Future Helldivers 2 Crossovers

 

            Hello! Surprise! Double whammy today buddy! AREN’T. YOU. LUCKY? Just a little more things about Helldivers 2. I didn’t want to tack this on to the Mario Kart post so here it is. Just some crossover ideas and potentially new Helldiver clones.

            So @NEETproxy and I were randomly talking about the black hole and Earth Defense Force and if there’s a crossover they’d come from the black hole. Most people are expecting a fourth faction to fight against to come through the black hole but what if instead that’s where crossovers come from?! I feel like I saw someone say that the black hole either DOES connect to or COULD connect to another dimension but I can’t find it. We had a Killzone crossover, I assumed because both Killzone and Helldivers are currently PlayStation owned but they now say that Killzone is canonically part of the Helldiver Universe. To me it seemed like we wouldn’t get anymore crossovers, saw a post on Reddit about what crossovers you’d like to see and I was confused and didn’t think any of them were really viable but if they come from the black hole it would make more sense. It would be like an event, they’d come from the black hole, be around for a month then gone again. I think Earth Defense Force makes the most sense in that regard. They wouldn’t have to be “canonically” part of the same universe that way. I think Deep Rock Galactic could appear the same way as well and on an even stranger twist, maybe if Helldivers every actually goes to Xbox, Crackdown agents. One crossover I’d like to see, though they are kind of similar to the Helghast are the meat puppets from Psi-Ops. You have light, medium and heavy armor variants and, being meat puppets, you have plenty to put on the frontlines. I’d like the armor to come with a rather useless perk of like “can’t be turned into voteless” or something.

            As for similar games and/or clones, some time ago I had said how with Aliens: Fireteam Elite you could do this with just about anything and here Helldivers 2 is. I kind of would like to see a game where you have guns and mechs fighting against a medieval army, similar to what happens in Sucker Punch. Originally you’d think “you have a gun, they have no chance” but if there’s hundreds of enemies slashing at you with their swords, similar to the Terminids and their claws, things could be harder than it seems. So I think that could be fun, a team of four dropped into different periods of time fighting knights, steampunk Nazis, robots, whatever. Maybe every now and then you have to fight a dragon or a stone samurai. Looping back to Crackdown, I think a Crackdown version could work. It would be a different type of Crackdown but originally for 3 they wanted fully destructible buildings and all that but they just couldn’t get it. I think if it was smaller areas, on a mission to mission basis, it could work. You could be dropped in to fight different gang factions and even the “Freaks.”

            Last thing I want to gripe about is the SOS beacon. Sometimes we throw it out be accident, not me usually, except when I was near a Cognitive Disruptor and was trying to redeploy somebody but wasn’t paying attention. I think the party leader, the only one who can call down the beacon, should be able to either destroy it or put type an input code to cancel. Or when the mission is done it cancels the beacon. We were able to finish the mission, got on the ship and as we were prepping some rando showed up. I didn’t want to kick him, that seemed mean, so he just hung out for a bit but still.

            That’s the end of this one I guess. Any crossovers you can think of that would fit in the Helldivers universe? Comment below and I’ll be back some other time, bye-bye!

            @AztecSauce