In a bizarre conclusion to a Major Order,Helldivers 2players found that a whole planet had disappeared, but this time it wasn’t destroyed by the Illuminate with the Meridian Singularity. The game has steadily seen new content over the past year, but players are also growing frustrated at the increased frequency of bugs. APC performance fix is on the way, but the latest technical hiccup made an important objective impossible.
A recent Major Order to rebuff Illuminate invasions inHelldivers 2sent players to the planet Tien Kwan. Attempting to deploy onto the planet resulted in the game crashing, becausethe files for Tien Kwan had mysteriously been removed fromHelldivers 2. A video from Reddit userShibolineshows the crash in action. The game attempts to load Tien Kwan but freezes and sends the player to their desktop.
Game Files For The Planet Tien Kwan Have Been Removed From Helldivers 2
It’s Unclear When Tien Kwan Went Missing
Many players assumed that this was just some serious bug associated with Tien Kwan or the Major Order, but it’s a much odder mistake.Tien Kwan is now entirely absent from theHelldivers 2game files, and it’s unclear when they went missing. It’s clearly a mistake by developer Arrowhead Game Studios – there’s no reason the developer would purposefully put a Major Order on a missing planet.
Tien Kwan was, in March 2024, the site where Exosuit stratagems first appeared in-game. They were part of a Major Order that resulted in the stratagem becoming available for purchase with Requisition, making them readily available via Hellpod drop. It is theorized that this, or the fact that Tien Kwan was one of the first planets to feature Meteor Storms, could be a contributing factor in the planet’s files being removed.Arrowhead is aware of the issue, but has not provided an explanation.
Other theories propose that Tien Kwan is part of the presumed main Illuminate invasion, which is expected to occur alongside theWarbond being revealed on May 8, and a development oversight caused the planet’s current files to be removed before they were replaced with updated ones. This has similarly not been addressed by Arrowhead and Tien Kwan is now unavailable for missions, as it has returned to Super Earth control with the disappearance of the Illuminate.
The Broken Planet Made A Major Order Unwinnable
The Illuminate Have Disappeared Anyway
Tien Kwan becoming unplayable made the Major Order impossible to win, but the outcome seems to have been beneficial regardless – perhaps a concession on Arrowhead’s part in recognition of the unattainable objective. As of the new Major Order today, April 29,the Helldivers' efforts have succeeded in stopping the Meridian Singularity, which destroyed two planets on its way to Super Earth. In the wake of that victory, theIlluminate have seemingly been defeated, as they are no longer a threat to be fought on the Galactic Map.
Helldivers 2has been in a similar situation before. At one point, the Helldivers succeeded in completely removing the Automatons from the galaxy, only to have the bots reappear shortly after. The Illuminate incursions have long been viewed as a precursor to a larger invasion force; only a handful of unit types have been seen on Illuminate planets so far. This disappearance seems like the preamble to the Illuminate returning in force and finally turning the Second Galactic War inHelldivers 2into a true three-front conflict.
Sources:Shiboline/Reddit,Helldivers 2/Twitter
Helldivers 2
Helldivers II is the follow-up to the 2015 multiplayer top-down single-player/co-op shooter from Arrowhead Game Studios. The sequel, which has shifted gears to a third-person shooter format, drops players into the boots of elite super-soldiers who fight to protect Super Earth from invading alien forces while taking the fight to those who threaten the “democracy of Super Earth.”
