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The Illuminate appear set to arrive shortly in Helldivers 2 as new leaks continue to tease the release of the game’s long-awaited third faction. Following leaks of terrifying new Automaton enemies and Illuminate mission objects, more leaks have released to tease the third group of enemies.
Illuminate leaks continue for Helldivers 2
Released by renowned Helldivers leaker IronS1ghts, new Illuminate missions have been added to the game’s API to list missions for the new faction. While there’s still no release date for the third faction’s arrival to the game, developer Arrowhead is quickly adding more and more content for their upcoming release.
The accurate Helldivers 2 leaker took to Twitter to show a video of a generated mission card showing them “Fighting Illuminate on Gar Haren” in the game’s UI. While multiple Illuminate leaks have occurred before, this is the first instance of mission structure being close to implemented in the game.
While there’s no official word on a release period for the new enemies, IronS1ghts estimates that the third faction’s debut can’t be more than a few months away.
“[It’s] still too soon to say,” the leaker said. “We’ll know for sure once the models are added back to the files. I’d say (hopefully) within the next 3 months, but I have absolutely no idea.”
The Illuminate faction is the final faction from the original PS3, PS4 and Vita game. The psychic, ritualistic enemies were a trecherous threat in the original top-down shooter, but their introduction into the sequel’s third-person perspective could mean some huge changes for the enemies.
With the huge Galaxy Map showing space for a potential fourth faction, we could get the game’s first original faction sometime in the future. However, despite the massive number of leaks for the game, no evidence has surfaced of a new, fourth faction.
For more Helldivers 2 coverage, read about Arrowhead’s thoughts on huge PvE battles or leaked weapons that could be added in an upcoming Warbond for the cooperative multiplayer shooter.