Helldivers 2 Players Are Mourning As "Robot Vietnam" Has Fallen

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Helldivers 2 is a pretty difficult game, especially if you're playing solo, but you'll struggle to find a planet in the game tougher than Malevelon Creek. Its reputation is so brutal that fans quickly dubbed the planet "Robot Vietnam" due to its jungle environment, ridiculous difficulty, and massive population of murderous robots. It's one of the game's more popular planets, but the reputation alone wasn't enough to stop it from succumbing to the robot horde.

Over the past few days, Malevelon Creek has been slowly falling into the hands of the Automatons, as clearly not enough soldiers have been fighting back against them. Last night, the planet was overtaken completely by the Automatons (thanks IGN), causing the Helldivers 2 community to go into a state of mourning for their fallen planet. As you can see below, Malevelon Creek has been overrun, with 0.00000 percent of the planet liberated.

Shortly after the planet fell, players on various social media platforms started making tributes to Malevelon Creek, expressing their disappointment that the battle was lost, remembering their fallen brothers in arms, and giving the planet one last sendoff before moving onto another fight. Democracy isn't going to wait while players mope around over one loss.

However, not everyone has given up the good fight, as there are some brave soldiers out there attempting to retake Malevelon Creek despite the overwhelming odds stacked against them. No longer is the planet's liberation meter at zero, as Twitter user Dommy has pointed out that there appears to be a genuine effort to retake the planet.

From Dommy's tweet, we can see that the planet's liberation meter has risen to 0.02640 percent, with 7,697 brave soldiers determined not to let Malevelon Creek fall into enemy hands. With the news that the fight is still raging, we can assume that this number will grow even higher in the coming hours and days. Hopefully, enough people will answer the call to arms and return to the fight, and