planet Malevelon Creek.
