Helldivers 2 players have been speculating for months when and if the Illuminate faction from the first game could ever make a return in the gloriously democratic sequel, but what looks like the most obvious teaser yet has some fans feeling suspicious.
As highlighted by VG247, over on SteamDB today, Helldivers 2's update history revealed something a tad strange. Developer Arrowhead made some changes to some of the game's depots (essentially, groups of files), with the term "gameplay_illuminates" repeated again and again over multiple lines of alterations. Gameplay Illuminates. It's certainly more solid evidence to suggest that the Illuminate could be making a comeback than those fabled blue beams that players started reporting in the game months ago, so why isn't everyone buying it?
