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Catherine Lewis

Helldivers 2's Cyborgs are real, and they'd kindly like you to "defect" from Super Earth as you're just "cannon fodder" anyway: "Must be embarrassing"

Cropped Helldivers 2 art from the official 'Save Cyberstan' poster.

Helldivers 2's battle against the bots just got taken to the next level, as the Cyborg Legion has officially unveiled itself amid a suspicious Major Order calling on soldiers to "defect," telling grunts that they're all simply "cannon fodder."

Over the last few days, Super Earth's finest realized that anti-freedom propaganda posters being sent out by the bots were actually hiding sections of a QR code, which, when pieced together, led to a mysterious webpage. When decoded, this webpage displayed a countdown, which just ended with the reveal of the Cyborgs being alive (returning from the first game), and threatening us all to stand down, else we be "annihilated."

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