Helldivers 2 players are currently dealing with unprecedented events. The Meridia black hole has moved and completely destroyed the planet of Angel's Venture. To add to that, excursions into the gloom have found horrific new Terminid sub species, and we haven't seen the worst of them yet. These are truly troubling times for liberty.
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While we have been given new weapons and a portable hellbomb to deal with these trying times, what we really need is more heroes. There's only that much that General Brach and John Helldiver can do on their own, we need new heroes to step up, and some Helldivers have done so.
Moving on from creating portable hellbomb trebuchets, the next big trend in Helldivers 2 appears to be to engage Terminid heavy units like the Charger and the Impaler in Soulslike combat, with nothing but a melee weapon and a shield. Melee weapons were finally added in the Omens of Tyranny update, and later on we got a hatchet and shovel.
Some players have shared videos of them going 1V1 against these massive Terminids, and even including a health bar and...