Nobody could have seen it coming: Helldivers 2's Illuminate emerge from the black hole players stopped from crashing into Super Earth, with "larger, more powerful enemies within their fleet"

A screenshot from the Helldivers 2 opening, showing the Super Earth Spokesperson shouting.

I don't know about you, but when it was announced that a Helldivers 2 victory party was being held to celebrate the defeat of the democracy-hating Illuminate and the halt of the ominous black hole approaching Super Earth, the last thing I expected was for anything to go wrong. How foolish that was, as the Illuminate have returned with a vengeance in a major new update.

"In a surprise turn of events that even our top researchers couldn't predict, the Illuminate have finally revealed their intentions, emerging from the Meridian singularity, and setting a course for Super Earth," Arrowhead community manager Katherine Baskin writes in a post on the PlayStation blog.