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By now, the majority of players are aware that the Democracy Space Station was launched and that it didn’t deliver. Or, it delivered too much in a way. After funding and activating Planetary Bombardment, the players were mostly blown away by it. Literally. So, the Helldivers 2 devs developers gave the players a little boost in the form of a Temporary DSS Augmentation, as well as a lore reminder for what went wrong.
Why Was the Temporary DSS Augmentation Necessary?
On November 15, while struggling with the Major Order, fighting on Mastia and Gaellivare simultaneously, and feeling frustrated by the DSS, players received a little boost. The official Helldivers 2 page on X made an announcement.
It read: “TEMPORARY DSS AUGMENTATION. High Command has authorized augmentations to Helldiver loadouts while the Planetary Bombardment Tactical Action is active, in order to ameliorate an unexpectedly steep increase in heroic sacrifices. This is a temporary change, while a full assessment of the optimal number of sacrifices is underway”.
The Community Manager, Baskinator, took to Reddit and offered some more details. She stated: “To tackle the excessive bombardments by our novice gunners in the Democracy Space Station, SEAF has authorized emergency usage of the following: Shield emplacements to mitigate blast damage. Bonus reinforcements to help Helldivers complete missions in affected areas. This is a temporary change, with further assessment of the DSS Tactical Actions to be carried out by High Command”.
Even though many players were still unsatisfied, some found relief in the small nod to lore. As you might remember, the previous Major Order had the Helldivers help out with the evacuation of citizens of the planets near the Gloom. The evacuated citizens became staff on the DSS. However, they obviously didn’t get the proper training which caused many unnecessary deaths.
Lowd70 noted: “I, for one, appreciate how AH addresses issues rather quickly and in a rather comedic lore fashion”. BluestOfTheRaccoons added: “They are obviously working on an actual fix. They just did this as obviously a band-aid fix to help mitigate the issue”.
Helldivers 2 Player Offers Possible Lore Reason for the State of the DSS
Not only did the lore reason for the troubles with Planetary Bombardment and the Temporary DSS Augmentation delight the Helldivers 2 players, but it inspired them to come up with a possible explanation for all the problems with the DSS. As many players know, it’s sometimes hard to tell if Helldivers are good guys or bad guys. It’s treasonous to even think it, but, the DSS, being in the state that it is, might point to Super Earth actually being bad.
One player, the_damned_actually, noted: “The DSS as a symbol of government overspend on a giant useless military “wonder weapon” that does nothing is a great bit of unintentional satire. It’s pretty funny that in-universe Super Earth spent months and millions of lives and credits to build what is essentially a very efficient friendly fire boondoggle”.
So, do you think someone embezzled the funds that the players had been collecting for months? It can’t be possible, it’s Super Earth, after all, the most democratic of all the places in the universe. So, let’s keep spreading some Managed Democracy. For Liberty and Super Earth.