The Complete Lore of the Helldivers Universe

I was thinking about delaying this video due to the news surrounding Helldivers and PSN accounts, but decided to upload the video anyway and cover the situation before the video starts. I plan on talking more about it in the near future. Be respectful to the devs at Arrowhead, in recent news it's been reported that they're doing what they can to help us out. This unfortunate decision was Sony's doing after all. Bad news aside, I genuinely hope you enjoy this video as much as I did researching and putting it together!

You forgot to add the part where the helldivers, terminids, automatons, and Joel all teamed up to wage war against the gods, Sony

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holy shit the automatons pulled a Battle Of The Bulge

In fact, the second galactic war was declared only a few days ago. Before that, it was called "special military operations." We all know what that refers to.

This is so cool. Hearing you go over battles/operations and thinking "wow, I was a part of that.". You should totally do like quarterly updates of the 2nd war. Archives of our actions should be kept for future generations haha.

My favorite piece of implied lore is that the helldivers aren't even an "elite" force. The extremely short tutorial is a cake walk, and the only boot camp training a recruit undergoes. They're stored in cryo like disposable meat, and the average life expectancy of a diver in the field is two minutes.

One note: canonically the first galactic war took place in 2084, such was the second galactic war started 2184, it’s an intentional 1984 reference by the developers. Other than the dates not lining up, great video!

I love the idea of trying to create the Automatons to be horrifying to Helldivers in appearance, but we just continue to throw ourselves at them

if arrowhead ever decides to bring back the illuminate, we're gonna have another malevelon creek on our hands. edit: yup it's happening. we called it.

We Completed the First True Major Order Sony Backed down... Have A Cup Of Liber-Tea Sony

Fun fact before yesterday the 15 of May we weren't in the second galactic war. Major Orders and all the mission before where "tactical strikes" but now since we failed 2 major orders, Dispatch told us that we are entering the second galactic war.

As somebody who loves live service games, the move from Destiny to Helldivers has been so refreshing. I don’t feel like I’m being nickel-and-dimed for every single piece of content anymore

As a new diver, thank you for catching me up. Im building my skills killing bugs before I jump into anything with bots

Somehow the notion that the bugs are out there to destroy our family values is simply hilarious 😂👍

A friend and I found a bug corpse on a bot world. How did it get there, and what is Joel cooking?

God its so surreal that I was there and fought in almost every event in the second galactic war- and even more surreal to learn that all of this has only been for 2 months. It feels like almost years at this point, as so much has happened, and this video lays out the events perfectly. Rock on bruh, would love to see another one of these in another few months detailing how inevitably worse it'll get for us on the front lol

Just a quick addition, the first generation of Helldivers were first deployed on Earth to combat the last nation opposing the federation, conventional deployment methods where inneffective against them so the Hellpod and subsequently the Helldivers where formed. This is why I'd like to think that in the 1st game we play as 2nd generation Helldivers and the 2nd game we play as 3rd generation helldivers.

Amazing retelling! Beautiful wording and you really captured the feeling! Also I hope that the extra background you gave on a lot of terms and events, gives future divers a really good catch up. Thank you!

Even Ps5 players are mad about the change. Anyway, time to watch the video