Illuminate Combat Theme | Helldivers 2 OST 

You're retreating from plasma balls, limbs moving in reverse, stratagem scrambled to some alien combination. Then out of nowhere, a wall appears blocking your escape route. Then you get sniped by a blue beam and die.

@@viriyo4958 At the very least you didn't got instantly dismembered by the energy wall. I am speaking from experience.

Nah. Pretty much all bots can just be outrun. Gotta go fast!

@@0V3RLO0K That one machine gun mech was so good at killing them, except when they spawned a shield and split you in half instantly exploding you.. I speak from experience

@@Batatero1 Relatable...

They always have been my favoorite factions to fight in the first game....

I may not be a creek crawler, but I was among the first batch to the creek. I'm scared of the illuminate hearing the stories from veterans of the first galactic war

by far the harder faction to fight in the first, bearly anyone fights the bots already the illumin will be given free reign of their side of the galaxy@@snipman8067

They are gonna make the creek look like a tutorial

as a man of challenge and words I will feast on this new challenge

we all gonna die, but at least am going to be jamming

My life will be infinitely given in service of SUPER EARTH

I never payed the first helldivers. But the illuminate are basically the covenant, the predators and war of the worlds rolled into one 😅😅

Predator/Alien theme. Full on attack of xenophobia, fear of the unknown. Terminids are based from Starship Troopers movie where there is a clear good guy/bad guy so it tends to sound like a hero in a crisis. Automatons were based on terminator robots but they're the opposing 'humanoid' side that choose machinery over their humanity so it's a war between democracy vs. communism, a gritty battle of ideology. We have yet to see illuminates and know barely anything about them in the sequel. So when they attack, it's a sudden attack that comes out of nowhere like an ambush. That's why the whole theme is sounds like a scifi horror movie, something sinister that you have no knowledge of us hunting you.

@@ythandlename cold

What you mean by "controls", soldier? The records from the First Galactic War state that illusionists and council members cast a neurological pulse on you.

How smart could they possibly be?

​@@sandgunslinger2739 Play the first Helldivers and see for yourself. They are a fucking nightmare even for the most experienced helldiver.

@sandgunslinger2739 They got walls ,man. There's a unit that spawns walls at will. Imagine your running to evac, and it just spawns a wall blocking your way. You're gonna wish you brought a jumppack.

@@kaylormurillo7207 can you go around the walls?

And then block your escape route with a wall before frying you with a massive electric beam fired from a 5-story tripod

What the actual fuck💀

Damn... Respect to all HD1 veterans 😢

@@ShadowSausageayup

Bro I ain’t played hd1 I’m gonna get cooked

*flying drone and camera rotation sounds in the distance*

*Sudden alarmsounds*

...They can't do that that's fake... Right?

​@@XJen586those noises always keep me on edge in illuminate missions

​@@Jyoryaxxbeware the blue walls beware the igloo of death

Super Earth - Overwhelming determination

against terminids: outnumbered against automatons: outgunned against the illuminate: outsmarted

This sounds like a dissident

Battleship moment

My thought is that the previous illuminate were a rebel faction that the main body allowed us to conveniently deal with, but after sending MERIDIA to their doorstep they have had enough of our shit

@@flygawnebardoflight It's so funny that we actually just amazoned a super colony to probably like their home planet or something

Private mining company you say, sound like a ROCK AND STONE

a marine story driven halo game would kinda go hard tho

@@PowerChicken2k literally halo 3 odst

@@Dr.FeelGoose real

Automatons is Terminator

@@Dr.FeelGoose my favourite thing about ODST is how it makes you *feel* so much weaker than when you're playing a Spartan. You're like holy shit, these Covenant guys really do have way superior firepower.

I see what you did there, fam 😂 These new divers won't get the meaning until they get struck by a neuro pulse.

Illuminates: have shields 500 kg bomb: ... Helldivers: ...

@@victuz I'm convinced the Illuminated are just waiting for us to get our muscle memory embeded before fucking with us.

heavy strafing run

@@vinverita That’s assuming you dropped a 500 and not a resupply.

True. Using an armored carrier was basically a death sentence when the obelisks were involved

Bro what WALL, please don't tell these guys have qorvex's 2nd ability from warframe I'm actually going to kill myself if that's the case 💀

​@@ethanleonguerrero7935 the illuminate heavy armor unit was a teleporting support structure. when undeployed, it had extremely high shields when deployed, it had no shields, but would spawn an extremely long wall (originating from it) that it would try to telefrag you with. getting caught inside was instant death no matter what, so using vehicles against the illumate was always an extremely risky gamble

@@purpleisthesneakiest Slight correction: while undeployed the Obelisk had an armoured dome that was immune to EVERYTHING we could throw at it. Rockets, railcannon, the literal fucking *NUKE*, all those washed over it - and only it remained. When deployed though, they had a VERY strong shield, but once that was gone a single tap to the core blew it the hell up. Other than that, yeah - spot on.

