Honestly the funniest thing I've seen in the game so far lmao
Someone on the dev team is cool
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Helldivers 2, you play fascist space americans, one of the enemy factions are robot communists, this was on a floodlight in one of the bases I cleared.
I know nothing about Helldivers so forgive me if Im talking out of my ass, but are the robots communists or are the robots controlled by communists? I hope its latter because the idea of being forced to ram your face pointlessly into an army of communist machines while knowing full well that the average person in that society is just
while the game says all the same anti-communist stuff from real life about this obviously wonderful society to justify you fighting this pointless war would be amazing. Maybe the robots should do a reverse liberty prime and spout communist propaganda.
I'm not well steeped in the lore, but basically humans created the "automatons" forebears, can't remember their names, and when they developed sentience, they declared independence and created a socialist state, which kicked off a big war.
From getting some tiktoks of Helldivers 1 lore, the Cyborgs are the precursor to the Automatons and have basically been entombed on Cyberstan (lmao), which is where they sought to be a free, independent socialist society of augmented humans and any others rejecting the fascism of Super Earth.
Helldivers 2 is apparently 100 years after, and there's suspicions that the Automatons aren't just a collective of killing machines making a beeline towards Super Earth - the forcibly-augmented/fully robotic have some level of sentience and are apparently mounting a liberation campaign on Cyberstan by travelling around the periphery.
also apparently the bugs literally produce oil and were bred for this purpose lmao