What you need to know
- Update: Helldivers successfully freed Estanu in less than 24 hours, and as a result, Fori Prime is now available to play and free. This quick win gives me hope that even if the community releases this Grand Order, it will be able to take it, Hellmire, Nivel 43, and It will still be extremely difficult to complete Zagon Prime in two days.
- Helldivers 2’s latest Grand Order directs players to rid the planets Zagon Prime and Fori Prime of bugs on Friday morning, which, if accomplished, will reward the community with 35 Warbond Medals.
- Although both worlds are currently behind enemy lines, making it impossible to fight them at the moment. This is Helldivers 2’s “Supply Lines” mechanic in action.
- To open fronts in Zagon and Fori Prime, we will first need free worlds like Hellmire and Estanu. Fortunately, about 120,000 Helldivers are already fighting in Estanu, and more are joining the ongoing battle as I write this.
- Funny, cause why Super Earth wants control of these two planets as it “depopulates the Terminids and collects the E-710 they provide”. Element 710 is completely confirmed by the game’s lore to be oil, so we’re basically breeding bugs for fossil fuel.
Update at 03/19/2024 10:45 PM PT / 03/20/2024 1:45 AM ET: Estanu, a cold world blocking access to Fori Prime, was successfully freed by the Helldivers 2 community in less than 24 hours. As a result, Fori Prime – an arid planet with a Tremors effect that can stun both players and enemies with earthquakes – is now applicable. As I write this update minutes after its front opened, thousands are already descending on its rocky battlefields.
A quick win gives me hope that the fans will actually be able to pick up this Big Order, although it will still be quite difficult to do so due to the time limit. The community must also take Hellmire and Nivel 43 to free Fori Prime. get To Zagon Prime, who himself must be freed in order to win the campaign. In fact, players have more than two days to earn four planets, which may not be enough time.
Anyway, we’ll see how things go and I’ll update this article with the latest news from the front. Now stop reading this and go to Fori Prime, soldier. This is an order!
The next Helldivers 2 Major Order is here, and when I first looked at it, it didn’t seem too difficult. In about three days we have to free two planets – Zagon Prime and Fori Prime – from Terminid bugs. Not bad, huh? Players liberated an entire sector in just a few days last week, so the two worlds shouldn’t be too much of a problem…
…or so I thought. Then I went and actually looked at the galactic map and realized what it was: none of these planets are currently available to fight because they’re both behind bug-controlled worlds like Hellmire, Estanu, and Crimsica. We even have to free some of them to open fronts in Zagon and Fori Prime planets first – and now I’m starting to feel the pressure of this three-day time limit.
At work here is Helldivers 2’s “Supply Lines” mechanic, which has not yet been operational for Main Order purposes. This detailed article covers the system in detail, but the TL;DR is that liberation campaigns cannot start on a given planet unless there is a supply line connecting it to a world currently under Super Earth control. In this case, we should take Hellmire and then Nivel 43 before occupying Zagon Prime, Estanu or Crimsica before placing in Fori Prime. Note that you can view the supply line network yourself with this beautiful Helldivers 2 Galactic War live map (toggle “supply lines” in the upper right corner of the map).
Given that the community has less than three days to complete all of this, this may be the most difficult Grand Order yet – although it’s also possible that taking on each individual planet will be easier than worlds to compensate for the usually tight time limit. . Or maybe Game Master Joel saw it all Trash talk on reddit and decided to put us in our place. Either way, Liberty needs the best space marines for the war effort right now.
If Helldivers if we can do that, we’ll get 35 Warbond Medals, which is a pretty cool reward for a Grand Order that only runs until Friday (especially since Cutting Edge Warbond just came out). It is not clear what will happen if we fail, but I am sure that the consequences will not be good. Maybe there will be a game-wide debuff for a few days, similar to the temporary bonus strategies we often get for successfully freeing worlds.
In case you’re wondering, the narrative context for The Great Order is pretty laugh-out-loud; The reason we are on Zagon and Fori Prime is to “Depopulate the Terminids and harvest the E-710 they provide” to protect the “economic future” of the citizens of Super Earth. The Illegal Propaganda Tower’s side-objectives on the wrong planets clearly claim that “Element 710” is oil, and well, I don’t need to tell you what “710” looks like when you flip it upside down and reflect it horizontally.
The good news is that players are already fighting massively on the frontline and seem to be focusing on Estanu first. As I write this, there are about 120,000 Helldivers fighting on a frosty planet, especially with the Extreme Cold modifier, which reduces the rate of fire and heat build-up on energy weapons (30,000 are also on Crimsica, but you should move to Estanu” is one of them; splitting up our forces is likely to cause defeat will be).
Overall, I’m glad to see the supply lines mechanic finally affect the structure of the Grand Order, as I think it adds an interesting layer of depth to Helldivers 2’s Galactic Wars metagame. Whether or not the playerbase will rise to the challenge remains to be seen, but after how quickly fans have snapped up the last few orders, I’d bet my Super Credits that it will.
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