Or have false enemies appear any you shoot at them but they are not appearing for other people and it’s a mind fuck before the storm

There was a leak hinting towards hallucinations being added.

God that’s so evil, I hope that happens

​@@twilightparanormalresearch186Lethal Company's Ghost Girl all over again 💀

@@twilightparanormalresearch186 schizophrenia attack, they have an illusionist so its very likely

How tf do you combat inversed inputs?!!😮

@@LaserTractorun reverse! :D

​@@LaserTractor You use uno reverse

@@kassaken6521 i barely input normal stratagem commands

@@LaserTractor personal shield generator.

I'd like to imagine a giant blue portal would appear and a huge swarm of enemies will slowly walk out from it like the Avengers.

Would be awesome if we got more cinematics.

they kinda do that in helldivers 1. The scouts will just "squeak" and illuminate units teleport in immediately

Nah they still have drones to act as scouts, problem is those scouts were often cloaked and you had a small window to destroy it before it call their reinforments

finally they will canonise the instant reinforcement spawns ontop of players

One: you are scared Two: you say our enemie's theme is good That's two traitor's talk in a row...

As it should be Helldiver, Managed Democracy takes sacrifice and it is paid with the blood of your enemies, march forward knowing Super Earth has your back, for Liber-Tea!!! 😜

@@Nahuel4989he also said the enemy is strong

⬆➡⬇⬇⬇

As an ultrakill fan and doom fan, this is so real

😟

We are going to need more firepower than what the cutting edge warbond provides.

Democratic Demolition

90% arc resistance go brrrr

the scariest part of that is super earth giving us armour with near 100% arc protection just to prepare us

Oh no… I remember.

hoi mccat :3

@@ytgeneralblarg8897 oh hey blarg

@@mccat6235 helldive with me sometime uwu

​@@ytgeneralblarg8897Democracy Officer, right there.

at least your anxiety will already be there when the Squith come back for revenge

pre-traumatic stress disorder

The 702nd Hell Rangers will be ready for everything o7 Skull Admiral sir

We will feast on calamari in hell

Excuse me, I think I just shat my hellpod.

I'll be ready to fight them with my fists if I have to. I've been like a caged rabid dog against these bots.

Oh sweet liberty...

Real

If anything the illuminate will need buffs. Absolutely no nerfing the squids!

Try playing against them on The Inner Circle of Hell difficulty and you will see something harder than Dark Souls.

Bro these cadets can’t handle the bots. The Illuminate are going to eviscerate them. Good. We need only the strongest Divers if we want to truly spread Democracy.

I want them to be legitimately hard. Bugs and bots are challenging on Helldive, but I want some Halo 2 Legendary levels of challenge with these guys. I want to genuinely dread fighting them

Like getting cut in half by energy walls.

at least the soundtrack to our deaths will be fire

Was talking to a vet in a server im in and all they could muster was warnings about their deep seeded trauma involving "walls of light" and scrambled controls

As a non vet i always saw the creek as no more than just flooded with scrap metals, But all the stories ive heard It gives chills and very liltle hope, If our cadets struggle with a bunch of microwaves that rely on firepower, and bugs that are just a warm up, how thfuk can we win a war against intelligent strategic beings with redicilous tech We're fked💀...

@@MagosspudThose fucking walls, man..

Ah yes the illuminate, singlehandedly responsibe for almost every defeat Hd1 Super Earth had.

what if raven team leader had an emote...

Raven team leader….. do the emote

@@imperatornoinga3646 WILD

@@imperatornoinga3646 what does that have to do with ANYTHING?!

From what I understand they originate from outside our galaxy. And what we encountered in HD1 was like, a scouting colony just setting up shop in the milky way

I think they all hold a century old grudge Except maybe the automatons, but I bet cyborg propaganda has corrupted their “minds” worse than the other factions

Bro I'm a rookie myself and I can't keep thinking that the worst is yet to come, and the divers going on about malevelon have no idea Especially considering its likely were going to lose a LOT of ground and a lot of HARD campaigns since super earth has a liberation status

As a rookie building up my knowledge and resources who hasn't even touched Malevelon Creek. I fear for my future survival. I know that I am currently ill equipped to deal with just the bots. Let alone the illuminate.

