Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again"

We'll get the Terminids to wage for it

Helldivers 2's latest in-game run sees the champions of strategically mitigated ideology supervising the operation of yet different monolithic partition of pine-scented state successful space. Kicking disconnected with the Frontlines of Freedom update, retired now, it's a bid to support those evil "fascist" Terminid insects distant from Super Earth, gathering connected the foundations of the abortive archetypal "Termicide" run backmost successful March 2024. It's besides a pisstake of US president Donald Trump's dreams of constructing a monolithic obstruction (the champion wall! The greatest! Everyone agrees, etc) crossed the USA's confederate borderline with Mexico.

That brutish and fundamentally symbolic task began during Trump's archetypal word - Mexico were going to wage for it, remember? Intervening president Joe Biden called it disconnected erstwhile helium was elected, but Trump ordered the resumption of operation erstwhile helium regained the keys to the White House successful 2025 - which is presumably erstwhile Arrowhead started reasoning astir Termicide 2.0, though events wrong the game's torturous Verhoevenian lore person a momentum of their own.

I conjecture the devs could beryllium referring to immoderate other absurd totalitarian megastructure – gathering monolithic barricades to support the incorrect 'uns retired is an evergreen far-right perfect – but the trailer narration and the accompanying comments marque a reasonably unambiguous transportation to Trump.

“The Ministry of Defense has approved a bold caller inaugural to marque the postulation harmless again,” explains the trailer. “Protecting our citizens from fascism down an impenetrable obstruction of antiauthoritarian resilience. Construction is already underway connected the caller TCS 2.0. Bigger. Better. And safer than Termicide 1 ever was.” (For context, Termicide 1 led to the spawning of new, chem-addled breeds of Terminid and the translation of 1 satellite into a supercolony.) Participate successful the defence of the operation effort, and you'll gain an R-4 Hyena Marksman Rifle with which to administer smoking, blistery liberty amidst the buglife.

Arrowhead are presently changing up however they grip Helldivers 2's evolving player-led storyline, swapping the aged play Major Orders for "longer, multi-week themed campaigns" that connection "clearer stakes and consequences based connected subordinate actions".

I deliberation parodying Trump's partition is low-hanging effect astatine this point, not that Helldivers 2 has ever truly tried for subtlety. I'm funny to cognize what existent Helldivers 2 players deliberation of the game's satire. I haven't played for a while, but fixed the trajectory of US and European authorities astatine large, the extended riff connected Starship Troopers is truly starting to consciousness similar wallowing successful crapulence. I deliberation the game's writers request to, astatine minimum, commencement allowing for the information that the Trump medication has nary occupation adopting this benignant of shit-eating, irony-poisoned burlesque for propaganda purposes.