Helldivers 2 Director Confirms Illuminate Invasion Is Led by the Vanguard Fleet

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Helldivers 2 Director Confirms Illuminate Invasion Is Led by the Vanguard Fleet

The Illuminate faction, new mission areas such as cities to fight through, the fast recon vehicle, and more are all included in the unexpected new major update to Helldivers 2 called Omens of Tyranny. Helldivers 2 has been feeling positive lately after some rough patches, most recently regaining its Steam review score of Overwhelmingly Positive.

Helldivers 2 has been released on February 8, 2024. | Credit: Arrowhead Game Studios.

As a live-service game, Helldivers 2 keeps improving by introducing new content for players to enjoy as well as patches to fix bugs. Although free Helldivers 2 expansions like Escalation of Freedom have arrived to disrupt the core experience, most content updates are made through Premium Warbonds, which are paid content that usually grants players access to new weapons and gear. Arrowhead Game Studios secretly released its most recent massive update during the Game Awards.

Helldivers 2 shadow drops Illuminate Faction in the Omens of Tyranny update

The Omens of Tyranny update is here in Helldivers 2. | Credit: Arrowhead Game Studios.

The Illuminate faction in Helldivers 2 is one of the worst-kept secrets. Arrowhead Game Studios has finally confirmed it in the Omens of Tyranny update, after a year of numerous leaks and teases.

The original game’s Illuminate faction has finally made a comeback and has the ability to mind-control people. Helldivers now face off against The Voteless, zombie-like citizens, in addition to Illuminate adversaries, as the trailer demonstrated.

Beyond the Illuminate, though, this update adds new mission area environments to battle through, such as cities and other urban settings. The distinction is that the Voteless can more easily take over cities since they eliminate the open space that is provided by the typical Helldivers 2 biomes, such as forests, deserts, and others.

The FRV, or Fast Recon Vehicle, is a new vehicle that players will be able to use to aid in navigation. It has room for four players and is equipped with weapons to help defeat adversaries.

The expansion of Helldivers 2, which was unveiled at The Game Awards 2024, foreshadows the Illuminate invasion of Super Earth planets in the galactic south. Along with brand-new Super Earth colonies to battle on, this first alien force also brings a host of new adversaries to contend with.

The first urban settings in Helldivers 2 are presented by these colonies, where the streets are crowded with defenseless bystanders under Illuminate mind control. Super Earth refers to them as the Voteless, and they are essentially zombies who only want to be limb-from-limb team players.

The initial invasion involves the Illuminate Vanguard Fleet and does not appear to be the full faction

The FRV marks the first vehicle in Helldivers 2. | Credit: Arrowhead Game Studios.

The Illuminate Vanguard Fleet is involved in this initial invasion, but it doesn’t seem to be the entire faction, according to game director Mikael Eriksson in an interview with

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. At first, the Illuminate will use guerrilla warfare instead of capturing planets.

While Eriksson would not reveal their plans, he did hint that a new story that will unfold over several months will give players the opportunity to affect the ongoing Illuminate invasion.

Eriksson also talked about the key distinctions between fighting bugs and bots and the Illuminate. One is that, in contrast to the Automatons and Terminids, who are fought in open, more naturalistic settings, the Illuminate are “more difficult,” and combating them in urban settings feels limited.

With enormous walking trippod enemies known as Harvesters that are capable of one-shotting you, the Illuminate themselves resemble demigods. In addition, the mind-controlled civilians present a challenge in a horde-style game. The Fast Recon Vehicle (FRV), Helldivers 2‘s first vehicle, is the main weapon available to players to help them defend against the Illuminate threat.

The Illuminate is the third enemy faction in Helldivers 2, joining the bugs and bots. They are expected to revitalize the action-packed third-person cooperative game.

With an astounding 12 million copies sold in just 12 weeks after its February release, Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game ever. The decision by publisher Sony to require Steam players to create a PSN account was one of the many controversies that Arrowhead has faced in the ten months since.

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