With only hours to go, things were not looking good for Helldivers 2's latest major order. These come down from on-high with regularity, and shape the game's ongoing galactic war: in this case, Super Earth tasked the Helldivers with successfully liberating 10 planets from enemy takeover. Earlier in the week things looked a bit grim, with only three planets freed from alien tyranny, but as the finish line came into sight something remarkable happened. Call it democracy manifest if you like but, from my vantage point, it sure looked like we killed a lot of bots and bugs when the chips were down.
The reaction to this among Helldivers has been nearly uniform relief and jubilation, mainly because most had already given up. The order got off to a terrible start with two planets being lost by razor-thin margins early on, and the bot forces seemed unassailable before the turnaround. But as the dust settled further, the nature of that turnaround became its own question.