@@quantumslime7265 the good thing about the illuminate is that they are somewhere between bugs and bots when it comes to how easy it is to take them down. Most have a shield, but if it's going to be like in helldivers 1, your trusty flamethower will ignore the shield partially, with the flame AoE dealing damage through the shield. They are also not *as* range focused as the bots, there aren't as many ranged units and will mostly melee you. There are a few troublesome things though that, despite them being between the two existing factions when it comes to tankiness, will makes them harder to face than the bots. I kid you not, Malevelon Creek will look like a playground in comparison. 1: the illuminate use hit 'n run tactics using teleportation and cloaking technology. 2: as i mentioned, they have shields. They will not be as well armored, but most of them will have a shield that requires to be shot first. 3: snipers. A common fodder they set in a lot can snipe you from a distance in combination with their ambush tactics. And this is just the tip of what they will bring to the table. Honestly though, comparing to what we got, they are a bless to fight. My favorite faction to fight in hd1 as well. The bugs are mere ferals, the bots are AI that focus on overwhelming forces. The illuminate is the only faction besides humans with a true sentience, and thus fighting them will feel like you're actually going to space vietnam and more. I'd recommend picking up the first game yourself though, trust me when i say that everything about helldivers 2 is in spirit of the first game, and it is just as fun.

@@wickerg041 Yikes. That sounds simultaneously like hell and a lot of fun. Maybe I'll take your advice and try the first game out. Especially since I'm a greenie who jumped on the hype train of HD 2. Thanks for the input.

@@quantumslime7265 no problem! And imo the best way to prepare for the illuminate is by playing the first game. Fun fact btw, in the first game the automatons are not the automatons. They were actually cyborgs with an interesting lore, humans that declared independence from super earth. It's an experience you gotta experience yourself tbh, since without helldivers 1 there would not be a 2. And so you can proudly say, "i went from hypetrain ride to full liberty enjoyer!"

Maybe you won't weakling, but i can

@@Assassino275 said by the top 10 of players to die first

@@Q...........- fine then, you can hide. I'm taking the fight to em

@@Assassino275 "sounds like you won't be able to hide from them" "maybe you won't, weakling" so you're going to try hiding?

@@Assassino275 cocky attitude will get you killed first in the Illumnate front

Get ready to be split in to by a fucking wall, get fried by lighting, sniped by blue beams, snuck up on by invisible soldiers, and have your controls reversed

Nah this is worse, probably gonna be battle of the bulge, Argonne forest or Dday if we are lucky, unlucky it will be goddamn Stalingrad

@@twilightparanormalresearch186 no he’s right though the illuminate do hit and run tactics and use walls to limit your movement. They don’t use overwhelming numbers and firepower the automatons do that

We got a whole battle of Shiloh ahead of us. Imagine the terror, millions of dead Helldivers in one day.

Ironically illuminates will feel more like space vietnam than what the bots do.

I readed some comment that it "will be some kind of dark hole fluid to destroy meridia, and after that it will be the perfect time for illuminate to strike". I think it is what will happen.

@@Tanksnstuffswe 100% are destroying Merida because my democracy officer said it was already destroyed in a voice line

i’m calling it; before the summer is over, the illuminate will be back. Either in full force as a third faction or very rarely and quietly messing with players on other fronts

@@goofyahhman9848 they’re gonna be both We know this because of leaks…

We are here.

GOOD LORD, WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE?

after hearing stories what our great grandparents fought in the first galactic war, I'm going to need something bigger than my autocannon and dominator....

I am ready poor bucks

​@@IAmTheStig32 Planet: Meridia Status: destroyed by a black hole created with the Illuminate-origin substance from the first war (??unclear if destroyed??) Results: a black hole with weird noises Well, prepare your PTSD chromosomes, Divers

Aurora borialis

Rip and liberate until it is free

I have a bad feelin' about this lads... 😱

Of course he is, if the war is going too well, it means you are missing something big. Expect the Termicide to blow up in our faces somehow and the Bots to do a major incursion that will take everyone by surprise at the same time the Illuminate make their move. This will take all hands on deck just to stop them and even then even Super Earth will be in jeopardy.

No he aint, trust

Joel got the chef hat, everyone get ready

I knew helldivers 2 was a combination of great sci-fi action movies

Illuminate: Mass Effect, War of the Worlds, Xcom

FIghting the automatons legit feels like Kyle Reese simulator sometimes

Illuminate is more like war of the worlds with how some of the units look, both have the squid connection and the title fits what’s going on between them terminids is essentially pest control, cyborgs/automatons is more like an rebellion of people originally from super earth itself but only the illuminate is truly a clash between worlds

Illuminate - Predator

Had to buy Helldivers 1 just to practice fighting Illuminate lol

Once the Illuminate show up, the bots and the bugs are gonna look like chumps

@@thegamingplaguedoctorI’ve focused on bots so I am ready for them, since level 1 I’ve done mostly bot missions, only a few bug missions. If anyone is ready for the illuminate it’s going to be the automaton helldivers.

@@mclovin2408Honestly, while the automatons teach you how to survive overwhelming firepower, the Illuminate will probably require the knowledge of how to not get yourself killed with their nonsensical abilities

@@captainbolterthe walls sarge, they keep bringing up the WALLS!!!!’

