What you need to know
- Arrowhead Game Studios' co-op PvE shooter Helldivers 2 has a Galactic War metagame in which players are tasked with attacking or defending specific planets by Major Orders.
- The game doesn't explain this, but you can only fight on a world if it's near one players control. This is called the supply lines mechanic, but you wouldn't know about it unless you were on social media or used third-party tools to track the war effort.
- As a result, many players think planets relevant to Major Orders that are behind enemy lines are "bugged," and go off to fight elsewhere without realizing they need to clear a path to those worlds first.
- Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt has confirmed that the developer is "talking about making this [supply lines] more clear" so that more players realize the system exists. Many have suggested in-game visualizations or tooltips, which may be added in the future.
