The battle for Tremendous Earth that kicked off with Helldivers 2‘s Coronary heart of Democracy replace concluded final week, with gamers managing to fend off an Illuminate invasion of their dwelling planet. One of many two cities that ended up holding out in opposition to the hostile squids was Equality-On-Sea, positioned within the in-game map’s model of China, and it is led the shooter to make an area information report within the nation.
As noticed by gamers on the Helldivers 2 subreddit, following the massive victory for Tremendous Earth, Chinese language broadcaster Kanka Information’s Good Morning Shanghai anchors fronted a short segment about these current developments within the sport. Based mostly on a translation by a Reddit person with the deal with AtypicalGameMaker (whose profile asserts that they seem to be a Chinese language sport developer), the report mentioned the protection of Equality-On-Sea, hailing each Chinese language and non-Chinese language gamers for working collectively to guard town.
For some context, Equality-On-Sea and the Tremendous Earth capital of Prosperity Metropolis had been the one Tremendous Earth cities left standing after the invasion. The protection of the previous brought on a little bit of controversy, with a comparatively small variety of gamers review bombing Helldivers 2 as a result of they could not push town’s protection share gauge as much as 100%, which means it would be totally underneath their management.
Members of the sport’s neighborhood advised the foundation of this was that Equality-On-Sea was positioned in-game the place Shanghai is in the actual world, main Chinese language gamers to take its protection very critically. An alleged translation mixup with the Chinese language language model of the sport seemingly additionally satisfied these gamers that they might completely liberate town whereas the battle for Tremendous Earth was nonetheless in progress.
That final bit wasn’t truly the case, with the fixed circulation of contemporary Illuminate troops whereas the invasion was ongoing making it unattainable to completely safe any mega cities at that stage of proceedings. Cue gamers getting annoyed as they believed their in-game efforts weren’t having a dynamic impact on how the warfare was enjoying out, and a few accusing developer Arrowhead of railroading them into sure outcomes.
The interpretation alludes to this obvious misunderstanding, citing the information anchors as having praised Helldivers 2 gamers for not following Arrowhead’s Galactic Battle “script” and as an alternative having “fought for their very own story in an honorable manner.”
In the meantime, I fairly like the way in which the report appears to have described the ultimate levels of the massive struggle for Tremendous Earth enjoying out: “Chinese language gamers had been battling the enemies in the course of the daytime utilizing their wonderful capturing abilities and strategic plans,” the anchors allegedly mentioned, “American gamers took over the nighttime operations, using air drops and firepower to assemble the protection line for Shanghai.
“This nice unity of Chinese language and American netizens got here to a contented ending on the thirtieth.” Good.
