What faction would you like to see?

[Swaggaccino]

I see there's 4 quadrants on the map with one being the automatons (robots) and the other being the terminids (bugs). The third race is suppose to be illuminates which is an intelligent alien race seen in the first game. What about the last faction? Any thoughts? Personally I'd be down for some zombies / flood that could reanimate helldivers. That way we'd have a bit of variety between the robots, bugs, and aliens. What would you guys like to see?

[OREN™]

cyborgs will be the 4th, from the first game. devs confirmed automatrons arnt the same

[WonnaBeWilson]

Sure, I'm down to see some zombie-type factions.

But as a fellow 40K fan, I hope to see some inter-dimensional horrors. Or I would love to see the Unbidden (beings of pure energy from the 4th Dimension) from Stellaris as a ground enemy. But I think lore-wise, the Unbidden will one-shot divers within first contact unless you're running shield packs so that's out of the question.

[Swaggaccino]

Originally posted by OREN™:

cyborgs will be the 4th, from the first game. devs confirmed automatrons arnt the same

Won't cyborgs be too similar to automatrons?

Originally posted by WonnaBeWilson:

Sure, I'm down to see some zombie-type factions.

But as a fellow 40K fan, I hope to see some inter-dimensional horrors. Or I would love to see the Unbidden (beings of pure energy from the 4th Dimension) from Stellaris as a ground enemy. But I think lore-wise, the Unbidden will one-shot divers within first contact unless you're running shield packs so that's out of the question.

Oh man you had me at inter-dimensional horrors. I would totally be done for some kind of horror survival monsters. Hope they have good art design.

[Jozsefirst]

A rouge human faction, ofc.

Originally posted by OREN™:

cyborgs will be the 4th, from the first game. devs confirmed automatrons arnt the same

Sounds very exciting (-_-)

[Onimaho]

Zombies would be incredibly boring because it would basically be a reskin of termianids. Melee and bile.

[Jozsefirst]

Originally posted by OREN™:

cyborgs will be the 4th, from the first game. devs confirmed automatrons arnt the same

Source pls

[Trips]

I see also value for a space pirate or mutineering SEAF faction as a 5th group that would pop up as a third wheel for some sectors.

[ImHelping]

A faction that has to function with every "Skill issues" and "I for one love chaos elements" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ people talk ♥♥♥♥ about.

It would be amazing to watch enemies struggle with not being able to shoot us through bushes, and getting nuked by orbital strikes when they spawn out of bounds with the countdown already going.

Give them laser drones, but then make it a monkey paw wish where they aim at us just as bad as they aim at small robot soldiers. Slightly to the right and behind us instead of at us.

Originally posted by WonnaBeWilson:

Sure, I'm down to see some zombie-type factions.

But as a fellow 40K fan, I hope to see some inter-dimensional horrors. Or I would love to see the Unbidden (beings of pure energy from the 4th Dimension) from Stellaris as a ground enemy. But I think lore-wise, the Unbidden will one-shot divers within first contact unless you're running shield packs so that's out of the question.

The final boss of Magicka 1 is "Beat up the king in yellow". Then there was the DLC where you kick Cthulhu's ass.

That said, the devs seem to have been on a constant backwalk from Magicka 1 like they regret ever making us cool in their games. Back then, being one shot by eldritch nonsense was just an inconvenience.