Helldivers 2 is in a bit of a rough spot at the moment, mostly down to the ill-received Escalation of Freedom update which included a bunch of nerfs to fan favorite weapons. Arrowhead has promised it's gonna to work to improve the game based on fan feedback, and many are hoping that the imminent arrival of the Illuminate will breathe some new life into the game.
We still don't know when the Illuminate is coming, despite the massive number of leaks and in-game screenshots we've seen of them so far, but a new discovery made earlier today suggests they're right around the corner. First shared on the Helldivers 2 subreddit, a mysterious purple patch was spotted on the game's Galactic Map, before vanishing just as abruptly as it appeared.
A total of five different sectors turned purple, and a closer inspection revealed that the game had marked them as under "Illuminate Control." We know that fans on social media like to play weird jokes on occasion, and this could have easily been an elaborate hoax, but two separate threads by different people spotted the purple territory, ruling out the possibility of this being a very good edit.
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