Less than 24 hours after developer Arrowhead Game Studios issued a major executive order Hell Divers 2 players were required to collect 70 million samples from missions over the course of several days, but this directive was withdrawn because hackers disregarded it and pointed out a glaring flaw in the game’s anti-cheat measures.
Players logging in over the weekend to check out the current Major Order are now greeted with an in-game shipping message that hints at what happened, but leaves no overarching objective to pursue beyond the Personal Order. While sample hacking is nothing fresh for Hell Divers 2Some players believe that hackers did this to protest the changes made in the recent Escalation of Freedom update.
Fake samples cost Helldivers their fish
Very Hell Divers 2 players realize that this Major Order has been hacked, which is why it was pulled so early. Almost everyone on the game’s subreddit is discussing how comical it is and how it will affect the game in the future. User Twad_feu says, “Gotta love an anti-cheat that works, right? Apparently there’s not even a check to stop such obvious moves like this? I mean, if the max mission sample is 10… maybe the line of code should raise a flag when it’s 23000?”
When you launch Hell Divers 2 Now, the in-game message that greets you is a needy continuation of what came before. Arrowhead Game Studios gave us an ominous message about a Terminid spore cloud known as The Gloom, which causes Superdestroyers to cut off all contact if they enter. The idea of collecting 70 million samples was to figure out what this cloud really is.
The fresh message, which can be read in the image above, concerns how some players were providing what are called “fake samples” and those who were caught had their fish lost. This suggests that some players simply hacked them into the game. It adds that the Darkness has mysteriously stopped spreading, so it doesn’t matter that we provide enough real samples, which seems like a loss to the game’s plot. Even dedicated Hell Divers 2 social media accounts I can’t get too excited about this news.
As I mentioned, hackers were able to introduce errors into the samples, Hell Divers 2 since its initial launch in February 2024. The bigger problem, as user No_Shock_5644 suggests, is that we’ll likely never see this type of Big Order again. “So we’ll probably never see big sample orders again because of these clowns who like to ruin everyone’s fun.”
The real question is why it was a Major Order at all if the developer knew about it since launch. User Keinulive posted a pretty devastating comment that’s demanding not to agree with: “Remember guys, this cheat has been around since day one, the funny thing is they didn’t find a fix for it, countless people complained that hackers managed to trivialize farming in the first week, so AH KNOWS about this shitty shit.”
I have to say I like the idea that user lo0ilo0ilo0i brought up. “AH, it’s just bait to catch cheaters, right? Yeah?!” Making this a Major Order trap for hackers and then removing the hackers would be a great way to regain the community’s trust as part of the dev’s 60-day balance plan.
