Summary
- Helldivers 2’s Major Order feels different – cold, sharp, and unsettling.
- The Illuminate may be making a significant comeback in Helldivers 2.
- Players suspect the new mission is a prelude to the Illuminate, noting eerie locations and suspicious details.
Arrowhead Game Studios just dropped a new Major Order in Helldivers 2, and it doesn’t feel like business as usual.
The tone is colder and sharper. We’re not just killing bugs anymore – we’re fighting something new, and Arrowhead knows it.
Between “mutated Terminids,” a “savage and unprovoked assault,” and a suspect “scientific expedition,” the writing is on the wall.
The Illuminate may be coming back, and this time, playing the long game.
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Helldivers 2’s Latest Major Order Speaks in Code
The new Major Order, titled “Defend against the Terminids,” is now live and tasks you with clearing out mutated Terminids that have emerged from the Gloom – a shadowy region at the edge of Super Earth-controlled space.
“Defend against the sudden and unprovoked onslaught of mutated Terminids from the Gloom. Reports of the Predator Strain and the failed scientific expedition have been conclusively ruled out as causes.”
Veteran Helldivers will tell you that that phrasing doesn’t sit right. There’s too much emphasis on what isn’t happening. The Terminids are “mutated,” but we’re told the Predator Strain isn’t the reason despite it being the obvious suspect.
And then there’s the kicker. The expedition was “conclusively ruled out.” Since when did Super Earth care about conclusive investigations? When the writing gets vague and the adjectives turn dramatic, it’s usually a smokescreen.
And in Helldivers 2, smoke means something’s burning beneath it. One Redditor summed it up bluntly:
“This feels like a prelude to the Illuminate. Arrowhead’s done this dance before.”
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Why Players Think This Is the Illuminate’s First Move
That eerie-sounding location at the edge of the known galaxy called The Gloom is already a red flag. It’s been associated with past disappearances, strange tech, and enemy activity that doesn’t fit either Terminid or Automaton behavior.
Even the Predator Strain itself is suspicious. It was last seen near the Center of Science, possibly linked to a prior recon mission that didn’t make it back. Could these mutations be seeded? If that’s not the Illuminate softening the ground, what is?
And here’s the big tell.
Most Major Orders are straightforward about their enemies, but this one’s different. It names mutated Terminids, but the tone—along with the suspicious focus on a “ruled out” expedition—hints at something much bigger lurking in the background.
Arrowhead loves building suspense, and right now, the tension’s at a breaking point:
“If this isn’t Illuminate foreshadowing, then Arrowhead’s accidentally made the most suspicious mission in franchise history.”
Helldivers 2 community engagement has been just cryptic enough to keep the hype alive. CEO Shams Jorjani recently addressed concerns , noting that “numerous things are in motion” and that fixes are actively being worked on.
This isn’t random. This isn’t filler. This is Arrowhead turning the wheel slowly toward a war we’re about to fight.
The only question left is when.
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