Agitators are the armored cyborgs, Vox Engines are impossible to miss, Obtruders are the variant of Watchers that doesn't call reinforcements and instead just shoots you, Gatekeepers are the squid mechs with guns for arms.

Happy hunting, Helldivers. O7

My brief life as a helldiver flashed before my eyes until I quickly realized it was just stimantha topping me off.

One of the biggest issues that a lot of people have with the Illuminate is enemy variety, and I really don't think that's much of a secret. Funny enough, another common thread I saw a lot during the Illuminate event was that fighting them on the source planet was, the most fun they've been. There's frankly a pretty good reason for this:

The Illuminate really just, don't have that many enemies.

I'm going to try and avoid some buzzwords that have been floating around ever since certain interviews (and way before that, too), but the fact of the matter is from a purely numbers-perspective, the Illuminate just don't have the variety the other factions do. Making this chart was merely a way to visualize what I mean by that.

An explanation I've sort of anticipated is that the Illuminate are younger than the other two factions, so they haven't had as much time to make enemies for them. Frankly, the numbers just don't support it. While I don't think the '1 enemy every X days' is a good metric (mainly because, y'know, the game didn't launch with 1 enemy in each faction), it is a good way of seeing just how many enemies are in each faction based on time they've released.

No matter what form they come in, there's really no denying that the Illuminate have the least amount of enemies in the game. Hell, their entire faction makes up a number less than a single seed of the Automatons. Most of their variants aren't reskins with new behavior or weapons like the other Subfactions, but rather entirely unique enemies that just don't have a counterpart on the main faction.

There really isn't a greater point to this post beyond this information, but to me at least, this is the most glaring flaw in how the Illuminate have sat for the past almost-two-years.

Some people say that 95%, when it turns bright red, is enough to get the 2.5x damage. But I’m not sure.

Rip to the Class C and lower citizens.

If yes, then i'll be the best kamikaze iO

Edit 1: I want to thank everyone for the quick answers that i received and for the useful tips! I'll buy the warbond and kill every strider i see on the map with the power of freedom!

If i clutch one day and have a moment with the hellbomb, i'll post It!

I hope your day is going great!! iO

You don't know Maurice like I do. He can fix it. Trust me, we got this.

Has Arrowhead said anything about this or is it just abandoned?

What is happening? The Void invasion lasted only nine days. We had those cool effects, like the planet looking like an eye watching you from the sky. Then we reached Seasse, the DSS got stolen, scientist and Calypso disappear and suddenly everything is supposedly ended ?

Why open up so many narrative paths with the ASS and all these campaigns if they just end halfway through? I understand that players got sick of the Illuminate after a while, but the plot could have continued with us chasing the DSS across other faction worlds.

Having the ASS destroyed completely offscreen without even a single picture was a massive letdown BUT this major update storyline just feels underwhelming.

The patches and gameplay are great, but I want a full meal on the lore too , not just a shot sometimes .

on the other end they could try to say that the illuminate have infiltrated SE with all this tcs+ dissident campaign .. but I just don't know if it is working ... at least not for me.

to whoever have red all of this.

Before being a mil-sim / horde shooter whatever you guys call it...Helldiver is a movie that keep going and we are just playing our part in it. the Lore needs to be kept crystal clear to keep people care of it.

(even if narrated with the eyes of SE)

No, they don't, because they want us to kill 50 million of them and that's never going to happen