As one RU-vid comment said: It'd be cool if this also affected players who were in the middle of a mission. imagine you were in the middle of a mission having yet to complete the objective, then suddenly an extract vehicle flies in, urgently telling you to get the FUCK in the extract or be spaghettified.
It would be cool but it would not be worth the money go program such thing. The emergency ftl jump was a great excuse for not showing the explosion, as the players can be left to imagine it
Would they really extract at that point? Hell Divers are expendable assets after all why waste the time and risk the transports when you can just make more Hell Divers? A lot cheaper than building more transports.
It was a nightmare to disperse the dark fluid into the planet. Hell it was even harder to escape if you were successful since a massive amount of shriekers would attack you while waiting for the pelican to land.
I hadn’t played for a couple of days and when I came back was confronted with the black hole. A very cool moment! Hope they bust out some supernovas or something next
Would have been really cool if the moment this event triggered all Helldivers on the surface had their missions cancelled with an emergency extraction countdown timer. Maybe frequent tremors during it too
@@noynayru he meant the emergency FTL jump fellas, you can miss that if you didn't have a on-going operation at meridia, in turn he missed that which is pretty sad since the ship even turns to a alert status and has red lights active everywhere when it happens, pretty cool stuff.
@@micahthezilla9432 true true but Hellmire is one of the more known ones so it has more of an effect on us. Personally I have a grudge against it Hellmire since my first mission was on Hellmire.
Helldiver if the ministry of truth says the illuminate are dead they are dead if you continue to talk about these extinct creatures as if they are alive i will have to report this to the democracy officer
That might (key word "might") be the plan/intent. I don't play anymore, but I am wholeheartedly keeping tabs on the game. I wanna know if the Illuminate will come back or not.
meridia makes me so sad, such a simple yet beautiful planet, forlorn to destruction due to the incompetence of our ex-"greatest minds." may we still prosper, despite such a setback.
Termicide was perfectly designed, Helldiver. Nobody could have forseen the bugs mutating to adapt to the chemical. You should contact a representative of the Ministry of Truth if you need further education
What’s sad is the number of helldivers that died dispersing the termacide, only, for those of us who survived, to learn that the bugs mutated and adapted to it making them deadlier. I’ll say dispersing that termacide was one of the hardest missions I’ve taken part in.
My brother and I were on the SES Star of War looking into the abyss. It had been a few months since we had been defrosted. We had seen fighting across the galaxy. Vernon Wells, Malevelon Creek, Menkent, Hellmire, Angels Venture were all full of close calls and pitched battles. But nothing could prepare us for this. The Star of War creaked and groaned is it struggled to stay in place. We watched as the gaping maw in the universe sucked in everything it could around it. It was a dark shade of purple and blotted out the stars around it for some reason. My brother and I stood there staring at it. "I feel sick." The Democracy Officer said as he left the bridge. I looked around to see if anyone was close enough to listen. "There is going to be consequences for this you know." I said to my brother. He was still looking into the void. I could tell even with his helmet on he had a look of concern on his face. "Yes." Was all he could reply.
I hopped on after the implosion but I had been fighting on meridia the day before and as I loaded in I saw the massive black hole and then the emergency jump kicked in. It was awesome
I was on the planet during this. Black stuff started spouting out of the ground, and the whole planet started shaking, like legit tremors started happening. _"THIS MUST BE HOW CADIA MUST'VE FELT!"_
I logged in just as this happened. Thought I was being hijacked or something, was standing watching the planet just like that, and all of a sudden, we were going to Super Earth.
You can't. You need an active mission to activate the use of hell pods. Since super earth is not an active war zone, no missions. Therefore no hell pods. Would be an interesting thought though one day!
The combined mass of all the bugs in the universe is peanuts compared to what it takes to create a singularity. It would have a miniscule effect on the event horizon. But a single system doesn't contain enough mass to create a black hole, either. I'm not sure how it's supposed to make sense that that's what we did by injecting one planet with black goo. I get the creeping suspicion there's something Super Earth isn't telling us...
