{"id":553471,"date":"2024-07-07T03:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/?p=553471"},"modified":"2024-07-07T09:21:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T14:21:38","slug":"the-automatons-in-helldivers-2-are-now-running-phishing-scams-to-ruin-managed-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/the-automatons-in-helldivers-2-are-now-running-phishing-scams-to-ruin-managed-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Automatons in Helldivers 2 are now running phishing scams to ruin managed democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent in-game dispatch in Helldivers 2<\/em> informed players that the Automaton faction had advanced its war efforts to include malicious messages to players. While I’m sure this was meant a bit of a joke, players have ended up taking these sci-fi phishing efforts quite seriously. <\/p>

We’re used to seeing in-game messages about saving children<\/a> or fighting for our procreation permits<\/a> in Helldivers 2<\/em>. With this latest tactic, the Automatons are attempting to breach Super Each security systems and, presumably, figure out where we’re being deployed next so they can flank us and take more galactic territory. The messages we’ve been given as examples are fun and mock the basic phishing scams of the early internet, but the thing is, they’re actually working in a weird way. <\/p>

Helldivers are so paranoid about Automaton scams that they’re suspicious of everything<\/h2><\/iframe> $\"automaton$
Screenshot by Destructoid<\/figcaption><\/figure>
The examples we’ve been given of these Automaton messages are emails with subject lines like, “Check out this patriotic photo,” “Your citizenship has been upgraded,” and ” Dissident talk amongst your friends.” Any one of these is enough to boil the blood of a freedom-loving Helldiver and have them hammering the mouse or screen on their arm so they can access new patriotic benefits, see some true patriotism, or report their so-called “friends” to the nearest Democracy Officer. <\/p>
I expected developer Arrowhead Game Studios to go somewhere with this in the future. Sending players a series of messages from a new in-ame character who ends up being an Automaton or a similar storyline told through dispatches over the course of weeks. It turns out that this simple in-game message caused at least one Helldiver to question everything about a recent Major Order without the developer doing anything. <\/p>
On the Helldivers 2<\/em> subreddit<\/a>, user ChingaderaRara wrote a colossal post about how a dispatch about defending Aesir Pass from the Automatons was, in fact, part of the enemy faction’s efforts to disrupt us using in-game messages just as we’d been previously warned. <\/p>
Theory: The Aesir Pass message is an Automaton hack.<\/a>
by u\/ChingaderaRara<\/a> in Helldivers<\/a><\/blockquote>