@@mclovin2408 the only helldivers that might be able to handle stress inducing situations

Yeah that's terrifying

dropping on illuminate planets with all my controls pre-bound to the opposite directions. YOU'RE ONLY BUFFING ME, FOOLISH CUTTLEFISH

​@@biblequotesdaily6618The input inversions stack.

I'm sorry *_what_*

@@Kirithian_OW If you get inverted twice, you're back to normal inputs since it reverses the already inverted inputs. When the first inversion effect ends, you're back to inverted inputs. When the second inversion effect ends too, you're back to normal. *insert Illuminate theme for dramatic ambiance* The. Input. Inversions. Stack.

Democracy officer? Yes, that one right there. That one knows too much.

@@ryeo9907 There's also a new type of robot on the illegal broadcasts!!! You can see it on any bot mission--wait. Wait, get off me!!!

@@rightnut6270 Democracy Officer: "Objective complete: Illegal broadcast has been terminated"

Facts

my brother in Draupnir if i ever see fog again im going to flip my shit

Don't get too cocky, arrogant pride is what lost us the Creek the first time

Let then come your so funny man if they are anything like the first game you won't see them coming masters of cloaking tech and disruption tactics they specialize in hit and run divide and conquer tactics I personally am not looking forward to the meeting the cloaked snipers again

I was among the last Creek Vets to retreat after the planet fell, I thought draupnir would be quick and easy before we went back to the real fight. It ended up being just as worse, the fucking robots have dug in on the mountainsides, ICBMS are useless when they're dug in so deeply. All we can do is go in and close off the exits and hope we get critical damage

@@ShadowBoss99 it is what it is.

If we cannot band together against the Illuminate, we might not have a chance. They are just as deadly as the Covenant from Halo.

​@@thegamingplaguedoctor it'll be a cold day in hell before I let some alien commie set foot on super earth.

​@@thegamingplaguedoctorI would like to correct you. They're WORSE (I didn't really struggle throughout Halo, and I'm pretty bad at videogames)

What god are you talking about?

Perhaps you​@@GabrielLANSALOT-CARON Helldiver. OGs kicked their butts the last time, and now they are ready to ascend to godhood by overthrowing their "gods oppressors"

The illuminate are basically just ethereals

Booby trap the map

Luckly I got my Orbital Rail Canon.. Wait why is the laser coming this way? No no no no n- [SIGNAL LOST]

​@@StephenDelRosario777 people are gonna be sooo mad about the shields and that they have to change their playstyle for illuminates

@@Negrogarcabbc Indeed. Not many people play automatons, so because of the difficulty of the illuminates, I doubt many people will fight them. But I plan to. Sounds like fun and hell at the same time.

This shit had me burst out laughing 😭

​@@Reeses7501This aged well😂😂😂

Mission 👏👏accomplished👏👏🦅🦅🦅

Lore aside… there were 139 wars in the first game (when we won or lost super earth it reset) yeah one time the squid destroyed super earth in 6 days… shortest war in helldivers history so yeah… don’t be overconfident my friend

what

@@thegamingplaguedoctor 👽

​@@thegamingplaguedoctor ayyy lmao 👽

Photos printed? 🚶‍♂️‍➡️

@@b0neless437 vorp?

That's pretty much how it went in HD1 so it should be the same in HD2.

Listen, if I can kill a tank then I could kill at least one illuminate shield

Thanks for the warning I've got my squad trained to play be stealthy so this should be interesting

from some audio leaks a terrifying discovery has been made that we gotta use flares to see them since the planets we'll be fighting them on are so dark and dense, downside to using flares is that they can see you and stealth aint an option, downside to NOT using them is that you cant really fight what you can't see and in the end even with flares the cloaking will get you

@@Gmh-man the one reply I click on is a leak :( (it’s all good though)

Enormous cope, Joel's cooking us instead, it's so fucking over

Me and my friends LOVE the struggle of the game, and helldive bot missions aren’t really cutting it anymore. We *want* something that pushes us outside of our comfort zones, and forces us to adapt quickly in order to survive.

Don’t worry, Halo vet whose beaten every campaign on Legendary, as well as a couple LASOs, at your service.

Like vietnam vets to the soon to be afghan vets

DUDE I THOUGHT THE SAME THING HAHAHAHA

BECAUSE ITS GONNA FEEL THAT WAY! These creatures are vicious!

Thats would be sooooo cool omg

the unsc were the good guys though...

@@Jman0163 in saying that we are gonna be the UNSC. We are the good guys

@@teagan5494 but we're the ones who wanna kill them all for no reason. kinda covenant-core.

@@Jman0163 That is some undemocratic rhetoric I am reporting you to your nearest democracy officer

@@teagan5494 Except we *started* the war, much like the Covenant