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@@Astro-ex5ye Nah, it's not that simple. There are forces that hold the components of atoms together, that hold atoms together, that repel atoms from each other, etc. To form a self-sustaining singularity, the mass of the singularity must produce sufficient gravitational effect to counteract the strongest of those forces. Otherwise, as soon as the compressing force abates, the compressed mass would explode outward again. Gravity offers continuous compression, but only if mass within a certain volume exceeds a threshold. It takes *a lot* of mass to produce that much gravity though.
How cool would it have been if you could authorise the jump, and if you don't then you get sucked in instantly and then your destroyer is destroyed (You keep all your stuff)
I was there when it happen and men I freak out bad XD I didnt know what to think, I even consider that Super earth was under attack and we where call in to rienforce
From what I understand, the FTL system, the shields, dark fluid and maybe the lasers are all illuminate technology that Super Earth plundered from the first war
This makes me feel better about missing it. I thought that if you were in orbit, it would show it up close as it collapsed and that would have been sick! But since it was just a change on the map then you have to jump back, I’m okay. Still mad I didn’t have time to play a dark liquid mission, especially after the patch. It took like 10 hours post patch lol
jesus christ this was such a let down. someone chucked a shitty cgi circle and called it a day. no cutscene, fkn no dialogue, not even a super earth cutscene or any civilian/worker footage of someone being on meridia when it happened or being extracted just before it happens, theres no gravity to it, no planetary destruction. automatons returning actually felt like something even if it was just a few ships appearing on the map
I remeber i just got off the evac transport. Heard the siren's, raced to bridge and saw that black hole were the planet i was just on was. Crazy day that was.
Theyve done it pretty well. Even though Meridia collapsed into a blackhole, it would have the same gravity as the mass is still the same, so you can visit it with a safe orbit at about the same distance (in terms of gravitational force) without any problems. But the blast would be lethal though.
Fascinating they need your authorisation, when you are designed to be expendable. You come out of frozen pods, the wall defense missions has you protect rockets filled with pods and have you noticed the crew's names are never the same?
... a single page comic couldve shown more than this silly ... wtf was this? shouldve made a whole cutscene like 1 min long showing an emergency and your ship doing a FTL.jump, and a whole.planet getting swallowed up like prom night.... NO! that wouldve taken 60 Billion dollars and 5 years, and a studio of 100k engineers to create!
Yeah it was weird while it happened, I thought there was going to be some sort of supermission on Earth like an invasion, but I mean a black hole is cool too LOL
It's not a black hole, but a worm hole. From which there might be some.. wierd stuff happening. Maybe it has become a gateway to something... illuminating. Hmm... strange.
I recently launched the game and last time I left I was on that planet. You basically logged in a black hole with the ship lights being dark. I could do a whole operation on the "destroyed" planet. It was funny because we (invited friend) were the only people on the "planet" according to the map. It was fun because I totally missed that biome. I can't follow the dumb MMO lore due to work.
1:40 I don't know why, but I was expecting a relatively realistic representation of what a black hole looks like, as in the event horizon and bending of light; we have a pretty accurate model for it already. Instead we just got this ugly thing. Truly, very "beautiful."
Well since we're here, let's take a pod down to the surface and have a look around then. I'd like to have the opportunity to explore Earth's cities for a-few days.
I choose the worst time to stop playing. All of this happening is so sick! I've been on since day 1, following the story.. but the addiciton is too much. Had to call it and bridle the passion.
if bugs are a source of spaceoil wouldn't make it more sense to keep the planet as one big oil plantation (note for ministry of truth this is not criticizing the decision making of Super Earth strategic command just a question aimed at increasing helldivers tactical capabilities)
Well that’s one way to get the Illuminate’s attention. Also, does anyone feel the compulsion to just throw stratagems into the black hole or is it just me?
I understand the effort-to-result ratio is too high to actually show the planet start to collapse, but this cinematic could have been so much cooler. Would it have been too much just to see the entire armada jump out at the same time?
