'Never thought I'd go back'_ Helldivers 2 players steel themselves to return to the site of its most

Malevelon Creek is of every true Super Earth patriot.'s dingy jungle planet became known as 'Robot Vietnam' as players banded together in their thousands to defend it from a massive Automaton assault. It was the first time the Helldivers 2 community picked up the game's live-service meta-narrative and ran with it, earning themselves the nickname 'Creekers' and a designed by developer Arrowhead to memorialise the event.

Now, the grizzled veterans of the creek are spinning up Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower in their Hellpods' holotape decks, steeling themselves for a return to this infamous battlefield. Having failed Super Earth's most recent major order, the Helldivers are currently being pushed back by the Automaton Incineration Corps—robot units that specialise in dealing fiery death to humanity. According to Arrowhead's most recent, the next target of the machines is "old industrial assets in the Severin Sector, where the Automatons first emerged."

The Severin Sector just so happens to be where Malevelon Creek is located. Of course, there are several other planets in the sector, so the automatons may not necessarily be marching back to robot Vietnam. But it's the timing, as much as the place, that has players speculating about a revisit to the old frontline.

The first battle for Malevelon Creek occurred in yono all app early April last year, which means the event is rapidly approaching its first anniversary. Indeed, when Arrowhead released the commemorative cape, it decreed April 3rd as 'Malevelon Creek Memorial Day'. What better way to recognise the anniversary than with another rumble in the jungle, this time with extra flame weaponry?

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Over on reddit, the Helldivers 2 community has been pondering when exactly the robotic hammer will drop. "Prediction, Bots invade Malevelon Creek on April 1^st" one player, figuring the bots will attack on the actual day the Helldivers liberated the planet. Others speculate the bots will attack on memorial day itself. "On Malevelon Creek Day, the bots will begin their invasion to try to avenge their losses in the sector and cripple the morale of the helldivers... But we will stand firm!" SuperMarioGlitch64.

Not every Helldiver is thrilled about the notion of going back to Malevelon. "Returning to the Creek would be a terrible idea," Impressive_Truth_695, raising the seemingly unkillable spectre of Helldivers 2's. "The Creek was so memorable because it was so difficult. All the buffs to weapons/stratagems and nerfs to enemies have made the game easy." Certainly, there's a sense that any return to the Creek would have to be pretty special. "Never thought I'd go back there…they better make Malevelon live up to its name… with the Jet Brigade, Incineration Corps, and new enemies" KaleidoscopeOwn7161.

Either way, we won't have long to wait until the devious designs of the automatons are revealed. In the meantime, Arrowhead has been making plenty of other revelations about Helldivers 2's remarkable first year. In a recent GDC talk, Helldivers 2's director Johan Pilestedt discussed how the studio was asked by the United Nations to give a talk on psychological manipulation, and explained how he received an from PlayStation when he told players to wait to buy the game until its servers were fixed, saying they asked.