With Malevelon Creek saved again, Helldivers 2 players aren’t really mourning another planet having gone pop in the process because they reckon a big update could be imminent

Good news. And also very bad news. Helldivers 2 players have successfully defended the infamous Malevelon Creek from yet another threat, but they’ve also lost another planet to the insatiable maw of the Meridian Singularity in the process. They don’t seem too bothered though, as they’re all more interested in seeing if Arrowhead follows the community’s latest big update theory.

If you’re out of the loop, saving the Creek again was a big deal, because last week was the first time it’d popped up in the Galactic War since earning its own in-game memorial day via a fierce battle last year. Oh, and this latest planet to get eaten is the third that the Illuminate’s black hole has now exploded to bits, which isn’t ideal.

As of writing, players are waiting for a fresh major order to drop, after taking in the debriefs that closed out the last one. The first informed them that “their resounding victory has upheld the memory of those honored on Malevelon Creek Memorial Day”, while the other one was a bit less upbeat, telling folks that “efforts to slow the Singularity have worked, but too late to save Ivis. The Illuminate will face Justice for their crimes.”

So, you’d expect there to have been lots of mourning over Ivis’ fate, as there was with Moradesh and Angel’s Venture, right? Well, there was a bit, but also a lot of players who didn’t seem all that bothered. “As devastating as it was to lose the first two planets, I feel like this plot has been sidelined for so long that now it just feels like an inconvenience to lose a planet, rather than an actual loss,” one user with the handle FisherandFries wrote on the game’s subreddit.

Basically, some folks seem to just be getting a bit tired of the Meridian Singularity plotline as it exists right now, and are craving some fresh content from Arrowhead to spice stuff up.

So, naturally, a fair few of them are putting their faith in a community theory that Arrwhead might put out a major update tomorrow, April 8. There doesn’t look to be much concrete to this theory, more just hopes based on the day looking like it’ll already feature a bunch of Helldivers 2 stuff.

As well as Tuesday being the game’s traditional patch/hotfix deployment day, this time it’s the date of this year’s BAFTA Games awards (Helldivers 2 has landed some noms) and the day that the crowdfunding campaign for the official HD2 board game kicks off.

Does that mean Arrowhead’ll actually drop any new stuff? We’ll just have to see. In the meantime, are you getting a bit sick of battling the Illuminate death ball? ;et us know below!