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Helldivers devs really went with satirising the "UNPROVOKED INVASION" language around the Ukraine war
(hexbear.net)
I'm genuinely impressed with their balls. Libs probably won't notice it but they've done this both on twitter and in-game.
Canonically the bots are socialists/communists.
The bugs bodily fluids are rich in Element 710 (rotated 180 it reads OIL), the preferred fuel for interstellar travel.
The robot propaganda reads "WE HAVE OBLITERATED INEQUALITY!"
Heh heh, reminds me of a car parts website selling a regular "OIL cap" and then a "710 cap" next to it for twice as much. They were the same thing
Maybe what they're doing is that the Automatons as the "children" of the Cyborgs are modern Russia, while the Cyborgs are the former soviets.
Either way the fact they're satirising this ukraine war language is a huge surprise. I did not expect it.
I could be wrong, but it does seem like the Automatons are off-shoots of the Cyborgs of Helldivers 1, canonically.
Yeah they are, they were created by the Cyborgs. The Cyborgs were enslaved in mines on the planet Cyberstan, which the Automatons just took back.
Either the Cyborgs will join the Automaton faction as a few different units, or they will become their own faction entirely.