Helldivers 2‘s Galactic War has made its way back to the infamous Malevelon Creek just in time for the one year anniversary of the fierce fighting that led the planet – dubbed Robot Vietnam by players – getting its own memorial day canonized into the game’s lore.
Yep, as folks were speculating last week, The Creek is back as a major order focus, with the mission having plenty of call-backs to the battle on it last year, which has since generated endless memes within the HD2 community. Basically, vets who fought in that battle keep telling newer players that they weren’t there, man.
Anyway, now the planet’s being battled for again, as an Automaton assault led by flamethrower toting bots called the Incineration Corps threatens to target it.
“This hallowed ground is the resting place of many, many brave Helldivers whose ultimate sacrifices freed the planet from the Automatons early in the war,” Arrowhead wrote in its briefing for this major order, “Now, the enemy seeks to defile their graves—obviously having calculated that seizing the planet on the upcoming Malevelon Creek Memorial Day would result in the greatest net desecration.”
So, as of writing, players have just over five days and two hours left to secure Malevelon Creek and keep it under Super Earth control “by any means necessary”, with the fighting not quite having reached the famed planet yet. Instead, the battle’s currently raging on Popli IX in the Xzar system that neighbours the Creek’s system – that being the Severin Sector.
Arrowhead’s also dished out a new stratagem to everyone that might help you if you’re dropping in to help hold off the bots. It’s the E/GL-21 Grenadier Battlement, and it drops in to deploy you a barricade you can take cover behind, or in one case so far, host some kind of Illuminate Voteless mosh pit.
It’s also worth noting that if you’ve been struggling to play Helldivers 2 without issue on PC since the last patch, 01.002.200, Arrowhead community manager Katherine ‘Baskinator’ Baskin has announced via the game’s Discord that its devs are “currently working on a fix” for an “AVX2 issue”. This issue appears to be related to a change to howe the game does AI calculations.
For now, it looks to be PC-specific and mainly affecting those trying to run the game on machines with older CPUs that may well be under its listed minimum recommended system requirements. However, some players with up-to-date hardware are also reporting noticing a performance diference in higher-difficulty missions that’s more pronounced than the “slight trade-off” Arrowhead indicated in the notes.
Are you diving in to help protect The Creek and have you been running into any issues with Helldivers 2 since that last patch? Let us know below!
