Helldivers 2 | The Automaton Theater - Phase II: The Battle of Malevelon Creek 3/30/2024

Part 20 gameplay of Helldivers 2, conducted on the Automaton Front, played on PS5.
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Galactic War Effort Recap: Automaton Front
With the capture of Troost, the SEAF has managed to decommission the Automaton Communications Array and examined it for intel it may contain. According to Super Earth intelligence, the array had been broadcasting a signal to a location outside the Galactic Frontier. As analysts work to decode the signal and learn more, members of the SEAF have taken this revelation a bit more ominously, linking the strange communications to the reported energy sightings back in Terminid space. As the days go on, more and more soldiers increasingly believe that the Illuminate is still out there, and that they may be the ones communicating with the Automatons, conspiring together with intentions for galactic domination.
Though the transmissions are incomplete, the analysts managed to decode a segment that contained blueprints for a new Automaton bot design in the form of an Areal Gunship. This has spurred the engineering minds of Super Earth to start developing advanced anti-air weaponry. In addition, the segment listed the planet Tibit as the chief manufacturer of Automaton forces, supplying the bulk of the bot's armed forces. Believing Tibit to be the source of the Automaton war machine and the development site of this new gunship design, Super Earth issued major orders to the SEAF to capture planets Ingmar, Mantes, Malevelon Creek, and Draupnir on the route to Tibit.
With Planets Ingmar and Mantes already previously secured, Malevelon Creek becomes the next logical choice on the push southward. Chief SpecterAG travels to the highly contested planet in hopes of turning the tide of battle there and push the lines toward their objective.

Chapters:
0:00 - Sabotage Air Base
33:37 - Launch ICBM
57:25 - Emergency Evacuation
1:27:01 - Launch ICBM

About the Game:
Released in 2024, Helldivers 2 is a cooperative third-person shooter game developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is the direct sequel to 2015’s Helldivers. It was released for both PlayStation 5 and Windows February 8, 2024. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and sold over 1 million units within the first month of its release.

Set roughly 100 years after the triumph of Super Earth over its enemies from the first game, humanity enjoys an era of peace and colonization across the galaxy. However, while cultivating a highly valuable resource known as E-710 from a Terminid farm, the farm suffers a breach and the ravenous insectoids break free, rapidly spreading and reproducing across many planets and leaving chaos and destruction in their wake. As Humanity begins waging war against the Terminids, a new threat emerges in the form of the Automatons, a terminator-like mechanical army intent on conquering Cyberstan and ultimately destroying humanity. For players, their roles begin with their recruitment into the Helldiver Corps, a name given the elite shock troops of the Super Earth's Armed Forces (SEAF) and dropped from orbit to reclaim the colonized planets. As the player wages war across the galaxy, clues and environmental storytelling can be discovered, revealing more about the ongoing war and the true motivations behind both sides.