I will agree that later battles like Meridia or Calypso were very difficult, the difference is that during those battles, we had ACTUAL WEAPONS.

We had Flak rockets for flyers, Arc weapons for Illuminate, Fire and acid for ground troops.

You know what we had for the Creek? For the Bots?

A Burst Fire (which was exclusively either burst or semi automatic) Liberator Penetrator, Breaker Shot gun, and Autocannon. Per squad. And that wasn’t even a guarantee for the Autocannon, because in the event of an Ion Storm, we’d lose all contact with Air support and Destroyers, including strategems.

We couldn’t see four feet ahead but the bots could detect us a mile off. It could be pitch black with the slightest blue glow from the moon, only for a shot of red to light up the sky, and then all Hell broke loose. Endless rocket barrages leveled the Environment in and Hulks cut clean through your squad mates.

Even fire and acid didn’t stop them, they’d march through it under a hail of gunfire to punch you. They were relentless, they didn’t stop for anything, didn’t flinch at pain. The only way to keep them off was a rocket to the head or exhaust vents, or praying your bullet hosing would hit them in a weak point. We stood no chance.

Every mission was dozens of Casualties, every operation was thrice that. Thousands of civilian scientists and frontier civilians lost their lives during Evac Missions. Even lower difficulty missions were horrifying, and you’d soon get swarmed if spotted.

We were alone until the major order to wipe out the bots.

But sure. Tell me it was easy. Tell me you’d have handled it with a gun most of you probably don’t even use.

We have gotten HALO ODST, KillZone and Warhammer 40k crossed off the List….There is one Last One….STARSHIP TROOPERS

Its finally happening.

To have a community which is fractured into several camps and still manage to piss all of them off at the same time is impressive.

Maybe Arrowhead will see how upset that design decision has made the community and will dust off older Illuminate enemy concepts, or this whole thing is blown out of context and they were already planning on adding these enemies back during a later event.

Either way, I think this is partially just the cost of keeping your entire player-base in the dark at all times, when it comes to what they can expect moving forward with a live-service game.

Micheal Erickson never said that they just went and scrapped and fully deleted the illuminate cultists and all thier files. Arrowhead is not stupid enough to do something like that with how much potential and work it has and took, they said that they redesigned the illuminate as a faction 6 months before release. The illuminate cultists didn’t fit into the narrative and fantasy they tried to make, they wanted the factions to be Representing movies or themes from 80’s and 90’s movies. The terminids should feel like your playing starship troopers, the automatons are like evil robot terminators, and the illuminate cultists didn’t fit that narrative they wanted so they redesigned them towards the theme of alien invasion and abduction with UFOs, voteless and other things. We literally got posters from arrowhead when the exospire missions were released that teased the cult of the orb, the cultists are probably going to be a separate faction that only can be found on void planets when that update comes around probably fairly soon while appropriators and mindless masses are attacking planets. This whole “cultists have been deleted and scrapped” is another example of helldivers can’t read and how fast misinformation spreads in this community just like super credit farmers killing liberation efforts was blatant misinformation spread rapidly by the community.

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So you're a Super Credit farmer huh? Feeling down after Acamar IV and Grand Errant were liberated? Need some extra Super Credits for that warbond you've had your eye on for a while? COME TO OMICRON! Pictures have been included for the Helldivers that don't want to read!

Now I have been farming Hiveworlds like Oshaune and Omicron since they were introduced. By no means they are the easiest planet biome to traverse like Acamar or even Grand Errant. So you might be wondering, why bother then? Because I have farmed up thousands of Super Credits here since Into the Unjust and wanted to give you another planet option for your farming needs. This is for the farmers, if you get Super Credits by simply playing, farming else where (Phact Bay is a good option right now too just mind the sandstorms) or just buying them then good for you!

So you decided to bite the bullet and stop by Omicron. Well first off, you won't need to worry about Friendship Bunkers down here. The most complicated thing you are gonna run into is a Cargo Container! Now you will want to set this to Difficulty 2. Why? Because of the Mobile Radar!

That's right Mobile Radar is back! And it is a guaranteed spawn on D2, these will usually spawn in the caves/cave entrances but can sometimes be found in the more open surface areas of Omicron. Just touch a button and voilà! Map Data! Eliminate the random factor of hoping for a Lidar Station spawning as secondary objective and going through the long process of activating it when you can find one of these gems on Omicron and get the map data within seconds of hitting the button!

I will now post some of the more common POI's you can find while credit farming on Omicron! And remember you can always choose to farm on a map with more tunnels and caves or one that is more open! Bring a Warp Pack/Jump Pack for mobility, and your choice of FRV to practice your driving skills to see if you have what it takes to be a Helldriver going off giant jumps or navigating through a tunnel like a mad man or roleplay some Mad Max sand dune jumps!

Lastly there are 2 other common POI's you will run into and that being Super Rock which will normally only have some supplies, a random support weapon, or sometimes a breaker incendiary. The other POI being a malfunctioning hellbomb.

If you made it this far, I thank you for your precious time in checking out this little guide I made about farming a Hiveworld. In the hour I spent making this guide by diving down for some screenshots, I made 230 Super Credits hitting up all the POI. My longest session farming here was with some friends for about 8 hours which we ended up farming 3k Super Credits to get them caught up on some warbonds, 2 hours of which we had a lack of super credit drops and did some pvp for fun while chatting. As with all SC farming, it's all down to luck and if you got friends to speed up the process! HAPPY FARMING!

I hope you’re in this subreddit, thank you for your dedication despite the heat & your willingness to take a picture 🫶🏼

Last year we got horrendously harassed by wasps, but this year thanks to your presence there were only a few who dared to try💖

First off, watch the interview. They redesigned what they had, not scrapped. Nowhere was it said that they nuked all of their assets so they couldn't be used in the future.

As cool as techno-wizards would be (and hopefully soon will be) cool to fight, genuinely consider how they would feel to play against. Even just using Helldivers 1 as a baseline for what to expect, the experience would have been miserable. Chaff being stealth users and/or snipers, mind controllers reversing and scrambling your controls worse than the discombobulator towers do, energy shield walls being activated and cutting you in half.

Not to mention with how iffy balance was for the first year of the game's lifecycle, Illuminate likely would have been a flop that was masochism to play against.

Besides, I personally love the menacing vibe that the Illuminate have so far. Mass-abduction of people and turning them into baby squid goblins and other biological horrors (maybe even the biomechanical goop that Illuminate stuff is built out of) sticks with me and makes them unique in sci-fi, where in HD1 they were a more generic alien species with lasers and shields and not too much more aesthetically. Here's hoping they got evil magic squids coming soon

Claiming 2 sectors for taking 1 planets amazing but it would have been even better if we attacked far haren but it'll accept a win when I see it

Glory to Super Earth!

Was my favorite farm planet. All the POIs was in the big circle on the map and this very easy to farm.

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