Another brilliant year in the corps! The bug-smashing, bot-smashing, democracy-delivering co-op shooter Helldivers 2 celebrated its 2nd birthday back in February, and now developers Arrowhead Game Studios have revealed the statistics of our efforts to deliver freedom across the galaxy over the past 365 days.
The team dropped this enlightening infographic on Xand it’s packed with fun stats and big numbers. 279,991,000,000 enemies—or threats to democracy—defeated, to use Super Earth’s official parlance; it’s a number so big I had to Google how to say it (that’s two hundred and seventy nine billion nine hundred and ninety one million).
There are some other fun stats in there, including a ranking of the game’s most popular stratagems. Not counting reinforcement and replenishment, because they are boring, the three most used lists were Eagle 500KG Bomb, Machine Gun Sentry, and Gatling Sentry. Not bad choices, but I’m furious that my beloved Orbital 380MM HE Barrage didn’t even make the top 10.
And finally – yes, we know what you’re here for – there’s the friendly fire stat. There have been 177 million incidents of friendly fire over the past year, and absolutely none of that came from my love for the aforementioned 380mm barrage. No, no siree.
In truth, I’m ready because the top three offenders for friendly fire were the Eagle Strafing Run (no surprise there, the exploded Eagle Storm modifier is always death to me), the B-100 Portable Hellbomb (oh, you attached a nuke with rip-cord to someone’s back and you’re shocked they died?), and the AX/ARC-3 trying their best).
Despite being two years old, Helldivers 2 continues to be one of those best space game out there, offering chaotic co-op third-person shooters, gorgeous visuals and a heavy undercurrent of satire. If you’re interested in joining the battle for Super Earth, it’s available now for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. I promise you probably won’t get hit by a 380mm boom.
