The latest major ordinance in Hell Divers 2 tasked players with killing a colossal 100 million Terminids over the course of three days. I jumped in and played a quick mission to do my part, but when I checked back three hours later, I realized the community had annihilated the objective. Some players didn’t even realize it had started.
Previous main order in Hell Divers 2 tasked players with defending X-45 over the course of a week or more, and it was incredibly tough to do. Players were forced to coordinate their actions every time a planet was successfully liberated or defended. When a up-to-date Master Order came along to kill Terminids, no matter how gigantic their numbers, it automatically seemed much easier than what had come before. This is probably why players were so adept at exterminating so many bugs in a matter of hours.
So brisk that some players missed the main order
When I saw Major Order disappear, I thought it might be a bug. The dispatch wasn’t sent to the game until the next day, announcing the community’s victory over the Terminid scum. However, killing so many enemies with such efficiency left a few players surprised.
At the top Hell Divers 2 subredditSome players were asking the same questions I was, trying to understand if Major Order was bugged or if everyone else had already killed all the Terminids before starting the mission.
I think user ok_contract_3661 explains it best. “I think AH underestimated how much the community likes to kill bugs, lol.” After fighting Automatons for over a week with back-to-back Major Orders on the other side of the galaxy, fighting Terminids felt like a vacation.
It helped that everyone Hell Dive 2 the player now has access to the Commando Rocket Launcher, which fires four separate, incredibly powerful rockets. You can defeat the Bile Titan in two shots using one of them, so this trivializes even missions on Impossible difficulty.
Considering that developer Arrowhead Game Studios gave players three days to complete this Major Order, I’m not sure they thought we’d get it done this quickly. As of this writing, there’s no up-to-date Major Order, and players are flying around the galaxy liberating whatever planets they want.
However, the latest in-game message on the galaxy map mentioned massive Terminid Spore Towers. While the Super Earth Ministry of Science insists they are likely not an indicator of enemy evolution or an incoming threat, they have been wrong before.
