Helldivers 2's Joel gives cruelest Major Order yet as High Command eyes "disenfranchised families" as "cheap labor" to work on the dangerously sketchy new superweapon

gamesradar.com:

Helldivers 2 players are faced with potentially their most morally dubious Major Order yet: help High Command enlist families of refugees to build the structurally unsound superweapon called Democracy Space Station... which doesn't have beds or toilets and is at risk of collapse and self-combustion.

That's pretty messed up, man. It is far from the first time I've seriously questioned the moral fortitude of Helldivers 2 Game Master Joel, who previously sent freedom fighters to literally blow up bug babies and sacrificed the well-being of sick children to help get the DSS built. Oh, not to mention the fact that the latest MO was widely called "unwinnable" and, wouldn't you know it, was not won.

Still, I think this latest MO might be the elusive game master's cruelest update yet. In a tweet, Arrowhead said Helldivers 2 players failing to complete the most recent MO was a "minor setback" and then went ahead with describing a new MO with some truly irredeemable demands.

"Despite the narrow setback, construction of the DSS continues unabated," reads the tweet. "It is currently in its third construction phase, and before it can be activated, it must be staffed. Fortunately, cheap labor is emerging from the colonies near the Gloom that is currently experiencing something of an eruption with extremely fierce attacks coming out of it.

"The Helldivers are ordered to hold the designated planets while these disenfranchised families make their new home aboard the superweapon."

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Basically, the Terminids are attacking planets obscured by the spore cloud they created called The Gloom, and families fleeing these planets are being recruited by High Command, and apparently