Summary
- A Helldivers 2 player has created the Super Earth Broadcast to update players on the galactic war progress through satirical news updates.
- The Super Earth Broadcast delivers "educational" videos on successful Helldivers 2 missions and interviews notable players like GantzTheDemon.
- Creator Finnegan manages the successful Super Earth Broadcast channel on TikTok without a script, highlighting sectors that are struggling and providing other updates.
Taking his ion for democracy one step further, a the Terminids and Automatons in a large-scale meta-game. To track their progress, Arrowhead has inserted several fictional news broadcasts that keep Helldivers informed of their contributions to the war effort, but one has taken this propaganda to the next level.
Over on TikTok, Super Earth Broadcast (via Polygon) is ing "educational" videos for Helldivers to both enjoy and learn about the state of Super Earth's intergalactic campaigns.
Many of the videos are dedicated to highlighting successful pushes on some of Helldivers 2's more contested planets like Mort and Malevelon. There's even an exclusive interview with notorious team-killer GantzTheDemon where the SEB questions the player about what are deemed "rebellious" activities.
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A ionate Helldiver Keeps the Community Entertained
The Super Earth Broadcast channel is currently managed by only a single person who goes by Finnegan. Speaking to Polygon, the creator explained that he doesn't prepare a script for the brief minute-long episodes but instead looks at the in-game galactic map and comments on successful missions while also highlighting sectors that are struggling to hold back the hordes of enemies. All the footage is captured by Finnegan himself, and the fan uses generative AI to create the various voices that provide narration over the clips.
Helldivers 2's Success Came as a Surprise
After Helldivers 2's meteoric success, Finnegan further explained that while he knew there was a community of invested players, he never thought he'd manage to attain his current following, which numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Not even developer Arrowhead thought Helldivers 2 would be as popular as it currently is. In the weeks after the game's launch, the studio had to expend a great deal of additional resources to increase the amount of servers available to players to eliminate lengthy queue times.
Helldivers 2's reviews have been positive, with critics and players praising its exhilarating and tense combat, emphasis on smart tactical decisions, and compelling monetization and progression system that adequately rewards players. Arrowhead has confirmed that it still has plenty of plans for the game's future. This makes sense, as recent datamines have revealed that fans can expect to see new weapons, Stratagems, and enemies in future updates.
Source: Super Earth Broadcast/TikTok (via Polygon)
Helldivers 2
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- Top Critic Avg: 83/100 Critics Rec: 90%
- Released
- February 8, 2024
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood and Gore, Intense Violence
- Developer(s)
- Arrowhead Game Studios
- Publisher(s)
- Sony
- Engine
- bitsquid
Helldivers II is the follow-up to the 2015 multiplayer top-down single-player/co-op shooter from Arrowhead Game Studios. The sequel, which has shifted gears to a third-person shooter format, drops players into the boots of elite super-soldiers who fight to protect Super Earth from invading alien forces while taking the fight to those who threaten the "democracy of Super Earth."
- Franchise
- Helldivers
- Platform(s)
- PC, PS5
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