New Helldivers 2 major order offers the chance to divide Automaton forces—fighting a war on two fronts being a famously winning tactic

The Helldivers crushed through their most recent major orders, with large-scale destruction of the Automatons on X-45 unlocking both a fancy new quad rocket launcher and the mysterious promise of an "interplanetary battle station." Players have to wait to discover what functionality the latter will offer (current speculation is some sort of clan system), but the galactic war waits for no citizen, and the new major order is for pretty much the first time encouraging some actual strategy beyond «blow them all up.» Even if that's still what we'll be doing.

Firstly, the X-45 MO was swiftly followed up with a new MO asking that players kill 100 million Terminids: which they achieved in a jaw-dropping eight hours. This resulted in the following Super Earth announcement of success, soon followed by yet another new major order:

«After an explosive force that took far less time than Super Earth High Command could have anticipated, there exists now one hundred million less fascist bugs in the Galaxy. Never underestimate the bug-killing capacity of Helldivers and an expanded arsenal! This application of controlled duress to the Terminid menace has resulted in some exciting findings, such as that the Terminids produce higher quality E-710 when harvested under extreme duress.»

«Close observation of the Terminids did uncover a new behaviour: the construction of spore-producing towers, roughly the size of small skyscrapers. This development appears to pose no threat, but will be carefully monitored.»

Sound familiar? Back in March the Helldivers had an MO focused on deploying Termicide towers, which were apparently going to pump some bug-genociding gas into the air and take care of business on a planetary scale. You guessed it: after the Helldivers had succeeded, it turned out the scientists got things wrong. The Termicide caused mutations and an explosion in the bug population, with the Helldivers once more called in to clean up the mess.

So the Terminids making their own copies