{"id":779677,"date":"2025-12-01T00:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizVeakhxHuLFydVJjAc6C"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:14:53","slug":"helldivers-2-ceo-becomes-a-blue-beam-denialist-as-mystery-snipers-allegedly-take-potshots-at-the-playerbase-blue-beams-arent-real-they-cant-hurt-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/helldivers-2-ceo-becomes-a-blue-beam-denialist-as-mystery-snipers-allegedly-take-potshots-at-the-playerbase-blue-beams-arent-real-they-cant-hurt-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2 CEO becomes a blue beam denialist as mystery snipers allegedly take potshots at the playerbase: ‘Blue beams aren’t real, they can’t hurt you’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If I had a penny for every time Helldivers 2 players allegedly ran into a new enemy type, only for Arrowhead Studios' CEO to deny their existence entirely<\/a>, I'd have two pennies. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This time, the evidence is a lot thinner and less substantial\u2014but first, some context is in order. Helldivers 2 is 'missing' a faction from the original game, something you can infer from how there's an entire southern slice of the Galactic Map without hostile forces in it.<\/p>\n

The Illuminate<\/a> from Helldivers 1 were a highly-sophisticated, Protoss-like faction with snipers, who would ruin OG Helldivers' day by hunting them from beyond its isometric camera with blue beams. Said lasers are the cause of this current conspiracy theory\u2014here's a Reddit thread detailing<\/a> an account from user Dye335, who was completely isolated when he was visited by the extraterrestrial menace.<\/p>\n

“Out of nowhere I got hit with a vibrant blue laser shot, almost resembling a sniper round, from an angle that would suggest a high angle shot,” Dye335 writes, as if recounting an alien abduction. “Wearing heavy armour I got knocked down [by around 60% HP] immediately and very lightly ragdolled just maybe a foot backwards.”n<\/p>\n

They then go on to say that there was no sign of their assailant on their radar, since every blip was behind cover. They maintain that the sniper “must\u2019ve teleported out immediately after the shot.” That wouldn't be noteworthy on its own\u2014people lie on the internet for fun, sometimes\u2014but a deluge of video 'evidence' has also been making the rounds.<\/p>\n

I CAUGHT VIDEO OF BLUE LASERS!!!<\/a> from r\/Helldivers<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n