UPDATE (09/05/25, 11:20 AM BST): This tease looks to be all about cracking codes ARG-style, with the stream updating as players on the Discord server solve them and enter different commands into the “s81-input” channel that’s been added to the server, alongside an output one that’s providing responses. As of right now, the livestream has moved past a stage of initial boot-up code entering to comuting byte ingresses, with a “primary directive” to come, which we assume might be an actual in-game order.
UPDATE (09/05/25, 14:40 PM BST): The stream is now all about aligning an antenna for a “Station-82”, so the Discord input channel is filled with more rights and lefts than the Cha Cha Slide. It looks like these players have at least two more stations in the array to align in this way before anything actually has a chance to happen in the video game this is somehow all related to.
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This is not a drill! Helldivers 2‘s next big Galactic War twist, the one Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani suggested would lead to players pooping their drawers en masse, looks to be kicking off with a huge tease and livestream centered around a mysterious “STATION-81”.
Yep, the Meridian Singularity finally being stopped and a fresh Warbond now having dropped do look to have been the harbingers of something huge happening war-wise, as Arrowhead teased.
So, what’s going down? Well, as you can see via the freshly published Arrowhead livestream above, there’s suddenly a bunch of activity around the aforementioned Station 81, a satellite that all of these teases are about something trying – and failing to connect to.
There’s even a full Twitter account for it, which lists the satellite as being located in Super Earth’s orbit (uh oh), and is sharing messages like the one below, which has been retweeted by the official Helldivers 2 account. All of the teases point to each other, with the official Helldivers 2 Discord server being the final destination, and where the stream says players are “ordered to report to” for “immediate tasking”.
In it, you’ll find a brand new channel called “s81-satcom”, which has had the stream posted into it along with some messages similar to the Twitter teases, the latest of which reads: “$SATCOM//> LOGIN”. If you needed any more proof that this is genuine, several Arrowhead employees and devs including community manager Katherine Baskin have changed their Twitter header images to the same black and red “[Offline] image that the Station-81 account is rocking.
Naturally, players over on the game’s subreddit are already hard at work trying to figure out what the tease could be pointing at – the fact Station 81 seems to orbiting Super Earth has my hopes up for that big Super Earth invasion leaks have seemed to hint could be coming, but we’ll just have to find out.
