As if Helldivers 2 wasn’t crawling with enough bugs already, an even bigger and more menacing foe might be burrowing its way onto the frantic battlefield. Along with the new Nuke Nursery mission, Arrowhead is teasing an enemy Helldivers 1 players still have nightmares about.
Towering rib cages, huge molts, inexplicable tremors, and eerie sounds coming from massive boreholes—all these foreshadow the arrival of a harrowing beast, and players are equally excited and terrified.
Helldivers 2 is Teasing Something Big, Literally
@Helldiversmedia posted a snippet from the new Helldivers 2 Nuke Nursery mission on X, showing a large borehole emitting spine-chilling sounds from underneath the surface.
The Ministry of Truth doesn’t want you to see this…
— Helldivers 2 Media (@Helldiversmedia) June 16, 2024
Approached the large boreholes on the new Nuke Nursery mission and overheard this. Something big is coming Diver!!
📹cigretz #Helldivers2 pic.twitter.com/1BF7Dm70P0
Fans who have played Helldivers 1 responded with their theories on what these eerie sounds might be. It seems the technologically advanced Illuminate alien faction might not be the only threat set to return. Many believe the Hive Lords, gargantuan sandworm-like creatures from the first game, might be coming.
User @OrkinCarl expressed their excitement, hoping the game, which is already sprawling with Bile Titans, will “finally” get even “bigger bugs.”
Hive lords?? Are we finally getting bigger bugs to spread managed democracy too???
— CarlOrkinMan (@OrkinCarl) June 16, 2024
Other users, including @WizardCerulean, seem more apprehensive at the idea of giant worms coming out to fight. Meanwhile, user @TheNobelRaven pointed out that Hive Lords had been teased “for a while.”
hivelords have been teased for a while now
— Nobel Raven (@TheNobelRaven) June 16, 2024
Many players are excited. User @Cpantoja0311 expressed how they had been waiting for this enemy faction “for so long.”
God I have been waiting for Hive Lords to come in the game for so long release themmmmmm
— CP (@Cpantoja0311) June 16, 2024
Most of the players who are familiar with the first game seem to agree on what enemy they will soon face off against.
HiveLords are coming…. pic.twitter.com/DstPA2KXOX
— MadRabbitHatter (@BrothersEc50557) June 16, 2024
These hints and theories didn’t come out of the blue, as various details in the game have already been foreshadowing the arrival of these sandworm-like monsters for a while.
Something is Crawling Underneath the Surface
Hive Lords are giant creatures resembling the Sandworms in Dune that burrow tunnels underneath the surface. In the first game, they were huge, terrifying, and notoriously challenging to kill. Several details in Helldivers 2 have hinted at the reappearance of these crawling monstrosities over the last few months.
Reddit users had previously pointed out that molts from these enemies had started to appear. They also mentioned how the inexplicable tremors players had been experiencing could have been caused by those giant worms burrowing underground.
For those new among us – these “statues” appear to be molts from a Terminid enemy from Hell Divers 1 known as a Hive Lord: a massive sandworm-like creature. The tremors we’ve been experiencing could be the hints that this bad boy is coming soon..
byu/Tnel1027 inHelldivers
Along with the molts and tremors, players also found the skyscraper-high rib cages of a deceased creature sticking out of the ground, which could belong to one of those horrifying sandworms.
Everybody knows that Arrowhead’s former CEO, Johan Pilestedt, loves massive bosses and mind-numbingly difficult experiences. So, the return of one of the most terrifying enemies from the first game sounds very likely. However, it hasn’t been officially confirmed yet.
Would you like to face off against the giant Hive Lords in Helldivers 2? Have you found the boreholes and heard their creepy sounds yet? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
