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Rich Stanton

New Helldivers 2 major order offers the chance to divide Automaton forces—fighting a war on two fronts being a famously winning tactic

A horde of automaton bots from Helldivers 2 marchers mercilessly on.

The Helldivers crushed through their most recent major orders, with large-scale destruction of the Automatons on X-45 unlocking both a fancy new quad rocket launcher and the mysterious promise of an "interplanetary battle station." Players have to wait to discover what functionality the latter will offer (current speculation is some sort of clan system), but the galactic war waits for no citizen, and the new major order is for pretty much the first time encouraging some actual strategy beyond "blow them all up." Even if that's still what we'll be doing.

Firstly, the X-45 MO was swiftly followed up with a new MO asking that players kill 100 million Terminids: which they achieved in a jaw-dropping eight hours. This resulted in the following Super Earth announcement of success, soon followed by yet another new major order:

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